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6 ~~~~ T ~a 1 last ftve years have been brutal on the sky. I ~ nt ri ht nowti o 2 "As the staff said, the im off' g roblem 3 encourage you to see this Ordine~ one is being hea vlytdevelopede It is such a simple p 4 Orange County. as the rural buff 5 to solve as Mark said. 6 idea is simply to have people buy fixtures that light what they want 9t• that is~k at ~ "The oin u into space, that is just ener y g these domes of light that hall of the light is g ' 9 P 9 wasted. I thought Ca oro 10 11' "The first night that Carrboro turned on their new Municipal horn because of the huge little properly, which is about 12 miles away 12 was burning down from my dome that it put up that was not there the night at least thank God Carrboho d'dn'tbum down. 13 nized what the problem was, 14 immediately recog g bein 15 16 "But that's why this is so important; it just takes a fewa~g cular't dur ng the summer 17 wasted with this tremendous wattage going up into the air, p Y son where humidity is high in the air, you tend to trapoUlhhdat lig chemicals m the waterto lg sea , 19 produces these light domes which are as polluting as i y es of pollution, 20 the air. Fortunately it is much simpler tan °i~ they counbry hashfixtures that conform to a large 21 because every major light fixture comp Y 22 number of these Ordinances all other the country. one of them 23~ 24 "And so it is not even a problem ofU` spand lit is just' ags mple matte 9 orEthe aarchitects to 25 make conforming and non-conforming fixt 6 s ecify conforming fixtures and it saves the tenants a lot of money. So there are very few 2 P icall the only people who 27 people who find a problem with it and the power co nP hard to be res onsible about energy P 2g find a problem with it-and even thument forl them to bring up other than trying to preserve. 29 savings and it is a very tough arg 30 31 "You know in a lot of jurisdictions they ma~lethe uarticu a~ffixture needs to be eplaced. 32 Here, the Ordinance is not proposing a retrofit un P So. it is all. just gang forward and that is why it is so important with the development that is going 33 34 on in the county. 35 36 "So I felt like I needed to come forward and e a malleable job of relsearch and coking at 37 And I have say the staff of Orange County has don 3g Ordinances in other parts of the country and looking o nh eeither overboard ortnot havinglanking 39 at the basic common sense application of it without g g 40 effective Ordinance and I hope that in some form similar to the draft it will get eventually 41 accepted. Thank you. 42 name is Ron Osborne, and I am here tonight representing Duke 43 Ron bsbome: 'Thank you. MY sition with Duke Power is that I am the Engineering 44 Power regarding the Ordinance. MY Po 45 Supervisor for the Durham, Burlington, Chapel Hill service areas which encompasses all of Alamance County, parts of Guilford, counties to the 46 Orange County. Most of Durham County, that I am heartened by the 4'7 north and south and everything. 1 wanted to lead off by saying 4g 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. 1 applaud Orange County 50 for taking a look at it.