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Ballston Central Business Improvement District

Lighting Design Concepts

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EXISTING STREET

LIGHTING AND

FURNITURE INVENTORY

• Wide range of styles,

materials and finishes

• No standards holding it

together




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Exisiting Streetscape Lighting Conditions




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Existing Streetscape Lighting Conditions and Operating Profile

Arlington County provides

• Code compliant illumination on streets, crosswalks and sidewalks,

using state-of-the art technologies and equipment.

• A variety of street lighting systems to accomplish these tasks.

• Ongoing technology and hardware upgrades.

• Operation and maintenance of the systems.

• Storage for poles and lighting fixtures.




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Existing Streetscape Lighting Elements

The principal Arlington lighting equipment standards include:

• A primary “workhorse” streetlighting pole and luminaire from Philips

Lighting, from their RoadStar series (image to right). It utilizes LED

technology and is a standard product from the manufacturer.

• A “decorative” streetlighting pole and luminaire which is used in

districts where the pseudo-historic fixture vocabulary is desired (image

to right). The pole and fixture is manufactured by Hadco and is from

their post-top series. Most existing product has been, or is in the

process of being, retrofitted with LED sources.

• A “decorative” pedestrian-scaled” pole and luminaire which is used in

districts where the pseudo-historic fixture vocabulary is desired (image

to right).. The pole and fixture is manufactured by Hadco and is from

their post-top series. Most existing product has been, or is in the

process of being, retrofitted with LED sources.

Control of most all LED-based lighting fixtures is through a wireless

remote system called Sentinel, manufactured by Revolution Lighting

Technologies.




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Lighting for streets – vehicular

Preferred Solid State LED “cobra head”

Preferred pole and pole arm

Established maintenance procedures




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Lighting for streets – vehicular (decorative)

LED light source engine




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Lighting for streets – vehicular and pedestrian (decorative)




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Lighting for streets – pedestrian (decorative)




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Exisiting Streetscape Lighting Elements – Principal Decorative Lighting System

Retrofitted

Decorative luminaires have been routinely

retrofitted with LED clusters. The source

clusters can be quite glarely in areas with

little other contributing light.


Lighting for streets – vehicular and pedestrian (decorative)

LED Retrofit module




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Lighting controls

• Time-of-day scheduling

• Remote Digital Monitoring (RDM)

• “Smart City” issues




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Arlington Guiding Principles




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Safe

Enhance public safety

Improve or enhance accessibility

Sustainable

Reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint

Minimize uplight

Compatible

Improve community environment via streetscape

Smart

Improve technology to align/meet County goals

Maintainable

Reduce maintenance and improve reliability

Limit inventory space requirements

Cost Effective

Minimize operating and life cycle costs




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Review of Ballston CBID lighting concepts and their alignment with the principles

Safe

Enhance public safety

Improve or enhance accessibility

CBID Lighting Concept approaches:

• Inproved illuminance levels for both vehicular and pedestrian traffic

• Heightened uniformity of light

• Enhanced visibility through reduction in direct source glare

• Lack of glare enhances wayfinding

• Improvements in light source color rendering

• Accessibility guidelines address uniformity, glare control and color rendering




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Sustainable

Reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint

Minimize uplight


• LED sources used for all proposed luminaires, reducing energy consumption

• The use of LED sources allows for more flexibility in controls, further managing energy

needs after hours, with possible additional energy savings.

• All fixtures would be cutoff luminaires, almost eliminating direct upward spill light and

greatly minimizing light trespass in more sensitive residential areas.




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Compatible

Improve community environment via streetscape


• The use of a pedestrian pole and fixture provides human scale and community enrichment.

• Pole and fixture aesthetic helps in establishing neighborhood character

• Improved illuminance levels and uniformity will enhance the nighttime community setting

• Enhanced visibility through reduction in direct source glare fosters wayfinding

• Improvements in light source color rendering is a strong neighborhood benefit




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Smart

Improve technology to align/meet County goals


• LED sources used for all proposed luminaires are ideal sources for remote managed

lighting control

• All pole/luminaire assemblies being considered can be provided with Smart City

compatible technologies or be wired/piped for future adaptation

• Modular components provide future flexibility with improvements in technology




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Maintainable

Reduce maintenance and improve reliability

Limit inventory space requirements


• LED sources have inherently longer life, extending maintenance cycles and improving

long term operational profiles.

• Well designed LED source lighting fixtures are quite reliable

• All lighting fixtures being considered will use modular components, easing

maintenance demands

• LED modules and driver assemblies are relatively small and easy to store




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Cost Effective

Minimize operating and life cycle costs


• Operating costs are reduced using LED sources over older technology legacy sources

• Due to their inherent construction quality and availability of modular components, life

cycle cost profiles are attractive.




