Best Fence Company In Bella Vista AR

A fence here needs two separate approvals. A fence permit from the city, and approval from the POA’s Architectural Control Committee.

No. And the ACC cannot waive a city rule either. They are independent of each other.

Whichever is stricter. The zoning code says plainly that it does not abrogate any deed restriction or covenant.

Where the city rule is more restrictive, the city rule controls. Where the private restriction is more restrictive, the private restriction controls — but only if somebody with the legal right to enforce it actually enforces it.

No. The code states it directly: the City does not enforce private restrictions.

That is a neighbour-to-neighbour or association matter, not a code complaint.

Not necessarily, and this is the one that catches people. The ACC measures from natural grade — the topography as it existed when the lot was first sold by the developer — rather than from today’s finished grade.

On a lot that has been cut or filled, those are different numbers.

We build to whichever standard is tighter and we tell you up front where the two differ.

Confirm your specific ACC requirements with the POA, since their guidelines are their own and they update them.

Three feet in the front yard on residential lots under four acres. Up to eight feet in the side and rear yards.

It is. Rogers and Springdale both cap out at six. Bella Vista allows eight above average grade, the most generous rear-yard limit in the area.

Then you may go taller than three feet in the front yard, up to eight — provided the fence is marking a property boundary and does not completely visually occlude the lot from the public right of way.

In plain terms: a boundary fence, not a privacy wall along the road.

Nonresidential districts may run up to eight feet in the front yard.

Yes, and this one surprises people. If you own an adjacent lot and it is undeveloped, the required front yard extends onto that lot too.

So the three-foot limit follows you sideways.

Any portion of the lot forward of the footprint of your primary structure. Not the setback line — the footprint of the house itself.

Whichever way your primary pedestrian entry faces. In plain terms, your front door.

No, and this is worth knowing if you have moved within the area. Rogers keys it to street frontage, so both street sides of a corner lot are restricted. Springdale keys it to the orientation of the structure. Bella Vista keys it to the front door.

Three towns, three different answers on the same corner lot.

Yes. You may not construct, alter or relocate any fence in the city without one.

It depends how much. Replacing less than 49 percent of the linear length is exempt.

At more than 50 percent, or if you change the size, location or material — chain link to wood privacy, say — you need a permit.

Yes. Even under the 49 percent threshold, the replaced portion must not impede the visibility triangle, impede a natural drainageway, sit in a utility easement that requires gated access, or encroach a neighbour’s line.

• Property lines
• All existing and proposed structures and features, including pools, spas and sheds
• Existing fencing that is staying
• Portions being replaced
• The new fencing
• A note giving proposed height and construction type

It becomes void if you do not start within 180 days of approval. And if work stops for 180 days after starting, you either apply for an extension or take out a new permit.

The Director. There is no hearing. It gets approved, denied, or approved with conditions.

Bella Vista and Bentonville both require fence permits. Farmington, Rogers and Springdale generally do not.

It is one of the biggest practical differences in the region.

Yes. Every fenced enclosure built under this code must have at least one gate in its perimeter.

There is, and it is the most unusual fence rule we have found in any town around here. Any fence segment abutting a thoroughfare — corner lots excepted — must provide one gate opening per lot.

The reason is maintenance: somebody has to be able to get into the strip between your fence and the street pavement to mow it.

Then you can be exempt, but only if the association’s responsibility for that area is recorded with the city. A letter is no longer enough.

A fence enclosing a utility easement must have a gate installed to permit access to the easement.

So that is potentially three separate reasons your fence needs a gate.

A gate costs more than a panel, yes. But it costs far less designed in than cut in afterwards, which is why we ask about easements and thoroughfares before quoting.

No, and there is no way around it. The code says a fence is not allowed in the right of way and is not subject to a variance request.

Bentonville lets you apply for a waiver. Bella Vista does not.

You can, but you assume the risk of doing so. If the utility needs to dig, that is your fence. And it has to have a gate for access.

A fence must not impede the normal flow of stormwater and must not cross an open drainage channel. Anything proposed in a drainage easement is reviewed case by case.

Your fence also must not create any net impact to pre-construction stormwater flows.

No fence over a public access easement at all. Over a private emergency access easement, the fire department has to approve it so emergency vehicles can still get through.

A survey and a plat. On this terrain, with the number of easements and drainage ways, Bella Vista is the town where we most often recommend getting the property surveyed before we set a post.

Yes, and it is the most precise of any city nearby.

Forty-five feet along each curb where arterials or collectors intersect. Thirty feet at local street intersections.

If there are no curbs, you measure the same distances along the property lines instead.

Nothing may obstruct between two and a half feet and nine feet above the average street grade. That expressly includes fences, walls, screens, signs, structures and landscaping.

It is, and that is the point — it is set at a driver’s sight line. Inside that triangle a three-foot fence is already too tall.

This is the single most common place we see corner-lot plans need adjusting.

Yes. Where streets do not meet at or near right angles, the Director may increase the required distance.

Outdoor pools, including above-ground pools, and uncovered spas and hot tubs more than two feet deep must be protected by a fence designed to restrict access by children, meeting the Arkansas Fire Prevention Code.

They do. The trigger is water more than two feet deep, not the type of pool.

Yes — four hens, on a single-family property. No roosters, none at duplexes or multi-family, and no outside slaughter.

This is where Bella Vista is unique. The enclosure must be secured, fenced, and at least 100 square feet. It has to be in the side or rear yard, it is prohibited in the front yard, and it must sit at least 25 feet from neighbouring dwellings measured from the property line.

Bella Vista is the only town around here that sets a minimum enclosure size rather than just a limit on birds.

It can, and no other town nearby has this rule. If a hive sits within 25 feet of a property line, measured from the nearest point of the hive, you must establish and maintain a flyway barrier at least six feet high of solid construction.

The idea is to push the bees’ flight path up over head height before they cross the line.

It scales with lot size — one at a quarter acre or less, up to four on larger lots, and no limit at all if every hive sits at least 200 feet from every property line.

Colonies must be registered with the Arkansas State Plant Board.

More specifically than anywhere else. The Director may order the repair or removal of a fence that is more than five percent damaged, or leaning ten degrees from vertical.

It is not. A fence that has started to lean noticeably is already close.

On this terrain, leaning is usually a post depth or a drainage problem rather than a panel problem, which is why we spend the money below ground.

Failing to remove a fence installed in violation, or one whose permit has expired, is an enumerated violation under the code.

Yes. And on a repair it is worth checking the 49 percent line first — under it you are exempt from the permit, over it you are not.

Front-yard fences up to eight feet. If your property abuts residential, expect a package: side and rear setbacks increased by ten feet, Type A opaque screening, fencing, and compliant lighting.

Opaque from the ground to at least six feet, with intermittent visual obstruction above that up to twenty feet.

It can be a wall, a fence, an earth berm or planting, but it has to stay opaque in all seasons.

Yes, and it is new in this code. Every non-residential lot needs a screened dumpster enclosure matching the building’s colour, built in block or masonry, in the side or rear yard, on a concrete loading pad — with a metal gate at eight feet maximum.

We build those gates.

Outside runs need at least a six-foot fence or wall, with an attendant on site around the clock, and setbacks of 100 to 250 feet from residential depending on the district.

If you are a developer, fencing of detention and retention ponds has to be in place before the city will accept subdivision improvements.

Your zoning. The 2025 code came with a new zoning map, and several districts were renamed, merged or removed.

If you are working from what your property used to be zoned, check it before you plan a fence.