Eastvale, CA Outdoor Lighting: Dark Sky Rules (2026)

Sec. 120.05.050(a) requires development review approval by the designated approving authority for all outdoor lighting fixtures on new multifamily residential, commercial, industrial, mixed-use and public/quasi-public projects, and even a retrofit to existing lighting needs minor development review if the community development director finds it would measurably affect an abutting property or the street view. Subsection (b) exempts only combustion fixtures like kerosene lanterns, temporary holiday lighting, and lighting for permitted temporary and special events from that review.

Subsection (c) bans several lighting types outright: neon tubing or band lighting on buildings unless approved through minor development review, searchlights and laser-source lights except for emergency police or fire use or an approved temporary event, lighting fixtures that create a hazard to people or safe vehicle travel, illumination of entire buildings except public, civic and religious buildings, roof-mounted lighting except for security, and moving, flashing or animated lighting.

The dark-sky shielding standard sits in subsection (d)(2): outdoor lighting must be fully shielded and/or recessed to cut light trespass onto adjoining properties, with each fixture aimed downward and away so no fixture directly illuminates land outside the site. Subsection (d)(5) adds an efficiency mandate requiring energy-efficient lamp types with a minimum rated average bulb life of 10,000 hours, and subsection (d)(8) requires sports-field lighting to shut off within one hour of an event's end and no later than 11:00 p.m.