No fence shall hereinafter be located, moved, reconstructed, extended, enlarged, converted or structurally altered without being in conformity with all the structural requirements of local and state building codes. All fences shall present the non-structural (finished) face outward. A permit is required for all fences that are greater than four feet in height or located in a front yard.

(Code 2001, § 16.15(1))

The following fences are permitted subject to the following restrictions and providing that the fence does not in any way interfere with traffic visibility:

(1)

Fences in all districts are permitted up to the property lines subject to the following:

a.

Screening, erected, placed, maintained or grown in a required front or street side yard shall not exceed a height greater than four feet above the curb level or its equivalent, and shall not exceed a height greater than three feet within the vision clearance areas established in section 40-274.

b.

Unless otherwise provided, a vision-barrier fence that is within four feet of the lot line in an abutting residential district shall not exceed six feet in height except by conditional use.

c.

A snow fence shall be permitted in all districts when comprised of wooden pickets, including plastic snow fence, bound together by wire and not exceeding four feet in height and removed between May 1 and November 1 of each year. No privately owned snow fence shall extend beyond the highway right-of-way line.

d.

Security fences or walls are permitted in all districts other than residential districts. Security fences or walls may be placed up to the side and rear property lines but shall not be located closer than two feet to a public right-of-way line. Security fences or walls shall not exceed eight feet in height.

e.

Fences to be installed around swimming pools shall be governed by section 42-5.

f.

Fences to be installed for the purpose of a beer garden shall be governed by section 6-63(d).

(2)

Agricultural fences in the R-C district shall be permitted, provided that they do not extend into the highway or road right-of-way.

(3)

Residential fences or walls are permitted up to the property lines in residential districts subject to the following:

a.

Fences shall not be greater than six feet in height in the side yard and rear yard or greater than four feet in height in the street yard.

b.

Fences or walls in the rear street yard of a double frontage lot shall not be greater than six feet in height.

c.

No fence or wall which incorporates barbed top spikes shall be permitted in any residential district.

(4)

Reference in the above provisions and elsewhere in this chapter, referring to "up to the property line" shall mean adjacent to, but not overlapping, including not obscuring vision lines to surveying pipes marking the property line.

(Code 2001, § 16.15(2))

(a)

In order to provide adequate vehicular vision, no fence, structure, screening, vegetation, or embankment shall be erected, placed, maintained or grown between the heights of three feet and ten feet above the curb level or its equivalent within the triangular space formed by the intersection and points a distance along the intersecting lines as follows:

(1)

Two street rights-of-way:

a.

In any residential district: 25 feet.

b.

In any other district: ten feet.

(2)

A street right-of-way and a driveway or alley: ten feet.

(b)

However, a fence so designated, constructed and maintained as to be at least 90 percent open for through vision may be constructed in such vision clearance area.

REQUIRED VISION CLEARANCE AREAS

(Code 2001, § 16.15(3))

Any screening which exists at the time of the passage of the ordinance from which this article is derived, but does not conform to the provisions thereof, shall not be altered or enlarged without making the entire unit conforms to the provisions of this section.

(Code 2001, § 16.15(4))