[RP TownTalk] Fences - the tall and the short of it

[Lou King]

I think Sarah has it right.

For those that want high fences beside your house, you can get them. Get 
you neighbors to agree they also want to wall you and your yard off from 
the rest of the world === That's editorializing let me try again.

For those that want 6 foot fences in your side yard, for what ever 
reason, (dogs etc) you can get them.  The process of requesting a 
variance is written into the proposed law.  As is now the council's 
practice if you want a variance, get your neighbors, the people that 
will be most effected by the fence, to agree and unless it's a 10 foot 
steel fence a variance to the shorter rule will most likely be granted. 
I can even think of cases where a 10 foot fence would be approved.

(Back to the previously scheduled program) I don't really have a dog in 
this fight, I don't really have any (physically) close neighbors.  Ten 
years ago I did plant lilacs along East Beale Crl. to get some 
separation from the traffic. Now if I could figure out how to get people 
to use the trash can on Queensbury instead of the ground...

Lou

Alan Thompson and Sarah Wayland wrote:
> [Sarah here, speaking only for myself and not for Alan.]
> 
> I don't like a 6 foot fence in the side yard for the simple reason that I 
> don't want to look out my side window at a fence. This is especially true 
> for houses that are close together with very narrow side yards - that 
> fence could be 6 feet from your window. I personally would feel 
> claustrophobic with a fence that close to my window. I think neighbors 
> should get a vote in whether they have to look at a fence that close to 
> their house.
> 
> For whatever reason, I have no objection whatsoever to a tall hedge 
> between houses. I like looking at plants. I don't like looking at walls.
> 
> -Sarah
>