Lubbock, TX Fence Regulations: Fence Permit Requirements (2026)

062, Building work, lists the small and unimportant work Lubbock's Building Official will waive a permit for. Item (2) of that list exempts fences that are not over 7 feet (2,134 millimeters) high. That is a building-permit trigger, not a zoning height limit; it governs whether the Building Official has to review plans and issue a permit before the fence goes up, separate from the maximum fence heights the Unified Development Code sets for front, side, and rear yards. 062, but a fence over 7 feet, whether it is a privacy fence, a screening wall for a commercial site, or a tall perimeter fence around a storage yard, needs a permit application submitted to the Building Official before construction starts, the same as any other exempt-work threshold in that section.

The exemption sits in the same subsection that also waives permits for sheds under 200 square feet and retaining walls not over 4 feet, so a project combining a tall fence with another accessory structure can trip the permit requirement on the fence alone even if the other structure stays under its own threshold. Property owners planning a fence near that 7-foot mark should confirm which side of the line their design falls on before starting work, since the building code measures the full fence height, not just the finished-grade-to-top-rail dimension.