A. Recreational Lighting:
1. The following standards apply to the lighting of all nonresidential outdoor recreational facilities except baseball, softball, soccer, volleyball, football fields, driving ranges, outdoor arenas and amphitheaters, or other field recreational facilities:
a. The height of any light source shall not exceed twenty feet (20') to the top of the luminaire or pole, whichever is higher, as depicted in figure 9-20-1 of this section.
b. All lighting or illumination units or sources shall be hooded or shielded so as to allow no light trespass onto any adjacent lot or real property. Lights or illuminating units shall not direct light, either directly or through a reflecting device, upon any adjacent real property.
2. All of the recreational lighting excepted from the above standards shall meet the following standards:
a. All metal halide lamps shall be filtered by glass, acrylic, or translucent enclosures.
b. No lighting of one hundred fifty (150) watts or greater shall be used after ten thirty o'clock (10:30) P.M.
B. Sign Lighting: Although signage is strongly encouraged to be back lit whenever possible, external lighting of the face of signs, when implemented, shall be placed above the sign, facing downward toward the sign, and shielded in a manner that the lamp shall not be visible from any adjacent lot or real property. Lamp visibility shall be considered as if the glass or globe of the fixture was not present. External lighting for signage should not produce more than 0.5 foot-candle of light reflection from the sign. Also see section 9-26-080 of this title.
C. Security, Landscaping, Architectural, And Other Lighting: All outdoor lights shall be shielded to reduce light trespass to permissible levels.
D. Other Pole Mounted Lighting For Parking, Etc.: All lights mounted on poles eight feet (8') or greater in height shall be directed down perpendicular to the ground. The lamp shall be shielded so that it will not be visible from any adjacent real property. Lamp visibility shall be considered as if the glass or globe of the fixture was not present. Pole lighting should only be implemented for parking areas and other vehicular circulation features.
E. Street Pole Mounted Lighting: All lights mounted on poles eight feet (8') or greater in height shall be directed down perpendicular to the ground. The light source shall be full cutoff fixtures. (Ord. 795, 1-15-2008)
F. Exterior Lighting: All exterior lighting, including public street lighting, as applicable, shall meet the following design criteria:
1. Background spaces like parking lots shall be illuminated as unobtrusively as possible to meet the functional needs of safe circulation and protection of people and property. Foreground spaces, such as building entrances and outside seating areas, shall utilize local lighting that defines the space without glare.
2. Light sources shall be full cutoff fixtures to minimize the potential for glare and unnecessary diffusion on adjacent property.
3. All outdoor light not necessary for security purposes shall be reduced, activated by motion sensors devices, or turned off during nonoperation hours.
4. Light fixtures used to illuminate flags, statues, or any other object mounted on a pole, pedestal, or platform shall use a narrow cone beam or light that will not produce illumination of 0.2 foot-candle or greater above the object being lit. All such lights shall be recessed such that the surface of the globe is flush with the finished grade or object's base in which the light is mounted.
5. For upward directed architectural, landscape, and decorative lighting, direct light emissions shall not exceed 0.1 foot-candle at the building roofline.
6. Light fixtures shall be located, whenever possible, on the interior of parking areas with light directed such that only the parking areas receive direct light. Wall pack lighting to be located on building facades shall be implemented only for the illumination of building entrance areas and directed such that only the area around building entrances is illuminated.
7. Maximum pole height is twenty feet (20') except as provided in section 9-20-090 of this chapter.
G. Number Of Primary Lighting Poles: The maximum number of primary light poles to be implemented on a site shall be limited to a ratio of one pole for not less than ten thousand (10,000) square feet of gross site area. If additional lighting is necessary, a bollard or pedestrian scale light pole of not more than eight feet (8') in height may be used.
H. Light Pole Spacing: Light poles shall be spaced such that overlap in the areas of direct lighting is eliminated.
I. Wall Packs: The implementation of wall pack lighting should be stringently avoided with the exception of sites which are incorporating existing lights on existing structures.
J. Bollards: The use of bollard style lighting should be the primary illumination source for all pedestrian walkways and areas as well as buildings entry areas.
K. Colors:
1. Light Color: Site lighting is strongly encouraged to be a white light.
2. Pole Colors: Site lighting poles shall be black in color. The planning commission may permit colors other than black for lighting poles upon establishing findings that the color: a) will architecturally match the colors of the building(s) on the site to a greater extent than black; and b) will less dramatically detract from the appearance of the building(s) on the site than will black poles.
3. Uniformity: All site lighting poles shall be of the same color throughout any one site or development.
L. Light Pole Placement: Site lighting is strongly encouraged to be placed on the site such that the poles do not line the exterior of the site but rather are placed toward the interior of the site to reduce the number of poles on a site and to allow the inherent grade area coverage of the light to be maximized. (Ord. 1132, 2-17-2015)