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SEC. 21.301.07. EXTERIOR LIGHTING. (a) Purpose and intent. The City of Bloomington recognizes the health, safety, welfare, and aesthetic value of providing lighting standards in the community. This Section's provisions are intended to: (1) Promote the public health, safety, and general welfare; (2) Establish efficient and cost effective lighting requirements adequate for safety and security; (3) Reduce light pollution, light trespass, glare, and offensive light sources; (4) Provide an environmentally sensitive nighttime environment; (5) Discourage inappropriate, poorly designed or installed outdoor lighting by requiring quality lighting design, light fixture shielding, and maximum uniformity ratios; (6) Protect motor vehicle operators, pedestrians, and adjacent land uses from glare; and (7) Implement the City's Comprehensive Plan. (b) Lighting plan. Except for single and two-family dwellings, no exterior lighting may be installed prior to approval of a lighting plan by the Issuing Authority. Modifying approved lighting, including lamp or fixture substitution, requires Issuing Authority approval. All plans must be signed by a registered Electrical Engineer or a Lighting Certified (LC) professional certified by the National Council on Qualifications for the Lighting Professions. The lighting plan must include the following information and attachments: (1) Name of project, developer, property owner, and architecUdesigner(all applicable); (2) Date of initial plan preparation and all amendments; (3) Scale of plan (engineering scale only, at a scale of one (1) inch equals fifty (50)feet or less)with North point indication; (4) An accurate site plan indicating the location of property lines and all existing and proposed land improvements including but not limited to buildings, parking lots, aisles and driveways, streets, walkways and accessory structures; (5) The location and description of all existing over story landscaping unless an approved or proposed landscape plan is provided; (6) The location and height above grade of all proposed and existing exterior fixtures (includes decorative and all mounted lighting)on the property; (7) Control descriptions including hours of operation and type of controls(timer, motion sensor, time clock, etc.), the light fixtures to be controlled by each type, and control schedule; (8) Two separate photometric plans superimposed on a site plan (See Section 21.301.07(b)(5)), one plan with the initial at-grade foot-candle levels and the other the maintained at-grade foot-candle levels. Photometric points must be on a grid ten feet by ten feet or less across the entire site and a minimum of ten feet or more beyond the lot or parcel property line. Each point must be to the nearest 0.1 foot-candle; (9) A luminaire schedule table indicating maximum to minimum uniformities for each specific use area such as parking and circulation areas, pedestrian areas, and other common public areas, the type of light source, light source wattage and initial light output lumens rating, color rendering index, color temperature and light loss factor of each lamp source; (10) Detailed information on each light fixture including copy of the manufacturers catalog information sheet and IESNA photometric distribution type, including any shielding information such as house side shields, internal, and/or external shields; and (11) Energy use calculations showing compliance with the Minnesota Energy Code, without exemptions. All parking lots regulated by this Section are considered public parking lots in the Minnesota State Energy Code. (c) Lighting standards. In addition to the following specific requirements, all exterior lighting must comply with the standards set forth in Section 21.301.07. (1) No person may install or operate any device with light levels other than as specified in this Section. (2) Luminaire. A complete lighting unit extending from a support structure, parallel to the ground, consisting of a light source and all necessary mechanical, electrical and decorative parts. The light source, lens and other components do not extend below the cutoff angle for the luminaire where a