Ocala, FL Fence Regulations: Height Limits (2026)

Sec. 122-252(g) sets the baseline: fences, walls and hedges are permitted in required front, side and rear yards, but that permission is expressly made subject to the corner-lot visibility rule in Sec. 122-253. That section bans any fence, wall, hedge or other planting or structure that would obstruct a driver's line of sight between a height of two and one-half feet and ten feet above the centerline grade of the intersecting streets. The forbidden zone is the triangular area formed by the two right-of-way lines at the corner and a line connecting points measured back along each right-of-way.

In industrial and business districts the triangle's legs run 15 feet from the intersection, except for FBC-zoned property fronting a core street as defined in Sec. 122-955; in residential districts the legs extend 25 feet, a longer distance because residential corners still need clear sightlines for pedestrians and cross traffic. Municipal and franchise utility poles are expressly carved out of the rule, so a utility pole inside the triangle is not itself a violation. Outside that triangle, a residential fence or wall can be built to whatever height the rest of the code allows; the visibility rule only bites inside the 15- or 25-foot legs.

The related buffer-wall standard in Sec. 122-260(f)(4) separately requires screening walls between differing land-use intensities to be at least six feet high, measured from the higher finished grade, showing the code treats corner sightlines and screening walls as two distinct height problems.