ORD-2003-037 - Outdoor Lighting Standards Zoning Ordinance Amendment

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I Efland, which you can, I would think you could see from satellites going around the earth. And 1 a 2 would hope that when we get to the point that we have something adopted that we bring this to 3 the attention of our Division Engineer and express our concerns because that's a real shame 4 what they've done right in the middle of the County. 5 6 "And another egregious example would be the bank as you are coming into Hillsborough 7 on Old 86. 1 wonder if under 6.31.11 — Lighting On Buildings and Landscaping - if you could just 8 review that section and think about that bank, and think if this Ordinance adequately covers the 9 gluttony that's involved in the bathing of that building in unnecessary light all night. 10 11 "And also, I would just like to suggest that on 6.31.9c: I think you want to say, "shall not 12 exceed one hour after the end of the event." 13 14 "Thank you." 15 16 Moses Carey. Jr. "I heard one of the speakers speak and he was encouraging, he was 17 admiring the way the existing lighting or amortization of existing lighting was dealt with in the 18 Ordinance, but I heard someone, one of our Planning Board members ask about an 19 Amortization Schedule rather than the way we've dealt with it in here. And 1 think l heard you 20 (word I couldn't understand, maybe, "speak ") favorably of the way it was dealt with in here. 21 22 "Does any of the other speakers have any comments on whether one or the other of 23 those approaches..." 24 25 Man Spoke up from the Audience in Response to Commissioner Cary: "Let me just clarify my 26 statement." 27 28 Nicole Gooding — Ray "If you could come to the podium to do that. I'm sorry." 29 30 Ron Osbome ? " Ideally, an amortized period of replacement would be the perfect world, that 31 would be a wonderful thing. My personal feeling is that it is much more important to get a good 32 ordinance on the books at this stage of our development. Given Duke Power's concerns, I don't 33 see any of those issues that are not easy to work out. If you start reaching into people's 34 pocketbooks, [or? over?] fixtures that they`ve had over a number of years and pushing them, 35 you're going to get some vocal opposition. To me it's much more important that we get — 36 contain the growth of bad lighting in Orange County. Time will take care of itself. You know that 37 the International Dark Skies made a huge effort in Manhattan, which most people would think is 38 an impossible task and they didn't even do it by retrofitting. But what happens is that in 39 Manhattan because of the aggressive retailing environment, facades are redone; often, store 40 windows are redesigned; store fronts are redesigned, and every time it is renovated, it has to 41 conform. Within ten years they did an unbelievable job of reducing vertical light pollution out of 42 Manhattan. Of course, the problem is everything around Manhattan is still non - conforming. That 43 was the reason I said that. Not that it would not be ideal to do that but, my personal feeling is 44 that it is very important to get this on the books and functional, and protect us from what could 45 happen in a rapid developing period without any ordinance." 46 47 Moses Carey. Jr. "So you don't think we have a perfect world here ?" 48 49 Ron Osborne "No." (Laughed) 50 51 Moses Carey. Jr. 'Thank you."