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Comments submitted by: <br />"010 0 <br />General Comments <br />General Topic <br />Comment <br />Height Restrictions <br />Many places in the LIDO have a restriction on the height of a building. While residential structures tend to have 9 to 12 <br />feet per floor, commercial structures can have as much as 15 feet per floor. As the structure covers more area, the roof <br />can have a substantial amount of height to it if it is not a flat roof. Architectural details such as facades and cupolas can <br />affect the height. <br />My comment is this: Would it make more sense to specify the number of occupied stories as a limit on the structure? An <br />occupied story would not include attic space or utility rooms- it would be space occupied by people working in the <br />structure. Page 3-44 and page 4 -18 are examples of where this specification occurs. Note that the height limitations that <br />change with additional setback could be used as a maximum height such that either a (for example) 3 story limit β€”ORβ€” <br />the maximum height based on setback would be the height limit for the building. An example of this setback based <br />number is found at the top of page 6 -2. <br />1 would also add in (not sure where) than any building whose height exceeds the apparatus or ladder height restrictions <br />of the fire departments which would respond to a structure fire would be required to be sprinklered. <br />3 <br />Electronic formatting <br />The .pdf file shows absolute page number, is there some way it can so pages as they are marked on the documents <br />themselves (such as Page 5 -10)? <br />In the final document, it would be very nice if there was hyperlinking when other sections are referenced, and a special <br />font with hyperlinks to the definitions section when definitions are used. <br />1 <br />Mercury Vapor <br />There are various metal vapor lights, the most common being Mercury and Sodium vapor. It would be nice to know why <br />Luminaries <br />Mercury is being singled out. In particular, is it the presence of Mercury (i.e. environmental) or is it the use of a specific <br />type of fixture such as the yard lights utilities sell that is the concern. If the concern is environmental, then would it not <br />also apply to all fluorescent lights which use mercury? <br />3 <br />Wafts vs. Lumens <br />We have incandescent, metal vapor, fluorescent (which is mercury and a phosphorous), and LED. Each has a different <br />lumens per watt rating. If light is being regulated, lumens should be the standard. Also, be aware that any light with a <br />reflector will put out more light in a certain direction than a light with no reflector. As such, lumens is still a weak measure <br />of light output but it is what is on the packaging for all lights and is easier to work with than getting into the amount of light <br />energy per unit area type measurements (candles). As a rule of thumb, incandescent runs 5 to 30 lumens /watt, and <br />LEDs run 60 to 110 lumens /watt. <br />3 <br />Signs <br />In general, this whole section seems to be overly restrictive. <br />Stream buffers <br />On page 6 -121 the graphic for calculating the slope value will be great. A statement such as "The higher the slope value, <br />the steep or more rise per run the slope has" would also help when peWle look at the tables that follow. <br />1 <br />N <br />1) Incorporated; 2) For further BOCC discussion; 3) Implementation Bridge β€” Possible future phases; 4) Suggesting no action Cn <br />