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Proposed Update to Land Development Code Regarding Lighting for Vehicular Parking (NB)
This item proposes modifications to Section 30-330 and Section 30-345 of the Land Development Code regarding design requirements for vehicle parking and general performance standards.
Explanation
Recently, staff has been in contact with representatives of the Northside Shopping Center and Winn Dixie located on the northwest corner of N. Main Street and Northeast 23rd Avenue regarding proposed plans to upgrade the shopping center and vehicular parking area.
Based upon an initial staff review, it appears that the proposed site improvements (resurfacing of parking areas and associated re-striping; provision of landscaping and irrigation; and lighting) can be reviewed via a minor administrative site plan submission and related construction drawings.
One improvement that staff believes will need to be addressed through a more systematic Code modification approach is that of the proposed site lighting package. This would need to be done in order to balance the current lighting needs of private industry with the potential community nuisance considerations that sometimes accompany the provision of site lighting.
The current provisions of the Land Development Code seem to address such nuisance considerations as glare, light trespass (light that crosses the property line) and light pollution/Dark Sky (light that goes up into the sky) through several mechanisms. These include: lighting pole mounting heights limited to 30 feet; pole mounted lighting being required to meet IES (Our code uses IESNA, Illuminating Engineering Society of North America but many people use just IES) standards for sharp cut-off; and, applicants must demonstrate that light levels produced by proposed site lighting do not exceed 0.5 footcandles at all property lines abutting residential properties and 1.0 footcandles at property lines abutting commercial properties.
However, ther...
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