FENCE RULES – PROSPER (TOWN), TEXAS

OVERVIEW

This page covers residential fence projects inside the incorporated Town of Prosper, Texas, which extends into Collin and Denton Counties. It includes private home fences and applicable townhouse, multifamily and residential common-area fencing.

Prosper requires a fence permit for installation and most changes. Its general single-family framework is 4 feet in a required front yard and 8 feet behind the minimum front-yard line, with limited exceptions. Neighborhood planned developments can change fence height, placement, materials and screening. Wood has detailed construction rules; vinyl/PVC is not specifically classified in the general fence article; residential chain-link must be vinyl-coated and cannot occupy the required front yard. Property lines, street visibility, easements, floodplain, retaining walls and pool barriers all affect the design. Updated November 2026.

Quick question	Prosper answer
Permit or approval	A Town fence permit is required before installation or most changes; minor repairs have published exemption thresholds. Front-yard, drainage-easement, retaining-wall and pool work have additional applicable conditions.
Typical fence height	Generally 4 feet in a required single-family front yard; 8 feet behind the minimum front-yard line, measured above adjacent-property grade. Acreage, cul-de-sac, tennis-court, pool and planned-development rules can differ.
Placement & property lines	Fences cannot cross property lines. Required yards, visibility areas, rights-of-way, easements, floodplain and neighborhood conditions can limit a property-line location.
Common fence materials	Wood: regulated; cedar or pressure-treated yellow pine are examples of insect-resistant wood, and spruce is prohibited. Vinyl/PVC: not specifically addressed as an ordinary fence material in the general fence article; alternate-material approval is available. Chain-link: vinyl-coated, finished edge at the top, and prohibited in required residential front yards.
Important local conditions	Fence rules may be further affected by planned-development district and tract, corner or key lots, open-space or trail frontage, residential development screening, pool use, drainage or public easements, floodplain, retaining walls, agricultural use and private restrictions.
Official local resource	Town fence, retaining-wall and screening-wall permit checklist

The table above is a quick reference; the corresponding sections below provide additional fence-rule details. Before buying materials or starting construction, read the sections that apply to the property, review the linked official sources and confirm site-specific questions with Town of Prosper Building Inspections or the responsible office identified below.

GOVERNANCE

Prosper is a home-rule town. The Town Council adopts its fence and development regulations. Article 3.19 of the Town Code’s fence regulations governs installation, approvals, materials, gates and maintenance. The Unified Development Code (UDC), including Articles 2 and 3, separately regulates zoning, screening, visibility, subdivision improvements, public easements and retaining walls. The UDC became effective May 1, 2026; its zoning provisions govern incorporated territory.

• Offices and responsibilities: Building Inspections and the Building Official administer fence permits and inspections. The Department of Development Services administers zoning and development standards and supplies the front-yard, alternate-material and unplatted-tract applications. The Town Manager considers the specified front-yard and alternate-material requests; the Town Council hears the stated appeals and certain unplatted-tract requests. Animal Control administers the animal-enclosure provisions. The Town Engineer/Engineering Services handles drainage, public easement, roadway-design and floodplain matters within the applicable programs. The Planning and Zoning Commission considers screening alternatives where the UDC expressly assigns that role.

• Adopted building and pool codes: Prosper uses the 2021 International Residential Code, with local amendments effective April 1, 2023, and the 2021 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code, with local amendments effective January 1, 2022. The locally replaced residential-code permit-exemption list does not supply an ordinary fence exemption; Article 3.19 separately requires a fence permit.

• Planned developments: The Town’s planned-development ordinance directory provides neighborhood grants and amendments. UDC §2.05 requires compliance with the UDC except subjects specifically addressed in the granting ordinance. The actual tract, lot type, incorporated exhibits and adopted Council conditions determine the applicable variation. Several newer grants rezone only part of an older district; the residential provisions below identify those differences.

