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HomeMy Public PortalAbout17-08-07 Approved Minutes VF ad hoc Committee Meeting August 7 2017 Watertown Town Council Administration Building 149 Main Street a p"� `°"°`� Watertown, MA 02472 Phone. 617-972-6470 ELECTED OFFICIALS: Mark S.Sideris, Ad Hoc Committee On Victory Field, Phase 2 Council President Approved Minutes for Meeting August 7, 2017 Vincent J.Piccirilli,Jr., Vice President To: John Flynn, Town Clerk From: Vincent J. Piccirilli, Jr., Chair Michael F.Dattoli, Cc: Members of the Ad Hoc Committee On Victory Field, Phase 2 Councilor At Large Town Council Aaron P.Dushku, School Committee Councilor At Large Michael J. Driscoll, Town Manager Susan G.Falkoff, Dr. Deanne Galdston, School Superintendent Councilor At Large Anthony Palomba, Councilor At Large Following are the minutes (with attachments) of the fifth meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee On Victory Field, Phase 2 held on August 7, 2017 that Angeline B.Kounelis, were approved at the meeting on August 29, 2017. District A Councilor Lisa J.Feltner, District B Councilor Kenneth M.Woodland, District D Councilor Victory Field Phase 2 ad hoc Committee—Meeting Minutes August 7,2017 AD HOC COMMITTEE ON VICTORY FIELD PHASE 2 PHILIP PANE LOWER CONFERENCE ROOM,GROUND FLOOR ADMINISTRATION BUILDING MONDAY AUGUST 7,2017,7:00 PM MINUTES APPROVED AUGUST 29,2017 1.Call to Order The Chair,District C Councilor Vincent J.Piccirilli,Jr.,called to order the fifth meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee on Victory Field,Phase 2,at 7:00 pm in the Lower Conference Room,Ground Floor,Administration Building. Committee members present: Councilors Anthony Palomba(Vice-Chair)and Vincent Piccirilli;Neighborhood/Key Stakeholder Representatives Elliot Friedman,Anne Korte,Elodia Thomas,Mark Leonard;and Michael Lahiff, Athletic Director; Steven Magoon,Director of Community Development and Planning;and Peter Centola, Recreation Director. No absences. Also in attendance: Glenn Howard,Project Manager with CDM Smith,and Mike Mahoney,Field Sales Representative for Musco Lighting. Please see attached sign-in sheet for other attendees. The meeting was recorded by Watertown Cable Access. Mr.Piccirilli welcomed members of committee and general public,and stated: ■ Received comments from the public via email and provided to committee members(attachment 1). ■ Material from CDM Smith was provided to the Committee on the storage unit material,and on the basketball court size,but we will not be discussing that tonight. 2.Approval of the Minutes from Meeting of July 25,2017 Mr.Piccirilli asked if any revisions or changes needed to minutes of the July 25 meeting. • Ms. Thomas asked that her comments on the bottom of page 1 about the 8 lanes be clarified. • Ms.Korte said that her comments on page 13 about supporting a junior sized basketball court were not accurate. Motion made and seconded to accept minutes as amended.All were in agreement. Mr.Piccirilli asked the Committee to take up lighting first,as a representative from Musco is present. The Committee agreed. 3.Unfinished Business from the Meeting of July 25,2017 a.) Discussion and recommendation on Lighting Mr.Piccirilli handed out a sketch of the existing lighting to assist the Committee in discussion(attachment 2). He asked for comments about problems with existing lighting,with glare and spill over to neighbors,and what is being proposed for new lighting. Information on Musco lighting was sent to the Committee on July 25(attachment 3). He also noted that in the June 20 correspondence to the Committee,there was a suggestion form Susan Folino- Bryant about a style of box-type lights from a Perfection Fence catalog for the Committee to consider for the tennis courts(attachment 4) Mr.Piccirilli suggested starting with the court lighting. Mr.Leonard:How are lights used today? When do they go on and off? Mr. Centola: The old system has a mechanical timer that goes on about 7 pm and off at 10 pm. Mr.Mahoney: The new lights being proposed are LED technology which are designed to eliminate glare. Page 1 of 9 Victory Field Phase 2 ad hoc Committee—Meeting Minutes August 7,2017 Mr.Piccirilli:What is the design light level for tennis courts? Mr.Mahoney:For tennis,30 footcandles(FC)which is a level of brightness for recreational play. A candela is a unit of brightness,which includes glare,while a foot-candle is the illuminance cast on a surface by a one-candela source one foot away. The goal is to be able to have this level of brightness at the end of the court without having glare beyond the court. Mr.Palomba:What are the number of poles you recommend—one pole per court or two? Mr.Mahoney:We design for four light sources per court,could do it with 3 poles per side—six. Mr. Centola:Will there be glare from the new lights? Mr.Mahoney: Correct,no glare from the new LED lights compared to the old metal halide lamps. Mr.Magoon:What is the cost difference—number of poles versus making the poles higher? Mr.Mahoney:Pretty much a wash. Mr.Magoon:What will be the impact on neighbors form height and glare? Mr.Friedman:What will be the height of poles? Mr.Mahoney:For optimal aiming angle of 25 to 28 degrees,the pole height recommended is 40 feet. Ms. Thomas:What about the"Dark Sky"standards;there are none in Massachusetts yet;has Musco been working on these in other states? Susan Folino showed us this other tennis court lighting in the Perfection Fence brochure— can we in stall that instead? Can we only light tennis courts when they are being used? Mr.Mahoney:Musco does not provide this type of box lighting. Looking at the brochure,if you were to install the you would need 4 per tennis court,which would require one pole per light,which would be a forest of poles. Mr.Piccirilli:Perhaps if we want this type of dark sky box light,we would have to use a different vendor then Musco.Can you give us a list of locations in the Boston area where Musco has installed these new LED lights so we can visit and look at them? Mr.Howard:We can look at another vendor if we need to. We can get a list of installations. Mr. Centola: Let's talk about the new lights,not the old lights. Ms. Thomas: The Phase 1 lights,they have unbelievable glare,will phase 2 be the same? Mr.Piccirilli:Will the new LED light prevent glare? Mr.Mahoney: Each LED light fixture has an array of 200 LEDs,each with its reflector. Ms.Thomas: About the"Dark Sky"issues—why is it that the Town can hold developers to this stricter standard, but does not seem willing to impose the same standards on themselves? Mr.Palomba:What is the lighting at Phase 1? Mr.Mahoney:The football field has metal halide lamps,7 per pole I think,which do not have the ability to control glare like the new lights with the 200 LED array. Mr.Palomba:For the courts,how many poles and lights do you propose? Page 2 of 9 Victory Field Phase 2 ad hoc Committee—Meeting Minutes August 7,2017 Mr.Mahoney:For the six courts,I think we could do 4 poles with six fixtures per pole. Mr.Palomba:Can you control each fixture to turn on and off separately? Mr.Mahoney:Yes,but would require extra wiring to each individual fixture. Mr.Friedman:What about a rain sensor so that the lights would not come on when it's raining? Mr.Mahoney: The Musco lights are programmable through a web application—the come on at sunset,and off by 10 pm. Instead of a rain sensor,we suggest pushbuttons to give an hour of light. If it's raining,then nobody will be on the courts and the lights won't come on. Mr. Centola:What is the recommended number of poles so we can have enough zones to light individual courts? Mr.Mahoney:Recommend splitting the six courts in to 3 zones with 2 courts each—it's hard to light just one court —using 8 poles with 3 fixtures per pole—that's still four fixtures per court—two at each end. Mr.Magoon:How high are the existing light poles? Mr.Piccirilli: I believe 25 ft tall,and there are currently 8 poles at the courts. Mr.Palomba:How would the pushbutton controls work? Mr.Mahoney:Each pushbutton would be wired as an input,then on the web application you can program what lights turn on and for how long—the default is 60 minutes but you could program it for 30 minutes. The light would have an override so they could not be turned on before sunset,and they could be programmed for a hard off at 10 pm. Ms. Thomas: Is this the same programming we have at Phase 1,and if so why are we not doing it there? Mr.Piccirilli:Is there a hardwired internet connection to the light control box? Mr.Mahoney:No,it's wireless,CDMA phone network. Mr. Centola:At Casey Park we have the light programmed from sunset to 10 pm,and we currently can program them to be off when it rains. Mr.Leonard:Two questions-#1:Based on the field usage,why are lights kept on until 10 pm if not scheduled for use? #2:The bleeding over of glare in Phase 1,can we look at that? 4 Mr.Piccirilli:Action item,I suggest we take up the operational issue of programming as well as the glare from the lights on Phase 1 at a later time—all agreed. Mr.Magoon: Since there are currently lights at the courts which nobody is happy with,the only decision to make is how many poles and how high should they be. Mr.Palomba: There are other decisions;how will the lights be controlled,should we contemplate having lights off at 9 pm? Mr.Lahif..I have not weighed in on this because High School does not use tennis courts after dark. Mr.Palomba:How much usage does the tennis courts get between 9 pm and 10 pm? Mr. Centola: Tennis not so much,but the basketball court definitely gets used until 10. Page 3 of 9 Victory Field Phase 2 ad hoc Committee—Meeting Minutes August 7,2017 Mr.Lahif£High School tennis is done by 6,and the adult tennis program happens after that. Libby Shaw,Templeton Pkwy,Trees for Watertown: Control is important for environmental concerns. At MIT there are light sensors which turn on lights automatically with motion sensors. Can we do that at the tennis courts? Mr.Mahoney:We have not done that but we could investigate. Mr.Magoon:I'm not sure if it's a good idea,people walking across the courts could make lights go on and off. Mr.Piccirilli: A question to investigate later. Russ Arico,Fayette St:Never trust claims of new and improved,provide a list of existing installations in Boston for us to see. The other issue with new lighting,the quality of light,how would we fell if we were the abutters? Jim Guttmann, Sidney St:With three zones over six courts—two questions. First,the cost difference in install shorter poles between individual courts. Second,with 200 LEDs in each fixture,is each LED individually focusable? Mr.Mahoney No,the beam is set at the factory,but then the whole fixture is adjusted in the field. On YouTube there are videos of installations. Mr.Friedman:For safety,where would poles be located—inside or outside the courts? Mr.Mahoney: Outside is preferable. Also,if you went with 12 poles instead of 8,maybe you could do 30 ft poles instead of 40. Susan Folino-Bryant,Orchard St:How bright are these going to be for abutters? Can they be solar powered? Mr.Mahoney: Can't do solar. The abutters will not experience a lot—the light at the property