Davis Municipal Code 40.27.060 sets where and how tall boundary fences may be, but it does not assign shared-fence cost or maintenance; those disputes fall under California's Good Neighbor Fence Act (Civil Code 841).
Davis zoning under DMC 40.27.060 controls fence height and placement on a lot, including the four-foot limit in required yards and the seven-foot limit behind the front setback, which applies to fences on or near a shared property line. The Municipal Code does not itself allocate the cost of a shared boundary fence or require notice to a neighbor. Under California Civil Code section 841 (the Good Neighbor Fence Act), adjoining owners are presumed to share equally the reasonable cost of building and maintaining a common boundary fence, and an owner planning work must give neighbors 30 days' written notice. Property-line and encroachment disagreements are civil matters between owners, not zoning violations.
The city enforces fence height and location limits; cost-sharing or maintenance disputes over a shared fence are civil matters resolved between neighbors under state law, not by code enforcement.
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