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ATTACHMENT ONE (1) 6 <br />Ordinance Amendment with staff comments <br />Fixture: The assembly that houses the lamp or lamps and <br />can include all or some of the following parts: a <br />housing, a mounting bracket or pole socket, a <br />lamp holder, a ballast, a reflector or mirror, <br />and /or a refractor or lens. <br />Flood Lamp: A form of lighting designed to direct its output in <br />a specific direction with a reflector formed from <br />the glass envelope of the lamp itself. Such <br />lamps are so designated by the manufacturers <br />and are typically used in residential outdoor area <br />lighting. <br />Floodlight: A form of lighting designated to direct its output <br />in a diffuse, more or less specific direction, with <br />reflecting or refracting elements located external <br />to the lamp. <br />Footcandle (fc): The amount of light falling onto a surface. <br />Full Cutoff Fixture: An outdoor lighting fixture shielded or <br />constructed in such a manner that it emits no <br />light above the horizontal plane of the fixture. <br />Glare: Light emitting from a luminaire with an intensity <br />great enough to reduce a viewer's ability to see <br />or to cause annoyance, and, in extreme cases, <br />causing momentary blindness. <br />Holiday Decoration: Holiday displays, decorations and greetings, <br />which relate to any federally designated holiday, <br />legal holiday or religious holiday. <br />Lamp: The source of electric light: the bulb. To be <br />distinguished from fixture and luminaire. <br />Lumen: A unit of luminous flux. One foot - candle is one <br />lumen per square foot. For the purposes of this <br />