Chandler, AZ Fence Regulations: Material Restrictions (2026)

Section 35-2204(8)(a) layers material rules onto the basic height caps. Along the street-side or alley frontage of a new residential lot, subdivision or parcel, wood cannot be the primary structural fencing material, the only carve-out is for agrarian subdivisions and uses, which may use total wood fencing. Fences on interior property lines, or in yards not visible from any street or alley, can be built entirely of wood since they don't face the public right-of-way. Nonresidential districts get a stricter rule under subsection (b): wood fencing is prohibited outright unless it's built inside the property boundaries where it isn't visible from any street, alley or adjoining property.

For security screening of merchandise or equipment displays in a nonresidential front yard, subsection (b)(1) allows a wrought-iron fence, or a three-foot masonry wall topped with wrought iron, up to six feet, but it expressly prohibits chain-link fencing for that purpose. The pattern across both residential and nonresidential rules is the same: materials that read as 'finished' (masonry, wrought iron, or wood used only where it isn't publicly visible) are favored on street frontages, while wood as a primary street-facing material and chain-link security screening are the two materials Chandler singles out for a ban.