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we allow retaining walls in the required yards, only because much of the old part of town has built with the roads much lower than the general grade of land. What we generally get is a 2-6 foot steep slope in the front yard of homes to the sidewalk edge at the street level.
we currently, weakly, define a retaining wall can be no higher than 3 feet. If it needs to be higher than 3 feet it should be terraced with level ground, then the wall can go up another 3 feet and so on.
What are other communities regulations on these walls?
We just recently had a case where the homeowner has about a 5 foot drop from his front yard to the sidewalk, his old limestone block retaining wall failed and he was going to replace it with a new concrete wall. We told him three feet, terrace, 2 feet was the limit to what he could do.
we currently, weakly, define a retaining wall can be no higher than 3 feet. If it needs to be higher than 3 feet it should be terraced with level ground, then the wall can go up another 3 feet and so on.
What are other communities regulations on these walls?
We just recently had a case where the homeowner has about a 5 foot drop from his front yard to the sidewalk, his old limestone block retaining wall failed and he was going to replace it with a new concrete wall. We told him three feet, terrace, 2 feet was the limit to what he could do.