(A) A building permit shall be required for the construction or reconstruction of all fences or property barriers.
(B) A property owner may construct a fence on the owner’s property only in accordance with the following specifications.
(1) (a) The fence must be constructed using maintenance-free material having a life span of 20 years or more.
(b) Maintenance-free material shall include chain-link, stone or concrete wall, vinyl, PVC and pressure treated lumber.
(c) Rough-cut lumber or other untreated wood material is not deemed maintenance-free.
(2) Line fences may be erected on the property line, but shall not encroach upon the property of another.
(3) No fence shall exceed a height of eight feet.
(4) No fence shall be erected within three feet of any village-maintained sidewalk and the first eight feet of fence on either side of the owner’s driveway, alley or sidewalk shall not exceed a height of four feet.
(5) No fence fronting a public street or highway, and running approximately parallel thereto, shall exceed four feet in height.
(6) Any fence running approximately perpendicular to a publicly maintained sidewalk, street or highway shall have a maximum height of four feet for the first eight feet of the fence in closest proximity to the sidewalk, street or highway.
(7) Shrubs and other trees placed as a continuous barrier shall conform in height and distance to the standards set forth above, except the center of the shrub or plant shall be placed from any publicly-maintained sidewalk at a distance of three feet plus one-half the mature diameter of the shrub or plant.
(Prior Code, § 12-9-14) (Ord. 1-2004, passed 8-9-2004; Ord. passed 3-14-2022)