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Description / Abstract:
Overview
The intent of this Recommended Practice is to address the design
issues related to outdoor lighting. It also outlines the
environmental considerations of outdoor lighting especially related
to sky glow and light trespass. In addition, this RP provides
information on how to assign lighting zones, and how to use the
Joint IDA-IES Model Lighting Ordinance (MLO) and User's Guide, as a
basis for an outdoor lighting ordinance.4 Finally, this RP
discusses community based design, and specific recommendations for
lighting outdoor areas.
A number of other IES recommended practices (RPs) and the IES
Lighting Handbook, 10th Edition5, provide design guidelines for
specific outdoor lighting applications. This document is not
intended to supersede those RPs or the IES Lighting Handbook, 10th
Edition. Rather, it will link the various documents together,
augmenting them in subject areas not otherwise covered. This
document will also aid in establishing community themes and
lighting zone classifications. Where conflicting uses and desires
for the nighttime environment arise, the parties involved should
work together to resolve the issues by reviewing all of the
relevant criteria to reach a consensus about which criteria will
guide the final resolution.