Revere, MA Outdoor Lighting: Light Trespass & Shielding (2026)

190 of the Revere Municipal Code sets the conditions under which a fast-food, take-out or drive-in restaurant may operate. The use is allowed by right only in the Highway Business (HB) district; everywhere else it must run through a special permit granted by the city council, in the General Business (GB), Central Business (CB), PDD1, Technology Enterprise (TED) and PDD2 districts. Subsection F is the city's lighting standard for this use: lights shall be provided and all lights shall be shielded from streets and adjoining properties.

The requirement pairs with subsection E, which requires a landscape architect to prepare landscaping and screening plans, so glare and visual spillover onto neighboring streets and parcels are addressed by lighting design and buffer plantings together. Other conditions in the same section, including a ten-thousand-square-foot minimum parcel size, a ten-car drive-through stacking requirement, and a limit tying tenant use to abutting residences within two hundred feet, apply alongside the lighting rule wherever the use is sited. Subsection H exempts the sale of ice cream and frozen desserts from these criteria when that is not the building's primary use, and subsection I allows the use by right in the PDD1 district when it is accessory to a principal commercial use.

Revere does not carry a separate, freestanding light trespass ordinance covering every land use; this fixture-shielding duty is written specifically into the fast-food/drive-in restaurant standard, and is the citywide zoning hook for keeping restaurant site lighting off neighboring streets and lots.