Kent, WA Fence Regulations: Height Limits (2026)

Kent Municipal Code does not set a single blanket height cap for every yard; instead it regulates fence height through two linked provisions. 145 defines a "one hundred (100) percent sight-obscuring fence" as one built of solid wood, metal, or other appropriate material that totally conceals the subject use from adjoining uses at six feet above the base of the fence line, measured twenty feet from the subject property line. That six-foot, fully-screening standard is the benchmark the city applies wherever the code requires screening, such as buffering loading berths from residential districts, trash enclosures, and outdoor collection points, all of which reference the same six-foot sight-obscuring fence or wall.

140, only requires a chainlink fence woven with slats in every row or available space, without a fixed height. 130 governs corner lots in any residential district: nothing may be erected, placed, planted, or allowed to grow so as to materially impede vision between two and one-half feet and ten feet above the centerline grades of the intersecting streets, within the triangle bounded by the street lines and a line connecting points twenty feet from the intersection along each street line. A fence built taller than two and a half feet inside that twenty-foot corner triangle violates this visibility standard regardless of the six-foot sight-obscuring benchmark used elsewhere in the code.