Unincorporated Tulare County controls light trespass through General Plan policies and nuisance enforcement rather than a numeric light-trespass ordinance. Policy LU-7.18 requires park and recreation lighting to avoid nuisance light and glare spillage onto adjoining homes, and LU-7.19 limits light reflecting into adjacent areas. Glare and spillover are addressed as project conditions and potential nuisances.
Light trespass - unwanted light spilling from one property onto another - is regulated in unincorporated Tulare County through General Plan policy and the County's general nuisance authority rather than a dedicated foot-candle-limit ordinance. General Plan 2030 Policy LU-7.18 (Lighting) directs the County to improve and maintain lighting in park and recreation facilities so as to prevent nuisance light and glare spillage on adjoining residential areas, and Policy LU-7.19 (Minimize Lighting Impacts) requires lighting in residential areas and along County roadways to be designed so artificial light does not reflect into adjacent natural or open-space areas unless required for public safety. For new discretionary development, the Resource Management Agency typically imposes conditions requiring exterior fixtures to be shielded and directed downward to keep light on the project site and out of neighboring properties, consistent with these policies and the County Zoning Ordinance (Ordinance No. 352). Where existing lighting creates a persistent glare or spillover problem onto a neighbor, the issue can be pursued through the County's public-nuisance provisions in the Ordinance Code, which allow the County to require abatement of conditions that interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of nearby property. Because there is no published numeric trespass threshold, outcomes are case-specific and tied to the permit conditions or nuisance findings for the property involved.
Lighting that spills onto neighboring property in violation of a project's conditions of approval, or that rises to a public or private nuisance, can be addressed through County code-enforcement and nuisance-abatement procedures, including orders to shield, redirect, or reduce the offending lighting. Enforcement is tied to the applicable permit condition or nuisance determination.
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