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Alternative Streetscape Lighting Upgrades




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Approaches for the Business Improvement District Lighting Program

Alternative A - Dedicated Pedestrian Streetscape Lighting Assemblies

This approach suggests using the Arlington standard pole mounted vehicular light -

namely, the Philips RoadStar Series (image to right) - to provide street illumination; and

develop a completely different, appropriately scaled pedestrian light pole assembly.

This approach would mostly divorce the pedestrian pole vocabulary from the high-pole,

functional vehicular system, and allow more stylistic and interpretive selection at the

scale that maters most for the District identity.

Control of pedestrian lighting equipment, as with the vehicular light poles, would be

managed through Arlington’s Sentinel wireless control system, already in use

throughout.

The following pages illustrate a variety of pedestrian pole aesthetics that could be

discussed for the District. Issues and questions to consider in review and assessment

of these options include:

• Does the aesthetic reinforce the District’s message & specific sense of place?

• Will the optical choices available provide desired functional illumination while

creating a comfortable visual environment for the pedestrian?

• Do the geometries available provide the needed flexibility and robustness to serve

long term needs?

• Can other specialty items (the branding graphic – powered, digital, or whatever

format) mount successfully to the pole(s)?

• Can all manner of wireless communication be accommodated?

• Is long-term availability an issue?

• Is operation or maintenance compromised?

Philips RoadStar




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Existing Streetscape Lighting Elements – Principal Street Lighting System




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Dedicated Pedestrian Streetscape Poles – Escofet Bali Series




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Dedicated Pedestrian Streetscape Poles – Landscape Forms Rama Series




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Dedicated Pedestrian Streetscape Poles – Landscape Forms Leo Series




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Dedicated Pedestrian Streetscape Poles – Escofet Tronic Series




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Dedicated Pedestrian Streetscape Poles – Eaton Arbor Series




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Specialty Poles

These would/could be used selectively at parks, plazas or in other specialty zones.




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Approaches for the Business Improvement District Lighting Program

Alternative B - Combination Vehicular/ Pedestrian Streetscape Poles Assemblies

This approach focuses specifically on using a common fixture and pole language for both the

vehicular and pedestrian solutions. In some sense, Arlington’s current “decorative,” pseudo-historic

fixtures utilize this approach. Both dedicated pedestrian poles and vehicular/pedestrian combination

pole assemblies would occur.

Control of both the vehicular and pedestrian lighting equipment would come through Arlington’s

Sentinel wireless control system.

The following pages illustrate several vehicular/pedestrian pole/fixture combinations that could be

discussed for the District. Issues and questions to consider in review and assessment of these

options include:

• Does the aesthetic reinforce the District’s message & specific sense of place?

• Do the geometries available provide the needed flexibility and robustness to serve long term

needs?

• Can the pedestrian scaled version of the fixture(s) mount to both low and high poles, thereby

having fewer poles?

• Can other specialty items mount to the combination poles?

• Can all manner of wireless communication be accommodated?

• Is long-term availability an issue?

• Is operation or maintenance compromised?




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Assessment of application options for preferred lighting vocabulary

Alternative A - Dedicated Pedestrian Streetscape Lighting Assemblies

Alternative B - Combination Vehicular/ Pedestrian Streetscape Poles Assemblies




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Typical Ballston corridor - Wilson Boulevard from North Randolph to North Glebe

Blow-up of segment - Wilson

Boulevard from North Randolph

to Stuart




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Blow-up of segment - Wilson Boulevard from North Randolph to Stuart

Wilson-Stuart intersection Wilson-North Randolph intersection




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Existing Arlington standard Philips Lumec

RoadStar roadway/street lighting fixture

Existing Arlington standard GE cobra-

head roadway/street lighting fixture




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Dual-directional traffic signal and light standard

Wilson mid-block



Dual-directional traffic signal with

cross-walk and street lighting

Ground mounted tree uplighting in

median

Existing “acorn” style pedestrian

pole




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Typical existing pedestrian-scaled light poles

Wilson mid-block




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Typical existing pedestrian-scaled light poles

Wilson mid-block




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Typical mid-block conditions (Wilson near Stuart)



Ground mounted accent

floodlighting for retail crossing

bridge mounted within median

Ground mounted tree uplighting in

median




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Lighting Alternate A1 Street Section Blow-up

22.5’ 45’ 22.5’ 45’

22.5’ 45’ 22.5’ 45’

Single Head Pedestrian Scaled Area

Light (12’-14’)

Single Head Street Light Assembly (30’)




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Lighting Alternate A2 Street Section Blow-up

34’ 68’ 34’

34’ 68’ 34’ 68’


Light (14’-16’)

Single Head Street Light Assembly (30’)




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Lighting Alternate B Street Section Blow-up

45’ 45’ 45’

45’ 45’


Light (12’ -14’)

Two Head Street Light and Pedestrian

Scaled Area Light Assembly (30’ and 12’-14’)




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Discussion




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Lighting for Streetscapes




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