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I I I I I III right now, and the new City Hall project "is the most beautiful City Hall around." Mr. Anagnostou said the new City Hall and the housing development on Middlefield and Main will bring life into the downtown area, and bright lights were needed to welcome the new --- activity. In response to Councilman Ruskin's questions, Mr. Anagnostou said he would like to be able to compare low and high pressure sodium lights before deciding the issue, but he believed that better lighting is worth the extra money. He said his new lighting on Forester's Hall has evoked many, many favorable comments ITom people who had not even noticed the building before. Ralph Nobles, 3720 Country Club Drive, described the technical and distinct differences between low and high pressure sodium lights, and said local observatories prefer low pressure sodium lights in urban areas as their rays are easier to filter out, allowing stars to be seen in the night skies. Dr. Nobles said only yellow and black are clearly seen under the "yellow lights." In response to Councilman Leipzig's comments, Manager Patterson said, "The amount of light being put out is greater with the low pressure sodium, and... as soon as you put a regular light (on an object under the low pressure sodium lights), such as when a policeman is there with a flasWight, or car lights, then you see the normal colors. They pop out." He added that Christmas lights and store ITont lights help define colors. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Mayor Hartnett declared a recess at 9:29 p.m. Meeting reconvened at 9:45 p.m. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------__n___----_-- Mayor Hartnett, referring to Item 8.A.!), a Council policy on street lights, said, "With the enlightened discussion we have had on lights this evening... there are a couple of things we might want to focus on at a different night with respect to lights. I think it is a big issue and ITom what we discussed tonight, it might be premature to give direction to staff over all City lights and we might want to focus at a later meeting, what might actually work, whether it is high sodium or low sodium in the downtown area. We have heard that even with the high sodium lights on Broadway (lighting remains an issue). .. Separately, El Camino is an issue. That doesn't mean that the whole area bounded by the Underground Utility District is necessarily an issue. I think we might want to look at each of the two items separately." Mayor Hartnett said the proposed Underground Utility District does not include Broadway and El Camino Real, which have been the subject of most of the discussion at this meeting. He recommended that Council consider "deferring direction to staff on the issue of lights to another time, after we have reflected on what we have heard tonight." MIS: LEIPZIG/- TO APPROVE THE PROPOSED RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING THE UNDERGROUND UTILITY DISTRICT WITH NO BEARING ON THE HIGH/LOW ~- PRESSURE SODIUM LIGHTS REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING APRIL 7, 1997 MINUTES MINTJTE BOOK NO. 55 PAGE 15 Page No. 237