Fence laws in Coral Springs, Florida
What the Coral Springs municipal code says about fences, one topic at a time, with the section number and a link to the document behind every line. Where Coral Springs sets no rule of its own, the Florida rule is shown in its place and marked as such.
Fence laws in Coral Springs, Florida, question by question
The short version
- Who pays on the line
- A Coral Springs fence or wall may stand in a required yard, but not within two and a half feet of a street right of way, and where a sidewalk runs through that right of way the same two and a half feet is measured from the edge of the sidewalk instead. The figure is 2.5 feet, for distance a fence or wall stands back from a street right of way.
- How tall
- Coral Springs prints two height tables and the hedge does far better than the fence, and the answer turns on the zoning district, the yard, and whether the barrier is a fence, a wall or a hedge. The figure is 4 feet, for fence or wall in a residential front yard.
- Permits
- Putting a Coral Springs fence or wall in an easement takes written approval from the city and from whoever owns the easement, and only in a residential district is the city step dropped, leaving the water or drainage district to decide on its own. The figure is 50 percent, for share of a fence section whose repair triggers full replacement to current code.
- Pool barriers
- Florida requires a pool barrier at least four feet high, measured on the outside. The figure is 4 feet, for residential swimming pool barrier, measured on the outside.
- Spite fences
- Coral Springs has no spite fence statute. The chapters that were read are listed below. Cities and counties decide this one.
- Measured from what
- Florida answers the measuring question outright in its oldest fence section. The figure is 5 feet, for a general fence built with a ditch, measured from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the fence. It reaches a general fence built with a trench or ditch only.
- Corner lots
- Coral Springs draws a triangle thirty feet along each right of way line from the point where two or more public rights of way meet, closes it with a line joining the two ends, and holds everything inside to three feet above the nearest street grade. The figure is 30 feet, for length of each leg of the sight triangle.
- Retaining walls
- Florida statute names a wall that holds back earth in one place, and it is about how many permits a town can charge for. It reaches a house, a duplex or a townhouse only.
- Materials
- Table C in the Coral Springs code approves a fence type and a material together rather than one at a time, crossing shadowbox, picket, tongue and groove with lattice, chain link and custom decorative against wood, vinyl coated, PVC, molded polyethylene composite, aluminum and wrought iron, and the answer turns on the combination of fence type and material in Table C.
- Livestock
- Barbed wire is a restricted material in every Coral Springs district except A-1 limited agricultural, and it is barred outright from residential districts and from the line between a residential district and anything else. The figure is 15 feet, for distance grazing barbed wire stays from a street or residential lot line.
Who owns the fence between two properties in Coral Springs?
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Coral Springs answers this in its own law. The words that do it are quoted below.
A Coral Springs fence or wall may stand in a required yard, but not within two and a half feet of a street right of way, and where a sidewalk runs through that right of way the same two and a half feet is measured from the edge of the sidewalk instead. A utility easement along a street side line cancels the setback entirely. Every part of the fence, its posts and its concrete has to sit inside the plot line, with zero lot line developments and written special district permission the only exceptions.
However, no fence or wall shall be located closer than two and one-half (2½) feet to any street right-of-way.
2.5 ftdistance a fence or wall stands back from a street right of way
Also on fences on the property line in Coral Springs
- no rule, documents checkedFlorida has no law about splitting the cost of a fence on a boundary. Chapter 588 is about legal fences and livestock, and every section in it deals with fence strength, posted land and impounding animals. Chapter 704, which covers easements and rights of entry, says nothing about a boundary fence either. In Florida the split is whatever the two neighbors agree to. Fla. Stat. ch. 588Florida · Statute
How tall can a fence be in Coral Springs?
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Coral Springs answers this, but the answer changes depending on the zoning district, the yard, and whether the barrier is a fence, a wall or a hedge.
