Florence County, SC Outdoor Lighting: Light Trespass & Shielding (2026)

6 of the zoning ordinance's Corridor Overlay District, Division 7, adopted by Ord. No. 21-2023/24 on January 18, 2024. Subsection (a), captioned 'Trespass and glare,' requires all lighting to come from a concealed source as viewed from the public roadway and to be oriented specifically to prevent light trespass and glare rather than merely minimize it. Subsection (b) adds a separate protection for neighbors: wherever a lit site sits adjacent to an offsite residential area, the fixtures must be directed away from those residences and from residentially zoned lots, regardless of whether a home currently occupies the adjoining parcel.

1(a) wherever a property fronts a designated corridor roadway. Because these are development-standard provisions rather than a nuisance ordinance, compliance is verified at the site-plan and building-permit stage rather than through after-the-fact complaint enforcement, and a plan that routes light toward the roadway or an adjoining residence does not receive zoning compliance approval.