A couple in Oak Point, in Denton County, had a pool being dug out back in the summer of 2020 and a crew setting fence posts down the side. Court records show the fence went up inside a fifty-foot side-yard setback and across a twenty-foot drainage easement, both off limits under city ordinances. On July 11, 2020, the city ordered all work on the property stopped until the fence came into compliance.
It was the second fence in that spot. They had applied in April 2019 to fence the yard, and the permit issued that May said on its face that any fence “Must be at least 50′ setback on side yard.” The first fence went inside the setback anyway; the city manager told them their lot was a “key lot” needing a variance from the Board of Adjustment. The board denied it, and they took that fence down.
When they applied for a pool permit in May 2020, the city repeated that no fence could stand in that setback. The permit issued in June, and the first three of five pool inspections passed. Then the fence went back up in the same place…