Standards for controlling lighting and glare are set forth to reduce the annoyance and inconvenience to property owners and traffic hazards to motorists. These standards are intended to allow reasonable enjoyment of adjacent and nearby property by their owners and occupants while requiring adequate levels of lighting of parking areas.
(Ordinance 361-05 adopted 3/22/05)
A. 
Any use shall be operated so as not to produce obnoxious and intense glare or direct illumination across the bounding property line from a visible source of illumination of such intensity as to create a nuisance or detract from the use or enjoyment of adjacent property. All outside lights shall be made up of a light source and reflector so selected that acting together, the light beam is controlled and not directed across any bounding property line above a height of three (3) feet. The allowable maximum intensity measured at the property line of a residential use in a residential district shall be 0.25 footcandles. Light poles shall be placed on the site a setback equal to its height from all adjacent residential property.
B. 
All off-street parking areas for nonresidential uses in nonresidential districts which are used after dark shall be illuminated beginning one-half (1/2) hour after sunset and continuing throughout the hours of business operation. If only a portion of a parking area is offered for use after dark, only that part is required to be illuminated in accordance with these standards. However, the portion offered for use shall be clearly designated. Lighting within the parking areas shall meet the following minimum requirements:
1. 
Intensity:
a. 
Minimum at any point on the parking area surface to be at least 0.6 footcandles initial, and at least 0.3 footcandles maintained or one-third (1/3) of the average, whichever is greater.
b. 
Illumination shall not exceed an average of one (1) footcandle at ground level and shall distribute not more than 0.25 footcandles of light upon any adjacent residentially zoned area.
2. 
Height:
a. 
The maximum height of light poles shall conform to the maximum height allowed for the main building in each zoning district.
b. 
Special lighting or lighting higher than the height allowed in the applicable zoning district may be approved by Town Council as specifically noted on the site plan.
(Ordinance 361-05 adopted 3/22/05)
A. 
Residential lighting for security and night recreation use is permitted in all residential districts provided the following requirements are met:
1. 
Direct lighting over ten feet (10') in height is shielded from adjacent property.
2. 
No light source shall exceed twenty feet (20') in height. A light source of up to thirty-five feet (35') in height with a lighting plan prepared by an engineer may be approved the Town Building Official. Streetlights and other traffic safety lighting are exempt from this standard.
3. 
Lighting shall not directly shine on adjacent dwellings.
(Ordinance 361-05 adopted 3/22/05)
A. 
Light sources shall be of a down-light type, indirect, diffused, or shielded type luminaires installed and maintained so as to reduce glare effect (i.e., minimum seventy degree (70º) cutoff when measured from horizontal) and consequent interference with use of adjacent properties and boundary streets.
(Ordinance 361-05 adopted 3/22/05)