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<br />Minutes, Regular Meeting, Board of Adjustment <br />November 17, 1981, Page 7 <br /> <br />Hrachovy: <br /> <br />I'd like to tear it down. <br /> <br />Lewis: Well, that's your option, depending on what the Board <br />decides. We mayor may not be able to allow you to replace it <br />if you tear it down. What I have proposed would still give <br />him the majority of his yard in a fenced-in enclosure. <br /> <br />Grant: What you just said is confusing. You said he has a <br />nonconforming thing here and we are not going to do anything <br />about it, and you go for a fence from here to across there and <br />it's O.K., and your objection, if I understant, is F.H.A. and <br />the fire department, and yet the fire department is screened <br />out here totally, more so than if that was a four-foot fence <br />(chain link). <br /> <br />Lewis: Well, as Mr. Hrachovy said, he would like to tear the <br />fence down. Now, I think it would be an excellent idea to tear <br />it down, but since it is in existence, we are not going to re- <br />quire him to tear it down. I am also going on the assumption <br />that if it is in that bad a shape it's not going to last much <br />longer. Nature is going to take its course. <br /> <br />Grant: He could repair it for $99.00 at a time. <br /> <br />Wilson: This has nothing to do with this particular case be- <br />fore us. <br /> <br />Grant: If I may, this is why this Board exists, is so we can <br />put logic to isolated cases which are not and cannot be covered <br />by one paragraph. I don't think it will be unusual for us to <br />see something like this, nor will it be the last time we see <br />something like this. I would like to see this Board take each <br />case on its individual merits of that case, rather than what <br />has gone on in the past 40 or 50 years or whatever. In this <br />particular case, in the older part of La Porte there are a lot <br />of white picket fences. To me they make the house very at- <br />tractive, and make the neighborhood very attractive. I don't <br />understand the thing about F.H.A. not wanting to finance those <br />houses because in some cases it improves the house. <br /> <br />Lewis: Where I have run into this is on new home construction. <br /> <br />Grant: That's why the Board exists. If you go into a subdivi- <br />sion like Fairmont Park where there are no fences in the front, <br />a person coming for a front yard fence would have a very hard <br />time to this Board, but you take the complexion of the neigh- <br />borhood the house is in and see what it does to that. <br /> <br />Wilson: I would support your comments. Should we approve this <br />case, it should not be interpreted to mean anybody wanting a <br />