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~~`~ Orange Count ` `' ~ ~ ?' '- Conunission fc~r the Environment 8^,. 3~... r ~- _ ~~ ; ' ~~- a; c/o Orange County ERCD _ ~ 306-A Revere Road / PO Box 8181 ` Hillsborough, NC 27278 _F_ "~'~ Phone: (919) 245-2590, Fax: (919) 644-3351 { ~~~ - .,, Memorandum To: Nicole Gooding-Ray, Chair Orange County Planning Board From: Cara Crisler and Richard Whisnant, Co-Chairs Orange County Commission for the Environment Date: March 21, 2003 Re: Proposed Outdoor Lighting Standards Amendments The Commission for the Environment discussed the proposed amendments to the Zoning Ordinance addressing outdoor lighting standards at its March 10 meeting. The Commission supports the idea of outdoor lighting standards and commends the staff for this proposal. Light pollution is a problem that has been raised by members of the Commission in the past and the Commission feels that Orange County should take proactive steps to begin dealing with the problem. If the Planning Board's review process for the proposed ordinance ultimately stretches beyond the currently planned timeline, the Commission would like to discuss and review the ordinance in greater detail than time permitted on March 10. However, there are issues that the Commission agreed and voted to forward to you at this time: • Are there sections from model ordinances or ordinances (such as Sedona, Arizona) that we might be able to use in Orange County, so as to borrow language that might already have been applied and refined elsewhere? • Are the exemptions from the ordinance too broad? The Commission noted that the exemption of all single-family residences from the Environmental Impact Ordinance has been identified as a shortcoming in that existing document. GRANGE COUNTY ~ -Mx;. ~O NORTH CAROLINA CELE BIUTIN6 150 YEARS ~~