Fayette County, GA Fence Regulations: Material Restrictions (2026)

Fayette County Code § 110-81 lists the approved building materials for walls and fences in a front yard across the A-R and residential zoning districts: brick or brick veneer, stucco, synthetic stucco, rock, stone, cast-stone, wood, wrought iron, chainlink or similar wire materials (for fences up to four feet), or other architecturally engineered facades matching these materials. ' The single broad carve-out is § 110-81(e)(1): where horses are lawfully kept under article V of chapter 110, a wall or fence made of chainlink or other wire materials, including barbed wire and electric fencing, is exempt from the four-foot maximum height and may reach up to five feet in a front yard.

A second, narrower exemption applies to A-R lots used for farming, including raising and selling crops or livestock, which are exempt from both the four-foot height cap and the listed construction-material requirements entirely. Outside those two exemptions, every residential and A-R front-yard fence, and every subdivision entrance wall or fence, must use the approved materials list and cannot use barbed wire or an electrified fence line. Planning and Zoning reviews material compliance as part of the zoning compliance certificate required under § 110-81(a)(4) before construction.