Live Oak is covered by the Bexar County dark-sky lighting standards protecting observatory viewing, requiring shielded fixtures and color-temperature caps for commercial outdoor lighting.
Live Oak sits within Bexar County, which has adopted outdoor lighting regulations that apply unincorporated-area and incorporated-area development to protect night-sky viewing conditions at nearby research observatories and to limit light pollution. New commercial, multi-family, and signage lighting must use full-cutoff (fully shielded) fixtures that emit no light above the horizontal plane, with color temperatures generally capped at 3000K warm white. Parking lot and canopy lighting must be aimed downward, and architectural uplighting is restricted. Residential single-family lighting is less strictly regulated but must not create glare or trespass onto adjacent properties. The city references these standards during site-plan review. Sports-field lighting and public-safety lighting have specific exemptions with curfews.
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