6 rules for unincorporated Guadalupe County, Texas.
Verified from official government sources
Unincorporated Guadalupe County sets no fence height limit. Texas counties cannot zone, so the county neither caps fence height nor issues fence permits. Inside Seguin, Schertz, or Cibolo city limits, and in HOA subdivisions, fences are typically capped at six feet in the rear and four in front.
Unincorporated Guadalupe County requires no permit to build a residential fence. The county has no building-permit authority over fences and does no fence inspections. Utility easements and HOA architectural approval are the real constraints; cities like Schertz require their own fence permits.
Texas has no Good Neighbor Fence Act. In unincorporated Guadalupe County each owner is responsible for the fence on their own land, and a neighbor cannot be forced to share the cost of a boundary fence.
Unincorporated Guadalupe County requires no permit for a residential retaining wall and sets no height limit; there is no county building code. Engineering soundness, drainage easements, and HOA approval are the real constraints. Cities permit walls inside their limits.
Texas Health and Safety Code Chapter 757 requires pools at apartment complexes and property-owners-association pools to be enclosed by a barrier at least 48 inches high. Single-family home pools in unincorporated Guadalupe County face no state enclosure mandate.
Tex. Health & Safety Code §757.003
(a) Except as otherwise provided by Section 757.005, the owner of a multiunit rental complex with a pool or a property owners association that owns, controls, or maintains a pool shall completely enclose the pool yard with a pool yard enclosure. (b) The height of the pool yard enclosure must be at least 48 inches as measured from the ground on the side away from the pool.
Unincorporated Guadalupe County places no restriction on residential fence materials. Wood, chain-link, wrought iron, masonry, and pipe fencing are all allowed. Material rules come only from HOA deed restrictions and from city zoning inside Seguin, Schertz, and Cibolo.
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