Coral Springs prints two height tables and the hedge does far better than the fence. A residential fence or wall gets four feet in the front yard and six in the rear, interior side and street side. A non-residential one gets four in front, eight in the rear and interior side, and six on the street side. A hedge gets ten feet in the rear and interior side of any residential lot, six in the front of an RS-1 estate lot and four in the front of every other one. Entry columns at a driveway in the RS-1, RS-3, RS-4 and RS-5 districts may run twenty percent above the fence limit.
Fences and walls constructed or hedges planted within a required setback of a property zoned in the following categories shall not exceed the height specified in Tables (A) and (B), except as provided herein:
The answer turns on the zoning district, the yard, and whether the barrier is a fence, a wall or a hedge.
- a residential front yard
- Four feet for a fence or wall. 4 ft
- a residential rear, interior side or street side yard
- Six feet for a fence or wall. 6 ft
- a non-residential rear or interior side yard
- Eight feet. 8 ft
- a hedge in a residential rear or interior side yard
- Ten feet. 10 ft
Also on fence height in Coral Springs
- no rule, documents checkedFlorida sets no statewide limit on how tall a fence at a house can be. The only height in the fence chapter is the five foot floor that makes a fence a legal fence for holding livestock, which is a minimum for farm land and not a cap for a yard. The permit statute names no height either. Height comes from city and county ordinance. Fla. Stat. ch. 588Florida · Statute
Do I need a permit for a fence in Coral Springs?
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Coral Springs answers this in its own law. The words that do it are quoted below.
Putting a Coral Springs fence or wall in an easement takes written approval from the city and from whoever owns the easement, and only in a residential district is the city step dropped, leaving the water or drainage district to decide on its own. The code adds a rule that catches ordinary maintenance: where half or more of an existing section of fence is repaired or replaced, the whole section has to be brought up to the current code rather than patched to match what was there.
Fences, walls and other accessory structures located in easements shall require written approval of the City of Coral Springs and appropriate owner of easement.
50%share of a fence section whose repair triggers full replacement to current code
Also on permits in Coral Springs
- set in state lawFlorida runs one building code for the whole state and makes a permit the default for building work. The statute itself says nothing about fences. It does force a local government to skip the permit for work on a single family home worth under $7,500. The fence exemption by height is in the Florida Building Code, not in the statute. Fla. Stat. 553.79(1)(a)Florida · Statute
Pool fence requirements in Coral Springs
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Florida answers this in its own law. The words that do it are quoted below.
Florida requires a pool barrier at least four feet high, measured on the outside. The same section bars gaps or footholds that let a small child get under, through or over it. The barrier has to ring the pool itself and has to be separate from a yard fence, unless that yard fence runs along the pool and meets the same rules. Gates swing away from the pool and latch on their own.
This one is Florida law, not Coral Springs law. All Florida findings
The barrier must be at least 4 feet high on the outside.
4 ftresidential swimming pool barrier, measured on the outside
Spite fence laws in Coral Springs
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Coral Springs law has no rule about this. The chapters that were read are listed below. Cities and counties decide it instead.
Florida has no spite fence law. The fence chapter sets no height that sets anything off and no rule about why a fence went up. Chapter 823, the public nuisance chapter, runs from bonfires to abandoned boats and never reaches a fence built to annoy a neighbor. A claim in Florida rests on common law nuisance instead, which is judge made rather than written by the legislature.
This one is Florida law, not Coral Springs law. All Florida findings
Documents read before writing that:
- Fla. Stat. ch. 588The Florida Senate
- Fla. Stat. ch. 823The Florida Senate
How fence height is measured in Coral Springs
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Florida answers this in its own law. The words that do it are quoted below.
Florida answers the measuring question outright in its oldest fence section. A general fence stands at least five feet and keeps its gaps under four inches for the first two feet up from the ground. Where the fence is built with a trench beside it, those five feet run from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the fence. A bottom point and a top point, both named, which is the part most state fence rules leave out. The rule is about holding livestock. A yard fence in a Florida city is sized by local land development rules adopted under section 163.3202, and those rules carry their own way of measuring.
