Gardena zoning governs fences on side and rear property lines shared with neighbors, capping them at eight feet and requiring corner cutbacks where two corner-lot rear yards abut for sightline safety.
Gardena Municipal Code Chapter 18.42 controls fences on shared side and rear property lines, where a fence up to eight feet is permitted. Where the rear yards of two corner lots abut, on a reversed corner lot, or wherever visibility is impaired, fence, hedge or wall height must drop to three feet within a ten-foot corner cutback. The community development director may grant up to a twenty percent height increase on a side or rear fence, wall or hedge. Gardena's zoning code does not set cost-sharing between neighbors; those private matters fall under California's Good Neighbor Fence Law (Civil Code Section 841), which presumes adjoining owners share equally in a boundary fence's reasonable cost.
A shared fence exceeding height limits or blocking a required corner cutback can be ordered corrected; cost-sharing disputes are civil matters, not city code enforcement.
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