line will be about 7 candelas which is not a lot. Susan Folino-Bryant,Orchard St:Why do the lights have to be on until 10 pm? Steve Kennedy,Marion Rd: The current football field lights—what you are showing us in the picture is not a true representation of what is currently there. Also,the physics,do we get less glare if the pole is higher? Dan Cedrone,Tennis Coach:There are currently 8 poles but the lights are not uniform,court#1 is not lit as well as the others. Caroline Bays,Lovell Rd: Is there a way we can see a light on a 40 ft pole as a demonstration?Do we need to install lights at all the courts,or maybe just two tennis courts can be lit? Mr. Centola:All 5 courts are lit for night tennis classes. Mr.Leonard:The night use of the tennis courts is not for the high school. Are there lit tennis courts at other parks that can be used? Why are we lighting them—is it usage or availability? Dan Cedrone,Tennis Coach:We have 30 adults signed up for night tennis classes Wednesday from 6 to 9 pm. Ms.Korte: This is something that has nothing to do with school athletics or youth sports. There are always lots of people on the courts at night. I think the pushbutton will solve the problem with the court lights. I would like to see the track lit at night for safety of walkers. Ms.Thomas:Nobody is on the tennis courts after 9 pm. The basketball court is used until 10 pm. Page 4 of 9 Victory Field Phase 2 ad hoc Committee—Meeting Minutes August 7,2017 Cecilia Plotkin,Franklin St:Is this the only company? If we have problems with this company,why are we still using them? Catherine Reurs,Marion Rd:Can we install a few of the new lights to see how it looks before we install all of them? Susan Folino-Bryant,Orchard St: There used to be night time ice skating on the tennis courts in the winter,and it would be lit up. Debbie Helie,Hazel St:Is this for just the tennis courts or does it also include the basketball court? Mr.Palomba: I make a motion to install 8 poles with 3 LED fixtures each to be no more than 40 feet tall. Ms. Thomas: The motion is premature;can we have different lights for the courts? Mr.Palomba:Let's stick with the motion,but make it subject to visits to existing installations as we discussed. Mr.Leonard:I have trouble with 8 poles. I love the idea of putting up one light on a pole for a demonstration. Mr.Mahoney:Musco would be willing to put one LED fixture on a 40 ft high lift so that you can see what it looks like. 4 Mr.Piccirilli:Does the Committee want to see a demonstration by Musco of the new LED light fixture on a 40 ft lift?We would postpone any decision until after we view the demonstration.This would be posted,and the public would be notified so they can also attend.Committee aereed,unanimous consensus. Russ Arico,Fayette St: Need to make sure that the we can see these lights installed somewhere before deciding. Mr.Piccirilli:Let's discuss the field lighting next. Glenn—what is proposed? Mr.Howard:We did not really get into specifics in the original design,our initial thinking was four 80 ft poles with two levels of lighting,and some lower level track lighting. Mr.Palomba:Would the two levels be for game play and for casual use? Mr.Mahoney:We should look at 6 poles to reduce the horizontal light spill. Mr. Centola:We want to be able to light the track for night track meets. Tom Wittenhagen,WHS Track Coach:There are no plans to have night track meeting in the Middlesex League. Mr.Piccirilli:Agreed then,the design criteria does not include lighting the track for night meets. Mr.Howard:If we do not need to light the track for night meets,we could put the poles inside the track,there's enough room without encroaching on the paly area,we may be able to do shorter poles. Ms. Thomas:Who are we lighting the field for? Looking on the MIAA website it seems like there are very few home games for Watertown scheduled at Victory Field. Mr.Lahif£I don't post Watertown games on the MIAA website,other teams do. Watertown has JV soccer games on the oval at the same time as varsity games on the artificial turf field. Mr.Palomba:Let's discuss the design proposed first,not schedules. Page 5 of 9 Victory Field Phase 2 ad hoc Committee—Meeting Minutes August 7,2017 Mr.Friedman:What are the design light levels or both soccer and for walkers? Mr.Mahoney:It would be 50 footcandles for both soccer and lacrosse. Light requirements are shown in the US Soccer Foundation Lighting Standards(attachment 5). Mr.Piccirilli:Doesn't page 5 of that document show for a field like the one inside the track—standard competition with no special spectator considerations-for soccer that only 30 footcandles would be needed? Mr.Mahoney:Yes. Mr.Howard: The Phase 1 design was for 50 FC because that was needed for video broadcasting. Mr. Centola:I want to clarify the design.There is no video on Phase 2.High school start times will be a half hour later.Besides high school use,the field will be used for Watertown youth sports. We propose the lights for sports use will be off by 9 pm. The field will not be rented to outside organizations. Mr.Mahoney: The advantages to the new LED lights is that you can dim the 30 FC lights down to 15 FC or 5 FC while maintaining the even level of illumination across the field. Mr.Piccirilli: Would the three levels be game play,casual play,and nighttime security? Would this replace the four existing NStar security floodlights currently on the field? Ms.Thomas: There is a lot of security lighting,I don't think we need to light the field at night for security.I want to see the NStar floodlight removed. Mr.Palomba:We are bouncing around. Motion that we make one decision,that we are going to light the field. Ms. Thomas:We are looking at this piecemeal,what about Filippello Park,what about Arsenal Park—why do all the lights need to be at Victory Field? Mr.Palomba:People use the track for walking all night,don't we need to light it for security?Can we clarify the light needs for field and track use? There are lots of concerns about lit fields for youth sports. Mr.Lahiff: The boys team schedules 7 of 9 games at 6 or 7 pm. The high school start time in 2018 will be 35 minutes later,which means those games will start later. Mr. Centola:Maybe we should have some light fixtures for the field,and different ones to light the track? Kate Coyne,Worcester St: Agree we should look at all parks holistically.If we put the new light poles inside the track,will there be less glare? Mr.Howard:Putting the poles inside the track will not affect the playing field. Kate Coyne,Worcester St:For security,do fields at other parks have lights? Susan Folino-Bryant,Orchard St:Didn't think the field would be lit. What about other parks,why everything at Victory Field? Gave a letter to Tony and Elodia about lanterns in the park like in Boston Public Gardens,with hanging plants. Ann Cox,Marion Rd:I understand Victory Field is for the High School. But why can't we put lights at other fields for JV games? Mr. Centola:We do have lights for other fields in the capital plan. It is more convenient for the athletes to all play at one complex. Page 6 of 9 Victory Field Phase 2 ad hoc Committee—Meeting Minutes August 7,2017 Jim Swift,Baseball/Softball Coach,Gertrude St:The girls team used to play at Filippello,but it was a long walk there,and they would be nervous walking home at night. Also,nobody ever came to Filippello to watch games. They now use Hosmer field,and it's much better for them. Mr.Lahif.. There is no bus transportation for practice,only for games. There is a lot of activity at Victory Field, it's high visibility,and the kids can socialize and are much happier. Dan Grossman,Hawthorne St: Some think more lights the better,but that's not the case. Lighting for security is a myth. We need to appreciate darkness,no light pollution.If we only need lights for games,would we choose something different? Dick O'Connor,Channing Rd: I'm OK with lights for games and practice—why can't we turn them off after that? There is already enough light for walkers at night. Chris Tattrie,Theurer Park: There is a field capacity issue. There is a start time issue. Games are getting called for darkness.Lexington has fields lit until 8:30. Deb Fanara-Viasus,Morrison Rd: Son plays JV at Victory Field. His game started at 5 and got called for darkness. Jim Guttmann, Sidney St: There is no resentment,no resistance on his street for lighting the field for student athletes. Susan Flint,Bradford Rd:When will we be talking about lights for the parking area? Mr.Piccirilli:We will take that up when we discuss the parking and driveway. Susan Folino-Bryant,Orchard St: Can we install ground mounted uplight on the field? Mr. Centola: Lights for parking is an issue. We need field lights for the academic year,we don't need field lighting in the summer. Mr.Piccirilli: Should the lights on the field only be programmed to be on when the field is reserved by the high school of a youth sports team? Mr. Centola:We want the lights to be on the field every night until 9 pm for informal use by residents. Mr.Palomba:Isn't that what we want—informal use of the park by someone other than athletics? Mr.Magoon:We can light the track and the field separately.We have an aging population that uses the track and wants a safely lit pace to walk. Mr.Friedman: How much would Watertown Youth Soccer use the field? Mr.Leonard:The field is reserved from 2 to 8 pm by the high school,so there's no time left for youth soccer. Mr.Palomba:Motion—not on the type of light—but to light the field up to 9 pm and the track up to 10 pm. Mr.Piccirilli:Do we want to modify to not have the field lit in the winter? Mr.Leonard:The field does not need to be lit November to March because the grass fields are closed. Mr.Piccirilli:What about security lighting—OK to take that up later? Ms. Thomas: The fields should not be lit if they are closed. Page 7 of 9 Victory Field Phase 2 ad hoc Committee—Meeting Minutes August 7,2017 Susan Flint,Bradford Rd: Can the track be lit in the winter early morning?Lots of people are walking then. Ann Cox,Marion Rd:Why is the football field lit when nobody is no it? That does not seem fair. Ms. Thomas: Can the track lighting be on when the field lights are off. 4 Mr.Piccirilli:Action item,we need clarification if we want to reduce the light level on the field when it is not reserved for sports use—all agreed. Mr.Piccirilli: To revise the motion-field play at 30 FC off at 9 pm,casual field use at 15 FC until 10 pm, and track lit until 10 pm for walkers. Mr.Palomba: is 15 footcandles ok for casual use? Mr.Mahoney:Yes,uniformity is the key,which you get with the LED lights. Your eyes adjust to the lower level. Mr. Centola: People play pickup games and might need higher lighting levels. Mr.Piccirilli: Shall we ask for a proposal from Musco on the three criteria we discussed? Mr.Magoon:What about nighttime security,should we ask for 5 footcandles? Mr.Mahoney:Parking lots lighting is less than 5 footcandles. Mr. Centola: The field should be 50 footcandles for lacrosse. Mike Timperio,Robbins Rd:We need to have the 50 footcandles for lacrosse. Ms. Thomas:We need to have the ability to come back and discuss the 50 footcandles. Mr.Palomba: I will amend the motion to go from 30 footcandles to 50 footcandles for lacrosse. Mr.Leonard:Perhaps we should just close off the field for use by lacrosse so that won't be an issue. Mr.Mahoney: The LED lights can only operate at three power levels, 100%,50%, 15%,so 30FC/15FC/5FC. Mr.Piccirilli: Considering how late it is,let's postpone a decision on to 50 footcandles,and stick to 30 for now. 4 Mr.Piccirilli:Ask Musco to come back to the Committee with a proposal using the three criteria: field play at 30 FC until 9 pm,casual field use at 15 FC until 10 pm,and the track lit until 10 pm for recreational use.Committee agreed,unanimous consensus. Susan Flint,Bradford Rd:When you discuss parking,can you consider the neighborhood needs for off-street parking on the winter. Libby Shaw,Templeton Pkwy,Trees for Watertown:What is the color intensity of the LED lights,and does it change when they are dimmed? Mr.Mahoney: Color is standard 5700K,and the color stays the same as the LEDs are dimmed.The color is on the blue end,but when the blue light hits the green grass it dissipates and looks warmer. 