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What
is Light Pollution?
When
fixtures allow light to shine upwards or outwards onto neighboring
properties or into the sky, that's light pollution. It can affect
our lives as surely as do noise, dust and chemical pollution. At
Sunridge, all lights will be full cutoff types like those shown
below.
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 When
outdoor lighting is poorly designed or improperly installed, it
can create a variety of problems:
1.
Energy waste: The EPA estimates that more that $1 billion is wasted
every year solely by emitting light skyward from poorly designed
lighting systems.
2.
Decreased public safety: Glare emitted from poorly-designed lighting
systems hampers the vision of motorists, pedestrians, and bicyclists
by causing momentary blindness as well as discomfort from eyestrain.
Older people are especially vulnerable to glare. And the effects
of glare are compounded in rainy climates because wet surfaces reflect
the glare in many directions.
3.
Light trespass: Especially in residential districts, unshielded
lighting systems shine into neighboring properties, including bedroom
windows, reducing privacy and hindering sleep, and sometimes creating
feelings of hostility between neighbors. Such light trespass can
also make a neighborhood appear less attractive.
4.
Ecological disruptions: Because 24-hour lighting is a relatively
new phenomenon, scientists are only beginning to understand the
detrimental effects that outdoor lighting has on plants and animals,including
people, all of which evolved in the absence of such lighting.
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here
for more information on Sunridge's CC&Rs.
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