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Palatine council gives staff direction to ease decorative-fence rules on corner lots, to notice 10-foot landscaping baseline
Summary
Councilors instructed staff to draft zoning-code changes to allow the same decorative-fence allowance in side yards abutting streets that exists for front yards and to notice a public hearing using a 10-foot landscaping baseline; staff will return with an ordinance after observations and refinements.
Councilors in Palatine’s Police Policy & Code Services Committee signaled support for changing the village zoning code to treat decorative fences in side yards that abut streets the same way the code treats front-yard decorative fences.
Staff planner Mike Jacobs told the committee that current regulations permit three-foot decorative fences in front yards (up to 20 feet long) but do not clearly allow the same treatment for side yards abutting streets. He said the discrepancy leaves some corner lots without a simple option to install low, decorative…
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