4. Adjournment Mr.Palomba: We need to pick a date for an additional meeting. The Committee agreed on October 17 at 7 pm. Mr.Piccirilli asked for a motion to adjourn.All in agreement.Meeting adjourned at 10:06 pm. Page 8 of 9 Victory Field Phase 2 ad hoc Committee—Meeting Minutes August 7,2017 ITEMS TO CARRY OVER TO NEXT MEETING 1. Further discussion and recommendation on Lighting 2. Discussion and recommendation on Parking Area and Driveway 3. Discussion and recommendation on Stormwater System,Perimeter Walls,and Fences 4. Discussion and recommendation on Other Equipment,Fixtures,Landscaping,Amenities 5. Discussion and recommendation on Other Elements Not Identified in the September 2014 Proposal 6. Programming and glare from the lights on Phase 1. LIST OF DOCUMENTS USED DURING THE MEETING 1. Emails received from the public as of August 6,2017 2. Sketch—existing lights at Victory Field courts and track. 3. Musco Lighting Brochure 4. Excerpt from Perfection Fence Brochure-Tennis Court Lighting 5. US Soccer Foundation Lighting Standards Page 9 of 9 Watertown Town COUriC11 TOWRECEIVED EI'f N CI.ERK'S OFFICE Administration Building WA7ERTOWI. MASS 149 Main Street Watertown, MA 02472 2017 JUL 31 AM 11: 02 ELECTED Phone: 617.972,6470 OFFICIALS: Mark S.Sideris, MEETING NOTICE Council President AD HOC COMMITTEE ON VICTORY FIELD PHASE 2 Vincent J.Piccirilli,Jr.,Vice President MONDAY, AUGUST 7,2017, 7:00 PM PHILIP PANE LOWER CONFERENCE ROOM, GROUND FLOOR Michael F.Dattoli, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING Councilor At Large Aaron P.Dushku, AGENDA Councilor At Large Susan G.Falkoff, Councilor At Large 1. Call to Order Anthony Paloinba, 2. Approval of Minutes from July 25, 2017 Councilor At Large Angeline B.Kounelis, 3. Unfinished Business from July 25,2017 Meeting District A Councilor a) Key Element Review: Parking Area and Driveway—Discussion and Recommendation Lisa J.Feltner, b) Key Element Review: Lighting-Discussion and Recommendation District B Councilor Kenneth M.woodland, Please Note: Due to time limitations,the Ad Hoc Committee will not be taking un the action District D Councilor items listed below in the August 7 meeting: thev will be deferred to August 29. c) Key Element Review: Stormwater System,Perimeter Walls,and Fences-Discussion and Recommendation 4. Key Element Review: Other Equipment, Fixtures, Landscaping,Amenities a) Define Existing Deficiencies—Input by Key Stakeholders and Public b) Review Range of Requested Improvements—Input by Key Stakeholders and Public c) Discussion and Recommendations—Ad Hoc Committee 5. Key Element Review: Other Elements Not Identified in the September 2014 Proposal a) Define Existing Deficiencies—Input by Key Stakeholders and Public b) Review Range of Requested Improvements—Input by Key Stakeholders and Public c) Discussion and Recommendations—Ad Hoc Committee 6. Adjournment Vincent J. Piccirilli,Jr.,Chair cc: Town Council Michael J.Driscoll,Town Manager School Committee Deanne Gladston, School Superintendent f2c1�res I& IPA C�a-Ae0- N C R'e-o EC (-10 s-L"ON P C' , Lit Ij 0 1 r�-)I-h"t led ic 71 kt(1-1*) Ica ` -TT ZR-41 Pa-c�� A 9j� d(&�thy . T Ann c x � August 7, 2017 Members of the ad hoc Committee on Victory Field Phase 2: Attached are all the emails that I received since our last meeting on July 25 through August 6 from the public, or that were forwarded to me from other members of the Committee, and are for our consideration as we develop our recommendations. Please note that I did receive several emails that were entirely for or against artificial turf, and I have chosen not to include those because they are outside the mandate of this committee. Thanks Vincent Piccirilli Chair Page 1 of 15 Date:Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 6:51 PM From: Chris Lowry, Marshall St. To: Elodia Thomas,vincent.piccirilli@gmail.com Cc: Wilson Lowry, Marshall St Subject:These lights are crazy!!!!! MUSCO lighting brochure for Victory Field Phase 2 Dear Elodia and Vinnie— I will not be able to attend tonight's meeting after all. If possible, could you forward Wilson and my thoughts to the committee regarding lights and parking? Thank you, Chris Parking: As a Victory Field neighbors who live on Marshall Street, we are opposed to adding parking and driveways in Phase Il. We often have cars parking in front of our house for Victory Field events. We expect to have people parking in front of our house: it is a public street with easy access to the fields. We were well aware when we decided to live in the neighborhood that we would be sharing our street in this way. Given the age of Victory Field, we suspect there are very few neighbors whose choice to live nearby predates the fields! There will never be enough parking for events at the fields, and therefore neighboring streets will always serve as overflow. Open space and natural green park areas are so much more important than a little extra convenience at the fields. Athletes are capable of walking and carrying equipment a little further if the buses cannot drop off in the ideal spot. If necessary, we are sure we could work out a simple permitting system to prioritize spaces for elderly to have access to walking the track. Lights: We absolutely oppose adding to light pollution by making the track oval daylight-bright at night. It is totally unnecessary. Further, as a near neighbor, the lights will be more than a nuisance. If it is possible to add lighting to bring the field to a late winter afternoon light level with lights that only light the field instead of the entire area and Whitney Hill, we could support such an addition to extend the playing hours through 8 or 9 pm. Page 2 of 15 Letter received: July 26, 2017 From: Dick O'Connor, Channing Rd To: Elodia Thomas Victory Field Phase Two: Victory Field Should Continue to Serve the Entire Community The renovation of Victory's Field's track area is up again for discussion.The Town Council has appointed an ad hoc committee to study proposed plans and make recommendations in September.These plans, basically identical to those put forward three years ago, would rob the area of much of its grass surface while introducing several intrusive and heavy-handed innovations which would go far toward destroying the open feeling which has made it so inviting and attractive a playground for generations of Watertown residents. Among the changes proposed are a parking lot, additional lighting for night games, rubber hardening of the eastern part of the 'oval' to concentrate track and field events, and a concrete pad just outside for the two equipment storage containers owned by the schools.A bocce court and long rows of black metal poles and netting at both ends of the field have not been approved by the committee. Conversion of the area to artificial turf, though central to the original plan, has been withdrawn by the Town Council from discussion but continues to have many outspoken advocates among school officials, coaches, and recreation personnel. Most of the proposals were drawn up by paid professionals to serve their own interests, which are paid school, recreation department, and youth sports programs which yearly generate considerable revenue for school and recreation revolving funds, an unfortunate necessity of modern community athletics. While the majority of people using the field -for informal sports, practice, exercise, and a myriad of casual recreational activities-who pay taxes but no additional program or permit fees-were neither consulted nor included in the initial planning. 365 days a year the area is used by the people of Watertown for casual and informal recreation. In Fall and Spring often up to 350 persons per day come to throw or kick a ball around, get up games, go one on one with friends. Families play on the field,fly kites, or get together for picnics. Students rendezvous after classes to hang out or lounge on the grass and talk. Runners,joggers, and walkers circle the track, and the tennis and basketball courts are always popular. Groups of adult women arrive for Pilates and other exercises on the lawn or to socialize. Older residents relax on the bench under the shady tree and just enjoy the show. In one part of the oval, a high-spirited game of tag continues while in another a stately Tai Chi class is in progress, and not far away a father coaches his enthusiastic daughter in some of the finer points of field hockey. In a parked car a young woman peruses her tablet while two cars away lovers meet. Nearby, inside the fence, a lone birdwatcher scans the trees. During the coldest, snowiest times of winter there might be only 20 or 30 visitors a day but skis and sleds are brought in, parts of the track cleared for hockey, and always walkers. From counts made at all times of the day for almost a year I would estimate almost 60,000 visits per year for casual and informal recreation. The popularity of these six acres comprising the eastern portion of Victory Field is not hard to understand.Thick with grass, luscious with white clover, and dotted with trees in proximity to the wooded hillside and all under a dome of sky,they constitute one of our most beautiful natural areas, Page 3 of 15 and their openness and greenness have lent themselves to a wide variety of sports and play for almost 90 years. Yet some are keen to alter and even destroy this great resource for the sake of heavier scheduling of local as well as outside teams and organizations to increase revenues from program and permit fees. Six years ago artificial turf was installed in the historic football and baseball areas of Victory Field and, though we hope it has been successful and enjoyed by the athletes who play there, it has become, even when open to the public, rather a vast wasteland as far as the casual and informal recreation of our citizens is concerned. Why? Because artificial turf has very limited and specific, mostly athletic uses while a grass field, like the one at the track, may be used by everyone. Our schools,town recreation programs, and youth sports vendors have every right and good reason to