Fence Company in Cave Springs, AR

Not a citywide one. The zoning regulations set no general fence height for single-family lots. The working ceiling is the state permit line: a fence over 7 feet needs a building permit. Your HOA may set a lower limit.

Six feet for a boundary wall in the RM-12 Low-Rise Multi-Family district, measured from the ground level of the adjoining property, with boundary hedges held to six feet too.

Ten feet in RM-12, with the permission of the abutting neighbors.

Three feet for a solid wall or hedge along a waterfront in RM-12, and up to six feet where the fence is partly open. Heights there are measured from the crown of the adjacent street.

A licensed professional. In RM-12, a registered civil engineer, land surveyor or architect can conclusively determine a disputed height.

Yes. The city definition of a structure expressly includes fences, along with swimming pools, poles and signs.

Yes, with one condition. Signs, fences and walls are allowed within setbacks provided site visibility is not obstructed.

Keep the view open. The regulations give no fixed sight triangle for this exception, only the rule that visibility is not blocked. Near a street corner or a driveway, a lower or open fence keeps you inside it.

Often not. The standard Cave Springs plat certificate gives the city and utility companies the right to prohibit fences within easements and to remove or trim trees there. Check your plat before you set a post.

No. Accessory buildings must sit at least ten feet from a rear lot line, stay out of public easements and off known utility or septic lines, and cover no more than 10 percent of the lot.

No. The Arkansas Residential Code exempts fences not over 7 feet from a building permit, and the city zoning regulations add no fence permit of their own.

You need a building permit. The state exemption stops at 7 feet. Call the Building Department at City Hall, (479) 248-1040, before you order material.

No. The state code says an exemption does not authorize work that breaks any other law or ordinance. Setbacks, sight lines, easements and HOA covenants all still apply.

Business licenses, demolition, pools, residential building, subcontractors and miscellaneous work. There is no fence application on the list.

48 inches, measured on the outside of the fence, and that height has to hold for 3 feet out from the fence so nothing outside becomes a step up.

Smaller than a 4-inch ball. No opening may let a 4-inch sphere through, and the gap under the fence can be no more than 2 inches over grass or gravel, or 4 inches over concrete.

Only small mesh. Chain link openings can be no larger than 1-3/4 inches, so standard 2-inch mesh does not qualify. We use 1-1/4-inch pool mesh.

Yes. If the tops of the horizontal rails are less than 45 inches apart, the rails go on the pool side and pickets can be no more than 1-3/4 inches apart. With rails 45 inches or more apart, pickets can be up to 4 inches apart.

Self-closing and self-latching. It must open away from the pool and take a lock, with the latch release at least 54 inches up unless the release is on the pool side. On a double gate, one leaf stays secured in place.

Yes. The Building Department has its own pool permit application.

One head per acre. Cows, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, ostriches, emus or similar animals are allowed at no more than one per acre, for family use only, provided they are properly fenced in or otherwise confined.

Yes, as incidental uses on the same family basis: stables, barnyards and corrals, not a commercial operation.

Service areas. On site plans other than industrial, service yards, utility meters and hardware, mechanical equipment and refuse areas must be screened from public view with walls, fencing, planting or a combination.

It has to work all year. Industrial screening must be equally effective in winter and summer, which rules out relying on deciduous planting alone.

Eight feet. Salvage and wrecking yards must screen interior areas with a uniform, neat, maintained fence no taller than eight feet, with no storage between the street and the screen and nothing stacked above it.

Yes. Guard houses, gates, fences and walls are listed accessory uses on nonresidential property.

36 inches. The city defines a sidewalk cafe as outdoor dining not enclosed by a fence or visual barrier over 36 inches.

Around detention ponds. Detention and retention pond fencing must be in place before the city accepts the improvements in a new subdivision, along with sod and aeration.

Not directly. The Karst Overlay criteria deal with what could reach the groundwater, such as fuel, oil, nitrates, phosphates, pesticides and sediment. They say nothing about fence height or posts.

Sediment. Loose soil is one of the listed contaminants, and the city drainage manual sets four water quality protection zones over the recharge area of the cave. Keep dug soil contained and out of drainage paths, especially close to the cave.

The City Council. A Karst Overlay conditional use needs published notice, notice to owners within 200 feet and a public hearing, and every application goes to the City Council for final disposition. That is for development, not a backyard fence.

No. The water quality requirements were developed with Rogers, Lowell and Springdale as well as Cave Springs, along with state and federal agencies.

No. In Cave Springs, R-4 is single-family residential. In Bentonville, R-4 is high density multifamily, and Springdale uses SF-4. Never read a district label across a city line.

In a separate document. The Code of Ordinances adopts the Planning and Zoning Regulations by reference, so the fence language is in that document, adopted by Ord. O-2016-16 and amended since, after a major 2012 rewrite.

Not always. American Legal Publishing, which hosts the Cave Springs code, notes that the posted code may not reflect the most recent ordinances. Check with City Hall for anything new.

The Building Department at City Hall, 134 N. Main Street, (479) 248-1040.

Yes. Arkansas 811 marks buried utilities for free, and it is required before digging.

They apply on top. Covenants often set height, style and color limits the city does not. Get HOA approval before you order material.