Charlotte, NC Fence Regulations: Material Restrictions (2026)

c lists the permitted materials for constructing a fence, gate, or wall citywide: treated wood or redwood, simulated wood, decorative brick, stone, simulated stone, finished masonry, wrought iron, aluminum or steel designed to simulate wrought iron, vinyl, and chain link. Fences, gates, and walls in Neighborhood 1 Zoning Districts are not restricted to this list. For chain link specifically, the ordinance permits the material itself but expressly prohibits fence slats, and a chain link fence fitted with metal, plastic, or wooden slats, or with fabric, cannot be used to satisfy any screening requirement elsewhere in the Ordinance.

The Zoning Administrator has discretion to approve alternative materials found similar to those on the approved list. Where prescribed conditions, accessory structure standards, landscape requirements, or screening requirements set their own fencing rules that conflict with this section, those more specific requirements control, though the general materials list in item (c) still applies unless the more specific rule names its own required material. § 160D-908. No fence or wall may be built within a storm drainage easement in a way that blocks or materially impedes stormwater runoff flow.