use the track field as they always have. But when their use encroaches upon, abridges, denies, or discourages the traditional rights of the town at large,then the people of Watertown must firmly stand in opposition. Dick O'Connor 81 Channing Road Page 4 of 15 Date:July 27, 2017 at 5:55:49 From: Ronna Johnson, Marion Rd To: Elodia Thomas Subject: tweaked letter Dear All, I'm out of town for the summer as I am every year, and though I cannot attend town meetings,thanks to Elodia Thomas's emails I have been kept in the loop about threats to the community-based identity of Victory Field (VF), where I live less than 2 blocks away on Marion Road. I have been reading with trepidation about the continued assault on our neighborhood by VF sports boosters who don't live in our neighborhood and who somehow think that dinky little Watertown public school sports matter to the extent of overriding interests or uses of everyone else who are stakeholders— adult neighbors and users— of VF. Or those who think making VF a viable sports complex that can be rented to outside users is a smart way to spend our tax money and dwindling open spaces resources. These proposed arena-level sports lights depicted in the MUSCO pamphlet and plan are appalling,just on the level of size, mass and fire-power. (These lights in the brochure remind me of Jimi Hendrix's legendary performance of"The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock in 1969 when he made his guitar riffs sound like exploding rockets in battle—a very scary and serious evocation of war.) The "brochure" is filled with computer generated or doctored images of"brilliant" playing fields ablaze with the company's lights and a lot of undocumented rhetoric pumping up the product the company is trying to sell without alarming those who have to live with it. Those glaring lights will be no bother to neighbors; no disruption of the night sky. Really??? Do those folks and proponents of these lights think we nave never been to a lighted-up local field, never mind Gillette Stadium?Or Fenway Park? I didn't buy my house thinking I was going to be living in close proximity to a blazing sports "complex." I'm disgusted by the continued efforts of Watertown councilors and their sports-obsessed allies, including the local press (I'm thinking of the barely disguised advocacy for expanding VF in the Watertown Tab, which I have noted to Dana Forsythe is the epitome of unbalanced reporting) to foist on us expensive sports facilities for reasons I find suspect:Their vaunted interest in kids playing sports is just a smarmy cover to the barely concealed greed to rent our new rebuilt, community-unfriendly field to out-of-town users. Where would that earned money go, I wonder?Or else the advocates for bigger VS wish to express some boosterism for the town that is very unflattering to those who promote it. I've written emails to Peter Centola in response to his periodic summary of news in Watertown -- retailing mostly uncontrolled development in the West end and Arsenal street area. He has never answered me. In fact he has stopped including me on his list of Watertown residents who receive his self-important—and self-aggrandizing—missives about the progress of what seems to me to be the virtually unchecked development and over-development in Watertown. For anyone who has lived in Watertown for any length of time, building developments, on Arsenal for instance, are an eyesore and cause traffic problems.And who are these developments primarily serving? Developers. I'm not sure I see other or Watertown beneficiaries for them. Do all their users and employees live in Watertown? Page 5 of 15 When I was a child during the Cold War living in Watertown I was afraid the "Russians" would bomb the Watertown Arsenal and we'd all die; I used to pack up my dolls every night to make a quick exit in case of attack. I wish that was all we had to fear now about the decommissioned Watertown Arsenal. Now we have to fear aggressive and unreflective development, and that is reflected and repeated in the continued battle over VF to preserve it for us,the neighborhood and the town's residents, including those who don't have kids—mostly boys—in our school sports. Kids who don't pay taxes, while we adults do. Kids who need to have their schools improved by increased investment in teachers, classrooms, textbooks, even school lunches. Kids who need serious investments in their actual futures of work and living, not in the opiates of promised sports augmentations.This is what the proposed bulking-up of VF looks like to me, and I'm only writing half of what I see. I know this is no Churchillian, measured or even diplomatic argument to preserve our park. We may be past the niceties of diplomacy, since all the proposed changes to VF are permanent and they will have permanent impact on our neighborhood abutting it and on our town. What needs to be permanent, invested in now, is our youth's education in our schools—not in sports education but the kind of pedagogy that gives many more young people growing up in Watertown a viable cultural and economic future. I am steamed with every attack by town councilors who propose to develop VF on our peaceful and relatively quiet neighborhood. I've said it before and I'll say it again:those opposed to the town's greedy and expensive plans to mangle VF ought to form an association and hire legal counsel to represent and argue for our interests. On the most base level of concern, the proposed amping-up of VF will lower the value of my property on Marion Road. Be advised that I will retain counsel to protect my investment when it comes time for me to retire and sell. I will keep a very careful eye on what happens to my property's beauty and desirability if those glaring lights (already bad enough, even from my block) and astro turf(a Carcinogen, haven't we established that?) and more fields more parking more more more are implemented at the expense and reduction of what was beautiful about VF, and consequently desirable about my neighborhood located near it. I know I am speaking to the choir here, but feel free to send my words on to those who are less conscientious about our town; send them to Centola! I am one irate,tax-paying nearly-abutting resident of the VF area neighborhood and I vigorously oppose the proposed changes to Victory Field. RonnaJohnson 43 Marion Rd, since 2007 137 Langdon Ave, 1986-2007 39-41 Evans St, 1952-1963 Page 6 of 15 Date:Tue,Aug 1, 2017 at 4:04 AM From: Stephen Kennedy, Marion Rd To:vincent.piccirilli@gmail.com Subject:The July 25 Ad Hoc Committee Meeting Dear Vinnie, I wanted to say how much I appreciate the time and effort that you and the other committee members spent considering ways to ameliorate the noise associated with the basketball court abutting my property. The discussion convinced me that a modest relocation would have material drawbacks and not be very helpful to me. At the same time, I very much appreciate the committee's decision to maintain the current buffer zone and not move the basketball net any closer to my property. I think that the idea of attaching a wooden fence to the chain link fence that abuts Marion Road properties is interesting and could be very helpful. I'm sure that there are details to work out, and I suppose that it might not be wanted by all the abutters. For example, thinking about my case, I would need to address two issues. First, I would always need some sort of opening so that I can shoo away late night basketball players. (The signs about closing times have helped but are not completely effective.) Second, I have recently planted three viburnum bushes that will, I believe, grow to provide considerable screening over the next several years. I would want to be sure that they would still have enough light to thrive if a wooden fence were added. But I think the idea is well worth pursuing. Again, my thanks to you all — not only for the time and effort you devoted to my specific problem, but for the patience and care that I think you have taken through all these meetings to consider the needs of the many different users of the Victory Field park. Page 7 of 15 Date: Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 10:15 AM From: Tom Wittenhagen, WHS Track Coach To:vincent.piccirilli@gmail.com Cc: michael.lahiff@watertown.kl2.ma.us Subject:Victory Field Action Items I have several items for the phase 2 victory field project. I have spoken to coach Sullivan, several athletes, neighbors, and m-f athletic company. We have determined several items: 1. Keep the set up of the inside oval the same except for adding the pole vault 2. Scratch the outside locker located near the midpoint of the the track. The athletes and coaches would prefer a kiosk set up like Arsenal park w/several picnic tables w/a roofed structure above them. 3. Have one storage shed located behind the football stands on the other side of the street. 4. Cover the pole vault pads w/a movable aluminum shed. The shed would be 13'6" x 26' and would covered the pads each night. This shed would be locked and the pads would be safe from vandalism and the elements. Also the pads would be unavailable for the public to jump on and possible injure themselves. 5. A representative of m-f athletic company will be meeting w/ me sometime at the end of August to go over our plans and he/she might have some input as to improve them Please consider the above items in order the make the track project a success. Page 8 of 15 Letter received: August 4, 2017 From: Dick O'Connor, Channing Rd To: Elodia Thomas Victory Field Phase Two: When Is a Field Not a Field? In light of the current discussion over the future of Victory Field it might be informative to examine its past.The area now comprising the DPW lot and the fields was part of the Israel Whitney farm purchased by the town in 1825 to use as an almshouse and poor farm. Recognizing the growing interest in outdoor sports and recreation Watertown's selectmen in 1893 had a portion of the farm graded for a football field and within a few years added a baseball diamond and bleachers for spectators,followed by a play area for children. In 1901 a pipe was laid from the water main on Orchard Street to flow an acre or so for winter skating. When a subsequent board of selectmen determined that the "Town Field", as it had become known, should be sold and developed to increase tax revenue the people of Watertown came to its rescue at a special Town Meeting on the 4cn of November 1910 by turning it over to the town's Park Department "to be used as a public playground". A major upgrade a decade later included construction of a concrete grandstand/field house/storage area and on Memorial Day 1922 the field was ceremoniously dedicated as "Victory Field"to the men of the town who had fought in the recent world war.The adjacent six acres between Marion Road and Orchard Street,formerly a town gravel pit and dump,were similarly conveyed to the Park Department at a June 1927 Town Meeting to become part of Victory Field. Here a sixth mile track and town tennis courts were completed in 1930 and a playing area for soccer and field hockey graded and seeded. In the years following