554.01 Definitions.
554.02 Commercial outdoor lighting regulations.
554.03 Outdoor advertising sign illumination.
554.04 Recreational facilities lighting.
554.05 Temporary outdoor lighting.
554.06 Residential outdoor lighting regulations.
554.07 Prohibitions.
554.08 Exemptions.
554.09 Temporary lighting, temporary exemptions, variances and appeals.
554.10 Requirements for new commercial and residential multi-family construction, additions,
modifications, alterations, and street lighting districts.
554.11 Effective date.
554.12 Nonconforming luminaires.
554.13 Notification requirements.
554.14 Severability.
554.15 Interpretation and applicability.
554.16 Notice of violations.
554.99 Penalty.
STATEMENT OF NEED AND
PURPOSE
Good outdoor lighting at night benefits everyone. It increases safety, enhances the City's nighttime character, and helps provide security. New lighting technologies have produced lights that are extremely powerful, and these types of lights may be improperly installed so that they create problems of excessive glare, light trespass, sky glow, and higher energy use. Excessive glare can be annoying and may also cause safety problems. Light trespass reduces everyone's privacy, and higher energy use results in increased costs for everyone. This ordinance recognizes the benefits of outdoor lighting and provides clear requirements for its installation to help maintain and complement the City’s character. Appropriately regulated, and properly installed, outdoor lighting will contribute to the safety and welfare of the residents of the City.
This ordinance is intended to reduce the problems created by improperly designed and installed outdoor lighting. It is intended to eliminate problems of glare, minimize light trespass, and help reduce the energy and financial costs of outdoor lighting by establishing regulations which limit the areas that certain kinds of outdoor-lighting fixtures can illuminate and by limiting the total allowable illumination of lots located in the City of Loveland. All business, residential, and community driveway, sidewalk, and property luminaires should be installed with the idea of being a "good neighbor" with attempts to keep unnecessary direct light from shining onto abutting properties or streets. (Ord. 2023-60. Passed 5-23-23.)