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Cobb commissioners deny fence variances after neighbors say buffers were encroached
Summary
The board denied two requests to amend rezoning stipulations so homeowners could keep backyard fences inside required buffers, ordering fence removal and replanting after neighbors and staff said the structures intruded on protected landscape buffers.
Cobb County commissioners on Sept. 20 denied two separate requests to amend rezoning stipulations that would have allowed homeowners to keep fences placed inside protected landscape buffers, ordering removal of the fences and replanting of disturbed areas.
The board voted 3-0 to deny Other Business Item 34 (rezoning case C-47-2016, related to a property on the east side of Ellis Mountain Drive south of Sage Lake Bend) and Other Business Item 43 (rezoning case Z-47-2016, a nearby parcel on the east side of Ellis Mountain Drive north of Sage Lake Bend). In both cases the motion included a deadline of Oct. 16, 2025, to remove fence sections located in the protected buffer and Nov. 16, 2025, for any required replanting with the county arborist’s direction.
The denials…
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