(A) Building
Floodlighting.
Building floodlighting is only allowed
if it uses white, shielded or not visible, steadily illuminating light
sources (building floodlighting may not be tinted using colored bulbs,
gels, or lenses, and it may not change colors or blink or change intensity
in any way).
(B) Lighted
Objects.
Freestanding “art forms” and other
site objects may not be internally lighted. Site fixtures may only
be externally illuminated using tightly focused up-lighting from a
white, shielded or not visible, steadily illuminating light source
(that is, they may not be tinted using colored bulbs, gels, or lenses,
and they may not change colors or blink or change intensity in any
way).
(Ordinance 6773 adopted 5/19/15)
Parking and loading lighting must comply with the following
provisions:
(A) General.
All off-street parking areas for nonresidential uses (in all
zoning districts) that are used after dark must be illuminated beginning
at sunset and continuing throughout the hours of business operation.
Illumination of parking areas must be sufficient to ensure the visibility
of pedestrians and the safe movement of traffic within the site.
(B) Intensity.
The level of intensity of illumination, measured at a height
of three feet above the pavement surface, must be a minimum average
of two footcandles above the ambient light level, and a minimum level
at any point of at least 0.66 footcandle above the ambient light level.
(C) Mounting
Height.
The mounting height of luminaire fixtures may
not exceed the heights specified in Table 4-10 below.
Table 4-10: Mounting Heights for Lighting in Parking Areas
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Width of Parking Area
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Maximum Luminaire Mounting Height
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0 - 60 feet
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14 feet
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60.1 - 102 feet
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20 feet
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102.1 or greater feet
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30 feet
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(D) Appearance.
Standards, poles, and fixtures must be of a single color, compatible
with the architecture of the building.
(E) Type
of Fixtures.
All lighting fixtures must be restricted
to down-light or cut-off types. Low-pressure sodium lighting or lighting
of similar color may not be used.
(Ordinance 6773 adopted 5/19/15)
Walkway lighting must comply with the following provisions:
(A) Intensity.
All outdoor pedestrian areas and uncovered walkways, separate
from parking or buildings but essential to the nighttime operation
of nonresidential uses within nonresidential districts, must be continually
illuminated between sunset and sunrise. The level of intensity of
illumination, measured at the walkway surface, is a minimum average
of 0.8 footcandle. For pedestrian walkways located within one hundred
feet of a residential district, and for all sidewalks on private property
within a residential district (excluding public sidewalks along street
rights-of-way), walkway lighting must be low “bollard”-style
(not mounted on light poles over five feet tall) so that lighting
occurs as a “groundwash” on the walkways and does not
overspill into residential lots.
(B) Mounting
Height.
The mounting height of luminaire fixtures within
one hundred feet of a residential district may not exceed twelve feet
above the ground.
(Ordinance 6773 adopted 5/19/15)
(A) General
Requirements.
The use of gaseous, light-emitting diode
(LED), or other electrified or illuminated tubing or backlit “band”
lighting to outline or decorate buildings, signs, or other site features
is limited as follows:
(1) Gaseous,
light-emitting diode (LED), or other electrified or illuminated tubing
or backlit “band” lighting is prohibited in residential
and Agriculture (AG) zoning districts.
(2) In
nonresidential and mixed-use zoning districts, gaseous, light-emitting
diode (LED), or other electrified or illuminated tubing or backlit
“band” lighting must comply with the following provisions:
(a) Allowed to decorate only one predominantly horizontal architectural
element on a building (that is, along the rooflines including any
peaks, arches, or bump-ups, or horizontally along the building’s
facade as lighted tubing or a backlit “band”), provided
that the tubing or “band” does not exceed six inches in
width. Outlining windows, doorways, and other architectural building
features, other than as provided above, is prohibited.
(b) Building-mounted awnings may be backlit provided they do not comprise
more than ten percent of a building facade’s total surface area,
or the outermost edges only of awnings may be outlined or decorated
with gaseous or electrified tubing (entire awnings may not be outlined,
only the outermost edges).
(c) Building-mounted, projecting porch covers may be outlined or decorated
with gaseous or electrified tubing to highlight the main entrance
into the building. Only the outermost panel or plane that is approximately
parallel to the building’s front facade may be backlit (not
the entire projecting porch cover).
(d) Around the outer edges of canopies sheltering vehicular areas (such
as canopies of gas stations, convenience stores, or drive-through
bank facilities) may be outlined or decorated with one gaseous, LED,
or electrified/illuminated tubing strip having a maximum width of
six inches, or with a backlit “band,” provided that the
“band” does not exceed one-third the thickness of the
canopy or twelve inches in width, whichever is smaller (the “band”
may not protrude beyond the upper or lower edge of the canopy).
(e) Freestanding “art forms” and other site objects may not
be illuminated by or with gaseous, LED, or other electrified or illuminated
tubing or devices.
(Ordinance 6773 adopted 5/19/15)