the next world war the football field was relocated and a brand new field house and new bleachers with press box added. While at the track field a diamond for Little League Baseball was built in 1953 and in 1967 an outdoor basketball court.The original cinder track was superseded by one of rubberized surface in 1971 and the current quarter mile configuration dates from 1991. Although school teams have always used both fields as have the town's summer playgrounds from 1912 and from the mid 1950s Recreation Department and youth sports programs,Victory Field has always been a town facility, a public park, its care vested with the Park Department which in 1968 became a branch of Watertown's Department of Public Works. Superintendent of Schools Francis Kelley in the 1940s initiated a crusade to have it turned over to the School Department which ultimately came to nothing and a later effort to achieve the same end was defeated at Town Meeting on April 10, 1969. But for the most part the informal recreation of citizens and town school and youth sports activities have peacefully and happily coexisted. In 2011 the fashions and exigencies of modern athletics overtook Victory Field when artificial turf was installed on the football and baseball fields, essentially terminating use by the public. If the proposed Phase Two renovations are carried out the track area will suffer the same fate, becoming primarily a venue for marketing school and town sports programs and leasing to outside organizations.Though presumably the track,tennis and basketball courts, and the tot lot, will still be open to the community, the field, after 90 years,will be gone and thousands of Watertown children and adults will be forced to go elsewhere for casual sports and recreation or become 'couch potatoes'. Page 9 of 15 What old Israel Whitney would make of all this we don't know. But as the town year after year elected him Field Driver he knew a field when he saw one. And he knew a field is alive and green and growing and that upon its successful long term cultivation our health and well-being depends. For a "field" in artificial turf, regardless of how many sports are played upon it or the income it may generate, is really not a field at all. Let's keep what remains to us of Victory Field alive and green and growing. Dick O'Connor 81 Channing Road, Watertown Page 10 of 15 Date: Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 6:36 PM From: Ashok Modak, Standish Rd. To: Elodia Thomas,vincent.piccirilli@gmail.com, councilorpalomba@gmail.com Subject: Whispering Leaves of the Hiroshima Ginkgo Trees-Victory Field Phase 2 Aug 7, 7pm meeting Dear Elodia, Thank you for all the hard data and your hard work! Thank you Dick O'Connor and Ronna Johnson for expressing our community's sentiments so precisely. You may have already read today's NYT Dorfman article, but here it is if you haven't. It has some relevance to our efforts at Victory Field. Regards Ashok Modak Standish Rd The Opinion Pages OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR The Whispering Leaves of the Hiroshima Ginkgo Trees By ARIEL DORFMAN AUG. 4, 2017 DURHAM, N.C. — On Aug. 6, 1945, a 14-year-old schoolboy named Akihiro Takahashi was knocked unconscious by a deafening roar and a flash of blinding light. When he awoke, he found that he had been thrown many yards by the detonation of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima. He had survived because his school was about a mile from the epicenter of the blast. Dazed and burned, Akihiro headed to the river to cool himself. Along the way, he witnessed a scene of apocalypse: corpses strewn like rocks, a baby crying in the arms of its charred mother, scalded men peppered with shards of glass, their clothes melted, wandering like ghosts through the wasteland, the unbreathable darkened air, the raging conflagrations. In an instant, some 80,000 men, women and children had perished. In the days and months that followed, tens of thousands more succumbed to their injuries and the effects of radiation. Page 11 of 15 I met Mr. Takahashi in 1984, when he was the director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. By then middle-aged, his body was a testament to that war crime and its aftermath. One ear was flat and mangled, his hands were gnarled, and from a finger on each grew a black fingernail. "You must see the hibakujumoku, the survivor trees," he said to me, almost as an order, at the end of a long conversation in his office. "You must see the ginkgos." It was the first time I had ever heard of this tree. With one of his twisted hands, he gestured toward the city beyond the museum. They were a sign of wonder, the three trees that I visited, in the Hosen-ji and Myojoin-ji temples and at the Shukkeien gardens, spreading and magnificent and resilient. The ginkgo, I learned, was an expert in survival, a species found in fossils 270 million years old. These specific trees had endured because their roots underground had been spared the nuclear annihilation. Within days of the explosion they had sprouted new greenery — surrounded by Hiroshima's horrors of carbonized bodies and black rain and wailing survivors. The ginkgos, Mr. Takahashi said, expressed better than anything he could say through an interpreter the endurance of hope, the need for peace and reconciliation. And so, decades later, when the majestic old oak trees in front of our home in the United States were rotting and had to be cut down, it seemed natural to us to replace them with ginkgo trees. We purchased two specimens and paid to have them planted along the street we live on, and we persuaded the city forestry department to plant a third nearby. The choice was not simply a challenge to death — though these trees would live far beyond the limits of the oaks and would be here when we were long gone — but also an aesthetic decision. The ginkgos are elegant and supple; their leaves are delicate lobes of green shaped like tiny fans. I watered these miraculous trees every day and greeted them each morning. On occasion, I even spoke and sang to them. I thought of Akihiro Takahashi again the other day. Early one morning, my wife and I woke to discover a crew of workers excavating huge holes right next to the roots of our ginkgo trees to make room for thick coils of snaking yellow tubes of fiber-optic cables. As soon as I saw what was happening, I sprang into action. It helped that I could speak Spanish to the workers. I argued vehemently — and got them to dig their trenches farther from the ginkgos' roots. I checked to see that other trees in the street were unharmed and then went home to fire off emails to the city authorities to ensure that inspectors oversaw future encroachments of this sort. Page 12 of 15 Though our particular trees are safe, I am haunted by deeper, more ominous thoughts about how this great survivor now seems threatened by the depredations of modernity. This is a conflict between nature in its most pristine, slow and sublime form and the demands of a high-speed society that, armed with an astonishing technological prowess, wants to expand everywhere, burrow through any obstacle in its way, communicate instantly with infinite efficiency. The battle is one the earth is losing as this sixth extinction, a man-made extinction, wreaks its havoc on land, water and air, on our plants and creatures. I am far from being a Luddite. In this isolationist, chauvinistic era, I welcome the human connections that our global communications networks enable. They at least offer a glimmer of what we might achieve, the peace and understanding between different cultures and nations that Mr. Takahashi dreamed of all those years ago in Hiroshima. Yet, as we heedlessly rush into the future with our arrogant machinery, will we ever stop to ponder the consequences? How many species are threatened today by our insatiable desires, our incessant overdevelopment, our inability to measure joy and happiness by anything other than the latest gadget? The Hiroshima ginkgos, the tenacious older siblings of the tender green trees in front of our North Carolina house, were able to resist the most devastating outcome of science and technology, the splitting of the atom, a destructive power that could turn the whole planet into rubble. Those trees' survival was a message of hope in the midst of the black rain of despair: that we could nurture life and conserve it, that we must be wary of the forces we unleash. How paradoxical, how sad, how stupid, it would be if, more than seven decades after Hiroshima opened the door to the possible suicide of humanity, we did not understand that warning from the past, that call to the future, what the gentle leaves of the ginkgo trees are still trying to tell us. Ariel Dorfman, an emeritus professor of literature at Duke University, is the author of the forthcoming book of essays "Homeland Security Ate My Homework"and the novel "Darwin's Ghosts." A version of this op-ed appears in print on August 5, 2017, on Page A19 of the New York edition with the headline: The Tree That Survived Hiroshima. © 2017 The New York Times Company Page 13 of 15 Date: Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 8:30 AM From: Marilynne Roach, Marshall St To: Elodia Thomas Subject: another Victory Field comment for anyone to see To the Ad Hoc Victory Field Committee, The planners would do well to remember that Victory Field is in a valley between two hills that act like an amphitheater to reflect noise. Although I try to avoid the place, many of the disadvantages the Field produces make house calls. Loudspeakers, the near constant battering of basketballs—these sounds jump the fence and penetrate solid walls. It's loudest and worst for the immediate abutters but noise also travels uphill blocks away from the boundary. The criticism made during the July 25th public meeting that some kind of noise abatement wall for the Marion Road abutters was "special treatment" to benefit "only a few" doesn't hold water. Such a structure (assuming it would actually work) would be no more "special treatment" than the presence of the chain link fence to keep the basketballs out of the backyards. (And unless there's ice on the court, basketball continues all year with no off- season.) And as to why we neighbors choose to live near an athletic field if we don't like the effects, let me enlarge on what someone else said at the same meeting. Most of us moved in before the latest round of added bells and whistles, and some of us well before the batch before that. Games as well as practices used to take place afternoons and weekends. No one had huge ranks of glaring lights aimed at their windows late into the night. There was noise but not as much and not as often. The taunt implies we shouldn't continue to live where we had already settled, that we should endure all the disadvantages dumped on the neighborhood or be forced from our homes by the escalating problems with the Field. Such critics tend to live elsewhere and, once they finish playing, resume their lives away from the noise and glare. And to sum up the situation with the current lights: they are too bright, too tall, too many, and are kept burning too late and too often. Marilynne Roach Marshall St. Page 14 of 15 Date: Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 9:37 AM From: Angela Robinson, Bemis St To: Elodia Thomas Subject: Re: another Victory Field comment for anyone to see Hi Elodia, I am so appreciating the emails you are forwarding about Victory and agree with all the criticisms about the next round of"improvements." I am sorry I haven't been able to make it to any of the meetings to support the abutters. I live next door to Moxley Park on Bemis St. and the taunt Marilynne refers to sounds like classic Pete Centola to me! It's his way or the highway, and if you have anything critical to say, he'll find a way to turn it around and make it your fault. He and the town Athletics director installed a stair trainer in our park right beside a playground used by very young children. The stair trainer is dangerous for young children; I've had to call an ambulance for an injured child. I pushed back, even trying to get Mark Sideris involved, but to no avail. Long story but in any event, I'm buoyed to hear that more and more neighbors are turning up to support your cause. I hope to make it to at least one meeting this "season"! All the best to you, Angela Bemis St. Page 15 of 15 T - Ya, 4 AIR �� ✓. 