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"The 3rd one which shows that even for a regular parking lot you can put a fixture in a <br />box sa that if you are back far enough away from it is not in your eyes and all the light is going <br />down. Then you have two options far a sign, either from above or these internally lit signs that <br />work really well. Then there are the bad fixtures and there are many of them. <br />"You can get the totally ugly effect, which you can get by driving straight back towards <br />Chapel Hill, just as you come up over the hill. So, in the summation page, light pollution is a <br />problem in mast places in this country where they do not have a comprehensive Ordinance and <br />that includes Orange County. <br />"So we have got a good start on the Ordinance. For this to actually be a success this is <br />kind of like air pollution the light knows no boundaries, so getting the same things happening in <br />other jurisdictions in the towns and at the university would be something I would want to <br />motivate. So to the degree that we could get an ad hoc countywide working group for a little <br />while working on this and try and get same uniformity on these things that would be great. <br />"One thing just occurred to me, it is possible to even light ball fields and things that you <br />would think would just have to create this big ball of light. With the right shielding you can <br />make even ball fields and big facilities like that pretty tolerable in the neighborhood. So we can <br />actually bring back the stars in town and that has been done in a lot of bigger cities where <br />astronomers were being put out of business. And I know it takes a while for Ordinances and the <br />lifecycle of these fixtures to go through, but as far as the state-of-the-art fixtures and light <br />pollution approaches in all county facilities goes, I think that is something that can just be done <br />by the people that are planning the facilities. <br />"And I would really encourage that and the last thing that I want to ask far is that we get <br />a referral an this Ordinance so that we can take a look at it officially for the Commission for the <br />Environment. <br />"And on a completely different topic, I was the recipient of an Orange County Arts Commission <br />grant last year and there is a pile of these CDs aver there that were a result of that (five or six} <br />and they are for you all. Thank you very much." <br />Bill Walser. "Hi, I am Bill Walser, a resident of Orange County. I am a lifetime member of the <br />International Dark Sky Association, which basically made the presentation. I am an amateur <br />astronomer and I have a private observatory just off Dodson's Cross Roads where I do deep <br />space imaging. It's a university quality facility and there are a number of other amateur <br />astronomers in the area, who until just recently have enjoyed very dark skies. <br />"As the staff said, the last five years have been brutal on the sky. I came in tonight to <br />encourage you to see this Ordinance through to completion. It is very important right now in <br />Orange County as the rural buffer zone is being heavily developed. It is such a simple problem <br />to salve as Mark said. <br />"The idea is simply to have people buy fixtures that light what they want lit. Yau look at <br />these domes of light that half of the light is going up into space, that is just energy that is <br />wasted. <br />"The first night that Carrboro turned on their new Municipal home, I thought Carrboro <br />was burning dawn from my little property, which is about 12 miles away because of the huge <br />