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Editor's Note: This chapter was originally designated as Ch. 424 but was renumbered due to a preexisting Ch. 424.
[Ord. No. 25-2021, § 1, eff. 9-9-2021]
The City of Pittsburgh is committed to increasing energy efficiency in City facilities, eliminating waste, improving habitats for plants and animals, and reducing glare and light pollution that can distract motorists, pedestrians, and cyclists. As such, the City is committed to adhering to Dark Sky Lighting Principles for its own newly installed or retrofitted streetlights.
[Ord. No. 25-2021, § 1, eff. 9-9-2021]
(a) 
DARK SKY LIGHTING PRINCIPLES
shall mean the use of advanced lighting technologies, including, but not limited to LEDs, shielding, and a limit on color temperature in an effort to reduce light pollution and glare and eliminate waste. All applicable lighting shall utilize LED and/or other approved advanced lighting technologies, including on-off and dimming controls, where possible, shall follow the current lighting and luminaire recommendations of the International Dark-Sky Association, and shall use best available technologies.
[Ord. No. 25-2021, § 1, eff. 9-9-2021]
(a) 
For all projects involving the replacement or installation of more than ten (10) streetlight fixtures, such lights shall adhere to Dark Sky Lighting Principles as defined in Section 424A.02(a) herein.
(b) 
The lighting shall achieve the reduction requirements listed in the International Dark Sky Association Model Lighting Ordinance and/or use best available technologies and practices to comply with Dark Sky Lighting Principles.
(c) 
All lighting shall utilize appropriate color temperature not to exceed three thousand (3,000) Kelvins with a preference for two thousand seven hundred (2,700) Kelvins where possible, and include full cutoff shielding such that no light is emitted above a horizontal plan through the fixture.
(d) 
The Department of City Planning, Division of Sustainability and Resilience shall provide technical guidance and assistance with compliance to this Section.
[Ord. No. 25-2021, § 1, eff. 9-9-2021]
The City shall comply with Section 424A.04 fully unless one (1) or more of the following exemptions applies to the project and the reasons for the exemption are clearly documented in the plan as submitted to the Chief Operating Officer or their designee:
(a) 
Where replacement occurs in response to an urgent life-safety matter that requires initiating immediate action as determined by the Director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure.
(b) 
In a life-safety, emergency situation, such as a natural disaster, where the Director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure or their designee determines that compliance with this Section would impact the City's ability to respond to the emergency in a timely and safe manner.