1~ Introducing TM TLC for Tota l Light Contro l TM ■ 11 to et A �b �I it 11 11 !f l} S mus o. 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Lighting Standards of the US Soccer Foundation SOCV= FOUNDATION 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 I. Recommended Standards Part 1 - General 1.1 Lighting Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2 Environmental Light Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.3 Life Cycle Costs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.4 Warranty and Guarantee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Part 2 - Product 2.1 Lighting System Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.2 Structural Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7 Part 3 - Execution 3.1 Field Quality Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 II. Desirable Features 4.1 TV Quality Lighting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.2 Controls & Monitoring System . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.3 Auxiliary Brackets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.4 Scoreboards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.5 Field Perimeter Lighting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 III. Life Cycle Operating Cost Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 IV. Submittal Information Checklist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 V. Facility Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-15 VI. Annual Inspection Checklist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 VII. Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-18 Thanks to Musco Lighting for assisting in the development of these guidelines. 02002,2007 US Soccer Foundation 3 Lighting Guidelines The following standards have been created for the United States Soccer Foundation by Musco Lighting.These standards apply to the lighting of soccer fields funded through the Foundation Grants Program and are strongly recommended as a reference for projects using the Resource Center as a guide. Lighting athletic fields provides more opportunities for participants and allows increased family and community attendance at evening events.These standards incorporate the most current data available regarding the desired performance,lighting, electrical and structural issues that apply to installation of a safe,effective lighting system.Lighting technologies currently available vary greatly in efficiency,with the most effective providing life cycle savings equal to or greater than the initial cost of the system,depending on hours of usage. The standards are divided into recommended minimums and desirable features.The minimums establish criteria important to safe conduct of soccer activities and include evaluation of operating costs over the expected life of the lighting system. Desirable features are established to give added values where appropriate for a your facility's needs. With ever increasing pressure on operating budgets, leagues are encouraged to clearly establish the performance criteria they expect and to evaluate the life cycle operating cost of the sports lighting system. I. Recommended Minimum Standards These minimum standards are recommended for all lighting installations after the date of adoptions of these standards. Any modification in existing lighting systems after this date should be done so as to result in a lighting system in compliance with these standards.To be in compliance, a system must meet all recommended minimum standards. Note:The highest level of use for each facility shall determine the level of lighting required. PART 1 - GENERAL 1.1 LIGHTING PERFORMANCE The quantity of equipment needed is determined by the efficiency of the lighting system.Newest technology is capable of delivering equal or better results with up to half the amount of equipment than prior technology systems.There are two acceptable methods of determining the amount of equipment needed. A. Preferred technology By utilizing a series of timed power adjustments, a lighting system is able to provide"constant light levels" and greatly extend the life of the lamps. In addition,this generation of lighting has high performance optic characteristics that enable large reductions in the quantities of luminaires needed to meet design targets. B. Prior technology Computer designs are done using two sets of values. One predicts "initial light levels"when lamps are new.The other predicts "maintained light levels"after the lamps have passed through a depreciation in light output. It is important to have the lighting designer use a maintenance factor adequate to account for this depreciation in light output throughout the life of the lamp.A value no greater than .70 shall be applied to initial light levels to predict these maintained values. Quality manufacturers are willing to provide guarantees of lighting performance. C. Performance Requirements Playing surfaces shall be lit to an average constant or target light level and uniformity as specified in the chart below.Lighting calculations shall be developed and field measurements taken on the grid spacing with the minimum number of grid points specified below.Measured average illumination level shall be+/- 10%of predicted mean in accordance with IESNA RP-6-01,and measured at the first 100 hours of operation. 4 Average Constant or Maximum to Minimum Level of Play/Description Target Light Levels Uniformity Ratio (Horizontal) Standard —Competition 30 footcandles 2:1 No special spectator considerations Premium —Tournaments 50 footcandles 2:1 Up to 5,000 Spectators Professional —Stadiums* 75+footcandles 1.5:1 or better Special considerations * Professional facilities involve large spectator seating and/or televised events D. Glare for Participants To achieve placement of lights in positions that enhance playability,pole heights,pole locations and fixture placements should be as shown on the layouts in the appendix. 1.2 ENVIRONMENTAL LIGHT CONTROL Many facilities are located near residential properties,creating the possibility of spill and glare onto adjoining properties. Consideration should be given to this issue during the initial lighting design stage to minimize this effect. Some communities are implementing ordinances designed to minimize light pollution. Contact your local planning committee or zoning board. The lighting equipment manufacturer can assist in assessing this issue and provide drawings showing maximum footcandles at any points of concern on adjacent properties.Do not hesitate to investigate a manufacturer's reputation, abilities and past experiences in working with local authorities and private property owners regarding glare and spill issues. 1.3 LIFE CYCLE COSTS Facilities continue to struggle with operating budgets.Because the efficiency of lighting systems currently available can vary greatly,a life cycle operating cost analysis should be completed when evaluating lighting systems. Owners should expect a quality lighting system to last a minimum of 25 years. These standards provide a Life Cycle Operating Cost Evaluation form to assist with the process.Items that should be included are energy consumption based upon the facilities expected usage,cost for spot relamping and maintenance, and any additional savings in energy or labor cost provided by automated on/off control systems. Contract price and life cycle operating cost should both be considered in determining a lighting manufacturer for the project. 1.4 WARRANTY AND GUARANTEE Product warranties are a good gauge of a manufacturer's confidence in their products.Prior generation equipment can range from 5 years to 10 years,and details of covered items and conditions vary greatly.New generation technology comes with warranty periods of up to 25 years and includes guaranteed light levels, parts,labor,lamp replacements,energy usage,monitoring and control services, spill light control and structural integrity.The manufacturer should provide specially-funded reserves to assure fulfillment of the warranty for the full term. It is highly recommended you insist on these all inclusive warranties to limit your league's future exposure to escalating costs and maintenance hassle. 5 PART 2-PRODUCT 2.1 LIGHTING SYSTEM CONSTRUCTION A lighting system should consist of lighting,electrical and structural components designed to work together as a system that is durable and provides safety features. A. Outdoor lighting systems should consist of the following: 1. Galvanized steel poles and crossarm assembly.Wood poles or direct burial steel poles are not recommended. 2. Pre-stressed concrete base embedded in concrete backfill or a poured-in-place foundation containing reinforcing steel cured a minimum of 28 days before any stress load is applied. 3. All luminaires shall be constructed with a die-cast aluminum housing or external hail shroud to protect the luminaire reflector system. 4. All ballasts and supporting electrical equipment shall be mounted remotely in aluminum enclosures approximately 10' above grade.The enclosures shall include ballast,capacitor and fusing for each luminaire. Safety disconnect per circuit for each pole structure will be located in the enclosure. 