2001-034 - Building and Site Lighting

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Design and Development Standards , : Buildin and Site Lighting Code Requirements: The following are existing provisions of Santa Ann Municipal Code related to addressing lighting: Section 8-210 0,m,n,o): Thc following special provisions apply to all residential dwellings: I. All cxterlor doors shall bc equipped with a lighting device which shall provide a minimum maintained one foot-candle of tight at ground level during hours of darkness. Vandal resistant covers shall protect lighting devices. Aisles, passageways and recesses related to and within multiple.family dwelling complexes shall be equipped with lighting devices which shall provide a minimum maintained one foot- candle of light at wound level during hours of darkness. Vandal resistant covers shall protect lighting devices. All parking lots, carports, garages and parking s~'uctures of multiple-family dwelling complexes shall be equipped with lighting devices which will provide a minimum maintained one foot-candle of light on thc parking surface during hours of darkness. Subtecrancan parking lots shall maintain lighting 24 hours a day. Vandal resistant covers shall protect lighting devices. o. All exterior required lighting devices shall be placed at a height which will fully illuminate an average adult. (Malibu lights or tmllard lighting does not satisfy this requirement.) Section 8-211(m)(2-4): The following special provisions apply to commercial (non.residential) buildings: m. The following standards for lighting and address markings shall apply to commercial (non- residential) buildings: All exterior doom (podes~an and overhead) shall be equipped with a lighting device which shall provide a minimum maintained one foot-candle of light at wound level du~ng hours of darkness. Vandal resistant covers shall pro~ect lighting devices. All parking lots, and access thereto, providing more than 10 parking spaces and for use by the general public, shall be provided with a minimum maintained one foot-candle of light on the parking surface from dusk until the termination of business every operating day. At all other hours of darkness, a minimum maintained 0.25 foot-candles of light shall be provided at ground level. (These standards are applicable to any private parking area, regardless of size or users.) 4. Exterior lighting shall not shine away from subject property. (Lighting shall not glare onto or direct exposed lights to adjacent property.) C. Section 41-130~(c, h): c. Lights used to illuminate the parking area shall bc reflected away (or shielded) from any residence or sensitive ]and use. Sensitive land uses as used in this section are those adjacent land uses such as day care, parks, schools, churches, convalescent homes, and hospitals that will be potentially impac~d by the proposed parking lot and ancillary parking activities.