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IN § 150.071 BUILDING PERMITS REQUIRED. A building permit is required for the construction or alteration of a fence, and for any additions to a fence. "The permit must be obtained in the name of the owner of the property on which the fence is or will be located. Applications must be made on forms provided by the city. The applicant must provide the Building Inspector with a set of plans and specifications for the fence. permit fees must be paid in accordance wi8h4he-6niferm Bui"itg Code with Ordinance 33.061 of the City Code. (1993 Code, § 1320.02) Penalty, see § 10.99 § 150.072 REQUIREMENTS. (A) Location. Any fence constructed or altered after 6-3-1982 must be located entirely upon the private property of the owner to whom the building permit was issued. Ownership of the permit passes with ownership of the property. The fence must be set back a distance from the owner's property line sufficient to avoid encroachment onto adjoining private or public property or a public right-of-way. (I3) Abutting public property. If a fence is or is to be adjacent to a street, alley, public right-of-way, or other public property, the city may require the applicant for the permit to locate and mark the property line abutting the public property by having a registered surveyor place permanent survey pins or stakes on the property line. If the survey information is not available and the applicant elects not to establish the property line by survey, the permit will not be issued unless the applicant signs an affidavit stating that the applicant is the owner of the premises upon which the fence exists or is to be located. (C) Fence size. All fence and will heights shall be measured from the finished grade, except that the height of a railing, wall, fence, or screening affixed to a deck constructed on the ground but raised above _f round level, will be measured from the elevation of the raised deck for that portion which is affixed to the raised deck. The grade at the fence line shall not be altered in any way that artificially increases the maxinuun permitted height of the fence No bnee shall be -over -6 -feet -in height, and no fiance in a front yard shall be over 4 feet in height, 1 !eight shal 1 be measured fi-om tile natur t that the height of a ha}l ing wall -fencer sereening affiixed-to-a desk ,.,.�t....,,t^.! ,.., A ... ...........J ll, r.-:....,;-al'-tc^,'v "-grC�ri;fne'aohi'.:n I,...,,,...,..Fed P..,..,, t� t4ae-raised-desk-fot44iat-poi:fion- 4vi(A(A�— d to the s desk 9u m +tteeiorsic#e � it-abu-tq-a-basl-yae (1) Residential_ Uses,,