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Neurologist Randy Nelson, department chair for neurology in the medical school at West Virginia University, said that “clinical studies have proved again and again” that people and animals suffer annoyance and adverse health conditions when they are unable to do their sleeping in the dark. In an email, Fonken wrote that people exposed to bright light under those conditions could experience sleep issues, metabolic disturbances and an increased cancer risk.

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“Bright light shining into windows can disrupt the circadian system,” said Laura Fonken, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin who has studied the negative effects of nighttime light. “At night it’s almost like daylight in here,” said Mark Harpenau, who lives in a one-bedroom apartment in the 250-unit Four Paddle building.Įxposure to intense lighting at night is not just a nuisance but also a health concern, according to scientists. It’s made life miserable for them - hard to sleep, hard to rest or relax - because they have lost the experience of nighttime. Residents there installed black-out curtains to give themselves enough darkness to sleep steadily. At 9:30 on one recent evening, an apartment on the 22nd floor of the Four Paddle was lit up like daytime. This is what the illuminated Ritz-Carlton fire escapes look like from the terrace of a unit at the Four Paddle condominiums. The four fire escapes, two on each building, are illuminated all night, shining bright LED light onto their mauka neighbors’ homes, including the Four Paddle, an older condominium building across the street. The back sides of the skyscrapers house an intricate system of open-air fire escapes to evacuate guests in an emergency.

City planners allowed the luxury mixed-use commercial and residential complex to be built with all the condo-hotel units facing the sea, an irregular configuration for Waikiki. The first of two 38-story Ritz-Carlton towers rose in front of their apartment building in 2016 and the second was completed in October. For more than two years, the residents of the Four Paddle condominiums on Kuhio Avenue have been blinded by the light.

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