Chandler, AZ Fence Regulations: Height Limits (2026)

Section 35-2204(8) sets the citywide fence and wall standards. In a residential district, a front-yard fence or wall cannot exceed three feet, while a fence in the rear or side yard tops out at seven feet, except that open wire fencing is allowed higher in the front yards of schools and public buildings for occupant safety. Nonresidential lots get the same three-foot front-yard cap but a taller eight-foot allowance in the side or rear yard, with a six-foot cap on wrought-iron or masonry-topped security fencing placed in the front setback of merchandise-display uses.

Subsection (5) of the same section adds the corner-lot sight-distance rule: no fence, wall, planting or parked object over two feet tall may sit inside the triangular area formed by the property lines and a line connecting points thirty feet back from the intersection of the right-of-way lines, though one pruned tree or one pedestal sign is allowed within that triangle. These standards apply in every residential and nonresidential zoning district but grandfather any fence whose construction began or was completed before the requirements took effect.

Because the front-yard cap is only three feet, half the typical rear-yard height, a homeowner who wants more screening at the street has to either accept the open-style exception classes or push the taller fence line back to the required side/rear setback.