Moore, OK Outdoor Lighting: Light Trespass & Shielding (2026)

Under Moore Code of Ordinances § 5-801, any lot adjacent to a residentially zoned property or residential land use must control luminaire height, shielding, placement and aiming to minimize light trespass and direct glare. Wall-mounted luminaires cannot be mounted higher above the ground than their distance to the property line, unless they are mounted or shielded to direct light inward and away from the neighboring lot; even then, the maximum mounting height for a wall-mounted luminaire is 15 feet, or whatever height the community development director approves instead.

The lighting system as a whole must be designed to minimize both spill light onto adjacent properties and glare. The direct glare test is specific: it cannot be visible from six feet above grade at the property line, though the code carves out an exception for field sports lighting. Where the neighboring property is residential and the fixture is a decorative style, the lot-line side of that fixture must be blocked or shielded to eliminate spill and glare toward the neighbor. Existing, fully installed fixtures, or those with a building permit issued before the section's effective date, are grandfathered as nonconforming, but any change in use, replacement, structural alteration or restoration triggers full compliance with the current standard.

Final compliance determination rests with the community development director or a designee, who applies a point-by-point analysis rather than a single bright-line test, meaning close cases turn on the director's technical review of the specific fixture and lot.