CC 01-19-2021 Item No. 16 Bird-Safe and Dark Sky_Staff PresentationJanuary 19, 2021
Bird-Safe and Dark Sky
CC 01-19-2021 Item No. 16
Background
●FY 19/20 Council Work Program Item
●CEQA
●Basis for adoption
●Consistency with General Plan
●Amend Bird-Safe Development Ord.
Why Regulations?
●Dark Sky Movement
●Several cities have regulations
●Current Regulations
●General Commercial and Parking
●Hillside
●Light Industrial
PC Study Session and Outreach
●October 28, 2019 –Study Session
●Important to have standards
●Use existing professionally accepted standards
●Importance of educational materials
●Importance of light impacts on environment
and health
●Importance adequate security lighting
●Preventing light trespass
●February 2020 –Two Community-wide
Outreach Meetings
●August 11, 2020
●Continued
●On October 27, 2020 recommended
approval (4-1-0)
PC Recommendation
Dark Sky Regulations
●Applicability for Outdoor Lighting
●Building Permit, Electrical Permit for
Outdoor Lighting or Signage, New or
Replacement Lighting, or
Development Permit
●Submission Requirements
Dark Sky Regulations
●Indoor lighting –Non-residential lighting
(AMENDED since 12/1 draft)
●Outdoor lighting –Shielded, Directed
●Illumination levels –Existing standards
●Lighting color (UPDATED)
●All lighting to be < 2,700 Kelvin except parking lot
pole lighting and street Lighting.
●Parking lot pole and street Lighting shall be <
3,000 Kelvin and highly encouraged to be <2,700
Kelvin
Dark Sky Regulations
●Night Hours (AMENDED since 12/1
draft)
●Automated Control Systems
●Lighting Design Standards
●Security Lighting
●Service Station Canopies
●Critical Areas of Illumination
Dark Sky Proposed Regulations
●String Lighting
●Prohibited Lighting
●Flashing, strobes, uplighting, HID
lamps etc.
●Exemptions
Lighting Color –Desk Item
All light sources shall have a maintained
correlated color temperature of 3,000 2,700
Kelvin or less.Parking lot and street lighting
must have a maintained correlated color
temperature of 3,000 Kelvin or less, but 2,700
Kelvin or less is highly encouraged.
Environmental Review
●Exempt from CEQA by:
●Section 15308
●Section 15301
●Section 15305
●Section 15061 (b) (3)
●Section 15300.2
Public Noticing and Outreach
Notice of Public
Hearing,Site Notice &
Legal Ad
Agenda
Legal ad placed in
newspaper
(at least 10 days prior
to hearing)
Display ad placed in
newspaper
(at least 10 days prior
to hearing)
Posted on the City's
official notice bulletin
board (four days prior to
hearing)
Posted on the City of
Cupertino’s Web site
(four days prior to
hearing)
Recommended Action
●Conduct the public hearing and
●Adopt draft resolution recommending that
Council:
●Find actions exempt from CEQA; and,
●Amend Municipal Code by adding a
new Chapter 19.102 and amending
Chapters 19.08, 19.12, 19.40, 19.60, and
19.72 to adopt glazing and lighting
regulations to implement Bird-Safe
Design and Dark Sky goals.