Taylor, TX Outdoor Lighting: Billboard Lighting (2026)

Chapter 7 of the 2024 Land Development Code defines LIGHTING to mean any source of light that does not include natural light emitted from celestial objects or fire, and it spells out that the term includes any type of lighting, fixed or movable, designed or used for outdoor illumination of buildings or homes, including lighting for billboards, streetlights, canopies, gasoline station islands, searchlights used for advertising purposes, externally or internally illuminated on- or off-premises advertising signs, and area-type lighting. 7, Taylor's dark-sky lighting article. 1, the article applies within the city limits to both public and private lighting, and reaches into the extraterritorial jurisdiction for lighting tied to a subdivision application.

That means a billboard's illumination is treated the same as any other outdoor fixture: it is subject to the article's permit trigger once cumulative lumen output exceeds 2,500 lumens in any 90-day period, to the nonconforming-lighting compliance timeline for older installations, and to the general prohibition on installing lighting contrary to the article. Separate sign standards elsewhere in the Code, including a 40-foot height cap on existing billboards, govern the structure itself, but the lighting fixtures mounted on or aimed at a billboard face the dark-sky article's rules just like a parking-lot light pole or a building floodlight would. The Code was adopted by Ordinance 2024-41 and revised September 12, 2024.