Lake County is not a certified dark-sky community and has no residential dark-sky mandate. Its LDR instead controls glare and sky glow for commercial development: all lighting must use cutoff fixtures to minimize glare and overhead sky glow, and canopy/overhead lighting must be recessed or shielded.
The Land Development Regulations have no standalone residential outdoor-lighting or dark-sky section. The applicable controls sit in the Commercial Design Standards (LDR Sec. 9.10.00): building lighting must be decorative and blend with the architecture, all lighting must be 'cutoff fixtures designed and located so as to minimize glare and overhead sky glow,' and canopy and overhead lighting must be recessed or shielded to prevent lighting of the horizontal axis. These standards apply to commercial and larger development in unincorporated Lake County, not to ordinary single-family homes, where nuisance-glare complaints are handled case-by-case. Homeowners along the dark chain-of-lakes and Green Swamp are encouraged, but not required, to shield fixtures. Incorporated cities set their own lighting codes.
Non-compliant commercial lighting can be corrected at site-plan review or enforced by the Code Enforcement Special Master under Chapter 8; general penalties reach $500 or 60 days jail (Sec. 1-6).
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