Stonecrest, GA Outdoor Lighting: Light Trespass & Shielding (2026)

The City of Stonecrest's outdoor lighting standard opens with a light-trespass baseline that applies everywhere: Sec. 5.6.1(B)(1) states that 'lighting in all zoning districts shall be established in such a way that no direct light is cast upon or adversely affects adjacent properties and roadways.' The same requirement is repeated in subsection A.6 as it applies to the handful of exempted lighting types, motion-sensor fixtures, temporary construction or emergency lighting, low-level security lighting under two footcandles, and sites needing fewer than five fixtures, confirming that even exempt lighting cannot spill onto a neighbor's land or a public road.

For everything else, the trespass rule works alongside the fixture-design mandates in B.2 through B.5: glare shields, opaque cutoff housings, a light cone that cannot point across a property line, and pole heights capped at 25 feet. Non-single-family developments of three acres or more, and any community recreation use proposing outdoor lighting, must document compliance through the professional lighting plan required under Sec. 5.6.1 and detailed in subsection C, including illumination calculations on a ten-foot grid and a photometric summary the director of planning reviews before signing off on the site.