Pembroke Pines, FL Fence Regulations: Material Restrictions (2026)

Section 155.655(C)(1)(h) bans barbed wire or barbed-wire-topped fences on any residentially zoned or residentially used property, carving out only the R-E and A zoning districts as exceptions. The same prohibition extends to nonresidential land under § 155.655(C)(2)(e): community facility, recreation, and commercial zoning districts cannot use barbed wire fencing either. Industrial-zoned property is the sole nonresidential exception, and even there § 155.655(C)(2)(f) requires the fence to clear the city's development review process before barbed wire goes up. The code layers on a second material restriction for the one place a front-yard fence is allowed outside a corner-lot exception: the R-MH mobile home district's front setback fence, capped at three feet, must be built of decorative aluminum or wood and stay no more than 50% opaque under § 155.655(C)(1)(d)(2), and that same subsection bars chicken wire or any wire-type fence from being used there.

Pool enclosures follow a separate materials standard entirely: wooden-type pool safety barriers must be built nonscalable and impenetrable, and wire barriers must be two-inch chain-link or diamond-weave mesh, under § 150.55, so a fence that also serves as a pool barrier has to satisfy both that section and § 155.655's general material rules.