La Habra has no separate light-trespass ordinance with foot-candle limits. Light spilling onto a neighbor's property is controlled through Title 18 zoning glare standards and the city's nuisance and code-enforcement provisions, which require lighting not shine directly on adjacent property.
La Habra addresses light trespass, unwanted light spilling from one property onto another, through general zoning glare standards and nuisance rules rather than a dedicated light-trespass ordinance with numeric limits. The zoning code requires that lighting not shine directly on adjacent properties or create glare affecting motorists or pedestrians, and the M-1 zone prohibits glare detectable at any lot boundary. Where exterior lighting unreasonably disturbs a neighbor, it can be pursued as a nuisance under the Neighborhood Preservation, Code Enforcement and Abatement chapter. Because La Habra codifies no foot-candle threshold, enforcement is complaint-driven, typically resolved by asking the owner to redirect or shield the fixture. (Foot-candle limits published for the separate city of La Habra Heights do not apply here.)
Lighting directed onto or spilling across a property line so as to disturb a neighbor may be treated as a nuisance and subject to abatement and citation under La Habra's code-enforcement provisions.
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