Columbia County has no countywide residential dark-sky ordinance, and Georgia has no statewide dark-sky law. The one real lighting standard sits in the Evans Town Center Overlay, which requires full cut-off fixtures to preserve dark night skies.
Columbia County does not impose a general outdoor-lighting or dark-sky standard on homes, and Georgia has no statewide dark-sky statute. The notable exception is the Evans Town Center Overlay District, whose design rules require lighting designed to minimize light intrusion onto neighboring properties and to preserve dark night skies. There, full cut-off fixtures are required for all street and pedestrian lights, parking-lot fixtures may be no taller than 26 feet, pedestrian fixtures no taller than 14 feet, and white-spectrum lighting is required. Elsewhere in the unincorporated county a homeowner's floodlight is not capped by a zoning lighting standard, though HOA covenants across Evans and Martinez routinely add shielding rules.
Lighting that violates the Evans Town Center Overlay standards can hold up site-plan approval and certificates of occupancy. Outside the overlay, the county sets no residential lighting penalty; HOA covenants govern instead.
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