Mobile, AL Outdoor Lighting: Light Trespass & Shielding (2026)

The Spring Hill Overlay, running along the Old Shell Road and McGregor Avenue corridor, layers its own exterior lighting standard on top of Mobile's general zoning code. All outdoor lighting on a building must be shielded or directed so illumination lands only on the structure being lit or on the ground -- not onto a neighbor's yard or the street. Front-of-building fixtures must be mounted between six and fourteen feet above grade, and floodlighting of building walls (up-lighting) is barred outright. These aiming rules apply only to development inside the mapped Spring Hill Overlay boundary; the citywide 0.2 foot-candle spillover cap in UDC § 64-3-9 governs lighting elsewhere in Mobile.