ORD-2003-004 Amend Article 6 to establish Outdoor Lighting Standard

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0,4Z --,cgn6 -00<1 1. Orange County Zoning Ordinance Text Amendments A — C; 71 1 5 ?4 Verbatim Minutes from audiotape of the Text Amendment regarding Outdoor Lighting. C f CL, Nicole Gooding -Ray, Chair, Orange County Planning Board: "The first item on the agenda is an Orange County Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment regarding Outdoor Lighting and we are going to hear a presentation from staff." Craig Benedict, Director Orange County Planning Department: "My name is Craig Benedict, Orange County Planning Director. Tonight we will be addressing four items. The first three items are amendments to our Zoning Ordinance. The last item is a subdivision amendment, which is very closely related to enforcement provisions that are noted in the zoning. So, we have items, actually the third and fourth items we'll be talking about tonight are enforcement provisions: One for subdivision and one for zoning. "The first item has to do with Outdoor Lighting Standards. Presently, the County has limited standards for outdoor lighting. I'll do a presentation talking about some new standards there. "The second item has to do with stream buffers. Presently stream buffers and streams are identified by U.S.G.S. maps. We are increasing the definitions we have for stream identification. a. Amend Article 6 to establish Outdoor Lighting Standards Craig Benedict: "I will move my location now to the dais behind you and I will start off with the outdoor lighting "My staff will get the people who have signed in for the public hearing and I do understand that there are some people who do want to speak on a few of these items. "Since we do have two meetings wrapped into one tonight, we will move with all due speed and with all proper comment that we can as we go through these items tonight. The first item that we are taking a look at tonight is outdoor lighting standards. This is something that has been put together based on comments from both our Planning Board, from the citizens that see new developments come in the area, and from the Commission for the Environment who has also taken up this as something to examine. The one area that we are talking about presently is existing standards, which are just limited to our economic development districts. And even within the economic development districts, there are minor references to where the lights are located and things of that nature. We will talk about the proposed standards and we will talk about not just lighting but the amount of energy and energy conservation that is involved in lighting. And we will talk about what it means when you change regulations from one thing to the next. "Presently the only reference to asking for lighting standards in our present code is a section at the end of our implementation guidelines that says "and any other information that is necessary." And so we have asked for this information when we review site plans. Most rural subdivisions are not putting lighting in them so we are in no way asking for people to light rural subdivisions; but if they do, we want to make sure of the light spill is a minimum. And as I mentioned, economic development districts do have some standards there. The proposed standards do a few different things. The amount of light spill that comes in different areas of the