Federal Way, WA Outdoor Lighting: Light Trespass & Shielding (2026)

030, titled Glare regulation, provides that any artificial surface which produces glare that annoys, injures, endangers the comfort, repose, health, or safety of persons, or in any way renders persons insecure in life or in the use of property, is a public nuisance, a development regulation violation, and a violation of the Code. 05 for air contamination, heat, and odor: whether the effect is a genuine interference with comfort, safety, or use of property, not whether a light merely crosses a property line. 030, the city's zoning-code lighting regulation, which governs the design standards for exterior lighting fixtures in development review; a glare complaint that stems from a permitted project's fixtures is worked through both the Title 7 nuisance process and the Title 19 lighting standard together. 00 for a third or subsequent violation of the same nature.