The Mountain View Fence Company serves Palo Alto, CA for fence installation, fence repair and gates, with free estimates and written quotes. Call (408) 539-2396 or text a photo of the job.
Fence Installation & Repair services in Palo Alto
Trees come first on a Palo Alto fence job. The city protects coast live oaks and valley oaks from 11.5 inches in trunk diameter, coast redwoods from 18 inches, and most other mature trees from 15 inches, so a post hole near a big trunk is planned around the roots, not through them. South of Oregon Expressway, Eichler tracts such as Greenmeadow and Fairmeadow have low rooflines, glass walls facing the yard and one long rear fence shared by several owners. There the fence is the privacy, and neighbors usually replace it together. North of the expressway, Old Palo Alto, Professorville and Crescent Park have older houses on deeper lots with hedges, brick piers and picket or iron fronts. Barron Park still has a few streets without sidewalks, where it pays to know where the lot really ends before a front fence goes in.
Neighborhoods we cover in Palo Alto
- Old Palo Alto
- Professorville
- Crescent Park
- Midtown
- Barron Park
- Greenmeadow
Permits and local rules
Palo Alto's fence handout says no fence permit is required, but the height rules in Municipal Code Chapter 16.24 still apply: 4 feet between the street setback line and the lot line, and 7 feet on interior side and rear lot lines. A corner lot may have a 6 foot fence on the street side lot line. Protected trees are defined in Municipal Code Section 8.10.020.