Outdoor Lighting Standards
Name: Leo Smith
Affiliation: Withheld.
Location: UConn Storrs
Request Date Start: Withheld.
Request Date End: Withheld.
Details: Request under Connecticut Freedom of Information Act: For the purpose of review and assessment of UConn's compliance with CGS§4b-16 and 4b-16a, I request, under the provisions of the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act, that UConn provide me with a copy of
• each document, directive or electronic communication created or distributed by UConn or any of its employees, from July 1, 2006 through June 17, 2025, resulting from or related to each and every action taken to ensure that any light fixture or luminaire installed or replaced after July 1, 2006 at any UConn facility was designed to maximize energy conservation and to minimize light pollution, glare and light trespass.
• each document, directive or electronic communication created or distributed by UConn or any of its employees, from July 1, 2006 through June 17, 2025, resulting from or related to each and every action you took to ensure that any light fixture or luminaire installed or replaced after July 1, 2006 at any such facility was rated for the minimum illuminance adequate for the intended purpose of the lighting.
• each document, directive or electronic communication created or distributed by UConn or any of its employees, from July 1, 2006 through June 17, 2025, resulting from or related to each and every action you took to ensure that any new light fixture or luminaire with a rated output of one thousand eight hundred lumens, installed or replaced after July 1, 2006, at any such facility such luminaire was rated to allow no direct light emissions above a horizontal plane through the luminaire's lowest light-emitting part other than a 0.5 per cent maximum incidental uplight from reflection off mounting hardware.
• Provide a copy of the section of UConn's design standards that address or relate to outdoor lighting standards, and include the date when said design standards went into effect.
• Provide a copy of the section of UConn's operations requirements (referenced in your email response) that address or relate to outdoor lighting, and include the date when said operations requirements went into effect.
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