Roswell, GA
File #: 13-0374    Version: Name: TA 13-0374 Text Amendment regarding outdoor lighting
Type: Item with Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 8/14/2013 In control: Mayor and City Council
On agenda: 9/23/2013 Final action: 9/23/2013
Title: Approval of a Text Amendment to the Zoning Ordinance to amend Chapter 18, "Outdoor Lighting." (Second Reading) Presented by Michael Fischer, Deputy City Administrator
Attachments: 1. Minutes_22. Approval of a Text Amendment to the Zoning Ordinance to amend Chapter 18, Outdoor Lighting. (Second Reading), 2. 8 - Amend Chap 18 of Zoning Ord_Outdoor Lighting_092313, 3. Memo - Lighting Ordinance, 4. Ordinance - OUTDOOR LIGHTING REGS CHAP 18 ZONING ORD- 2nd reading, 5. Ordinances - Red LineOUTDOOR LIGHTING REGS CHAP 18 ZONING ORD 9.5.13
Title
Approval of a Text Amendment to the Zoning Ordinance to amend Chapter 18, "Outdoor Lighting."  (Second Reading)
Presented by Michael Fischer, Deputy City Administrator
Body
Item Summary:
The amendment will provide a strategy for outdoor lighting that will permit reasonable uses of outdoor lighting in conformance with applicable codes as well as conserve energy and resources to the greatest extent possible and help protect the natural environment from the damaging effects of night lighting from man-made sources.
 
Committee or Staff Recommendation:
On August 26, 2013 the Mayor and City Council approved the first reading of the ordinance.
 
On September 10, 2013 the Administration, Finance, Recreation and Parks Committee recommended placing this Item on the September 23, 2013 Mayor and Council Agenda.
 
Financial Impact:
N/A
 
Presented by:
Michael Fischer, Deputy City Administrator