Best Fence Company In Bentonville AR

Yes. The Bentonville Community Code was adopted by City Council in April 2026 and took effect in May 2026. It combined the zoning and land development regulations into one ordinance.

Because the fence rules moved. They now sit in the Community Code’s fences and walls provisions rather than in the old zoning appendix.

The previous appendices are still visible in the online code, so it is easy to read a superseded section and think it is current.

Nothing, if your contractor is working from the current code. Ask.

If someone quotes you a section number from the old appendix, they are reading the wrong document.

In the residential and mid-scale districts, a frontage fence — one between your building and the sidewalk — may be up to four feet. Privacy and security fences may be up to six feet.

Because Bentonville uses a transect system. Districts run from the rural edge through the town centre, and the fence rules change with them.

Most ordinary neighbourhoods sit in the residential and lower transect districts, where the four-and-six answer applies.

The most rural district is more generous, and more particular. Fences are limited to four feet within forty feet of any lot line, but may run up to twelve feet elsewhere on the property.

Barbed wire and electrified fences are not allowed within forty feet of a lot line.

Frontage fencing is not allowed at all in the town centre districts, with narrow exceptions. Outdoor dining areas may be fenced to four feet with entrances kept accessible. Forecourts may be enclosed up to eight feet provided at least a quarter of the fence above four feet is transparent and gates are at least half transparent.

Privacy and security fences in those districts may reach eight feet.

Ask the Planning Department, or ask us. We check before quoting, because the answer changes the fence.

Not next to the street. Bentonville requires that a fence or wall not be placed closer than five feet from a current or proposed right of way.

Yes, and that is the part that catches people. If the city has a planned road widening or a future right of way mapped on your frontage, the five feet is measured from that, not from today’s curb.

There is. The code allows an administrative waiver down to three feet.

It is a defined process rather than a favour, and it is worth asking about before you redesign the whole fence.

Three more:

• A fence may not block drainage or alter stormwater flow
• It may not block access to utility equipment
• It must comply with Arkansas Department of Transportation clear zone requirements and must not obstruct sight triangles at intersections or driveways

It requires that you not obstruct them and points at the ArDOT standard rather than printing a homeowner-friendly number.

On a corner lot or beside a driveway, that is a conversation to have before the posts go in.

Yes. A fence permit is required before construction and replacement of fences and walls, except where the fence is already shown on an approved preliminary plat or large-scale development.

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

It is one of the bigger practical differences in the area.

More than most people expect. A site plan or detailed drawing showing:

• Property lines
• Existing structures
• Any existing or proposed pool or spa
• Existing fencing that is staying
• Existing fence being replaced
• The new fence

Plus a written description of the proposed height and construction type, any requests for administrative adjustment, and a cut sheet or photo of the fence style labelling which side is the finished surface.

Yes. Springdale puts finished-side-out in its code. Bentonville handles it through the permit: you identify the finished face on the application.

Yes. The drawing and the style sheet are part of what we produce, and it is a good reason to talk to us before you file rather than after.

If your project disturbs more than ten thousand square feet of land, or disturbs land within a drainageway, a separate land disturbance permit applies.

That is unusual on a residential fence but real on acreage and commercial work.

They have their own, and Bentonville’s are the clearest of any city nearby.

Retaining and landscape walls up to four feet are allowed anywhere on a lot with no retaining wall permit.

Over four feet, the wall must be designed by a Professional Engineer licensed in Arkansas and requires a retaining wall permit.

From the bottom of the footing to the top of the wall, not from the ground surface. That distinction moves a lot of walls over the line.

Retaining walls along street frontages may not exceed four feet unless they are terraced or incorporated into the design, which needs a Planning Commission waiver.

Only if you terrace them properly. Each wall must be separated horizontally by at least the height of the lower wall, and multiple retaining walls are counted as a single wall for height purposes.

Stacking two four-foot walls a foot apart does not avoid the engineering requirement.

Private pools, hot tubs and spas containing water more than 24 inches deep must be completely surrounded by a fence or barrier at least 48 inches high, measured above finished ground level on the side away from the pool.

If it holds water more than 24 inches deep, yes. The depth is the trigger, not the type.

Gates and doors must be self-closing and self-latching. If the latch sits less than 54 inches above the bottom of the gate, the release mechanism has to be on the pool side.

And the gate must positively close and latch when released from six inches open. That is a test you can actually perform on a finished gate.

Yes, and this one matters. An existing pool enclosure may not be removed, replaced or changed in a way that reduces its effectiveness as a safety barrier.

A like-for-like swap still has to meet the standard.

No more than two on residential property, unless they are in an enclosed garage, or in a side or rear yard that is enclosed by a fence at least six feet tall and opaque.

For the yard-parking exception, yes. That is the rule as written, and it is the reason a lot of Bentonville privacy fences get built.

The requirement is an opaque fence. Chain link is not opaque, and slats are a poor substitute at that height.

Solid wood, vinyl or composite is what does the job.

Only one recreational vehicle or trailer may be parked between the paved edge of the street and the residence.

Different answer, and worth flagging because the neighbouring towns differ. In Bentonville an inoperable vehicle must be in a carport or enclosed building. A fence does not solve it.

In Farmington, screening it behind a solid fence does. Do not assume the Farmington answer works here.

Yes, and Bentonville is the most generous nearby: up to six hens per single-family dwelling. No hobby chickens in multi-family complexes.

No roosters. And no outside slaughtering of birds.

This is the part that affects the fence. All hen enclosures must be in a rear or side yard and placed at least 25 feet from neighbouring dwellings.

On a normal lot that meaningfully narrows where the run can sit.

Bentonville allows six hens with a 25-foot setback. Rogers allows four, requires a five-dollar permit, and requires a solid fence that chain link does not satisfy. Springdale has no residential hen rules at all.

Enclosures must be kept clean and sanitary and cleaned regularly to prevent odour, and feed has to be in a container with a tight-fitting lid so rodents cannot get at it.

Bentonville has a dedicated section. You must post a warning sign on each external side of the fence or compound, spaced no more than 100 feet apart.

The system must be designed for that animal, or equivalent to a commercial product, and at a voltage that will not injure or kill it. Causing that harm is treated as cruelty.

Yes. Accessory structures, including fences and walls, must be maintained structurally sound and in good repair.

A leaning or failing fence is a code matter, not just an eyesore.

The City of Bentonville is at 305 SW A Street, 479-271-3112. Planning handles zoning and district questions; Building Inspection handles permits.

Yes. We produce the site drawing and the style sheet, and we work from the current Community Code rather than the superseded appendix.

Yes. Security fence, screening, dumpster enclosures, gates and access control.