Paul Rizzo was trying to keep the neighbor kids from getting hurt in his swimming pool.
So the Lakeside Park resident talked with his neighbors, which was a zoning requirement, before building a privacy fence between his neighbor’s house and his pool.
But it turns out there was another Lakeside Park zoning requirement he didn’t know about: the one that requires fences to have gaps between the building materials. Think a white picket fence.
The Kenton County Planning Commission took up the issue Thursday, deciding to allow fences around pools that don’t have gaps in them. The move will affect 75 lots in the city.
The change includes government buildings as well as places of worship and other sites owned by religious organizations. Current fencing regulations require swimming pool fences to be between four and six-feet tall, made of ornamental wood or metal and be at least 50% open (i.e. with spaces between the posts).
The maps below show the properties affected by the proposed ordinance change. The Lakeside Park City Council will issue a final vote on the ordinance change on Monday.
Use the arrows to move between maps. Affected properties are set off in turquoise lines.
Maps showing the properties in Lakeside Park affected by the zoning ordinance change. Map provided | Kenton County Planning and Development Services 
Maps showing the properties in Lakeside Park affected by the zoning ordinance change. Map provided | Kenton County Planning and Development Services 
Maps showing the properties in Lakeside Park affected by the zoning ordinance change. Map provided | Kenton County Planning and Development Services 
Maps showing the properties in Lakeside Park affected by the zoning ordinance change. Map provided | Kenton County Planning and Development Services 
Maps showing the properties in Lakeside Park affected by the zoning ordinance change. Map provided | Kenton County Planning and Development Services 
Maps showing the properties in Lakeside Park affected by the zoning ordinance change. Map provided | Kenton County Planning and Development Services
The planning commission made an additional recommendation to the zoning change to remove the city’s requirement that property owners get permission from adjacent owners before getting a fencing permit. Both county planning professionals and several planning commissioners thought this inserted subjectivity into what, they argued, ought to be a predictable, uniform regulation.
The Lakeside Park City Council will meet on Monday, March 9 at 7 p.m. The City will post the meeting agenda on its dedicated webpage here.
