Brock, I concur. In neighboring Malibu there is an ordinance that states all house and path lights must be 'dim and downward cast' -- good idea!
But here in Ventura the (grid-tied) neighbors aren't as evolved, pointing glaring lights up off their property, up the hill, to light up my shack. When the wind blew at night the tree branches would make a nice strobe effect that I'm sure could induce fits in the more susceptible. Complaints to police, maybe, made them take them down. Now they put up just one souped-up yellow (sodium vapor?) very bright light, placed in a clearing pointing up at me, unobstructed by trees, not illuminating their own place whatsoever...since they are grid-tied they just leave it on all night.
Myself being solely solar-powered, I can't return the favor...but, some day, soon...heh heh heh...I'll say no more...but, heh heh heh...