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ORDINANCE 2025-___ <br /> <br />AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 90, ARTICLE, SECTION 90-227 AS IT RELATES <br />TO FENCES <br /> <br />TITLE: <br />An ordinance adding to and amending Chapter 90, Article VI. – REQUIREMENTS FOR SPECIFIC <br />USES AND PERFORMANCE STANDARDS, Section 90-227. – Fences., Subsection (g). – Prohibited <br />parking. <br /> <br /> <br />THE CITY OF HUGO ORDAINS: <br /> <br />The City Council of the City of Hugo does hereby amend Article VI REQUIREMENTS FOR <br />SPECIFIC USES AND PERFORMANCE STANDARDS, Section 90-227 FENCES. <br /> <br />Removing items under Subsection (b): <br /> <br /> (b) Fences are allowed as an accessory use in all zoning districts of the city. No fence shall be <br />constructed in the urban development area or on a parcel of land ten acres or less in size in the rural <br />residential zoning district without a permit issued by the city building official. <br /> <br />Amending items under Subsection (d), (e), (f), (j) and (o) to read as follows: <br />(d) No fences shall be placed in a public road right-of-way, except temporary barriers authorized by <br />public safety personnel, the city engineer, or the city public works director. <br />(e) As to any fence (or any structure or landscaping), or any part thereof, installed or present within a <br />public easement, the city may remove the fence (or order it removed at its own discretion) in the event <br />that work needs to be performed within the easement free of any claims of cost, loss or damage. The city <br />and any agent of the city shall be held harmless for any and all claims for damage to the fence, or part <br />thereof, arising out of or relating to work performed in the easement, including but not limited to the <br />removal of the fence or any part thereof. The city is not responsible or liable for the costs of repair, <br />reinstallation or restoration of any fence or part thereof removed from the easement. <br />(f) Fences (or any structure or landscaping), may not be placed within a public easement where public <br />improvements are located, or where an easement provides access to a public improvement, without first <br />receiving approval of an encroachment agreement by the public works director or other designee, along <br />with proof that the agreement has been filed with the record for the property in the office of the County <br />Recorder or Registrar of Title. <br />(j) Barbed wire and cable fences are allowed only in the agricultural, long-term agricultural, rural <br />residential, and future urban service zoning districts, except up to four strands of barbed wire may be <br />used to top fencing at least six feet high in the industrial and restricted industrial zoning districts. Razor <br />or ribbon wire is prohibited in all zoning districts. <br />(o) All fences constructed or maintained in the city shall comply with the setback and height <br />requirements found below: