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Board of Adjustment hears plea for 12-foot privacy fence after petitioner alleges years of harassment
Summary
At a Board of Adjustment hearing convened March 25, Kristen McFarland asked the board to grant a variance to allow a 12-foot fence on her property, saying the extension is needed to stop stalking and harassment; county staff recommended denial and the hearing was recessed for technical reasons before a final decision.
Kristen McFarland asked the Gilpin County Board of Adjustment on March 25 for a variance to allow a 12-foot fence at a property identified in public notice as 601 Old Hughesville Road, saying the additional height is needed to protect her family from years of alleged stalking and harassment by a neighboring resident.
Rob Gutierrez, Gilpin County community development director, introduced the hearing and said the petition (BOA 25-2) seeks relief from the eight-foot maximum fence height in Gilpin County zoning regulation section 4.7(b) for assessor account number N006888. McFarland told the board she has already built an approximately 700-foot, eight-foot-high fence and sought an additional four-foot extension on a 50-foot segment to block a neighbor's line of sight from a mine-tailings pile and an ATV…
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