Fence Cost in Aurora Depends on the Yard, Not a Neighbor's Fence

The fence cost in Aurora is the work on your lot, not a figure copied from a house down the filing. A low open fence along the sidewalk and a tall privacy run on the side are different jobs, and the city's height and setback rules decide which one you can build. This guide stays on those factors. Fence estimates in Aurora show a number only after you say where to send it.

What drives the fence cost in Aurora

An Aurora quote is a stack of choices. A straight rear line and a corner that has to step back from the sidewalk are not the same day. The ordinance is one document. The plat under your house is another.

These are the pieces that move a job:

• How many feet you need, and how many corners and gates break that line
• The style, and whether the street face has to stay open
• Height, setback, and which edge faces a sidewalk or a busy street
• Posts, concrete, and the wait for a utility locate
• An approved master plan, when the filing has one
• Tear-out of an old fence, and whether a crew can reach the line

None of those is a price by itself. Aurora's neighborhood zoning page says a fence permit is not required for a new or replacement fence. The construction, design, location, and setback rules still apply, and the page tells you to call 811 before you dig.

Length, corners, and gates

The line is the spine of the job. A long rear run is simpler than a short run that turns around a patio and a garage. Each corner is another post. A gate needs hinges, a latch, and a frame that stays square. A walk gate lets a person through. A drive gate has to clear a car. If the leaf sits on a slope, the crew decides which way it swings. Count the openings before you fall in love with a picture.

Section 146-4.7.9 of the Unified Development Ordinance adds layout rules that move those openings. Every gate needs hardware that holds it closed. An unattended gate has to be self-closing, self-latching, and locked when it is not in use. A gate along a sidewalk may not swing into the public walk except while someone is passing through. The same section says all gates must be set back 35 feet from the street entry point. Read that sentence against your driveway before you plan a gate at the curb. If the wording does not match the opening you want, ask Planning & Development Services which gates it covers. This page is not a permit.

The street face and the side yard are different fences

In Aurora the street face is not a shorter copy of the side yard. The residential rules call for an open fence in front. A solid privacy run belongs on the side or the rear, where the table allows it.

A spaced wood picket fits the front. Split rail is the open fence for a larger edge. Metal picket and ornamental iron stay see-through when they meet the design rules.

A solid side or rear fence is usually closed-style wood, and the ordinance says wood or stockade fencing shall have a top rail. Craftsman cedar and cedar dog-ear are the two privacy looks people ask about. They are both wood. They are not the same fence. Cedar and redwood posts do not have to be pressure treated. Other wood posts do.

Composite is on the general materials list. Along arterial and collector streets, composite wood is allowed and vinyl is not included in that allowance. Vinyl is not on the general list either. If an association wants vinyl privacy, ask the Planning Director before you order it. A substitute is allowed only when the director finds it comparable in durability, quality, and appearance.

Galvanized chain link is acceptable in the general list, and it needs a top rail where it is permitted. A shared fence between existing homes may sit on the lot line and may be chain link or welded wire. That is not the street face. Sun and hail on a west run still belong in the visit, because a finish on wood is part of how the fence ages.

Aurora fence height, the sidewalk, and a corner

Table 4.7-4 caps a front-yard fence at 42 inches. It sits at least 18 inches back from the back of the sidewalk, unless another rule requires more. An open fence may use a solid base no taller than 18 inches, in stucco or masonry only. A wood base is not allowed. The section says open-style picket fences that are at least 50 percent opaque are permitted in the front yard. Read that sentence, and the figures beside it, before you order solid boards for the street.

Side and rear yards are capped at six feet. The table says a fence along an arterial or collector street may go up to eight feet. Confirm which street you touch before you order the taller panel.

A front-yard fence may wrap a corner at 42 inches, still 18 inches off the sidewalk. A new side-yard fence along the street has to sit at least 10 feet from the back of the sidewalk, and not less than 15 feet from the street flow line. Replacing an existing fence steps back less: at least 4 feet from the back of the sidewalk. If your rear line meets the neighbor's front yard, that edge follows the front-yard rules.

The sight triangle is separate. The neighborhood zoning page says nothing over 26 inches may stand in the visibility triangle, measured 30 feet each way along the flow line. A corner-lot fence inside that triangle uses a 45-degree angle. A tall board there blocks the view of traffic, which is why a privacy wrap usually has to stop.

A missing fence permit is not a free pass. Retaining walls in the same ordinance are not fences. Residential walls stop at 30 inches on a side or in a front yard, and at 48 inches on a rear line. A wall over 30 inches needs a pedestrian railing. If the project holds back soil, call the Building Division at 303.739.7420 before you treat it as a fence.

Posts, concrete, and the locate

The hole is part of the fence cost in Aurora even though it never shows in a photo. For fences over 42 inches, each post goes in a circular concrete base at least two feet deep and one foot across. That is a minimum in the ordinance, not a promise that two feet beats frost on your lot. A post that heaves leans the run. The crew confirms depth on site. This page will not invent a frost depth the city did not print.

Spacing changes the post count. A wood four-by-four is no more than eight feet apart, and no more than five feet apart along an arterial, unless the post is a four-by-six, which the table allows at eight feet on an arterial too. Composite on a four-by-four stops at five feet. A five-by-five composite post may go to eight. Wood picket fences over 42 inches need at least three rails, and pickets at least four inches wide in nominal size. The finished side faces the street or alley. Posts and rails stay on the house side along a street. More holes mean more concrete and more chances to meet a utility.

Call before those holes. Aurora's neighborhood page points you to Colorado 811 or 1-800-922-1987. Colorado 811 says you are legally required to contact them at least three business days before you dig, including for fence posts. The public locate is free and covers public gas, electric, water, sewer, and communications lines. Sprinklers and other private lines are not on that ticket. Within 18 inches of a mark, dig by hand. A Friday hole after a Wednesday call is too soon.

The city does not survey your lot. Corners are a licensed surveyor's job, and the property-line guide covers what that survey decides. Read the plat before you trust a satellite line. A utility easement on the rear can move the posts off the line you first drew.

A master plan can change the fence the city would allow

A fence also has to follow any extra standards in an approved master plan on the property. That is where a filing's height, color, and material notes live. The city rule and the association rule are two checks. How HOA fence approval works is the general version. Bring the guidelines if you have them.

Along E-470, residential development has to include a solid sound wall at least eight feet high on that frontage, built to the arterial rules and maintained by the developer, a Title 32 district, the association, or a business district. If your yard backs to that road, ask who owns the wall before you add a second fence. Lots beside a park, trail, drainage way, or golf course pick up more design rules. A replacement beside city open space can be set by the parks director when no plan already sets the look.

Taking the old fence out, and reaching the line

Access is part of the work. A side yard with a narrow gate and a finished patio means every post comes through by hand. A rear line a truck can reach is a different day.

Tear-out is its own task. Posts in concrete do not pull like tent stakes. The crew may cut them off or dig them out so the new holes land where the code wants them. If the old fence is on the property line, agree with the neighbor before it comes down. The city will not referee that talk.

The neighborhood page says occupants keep the ground from the rear line to the center of the alley, and they clear snow from sidewalks beside the property, including walks behind a side or rear fence. A fence with no way through to that walk is a winter problem. Put the gate where you can reach the sidewalk.

The visit checks the setback, the corner, the old posts, the slope, and whether a truck fits. How an estimate works is the short version. Denver uses its own fences page, and a Denver approval does not cross Havana.

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