Sahuarita, AZ Outdoor Lighting: Light Trespass & Shielding (2026)

060 of the Sahuarita Town Code sets design standards that apply to all wireless communication facilities in town, including cell towers, monopoles, and camouflaged installations, and subsection E addresses lighting directly. A wireless communication facility cannot be lighted at all unless the lighting is security lighting or is required by the FAA, FCC, or another government entity, closing off decorative or general-purpose lighting on a tower site entirely. Even where security lighting is allowed, the code imposes three conditions at once: the light source cannot be visible from adjoining properties, it must comply with the provisions of the town lighting code, and it must be fully shielded and arranged to eliminate glare toward adjoining properties.

That three-part test mirrors similar light-trespass language used elsewhere in the zoning code for other uses, including the requirement that swimming pool lighting be hooded and controlled so its source is not visible from an adjoining residential zone, and the requirement that private-school outdoor lighting be arranged to eliminate glare toward streets and adjoining properties. 05 of the building code, which the wireless-facility rule and these other zoning provisions all cross-reference rather than restate, so a wireless carrier's site plan must satisfy both the zoning chapter's shielding language and the adopted lighting code's separate technical standards.