Pasco, WA Fence Regulations: Height Limits (2026)

050(1) governs fence, wall, and hedge height citywide. Height between a structure and a street or alley is measured from the curb or alley grade, while height along a common lot line is measured from the grade at that line or from the top of any structural retaining wall sitting on the line. Subsection (c) limits front-yard fences, walls, and hedges on residential, retail business, and office-zoned lots to three and a half feet, with an added one and a half feet of at least 85 percent transparent material allowed, for a five-foot maximum; fences over three and a half feet in a front yard must display address numbers per the International Building Code and must carry a Knox box if any gate is locked.

Subsection (d) allows six-foot fences, walls, and hedges in side, rear, and secondary front yards of residential, retail business, and office lots, and requires a gate or opening at least three feet wide into at least one side yard. Subsection (e) requires all fences to conform to the Pasco Design and Construction Standards for sight distance triangles, and subsection (k) separately bars any fence, wall, hedge, or foliage taller than three feet above curb grade within a vision triangle measured 20 feet along the property lines from a street intersection, or 15 feet from a street-alley intersection, unless a 75-percent-transparent fence on a max three-foot wall is used, capped at a combined six feet.

Fences in commercial and industrial districts must be placed on the inward side of required perimeter landscaping. Fences built under a valid permit before this chapter's effective date, or on land annexed afterward, are exempt from the material-based restrictions in subsection (f).