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Planning and Zoning Commission
<br />Minutes
<br />March 12,2019
<br />amount of glare being reflected, given the results of the study, that is going to blind anyone
<br />driving down the road.
<br />Mr. Wood said because, in your 4.0 conclusion, there is a statement in the second paragraph that
<br />says, "Furthermore, all observation points are considered acceptable based on the current
<br />industry standards established by the FAA for pilots and therefore, logically are acceptable for
<br />pedestrians and drivers."
<br />However, that flies in the face of the FAA guidance for use of this tool at airports, which I pulled
<br />up today, and it is on the federal register and I can give you the volume and the number if you
<br />would like to look at it.
<br />But the specific statement says, There can be no potential for glare or, in quotes, "low potential
<br />for after image (shown in green in the figure)" and they reference the very figure that you have
<br />up there with the green, the yellow, and the red, so anything in yellow would be unacceptable. In
<br />that area that they define, it's on final, which is the last two miles coming in for a landing on a
<br />three degree glide slope, because that is a critical phase of flying, and those distractions to a
<br />pilot, to their eyesight, just like they would be distractions to a driver on a road that is not flat
<br />and straight, could cause momentary loss of that vehicle that could result in a crash, a loss of
<br />property, or heaven forbid, a loss oflife. So your conclusion is flawed and it goes back to Mr.
<br />Rockett's question.
<br />Mr. Wood said he is with Mr. Rockett. I think there are severe flaws in this study and I think that
<br />the amount of yellow, that you say exists from the glint and the glare, does pose a problem that,
<br />now, how do we fix?
<br />Mr. Healy thinks the updated landscape plan is meant to address that, which is to mitigate and
<br />break up any potential for glare that you would see.
<br />Dr. Litaker said on your report, are you assuming that you have a normal healthy eye? Forty
<br />percent of the population now is baby boomers with cataracts and I know on DOT physicals, that
<br />is an issue, glare is times two or three. If you are dri ving down the road, baby boomers, as we are
<br />here, with cataracts, the visual obstruction is an issue. I mean, any visual. It can multiply that
<br />glare, even though it is in a yellow zone, times two or three. Do you taken in account of any of
<br />that in that report?
<br />Mr. Healy does not know how it does the variable eye acceptance.
<br />Dr. Litaker said that is one thing I think we all need to realize, this report is assuming a normal,
<br />healthy eye. All of us, as baby boomers here, we have cataracts starting so, I am not sure your
<br />glare is an issue when you are driving. There is a potential of not being able to drive at night.
<br />That is why we have a lot of people that get restrictions from driving at night, because of
<br />cataracts, but they are not quite bad enough to have them removed yet.
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