Chapter 18.46 - Site Plan Review Requirements & Performance Standards

 Section 18.46.020 - Performance standards

1. No operation or activity shall be conducted so as to cause or create glare exceeding 0.5 foot-candles within five hundred feet of any residential zone, except that parking lots, and neighborhood recreation and service facilities, and traffic ways important to safety may be allowed illumination levels up to 1.0 footcandles. Within the I district, exterior lighting shall be glare-shielded or directed away from residential zones. For the purpose of this section, glare is defined as light from a direct or indirect source of illumination which due to its intensity is disturbing, offensive, annoying, or generates a nuisance or safety hazard.

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