Port Orange, FL Outdoor Lighting: Light Trespass & Shielding (2026)

Chapter 9's Article VI industrial performance standards regulate noise, vibration, air pollution, heat and other off-site effects from industrial operations, and glare and lighting get their own numeric limit in Section 47(d). 5 footcandle. 5-footcandle ceiling applies specifically to site security lighting and parking-area floodlighting: any exposed light source in those categories must be shielded so it does not shine across the lot line above that intensity. The rule carves out one exception: it does not apply to signs, which are regulated separately under the code's sign chapter.

Because this standard sits inside the industrial performance standards article, it governs light escaping from industrial and comparable commercial operations rather than routine residential yard lighting between neighbors. Section 48 gives the administrative official authority to investigate any existing or proposed industrial use suspected of violating the performance standards, including this lighting limit, and to require plans, equipment descriptions and emission or light-intensity measurements as part of that review. The administrative official can withhold development permits until an operator demonstrates compliance, and may require the operator to retain an outside expert consultant, paid for by the operator, to study and report on compliance where the facts are contested.