5. Wire harness complete with an abrasion protection sleeve, strain relief and plug-in connections for fast,trouble-free installation. B. Manufacturing Requirements All components should be designed and manufactured as a system.All luminaires,wire harnesses(if provided),ballast and other enclosures should be factory assembled, aimed,wired and tested for reduced installation time and trouble-free operation. C. Durability All exposed components should be constructed of corrosion resistant material and/or coated to help prevent corrosion.All exposed steel should be hot dip galvanized per ASTM A123.All exposed hardware and fasteners should be stainless steel of at least 18-8 grade,passivated and polymer coated to prevent possible galvanic corrosion to adjoining metals.All exposed aluminum should be powder coated with high performance polyester.All exterior reflective inserts shall be anodized,coated with a clear,high gloss, durable fluorocarbon, and protected from direct environmental exposure to prevent reflective degradation or corrosion.All wiring shall be enclosed within the crossarms,conduit,pole or electrical components enclosure. D. Lightning Protection: All outdoor structures shall be equipped with lightning protection meeting NFPA 780 standards. E. Safety All system components shall be UL Listed for the appropriate application. F. Maximum total voltage drop Voltage drop to the disconnect switch located on the poles should not exceed three(3)percent of the rated voltage per IESNA RP-6-01. 2.2 STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS A. Location Poles shall be located as shown on the drawings in the appendix to these standards.Whenever possible,poles should be located outside of fences to avoid causing an obstruction or safety hazard to the participants. 6 B. Foundation Strength Project specific foundation drawings stamped by a licensed structural engineer illustrating that the foundation design is adequate to withstand the forces imposed from the pole,fixtures and other attachments to prevent the structure from leaning. C. Support Structure Wind Load Strength Poles and other support structures,brackets, arms,bases, anchorages and foundations shall be determined based on the 50 year mean recurrent isotach wind maps for the appropriate county per the State Building Code.Luminaire,visor, and crossarm shall withstand 150 mph winds and maintain luminaire aiming alignment. D. Structural Design The stress analysis and safety factor of the poles shall conform to AASHTO Standard Specifications for Structural Supports for Highway Signs,Luminaires and Traffic Signals. E. Soil Conditions The design criteria for these specifications are based on soil design parameters as outlined in the geotechnical report. If a geotechnical report is not provided by the school,the foundation design shall be based on soils that meet or exceed those of a Class 5 material as defined by 2001 IBC,Table 1804.2-I-A. PART 3 -EXECUTION 3.1 FIELD OUALITY CONTROL A. Illumination Measurements Upon substantial completion of the project and in the presence of the Contractor,Project Engineer, School's Representative, and Manufacturer's Representative,illumination measurements shall be taken and verified.The illumination measurements shall be conducted in accordance with IESNA RP-6-01, Appendix B. B. Correcting Non-Conformance If,in the opinion of the Owner or his appointed Representative,the actual performance levels including footcandles,uniformity ratios and maximum kilowatt consumptions are not in conformance with the requirements of the performance specifications and submitted information,the Manufacturer shall be liable to any or all of the following: 1. Manufacturer shall, at his expense,provide and install any necessary additional fixtures to meet the minimum lighting standards.The Manufacturer shall also either replace the existing poles to meet the new wind load(EPA)requirements or verify by certification by a licensed structural engineer that the existing poles will withstand the additional wind load. 2. Manufacturer shall minimize the Owner's additional long term fixture maintenance and energy consumption costs created by the additional fixtures by reimbursing the Owner the amount of $1,000.00(one thousand dollars)for each additional fixture required. 3. Manufacturer shall remove the entire unacceptable lighting system and install a new lighting system to meet the specifications. 3.2 ONGOING OUALITY ASSURANCE A. Visual testing should be performed annually on lamps,lenses,conduit,poles,fuses,ballasts,grounding connections and breaker boxes to insure integrity and safety of system. B. Full light and safety audits should be performed every other year. See Annual System Operation and Maintenance Checklist at the back of these standards. 7 II. Desirable Features The following practices are recommended for increasing the lighting system performance. 4.1 TV Quality Lighting Lighting for televised events involves additional considerations besides spectators and participants.It is recommended that leagues wishing to light facilities for television broadcasts use consultants and lighting manufacturers with experience and knowledge in that area. 4.2 Controls and Monitoring System A remote controls and monitoring system will provide ease of operation and management for your facility. Manufacturers providing systems with a 25 year warranty will utilize this system to ensure your lighting performs as required. A. Remote Monitoring System shall monitor lighting performance and notify manufacturer if individual luminaire outage is detected so that appropriate maintenance can be scheduled.The manufacturer shall notify the owner of outages within 24 hours,or the next business day.The controller shall determine switch position(Manual or Auto) and contactor status (open or closed). B. Remote Lighting Control System shall allow owner and users with a security code to schedule on/off system operation via a web site,phone,fax or email up to ten years in advance.Manufacturer shall provide and maintain a two-way TCP/IP communication link.Trained staff shall be available 24/7 to provide scheduling support and assist with reporting needs. The owner may assign various security levels to schedulers by function and/or fields.This function must be flexible to allow a range of privileges such as full scheduling capabilities for all fields,to only having permission to execute"early off'commands by phone. Controller shall accept and store 7-day schedules,be protected against memory loss during power outages, and shall reboot once power is regained and execute any commands that would have occurred during outage. C. Management Tools Manufacturer shall provide a web-based database of actual field usage and provide reports by facility and user group. D. Communication Costs Manufacturer shall include communication costs for operating the controls and monitoring system for a period of 25 years. E. Cabinet Construction Controls and Monitoring Cabinet shall be constructed of NEMA Type 4 aluminum. Cabinet shall contain custom configured contactor modules for 30, 60 and 100 amps,labeled to match field diagrams and electrical design.Manual Off-On-Auto selector switches shall be provided. 4.3 Auxiliary Brackets Sports lighting manufacturers can provide accommodations for mounting auxiliary equipment such as speakers on sport lighting poles.This ensures poles will be sized to accommodate the weight,dimensions and EPA of the additional equipment.Brackets shall be welded to the pole and fabricated from hot-dip galvanized steel with a covered hand hole access and internal wiring in the pole. 8 4.4 Scoreboards Incorporating scoreboards onto the lighting poles can provide additional cost savings over installing separate structures. Lighting manufacturers can assist in providing a method for attaching a scoreboard appropriate for the sport. 4.5 Field Perimeter Lighting The parking areas,major areas utilized for passage,and areas immediately bordering the facilities should be lighted to an average of approximately 2 footcandles. Care should be taken to eliminate darkly shadowed areas. For additional information, contact the U.S. Soccer Foundation U.S. Soccer Foundation 1050 17th St. NW Suite 210 Washington, D.C. 20036 Phone: 202/872-9277 9 LIFE CYCLE OPERATING COST EVALUATION This form will assist you in comparing 25-year life cycle operating costs from multiple manufacturers. Bid proposals will be evaluated based upon compliance with the specifications, contract price and the following life cycle operating cost evaluation. BID ALTERNATE A: Energy consumption A. Number of luminaires x kW demand per luminaire x kW rate x annual usage hours x 25 years B. Demand charges, if applicable + C. Spot relamping and maintenance over 25 years + Assume repairs at$ each if not included Group relamps during 25 years D. annual usage hours x 25 years/lama replacement hours x$125 lamp & labor x number of fixtures + E. Extra energy used without control system + % x Energy Consumption in item A. F. Extra labor without control system + $ per hour x hours per on/off cycle x cycles over 25 years G. TOTAL 25-Year Life Cycle Operating Cost = BID ALTERNATE B: Energy consumption A. Number of luminaires x kW demand per luminaire x kW rate x annual usage hours x 25 years B. Demand charges, if applicable + C. Spot relamping and maintenance over 25 years + Assume repairs at$ each if not included Group relamps during 25 years D. annual usage hours x 25 years/lamp replacement hours x$125 lamp & labor x number of fixtures + E. Extra energy used without control system + % x Energy Consumption in item A. F. Extra labor without control system + $ per hour x hours per on/off cycle x cycles over 25 years G. TOTAL 25-Year Life Cycle Operating Cost = 10 SUBMITTAL INFORMATION Design Submittal Data Checklist and Certification This form will assist you in comparing proposals from various lighting manufacturers.All items listed below are mandatory,shall comply with the specification and be submitted according to your pre-bid submittal requirements. Included Tab Item Description Listing of all information being submitted must be included on the table of contents. List the A Letter/Checklist name of the manufacturer's local representative and his/her phone number. Signed submittal checklist to be included. Lighting design drawing(s) showing: a. Field Name, date,file number, prepared by,and other pertinent data b. Outline of field(s) being lighted,as well as pole locations referenced to the center of the field (x&y), or home plate for baseball/softball fields. Illuminance levels at grid spacing specified c. Pole height, number of fixtures per pole,as well as luminaire information including wattage, On Field Lighting lumens and optics B Design d. Height of meter above field surface e. Summary table showing the number and spacing of grid points; average, minimum and maximum illuminance levels in foot candles (fc); uniformity including maximum to minimum ratio, coefficient of variance and uniformity gradient; number of luminaries,total kilowatts, average tilt factor; light loss factor. f. Manufacturers shall provide constant light level or provide both initial and maintained light scans using a maximum 0.70 Light Loss Factor to calculate maintained values. C Off Field Lighting Lighting design drawings showing spill light levels in footcandles as specified. Design Photometric Report Provide photometric report for a typical luminaire used showing candela tabulations as defined D (glare concerns by IESNA Publication LM-35-02. Photometric data shall be certified by laboratory with current only) National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program or an independent testing facility with over 5 years experience. Life Cycle Cost Document life cycle cost calculations as defined on the Life Cycle Operating Cost Evaluation. Identify