Parker, CO Fence Regulations: Material Restrictions (2026)

Section 13.08.090(n)(4)a of the Parker Municipal Code lists the materials that qualify as an acceptable fence or wall and the ones the Land Development Ordinance excludes outright. Acceptable fences must use materials commonly sold for fencing, such as lumber, brick, decorative iron or metal, decorative masonry units, decorative concrete or stone. Prohibited materials include electrically charged wire, concertina wire, razor wire, and similar security barriers, plus non-traditional materials like aluminum siding, salvaged vehicle parts, smooth-face concrete masonry block, cloth or plastic tarps, scrap wood, landscape timbers and railroad-tie walls.

Chain-link fencing, with or without privacy slats, and barbed wire are banned as well, but the ordinance carves out five narrow exceptions: public utility installations approved through Site Plan or Use by Special Review under Section 13.03.040(p), (t) or (u); other utility or airport uses required by state or federal law; livestock containment on land used for agriculture in the Agricultural zoning district; temporary construction security fencing between building permit issuance and the final certificate of occupancy; and any case where the Planning Director finds a significant public health or safety risk justifies the fencing.

Beyond the banned-materials list, Parker also requires that whatever fence a homeowner installs match the design of the principal structure or neighboring fences, with its finished side, the one without exposed structural supports, facing the street or adjoining property, and a change in material such as a masonry column every fifty feet along runs visible from a collector or arterial road.