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Front yard fences are generally not permitted, except that the Edgewater Place <br />Historic District has adapted standards, which specifically permit front yard fences along <br />Lincolnway East. Except for Lincolnway East in Edgewater Place, front yard fences <br />more than three feet tall, or more than fifty- percent solid, are absolutely not permitted in <br />any circumstance whatsoever. Even relatively low and open front yard fences are <br />generally not permitted, but occasionally, in limited circumstances, and where the home <br />owner can show that specific circumstances apply making a relatively low and open front <br />yard fence appropriate in his or her particular situation, a Certificate of Appropriateness <br />may perhaps be granted. <br />Th: Historic Preservation Commission will not grant a Certificate of <br />Appropriateness for any fence around any residence, where it is shown that such a fence <br />would detract from the historic character of the neighborhood and the value or enjoyment <br />by neighboring residence of their own property. <br />Definition of "back yard": that part of the property which lies behind a straight <br />line drawn along the outside back wall of the house, straight over to the property line on <br />both sides of the house. Exception: if the house is on a corner, then the back yard is <br />behind lines drawn from the back corner of the house, straight over to the nearest <br />property line between that house and the neighboring yard. <br />Definition of "front yard": for houses on straight streets, or houses on curving <br />streets that curve away from the house, the front yard is any part of the yard in front of a <br />line drawn along the front interior/exterior wall of the house, straight over to the property <br />line on both sides of the house. If the house has a front or side porch that extends <br />towards the street, the front line of the porch is considered to be in the front yard and the <br />