Glen Cove, NY Fence Regulations: Height Limits (2026)

1, added in 2010, sets Glen Cove's baseline fence rules. Outside corner lots, a fence or aboveground wall up to four feet tall may sit on any lot line or inside a required yard or setback, and it cannot be located closer than five feet to the edge of a City sidewalk. Along side or rear lot lines, or within the required side or rear yard, the limit rises to six feet, but a fence taller than four feet still cannot come closer to the front lot line than the distance between the house's own front facade and that front lot line, so a taller side-yard fence has to step back once it reaches the front portion of the lot.

Corner lots carry an additional restriction: no fence, wall, or hedge taller than three feet may stand inside a sight triangle formed by legs running 25 feet down each street line from the corner, a rule the Building Department Director can enforce directly, including ordering removal of anything in the triangle that endangers traffic. The section separately allows taller fencing for specific uses, among them fences up to 12 feet around tennis and similar courts if built of open wire above six feet, and up to 10 feet around schools, churches, or day-care play areas under the same open-wire condition, but the four-foot and six-foot figures remain the default for an ordinary residential lot line.