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Daisy Over Fences
FOR SALE: Adorable 4yr old 15.3h AQHA/APHA mare. Long stride and honest over fences! Perfect youth horse! 717-991-4245.
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Good old-fashioned suburbia will never be the same. Bigger, modern homes on smaller, modern parcels leave little space for gardening and trees. What is not shaded by the taller homes is shaded by the taller fences, which are needed for privacy since the homes are closer together. Building codes in most municipalities limit the height of fences, but lattice screens are often added on top for extra height.
Because lumber is not of the quality that it was when shorter, light-duty redwood fences were built decades ago, relatively expensive modern fences do not last nearly as long. They might last longer if they were repaired instead of replaced when only the posts rot. Green technology seemed to work better before it became trendy.
Ironically, no one wants these bigger and bolder fences that are closer to home to be so prominent in the landscape. We try to obscure them with vines that can tear them apart, or shrubbery that can push them over. Watering these vines and shrubs accelerates rot in the posts.
Shrubbery intended to obscure a fence should not be so voracious that it wants to displace the same fence that it is intended to obscure. Some types of pittosporum work nicely because they support themselves without leaning against other features in their surroundings too much, even if they eventually get quite large. However, they do get quite thick, and can obscure a fence so well that no one would miss the fence if it were to get pushed over. A good hedge without a fence is sometimes a better option.
Many types of vines can be kept much closer to a fence than shrubbery can, but most tend to be more destructive. Star jasmine works nicely if allowed to climb a trellis directly in front of the fence, but should not be allowed to get between planks in the fence, or to get too intertwined in lattice. If it gets too fluffy, it can be shorn back like a light hedge.
Clinging vines like creeping fig can be very appealing on fences, and can be shorn like hedges, but will eventually necessitate the replacement of the fences they climb. For those who appreciate such a tailored appearance, replacement of the affected fences every several years or annual hard pruning of the fast growing vines is a fair compromise.
Once established, most shrubs and many vines that are large enough to obscure fences do not need much water. Plants that want significant water can be problematic to fences they are adjacent to, since moisture in the soil accelerates rot in fence posts. Thick foliage and foliar litter on the ground shade the soil and hold moisture in. Irrigation systems (sprinklers), whether they are for shrubs or vines intended to obscure a fence or for something as simple as lawn, should not spray water onto fences. Unfortunately, most fences naturally involve neighbors who are not necessarily as concerned with the maintenance of the fences.
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CAPITOLA -- After an Independence Day marked by fewer than normal law enforcement problems, some Santa Cruz County residents are questioning whether law enforcement should ease up on chain-link fences and checkpoints at beaches that have restricted beachgoers.
Hemmed in by rules and barriers on a day intended to celebrate freedom, Capitola City Councilman Dennis Norton said he believes more beach access could stem some problems with illegal fireworks that have moved to neighborhoods in Capitola, Live Oak and Rio del Mar.
He's also trying to rally support for a public fireworks show on the beach.
"Everyone is in favor of controlling fireworks and drunkenness in our county," Norton said. "But to close our beaches and offer the public nothing on Independence Day seems to be a contradiction."
He also questioned the price of chain-link fences on the holiday, which cost State Parks $4,900 in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties for the day, according to a State Parks spokeswoman in Sacramento.
Orange plastic fences set up by Santa Cruz County Public Works also cost $1,400, and the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office paid the equivalent of about 17 deputies a day's worth of overtime.
However, a schedule shift instituted years ago again saved the Sheriff's Office hundreds of hours of overtime pay, said Jeff Marsh, deputy chief of the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office. Marsh said the checkpoints and fences have come as a response not
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Fireworks have been shot at deputies, and they have dealt with crowds of drunken revelers and gang members on the North Coast, he said.
"People say, 'Why do we need the fences? Look, there's no problems,'" Marsh said. "But do we want to go back 10 or 15 years with riots and explosives thrown on patrol cars?" he asked.
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File this one under the heading "be careful what you wish for."
When Lower Macungie homeowner Matthew Deutsch alerted the township's public works department to dead trees near his property line, he brought some unwanted attention to his neighborhood.
It turns out that some of Deutsch's neighbors in the Winding Brook Manor housing development have fences that encroach on township-owned property. Some weren't aware that the fences were on township land.
Now that the cat's out of the bag, it appears the fences will have to come down. The township has sent letters to the homeowners telling them the structures must be removed.
"We'd all love to say get on with your lives and forget about it," township Commissioner Ryan Conrad said at his board's Thursday night meeting. "But where do we draw the line? The only alternative is to move the fence into your property line."
Deutsch and Princeton Road neighbor Shirley Nylund appeared before the board, with Nylund pleading for the commissioners to give them a break on the fencing.
Nylund said she and her husband put up the fencing in 1988 and spoke to township officials about her plans. She said she was told she didn't need a permit. She said she had the property surveyed and believed the fence was erected on her land. Nylund said she's shouldered the financial burden in the past when trees have fallen on the fence.
"I think it's a win-win-win situation," Nylund said. "For the township to allow us to keep the fence, it would allow the township less responsibility in maintaining the land. We have maintained it for 25 years."
She asked the commissioners to make an exception for the neighborhood. While township officials were empathetic, they said they'd be setting a bad precedent, adding that other homeowners could come in with similar requests for playground equipment, pools, sheds and other structures that could encroach on township land.
"We have to worry about consistency with all of our residents," Commissioner Ron Eichenberg said. "Our zoning officer said it best: We have to abide by general regulations and rules for all of our residents."
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