Noblesville, IN Fence Regulations: Height Limits (2026)

Noblesville's Unified Development Ordinance sets residential fence height by yard under § 159.121(D)(5)(c): open or solid fences, latticework, screens, or walls up to seven feet tall are allowed in a required side or rear yard, while a front-yard fence is capped at four feet as defined in § 159.016. Corner lots get a special rule in division (D)(5)(f): a homeowners' or business association's landscaped common area within 15 feet of a street is treated as a front yard, so a fence there is also held to the four-foot cap, and division (D)(5)(g) treats any yard abutting an access-restricted street as a side or rear yard, permitting the full seven-foot height there.

Every residential fence, regardless of height, must comply with § 159.120(H)'s Vision Corner Clearance rule: no fence, wall, sign, or shrub between two-and-a-half and ten feet above the street grade may sit inside the triangular sightline at a corner lot, measured 15 feet along each property line at the intersection of two local streets (or a local street and an alley), or 25 feet along each property line where a local street meets a collector, arterial, or expressway. Division (D)(5)(a) repeats that visibility rule for fences specifically, and (D)(5)(b) separately bars a fence, wall, or hedge from blocking a driver's view of the street from a driveway, a restriction that does not apply along an alley. Non-residential fences are governed separately under division (D)(6), with a four-foot front-yard cap and an eight-foot cap elsewhere.