Gardena requires fences to meet zoning height limits, corner cutback sightlines, and a building permit. Commercial and industrial parking lots abutting residential zones must install decorative masonry screen walls.
Under Municipal Code Chapter 18.42, residential fences may reach eight feet on side and rear property lines and 3.5 feet (interior lots) or three feet (corner lots) in the required front yard setback. A corner cutback of ten by ten feet, with lines at a forty-five-degree angle, is required at intersecting streets, alleys and driveways; open fencing under forty-two inches is exempt. Where a commercial or industrial parking lot abuts a residential zone, a decorative masonry wall at least eight feet high must line the boundary, stepping down to 3.5 feet within the neighbor's front yard. Nonresidential fences on street frontages must keep a three-foot landscape setback, and a building permit is required.
Fences failing height, cutback, screening or landscape requirements, or built without a permit, are subject to correction orders and enforcement by Community Development.
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