Lauderhill, FL Fence Regulations: Material Restrictions (2026)

Section 5.18.10 of the Lauderhill Land Development Regulations bars fences and walls from being built with injurious or hazardous materials, specifically naming barbed wire, razor wire, broken glass, electrified materials and similar materials. The prohibition sits inside the same Section 5.18 that governs all fence and wall construction in the City, so it applies wherever a fence permit under Section 5.18.1 is required, residential and non-residential property alike.

The affirmative construction standards in Section 5.18.15 fill out what is allowed instead: fences may be built of iron, steel, aluminum, polyvinylchloride, wood or similar materials meeting industry standards and the Florida Building Code, subject to Chief Building Official approval. Chain link or mesh fencing must use a minimum gauge of eleven wire, and chicken wire or similar material is separately prohibited. Wood fences such as shadow box, stockade, board-on-board and picket styles are permitted, but construction of any permitted fence using plywood material is prohibited outright. Where a commercial or industrial district abuts, or is separated by a street, alley or canal from, a residential district, Section 5.18.16 requires an eight-foot buffer wall, rising to sixteen feet or more along the Florida Turnpike, so the hazardous-material ban operates alongside a mandatory screening wall requirement in those transition areas rather than in place of it.