[Ord. 501, 7/13/2005, § B]
Good outdoor lighting at night increases safety and enhances
security. New technologies have produced lights that are extremely
powerful, and these types of lights may be improperly installed so
that they create problems of excessive glare, light trespass and higher
energy use. All business, residential and community driveway, sidewalk
and property luminaries should be installed with the idea of being
a good neighbor, with attempts to keep unnecessary direct light from
shining onto abutting properties and streets.
A. Type of equipment. Streetlight luminaries, poles and mounting brackets
are to be standardized and must meet the approval of municipal requirement
and their interpretation by the Township Engineer. All light poles
shall be made of fiberglass, able to withstand one-hundred-mile-per-hour
winds. The use of fiberglass poles may be waived by the Township Planning
Commission to conform to existing poles within a development.
B. Luminaries should be as follows:
(1)
For lighting streets, sidewalks, entrances and parking areas,
fixtures shall meet IESNA "full-cutoff" criteria. The filament shall
be enclosed in the hood to prevent upward and outward glare.
(2)
The use of floodlighting, spotlighting, wall-mounted fixtures
and other fixtures not meeting IESNA "full-cutoff" criteria shall
be permitted only with the approval of the Township based on achieving
safety and acceptable glare control.
(3)
Fixtures shall be equipped with or be modified to incorporate
light-directing and/or shielding devices such as shields, visors or
hoods to redirect offending light distribution and/or reduce direct
or reflected glare.
(4)
Floodlights and spotlights, when a permit is granted by the
Township, shall be so installed or aimed so that they do not project
their output into the windows of neighboring residences, adjacent
uses, skyward or onto public road.
(5)
Except for safety or security reasons or all-night operations,
lighting for commercial, industrial, public recreational and institutional
applications shall be controlled by automatic switching devices, such
as time clocks or combination motion detectors and photocells, to
permit extinguishing offending sources between 11:00 p.m. and dawn
to mitigate nuisance glare and sky-lighting consequences.
(6)
The intensity of illumination projected onto a residential use
from another property shall not exceed 0.1 vertical footcandle, measured
line-of-sight at the property line.
[Ord. 501, 7/13/2005; as added by Ord. 532, 9/10/2008]
Any person, partnership or corporation who or which has violated
or permitted the violation of any provision of this part, upon being
found liable therefor in a civil enforcement proceeding commenced
by the Township, shall pay a judgment of not more than $600 plus all
court costs. No judgment shall commence or be imposed, levied or payable
until the date of the determination of a violation by a Magisterial
District Judge. If the defendant neither pays nor timely appeals the
judgment, the Township may enforce the judgment pursuant to the applicable
rules of civil procedure, at which time, in addition to any penalties,
the violator shall be liable for any attorney's fees and costs incurred
by the Township. Each day that a violation continues or each section
of this part which shall be found to have been violated shall constitute
a separate violation.