15.21.090 Security Lighting.
Adequate lighting shall be provided to protect persons and property and to allow for the proper functioning of surveillance equipment as provided in this Section.
(1) Security lighting plan shall utilize shielded fixtures. Floodlights shall not be permitted.
(2) Vertical features, such as walls of a building, may be illuminated for security to a height of eight (8) feet above grade.
(3) Security lighting poles shall not exceed twenty (20) feet in height in residential zones and twenty-five (25) feet in height in commercial, industrial or public facility zones.
(4) Security lights intended to illuminate a perimeter, such as a fence line, shall be allowed only if regulated by a motion detection system that triggers the lighting when an intruder moves to within five feet of the perimeter.
(5) The average horizontal grade level or vertical surface illumination of security lighting in residential zones shall not exceed one-half (1/2) foot-candle. The average horizontal grade level illumination of security lighting in commercial, industrial or public facility zones shall not exceed one and one-half (1 1/2) foot-candles.