Tigard, OR Fence Regulations: Height Limits (2026)

Section 18.210.020 starts from a simple premise: fences and walls can be located within required setbacks, and those within required setbacks follow its standards. In a required front setback the maximum height is 3 feet where the fence abuts a local or neighborhood street and 6 feet where it abuts a collector or arterial street. In a required side, street side, or rear setback the maximum is 8 feet. Fences and walls located outside required setbacks follow the standards in the applicable housing type chapter in 18.200. Cottage cluster developments show how that works: Section 18.240.050 holds fences anywhere other than within three feet of a side or rear lot line to three feet in height, except fences used to meet the screening requirements it names. The nonresidential twin, Section 18.310.020, carries the same 3, 6 and 8 foot limits for commercial and industrial sites.

Corner visibility is the second cap. Section 18.930.030 requires a vision clearance area on the corners of all property adjacent to the intersection of two streets, a street and a railroad, or a driveway providing access to a public or private street, except within the MU-CBD zone. That area must stay free of vehicles, hedges, plantings, fences and wall structures exceeding 3 feet in height, measured from the top of the curb or, where no curb exists, from the street center line grade. Section 18.930.040 sizes the area: not less than 35 feet on each side of an intersection on arterial streets, and a triangle with 30 foot legs along the right-of-way lines where a non-arterial street or driveway is 24 feet or more in width. Section 6.02.120 separately requires all property in the city to meet the visual clearance requirements of Section 18.930.030.