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Home My Public Portal AboutOrd. 1144ORDINANCE NO. 1144 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LYP7NOOD An1ENDING THE ZONING ORDINANCE (ORDINANCE NO. 570) TO AMEND SECTIONS 4.06 AND 14.05 OF SAID ORDINANCE AND TO REPEAL SECTIONS 8-64, 8-67 AND 8-70 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD, RELATING TO FENCES The City Couneil of the City of Lynwood DOP;S HE::EBY OI:DAItQ as follows: SECTION 1. Section 2.00 of the Zoning Ordinance is amended to add the following definition: Fence shall mean a planting, a masonry wall, or a barrier composed of posts connected by boards, rails, panels or wire for the purpose of enclosing or separat- ing areas of land. For the purpose of this ordinance the term "wall" shall be used interchangeable with fence. SECTION 2. Section 14..05-A is changed to Section 14.05 and is amended to read as follows: SECTION 14.05 FENCES IN ALL ZONES OTHER THAN RESIDENTIAL ZONES 1. No person shall erect or construct a fence or wall of more than eight (8) feet in height, or less than three (3) feet in height; 2. Fences may be topped with barbed wire in the follow- ing situations: a) Fences shall not be less than six (6) feet high, not including barbed wire; b) Fences shall not be more than eight (8) feet in height including barbed wire; c) Where a Commercial or Industrial property has a common property line with a residential use or zone, barbed wire must be mounted atop the fence or wall and be visible from the residential side of the fence or wall; 3. Razor wire, concertina wire, coiled barbed wire, or similar products may be used in the following situations: a) Fences shall be at least eight (8) feet in height; b) The wire product must be screened from public view; c) These products may not be used on fences adjacent to residential uses or residentially zoned property. 4. Plans for the use of harped wire, razor wire, or simiJ.ar. products must be approved by, the Planning and Building permits obtained prior to installation. 5. No barbed wire, razor wire, or similar product shall be used within twenty (20) feet of a street right-of-way unless screened from public view. 6. No fences topped with barbed wire, razor wire, or similar products shall protrude into public rights-of-ways. 7: No electrically changed fences shall be built in the City. 8. No fence which surrounds permitted outside storage shall be built unless opaque screening material is used. 9. Where a Commercial or Manufacturing use abuts property in a residential zone, a masonry wall shall be erected and maintained along the common property line of such abutting property. The wall shall be a minimum of six (6) feet in height for most of its length, but shall be stepped down to three (3) feet in height within fifteen (15) feet of a public street. SECTION 3. Section 4.06-E is amended to read as follows::. E. Barbed wire, electrical fences, or sharp pointed material such as glass or other similar objects on the top of walls and fences in any residential zone shall not be permitted, except that barbed wire is permitted •~rhere a residential property has common property line with a commercial or industrial property, per the provisions of Section 14.05 2 (d) of this zoning ordinance. SECTION 4. Section 4.06 is amended by adding subsection "F" to read as follows: F. Regarding swimming pool fences, a swimming pool may be located in any yard other than a front yard, or in a court, provided: 1. That no part of swimming pool shall be located closer than three feet (3') to the required fence or any building wall. 2. That fences required to enclose a swimming pool do not extend beyond the rear wall or side wall of an existing dwelling which extends into a required rear or side yard. SECTION 5. Severability. If any section, subsection, subdivis- ion, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance, or the appli- cation thereof to any person or place, is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance or its application to other persons or places. The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance „ and each section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions, or the application thereof to any person or place, be declared invalid or unconstitutional. SECTION 6. The City Clerk is hereby ordered and directed to certify to the passage of this ordinance and to cause the same to be publish- ed once in the Lynwood Press, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in the City of Lynwood. First read at a regular meeting of the City Council of said City held on the 15th day of December 1981, and finally ordered publish- ed at a regular meeting of siad Council held on the 5th day of_ January 1982. AYES: COUNCILMEN GREEN, MORRIS, ROWE, THOMPSON, BYORK NOES: COUiVCILr1Ei1 NONE / ABSNET: COUNCILMEN NONE // John D. B~y~o/r//k/, Mayor City of Lynwood ATTEST: ~1, r a,~. sz.,_ n i ~it,~ ~~ Lau'r`ene Coffey, Cityl~erk APPR ED A FORM- City Attorney APP ~~ONTENT: ~t Charles G. Gomez- Acting City P![anager STA'I'E OF CALIFORNIA ) 7 ss.. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELr;S ) I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City o£ Lynwood, and ex-officio clerk of the Council of said City, do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of Ord.irance No. 1144 adopted by tae City Ccuncii o£ the City c£ Lynwood, and that the same was passed on the date and by the vote therein stated, Dated this 5th da,y of _~~~~~_ , 1982 /~ F~t,•i.~2-,tea i ~a~~%,,~s~ ,~ _ City Clerk, City of L(tinwoo (SEAL)