Outdoor Lighting in Michigan (2026)

Battle Creek, Michigan requires all outdoor lighting to be aimed at and confined to the ground, using full cut-off…

Clinton Township limits exterior fixtures to white, non-glare light sources and caps both brightness and mounting…

Dearborn's zoning ordinance requires outdoor fixtures to be full cut-off and shielded to curb sky glow, caps most pole…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, City Code § 36-443 requires full shielding on street, parking, security, and sports…

Farmington Hills requires every outdoor light fixture in the city to be a fully shielded luminaire, keeping light from…

Genesee County has no countywide dark-sky or outdoor-lighting ordinance. Any shielding, glare, or fixture-height…

Grand Rapids' zoning code requires High Intensity Discharge fixtures on reviewed outdoor lighting installations to keep…

Every fixed exterior light in Lansing, whether on a pole or a building, must be fully shielded and aimed straight down…

Livonia requires full cut-off, shielded fixtures on nonresidential outdoor lighting so the light source itself is never…

In the City of Novi, Code § 21-203(b) requires every non-exempt exterior light fixture, including floodlights and…

In the City of Pontiac, Zoning Ordinance § 4.502 requires every exterior lighting fixture to be fully shielded and…

Rochester Hills requires all exterior lighting to be fully shielded and aimed straight down to protect the nighttime…

In the City of Royal Oak, zoning code § 770-96B caps exterior illumination at 0.1 footcandle at residential property…

In the City of Southfield, every exterior light fixture, residential or commercial, must be shielded downward under…

Sterling Heights requires exterior fixtures, including wall-packs, to be fully shielded and pointed downward so no…

Sec. 16.05 of Taylor's Zoning Ordinance builds dark-sky intent directly into its lighting standards for the City of…

Troy requires every freestanding pole and building-mounted light fixture to be a full cut-off or fully shielded…

Warren's zoning ordinance sets a dark-sky style lighting standard for used car lots in the C-3 Wholesale and Intensive…

Within Wyoming, Michigan's Form-Based Code corridor areas, exterior site lighting other than flag or decorative…

Detroit's zoning code requires all non-residential development to minimize off-site light spillover and nightglow to…

In Battle Creek, Michigan, light from a property cannot exceed 0.5-foot candles at the property line, measured five…

Clinton Township's Zoning Code requires exterior lighting to be aimed and shielded so it stays off neighboring land…

Dearborn caps site lighting at 1.5 foot-candles at any lot line, dropping to 0.5 foot-candles next to a residential…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, City Code § 36-442 caps light trespass onto a neighboring lot at 0.5 foot-candles…

Detroit caps light spillover from non-residential and commercial lighting, including security lighting, at 0.5…

Farmington Hills bars outdoor light fixtures from spilling illumination beyond the property line onto neighboring land…

Security lights in Grand Rapids must be shielded, full cut-off fixtures aimed only at the area they protect; general…

Lansing caps how much outside light can spill onto a neighbor's property. Zoning Code § 1250.04.03(b)(1)b. holds site…

Livonia caps light spilling onto a neighboring property at 0.5 foot-candles measured five feet off the ground at the…

In the City of Novi, Code § 21-203(a) caps exterior and interior lighting spillover at one-half footcandle measured at…

Zoning Ordinance § 4.502 in the City of Pontiac limits how much light can spill onto a neighbor's land. Intensity at…

Rochester Hills caps how much light can spill onto neighboring property under the zoning ordinance's exterior lighting…

In the City of Royal Oak, outside security lighting on residential property may never shine onto an adjoining…

In the Charter Township of Royal Oak, Michigan, lighting at parking areas, walkways, driveways and building entryways…

Southfield caps how much light can cross onto a neighbor's land. City Code § 5.22-4-1(1)(c) limits illumination at the…

Sterling Heights caps how much light a site can throw, from 2 footcandles in security areas up to 30 near auto-dealer…

Sec. 16.05(a)(4) of Taylor's Zoning Ordinance targets light trespass directly in the City of Taylor, Michigan, and…

Troy caps outdoor light spilling onto neighboring land: under Zoning Ordinance Section 13.05.C.2, light can't exceed…

Warren's zoning ordinance regulates auto wash lighting directly: Section 14.01(p)(A)(6) requires every fixture on an…

West Bloomfield Township requires exterior lighting at oil and gas activity sites to be shielded, aimed downward, and…

Westland caps exterior lighting at one footcandle at the property line and requires fixtures to be aimed and deflected…

In Wyoming, Michigan's Form-Based Code corridor areas, exterior site lighting cannot exceed one foot-candle of…

Zoning Ordinance § 5.105.G governs billboard lighting in the City of Pontiac. An illuminated billboard must sit at…

In the City of Battle Creek, Michigan, a billboard cannot be lit by anything except approved electrical devices that…

Flint requires every illuminated sign, including billboards, to shield its light source so passersby and neighboring…

Grand Rapids caps digital billboard brightness at 0.3 footcandles of ambient light and bans flashing, moving, or…

In the City of Kalamazoo, external floodlights on off-premises signs must aim inward and stay shielded from homes and…

In the City of Royal Oak, an illuminated billboard needs extra distance from housing. City Code § 770-57B(3) sets a…

Billboards and other signs in the City of Taylor, Michigan may only be illuminated by steady, stationary, shielded…

Wyoming, Michigan caps every digital billboard's light output at 0.2 foot candles above ambient light and requires…

Clinton Township's sign code regulates how illuminated signs, including billboard signs in the I-2 Industrial District…