Section 9: Special Activities
9.01 Outdoor Recreational Facilities
A. Shielding: All outdoor recreational facilities shall utilize fully-shielded luminaires that are
installed in a fashion that maintains the fully-shielded characteristics
B. Height: The maximum height for pole-mounted luminaires for outdoor recreational
facilities is 40-feet.
C. Lighting for public and private outdoor athletic fields, courts, tracks or arenas, shall be
considered Class 1 (Color Rendition).
D. Facility lighting shall meet shielding, lumen caps, height limits and all other restrictions of
this Code:
1. A Special Use Authorization is required. As part of the Special Use Permit
application process, the lighting system design and installation shall be certified by a
knowledgeable Arizona Registered professional or other certified lighting specialist
as achieving the minimum illuminance level for the specific activity as recommended
by the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) and conforming
to all other applicable provisions of this Code, and shall be installed and maintained
so as to minimize uplight and offsite light trespass, and with aiming angles that
permit no greater than five-percent of the light emitted by each fixture to project
above the horizontal.