Linden, NJ Outdoor Lighting: Light Trespass & Shielding (2026)

17 sets conditional-use standards for institutional uses, covering schools, hospitals, places of worship, and federal, state and county government buildings. 4, Site Requirements, requires landscape plantings to be provided in sufficient quantity, location and height, and maintained and replaced as needed, to preclude to the maximum extent possible the transmission of headlight glare or other lighting to adjacent properties, and to preclude to the maximum extent possible the view of the parking area from a public street. This is a site-plan condition attached to the Planning Board's approval of a government facility as a conditional use, not a general nuisance ordinance covering every property in the city; parking must also stay out of the front yard and at least 25 feet from any property line under the same paragraph.

It sits inside Chapter 31 Zoning, distinct from Chapter 29 Land Development's separate site-design standards and Chapter 28's procedural rules, so the landscaping condition is a use standard tied to the conditional-use approval itself rather than a generic development checklist. A government agency proposing a facility in Linden has to show the Planning Board how its landscape plan will screen headlight glare and parking-area visibility from the neighbors before the conditional use can be approved.