The Atlantic City Council will act on several matters pertaining to infrastructure during their meeting 5:30-p.m. Wednesday, at City Hall. A Public Hearing will also be held with regard to an amendment to Chapter 165 of the City’s Code of Ordinances, which pertains to Zoning Regulations. The amendment is with regard to fencing in Industrial and Commercial Zones.

Gary Richter, of Atlantic, would like to erect an eight-foot chain link fence with barbed wire around his impound yard. Current Zoning does not accommodate that request in any aspect. City Administrator John Lund suggests that heavy industrial areas be allowed to use a fence of 10-feet in height, with barbed wire as a permitted use. Such as change would also allow for variations from the six-foot limit in those same areas, by a Conditional Use Permit for construction on existing facilities, which requires a hearing from the Board of Adjustment, or variations to be a part of the site plan approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z), which recently approved unanimously, to amend the Zoning Ordinance to better accommodate the needs of commercial and industrial development in their proper zones.

The hearing will be followed by the first reading of Ordinance pertaining to the amendment as written. There will also be a first reading on an amendment to an Ordinance with regard to speed limits, especially as it pertains to Sunnyside lane, where a 1,650-foot stretch of the road is unregulated to near 22nd Street. The change would make the entire stretch of Sunnyside, from 10th to 22nd, a 25-mile per hour zone.