Yonkers does not have a formal dark-sky ordinance. NY State has no statewide dark-sky law. Outdoor lighting is regulated primarily through zoning for glare/nuisance and site plan review.
Yonkers has not adopted an International Dark-Sky Association-compliant lighting ordinance. The city's zoning code (Ch. 43) requires outdoor lighting on commercial and multi-family sites to be designed to avoid glare onto adjacent residential properties, typically reviewed during site plan approval. Residential properties have no specific dark-sky mandates — only nuisance/trespass standards apply. New York State's Dark Skies Protection Act applies only to state-owned facilities.
Yonkers, NY
Overnight on-street parking is generally allowed on residential streets but subject to alternate-side street-cleaning rules. Some zones require residential p...
Yonkers, NY
Retaining walls over 4 ft tall (from bottom of footing to top) require a building permit and engineered drawings in Yonkers. Walls with surcharge loads requi...
Yonkers, NY
Chickens and livestock generally prohibited in Yonkers residential zones. Zoning code allows only conventional household pets in single-family and multi-fami...
Yonkers, NY
Yonkers enforces New York State smoke and carbon monoxide alarm requirements under 19 NYCRR Part 1225 (Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code). All dwelli...
Yonkers, NY
Yonkers is not in a designated wildfire zone. New York does not maintain WUI (wildland-urban interface) fire hazard maps, and Yonkers is a dense urban city i...
Yonkers, NY
Yonkers is an urban municipality with no defensible-space brush-clearance mandate. Property owners must keep lots free of overgrowth, debris, and nuisance ve...
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