(a) Applicability.
(1) Outdoor lighting shall be required for safety and personal security for uses that operate during hours of darkness where there is public assembly and/or traverse, including, but not limited to the following uses: commercial, industrial, public-recreational, institutional and multifamily residential developments.
(2) Borough Council may require lighting to be incorporated for other uses and locations than those identified above or may restrict lighting in any of the uses or locations identified above, as deemed necessary.
(3) Street lights are regulated elsewhere in the Borough of Swarthmore Subdivision and Land Development Regulations (see Section 1288.16) and are specifically excluded from these regulations.
(4) Temporary lighting is exempt from the requirements of this section. Such lighting shall be discontinued immediately upon completion of the construction work.
(5) Nothing in this section shall apply to lighting required by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) or any other Federal regulatory authority.
(b) Illumination Levels and Lighting Fixture Design.
(1) Lighting shall have intensities and uniformity ratios in accordance with the recommended practices of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North American (IESNA) as contained in the most current edition of the IESNA Handbook, or as contained in current publications of the IESNA Recommended Practices or Design Guides.
(2) The intensity of illumination projected onto a residential property from another property shall not exceed 0.1 vertical foot candle measured line-of-site from any point on the adjacent residential property.
(3) Fixtures shall be of a type and design appropriate to the lighting application and aesthetically acceptable to the Borough.
(4) Fixtures must be installed so as to minimize light trespass, backlight, uplight, and glare, as defined by current standards from the IESNA. This includes, but is not limited to, lighting used for parking areas, buildings, building overhangs, canopies, signs, displays, and landscaping.
(5) Lighting shall conform to current American Society for Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) criteria for energy efficiency.
(c) Installation.
(1) Electrical feeds for fixtures mounted on poles shall be run underground, not overhead.
(2) Lighting standards at the rear of parking spaces shall be placed a minimum of five feet outside the paved area, curbing or tire stops, or on concrete pedestals at least thirty inches high above the pavements, or suitably protected by other approved means.
(d) Recreational Lighting. When facilities for outdoor recreational activities are permitted by the Borough to operate during hours of darkness, excluding recreational accessory uses which are permitted on properties in residential zoning districts, the following lighting requirements shall apply:
(1) Lighting shall be approved by the Borough based on suitable control of backlight, uplight, and glare.
(2) Lighting shall be timed to be extinguished by 11:00 p.m. (lighting may be left on to finish a game or event in progress that was scheduled to be over by that time but has been extended due to overtime, weather delay, or other unforeseen events.)
(3) Outdoor recreational activities shall not be illuminated if located within any residential zoning district or sited on a nonresidential property within 1,200 feet of a residential use.
(4) The maximum mounting heights for recreational lighting shall be seventy feet.
(5) The permissible illumination for lights at recreational venues shall not exceed IESNA standards and shall be suited to the intended purpose of the recreational facility, both in terms of activity and class of play.
(Ord. 1044. Passed 8-8-11.)