Lynchburg, VA Swimming Pools & Spas: Fencing & Safety Requirements (2026)

Sec. 18 governs outdoor recreation facilities in Lynchburg, covering active recreation amenities like pools and tennis courts, but the section's opening sentence carves out facilities accessory to residential uses and City-owned recreational facilities from its reach. That carve-out means the fencing rule in subsection (c) targets pools that are a principal or shared amenity rather than a backyard pool serving one household: community pools operated by a homeowners' association or a group of families, pools at apartment or condominium complexes, and commercial or club pools all fall under this section as defined elsewhere in the ordinance's use classifications.

For those facilities, subsection (c) requires that swimming pools, tennis courts, and other facilities presenting potential dangers to the life and limb of children be provided with fencing capable of restricting access to such facilities at times when they are not supervised, so the fence has to actually work as a barrier during unsupervised hours, not merely mark a boundary. 10, and restricts sound-amplifying devices to safety purposes only. Because a single-household backyard pool is excluded from Sec. 18, that homeowner's obligations run instead through the setback and screening rules for private recreational facilities in Sec. 3(l), a separate standard from the fencing duty described here.