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Show A New By Cheri Coffey Kind the sky. This policy is part*of the design. Rather than continuing the practice of installing street Street Lighting Master Plan, which can be found on the City website at: Lake lights on tall wooden poles with overhead wires and lights that hang over the Streets providing a spotlight type of lighting in resi- dential areas, the City, under the direction of the Transportation poles 11 words Rose Park placed in a band around the pole. The light globe will include a frame with the City Salt aluminum Page cast amended its policy on street light 2003, Light View the Dark Sky classification with the goal of decreasing the amount of light pollution that shines into In Of The West with the symbol of a rose. The lighting _will be which a metal halide light, is. a bright white lighting rather than the existing yellow sodium vapor streetlights. The metal halide light provides better http://www.slc gov.com/trans- portation/StreetLighting/default. htm.. lighting for surveillance of the surroundings. | New Lighting for vides a more uniform level of lighting, lower to the ground on Neighborhood, decorative poles with underground wiring. The purpose of (approximately. Golf Course 1200 North) and between 900 West and the Jordan River, will soon be the first neighborhood in the City with all new decorative’ street lights. When the Rose _ Park This winter a letter was sent to all property owners informing them of the proposed new lighting project and informing them of the opportunity to voice their support or opposition to the project. During the required protest period, the City received only 11 official protests to the project, which allows the project to move forward. The project is tentatively scheduled to begin in the mid- Neighborhood die of this summer and be com- Division, is now installing deco- rative, pedestrian-oriented lighting. The new lighting style pro- this new streetlight policy is to increase visibility, making resi- - dents feel safer, improve aesthet-. ics, and decrease light pollution. The spacing of the decorative light poles Rose Park provides a uniform The 600 traditional North Rose located and the Park. between Rose Park was _ originally pleted by winter of 2005. level of lighting creating an environment that encourages desir- developed, able street activity and allows better surveillance and a greater feeling of safety. The need to to drastically prune the street trees include improving infrastructure will decrease with the elimina- neighborhood. Property owners pay an annual assessment for tion of overhead wires. The lower height of the poles allows light- Streetlights, and over the past 50 years a surplus balance of SID ing to shine nearer the ground, trees. Districts number City staff believes that this Improvement the project will be the catalyst for improving other aspects of the streetlights in their Rose Park Neighborhood. These Special (SID) to increase of the funds has accrued. The Rose Park Community the Council approached the City sev- design of the decorative poles affords the opportunity to create unique pole designs that create a eral years ago informing the City of their desire to upgrade the existing streetlights. At first, the sense of place community each neighborhood. These ments also In addition, form in agreed 1950’s, property owners avoiding shining into the canopy of the beginning and identity create an for ele- inviting neighborhood that encourages residents to be active after dark. Furthermore, the new lights meet wanted higher wattage bulbs placed in the existing cobra head streetlights. However, city staff informed the community council of the need to find a different style of lighting where needed, such as repairing sidewalks and planting street that would provide more uniform, effective lighting, improve the perception of safety, decrease the amount of light pollution and provide an aesthetically pleasing and more economically feasible, © identity-defining element to the community. With the Community Council. on... “board, the Transportation Division worked toward finding a way to fund the new lighting. The total amount of surplus money accrued by the seven Rose Park Lighting SIDs equals approximately $800,000. This surplus, accompanied by the City Council’s. one time allocation for the new lights, along with a small increase in the annual assessment to each property owner for the next ten years, is enough money to pay for all new streetlights in the Rose Park Neighborhood. The new decorative lights will include street- trees where missing; increasing crime prevention efforts such as increasing participation in mobile neighborhood watch and becoming more familiar to police patrol officers in the area; encouraging private property maintenance and increasing neighborhood involvement in volunteer projects. In essence, the street lighting project will be the first phase to a revitalized Rose Park. 12-foot-high Increase the Value of Your Home AS. | fle. By Christopher Hansen For most people, are almost never advisable because your house is also your the single largest investment they will ever home and risking its loss could be catastrophic. Nevertheless, make is their home. 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