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8 ~~~~ - ff fixtures, it encies is that when you use cut o We first "One caveat to that, to governmental ag 1 ears ago, and it has more fixtures in a given area to illuminate to{rosamta~ area ove 20 y roa way. 2 requires 3 experimented with cut-off lighting in the Charlotte M P es but one of its disadvantages is that ofteationes it takes more lights in a 4 very many advantag ~ ratio and the same illum-n 5 distance to have the same uniformity 6 that this is "So what that translates to is more cost for nateca subdiv sio'ngllmhnot DsaOying 7 arties that want to illumi g municipalities, even private p en in many cases. 9 a bad thing. it is just a fact of life that will happ 10 anted to mention is the prohibition of mercury vapor. One thing to 11 "The other item I w roved by the Utility ~12 keep in mind on that is that, { nrrently, that is the low-cost option as ap . arties. Mercury vapor is available in cut-off fixtures so the light 13 Commission for most reques 9 P 14 pollution issue would be address but the consumption issue would remain. li hts are a flat 15 tion issue: the rates for mercury vapor g 16 "One side note about the consump va or fixture is a low-cost 17 rate, it's not based on consumption, it is based on flat rate. Mercury P use it is less cost to install and it's less cost to me I'i ies and the ceost that Duko Power 18 option beca tion, the cost of the fa 19 are based on the cost of the consump as to expend going out there and making a repasrmop e efficientllSo there are some trade-offs. 20 h va or, even though it 21 involved than the mercury P 22 It's not a linear comparison that can be made sometimes. 23 'tat the electricity that is used for lighting at night is r{ puke Powered 24 "The other thing is h I know that is hard to comprehend sometimes but the power systeak loading situations 25 energy. 26 and the other utilities use to gen We have to build that generation whether we use i extra costnd 27 which occur during the daytime. 28 at night when the load is down, we've stil- got that generation available at rea Y n of that offsets the cost during peak times. It's kind of like building a 29 And using it for illumination actually ear, but you ve g 30 four-lane road to get to Kenar~n Stadium but you only need it ten times a Y ost are if ou could use it every day of the year and offset the cost of it, 31 road there all, it would ben Y 32 and that is how lighting is viewed: n a a9oves fo flus totbuild the maintenance c 33 considered in what the Comm~ssio PP lad to continue 34 that Duke Power, and I, myself, would be g 35 "In closing, I would like to say ortunity we've 36 the dialogue with the County and othe effect veeandas Imple andPuitimately, workable Ordinance ettm 37 had so far. We look forward tog 9 38 "Is there anyone who was not signed up to speak who would 39 A. Nicole Gooding-Ray 40 like to speak to this issue at this time? OK." 41 Bar Jacobs "I would tike to make some com a e bas salty advert'i ing signs. We don't fight . 42 43 anything in here about subdivision signs, which 44 our street signs. I don't see why we would allow the lighting of subdivision signs. 45 46 "I would like to second Mr. Bryan's comment. I think it would be prooaolok norat fixtures 47 keeping with Duke Power recommendation to have a simple, cleaner waou are talking about 48 on a periodic basis. I don't know f outaret talking about allnstreet ligh~ts.yl'm not sure we have 49 publicly -funded street fights or y 0 control over publicly-funded street lights, but we dro a County is DOT's new me change t 5 51 Probably the grossest tight polluter in central Ora g