Surprise, AZ Fence Regulations: Fence Permit Requirements (2026)

B requires that no fence or wall be constructed unless it complies with the screening and wall standards in the city's Planning and Engineering Design Standards (PEDS) and the builder has first applied for and secured a building permit under LDO Chapter 105. For subdivisions, the fence and wall plan, covering every location, material, and color, must be submitted with the preliminary plat; for multi-family and non-residential developments, the same information goes through site plan review instead of a standalone permit application. The section also folds in two access rules that apply alongside the permit requirement: fences cannot block or impede pedestrian and multimodal connections built into a development, and any gate leading to an adjacent parcel must carry the neighboring owner's authorization before it can be used for access.

Every fence must additionally be set back two feet from a public utility easement (PUE) that abuts a right-of-way, a dimension Community Development checks against the submitted plan before a permit is issued. Because the permit and wall-plan steps sit inside the same subsection as the screening standards, an application that omits materials or colors, or that proposes a fence encroaching on the PUE setback, can be rejected at intake rather than after installation. B does not carve out repairs or in-kind replacements from the permit requirement.