Lee's Summit caps light spillover at 0.5 footcandles at any common property line with a residential district or use. UDO Section 8.250 also requires full cut-off parking-lot fixtures and pole setbacks of one foot per foot of height.
Section 8.250 of the Unified Development Ordinance limits light trespass onto neighbors. The maximum maintained vertical illumination at an adjoining residential property line is 0.5 footcandles, and lighting levels may not exceed 0.5 footcandles at any common property line with a residential district or use. Parking-lot fixtures must use flat-lens, full cut-off heads mounted horizontally and be non-adjustable. Near homes, fixtures within 100 feet of a residential property line are capped at 15 feet tall, and every pole must be set back one foot for each foot of height from a residential line. Developers verify compliance with an as-constructed photometric plan.
Light exceeding 0.5 footcandles at a residential property line violates the UDO. Development Services can withhold the final certificate of occupancy until the applicant reaims, shields, or lowers fixtures to bring spillover into compliance.
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