Glynn County, GA Outdoor Lighting: Dark Sky Rules (2026)

Section 622, Exterior Lighting, states its purpose is to minimize adverse visual impacts on adjacent properties and drivers and makes clear lighting is not meant to be used as advertising or to draw attention to a building. 2 exempts single-family residential homes and temporary seasonal lights, but only so long as the lighting does not create adverse spillover or glare onto adjacent residential property or a right-of-way, so the exemption is conditional, not automatic. 3(c)(1) requires all lighting fixtures to be cutoff luminaires whose light source is completely concealed within an opaque housing that shields it from direct view from any adjoining residential property or public right-of-way, with the fixture recessed into that housing; drop-dish refractors are specifically prohibited.

3(c)(2) limits the light source itself to LED, incandescent, fluorescent, metal halide, mercury vapor, or color-corrected high-pressure sodium bulbs with a color rendering index of 60 or better. 3(c)(3) requires fixtures to be mounted so the cone of light is not directed at any property line, and caps the maximum mounting height for a pole at 35 feet. 3 caps maximum foot-candles at ten for non-residential and multifamily parking lots, 60 for service-station canopies and parking garages, and five for landscaped areas. 5 if an owner does not correct a documented lighting violation.