Brentwood Academy returns with baseball-field lighting plan; staff emphasizes neighbor outreach and photometric limits

Brentwood Academy returned to the agenda with a request to approve baseball-field lighting only; the dugout addition was approved earlier and is not part of this submission.

Staff (Speaker 1) said the planning commission previously deferred the lighting and approved the dugout addition, and that nothing in the lighting submission has changed since the previous filing. The submitted photometric plan and fixture shields are intended to limit spill; staff said the plan shows no more than three foot-candles at adjacent residential property lines and described the colored photometric map used to show decimal foot-candle values.

Staff summarized neighborhood outreach. An HOA meeting was held at Broadwood Academy (moved to the chapel to accommodate attendance). Staff said an HOA Q&A lasted roughly a half-hour and that several families attended; three families previously asked for a separate meeting and a follow-up meeting with those families was scheduled for the afternoon prior to the next formal meeting. School representatives at the HOA meeting included Dr. Patterson (headmaster) and Jason Matthews (athletic director). Staff emphasized that planning jurisdiction is limited to lighting and does not extend to noise or other unrelated concerns.

Board members asked whether the body can place restrictions on when lights are turned on and off. School and staff representatives said the intended use is for practices (three teams) and occasional evening games and that there is no intent for extended hours beyond typical practices or a game night. A member observed that city parks lights are set to turn off at 9:00 p.m.; members indicated that operational restrictions (hours of use) are a valid topic for discussion at the next meeting and that the athletic director or other school officialss availability could clarify intended schedules.

Staff described the lighting plan as unchanged and compliant with the submission from last month. The transcript records staffs account of neighborhood meetings and plans for follow-up; no final vote on the lighting plan appears in the provided segments.