Best Fence Company In Prairie Grove AR

It depends on whether you can see through it. A solid fence is capped at 36 inches. A fence you can see through can go to 48 inches.

Because the code regulates sight-restricting fences, not fence height alone. A solid privacy fence blocks the view; chain link or an open picket does not.

The code names chain link as its own example of a non-sight-restricting fence.

Not above 36 inches, and not within the front setback. Retaining walls and fences of 36 inches or less are the exception.

The code states it: to stop sight-restricting fences where back-to-back lots exist and a back yard runs up to a street behind the house.

It is about what the street sees, not about your privacy.

Sight-restricting fences there are prohibited within eight feet of the edge of the street or alley right of way, unless they are 36 inches or less — or 48 inches if you can see through them.

Rear and side yards are where you have room. The overall maximum anywhere is eight feet above average grade.

Yes. A permit must be obtained before construction and before replacement.

City Hall, 975 E. Douglas Street. The city issues fence permits alongside building, mechanical and sign permits.

A completed form and a plot plan showing:

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

Only if you are replacing less than 50 percent of the linear length of any straight run.

Note it is measured per straight run, not against your whole fence, so a short section can still cross the line.

Yes. Even under 50 percent, the replaced portion must not impede the sight triangle at a street intersection, driveway or alley, impede a natural drainage way, sit in a drainage easement, utility easement or right of way, or encroach a neighbour’s line.

The A-1 Agricultural zoning district is exempt from the whole chapter.

Yes. The plot plan is part of what we produce.

Effectively, yes. The code says all dogs kept in the city limits must be confined indoors or to a fenced area of sufficient height and strength to keep the animal from escaping.

The city’s own animal control page puts it plainly: all dogs must be kept in a fenced yard.

The code offers confinement indoors or a fenced area. It does not offer tethering as an alternative the way some neighbouring cities do.

Yes, and it is unusual. The fenced area may not include access to the front door of the main building or any secondary residential structures.

So you cannot simply fence the whole property and call it done. The front door approach has to stay outside the enclosure.

Up to five dogs and cats combined at a single residence. More than five requires a kennel business licence, and a kennel licence is only available in agriculturally zoned areas.

All cats and dogs in the city limits need a current city tag, renewed annually, with proof of rabies vaccination. Tags are issued at City Hall.

Outdoor pools, spas and hot tubs must be protected by an enclosure designed to restrict access by children. Where a fence serves as that enclosure, extra rules apply on top of the normal fence rules.

Minimum height 48 inches. And the gap between the bottom of the fence and the ground may be no more than two inches.

It must swing away from the pool area and be self-closing and self-latching.

If the latch is on the outside it must be at least 54 inches above the ground. If it is on the inside it must sit at least three inches below the top of the fence, with no openings wider than half an inch within 18 inches of the latch.

Gates over five feet wide for equipment access do not have to be self-closing or self-latching, provided they are locked at all times except when needed.

No opening may be large enough to pass a four-inch sphere, and the design must not create a ladder effect on the outside.

Not the usual kind. The code limits openings to one and one-quarter inches between parallel wires.

The mesh most people use for back yards and property lines is two inch, so standard chain link will not meet this. A pool enclosure needs a tighter specialty mesh — worth knowing before you order material.

No. Fences and walls adjacent to public streets or alleys must be no closer than five feet to the edge of the right of way.

Ordinary fences, yes, but you assume the risk. And the fence must have a gate installed at each end, the width of the easement, or an approved removable section independent of the rest of the fence.

Walls used as fences and footings for retaining walls are prohibited in a utility easement outright.

Fences and walls are prohibited within any platted drainage easement. A fence next to one must not impede the normal flow of stormwater.

You and your installer. The code puts that responsibility on the fence installer and the property owner, and the city can require a surveyed line as proof if the boundary is uncertain or in question.

On anything close to a boundary, an easement or a corner, yes. It costs less than moving a finished fence.

Yes. Sight-restricting fences and walls are prohibited within it near public street or alley intersections.

The code shows the sight triangle as a diagram rather than publishing a measurement, so there is no single number to design to.

There is also a catch-all: any fence or wall deemed to restrict visibility for traffic safety is prohibited.

In practice that means a corner lot plan is worth checking with the city before the posts go in, which we do as part of the permit.

Yes. Sheet metal, scrap wood, plywood and other materials not normally manufactured for fence construction are prohibited.

Prohibited in the city.

Prohibited in all residential zones other than A-1 Agricultural. Where it is allowed, it may not be placed within five feet of a public sidewalk, or within four feet of a public street or alley right of way where there is no sidewalk.

Prohibited except in A-1 Agricultural areas. Underground electric pet containment fences are allowed anywhere.

Outward, on street-facing portions of the fence. Prairie Grove only requires it where the public sees it, which is narrower than some neighbouring cities.

Probably more than one. Any fence segment abutting a public street or alley must provide one gate opening per lot, so the strip between the fence and the pavement can be maintained and mowed.

Yes. If a fence cuts off the area by the street, somebody still has to get in there.

An exception may be granted if the city receives a letter from the homeowners association confirming the association maintains the area rather than individual homeowners.

Yes. Any area such as a utility or drainage easement that gets cut off from access by your fence must also be given a gated opening. And a fence in a utility easement needs a gate at each end or an approved removable section.

Gates cost more than panels. But designing them in is far cheaper than cutting them in later, which is why we ask about easements and street frontage before quoting.

Yes, in residential zones — hens but no roosters — and the number is tied to your lot size.

Four chickens on lots of 5,000 square feet or smaller, plus one more per additional 1,250 square feet of lot area, capped at 20 on any residential lot.

Coops and roosts are only allowed in rear yards that are adequately fenced, and must be kept clean and free of odours.

Only where a minimum of two fenced acres is available for them. The fencing is not an afterthought here — it determines whether you can keep them.

Up to two rabbits, ducks or geese are allowed as pets. Commercial livestock and poultry operations are not allowed outside an Agricultural zone.

City Hall, 975 E. Douglas Street, 479-846-3038. The building inspection office reviews fence permit applications; animal control sits under the chief of police.

Chapter 11.44 of the Municipal Code, adopted by Ordinance 2018-01 and amended by Ordinance 2024-19 in October 2024. It is one of the more recently updated fence chapters in the area.

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

We are in Farmington, about ten minutes away. That matters more for the follow-up than for the install.

If something needs attention in year three, we are not driving in from another county.