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7 Q~~~. 1 ao "Duke's interest in this is to make sure that th s0 A d toh ate d,landlto the ntent oft 2 3 equate to compliance, which will equate to effectivene 4 trying to limit light trespass, the remarks that ecedine srealkersare geared. Let me just say a 5 couple of things because I appreciated the pr 9 P 6 business is to look at lights all the time whenever I'm ~ "The first thing is that part of my 8 ridin down the road so I know how everybody feels w teare Great g probtlemsb Andlit 9 relatvely 9 9 you start looking up. And I do see lights all the time t a 10 simple to fix them. And I think that the Ordinance can address that. 11 12 "The other thing that 1 want to mention because I found some common 9r1;ve been upn 13 rural Alamance County, not far from what is called "Three College Observatory. 14 there a couple of times with my children to oserv ni ht The moisturetinethehaipdoesocatuse a 15 problem. It is getting worse, especially on a ggy 9 16 problem. And if you go out and look, you'll probioelk at the h'ghway light ng down 185 you ook at 17 unfortunately, are governmental agencies. You lg the fighting over different municipalities. And eluded'nAndbagainugapplaudtOrangle Colunty 19 municipalities and governmental lighting is 20 because, based on my interpretation of the Ordinance, that has not been ignored. So, I think that 21 is a good step. 22 23 "I mentioned seven things in the memo that was sent, which I will not go over again 24 because you've got them with you tonight, but I just wanted to make a couple of mentions of a 25 couple of highlights. 26 27 "One is the Section 631.5, which refers to the submittal of plans and designs for lighfing 28 applications. This is of concern to Duke Powen in nfor a erything to be submitted and rev ewed. 29 lighting and everything, it is going to be cha g g 30 I'm not saying it cannot be done, but the burdeno of table ut lity I ke Duke Power toPwe d have toll 31 upon the requesting party. And it would be up t p 32 have that come in hand from the requesting party tows. That is not a service that could be 33 performed under the current rate structh{ to us something that ns approvable t Agafn, I dotn'gt think 34 party to have that submitted and broug , 35 that, I know that Duke Power does not have a position on that. We are just making everybody 36 aware that that is a direct action of the Ordinance that will take place. 37 38 "A lot of lights that Duke Power puts in are situations where there is a armer or 39 somebody that has a convenience store or just somebody's got their own home, wawhichl~ght 40 installed. Duke Power supplies lights under the North Carolina Utility Commission, 41 approves the light selection that is installed. And, currently, the guidelines we follow to put the 42 tights up are fairly straight forward and our desire is that they remain so under the Ordinance. 43 44. "The simplest way to do that is to make the foundational Ordinance the requirement o 45 cut-off fixtures, which I think would probably address 90 percent of the light pollution, fight 46 trespass problem that we see todhe•ITht, and that I ght is not dPected on the surfaceai 's directed 47 when you are outside looking at g 48 out, and even a relatively small light from a distance will be an irritant just because of that point 49 source that you can see. A cut-off fixture would address that and it is something very simple to 50 do. - 51