Concord, NC Outdoor Lighting: Light Trespass & Shielding (2026)

1, including garages, carports, storage buildings, greenhouses, tennis courts, and swimming pools, whenever those uses are added to a residential or other zoned lot. The provision is a placement and aiming requirement rather than a numeric footcandle or lumen ceiling: a fixture complies if it is oriented or shielded so that its beam does not spill onto a neighboring lot, regardless of the fixture's wattage. 5 does not distinguish between residential and nonresidential accessory uses, it reaches everything from a homeowner's shed floodlight to a commercial accessory structure's security lighting, provided the light is tied to an accessory use rather than a principal building. 5's plain directional standard is what the Administrator applies when investigating a complaint about a neighbor's accessory lighting shining across a lot line.