E calculation energy costs for operating the luminaires, maintenance cost for the system including spot lamp replacement,and group relamping costs.All costs should be based on 25 Years. F Luminaire Aiming Document showing each luminaire's aiming angle and the poles on which the luminaries are Summary mounted. Each aiming point shall identify the type of luminaire. Structural Pole structural calculations and foundation design showing foundation shape, depth backfill G Calculations requirements, rebar and anchor bolts (if required). Pole base reaction forces shall be shown on (if required) the foundation drawing along with soil bearing pressures. Design must be stamped by a structural engineer in the state of Iowa. Control and Manufacturer shall provide written definition and schematics for automated control system to N Monitoring include monitoring.They will also provide examples of system reporting and access for numbers for personal contact to operate the system. Electrical If bidding an alternate system, manufacturer must include a revised electrical distribution plan distribution plans including changes to service entrance, panels and wire sizing, signed by a licensed Electrical Engineer in the state of Iowa. Performance Provide performance guarantee including a written commitment to undertake all corrections d Guarantee required to meet the performance requirements noted in these specifications at no expense to the owner. Light levels must be guaranteed per the number of years specified. K Warranty Provide written warranty information including all terms and conditions. L Project References Manufacturer to provide a list of project references of similar products completed within the past three years. M Product Information Complete set of product brochures for all components,including a complete parts list and UL Listings. N Non-Compliance Manufacturer shall list all items that do not comply with the specifications. Manufacturer shall sign off that all requirements of the specifications have been met at that the 0 Compliance manufacturer will be responsible for any future costs incurred to bring their equipment into compliance for all items not meeting specifications and not listed in item N—Non-Compliance Manufacturer: Signature: Contact Name: Date: 11 APPENDIX Field-Measuring Grids of Typical Facilities Level of Play Typical Facility Horizontal Footcandles Uniformity Typical Lighted Grid Size (feet) Dimensions(ft2) Constant/Maintained (Max to Min) Area Dimensions(ft) Standard 180 x 330 30 2.0:1 190 x 340 30 x 30 Premium 225 x 360 50 2.0:1 230 x 370 30 x 30 Professional* 225 x 360 75+ 1.5:1 230 x 370 30 x 30 "Professional facilities may require special consideration in regard to television requirements and seating capacity. Light Level Grid Point Layout 30 x 30 ft. 12 W----16` 6 pole option 6 pole option, 0 0 0 0 6 pole option 4 pole option 4 pale option t 0 4 pole option 4 pole option 6 pole option O a 6 pole option 6 pole option 1 1 � � 4 to 6 Pole Configuration 1. Special consideration for lighting placement is given to stadiums with customized roof mount potential. 2. Shaded areas indicate recommended pole location. All poles should be at least 20 feet from sideline. 3. On a 4-pole design, poles should be located between the penalty line and the goal line. 4. One a 6-pole design, setback of middle poles will depend on the presence of bleachers. 5. Pole placement and aiming angles shall be designed to minimize glare for players and spectators. 6. For new facilities or upgrades, it is recommended to consult a lighting professional for optimal pole placement. 13 10'----15' 6 or 8 pole opllon 0 6 pole ption D 0 or 8 pole option 8 pole option 8 pole option 5" 0 8 pole option 8 pole option ti or 8 pole opilon O 6 pal 0 piton 0 8 or 8 pole option AMR 6 to 8 Pole Configuration 1. Special consideration for lighting placement is given to stadiums with customized roof mount potential. 2. Shaded areas indicate recommended pole location. All poles should be at least 20 feet from sideline. 3. Setback of middle poles will depend on the presence of bleachers. 4. Outside poles should be located beyond end line. Optimum placement for TV is 15 degrees or greater off the end line for an end camera. 5. Pole placement and aiming angles shall be designed to minimize glare for players, spectators and television cameras. 6. The ratio of key light to backlight main camera levels should be between 1:1 and 1.5:1. A ratio of 1:1 is preferred. 7. For new facilities or upgrades, it is recommended to consult a lighting professional for optimal pole placement. 14 ANNUAL SYSTEM OPERATION & MAINTENANCE CHECKLIST Needs OK Repair Notes: Service Entrance & Pole Distribution Boxes Check service panel for proper markings. •Emergency information should be visible. • Warning stickers,wiring diagrams,circuit labels and other servicing information signs should be posted and clearlv leaible. Test reset action on all service breakers. •Snap all breakers on and off several times to ensure firm contact. •If fuses are used at main service,check continuity.* Check the wiring. •Insulation around wiring should show no signs of deterioration. •Wiring should show no heat discoloration. O CL Check all taped connections. G> •Siqns of wear should be replaced. t Make sure no live parts are exposed. O •Bare wires and exposed connections should be wrapped with insulated covering.* v Padlocks for service entrance&distribution boxes should be in place and operational. = Poles O Wood poles: N Check to see that poles aren't leaning. ;a •Leaning poles may be unsafe and replacement or re-installation and/or re-aiming may be necessary. Check for twisting. •If poles have moved,re-aiming of the fixtures may be necessary. N Check for decay. •Wood poles decay from the inside out.Core testing is the best method to determine the C condition and safety of the pole. Steel poles: O Check baseplate for signs of deterioration. v •Check anchor bolt for signs of corrosion. y •Check grouting under pole to make sure proper drainage exists. L Check for all pole access covers,replace missing covers. 3 Cables and conduit: O •Pull on conduit to check for looseness. C •Check for loose fittings and damaged conduit. •All cables should be straight and properly strapped.* •If cables are exposed to the elements,make sure the insulation has the proper rating.* "= Check overhead wiring. •Wiring should be properly secured. j •Check that new growth on tree branches and limbs won't obstruct or interfere with _N overhead wiring. Luminaires O Check fixture housings. L •Housings should show no sign of cracking and/or water leakage. Check lenses. •Clean lenses. •Replace broken lenses. Z Replace burned-out lamps. ZCheck luminaire fuses. •Replace burned-out fuses. •Fuses should be the correct size. Insulation covering on wiring should show no signs of wear or cracking. Ground wire connections must be secure. Check around ballasts for signs of blackening. Check that capacitors aren't bulging. Check aiming alignment of all fixtures. •On wooden poles,see if crossarms are still aligned with the field and horizontal. Ground Check grounding connections.* Check nearby metal objects. •Make sure metal bleachers and other metal objects are located at least 6 feet from the electrical components. •Metal objects,such as bleachers,must have their own individual grounding system. These tests and/or repairs require the services of a qualified electrician. 15 GLOSSARY Aiming Angles The degrees below horizontal that light fixtures are aimed at the field.Angles are measured from a horizontal plane at fixture height. Critical in safe, playable lighting design. Ballast A transformer that delivers the proper operating voltage for high intensity discharge type lamps including metal halide lamps. Constant Light Levels The amount of light you can expect on the field at any given time over the life of the system. Footcandle The measurement of light on a surface. One footcandle equals one lumen spread over one square foot. Glare Light that interferes with the ability to see. Luminaire design, proper aiming angles and pole locations are key to limiting glare for participants and spectators. IESNA Illuminating Engineering Society of North America.An organization that develops recommendations for sports lighting. Initial Light Levels The average light levels when your lamps are new. Manufacturers that do not provide constant illumination should provide scans showing what these levels will be. Lumen A quantity measurement of light, used mostly in measuring the amount of light a lamp develops. Maintained Light Levels The lowest average amount of light for which a lighting system should operate over its extended life to ensure performance requirements. Maintained values should be no more than 70% of initial values to be sure that lamp depreciation has been accounted for in the design.You should receive scans showing what this level will be. Max.to Min. Ratio The smoothness of light on the field.Also called uniformity ratio.A design criteria to assure that light is distributed evenly across the entire field.A max/min ratio of 2:1 means that the brightest point is no more than double any other point. Metal Halide Lamp A lamp that generates light by passing electrical current through metallic gases. The first choice for sports facilities because of efficiency and color. NEC National Electric Code.A national safety code for electrical systems, which is the basis for most local codes. NEMA Type A classification of reflectors. For example, a Nema 2 reflector gathers light in a narrow, focused beam allowing it to be projected a long distance.A Nema 5 projects light a relatively short distance in a very wide beam. Most lighting designs use various combinations of Nema types to get the desired results. NFPA National Fire Protection Association.An organization that establishes and publishes various codes such as the Lightning Protection Code and the National Electric Code. 16 Overturning Moment The amount of force applied to a lighting structure, mostly from wind. Pole foundations must be designed to withstand this force. Reflector Key element of lighting optics. It surrounds the lamp (bulb) and directs light to the field. The efficiency of the reflector determines how many light fixtures you have to buy and maintain. Remote Electrical Enclosure A weatherproof enclosure that allows the heavy electrical gear to be moved from the top of lighting structures to a lower point where they can be serviced easily. Smoothness The change in light levels between measuring points. The less change between points the more even the lighting. Spill Light Wasted light that falls off the field or is projected into the sky. Systems that can re- direct spill light back onto the field save dollars and keep neighbors content. Tilt Factor Most lamps generate fewer lumens when tilted off of either a horizontal or vertical position.Your design should show actual tilt factor used in your design. Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Independent, not for profit,product safety testing and certification organization.Visit www.ul.ora for additional information. 17 18 19 L-130-1