• b. (Support the supervision of secure areas)
  
  
  1. Provide illumination in accordance with Table 1: Illumination Requirements
  2. Provide good color rendering for identification purposes using Metal Halide lamps
  3. Provide sufficient lighting coverage including building recesses or inside corners
     
     
• c. (Assist in svaifusditsg)
  
  
  1. Provide illumination to improve legibility of nodes. landmarks and circulation areas
  2. Align lamps in consistent recognizable. and unambiguous patterns
  3. Provide a uniform and modest brightness along paths of travel
     
     
• d. (Conserve energy)
  
  
  1. Employ alternatives to incandescent or mercury, vapour lamps
  2. Maintain light levels within recommended range sit out in Table 1
  3. Dim down lighting to minimum levels after normal operating hours
     
     
• e. (Preserve the experience of the night sky)
  
  
  1. Provide full cut-off lighting (zero percent of peak intensity radiating above 90 degrees and 10 percent of peak intensity above 80 degrees)
  2. Employ low cut-off where full cut-off lighting alternatives are not feasible
  3. Beacon lights are strongly discouraged unless the use requires such lighting 
     
     
• f (Resped the privacy of residential space)
  
  
  1. Locate lamps to direct light away from neighboring properties
  2. Provide supplementary shielding of lamps to direct light away from neighboring properties
  3. Provide lamp fixture mounting heights that avoid glare to the vantage point of neighboring residential units
  4. Provide recessed light fixtures that avoid glare to the vantage point of neighboring residential units 
     
     
• g. (Respect animal habitat)
  
  
  1. Direct illumination away from abutting City Parks and naturalized areas on abutting private lands 
     
     
• h. ( heighten the enjoyment of public space and nighttime activity)
  
  
  1. Provide minimum illumination to encourage nighttime use
  2. Minimize glare using shielding or fully recessed light fixtures, as required
  3. Reveal the salient features of a site using a combination of diffused and spotlighting
     
     
• i. Apply the above-listed standards consistently
  
  
  1. Provide photometric plans and lamp specifications for use by City staff in the review of site plan applications (development sites of 25,000 square feet or greater) and for inclusion in site plan development approval agreements
  2. Incorporate the above-mentioned techniques, including illustrative examples. as part of a site plan design manual that is available to both City staff and site plan applicants

 IX That administration, in preparing its further report to Council on lighting requirements for existing development on private property, as well as for lighting requirements for public sector city rights of way (new and existing), consider a level playing field between these two sectors, 

X And further, that the Lighting Intensity Standards Study (LISS) BE FORWARDED to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (A.M.O.) for their support.

Carried, Councillor Postma was absent When the vote was taken.