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Because the UDO has been amended since these comments were made, referenced sections may be slightly off as some portions of the UDO have been renumbered. 12 Implementation Bridge - Future Phase Suggestions Planning Staff Comment 36. Under (5) (b): 16 feet should be 18 feet so that a passenger car can be passed by fire apparatus. For Class B roads with 3 or more lots, there should be an area 20 feet wide by 50 feet long every 1500 feet to that fire apparatus can pass each other. Transportation Planning staff has begun work on this topic. An Info Item was included on the December 9, 2014 BOCC agenda and it was discussed at the may 12, 2015 BOCC work session. 37. On (I), remove the word “incandescent” since LED lights are now often used for holiday decorations. Low wattage is not defined, but a typical nightlight/big Christmas tree bulb is 7 watts so you could say any wattage under 10 watts. It would make more sense to use a lumen rating, such as less than 150 lumens. On (J), first off this should be a lumen limit, not watts. As the limit reads, this looks like a total lumens for any given motion activated switch. The lumens looks like it was derived from two incandescent 75 watt bulbs, probably flood lights. Note that if this is the case, the maxim lumens should be 2400. There are many motion activated systems where a sensor can turn on multiple light fixtures. So I would re-word this to have a 2400 lumen limit per light fixture controlled by the sensor. Finally, on this max lumens per fixture, there are standard outdoor floodlight fixtures that take 3 bulbs. For those fixtures, a reasonable max lumens would be around 3600. You could also add a limit of no one bulb can exceed a rating of 2100 lumens (a 120 watt equivalent) if the intent is to avoid the larger single bulb fixtures -- Section 6.11.3. This is where a definition of “mercury vapor luminaries” is needed. As written, this could mean that any standard fluorescent or compact fluorescent light could not be used, since they are a mercury- phosphorous based light. This issue was addressed in a UDO text amendment pertaining to Outdoor Lighting (adopted Jan. 24, 2013). 91