Fort Lee's zoning code regulates outdoor lighting to minimize glare, sky glow, and trespass onto adjacent properties through fixture shielding, height limits, and illumination level standards in non-residential developments.
Fort Lee's site plan and zoning provisions require outdoor lighting for parking lots, commercial, and multifamily projects to use full cutoff or fully shielded fixtures that direct light downward. Photometric plans are typically required at site plan review, with maximum illumination at property lines kept low to limit spill. While Fort Lee is not a designated dark-sky community, its lighting standards reflect best practices in line with Illuminating Engineering Society guidance. Residential decorative lighting has fewer restrictions but still cannot create nuisances.
Violations during construction can stall certificate of occupancy issuance, while existing nonconforming lighting causing nuisance may be ordered shielded or replaced under abatement procedures.
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