West Jordan, UT Outdoor Lighting: Light Trespass & Shielding (2026)

Article L of the zoning title establishes the Planned Community Hillside (PCH) Zone for large hillside subdivisions developed under a negotiated Master Development Agreement (MDA) with the city. Section 13-5L-7(J), Lighting Standards, requires street lighting on every street and alley in a PCH project, favors more, smaller fixtures over fewer high-intensity ones, and sets a maximum streetlight spacing of seventy-five feet (75') per fixture. Lighting design must meet the minimum standards developed by the Illumination Engineering Society, and fixtures must be durable enough to weather well over time.

The section's operative sentence is the shielding rule: lighting must be shielded to prevent up lighting and light trespass, language written to keep site and street lighting inside a PCH project from spilling glare onto adjoining lots and to avoid broader light pollution across the hillside development. The same lighting subsection sits inside a longer list of PCH design requirements covering street walls, prohibited exterior materials such as plywood and vinyl siding, and minimum yard and landscaping standards, so lighting is treated as one piece of the zone's overall design-review package rather than a stand-alone nuisance ordinance.

The lighting standard was carried forward from the zone's original adoption under Ordinance 21-19 and was last amended by Ordinance 24-40 on November 6, 2024. Because the PCH zone applies only to land rezoned into it through an approved MDA, the shielding and light-trespass requirement governs those hillside master-planned communities. It is not, on its own text, the citywide lighting standard for a conventional single-family lot outside a PCH development.