Middlesex County has no county-wide dark-sky or outdoor-lighting ordinance. Lighting standards, shielding, and glare limits are set by each municipality's zoning ordinance under New Jersey's Municipal Land Use Law, so requirements vary by town.
Middlesex County does not impose a county-wide dark-sky or exterior-lighting standard on private property. In New Jersey, outdoor-lighting requirements, including full cutoff fixtures, maximum foot-candle levels at property lines, height limits for pole lights, and hours of operation, are adopted through municipal zoning and site-plan ordinances under the Municipal Land Use Law (N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.). N.J.S.A. 40:55D-62 authorizes each governing body to zone the use of land and structures, and site-plan review under N.J.S.A. 40:55D-38 is where most towns apply lighting and glare standards to commercial and larger residential projects. As a result, dark-sky style shielding requirements exist in some Middlesex municipalities, such as parts of Edison, Woodbridge, or Monroe, and not in others, and single-family homes are often
On regulated projects, lighting that exceeds a municipality's foot-candle, shielding, or height limits can be flagged during site-plan review and become a condition of approval or a zoning violation. Enforcement is municipal, not county.
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