In unincorporated St. Lucie County, residential fences, walls or landscape berms max out at 4 feet in a required front yard and 6 feet in any other yard. Port St. Lucie caps residential fences at 6 feet.
St. Lucie County LDC 8.00.04.B limits any fence, wall or landscape berm to 4 feet in a required front yard and 6 feet in any other required yard, measured from the centerline of the adjacent roadway. Where a residential lot adjoins non-residentially zoned land, height may rise to 8 feet along the shared line. In the City of Port St. Lucie, Code 158.216(B) bars any residential fence taller than 6 feet from ground level, except enclosures for recreational or sporting facilities, which the zoning administrator reviews individually.
Fences built over the limit without permits are code violations; the county can require removal or lowering and issue citations through code enforcement.
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