Moreno Valley, CA Outdoor Lighting: Billboard Lighting (2026)

100(H), Lighting Prohibitions, lists several practices banned outright regardless of shielding, wattage or use type, and billboard lighting pointed upward is one of them. An upward-aimed billboard light throws glow directly into the sky rather than down onto the sign face, which runs against the dark-sky purpose the lighting chapter states in subsection (A): reducing light pollution while maintaining dark skies. The same subsection bans overhead roof lighting, the installation of mercury vapor outdoor lighting fixtures, adjustable outdoor lighting fixture mounts (except flexible landscape and ornamental lighting), and any lighting fixture mounted so that it aims only toward a property line, plus any lighting that the police chief or city engineer determines interferes with the safe operation of a motor vehicle.

100, including full-cutoff design and the one-quarter foot-candle light trespass ceiling at the property line under subsection (E). Because the upward-lighting ban sits in the prohibitions subsection rather than the general performance standards, it applies without exception; there is no waiver process listed in the code for lighting a billboard from below in a way that throws light upward past the sign face.