Redding, CA Fence Regulations: Material Restrictions (2026)

12, "Miscellaneous Provisions," inside Title 13 (Streets and Sidewalks), not the zoning code, which is why it reaches every fence fronting a public way rather than only fences in specific residential or commercial districts. 030 flatly prohibits placing, using or maintaining barbed wire on any fence, or any adjunct to it, fronting a public lane, alley, avenue, street, highway, sidewalk, crosswalk, park or place. The word "adjunct" extends the ban past the wire strand itself to fixtures added to a fence, such as barbed arms or brackets bolted onto the top rail of a chain-link fence, so mounting the wire on hardware instead of weaving it into the fence fabric does not get around the rule.

The prohibition is carried forward unchanged from the city's prior code § 24-10, so it predates the current municipal code numbering and has applied to street-facing fences in Redding for decades. Because the rule is triggered by what the fence "fronts on" rather than by zoning, a barbed-wire fence set back from any public lane, alley, street or sidewalk, for example along an interior side or rear property line that doesn't face a public way, falls outside this specific prohibition, though other code sections may still separately regulate fence height and construction there.