(A) Public or private outdoor recreational facilities. Outdoor night-time recreational events have unique and site specific lighting needs. This section is intended to permit adequate illumination for such events, while minimizing sky-glow and reducing glare and lighting spillover onto surrounding streets and properties.
(1) Primary playing areas with the exception of residential accessory uses. Where playing fields or other recreational areas are to be illuminated, lighting fixtures shall be specified, mounted, and aimed so that their beams fall within the primary playing area. Direct illumination shall be confined to within the property lines of the recreational use. External shields may be required in order to reduce spillover light.
(3) Event hours. Under no circumstances shall any illumination of the playing field, court, or track be permitted after 11:00 p.m. except to conclude an event that was reasonably scheduled to conclude prior to 11:00 p.m. All newly lighted fields, or existing fields being upgraded or refitted (public or private) shall be equipped with override timing devices which will automatically cut off the lights to ensure curfew compliance.
(B) Outdoor lighting of buildings, parking lots, loading areas, sales areas, display areas, aprons/canopies, landscaping, signs, flags, statues, and other objects. The following lighting requirements apply to single-family attached, multifamily, educational, institutional, commercial recreation, public, commercial business and retail, motor vehicle related, wholesaling, and industrial uses identified in this chapter.
(1) Lighting of the aforementioned uses shall consist of fully cut-off or directionally shielded lighting fixtures that are aimed and controlled so that the directed light is confined to the object intended to be illuminated.
(2) Directional control shields shall be used where necessary to limit stray light.
(3) No light from any illuminated sign shall cause or direct non-reflected light from the fixture to shine onto any adjoining property or public right-of-way.
(4) Lighting for all parking, display, and loading areas shall not exceed an average horizontal illumination level of two and one-half foot-candles. All lighting fixtures serving these areas shall be fully cut-off fixtures.
(5) Maximum mounting height is 20 feet for residential uses and 25 feet for nonresidential uses. Height is measured from the ground surface to the bottom of the lighting fixture. (See Figure 3 in § 157.288.)
(6) The lighting fixture bulbs in aprons and canopies shall be recessed into a canopy ceiling so that the bottom of the fixture is flush with the ceiling so that light is restrained to no more than 85 degrees from vertical.
(a) As an alternative to recessed ceiling lights, indirect lighting may be used where the light is directed upward and then reflected down from the underside of the canopy. In this case, light fixtures shall be shielded so that direct illumination is focused exclusively on the underside of the canopy.
(b) Lights shall not be mounted on the top or sides (facial) of the canopy and the sides of the canopy shall not be illuminated.
(7) The lighting for pump islands and under canopies shall have a minimum of one foot-candle at grade, and the average horizontal illumination cannot exceed ten foot-candles at grade level, subject to a uniformity ratio (ratio of average to minimum illuminance) no greater than four to one. The standards herein are based on the Illuminating Engineering Society of America (IESNA) RP-33, Lighting for Exterior Environments.
(8) Lamps shall not exceed 400 watts.
(C) Outdoor fixtures for single-family detached residential structures. Outdoor fixtures for single-family detached residential structures shall be limited to lamps with a maximum of 180 watts per fixture and shall be installed so that light does not spill onto an adjoining property.
(1998 Code, § 66-352) (Ord. passed 9-5-2017) Penalty, see § 10.99