North Hempstead, NY Outdoor Lighting: Light Trespass & Shielding (2026)

2H folds lighting into the same 'glare and heat' performance standard that requires intense-glare or high-heat operations to be fully enclosed and screened from the property line. The lighting sentence is a flat shielding mandate requiring all lighting on the exterior of buildings and within parking lots or outdoor storage areas to be shielded so as not to allow light to trespass onto neighboring properties or light from shining upward. 2, the lighting rule carries no numeric threshold or distance trigger; it applies to every fixture at every use in the district regardless of how close the nearest residence is.

2 must include a description of the mechanisms and techniques used to keep the listed impacts, glare included, within the standard, backed by a signed compliance affidavit. The Building Commissioner can require an independent consultant's report on whether a proposed use will meet the shielding standard, and the Board of Zoning and Appeals is the only body that can modify it, on the same commercial-viability or conflicting-state-standard showing used for the district's other performance standards.