Port St. Lucie, FL Fence Regulations: Neighbor Fence Rules (2026)

216(F) is one clause inside the city's broader Fences and Privacy Walls ordinance, which also caps residential fence height at 8 feet under subsection (B), sets a 25-foot front setback and a 25-foot rear setback along a public right-of-way under subsections (C) and (D), and lets corner-lot fences sit closer to a side street if they don't block the sight triangle under subsection (E). Subsection (F) addresses who is responsible once the fence goes up: it must be built entirely inside the property line shown on the recorded plat, and the property owner, not the neighbor, has to maintain the ground on both sides of that fence line.

That maintenance duty runs alongside a separate obligation in subsection (A)(5): if the city asks a property owner to remove a fence or other improvement built inside a City drainage or utility easement, the removal cost falls on the owner, and the city disclaims responsibility for any damage caused by removing it. If a property owner lets the easement area go unrestored, subsection (A)(5)(c) lets the city step in, do the work itself, and bill the owner for the cost under Chapter 55. Because the fence has to sit inside the plat's property line rather than straddle it, a shared or 'spite' fence dispute between neighbors in Port St.

Lucie turns on where the surveyed property line actually falls, not on any cost-sharing rule; the code puts upkeep of both faces of the fence on whoever owns the land the fence sits on.