Corona, CA Outdoor Lighting: Light Trespass & Shielding (2026)

090(B), within the off-street parking chapter of Corona's zoning title, is the city's specific light-trespass standard for parking-area lighting. It requires that all outdoor lighting within parking areas be designed and arranged, with the City Engineer's approval, to restrict to a minimum the effects of stray light on adjacent property and city streets. Compliance is checked twice: once at design approval, and again after installation, when the City Engineer inspects the completed lighting system for conformance with the approved design and arrangement before the city will issue an occupancy permit for the property.

The section further authorizes the City Engineer to conduct occasional follow-up inspections to confirm continued compliance after occupancy, so a property that alters or adds fixtures later can still be checked against the original approval. 090(B) is the more specific rule for parking lots and is enforced through the occupancy-permit process rather than the noise chapter's misdemeanor clause. The same section's subsection (C) requires masonry walls of three to six feet along parking areas that front or back onto residential or agricultural zones, another physical buffer the city uses to keep parking-lot impacts, including light, off neighboring residential parcels.