Port St. John 10-Foot Fence Approval
Summary
A 24-home gated community squeezed between a biker bar/mobile home park and a 20-acre rural parcel won the right to 10-foot fences after years of noise, illegal dumping, U-Haul storage, and debris complaints. The catch: it must be built as one engineered phase within two years, north side only. The south boundary — bordering a retired couple's wooded 20 acres — got no relief because the board found no hardship there.
At a glance
- Total mentions
- 9
- Last 30 days
- 9
Discussed at 1 meeting in the last 60 days; most recently Nov 5, 2026.
Impact analysis
The fence is privately funded by homeowners — one neighbor pledged on the record to cover costs if his neighbors can't — with no county expense.
The 20 perimeter homeowners of Port St. John, whose backyards border the marina bar and the rural parcel.
The Keller family, whose 20 wooded acres border the south side, opposed the request but received no fence authorization on their boundary.
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