Monterey, CA Outdoor Lighting: Light Trespass & Shielding (2026)

8(C)(6). It sets two, sometimes competing, obligations: the exterior lighting must not create glare on adjoining properties, but it must also keep all areas of the premises visible and provide increased lighting at every entrance. 6. This dusk-to-dawn, no-glare standard applies specifically to licensed cannabis businesses inside the CB1 through CB4 Cannabis Business Overlay zones and is reviewed as part of the same Consistency Review that checks the 600-foot school buffer, General Plan conformance, and odor mitigation. Outside the cannabis overlay, a neighbor complaining about spillover light from an ordinary commercial or residential property does not have this specific dusk-to-dawn provision to point to; that kind of complaint is instead handled through the Community Development Director's general nuisance and zoning-compliance authority or through Chapter 22's public nuisance provisions, since Monterey's code does not carry a freestanding, citywide light-trespass ordinance outside this cannabis-specific section and the airport-area MF1 lighting standard.