East Honolulu, HI Fence Regulations: Material Restrictions (2026)

For typical East Honolulu residential fences, the Honolulu Land Use Ordinance (ROH Chapter 21) imposes no general material restriction, so wood, masonry, vinyl, and metal are all allowed within the six-foot height limit. Material rules appear where fences serve a screening or buffering function. Section 21-4.70-1(d) requires a six-foot solid wall or fence, excepting chain link, or an equivalent landscape buffer where certain non-residential uses adjoin a country, residential, apartment, apartment mixed-use, or resort zoning lot. The same chain-link exclusion appears throughout Article 5 for specific uses; for example, eating and drinking, personal service, retail, and car wash uses adjoining residential lots must install a solid wall or fence (not a chain-link fence) or an equivalent landscape buffer, six feet in height, at the common property lines (Sections 21-5.70-2, 21-5.70-7, 21-5.70-9, 21-5.70-10). In the apartment precinct, walls and fences for dwelling uses up to six feet shall consist of an open material, preferably wrought iron or lattice work, but not chain link, and solid walls are discouraged unless built of an acceptable material such as wood, moss rock, or stucco-finished masonry. Special-district rules (Article 9) may impose additional material standards.