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Residential fences that enclose property or stand in a required side yard are capped at 6 feet (Section 5.11.1.A.i). A fence may not extend toward the front of the lot past the minimum front yard setback line, unless the house itself already sits closer, in which case the fence may come up to the front of the house (Section 5.11.1.A.ii). Decorative split-rail fencing up to 20 feet long or 4 feet high may stand in front as part of an approved landscaping plan, and on waterfront lots a fence up to 4 feet, built of materials that do not block the lake view, may sit on the lot lines in front; hedge rows between the front of the house and the lake are prohibited (Section 5.11.1.A.ii).
The front-yard restriction does not apply to lots in excess of 2 acres, or lots with at least 200 feet of frontage, within a recorded plat (Section 5.11.1.B). Fences must use comparable materials on both sides, and barbed wire and electric fences are prohibited on residential lots of record (Section 5.11.1.C; Section 5.11.1.D). Nonresidential fences may not stand in a front or exterior side yard and are capped at 8 feet, or 11 feet overall with barbed wire on top (Section 5.11.2). Scrap material, tires, canvas, cardboard, shingles, chicken wire, and corrugated or sheet metal fences are prohibited everywhere (Section 5.11.3.A). Within the corner clearance triangle, 25 feet along each right-of-way line at an intersection, nothing over 2 feet tall is allowed (Section 5.9).