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Jonesboro board approves 8-foot back-corner fence variance for resident
Summary
A local board approved a fence-height variance for William Perkins, allowing an 8-foot maximum at the back corner (terrain-dependent) and requiring the fence to step down to 6 feet at the front to match existing frontage.
At a local Jonesboro board meeting, members approved a variance allowing a resident to raise a backyard fence to a maximum of 8 feet at the rear corner to accommodate steep terrain, with the fence sloping or stepping down to the existing 6-foot height toward the front.
The applicant, William Perkins, told the board he sought the change for privacy and to screen his back deck from a neighbor’s driveway, describing survey markers at roughly 10 feet, 8 feet and 6 feet and saying one post out in…
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