Fence installation in Braelinn
Braelinn carries more golf course frontage than any other village, and lots backing onto fairways or cart paths run into the four foot path setback more often here than anywhere else in Peachtree City. That rule, not the property line, usually decides where the fence goes.
Heavy golf course frontage means open sight lines matter, and lots backing onto fairways or cart paths hit the four foot path setback more often than anywhere else in the city.
What makes fencing in Braelinn different?
Golf frontage, and a lot of it. The village backs onto fairways and carries cart paths behind a large share of its rear boundaries.
That combination means one rule does most of the deciding here. No fence may be installed within four feet of the edge of a paved cart path, measured from the pavement rather than from your property line, so on a great many Braelinn lots the last four feet of the yard cannot carry a fence at all.
How does that change the quote?
It shortens the run and adds corners. The fence turns in, travels parallel to the path four feet clear, and turns back out.
Two extra corner posts on a wood run at $18 to $38 per linear foot is a smaller number than the footage you save, so the total usually comes down. What it does change is the shape, and a price worked out from the boundary length will not survive the first site visit.
Ask for the measured run. On this side of town it is a different figure from the lot dimensions.
What do people build here?
Four foot aluminium, more than anything else.
The reasoning is not really about fencing. A fairway or lake view is a large part of what a Braelinn lot is worth, and a six foot privacy panel removes it. Four foot ornamental encloses the dogs and the children without taking the view away, and the ordinance requires the exposed metal to be dark brown, dark green or black, which is why every one of them disappears against the trees.
Where a boundary faces a neighbour rather than a fairway, wood or vinyl still makes sense. Plenty of lots here run one material at the back and another down the sides.
Does the ground cause problems?
The same red clay as the rest of the city, with a slope on top of it.
Clay holds water, swells and shrinks, and works a shallow post loose over a few wet winters. Posts want 30 to 36 inches of depth and a gravel base of six to eight inches so the water drains away instead of sitting against them.
The slope adds the second question. A run that steps down a grade has to be racked to follow it, and racked panels cost more than a flat run of the same length.
Do I need a permit in Braelinn?
At four feet in height and above, yes, the same as everywhere in the city. Four foot ornamental sits exactly on that line, so the answer is usually yes.
The application wants the material and the height, a site plan on an official plat or survey, and a photograph of the fence you have in mind. Bring the plat that shows the path easement. On these lots it answers most of the questions before anyone has to measure.