Division 13-12-001
Street Lighting Objectives

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13-12-001-0001    Street Lighting Objectives

13-12-001-0001 Street Lighting Objectives

Public roadways, sidewalks and side paths are illuminated to achieve a number of different objectives that include: providing for clear and comfortable visibility at night; making streets and sidewalks more inviting during hours of darkness; reducing nighttime crashes; facilitating nighttime vehicular and pedestrian circulation; improving nighttime safety for all modes of travel; and promoting business use of public facilities during the night hours.

The regulations in this chapter are for fixed lighting of the different functional classifications of public streets, including the adjacent pedestrian walkways and associated bikeways. They are appropriately scaled to meet the range of the community’s goals, which compete simultaneously for both more and less artificial nighttime illumination. They provide for traveler safety and comfort as well as enhance nighttime business and social activity while reducing the degradation of the nighttime visual environment. Additionally, they are designed to meet other community goals such as supporting local astronomical and tourism industries by minimizing light pollution, glare, and light trespass, while preserving the region’s natural dark sky resources.

These regulations cover the requirements for City capital improvement and private development projects subject to off-site improvements requirements. They shall be used as guidelines for all other instances relative to lighting public ways. (Ord. 2017-22, Rep&ReEn, 07/05/2017; Ord. 2020-10, Amended, 09/15/2020 (Res. 2020-13) (Res. 2020-13))