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Commission requires six-foot stockade fence to separate storage lot from residence on Sheep Farm Road
Summary
To address safety and aesthetic concerns, the Weybridge Planning Commission required Middlebury College to install a six-foot-high solid wood stockade fence (about 110 feet) along the new boundary between 50 and 124 Sheep Farm Road; a chain-link fence is permitted only on the storage side and must not exceed the stockade in height.
The Weybridge Planning Commission conditioned its approval of Middlebury College’s Boundary Line Adjustment on installation of a six-foot-high solid wood, stockade-type fence to separate the residential parcel at 50 Sheep Farm Road from the adjacent storage-structures parcel at 124 Sheep Farm Road.
Commissioners said they wanted a solid barrier both for safety — to prevent children playing in the driveway at 50 Sheep Farm Road from inadvertently entering the storage area — and for appearance, rejecting an initial college proposal for visible chain-link fencing. Michael Gaines, the land surveyor representing Middlebury College, proposed the stockade-style wooden fence as an alternative, which the commission endorsed.
The approved motion specifies the fence run roughly 110 feet eastward from the new boundary line at the town right-of-way to where it intersects topographic line 410 and allows the college to install a chain-link fence on the storage-structures side provided it does not rise above the stockade in height. The fence requirement was inserted into the approval motion passed unanimously on March 11.
The Commission’s condition is intended to address a localized safety concern and preserve the residential view from the abutting property; the requirement will become part of the recorded approval documents and must be implemented by the property owner.
