[RP TownTalk] Ordinance 2014-OR-01

[michelle burns]

As I was driving down Riverdale Road from Kenilworth Ave., I made a 
point of looking at the chain link fences.  Many of them are sagging, 
rusted, bent and otherwise in ill-repair.  They snag trash and anything 
else that's carried by the wind.  As I drove by the mansion, I tried to 
imagine it with a chain link fence around it - it would be really ugly. 
 I can understand using them in institutional settings like schools and 
playing fields, or as temporary barriers for keeping intruders off a 
construction site, but in a residential area they they really do make a 
neighborhood look impoverished.  If they are fencing in a back yard, and
 can be screened from the street by plantings, it wouldn't be so bad, 
but on the street they're just ugly.  My .02

Michelle
 Burns



On Thursday, January 30, 2014 4:06 PM, Lou King <lking at knob.com> wrote:
 
I have really tried to keep my mouth shut but -- Robert Frost read one 
of his poems at Kennedy's inaugural, so "I" don't think we are talking 
"that old." I am assuming, most people's, knowledge of the saying is 
from his poem "Mending Wall" which implies that the communion of mending 
the wall (fence) together, from both sides, is what makes for good 
neighbors.

The saying is from at least the 17th century. Even Frost suggest the 
idiom may be outdated and should be examined:

"He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."

Cows and the stretch from stone walls to chain link fences not with 
standing, as others have said the ordinance is nothing new. I dare say 
that a chain link fence has not been installed in Riverdale Park in the 
last 15 years, or at least as long as I have been watching. So there is 
no need to personalize the topic, this just codifies what is already a 
long standing fact. Opinions about what constitutes a "Good fence" may vary.

Lou
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