Lorain County does not zone incorporated cities, so height limits come from your city or township. In the City of Lorain (the county's largest city), residential fences may not exceed six feet, and no fence taller than three feet may stand in a front yard in any district.
Ohio municipalities zone their own land, so fence height in the Lorain metro is set by city code, not the county. City of Lorain Zoning Code Section 10.08(F) caps residential fences at six (6) feet, commercial/business fences at seven (7) feet, and industrial fences at eight (8) feet, and limits any front-yard fence to three (3) feet in every district. On corner lots no fence may exceed three feet within the clear-vision triangle (Section 10.09). Elyria and other cities set comparable limits. Unincorporated townships zone under Ohio Revised Code Chapter 519; the county zones rural land under Chapter 303 only where adopted.
A fence exceeding the district height limit is a zoning-code violation subject to a minimum penalty of $500.00, with each day a violation continues treated as a separate offense.
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