Locate the yard
Front, side, rear and flanking yards can use different limits.
Canadian fence & boundary rule reference
Clear answers for Canadian fence rules.
Fence height, front-yard limits, corner sightlines, pool enclosures and permit routes—organized city by city from official sources.
127 local guides
Current city/community coverage
10 provinces
Province → City
Updated Sep. 22, 2026
Current review date
100 fence-rule cities10 provincesMunicipal source routesSep 22, 2026 package data snapshot
Interactive rule check
Front yard, side yard or rear yard?
The same city can use different fence heights on different parts of the lot. The checker only shows a number when our researched source supports a simple answer.
Open fence height checker →Source-honest by design
38
cities with a numeric planning result
cities with a numeric planning result
100
cities with an official route
cities with an official route
0
borrowed nearby-city heights
borrowed nearby-city heights
Fence rules by place
Find the fence rule where the property is.
Fence rules start locally. Pick the province, then open the municipality where the property sits.
Plan the fence in the right sequence
Sort out the lot before you price the fence.
Check the exception
Corner sightlines, pools, walls and over-height designs can change the route.
Open the source
Use the city bylaw or zoning page linked from the local guide.
Fence questions
The rule checks that most often change a fence plan.
Fence height rules in CanadaWhy front, side and rear yards can have different limits—and why copying a neighbour’s height is risky.→Corner-lot fences and sightlinesHow visibility triangles, driveways and flanking streets change a fence plan.→Pool and hot-tub enclosure rulesWhy a pool enclosure is not just an ordinary property-line fence.→Property lines, surveys and shared fencesHow to separate municipal fence rules from the civil question of where the boundary actually is.→
Change logVerified local change Source review
Freshness that says what actually changed.
Burnaby, BC
Burnaby’s fence guide now points to the current Zoning Bylaw that took effect July 1, 2026. Older handouts are not used as the controlling source.
Canada-wide
All 127 city routes were rechecked for source depth. Existing audited city pages have topic-specific official routes; 25 new municipalities require local bylaw verification; numeric heights still appear only where the evidence supports a safe local result.