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~~ <br />Orange Count <br />Commission for the ~n~ironment <br />c/o Orange County ERCD <br />306-A Revere Road / PO Box 8181 <br />Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br />Phone: (919) 245-2590, Fax: (919) 644-3351 <br />Memorandum <br />To: Nicole Gooding-Ray, Chair <br />Orange County Planning Board <br />From: Cara Crisler and Richard Whisnant, Co-Chairs <br />Orange County Commission for the Environment <br />Date: March 21, 2003 <br />Re: Proposed Outdoor Lighting Standards Amendments <br />The Commission for the Environment discussed the proposed amendments to <br />the Zoning Ordinance addressing outdoor lighting standards at its March 10 <br />meeting. <br />The Commission supports the idea of outdoor lighting standards and commends <br />the staff for this proposal. Light pollution is a problem that has been raised by <br />members of the Commission in the past and the Commission feels that Orange <br />County should take proactive steps to begin dealing with the problem. If the <br />Planning Board's review process for the proposed ordinance ultimately stretches <br />beyond the currently planned timeline, the Commissiort would like to discuss and <br />review the ordinance in greater detail than time permitted on March 10. However, <br />there are issues that the Commission agreed and voted to forward to you at this <br />time: <br />Are there sections from model ordinances or ordinances (such as Sedona, <br />Arizona) that we might ead bhave been appliedeand ref ned elsewhere?w <br />language that might alr y <br />• Are the exemptions from the ordinance too broad? The Commission noted <br />that the exemption of all single-family residences from the Environmental <br />Impact Ordinance has been identified as a shortcoming in that existing <br />document. <br />GE CO TY <br />NORTH CAROLINA <br />CELEBRATING 150 YEARS <br />~}~~ ~ <br />