§ 446. Outdoor and street lighting.

(a)

Along the entire property frontage of any new development fronting on and accessing a county road (excludes state routes) in the West Jackson Corridor Overlay District, streetlights shall be required to be installed by the developer at no installation cost to the county consistent with the specifications of this section.

(b)

All parking lot lighting and pedestrian lighting shall meet the specifications of this section.

Lighting Specifications
East and West Jackson Corridor Overlay Districts

Requirement	Streetlights	Pedestrian lights	Parking lot lights
Maximum height (feet)	40	16	35
Minimum height (feet)	35	8	20
Color	Black	Black	Black
Pole type	Not specified	Fluted	Fluted
Fixture type	Cobra head	See guidelines	Box head
Shielding	Full cutoff	Semi-cutoff, cutoff, or full cutoff	Full cutoff
Spacing (feet on center)	150	50	Not specified

 

(c)

Security lighting shall be semi-cutoff luminaires. The public development director may limit the number of luminaires remaining activated for security lighting to one-fourth of the total number of each type of luminaire used.

(d)

Permanent mounted exposed exterior neon lights shall not be allowed.

(e)

Roof-mounted lights are not permitted.

(f)

Light fixtures for drive-under canopies shall be recessed into the canopy ceiling so that the bottom of the luminaire does not extend below the ceiling of the canopy.

(Ord. No. 17-003 , § 1, 10-2-2017)