The anti-voyeur measure was caught in a “budget decision” at the session of this month
Avoid that curious neighbors take a look over your garden fence to see what is published around your terrace or swimming pool?
Your city councils added a quiet two foot this month.
So far, the maximum fence height in residential areas was 1.8 meters (six feet).
Now fences are permitted up to 2.43 meters (eight foot) along the inner side lines, except in the front yard, where fences must not be higher than 0.9 meters.
“An exception to the required front yard to prevent visual obstacles that disturb the character of residential areas,” said Nicholas Cicchini from the city's planning department.
The change in the maximum hissing limit of the back yard reacted to numerous inquiries to the city's adaptation committee for minor deviations, most of them for data protection reasons.
“These applications, which are often associated with backyards for decks, patos or pools, were regularly approved by the committee with little or no resistance,” said Cicchini in a report that was prepared for the mayor Matthew Shoemaker and the city councils.
“In many cases, real estate owners cited that 1.8-meter fences were not sufficient in view of the increase in the decks or the neighboring changes.
“By increasing the right -wing extremist limit, the city can reduce unnecessary variance applications, improve regulatory flexibility and improve the privacy of the homeowner in the areas of active return holder,” said Cicchini.
Other, Miesedian chicky news nuggies fried with battery from the city council meeting of this month:
- The council agreed to check a proposal from Ward 3 Coun. Angela Caputo for a goose management program. The operating costs for your idea were referred to the budget consultations of 2026. Some council members, including Shoemaker, have not added their comments to goose patterns
- Dominion Voting Systems Corp. will receive 136,316 US dollars for the provision of tabulators for the local elections next year. An unsuccessful offer was received by Election Systems & Software Canada of Pickering. The electronic tabs from Dominion were in Sault Ste for the first time. Marie in the Local Elections 2022. The municipal elections of the next year will take place on Monday, October 26, 2026, throughout Ontario
- The city has signed a memorandum of the agreement with its police service, in which the police refunded the municipality for deficits that arose from 2024. In the three -year agreement, the police only reimburse cash from future police budget surpluses for police budget
- The city councils learned Sault Ste. The Marie Police Service commissioned incredibly low $ 250,000 for the overtime of the staff last year, although the annual expenditure for the overtime of the city police was in the seven-digit range
- The Council started the ball, which rolled a savings measures after learning a deficit between USD 2.95 million and 3.45 million US dollars. The proposed austerity measures can include the worktop, which reduces the level of employees by not filling open positions
- A traffic studies of the district of the Kirchen-Pim-Wellington were instructed to determine whether there is a better way to move Suchits from downtown to the Great Northern Road
- The city's employees will examine how flashing lights on overhead arms are placed over the city's pedestrian crossers in order to make them more visible
- Four local companies received city contracts to delete snow from municipal parking spaces, arenas, citizens' buildings and transit stops
- The Council agreed on the reference conditions for the takeover of the downtown association. Queenstown is operated by a city committee. A call for members of this new committee was issued on Friday
- The city councils approved a tax discount for a proposed renovation by Francis H. Clergue's Yard Licht in the Canal District. This year's planned activities on the premises include deleting our content of the Buiding and the repairs for windows. The building is to be rebuilt for tourist activities
- The city is looking for someone who is ready to invest in a new trailer park, wellness retreat or even a destination on the former campsite in Pointe des Chenes. The campsite has been closed on the city property in the Lions Club in 2021 since 1985, partly due to COVID-19 because of Covid-19
- The Sault has a new drinking water inspector
- The city councils learned a renovation of the former fish sling in the Canal District, which will include a renovation of the former fish hit in the Canal District