Auburn, WA Holiday Decorations: Lawn Ornament Rules (2026)

050 carves out a specific list of light sources exempt from all of that. Subsection B exempts 'temporary lights used for holiday decorations' outright, alongside navigation and airport lighting, emergency lighting, state and federal highway lighting, internal sign lighting, public monument lighting, temporary construction lighting, and stadium and field lighting. 050(B) is the entire local rule. 040, still bans strobe, search and laser lights and any light that imitates a traffic signal unless a temporary use permit is obtained for a specific event, so a holiday display using search-light or laser projector effects toward the street could fall outside the holiday exemption and back under the general prohibition.

Absent that overlap, homeowners can string lights, inflate seasonal figures, and illuminate lawn displays through the holiday season without a photometric plan or fixture-height review that a permanent landscape or security light would otherwise require.