Neither the Hendersonville Zoning Ordinance nor the Hendersonville Municipal Code contains a 'good-side-out' requirement, a partition-fence statute, or a mandatory cost-sharing rule for residential boundary fences. Hendersonville Chapter 10.4.9 requires the framing members of board fences not be directly visible from the street (an aesthetic rule), but it does not dictate cost-sharing or which neighbor must face the finished side. Tennessee common law governs boundary disputes, and the City does not survey property lines.
Hendersonville's Residential Fence Standards (Chapter 10.4.9) include one orientation-style rule under Design Guidelines: 'The framing members of all board fences shall not be directly visible from the street. Placement may be approved by the Planning Department if it is determined that it enhances the architectural character of the fence.' This is a street-facing finish rule, not a neighbor-to-neighbor finished-side requirement. The standards expressly require: 'A fence or wall shall be completely within the boundaries of the lot on which it is located,' and 'PROPERTY OWNER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR VERIFYING PROPERTY LINES.' Tennessee does not have a comprehensive statewide partition-fence statute for residential properties; outside the agricultural fence provisions in Tennessee Code Annotated Title 44, Chapter 8 (Fences and Property Boundaries), residential boundary fences are governed by common-law trespass, nuisance, and adverse-possession principles. The City of Hendersonville Planning Department and Building & Codes Department do not survey property lines, adjudicate cost-sharing disputes, or enforce HOA covenants. The Planning Department will, however, refuse to approve a fence that is shown to encroach into a recorded easement or street right-of-way ('The fence shall not encroach upon street right-of-way, including future/planned right-of-way').
Building a fence across a property line is a civil trespass that the City does not enforce; the encroaching fence must be removed by court order if the neighbor sues. A fence that violates Chapter 10.4.9 (height, location, material, right-of-way encroachment) is enforceable by the Planning Department regardless of which neighbor complains. Boards with framing members directly visible from the street violate the Design Guidelines unless the Planning Department approves the placement.
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