Community Corner
Debate Brews Over White-Only Lights Rule
Controversy is swirling over a homeowners' association decree requiring only white lights for outside decorating in Doylestown Station.
No colored lights here, thank you.
No Rudolphs with blinking noses.
No Santas ho-ho-hoing in technicolor glory.
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No garlands of green pine bedecked with multi-colored lights.
Not in Doylestown Station, anyway.
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The Doylestown Township neighborhood is taking some heat this week over a rule forbidding colored Christmas lights from decorating the outside of homes.
As Fox29 first reported on Tuesday, some residents of the neighborhood are ignoring the ban and decorating with colored lights anyway.
One resident, Marie Buonnano, broke the rule last year and was fined $400, $10 for each of the 40 days she had her colored lights out
She told The Intelligencer, “The ‘Winter Holiday’ for me is Christmas. Who has the right to tell me what color to celebrate my religious holiday?"
Efforts to get the six-person homeowners' association board to consider changing the rule have made little headway.
So what do you make of this debate? What would you want, if it were your neighborhood? Vote in our poll and let us know.
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