Amendments on fencing surveys coming before council

WORLAND – The first reading of ordinance No. 837 is scheduled (pertaining to survey requirements) to be read at tonight’s City Council meeting.

The ordinance will make amendments to Chapter 24 of the Worland City Code and establish regulations that provide waiver capabilities to the administering authority for professional survey requirements for fencing.

The ordinance states, “By adding provisions to exempt certain interior fencing from permit and fencing requirements, and by establishing regulations that provide waiver capabilities to the administering authority for professional survey requirements for certain building permits in chapter 24 of the Worland City Code.”

– Chapter 24 – Zoning of the Worland City Code went into effect May 21. The public was invited to three pubic readings and meeting about the new changes, and before it was passed a draft was available online.

The requirement of a professional survey was originally put into place so the established property lines were known. The city previously had the problem of people building on other people’s property because the property lines weren’t known or a survey wasn’t done.

The Board of Adjustment and Planning Commission (BAPC), City Planner Ronald Vanderpool and Building Inspector Nick Kruger addressed residents’ concerns over the surveying requirement at the two BAPC meeting this month and made the amended ordinance to be recommended to the council.

Kruger said the amendments will help 95 percent of Worland’s residents.

– Other business scheduled for Tuesday night’s agenda includes the second reading of ordinance No. 836 which repeals Chapter 12 – Health and Sanitation of the Worland City Code. Worland Mayor Dave Duffy previously said the chapter was made in the 1950s and has ordinances that do not apply anymore.

City Clerk Tracy A. Glanz said the chapter will be a reserve chapter and anything applicable in it is covered in other chapters.

– Also on the agenda under public hearing and public comment are the Tobacco Prevention Group and Amanda Heinemeyer with Public Health about a “Screen Free Week.”