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Resident raises safety and aesthetic concerns about privacy fencing, ads at Edgemont Elementary

5927865 · October 9, 2025
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Summary

A resident told the council the chain-link privacy fence and advertisement panels installed along Edgemont Elementary's south property line block natural surveillance, create an eyesore and could invite crime, and he asked the city to coordinate with the school district.

At the Idaho Falls City Council's public comment period on Tuesday, Joshua Pixton, a resident near Edgemont Elementary School, asked the council and staff to help address what he described as a newly installed privacy fence along the school's south boundary that includes large advertisement panels.

Pixton said the opaque black mesh and blocks of advertisements block neighbors'…

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