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For those select residential streets in Windsor that already possess ornamental or historic streetlights, the good news is city council has agreed to pay replacement costs without added expense placed on homeowners.
The bad news is that from now on, any developer wishing to install decorative streetlights instead of the standard municipal style within a new subdivision will be required to pay the added cost with future upkeep also falling to homeowners who move in.
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Council has assured Southwood Lakes residents their deteriorating ornamental lamp posts will be replaced on a “like-for-like” basis, after outrage erupted in the subdivision over talk they might be getting standard poles.
“There is no doubt decorative lighting enhances a subdivision like this and the residents absolutely deserve like-for-like replacement,” Mayor Drew Dilkens said Monday, as council dealt with a recommendation from one of its standing committees to defer replacing the Southwood Lakes lamp posts until a citywide policy on replacing decorative lamp posts could be developed.
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