WLNS-TV builds an 8-foot smithy fence with spikes in front of the Saginaw Street headquarters after the Lansing Board of Zoning Appeals contested its application last year after a chain fence crowned with barbed wire.
The Nextstar Media Group Station originally called for permission to build a more stubborn fence last summer to reconcile with recommendations from the Ministry of Homeland Security.
Marci Daniels, General Manager of WLNS, said in August that the news channel was seen as a “critical infrastructure” because they transferred information to the public in emergencies. She also said that WLN's violent threats were exposed to, including an incident in which a person with Hammer pursued an employed and damaged car.
A 6 -foot chain fence that was crowned with barbed wire was already available in other parts of the property before the current zone regulations became effective. In order to align themselves with them, the city demanded that the barbed wire along the Howard Street had to be removed, and quoted it as a security risk, as was formed from the minutes of the Zoning Captificial meeting on September 12.
According to a local regulation, chain connection fences are not aesthetic reasons and because the material decreases slightly and rust
Forging iron is an approved material, but such a fence would usually be high in a front yard. The zoning administrator Susan Stachowiak confirmed this week that the city approved the larger fence. The variance request, which allows the increase in height, was unanimously approved last September, as was the original proposal unanimously rejected.
Community members argued that the fence of the barbed wire was unsafe and that the neighborhood would relieve.
Not everyone is satisfied with the new version. The long-time Eastside leader Nancy Mahlow, who opposed the original proposal, described the approved wrought-iron fence as “very sad”.