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Consider an ordinance amending the city's exterior lighting standards as contained in various sections of the Killeen Code of Ordinances Chapter 31, Zoning.
SUMMARY
DATE: August 6, 2019
TO: Ronald L. Olson, City Manager
FROM: Dr. Ray Shanaa, Executive Director of Planning and Development
SUBJECT: Ordinance establishing and replacing outdoor lighting standards for all zoning districts
BACKGROUND AND FINDINGS:
The City of Killeen partnered with Fort Hood and surrounding local cities and Bell County in the creation of the Fort Hood Joint Land Use Study (JLUS). The purpose of the JLUS is to…“identify ways that Fort Hood and the neighboring civilian communities could work together cooperatively to encourage compatible growth and help to ensure the long term viability and sustainability of Fort Hood’s mission.” Section Five of the JLUS provides compatibility tools that could be utilized to establish a framework for compatible growth. One of the tools is outdoor lighting. Specifically, the JLUS speaks to the adoption of standards that would “….protect against the use of outdoor lighting in a way that interferes with…military and training activities of the military installation, base or camp.”
It is within this planning backdrop that staff is proposing this ordinance. The purpose of this ordinance is to:
1) implement a regulatory recommendation established as part of the Fort Hood Joint Land Use Study;
3) improve the quality of life; and
2) provide uniformity and consistency citywide with respect to outdoor lighting.
Currently the City has exterior lighting standards in two zoning districts, the University District and Cemetery District. The ordinance would replace the standards art...
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