Clarksville's no-spillover language is real but narrow. Zoning Ordinance 5.10 exempts single-family and two-family dwellings from site plan review, so a neighbor's floodlight falls outside it. Sign illumination is the one standard that reaches residential districts.
Zoning Ordinance 5.10 requires site lighting to be directed inward with shielded hoods and forbids spill onto adjacent properties, but 5.10(1)(A) applies the section "to all uses, except single-family and two-family dwellings and their accessory structures on individual lots." That scoping matters: a homeowner glared at by a neighbor's pole light has no city standard to invoke. Signs are different. Zoning Ordinance 8.2 applies in every district and bars illumination that spills onto adjacent property or right-of-way, or that is bright enough to impair a driver's vision, and separately restricts illuminated signs within 25 feet of residential property. Section 8.3 also prohibits flashing or intermittent illumination on residential district signs.
Sign illumination breaches are zoning violations handled by Building and Codes. Residential fixture glare has no city standard, so it is a private nuisance matter.
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