Caddo Parish, LA Fence Regulations: Material Restrictions (2026)

UDC Section 7.3.L.3 draws a hard line on barbed wire and razor wire: that material, along with spiked posts or anything similar, is only permitted on a lot used for a utility, or in the R-A, C-4, I-MU, I-1, or I-2 zoning districts. Everywhere else, including the parish's standard single-family residential districts, it is prohibited outright. Where it is allowed, the wire itself has to be mounted at least eight feet above the adjacent ground, keeping it clear of anyone walking or standing at grade.

Section 7.3.L.4 layers on general design rules that apply to every fence in the parish, not just barbed wire. Fence posts must be set on the inside of the fence, the entire fence, including its posts and base, has to sit completely within the lot it serves, and where only one side of a fence is finished, the finished side must face away from the fence owner's own lot, except on shared lines between single-family lots. The last rule in that list is unqualified: no fence may be electrified, in any district, for any use. That bars everything from a single hot wire on top of a wood fence to a fully electrified perimeter fence, regardless of how the property is zoned or what it's used for. A fence subject to a use-specific standard elsewhere in the Code, such as the landscape screening rules in Article 10, follows whichever requirement is more restrictive.