Peoria County has no dark-sky fixture mandate for single-family homes in the unincorporated area. Its Unified Development Ordinance treats lighting mainly through glare limits on intensive uses and sign-lighting shielding, not residential lumen or color-temperature caps. Home-rule Peoria sets its own standards.
Peoria County does not impose countywide dark-sky standards, full-cutoff fixture requirements, lumen caps, or color-temperature limits on ordinary homes in the unincorporated area. The Unified Development Ordinance addresses lighting mainly as a performance concern: glare from commercial and industrial uses must be controlled at the property line, and externally lit signs must be shielded and directed so the light source is not visible from a street or nearby residence. A single-family home faces no county lighting-fixture rule. Between neighbors, a persistent lighting problem is generally handled as a private nuisance in civil court. Home-rule Peoria and other municipalities adopt their own, stricter outdoor-lighting and site-plan standards for land inside their limits.
The county has no residential outdoor-lighting fixture standard to cite, so glare between homes is pursued as a private nuisance in civil court. Glare from intensive uses and non-compliant sign lighting can draw county code enforcement.
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