10-11-24 Outdoor Lighting
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A. Outdoor Lighting: Outdoor lighting should provide for the illumination of buildings and grounds for safety purposes, but in an aesthetically pleasing manner. Lighting should be focused downward and placed and screened to limit the emission of light beyond the development boundaries. A condition to approval of a development may be that certain lighting be extinguished after certain hours.
B. Outdoor lighting shall be installed, directed, and arranged in such a manner as to not disturb a person of average and reasonable sensitivities in adjoining residential premises or street traffic.
C. Outdoor lighting will be designed to assure that neighboring properties are protected from direct light sources and where possible to not diminish the night sky. a. No lighting may be installed in connection with the multipurpose sports court, swimming pools, or other similar playing surface which shall throw any direct rays beyond the property lines on which it is constructed.
Commercial Construction Lighting. The operation of construction lighting or the performance of construction activity, except as required for emergency work or as allowed by a Special Permit issued by the city, shall only be allowed between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. on weekdays or between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. on weekends (Saturdays and Sundays) or legal holidays.
(Ordinance No 2025-006) Passed by Council on November 18, 2025
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