Peoria County has no residential light-trespass ordinance with property-line foot-candle limits in the unincorporated area. Between homes, light spillover is a private nuisance matter. Home-rule Peoria and other cities enforce stricter lighting and glare standards.
The Peoria County Unified Development Ordinance contains no stand-alone residential light-trespass standard with property-line foot-candle limits. Its glare controls are narrow, aimed at intensive commercial and industrial uses that must limit off-site effects, plus sign lighting that must be shielded, not at ordinary homes. Between two single-family homes, a neighbor's floodlight is generally addressed as a private nuisance in civil court rather than through county code enforcement. Inside Peoria, Chillicothe, Bartonville, and other municipalities, local codes impose their own lighting and glare standards, so light-trespass rules there are stricter than in the surrounding unincorporated county. Documenting the light with photos and dates helps a nuisance claim.
Light trespass between homes in the unincorporated county is remedied through a private nuisance claim, not county citations. Inside city limits, municipal lighting and glare standards carry their own fines.
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