Collin County has no dark-sky ordinance. Cities regulate lighting through zoning performance standards requiring full cut-off fixtures on commercial sites and maximum 0.5 foot-candles at residential property lines.
Plano Zoning §3.1400 requires all non-residential site lighting to be full cut-off (no light above horizontal), with maximum 0.5 foot-candle illuminance at residential property lines. Frisco Code §4.03 caps spillover at 0.1 fc at residential lines. McKinney requires shielded fixtures within 100 ft of residential zones. No city follows IDA dark-sky designation. Unincorporated Collin County has no lighting rule. The proximity to DFW and McKinney National Airport (TKI) means high ambient light; astronomy-grade dark skies are found only in northeast Collin County near Melissa and Anna.
Commercial lighting spillover: $100-500 per day city fine until retrofitted. Repeat violations escalate to CO revocation. Residential lighting rarely enforced unless specific nuisance complaint.
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