Duluth UDC § 303.05
Control of Nuisance and Disabling Glare
Governing jurisdiction
Duluth
Land inside these city limits is governed by Duluth's own code and boards. A "Duluth, GA" mailing address is not proof of being inside them — most such addresses fall in unincorporated Gwinnett.
Boundary: US Census TIGERweb (Incorporated Places, ACS 2025 vintage), vintage 2025.
- Article
- 3 — Restrictions on Particular Uses
- Pages in source
- 96–97
- Adopted
- 2025-09-08
- Amended through
- 2026-07-13
- Source
- Adopted PDF
Text
a. All outdoor lighting, unless otherwise exempt; on private, residential, commercial, industrial, recreational,
or institutional property; shall be aimed, located, designated, fitted, and maintained so as not to present a
disabling glare hazard to neighboring owners/residents, drivers or pedestrians or nuisance glare concerns
to neighboring properties.
b. Directional fixtures such as flood lights, spotlights, and night lights shall be installed or aimed so that they
do not shine directly into the window of a neighboring residence, directly into a roadway, or skyward.
c.
Unless otherwise permitted by the Planning and Development Director, lighting shall be controlled by
automatic switching devices such as timers, motion detectors and/or photocells, to extinguish offending
sources between nighttime and morning and to mitigate glare and sky-lighting consequences.
d. Vegetation screens shall not be employed to serve as the primary means for controlling glare. Rather,
such control shall be achieved primarily through the use of cut off fixtures, the appropriate application of
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mounting height, wattage, aiming, angle, fixture placement and fixture design, etc. and the additions of
shields and baffles as necessary.
e. The amount of illumination projected onto a residential use from another property shall not exceed 0.1
vertical foot candle at the property line.