This one is Florida law, not Coral Springs law. All Florida findings
provided, that when any fence or enclosure shall be made with a trench or a ditch, the same shall be 4 feet wide; and in that case the fence shall be 5 feet high from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the fence.
5 fta general fence built with a ditch, measured from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the fence
Fence rules for corner lots in Coral Springs
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Coral Springs answers this in its own law. The words that do it are quoted below.
Coral Springs draws a triangle thirty feet along each right of way line from the point where two or more public rights of way meet, closes it with a line joining the two ends, and holds everything inside to three feet above the nearest street grade. The rule applies in every district and catches a hedge grown to that height as surely as a fence built to it.
In all districts, no fence, wall or hedge shall be erected, constructed, maintained or grown to a height exceeding three (3) feet above the street grade nearest thereto within a triangle formed by the intersection of two (2) or more public rights-of-way with two (2) sides of the triangular area being thirty (30) feet in length along the abutting public right-of-way lines, measured from their point of intersection, and the third side being a line connecting the ends of the other two (2) lines.
30 ftlength of each leg of the sight triangle
Also on corner visibility in Coral Springs
- set in state lawFlorida has a state rule about blocking a driver from seeing what is coming, and it is written about signs. Chapter 479 bans a sign on the inside of a curve, or placed any way that could keep road users from seeing approaching vehicles, next to a state highway or a federal aid primary road. Section 337.406 adds that using a state road right of way in a way that gets in the way of traffic is unlawful. Neither one draws a triangle on a corner lot. That is left to local land development rules. Fla. Stat. 479.11Florida · Traffic code
Retaining wall rules in Coral Springs
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Florida answers this in its own law. The words that do it are quoted below.
Florida statute names a wall that holds back earth in one place, and it is about how many permits a town can charge for. When one wall runs across more than one lot, the local government has to issue a single permit for the whole job and cannot demand one for each lot the wall crosses. The rule is written for houses, duplexes and townhouses. It sets no height and it does not say how the wall has to be built.
This one is Florida law, not Coral Springs law. All Florida findings
If a retaining wall spans more than one lot or parcel, a local government that issues building permits must issue a permit for a retaining wall for the project as a whole and may not require a building permit for each lot or parcel upon which a retaining wall is installed on the property of a single-family or two-family residential dwelling or a townhouse.
Also on retaining walls in Coral Springs
- left to the townThe height at which a wall that holds back earth needs a permit is not in Florida statute. It is in the Florida Building Code, which the Florida Building Commission rewrites every three years from the newest International Building Code and International Residential Code. Once the commission adopts it, that code applies across the state with no vote by any city or county, and a local government may only make it stricter. Fla. Stat. 553.73(7)(a)Florida · Statute
Fence materials allowed in Coral Springs
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Coral Springs answers this, but the answer changes depending on the combination of fence type and material in Table C.
Table C in the Coral Springs code approves a fence type and a material together rather than one at a time, crossing shadowbox, picket, tongue and groove with lattice, chain link and custom decorative against wood, vinyl coated, PVC, molded polyethylene composite, aluminum and wrought iron. Chain link is permitted only vinyl coated, and only in green, black or bronze, with bare metal and galvanized prohibited and slats banned everywhere in the city. Wood has to be pressure treated pine, redwood or cedar, five eighths of an inch nominal thickness, with the finished side facing neighboring property. Anything outside the grid goes to the Architectural Review Committee and then the City Manager.
All chain link fences must be vinyl coated and green, black or bronze. Bare metal or galvanized chain link fences are prohibited.
250128(1) Table C, (2) and (3)
The answer turns on the combination of fence type and material in Table C.
- a wood fence
- Pressure treated pine, redwood or cedar, five eighths of an inch thick.
- a chain link fence
- Vinyl coated in green, black or bronze, and never in a residential front yard.
