HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCE - 571 - 10/22/1968 - AMEND CODE AND ZONING ORD./FENCESORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE A14ENDING THE ZONING ORDINANCE AND
THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF ELK GROVE VILLAGE AS TO
FENCES SUPERGEDING ORDINANCE NO. 557
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the President and
Board of Trustees of the Village of Elk Grove Village, Counties
of Cook and DuPage, Illinois:
Section 1: That paragraph (f), Section 1, Article Y.V of the
Zoning Ordinance of the Village of Elk Grove Village, be amended
to read as follows:
(f) Fences and Shrubs
1. Definitions.
a. A fence is a structure forming a barrier at
grade level between lots, between a lot and a street
or any alley, or between portions of a lot or lots.
b. A swimming pool is any receptacle for water hold-
ing in excess of two hundred (200) gallons and having
a depth at any point of more than three (3) feet,
intended for the purpose of immersion or partial
immersion therein of human beings, and including all
appurtenant equipment constructed, installed and
maintained in or above the ground.
c. Ground level or grade level is the natural grade
of the lot in question.
2. No fences shall be erected in excess of six (6) feet
above ground level along the boundary line of a lot or
within required open space areas and no fence shall be
constructed in any front yard or ahead of the building
setback line of any yard which faces a street.
3. Fences (constructed so as to prevent unauthorized
ingress) shall be required around swimming pools and
be equipped with self-closing and latching gates in
accordance with the following:
Required height of fences - 6 feet
Distance between fence
and pool - Not less than 3 feet
Latches shall not be placed lower than six (6) inches
from the top of the gate.
4. No shrubbery, hedging or planting which interferes
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with clear vision shall be permitted at or near a
street intersection in an area enclosed by a triangle
each leg of which is a distance of twenty-five (25)
.feet measured along each curb of the intersecting
streets and from the point where said curb lines or
extensions thereto intersect nor shall shrubbery,
hedging or planting be planted or maintained as to
obstruct the clear vision of private driveways or
pedestrian walks or sidewalks.
5. Prohibited fences: Barbed wire and electrically
charged wire except that barbed wire may be used
on the top of permitted fences in the manufacturing
districts.
6. All fences heretofore lawfully constructed and not
in conformity herewith, shall be deemed non -conforming
uses and may exist but may not be re -constructed or
altered. All fences heretofore constructed and in
conformity herewith, shall be deemed legal fences.
All fences illegally constructed heretofore and not
in conformity herewith, shall be removed and shall
be in violation of this ordinance.
Section 2: That Chapter 13 of the Municipal Code of Elk Grove
Visage—be amended by adding thereto Section 13.113A which
Section shall be entitled "Fences and Shrubs" and shall contain
all regulations hereinabove set forth in Section 1 above of this
ordinance.
Section 3: That Ordinance No. 557 is repealed and superCeded
ere Fy.
Section 4: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect
room and after its passage, approval and publication according
to law.
PASSED this ``-day of d. ` 1968.
APPROVED this ��day of 1968.
ATTEST:
Village Clerk
Published this- l day of �j,t_� _�,,� ��=_S 1968 in the Elk
Grove Herald and DuPage County Register.
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