[R.O. 1993 § 415.310; Ord. No. 786 § 1, 7-18-2005]
The regulations in this Article shall apply to all development approved in conjunction with all new developments, amendment of an approved site plan, amendment of a special permit use or any lighting change to an existing development involving new fixtures, standards, heads or luminaires.
[R.O. 1993 § 415.320; Ord. No. 786 § 1, 7-18-2005]
A. 
The following standards shall apply to property within all zoning districts of the City:
1. 
Site lighting shall include all lighting on property, other than lighting within a fully enclosed building, provided that site lighting shall include interior lighting when used as accent lighting.
2. 
Site lighting fixtures shall be compatible with the building design and the adjoining landscape and shall not be used in such a manner as to turn the building itself into "signage."
3. 
Excessive brightness of site lighting shall be avoided.
4. 
Site lighting shall not spill over to adjacent sites or properties.
5. 
Site lighting shall not create glare which is directed toward or reflected onto adjoining properties.
6. 
Site lighting shall not create glare which is directed toward or reflected onto streets or interior drives where such glare could negatively impact vehicular or pedestrian safety.
7. 
Except as may be provided elsewhere in this Section, site lighting shall at no time be directed upward in a radiating and/or moving or sweeping pattern or at any angle which will light surfaces other than building walls, parking or pedestrian areas and landscaped areas and shall not create lighting patterns which will direct light toward residential areas.
8. 
Except as may be authorized in the City Municipal Code, the use of neon tubing of any color as accent lighting in any location on the site, including the exterior of a building or around any window (either on the exterior of the building or on the interior where the tubing would be visible from the street) is prohibited.
9. 
All site lighting shall be installed utilizing underground cable.
[R.O. 1993 § 415.330; Ord. No. 786 § 1, 7-18-2005]
A. 
At the time of filing any application for any use, development, amendment or change as set out in Section 415.310 hereof, a lighting plan for site lighting shall be provided on a separate sheet. The following information shall be submitted as part of the lighting plan:
1. 
Manufacturer's catalogue cut sheet or other graphic and narrative description of the light standards, fixture heads and/or luminaires with specification data.
2. 
Photometric curves indicating both vertical and horizontal candle-power distribution.
3. 
A plan of the site superimposed with a grid of not more than twenty (20) feet between light sources showing the calculated footcandle levels at average site grade at the center of each twenty-foot grid.
B. 
Except as otherwise provided in the following provisions of this Section, all parking and loading areas and walkways shall be illuminated so as to produce a uniform minimum average illumination within such areas of two (2) footcandles of illumination measured at the ground level.
C. 
Lighting fixtures or standards without cutoff-type luminaires or with globe-style luminaires shall be no higher than fifteen (15) feet and shall have a maximum illumination output of not more than ten thousand (10,000) lumens.
D. 
Lighting fixtures or standards with a cutoff-type luminaires shall be no higher than twenty-five (25) feet with a maximum average illumination of the property, measured at ground level over the site, of five (5) footcandles.
E. 
Except as may be otherwise approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission, where parking and loading areas are adjacent to residential areas, the maximum average illumination of the area between the rear building wall line and the property line abutting a residential area shall be one (1) footcandle measured at ground level over the site, provided that at the property line abutting a residential area, the maximum illumination of the property shall be no higher than one-tenth (0.1) footcandle.
F. 
Where parking or loading areas abut residential property, the fixture head shall be of an appropriate type which controls the lighting pattern and shields such residential property from direct view of the light source. In order to achieve this end, reflector shields may be required for fixture heads.
G. 
Globe-style fixture heads (including other shapes, such as acorn or cylinder styles) may only be used as decorative accents along the front of properties or buildings which face bordering streets which are occupied by or zoned for commercial or light industrial uses and where adjoining uses on the same side of the street are not residential. No such fixtures shall be located in any side or rear yard. Globe-style fixture heads shall be of the types which are frosted or translucent so that the bulb lighting source is not visible and that emitted light is diffused.