Titusville fence permits and rules

Yes, a new fence in Titusville goes through a Building Department permit, which the city prices by the value of the work.

The Titusville fee ordinance lists Fence Permits among its additional fees with the notation BOV, meaning the charge is based on the value of the work (Titusville fee ordinance 33-2021). The valuation table in the same ordinance starts at $80.00 for work valued from $0.00 to and including $1,000.00 and $100.00 for $1,000.01 to $2,000.00 (Titusville fee ordinance 33-2021). If the stated cost looks underestimated, the building official may set the valuation from published construction cost data (Titusville fee ordinance 33-2021).

Fences are on the Titusville list of construction activities exempt from the plan review fee, alongside items such as re-roofs, window replacements and temporary signs (Titusville fee ordinance 33-2021). Two other lines in the ordinance matter for fence projects: work started before a permit is issued is charged a double permit fee, and permit fees cannot be refunded once 90 calendar days have passed from the issue date shown on the permit (Titusville fee ordinance 33-2021). The Titusville building permits guide covers the online application portal and inspection scheduling that apply to every permit type.

A Titusville single-family home may have a fence up to 4 feet tall in the required front yard setback and up to 6 feet in the side and rear setbacks.

Every value in the table comes from Section 30-182 of the Titusville regulations (Titusville Land Development Regulations, fences and walls division). The limits apply within the required setbacks of each zoning district, and Section 30-181 says a Titusville fence is measured on its exterior surface and includes any berm, retaining wall or other manmade improvement that would artificially circumvent the intent of the section (Titusville Land Development Regulations, fences and walls division). A berm or retaining wall under a fence is therefore part of its measured height.

Downtown has its own cap. Within the Titusville Downtown Mixed-Use district, fences, walls and screens taller than thirty inches are prohibited forward of the front or street side facade of the main building (Titusville Land Development Regulations, fences and walls division).

On a Titusville corner lot, a fence taller than 4 feet in the side corner yard must sit at least 35 feet back from the property line, and no fence may block a visibility triangle.

The 35 foot setback in Section 30-182 exists, in the code's words, to ensure adequate visibility for pedestrian and vehicle traffic, and the Titusville code includes a graphic showing the setback (Titusville Land Development Regulations, fences and walls division). A tighter rule applies along collector and arterial roads: a side corner yard setback abutting a collector or arterial roadway is limited to a maximum of 4 feet within the minimum setback set by the zoning district (Titusville Land Development Regulations, fences and walls division).

Separately, Section 30-181 says no fence shall encroach into a visibility triangle at an intersection or a driveway, as determined by the City of Titusville (Titusville Land Development Regulations, fences and walls division). The division leaves the extent of each triangle to that city determination.

Titusville allows fences of wood, aluminum, wrought iron, vinyl, brick or other materials made specifically for fences, with the finished side facing the neighbor or the street.

Section 30-181 bans non-traditional materials such as tires, mufflers, hubcaps, galvanized roofing and corrugated metal, and no Titusville fence or wall may be built, wholly or in part, of barbed wire, razor wire, electrified wire, glass shards or similar dangerous material (Titusville Land Development Regulations, fences and walls division). One exception is agricultural: barbed wire may be used with, or accessory to, a permitted agricultural use (Titusville Land Development Regulations, fences and walls division).

The orientation rule is spelled out too. Titusville fences are built with support posts facing the interior of the yard, and the good side, the side without bracing, must face the neighboring property or abutting right-of-way (Titusville Land Development Regulations, fences and walls division). The good side may face inward where the fence abuts conservation or open recreation land, a body of water including a retention pond, a commercial use, or public land (Titusville Land Development Regulations, fences and walls division). For commercial, industrial and planned industrial sites, the placement rules add that fences facing the Indian River, a lake or pond, or enclosing a retention pond may have their supports toward the water (Titusville Land Development Regulations, fences and walls division).

Titusville allows high security fences case by case, where security needs exceed the normal fence rules, and never with a single-family or multifamily residence.

Section 30-183 defines a high security fence as a substantial fence 6 to 8 feet high, which may be chain-link or woven wire and may carry three strands of barbed wire on arms angled 45 degrees that do not extend past the property line (Titusville Land Development Regulations, fences and walls division). Titusville considers them only where the regulations permit outdoor storage and display of goods, or where a federal or state program requires one, and the code calls for each one to sit in a 10 foot landscape strip with a continuous hedge kept at least 36 inches tall and a tree every 40 feet, with case-by-case exceptions for properties that do not front a principal or minor arterial roadway (Titusville Land Development Regulations, fences and walls division).

In the Planned Industrial Development district, an interior high security fence may reach 12 feet including any wire, with a clear zone of at least 15 feet between it and the exterior fence (Titusville Land Development Regulations, fences and walls division). An approval at one Titusville site is not precedent for another, and in the Downtown Mixed-Use district the Community Redevelopment Agency joins the Site Plan Review Committee in reviewing these fences (Titusville Land Development Regulations, fences and walls division).

A Titusville fence inside a public drainage or utility easement is permitted on the strength of the owner's signed waiver of liability and hold harmless agreement.

The Building Department lists the Fence Waiver of Liability among the forms it makes available by request, asking that requests go by email to Building Permits (Titusville Permits, Forms and Policies page). By signing it, the owner states that the fence sits entirely on the parcel described in the permit application but is or may be within a drainage or utility easement dedicated to the public, and agrees to allow unlimited access to the easement area by City of Titusville employees (Titusville fence in easement waiver form).

The waiver also spells out what the city may do later: Titusville may remove a fence built under the permit at any time without notice and has no liability for damage to it, the owner pays for any repair or replacement, and the city reserves the right to limit or withdraw permission if the fence impairs drainage or interferes with the easement (Titusville fence in easement waiver form). If permission is withdrawn, the waiver puts the burden on the Titusville owner to find another location for the fence (Titusville fence in easement waiver form).

Before digging post holes in Titusville, an excavator must notify Florida's one-call underground utility system at least 2 full business days ahead, unless a narrow homeowner exemption applies.

For a Titusville fence job, Florida Statutes section 556.105 requires notice through the system not less than 2 full business days before any excavation that is not beneath state waters, and a member operator whose underground facility is near the dig marks its horizontal route within 2 full business days after the notification is received (Florida Statutes section 556.105). Florida Statutes section 556.108 exempts excavation by the owner of a single-family residential property on that land only up to a depth of 10 inches, provided due care is used and there is no encroachment on any member operator's right-of-way, easement or permitted use.

The forms page footer gives the city's street address as 555 S Washington Avenue and its main phone as 321-567-3775 (Titusville Permits, Forms and Policies page). The Titusville code enforcement guide explains how property complaints are filed with the city.

Last verified: October 21, 2026, by re-reading Titusville's fences and walls division, the fence lines of fee ordinance 33-2021, the easement waiver PDF and forms page, and Florida Statutes 556.105 and 556.108 (Titusville Permits, Forms and Policies page).