The San Jose Fence Company serves Santa Clara, CA for fence installation, fence repair and gates, with free estimates and written quotes. Call (408) 217-2790 or text a photo of the job.
Fence Installation & Repair services in Santa Clara
Santa Clara has three kinds of fence work stacked north to south. Around the university, the Old Quad has some of the oldest houses in the valley on small lots, where a low front fence in wood picket or iron suits the street and fits the city's 3-foot front yard limit and side yards are tight. South and west of there, block after block of single-story tract homes went up after the war, and their board fences run in long shared lines behind the houses. North of the Caltrain tracks and up toward the bay, the land turns to data centers, offices, warehouses and the stadium district, and the jobs become chain link, steel pickets and rolling gates. The ground is level valley clay almost everywhere, so slope is rarely the problem. Tired posts and summer-dried boards are.
Neighborhoods we cover in Santa Clara
- Old Quad
- Rivermark
- Killarney Farms
- Westwood Oaks
- Maywood
Permits and local rules
Santa Clara's Planning Division says fences are generally limited to 3 feet in the required front yard and along the street side, and to 6 feet behind those yards, with 1 foot of open lattice allowed on top. On a corner lot the narrower street frontage counts as the front, whichever way the house faces. The Planning Division confirms the rule for a lot, and we ask the Building Division about any wall or powered gate.