Outdoor Lighting in Utah (2026)

In Washington County's four dark-sky overlay zones (New Harmony Valley, Pine Valley, Scenic Byway and Kolob Area)…

Eagle Mountain requires every permanent outdoor light fixture, including on single-family and multifamily homes, to be…

Layton caps outdoor light fixtures at commercial, industrial, and institutional sites next to residential areas at 20…

Lehi requires all new outdoor lighting to be fully shielded and aimed downward, shuts most fixtures off by 10 p.m. or…

In Orem's PD-21 Zone (Student Housing Village at 1200 South Geneva Road), every development site plan must include a…

Provo requires new development lighting to be fully shielded, cut-off fixtures aimed downward, bans uplighting outside…

In every residential zoning district, onsite lighting must be located, directed, or designed to contain light and glare…

Outdoor lighting in Salt Lake County's Foothills and Canyons Overlay Zone must point down: light poles and…

Sandy City bars unshielded lights, floodlights, and wall packs from pointing toward public rights-of-way at commercial…

South Jordan requires all commercial lighting fixtures attached to a building to be fully shielded or angled so light…

St. George requires all outdoor lighting be fully shielded and downward-directed, banning direct light into the night…

Weber County's outdoor lighting chapter exists to preserve the dark sky and support astrotourism, requiring every…

West Jordan requires every parking lot light to be shielded and aimed away from adjoining properties, capping spill at…

Within Washington County's designated dark-sky overlay districts, § 10-15C-4(B)-(C) bars aiming any outdoor fixture…

Eagle Mountain requires outdoor light fixtures, including security lighting, to be aimed and shielded so illumination…

Commercial, industrial and institutional lighting next to homes in Layton must be shielded so the light source isn't…

Lehi defines light trespass as light falling where it is not wanted or needed and caps it at 0.2 foot-candles measured…

Orem City Code 22-9-9(F) requires outdoor lighting in the city's manufacturing, research-and-development, and…

Any outdoor lighting plan Provo requires, for everything except one- and two-family dwellings, must certify the…

On-site lighting in Salt Lake City residential districts must be directed and shielded to contain light and glare…

In Salt Lake County's unincorporated MD-1 and MD-3 mixed development zones, outdoor light fixtures are capped at 18…

Sandy bans unshielded floodlights, spotlights and wall-pack fixtures that point toward the street or spill glare past…

For wireless communication facility equipment in South Jordan, security lighting on shelters, cabinets, and ground…

St. George requires all outdoor lighting, including security fixtures, to be fully shielded and aimed downward so no…

Weber County's outdoor lighting code bars placing any light source at a location, angle, or height that trespasses onto…

West Jordan's Planned Community Hillside (PCH) Zone requires all site lighting to be shielded against up-lighting and…

West Valley City caps how much light a commercial or multi-unit parking lot can throw onto a neighbor's yard. Municipal…

Unincorporated Utah County requires any lighting that illuminates an off-street parking facility to use shielded…

West Jordan caps how bright a digital billboard can shine under City Code section 12-3-3(D)(13), limiting illuminance…

Billboards within 150 feet of a West Valley City residential or agricultural zone are capped at 25 feet tall and must…

A converted digital billboard in Lehi can't push nighttime brightness more than 0.3 foot-candles over the sign it…

Orem caps electronic message center (EMC) sign brightness, the illuminated displays allowed on legal billboards, at 0.3…

Electronic billboards in Salt Lake City can't raise ambient light more than 0.3 foot-candle at set distances and must…

Billboard lighting in unincorporated Salt Lake County is confined to the sign face itself: Code §19.82.185.H bars any…

St. George caps electronic off-premises billboards at 0.3 foot-candle over ambient light and requires automatic dimming…

In unincorporated Utah County's I-1 industrial zone, the only zone where billboards may stand, UCLUO 8.24 sets no…