(a) No fences, screening or walls shall be permitted except as follows: Fences, screening, or walls not more than eight (8) feet in height may be located within the side or rear yards with a permit. Fencing, screening or walls not more than three (3) feet in height may be located in the front yard with a permit. A fence, screen or wall may be placed on but not over a property line. Screening by way of plantings, such as trees, hedges and shrubs, otherwise known as screen plantings, are exempt from regulation under by this subsection (a).
(b) Private in-ground and partially in ground swimming pools with a side wall of less than four (4) feet in height measured from the ground surface shall be enclosed by a fence of not less than four feet in height measured from the ground surface and shall be provided with a self-closing gate.
Above ground swimming pools with side walls of four (4) feet or more in height measured from the ground surface, with an entrance deck, shall be equipped with a self closing gate. Swimming pool installation as described herein shall require a permit.
(c) Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to prohibit the erection or maintenance of an open fence in connection with an agricultural use or a recreation use for the public safety, or a security fence in a nonresidential district.
(d) In all districts except the "C-1" General Commercial District, street intersections shall be free from any kind of obstruction to vision. Fences, screening, walls, or plantings, including screen plantings, exceeding three feet in height above the established street roadway grade shall be prohibited within the triangle formed by the intersecting street right-of-way lines and a line adjoining the points at a distance of twenty-five (25) feet from the point of street property line intersection.
(e) The regulation of (d) above shall also apply to lots at the intersection of an alley and a street right-of-way or a private driveway and the street right-of-way, except that the joining points of the triangle formed shall be ten (10) feet from the point of intersection.
(Ord. 074-10. Passed 12-20-10.)