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Board approves split vote to allow modified fence at 510 Kenya with sight-line condition
Summary
By a 3-2 vote the Troy City Board of Appeals granted a variance for multiple fence sections at 510 Kenya, requiring an 8-foot diagonal sight-line and a minimum 1-foot offset from the sidewalk; staff and the petitioner described much of the work as replacing existing fence sections damaged by a fallen tree.
The Troy City Board of Appeals on June 4 granted, by a 3-2 vote, a variance for fence work at 510 Kenya that will allow replacement and reconfiguration of existing fence sections, subject to an 8-foot diagonal sight-line along a driveway approach and a minimum 1-foot offset from the sidewalk.
Dominic (city staff) told the board the lot is a corner parcel in the R-1E zoning district, where the front-yard setback is 25 feet and the ordinance normally limits front-yard fence height to 30 inches (or up to 48 inches if non-obscuring in certain rear-yard relationships). The petitioner sought two distinct fence profiles: "Section A" — a proposed 6-foot-high wood privacy fence totaling about 58.5 linear feet…
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