Doral, FL Outdoor Lighting: Light Trespass & Shielding (2026)

Division 3 of Chapter 74, covering street, parking, and walk lighting, contains three short sections that together control how site lighting interacts with nearby homes. Sec. 74-466 states plainly that no glare to the abutting residential shall be allowed due to street, parking and walk lighting, meaning any development illuminating its streets, parking areas, or walkways must design fixtures, shielding, and aim so light does not spill glare onto adjoining residential lots. Sec. 74-467 requires a photometric study for the proposed lighting, and that study must account for the foliage planned for the site, since mature landscaping can block or redirect glare that a bare photometric plan would otherwise miss.

Sec. 74-468 adds a practical hurdle before construction: all agreements to power the streetlights, whether public or private, have to be finalized before the final plat can be approved, so a project cannot record its plat with unresolved electric-service arrangements for its lighting. These three sections, all adopted together on August 22, 2007 as part of the original Land Development Code (Ord. No. 2007-12), are reviewed by the Doral Planning and Zoning Department during site plan and plat review rather than through a permit issued to individual homeowners.

Because Division 3 does not set its own fine, a violation defaults to the Code's general penalty in Sec. 00, imprisonment up to 60 days, or both, with each day a violation continues charged as a separate offense. A homeowner whose neighbor's development-installed lighting causes ongoing glare should raise it with code compliance so the underlying photometric study and shielding can be checked against the Sec. 74-466 standard.