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COMMITTEE: Building and Planning Committee

ITEM:  PUBLIC HEARING AND ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE - CHAPTER 155, FENCES IN THE FLOODPLAIN - This Public Hearing and Ordinance Adoption will not proceed and is intended to be continued until November 15, 2017.

An Ordinance to amend the Code of the Township of Lower Merion, Chapter 155, entitled Zoning, to provide that fences erected in the front yard setback must provide either an operable gate or an opening for access to the area between the fence or wall and the cartway; to add regulations limiting the height and type of fence permitted in the floodway fringe of the Schuylkill River; and to provide that Floodplain District regulations are intended, in part, to retain and encourage scenic viewsheds of the Schuylkill River.

 

This Ordinance was authorized for advertisement at a stated meeting of the Board of Commissioners held September 19, 2017 and duly advertised in the October 5, 2017 and October 9, 2017 editions of the Times Herald.

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Proposed Ordinance - Fences in the FloodplainOrdinance