East Baton Rouge Parish has no parish-wide dark-sky ordinance for ordinary home yard lighting. The UDC defines full-cut-off and fully-shielded fixtures and requires them in overlay districts and larger developments, where pole lights must be full cut-off to limit glare and light trespass.
The City-Parish UDC does not impose a general dark-sky standard on single-family residential yard lighting. Chapter 19 (Definitions) defines a full-cut-off fixture (no light or direct glare above a 90-degree horizontal plane) and a fully-shielded fixture, and the UDC's overlay-district and site-development standards (Chapter 10) require pole-mounted lights to be designed as full-cut-off fixtures and cap pole height (15 feet for non-directional, 30 feet for directional/full-cut-off lighting). These operative standards apply to development sites and overlay districts, not to a homeowner's porch or landscape lights. For everyday nuisance glare between neighbors, residents rely on the light-trespass shielding rules and general nuisance provisions rather than a dedicated dark-sky code.
In districts where the lighting standards apply, fixtures that are not full-cut-off or that exceed the pole-height limits are UDC violations corrected through the development-review and enforcement process.
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