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title: "Landscape Lighting Neighborhood Guides | NightScapes Naples"
description: "Neighborhood lighting guides for Port Royal, Old Naples, Pelican Bay, Vanderbilt Beach, Marco Island, Bonita Springs and Golden Gate Estates."
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![Uplit palms and a flowering tree reflected in a dark pool, lights across a lake beyond](https://www.nightscapeslandscapelighting.com/img/ns-job-lanai-lake-view-1600.webp)

Neighborhood guides

# The best landscape lighting for each neighborhood, and why

Southwest Florida does not have one set of lighting rules. The City of Naples, Collier County, Marco Island and Bonita Springs each write their own, the beach, the bay and the preserves ask different things, and a lot on acreage has problems a canal lot never will. Each guide below starts from its own place, with the sources linked where they are used.

1. 1 *City of Naples* ### Port Royal City of Naples code: what an entry column may carry, riprap shorelines and dock light, and which Gulf-front lots the city’s turtle rule reaches. Aqualane Shores is covered here too. - Entry columns - Riprap and dock light - Gulf-front turtle rule - Aqualane Shores [Read the guide →](https://www.nightscapeslandscapelighting.com/landscape-lighting/port-royal)
2. 2 *City of Naples* ### Old Naples The historic district’s cottages, royal palms on the old streets, the pier, and the Gulf-end blocks that fall under the city’s sea turtle code. - Historic district - Royal palm streets - The pier - Gulf-end turtle code [Read the guide →](https://www.nightscapeslandscapelighting.com/landscape-lighting/old-naples)
3. 3 *Collier County* ### Pelican Bay Collier County rules, not the city’s. The Gulf-front under the county turtle code, the Clam Bay mangrove edge and the Foundation’s design review. - County turtle code - Clam Bay mangroves - Foundation design review [Read the guide →](https://www.nightscapeslandscapelighting.com/landscape-lighting/pelican-bay)
4. 4 *Collier County* ### Vanderbilt Beach A public county beach that is also a nesting beach, next to Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park, with canals and condos behind it. - Nesting beach - Delnor-Wiggins next door - Canals and condos [Read the guide →](https://www.nightscapeslandscapelighting.com/landscape-lighting/vanderbilt-beach)
5. 5 *City of Marco Island* ### Marco Island A citywide one-footcandle limit at the property line, a turtle district from Cape Marco to Hideaway Beach, and burrowing owl buffers during installs. - One footcandle at the line - Turtle district - Burrowing owls [Read the guide →](https://www.nightscapeslandscapelighting.com/landscape-lighting/marco-island)
6. 6 *City of Bonita Springs* ### Bonita Springs The city’s 2023 turtle district, which reaches homes that are not on the beach, nights from sunset to sunrise, the Imperial River and Estero Bay. - 2023 turtle district - Homes off the beach - Imperial River - Estero Bay [Read the guide →](https://www.nightscapeslandscapelighting.com/landscape-lighting/bonita-springs)
7. 7 *Collier County* ### Golden Gate Estates Acreage: long cable runs on big lots, livestock pens and what FWC says about motion lights and panthers, and dark canal banks. - Long cable runs - Livestock and panthers - Dark canal banks [Read the guide →](https://www.nightscapeslandscapelighting.com/landscape-lighting/golden-gate-estates)

Points placed from nominatim.openstreetmap.org. Map data from Google.

## How these guides are written

A guide is written only when a place has enough of its own to say: its own code, its own beach or water, its own wildlife on record, its own kind of lot. Each one had to show at least twelve facts that are true of it and not of the neighborhood next door. Places that did not reach that are not given a page of their own; Aqualane Shores, for example, is a section of the Port Royal guide.

Every rule is quoted from the code that applies to that address and linked, with the date it was read. Where a rule could not be confirmed, such as an association’s own lighting standards that are not public, the guide says so and tells you who to ask. The guides describe each place; they do not claim we have worked in it, and the photographs are of lighting in general, not of homes in that neighborhood.

Looking for the rules themselves? See [turtle-friendly coastal lighting](https://www.nightscapeslandscapelighting.com/turtle-friendly-lighting) and [wildlife-friendly lighting](https://www.nightscapeslandscapelighting.com/wildlife-friendly-landscape-lighting), or [ask us about your address](https://www.nightscapeslandscapelighting.com/request-estimate-form).