Fences or walls shall not be located within the front yard or side yard setback when adjacent to a street.

No fence or wall shall be located in any landscape, buffer, drainage or shade tree easement or utility or drainage easement; except, however, as to 1andscape, buffer, and shade tree easements, a fence may be permitted if a license agreement approved by resolution of the Township Committee, is signed by the owner of the property, authorizing the Township of Mansfield to have access to the easement in question and imposing certain conditions upon the property owner with regard to the easement, which license agreement shall be in a form approved by separate motion of the Township Committee. Prior to submitting the request for a license agreement to the Township Committee, the owner shall notify all adjoining property owners, by certified mail or hand delivery (which delivery shall be certified to the Township), of his/her intention to erect such a fence.

All fences and walls shall be erected within the property line.

In the ease of rear yards abutting a street, fences and walls shall maintain a ten-foot setback from the property line.

Notwithstanding the provisions of this article, no fence, no wall or hedge shall be permitted within the landscape buffers abutting the R-5 Residential Zone boundary lines nor within the fifty-foot landscape buffer easement which has been maintained as an area of passive open space between the Country Walk Development and the Homestead at Mansfield Development, except that such fences, walls or hedges (but not sheds, structures or play equipment) may be erected adjacent to the side property lines and connected with each other or to the existing chain link fence located within the landscape buffer easement maintained as an area of passive open space at the rear of each Country Walk lot, provided that the owner complies with the provisions of § 65-102C and, further, agrees, if applicable, to maintain the double row of evergreen plantings within the buffer area. Additionally, for properties in which the rear yard abuts the right-of-way along Route 68, fences may be erected to within one foot of the rear of the property line.

All fences and walls shall be constructed in such a manner that the finished side of such fence or wall shall face adjacent properties and streets.

In the case of fences or walls in rear yards abutting a street, the following restrictions apply:

Retaining walls. These restrictions shall not be applied so as to restrict the erection of a wall for the purpose of retaining earth.

Farming. These restrictions shall not be applied so as to restrict the erection of fences and walls as part of a farming operation conducted in conformance with § 65-103 of this chapter.

Nonresidential uses. Chain link fencing not exceeding eight feet high may be constructed anywhere within a public park, public playground, school premises in side or rear yards, utility operations, or in the rear or side of a business or industrial use that is in conformance with § 65-100 of this chapter.

All fences and walls shall be maintained in a safe, sound and upright condition.

If the Construction Official, upon inspection, determines that any fence, wall or any portion of any fence or wall is not being maintained in a safe, sound or upright condition, he shall notify the owner of such fence or wall in writing of his findings and state briefly the reasons for such findings and order such fence or wall or portion of such fence or wall repaired or removed within 15 days of the date of the written notice.

At or near an intersection of two or more streets, no fence, hedge, wall, shrubbery or other similar matter shall be permitted to obstruct the view of motorists traveling on either intersecting street.

In the case of fencing, walls and landscaping in the front yard of corner lots, the maximum height is 30 inches within the sight distance triangle. The "sight distance triangle" is the portion of land at street intersections measuring 100 feet along each street from a point where the center lines of the intersecting streets meet. In addition, all trees within the sight distance triangle shall have all branches removed to a point seven feet above-grade.