Miramar, FL Fence Regulations: Height Limits (2026)

8, Fences and Walls, sets Miramar's baseline residential fence height at six feet, a flat limit that applies to side and rear yard fencing on any residential lot in the city. Front-yard fencing is treated as a narrower exception: the code only allows a fence or wall within a required front yard in the Rural (RL), Estate (E), and Residential Single-family 1 (RS1) zoning districts, and even there the fence cannot exceed six feet and must satisfy the clear sight triangle requirements found elsewhere in the LDC, which keep fences from blocking sightlines at driveways and intersections.

Outside those three districts, a residential lot cannot have a front-yard fence or wall at all under this section. Non-residential properties get taller allowances that scale with what sits next door. A fence in a non-residential zoning district that is adjacent to residential property is capped at eight feet, a height meant to buffer homes from commercial or industrial activity without towering over the neighborhood. Where non-residential property instead borders other non-residential property, the cap rises to ten feet, reflecting that there is no adjacent residence to shield.

8 are the operative limits for a standard fence or wall. 1 requires strict conformity with the Code, exceeding any of these caps without an approved variance or site plan puts the fence out of compliance regardless of the property owner's reason for building it taller.