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(c) Chief Building Official. The chief building official of the City of Paris or <br />his designee. <br />(d) Corner Property. 1) Property which abuts an alley, parking lot, or driveway <br />and a street. 2) Property which abuts two streets. 3) Property whose common lot <br />line between two or more adjacent properties form different yards. <br />(e) Electrical Fence. A barrier that uses painful or even lethal high-voltage <br />electric shocks to deter animals or people from crossing a boundary. <br />(f) Fence. A structure or hedge serving as an enclosure, barrier, or boundary <br />made of either metal, wire, naturally durable wood, treated wood, synthetic <br />material, or plant material as defined herein. A fence shall not include equipment <br />screening devices as may be required under the design standards for historic <br />districts. <br />(g) Fence Arm. An arm that projects from the top of a fence, typically to hold <br />barbed wire. <br />(h) Front yard. An open space unoccupied by a principal structure on a lot <br />facing a street, extending across the full width of the front of a lot between the <br />side lot lines, and in front of the front-most corners of the principal structure, <br />including any unenclosed portion of a front porch, carport, portico, or other <br />unenclosed structure located beyond the front face of the principal structure. <br />(i) Hedges. Cultivated plant material, deciduous, or evergreen plant material <br />planted in such a manner so as to constitute a fence. <br />(j) Height. The distance measured from the existing average grade of adjoining <br />properties to the top of the tallest structural member of a fence. <br />(k) Metal R Wall Panels. Metal RPanel - A metal R panel, also known as a rib <br />panel, is a wide panel that is very high in strength. The metal R panel is normally <br />made from aluminum or metallic coated steel and is typically available with a rib <br />height of 1.5 inches (1.5") and width of 32" to 39" per panel. <br />(1) Nonconforming Fence. A fence located within the corporate city limits of <br />Paris, Texas, which does not conform with the requirements or standards of this <br />ordinance, but which was lawfully constructed and in existence and in safe <br />condition on the day that this ordinance was enacted by the City Council. <br />(m) Privacy Fence. A fence structure consisting of material constructed to <br />inhibit sight through said fence. <br />-2- <br />