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Planning commission backs zoning text changes for corner lots, urges 25% open-air fence rule and bans razor wire
Summary
The commission voted to recommend city-council consideration of a zoning text amendment that defines front yards on corner lots, sets a 10-foot setback for privacy fences, and changes fence openness rules — with the commission urging retention of a 25% open-air requirement and adding razor wire to prohibited materials.
The Planning Commission voted to recommend that City Council consider a text amendment to zoning chapters 1133 and 171 that would: (1) eliminate the concept of two front yards for corner lots and define the front yard as the yard containing the street address; (2) establish a 10-foot setback for privacy fences from the right-of-way; and (3) change the required percent open to light and air for privacy fences from 25% to 15% and add welded wire to the list of prohibited fence materials.
Commission staff presented a report dated Jan. 4 summarizing those changes and recommended considerations. The staff reviewer noted that the two-front-yard approach is common but is a policy decision for the city and that the 10-foot fence setback should be drafted…
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