Business Name:	Ingles Shopping Center
Location:	GA 400 & GA 53
Lighting Grade:	D+
Guideline Status:	Built before guidelines were in place
Footcandles 0ft	To be evaluated
Footcandles 30ft	To be evaluated

This lighting review is on the entire Ingles shopping center, not just on Ingles, itself.  This shopping center has many other businesses occupying space.  Presently, this property is a significant source of light pollution in the GA 400 corridor.  Because the center was built before the guidelines were in place, designers made the parking lot too bright.  The side closest to GA 53 is especially bright.  The wrong type of fixtures are used throughout the entire complex.  The shopping center appears to have tried to save some money by putting up fewer light poles and to compensate for the missing lights, they made the poles especially bright.

This photograph shows the location of some of the offending light fixtures (red).  This shopping center does not contain any fixtures that could be found that are full-cutoff.

This photograph shows the shopping center at a distance.  The parking lot light poles put out too much glare.

This shows the entrance to Ingles.  There are 4 spotlights that illuminate the fascade.  This lighting practice is prohibited by the GA 400 Development guidelines. 

This photograph shows the GA 53 side of the parking lot.  This parking lot is so bright, the cars are casting very distinct shadows.  As the photo shows, the parking lot light emits a huge amount of glare.

This is a view from  the Ingles side of the plaza.  Again, the fixtures create horrible glare and as the previous picture, shadows are visible near the automobiles.  This parking lot is too bright!

These fixtures line the sides and back of the building.  These fixtures are not full-cutoff which creates glare as the light is scattered in many directions instead of downward where it is needed.

This photograph shows B in the first photograph. These parking lot lights are 4 lights per pole.  These put off a huge amount of light.  Because they are not full-cutoff, they produce glare which blinds drivers.

This shows the light poles near the entrance to Ingles.  The practice of uplighting and horizontal lighting needs to end if we are to save our night skies.