Alabama has no statewide dark-sky law, and unincorporated Lee County sets no lighting-fixture ordinance. Auburn's zoning, Section 515, limits glare and off-site light spill. Opelika applies its own standards.
There is no Alabama dark-sky statute, and Lee County's zoning regulations impose no lighting-fixture, shielding, or color-temperature rules - the supplemental district regulations are reserved and blank. So a home in the unincorporated county faces no county lighting standard. Inside Auburn, zoning Section 515 requires that lighting be directed or shielded to focus light onto the use and away from adjacent property, streets, and sidewalks, and caps illumination at property lines. Non-enclosed canopy lighting, as at gas stations, must be fully recessed. Opelika applies comparable site-lighting standards. Between neighbors in the unzoned county, a glare problem is usually a private nuisance.
In Auburn or Opelika, non-compliant lighting brings a notice to correct and possible fines or site-plan holds. In the unincorporated county, with no fixture ordinance, glare between homes is pursued as a private nuisance in civil court.
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