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<br />Staff Report <br /> <br />May 21, 2009 <br /> <br />WORKSHOP <br />Zoning Ordinance Amendments <br />for <br />Fence HeigbtIPlacement <br /> <br />Back2:round <br /> <br />The Planning Department has several possible hearings for variances to the fencing <br />regulations and its placement for residential, commercial, and industrial zoning districts <br />as stated in the Zoning (Chapter 106, Code of Ordinances) and there are several cases <br />pending to date. At issue are fence height and placement of fences on the property line <br />within the landscape portion or front building setback line. There have been several <br />requests to study the issue to determine if there is a uniform policy or mechanism that <br />better determine the height limits and erection of fence on the property line in the front <br />setback of residential, commercial and industrial establishments. <br /> <br />ExistinS!: Requirements: <br /> <br />DefInition: <br /> <br />Fence: a manmade structural barrier erected on or around a piece of property or any <br />portion thereof <br /> <br />Regulations: <br /> <br />. No fences are permitted within any front yard areas except in the case of Large Lot <br />Residential Lots (> i-acre) or in the case of lots with a front yard directly adjacent to <br />the shoreline of Galveston Bay. <br /> <br />. Side and rear yard fences with six (6) feet excluding six-inch rot boards are <br />permitted. <br /> <br />. Property line fences in any industrial district shall not exceed eight (8) feet in height. <br /> <br />. Fences in commercial and industrial zones which are primarily erected as a security <br />measure may have arms projecting into the applicant's property on which barbed <br />wire can be fastened commencing at a point at least seven feet above the ground, and <br />such fence shall not be erected within the required landscaped portion of any yard or <br />the front yard setback of any commercial or industrial establishment. <br /> <br />~,(HI8rr A <br /> <br />Analvsis: <br />