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Planning commission approves expanding allowed site-obscuring fence materials, tables detailed ordinance edits
Summary
The commission voted to recommend expanding the definition of ‘‘site-obscuring fence’’ to allow additional materials (including vinyl) and removed a strict masonry/composite-only requirement for PUDs; it tabled other technical language and engineering-standard changes for staff revision.
The planning commission voted to recommend broadening the city’s definition of “site-obscuring fence” to permit materials beyond masonry and factory-inserted privacy slats, including vinyl, and removed a PUD-specific requirement restricting side-obscuring fences to masonry or composite.
Tyler Melling, representing Cottonwood Hollow LLC and several PUD interests, asked the commission to add vinyl to the list of acceptable materials for site-obscuring fence because masonry can be substantially more expensive and vinyl products and composites have improved in durability. “We’re asking for vinyl to be added to that,” Melling told commissioners. Planning staff and commissioners discussed alternative drafting approaches: (a) list permitted…
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