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6 ~~~~ ~~ 1 2 "As the staff said, the last five years have been brutal on the sky. I came in tonight o 3 encourage you to see this Ordinance this beino heavpytdevelopede It is suchaatsimple problem 4 Orange County as the rural buffer zone g 5 to solve as Mark said. 6 7 "The idea is simply to have people buy fixtures that light what they want lit. You look a g these domes of light that half of the light is going up into space, that is just energy that is 9 wasted. 10 1 l "The first night that Carrboro turned on their new Municipal home, I thought Carr oro 12 was burning down from my little property, which is about 12 miles away because of the huge 13 dome that it put up that was not ther b e~ N9 st at feast thank God Carrboro d'dn'tburn down. 14 immediately recognized what the pro 15 16 "But that's why this is so important; it just takes a few lights with excess energy being 17 wasted with this tremendous wattage going up into the air, particularly during the summer 18 season, where humidity is high in the air, you tend to trap all that light and the moisture and it 19 produces these fight domes which are as polluting as if you had put chemicals in the water to 20 the air. Fortunately it is much simpler tan oin the~counbry hashfixtures thatoconforrn to aolarge 21 because every major light fixture comp y 22 number of these Ordinances all other the country. 23~ 24 "And so it is not even a problem of shopping or finding the right thing. Every one of them 25 make confom~ing and non-conforming fixtures andsta lot of moneye So thereoare very few is to 26 specrfy conforming fixtures and it saves the tenan 27 people who find a problem with it and teo pe arece ng hard to be Pesplonshble albout enlergyo 28 find a problem with it and even those p p ffY 29 savings and it is a very tough argument for them to bring up other than trying to preserve. 30 31 "You know in a lot of jurisdictions they make a quick retrofit and that is a big prob em. 32 Here, the Ordinance is not proposing a retrofit until the particular fixture needs to be replaced. 33 So. it is all just going forward and that is why it is so important with the development that is going 34 on in the county. 35 36 "So I felt like I needed to come forward and encourage all the people involved with this. 37 And I have say the staff of Orange Coun nd ~ookine at the eng'meering aspects of i and looks gt 38 Ordinances in other parts of the country a 9 39 at the basic common sense application of it without going either overboard or not having an 40 effective Ordinance and I hope that in some form similar to the draft it will get eventually 41 accepted. Thank you." 42 43 Ron Osborne: 'Thank you. My name i siRon 0th Duke Powe s that I am the EngineeringDu e 44 Power regarding the Ordinance. My Po 45 Supervisor for the Durham, BurlingtounChAlamalnlce County, partshof Gu Iford,pcountiesllto the 46 Orange County. Most of Durham Co ty, 47 north and south and everything. I wanted to lead off by saying that I am heartened by the 48 actions the County is taking with regard to light pollution and light trespass and I think that 49 something that needs to be addressed probably in most jurisdictions. I applaud Orange County 50 for taking a look at it.