Outdoor Lighting in Georgia (2026)

Johns Creek has a full Night Sky Ordinance in Zoning Ordinance Section 4.9. Outdoor lighting must be full cutoff with…

Atlanta's Neighborhood Commercial zoning requires cutoff luminaires that block glare beyond a 90-degree cone and stand…

Augusta-Richmond County's zoning ordinance requires fully shielded, downward-directed outdoor light fixtures on new…

Bartow County has no general outdoor lighting ordinance for unincorporated homes and businesses, but its Zoning…

Chatham County has no countywide dark-sky ordinance, but Tybee Island enforces a sea-turtle lighting rule (Land…

Cherokee County's outdoor lighting ordinance requires full cutoff, shielded luminaires in parking lots, outdoor…

Clayton County requires every exterior light fixture to be fully shielded, full cutoff, and aimed downward under the…

Columbia County's node protection overlay district requires full cut-off outdoor light fixtures and caps fixture height…

Decatur, Georgia's Unified Development Ordinance regulates outdoor lighting to preserve the dark night sky, requiring…

Outdoor lighting fixtures other than street and pedestrian lights must use dark-sky design with no spillover onto…

Dunwoody's outdoor lighting ordinance is written explicitly to preserve the dark night sky and curb glare. New and…

Floyd County's Unified Land Development Code requires full cutoff, downward-directed and shielded fixtures for…

Unincorporated Fulton County's Night Sky Ordinance requires nonexempt outdoor light fixtures to be full cutoff, casting…

Non-residential and multifamily parking lot lighting in unincorporated Gwinnett County must use fully shielded cutoff…

Hall County has no countywide dark-sky ordinance, but nonresidential development along its designated Gateway Corridor…

Macon-Bibb County requires nearly all outdoor light fixtures to use IES semi-cutoff, cutoff, or full cutoff…

Data centers in Paulding County's Technology Park Overlay District must use full cut-off fixtures on poles no taller…

Roswell's outdoor lighting code exists to curb glare and preserve the dark night sky, requiring shielded, full-cutoff…

South Fulton's zoning ordinance states its outdoor lighting rules exist specifically to preserve the dark night sky for…

In its designated primary and secondary transportation corridors, unincorporated Carroll County, Georgia requires new…

Johns Creek's Night Sky Ordinance (Section 4.9.4.B) limits light trespass at a residential or nature-preserve property…

In Atlanta's Neighborhood Commercial zoning districts, parking lot and structure lighting next to residential buffer…

Augusta-Richmond County's zoning ordinance requires security lighting to be aimed at the target area, not neighboring…

New commercial and office development in unincorporated Bartow County must aim outdoor lighting downward and keep light…

In unincorporated Carroll County, Georgia, outdoor lighting for non-residential and multi-family development within the…

Cherokee County's Zoning Ordinance caps how much light can cross onto a neighbor's land: no more than 0.1 footcandle at…

Clayton County caps how much light can cross onto neighboring property under the Zoning Ordinance's Outdoor Lighting…

Cobb County's lighting-plan ordinance requires developers to control stray light so it doesn't trespass onto adjacent…

Columbus, Georgia caps nonresidential and commercial lighting at 1.0 foot-candle at a residential zoning district line…

Decatur, Georgia's Unified Development Ordinance caps light spilling onto neighboring land: sports and performance…

DeKalb County's zoning code bars outdoor lighting fixtures from casting direct light onto or adversely affecting…

Dunwoody's zoning code requires outdoor lighting fixtures on new development to be aimed and shielded so they don't…

Fayette County requires self-storage facilities in unincorporated Fayette County to shield all outdoor lighting away…

Unincorporated Floyd County caps how much light a property may throw across its boundary: no more than 0.5 foot-candles…

Forsyth County's UDC § 16-4.25 caps light crossing property lines: no more than one foot-candle at any residential or…

Outdoor lighting on permitted development in unincorporated Fulton County must be full cutoff and aimed so stray light…

Non-residential and multifamily developments in unincorporated Gwinnett County must use fully shielded, cutoff…

Along Hall County's nine designated Gateway Corridors, the Unified Development Code requires every outdoor light…

Houston County's land development regulations require outdoor lighting to be directed away from neighboring homes and…

Macon-Bibb County requires every outdoor light fixture, regardless of where it sits on a property, to be designed and…

Paulding County sets no residential foot-candle light-trespass limit. The zoning code controls glare from parking and…

Roswell requires security lighting to be aimed only at the area it protects, and sensor-activated fixtures must be…

South Fulton caps light spilling across property lines at 1.0 foot-candle where it abuts a residential or agricultural…

In unincorporated Walton County, Section 7-1-150(A)(5) of the Land Development Ordinance requires parking-lot lighting…

Acworth requires nighttime parking-lot lighting to be arranged so it does not reflect or cause glare on neighboring…

Marietta's R-1 zoning code requires that lighting for golf courses, driving ranges and other City-Council-approved…

Warner Robins requires every outdoor light fixture to be aimed away from neighboring residential dwellings and away…

Whitfield County has no general outdoor lighting ordinance for unincorporated areas, but Sec. 5-92 of the swimming pool…

Chatham County has no general light-trespass ordinance; spillover from a neighbor's lights is handled through zoning…

Columbia County sets no foot-candle limit on residential outdoor lighting. Its only zoning light-trespass rule targets…

Unincorporated Fayette County bans billboards outright, so no billboard lighting fixture, internal or external, may be…

Unincorporated Hall County flatly bans illumination of off-premises signs. Sec. 8.6.19.B.8 of the Unified Development…

Augusta-Richmond County does not cap billboard brightness directly, but any billboard with internal lights or other…

Any illuminated billboard-type sign in unincorporated Bartow County must be shielded so its light source cannot be seen…

Outdoor advertising signs, Carroll County's term for billboards, may only use LED illumination meeting Georgia's…

Clayton County caps internally illuminated billboard faces at 20 foot-candles measured 10 feet from the sign structure…

DeKalb County's sign code bars any sign, including illuminated advertising signs, from casting light that glares or…

A billboard is a freestanding sign under Floyd County's Unified Land Development Code, so it falls under the county's…

An electronic oversized sign or digital billboard in unincorporated Gwinnett County cannot run brighter than 0.30…

Every illuminated sign in Macon-Bibb County, including a billboard, is capped at 5,000 nits during daylight hours and…

Marietta caps how bright digital billboards can glow. Under the city's sign ordinance, an electronic billboard face…

In unincorporated Rockdale County, a billboard may only be lit indirectly, from a light source aimed downward, never by…

South Fulton caps externally illuminated signs, including billboards, at 55 foot-candles and requires downward-directed…

Billboards, defined in the county's land development ordinance as highway-oriented signs, may only be illuminated as…