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105 <br />Comments related to proposed Section 50 -115 — Outdoor Lighting <br />Parks sand Recreation requests that Planning consider exempting public parks and recreation <br />facilities from the provisions of this ordinance. Many of the. standards listed and noted below <br />would be difficult or impossible to comply with. There are only a few manufacturers of athletic <br />lighting systems currently in operation. Some of the proposed items would eliminate one or <br />more of the manufacturers, setting the county up for proprietary bidding. We believe that it is <br />also in the best interests of Orange County to allow and encourage competitive bidding. <br />Comments are provided considering lighting use by the private sector as well as the public <br />sector. <br />Subsection: <br />(a) Item 1 - Please consider changing the last sentence to read: "It is the intent of these <br />regulations that lighting unnecessary for recreational use, safety or security be discouraged." <br />(a) Definitions: Floodlamp — Consider revising the last sentence to add the words <br />"commercial and" before the word residential. <br />Footcandle — Consider changing to: "The measurement of the <br />amount of light falling onto a surface." <br />Fully Shielded fixture is not defined. <br />Lumen — Please change foot -candle to footcandle as in other <br />references. Certain manufacturers require a burn -in time to meet their footcandle requirements. <br />This language would unfairly eliminate some manufacturers. <br />Semi -cutoff fixture - not sure what this means — especially the 20 <br />percent 10 degrees below part. — "An outdoor fixture shielded or constructed in such a manner <br />that it emits no more than five (5) percent of its light above the horizontal plane of the fixture, <br />and no more than twenty (20) percent of its light ten (10) degrees below the horizontal plane of <br />the fixture. " Where does the remainder of the light go? It seems too restrictive, depending of <br />what is supposed to be illuminated. <br />(c) Please consider adding: "Public Parks and Recreation Lighting" as an exception. <br />(d) C. Shielding is pre set by the manufacturers to comply with footcandle requirement both <br />on and off the surface to be illuminated. This is not typically shown in submittals <br />provided. <br />(d) D. Does this mean as on a site plan? Not sure what is meant by "horizontal." <br />