Every fence in unincorporated Lane County must stay inside the property line and preserve the Visual Clear Zone at road and driveway corners, where nothing between 2.5 and 15 feet high may block sight lines within a 15-foot triangle.
The core county fence requirement is the Visual Clear Zone: all corner lots or parcels must keep a triangular sight-clear area 15 feet long along the driveway and along intersecting roads. Within that triangle, no fence, wall, sign, planting or other obstruction between 2.5 and 15 feet above the road surface is allowed, so a corner fence effectively drops to about 2.5 feet in the clear zone. Fences must be entirely inside the property boundary and out of the right-of-way. Screening fences in setbacks are capped at 3.5 feet unless engineered.
Obstructions in the Visual Clear Zone must be removed; failure to comply triggers Lane Code enforcement (LC 15.900.030-.040).
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