Florida has no statute limiting light spilling onto a neighbor's yard, and away from the turtle-lighting coast Indian River County addresses glare mainly through its Land Development Regulations lighting standards for new development. A bothered neighbor's main tools are HOA covenants or a common-law nuisance claim.
No Florida statute governs residential light trespass, and Indian River County has no ordinance aimed at a floodlight shining from one home onto another inland. The Land Development Regulations set exterior lighting standards - shielding and spillover limits - mainly during site-plan review of new commercial and multifamily projects, not for an existing single-family fixture in Gifford or Vero Lake Estates. Two tools remain for a neighbor. Recorded HOA and CDD covenants, common in the county's planned communities, often restrict glare and require shielded fixtures. Failing that, a common-law private-nuisance suit lets a court order an unreasonable light shielded, redirected, or dimmed. On the barrier island, the separate Sea Turtle Protection ordinance controls beachfront glare.
The county does not cite neighbor-to-neighbor light trespass inland. Relief comes through an HOA or CDD covenant complaint or a private-nuisance suit, where a court can order the offending light shielded, redirected, or dimmed.
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