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Supervisors ask planning commission to study use of barbed wire on commercial property
Summary
Following a request from a property owner seeking to top a fence with barbed wire for theft deterrence, the board asked staff to sponsor a planning commission study on whether and how commercial properties might use barbed or similar protective wire, distinguishing temporary from permanent uses.
A commercial property owner seeking permission to add barbed wire atop perimeter fencing prompted a board-level discussion on June 3 about whether York County’s ordinances allow such security measures.
County staff and the county attorney said the existing local code is silent on barbed wire and, under Virginia’s Dillon-rule framework, silence is generally treated as prohibition without explicit local…
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