<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>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<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Michelle
Burns</div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Thursday, January 30, 2014 4:06 PM, Lou King <lking@knob.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">I have really tried to keep my mouth shut but -- Robert Frost read one <br clear="none">of his poems at Kennedy's inaugural, so "I" don't think we are talking <br clear="none">"that old." I am assuming, most people's, knowledge of the saying is <br clear="none">from his poem "Mending Wall" which implies that the communion of mending <br clear="none">the wall (fence) together, from both sides, is what makes for good <br clear="none">neighbors.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The
saying is from at least the 17th century. Even Frost suggest the <br clear="none">idiom may be outdated and should be examined:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">"He will not go behind his father's saying,<br clear="none">And he likes having thought of it so well<br clear="none">He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Cows and the stretch from stone walls to chain link fences not with <br clear="none">standing, as others have said the ordinance is nothing new. I dare say <br clear="none">that a chain link fence has not been installed in Riverdale Park in the <br clear="none">last 15 years, or at least as long as I have been watching. So there is <br clear="none">no need to personalize the topic, this just codifies what is already a <br clear="none">long standing fact. Opinions about what constitutes a "Good fence" may vary.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Lou<br clear="none">O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop
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