Coconut Creek, FL Fence Regulations: Material Restrictions (2026)

Coconut Creek bans barbed wire in two places inside § 13-379. Subsection (1) says barbed wire and other similar material shall not be permitted on a fence or wall within a residential district, so a homeowner in the City of Coconut Creek cannot use it at all. Subsection (5) goes further: barbed wire fencing is expressly prohibited, except in three situations. Those are a construction site, where the fencing cannot obstruct any public easement or right-of-way, public utility sites, and the location of any essential public service where the risk to persons or property is greater without the fencing than with it.

Even inside those exceptions, conditions apply. The property owner is responsible for keeping barbed wire fencing rust-free and taut. Installing it requires the owner to execute a hold harmless and indemnification statement, and that statement is provided in the permit application, so a permit is part of the process.

The same section governs appearance: the decorative side of a fence or wall, if applicable, must face the outside limits of the property. Other material rules sit elsewhere in Chapter 13. Commercial, private community and public swimming pool enclosures must be at least 8 feet high, and chain link fences in public view are not permitted around them without landscaping (§ 13-371(9)c). Residential pool enclosures use a 5-foot fence or an open mesh screened enclosure, and hedges do not satisfy the enclosure requirement (§ 13-371(8)b). Section 13-379 contains no separate provision on electric fencing; it addresses barbed wire and similar material.