Lake Havasu City, AZ Fence Regulations: Material Restrictions (2026)

Section 14.04.04(G)(1)(c) restricts every fence and wall in Lake Havasu City to a closed list of seven material types: integrally-colored, split-face, or ground-face concrete masonry units; CMU that has been painted, stuccoed, or faced with another permitted material; natural or simulated stone; brick; wrought iron or other decorative metal; painted or stained wood; and compact hedging. Because the code states the fence must be built with 'any 1 or more of the following materials,' nothing outside that list, plain chain-link, corrugated metal, or unfinished plywood among them, satisfies the standard on its own.

The same landscaping article confirms that reading for at least one common material: § 14.04.04(F)(2)(b)(ii) separately states that chain-link fencing is prohibited as a screening device in the landscape buffers required between a residential lot and an adjacent non-residential or higher-intensity use. A narrow carve-out exists only for service, loading, and storage-area screening walls under § 14.04.04(G)(3)(b)(i), where sight-obscured chain link or wrought iron with plastic lath or netting is allowed for gates, and where chain link sight-obscured with plastic lath may be used as screening on property zoned LI or I.

That exception does not extend to a residential yard fence covered by subsection (G)(1). Development Services checks proposed fence materials against this list during permit review, and an installed fence built from a material outside the seven approved categories is out of compliance regardless of its height.