Montebello has no dedicated dark-sky or astronomical lighting ordinance. Outdoor lighting is instead controlled through zoning site-plan review and specific standards, such as prohibiting reflective, glossy roofing and siding, and screening parking-lot lighting from residential areas.
Montebello's Municipal Code has no dark-sky lighting chapter or lumen/color-temperature caps for astronomical purposes. Outdoor lighting is regulated indirectly. MMC 17.14.030(A) and (B) prohibit reflective, glossy, polished, or rolled-form metal roofing and siding on single-family homes to limit glare. Parking-lot lighting is reviewed as part of the plot plan under MMC 17.52.180, and every parking area serving five or more cars that abuts a residential zone must be screened by a decorative masonry wall under MMC 17.52.160(D). Commercial projects are reviewed for lighting compatibility through site plan review (MMC Chapter 17.74). Homeowners installing standard yard or security lighting generally need no special lighting permit, but lighting that creates a nuisance to neighbors can be addressed under general nuisance provisions.
There is no dark-sky penalty schedule; light that spills onto neighbors or violates a project's approved plan can be addressed as a nuisance or through code enforcement.
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