Pasco, WA Fence Regulations: Material Restrictions (2026)

050(1)(f) prohibits fences built from tires, pallets, bed springs, multi-colored materials, tarps, plastic sheets, corrugated sheet metal (except in industrial districts), wheel rims, and similar materials not traditionally manufactured for fencing. It also bars hog wire, chicken wire, horseman wire mesh, v-mesh, field fence, woven field fence, and welded utility fence in residential or commercial zones, though horseman wire mesh and the other listed wire types may be used in suburban residential districts on tracts larger than one acre used for animal husbandry; fences built under a valid permit before this chapter's effective date, or on land annexed afterward, are exempt.

Subsection (g) prohibits barbed and razor wire fencing in all residential districts, the office district, and the central business district, but allows barbed wire in suburban residential districts on tracts over one acre used for animal husbandry, and permits exactly one strand of barbed wire along or within two inches of the top rail in the C-1 retail business district. Subsection (h) bars electrified fences from residential districts entirely, except as a secondary security layer placed behind an existing fence, or in suburban districts to contain permitted farm animals.

Subsection (i) requires that in front yards, structural fence supports such as rails and posts not be visible from a public street unless they are an integral, aesthetic part of the fence design. Subsection (j) requires all fencing in commercial and industrial districts to sit on the inward side of required perimeter landscaping.