Showing ordinances that apply to Yorktown Heights, NY
Yorktown Heights is an unincorporated community (population 1,884) in Westchester County, New York. Because Yorktown Heights is not an incorporated city, it does not have its own municipal code. Instead, Westchester County ordinances apply directly to properties here. The dark sky rules rules below are the ones that govern your area.
Westchester County has no dark-sky ordinance. Several northern towns (Pound Ridge, Bedford, Lewisboro) have adopted dark-sky-friendly lighting codes requiring full cutoff fixtures.
There is no county-wide dark-sky ordinance in Westchester. Northern Westchester towns with significant open space and low ambient light (Pound Ridge, Bedford, Lewisboro, North Salem) have adopted outdoor lighting codes requiring full-cutoff shielded fixtures, lamp wattage caps, color temperature limits (often 3000K or below), and curfews on commercial lighting. Denser southern municipalities rely on nuisance provisions.
See how Yorktown Heights's dark sky rules rules stack up against other locations.
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