Zoning and Permitting Your Fence or Wall

Zoning and permitting for your fence or wall may be simple or excruciatingly complicated. Often there are is no permit needed for a fence, including no windload requirements. Occassionally a fence must be permitted. Check with your building and planning department for your city or county's code.

A wall is another matter. Privacy walls are structurally engineered, and require permitting before they can be built. Most counties and cities will accept a set of engineered drawings and allow the homeowner to pull the permit. Other cities have structured their laws so that it is virtually impossible for the homeowner to pull their own permit.

We work with a General Contractor to help with these complications. Our fences and walls will always be properly permitted before construction. The homeowner will need to be available to sign the commencement paperwork and apply for any variances if necessary.

Don't risk having your planning board make you tear your new fence down! Check for your code before you build.

Then visit us at http://www.fencesofdistinction.com for your next fence or privacy wall.