Parking lots for uses that require five or more spaces shall be lit in accordance with the following:

(a)

Residential parking lots. Open parking lots and carports shall be provided with a maintained minimum of one foot-candle of light on the entire paved area of the parking surface during the hours of darkness. Lighting devices shall be protected by weather and vandal resistant covers.

(b)

Nonresidential parking lots. Open parking lots and access thereto, for use by the general public, shall be provided with a maintained minimum of one foot-candle of light on the entire parking surface from dusk until the termination of the business every operating day.

(c)

Lighting type/height. Lights shall be an energy-efficient, indirect diffused type and shall not exceed a height of greater than 18 ft. above finished grade.

(d)

Coordination with landscape plans. Lighting design shall be coordinated with the landscape plan to assure that vegetation growth will not interfere with the intended illumination.

(§ 8-5.5801, Ord. 010-94, eff. January 5, 1995)

(a)

Multiple-family residential buildings. Aisles, passageways and recesses related to and within the building complex shall be illuminated with an intensity of at least .25 foot-candle at the ground level during the hours of darkness. Lighting devices shall be protected by weather and vandal resistant covers.

(b)

Nonresidential buildings. All exterior doors, during the hours of darkness, shall be illuminated with a minimum of one foot-candle of light. All exterior bulbs shall be protected by weather and vandal resistant covers.

(§ 8-5.5802, Ord. 010-94, eff. January 5, 1995)

In all districts lighting erected to provide illumination of private property for security purposes shall be shielded so as not to produce obtrusive glare onto the public right-of-way or adjoining properties.

(§ 8-5.5803, Ord. 010-94, eff. January 5, 1995)

Photometric data shall be submitted, prior to the issuance of building permits, to prove that the above lighting requirements have been satisfied.

(§ 8-5.5804, Ord. 010-94, eff. January 5, 1995)

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, parking lot lighting in any zone district may be erected to a greater height than the limit established for the district in which it is located, provided that a use permit (Section 8-5.7003) is first secured.

(§ 1, Ord. 06-01, eff. August 16, 2001)