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Resolution to Approve New Streetlight Installations and Smart Lighting System Preparation
Memorandum
In February 2015, City Council lifted a moratorium on new streetlighting, and subsequently designated $200,000.00 for additional streetlights in the following two years' budget processes. City staff then developed a comparative evaluation model for new streetlight installations while allowing time for location requests to be received and incorporated into this model. Since the lifting of the streetlight moratorium, seventeen (17) separate requests have been received representing an estimated seventy-eight (78) streetlights. Certain requests pinpointed an exact location (such as intersections or crosswalks); while other requests spoke of general areas or unlit streets that required using existing City spacing and lighting standards to estimate a total streetlight count.
Staff from Public Works, Project Management, and Systems Planning developed and refined the scoring criteria and evaluation model used for prioritizing requests. The weighted criteria included in the model are: Crash histories in the location vicinity; proximity to any transit stop; ownership of streetlight (Utility or City); proximity to known activity generators (e.g., schools, high traffic businesses); potential for conflict due to existing on-road facilities (bike lanes and crosswalks); whether current vicinity lighting meet current City standard specifications; street classification (local, collector, or arterial); and, type of request (individual/s or by an organized group).
Below are staff's recommendations for which request locations can be serviced with the available $200,000.00 of funding, recognizing that costs may vary by site and that there may be an opportunity to accommodate a next tier of lights if costs come in below estimates. The approach to be taken is for outside contractors to complete the installations, with City staff performing some components of the work dependin...
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