Farmersville, TX Outdoor Lighting: Dark Sky Rules (2026)

Section 77-73 sets Farmersville's exterior lighting standards, adopted with the rest of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance under Ordinance No. 2018-0508-001 and amended by Ordinance No. O-2020-0114-001. Subsection (c), Glare, bars any use from producing obnoxious or intense glare or direct illumination across a property line strong enough to create a nuisance or detract from a neighbor's enjoyment of their property; every outside light must use a light source and reflector selected so the beam is controlled and not directed across a bounding property line above a height of three feet, and the maximum intensity measured at the property line of a residential use in a residential district is one-quarter foot-candle.

Subsection (e), Residential lighting, permits security and night-recreation lighting in every residential district but conditions it on three requirements: direct lighting mounted over ten feet high must be shielded from adjacent property, no residential light source may exceed 20 feet in height, with street lights and traffic safety lighting exempt, and lighting cannot shine directly onto adjacent dwellings. Subsection (f) rounds out the standard by requiring luminaries to be down-light, indirect, diffused or shielded types, and by banning bare bulbs of 15 watts or more and strings of lamps, except for temporary displays capped at 45 days a year or low-wattage cafe patio string lights.