- a type or material not in Table C
- Architectural Review Committee, with final approval by the City Manager or designee.
Also on materials in Coral Springs
- set in state lawFlorida describes its legal fence by the wire it uses. The fence stands at least three feet tall with three or more strands of barbed or other soft wire on supports no more than twenty feet apart. Battens let the supports stand farther apart, and an electric fence built with high tensile wire gets the widest spacing of all. Fla. Stat. 588.011Florida · Statute
Livestock and boundary fence law in Coral Springs
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Coral Springs answers this in its own law. The words that do it are quoted below.
Barbed wire is a restricted material in every Coral Springs district except A-1 limited agricultural, and it is barred outright from residential districts and from the line between a residential district and anything else. Grazing land is the one route open to an ordinary property: five acres or more used for livestock, barbed wire no higher than five feet, and nothing within fifteen feet of a street line or a platted residential lot line. Elsewhere it takes a construction site with a live permit, a utility site, an essential public service, or an application to the director of development services proving the risk is substantially greater without it.
On properties of five (5) acres or more in any district which is used for livestock grazing provided barbed wire shall not be used at a height greater than five (5) feet or within fifteen (15) feet of a street line or platted residential lot line.
15 ftdistance grazing barbed wire stays from a street or residential lot line
Also on agricultural fencing in Coral Springs
- set in state lawFlorida sets a legal fence at three feet high, made of barbed or other soft wire, with at least three strands pulled tight on posts, trees or other supports no more than twenty feet apart. With battens the supports may stand up to sixty feet apart for a plain fence and one hundred fifty feet for an electric one built with high tensile wire. Any other material that meets about the same specs counts, and gates are built to the same standard. Fla. Stat. 588.011Florida · Statute
- set in state lawFlorida runs one livestock law over the whole state, and holding the animals in is the owner's job. An owner who lets livestock run loose or stray onto a public road pays for all the injury and property damage that follows. Section 588.25 leaves county laws in place where they already require livestock to be penned, and fills the gap where they do not. Fla. Stat. 588.15Florida · Statute
Documents behind this page
10 documents, of which 1 was published by Coral Springs itself. Each was read on the date shown.
- The Florida Senate2026 Florida Statutes, Chapter 588, Legal Fences and Livestock at Large
- The Florida Senate2026 Florida Statutes, Chapter 704, Easements
- City of Coral SpringsLand Development Code, Chapter 25 Zoning Ordinance, Article I, Section 250128, Fences, walls and hedges
- The Florida LegislatureThe 2026 Florida Statutes, Chapter 553, Part IV, Florida Building Code
- The Florida LegislatureThe 2026 Florida Statutes, Chapter 515, Residential Swimming Pool Safety Act
- The Florida Senate2026 Florida Statutes, Chapter 823, Public Nuisances
- The Florida Senate2026 Florida Statutes, Chapter 479, Outdoor Advertising, Section 479.11, Specified signs prohibited
- The Florida LegislatureThe 2026 Florida Statutes, Chapter 553, Part IV, Florida Building Code
- The Florida LegislatureThe 2026 Florida Statutes, Chapter 553, Part IV, Florida Building Code
- Florida LegislatureThe 2025 Florida Statutes, Title XLV, Chapter 588, Legal Fences and Livestock at Large
What this page does not cover
A city ordinance is not the only rule that reaches a fence. The zoning district a parcel sits in can change the height allowed on it, and so can an overlay district, a recorded easement, a fire hazard severity zone or a coastal zone. A homeowner association can be stricter than the city and nothing in the municipal code will say so. None of those appear here.
The rules above are the ones Coral Springs publishes, plus the Florida rules that apply where the city sets none. Fence laws in Florida has the state layer in full.
This is general information drawn from published government documents. It is not legal advice, ordinances are amended, and the date beside each finding is the date the document was read. How findings are made · What the terms mean