On-site lighting shall be fully shielded and located to avoid harsh glares. All outdoor fixtures installed and thereafter maintained, other than those serving one- or two-family dwellings, shall comply with the criteria as specified below. All outdoor light fixtures using an incandescent lamp of no more than 150 watts are exempt from all requirements of this section.

Fully shielded light fixtures shall be used for security purposes or to illuminate walkways, roadways and parking lots. Fully shielded fixtures or full cutoff fixtures are required. For luminaires on poles, the pole height to spacing ratio shall be not more than 1:6 (for example, an eighteen-foot pole height and a pole-to-pole spacing of 108 feet).

Light fixtures used to illuminate flags, statues or any other objects mounted on a pole, pedestal or platform shall use a narrow cone beam of light that will not extend beyond the illuminated object.

Externally illuminated building identification signs or other signs shall use fully shielded light fixtures.

Outdoor lighting, whether on private, commercial, industrial, municipal or institutional property, shall be designed, installed and maintained to avoid a disabling glare hazard to drivers or pedestrians. All reasonable measures, such as altering pole height, changing bulb type or using full cutoff fixtures, shall be taken to prevent nuisance glare onto neighboring properties.

Outdoor light fixtures properly installed and thereafter maintained shall be directed so that there will be no undue direct light emissions.

The Planning Board may, as part of site plan review, require that lighting be controlled by automatic timing devices to extinguish offending sources of glare during specified periods to mitigate glare consequences.

Glare control shall be accomplished primarily through the proper selection and application of lighting equipment. Only after those means have been exhausted shall vegetation, fences and similar screening methods be considered acceptable for reducing glare.

Fixtures must be properly designed for the intended purpose. Lamps shall not be directly seen from normal viewing angles. Lamps shall be directed so that most light output is directed toward the surface to be lighted rather than emitted at undesirable angles. Lighting fixtures and lamp color shall be of a type and design appropriate to the application and shall be aesthetically consistent with the character and style of the existing neighborhood.

Mercury vapor and quartz halogen lamps are prohibited light sources in the front yard area. Metal halide or color-corrected sodium light sources shall be used.

Electrical feeds to lighting standards shall be underground.

Lighting standards in parking areas shall be placed a minimum of five feet outside the paved lot area or five feet behind perimeter tire-stop locations or mounted on concrete pedestals at least 30 inches above the pavement or protected by other acceptable means.

The height of poles within parking lots shall not exceed 16 feet.