Miramar, FL Outdoor Lighting: Dark Sky Rules (2026)

Section 805 of the Land Development Code governs every outdoor fixture citywide. 1 states that no structure or land may be developed, used or occupied unless its outdoor lighting conforms to the section, that light must be designed and placed to illuminate only the ground, a vehicular use area, a building, a street or a sign it is intended to serve, and that lighting aimed at a building's roof is prohibited outright. 5 sets hard mounting-height ceilings: non-cut-off luminaires cannot exceed 12 feet above grade, while shielded cut-off fixtures can reach 30 feet, rewarding developers who use full-cutoff optics with more pole height.

2 requires a photometric site lighting plan covering every vehicular area, building exterior, sign and street, prepared and certified by a registered professional engineer and submitted with the final building plans at the same scale. 6 exempts public parks, lighted recreation and athletic facilities, and water and wastewater treatment plants from the shielding and height limits. 7 requires it on every project with public or private streets, installed to Broward County Engineering Division standards rather than the private-fixture rules in this section. Community Development Department staff review the certified photometric plan against these standards during final plan review, and a project cannot obtain its building permit with an unshielded or roof-illuminating design on the plans.