(A) Types of fences. The following types of fences shall be permitted to be erected or re-erected, subject to the following limitations:
(1) Partition fences may be erected for the purpose of separating, enclosing, or protecting property within its perimeter.
(2) Privacy fences may be erected to constitute a complete visual barrier to persons outside of the perimeter. All privacy fences shall have posts, cross-members, bolts, or any other frame support placed on the side of the fence facing the property of the erector. Privacy fences shall be permitted along the rear lot line. Privacy fences constructed along a side lot line shall be permitted to extend from the rear lot line to the front building line.
(3) Decorative fences out of metal, wood, pipe, or rail as a non-sight-obstructing structure may be erected as a landscape treatment to enhance, accent, beautify, or protect the site.
(B) Vegetation. Hedges, shrubs, bushes, and evergreen trees shall be considered legal fences if they do not enclose swimming pools, ponds, or other bodies of water. When fully grown, the hedges, shrubs, bushes, and evergreen trees shall not exceed six feet four inches in height and shall be planted not closer than two feet from the lot line. No vegetation considered a legal fence shall obscure the line of sight for drivers on an abutting public right-of-way or private driveway.
(C) Building lines. Fences erected along established front building lines and along rear lot lines shall not exceed the height of six feet four inches above grade level, except that in residential zones, no fence shall be constructed along the front building or lot line that exceeds two feet four inches in height. Along the side lot lines, no fence shall be constructed between the established front building lines and the front property lines with the exception of a four-foot four-inch high fence of decorative non-sight-obscuring material. On a corner lot abutting a public right-of-way, a non-sight-obscuring fence may be permitted not to exceed four feet four inches in height at the established building line, tapering down to a height of two feet four inches at the front lot line.
(D) Construction. Any fence post hereinafter erected shall consist of posts that may be one and five-eighths inches diameter galvanized steel pipe, four inch reinforced concrete, four-inch treated wood, primarily wood composite, or vinyl, spaced a maximum of ten feet apart, embedded in concrete footings not less than three-feet deep in the ground, and shall allow for the erection of a fence as authorized by this chapter that is four inches off of the ground to the fence height of four feet four inches to six feet four inches above grade level. All fence posts shall be within the lot line of the person responsible for the maintenance of the fence. Fences shall be made of galvanized woven wire, metal, decay resistant wood boards, primarily wood composite, or vinyl. If the fence is erected on the lot line, the junction line of the posts and wire or boards shall be considered to coincide with the property line.
(Ord. 497, passed 2-3-2004; Am. Ord. 523, passed 6-13-2006; Am. Ord. 2011-7, passed 12-13-2011; Am. Ord. 2019-02, passed 10-8-2019; Am. Ord. 2020-28, passed 3-3-2020; Am. Res. 2021-46, passed 4-13-2021)