• County and state functions: The Town checklist requires an OSSF permit from Collin County Development Services when the property has septic. Recorded plats and easements may be in either county. Texas utility and pipeline laws, state surface-water law and applicable association/common-pool requirements operate alongside Town controls. State pool requirements depend on the pool’s ownership, use and construction date.

PERMIT AND APPROVAL REQUIREMENTS

• Fence installation and changes: Obtain a fence permit from Building Inspections before installing a fence or making alterations, additions or changes. Article 3.19 exempts repairs not exceeding 16 linear feet over a 12-month period. The fee appendix lists a $100 fence permit fee and describes the exemption as fewer than two panels totaling less than 16 feet. Confirm the treatment of a repair reaching 16 feet or involving multiple panels with Building Inspections before relying on an exemption.

• Required application documents: Use the online permitting portal’s FENCE submittal type for fence, retaining-wall or screening-wall applications. Provide a survey/site plan locating the proposed work and showing and properly labeling all easements, with the recorded or approved plat as applicable. Submit material image renderings and detailed, dimensioned cross-sections showing the fence/wall layout where required landscape areas are involved. A septic property also needs the checklist’s OSSF permit.

• Required residential front yards: A fence or low wall in the required front yard needs Town Manager approval on the Development Services form. A denial may be appealed to the Town Council, whose decision is final. The applicable UDC front-yard height rule and any PD variation also apply. The fence article’s approval standards require at least 50% through vision and set an 8-foot ceiling; a low solid wall has the separate 3-foot/material conditions below.

• Alternate materials: Apply through Development Services for Town Manager consideration of an alternate fence or low-wall material. A denial may be appealed to the Town Council.

• Adjacent unplatted tracts: Where adjacent unplatted tracts include a residential use and no front yard has been established by plat, a fence adjacent or parallel to the front of a residential structure requires Town Council approval. The application addresses topography and other tract features, distance from the home, height, materials, design, emergency access and other applicant information.

• Drainage easement: Before a fence is constructed within a drainage easement, the Town Engineer must advise the Building Official in writing that the fence probably will not interfere with or impair natural water flow. Public-easement crossing restrictions and floodplain rules also apply.

• Retaining walls: Retaining walls require Professional Engineer design and signed/sealed plans for Town review. Under UDC §3.04N, earth terracing that supports a structure or vehicle load, or is over 4 feet from bottom of footing to top of wall, requires a building permit. Subdivision retaining walls must follow the approved grading plan; no other lot building permit is issued until the required walls are constructed. A grading-plan change requires plans for the entire subdivision and Engineering Services approval.

• New residential development screening: The developer submits screening elevations/materials, entry features and landscape plans with the Final Plat for Development Services approval before plat filing. Required screening is installed before final acceptance, or secured by approved surety and installed within 3 months of final acceptance and/or before the home’s building-final occupancy inspection, excluding model homes. Landscaping is installed before acceptance or secured and installed within 6 months and before the building-final occupancy inspection, excluding model homes. The developer requests final landscape inspection. These are subdivision-development obligations.

• Fence and pool inspections: The Town’s residential inspection guidance checks completed fences against approved layout and materials. Combined fence/irrigation inspection precedes the building final in the stated new-home construction sequence. A pool project must provide its required barrier and the approved pool construction/inspection work; temporary construction fencing is required from excavation until the permanent barrier is complete.

• Floodplain and drainage work: The Town fence checklist prohibits fences and walls within floodplain. Development affecting a regulated floodplain/floodway, drainage facilities or grading must also satisfy the applicable engineering and floodplain approvals; an ordinary fence permit does not authorize that work.

FENCE PLACEMENT RULES

• Property lines: The Town checklist states that fences may not cross property lines. Locate the legal boundary and recorded easements from the property’s survey, plat and title documents. An existing fence, appraisal/GIS line, curb, ditch or mowing line is not a substitute for the legal boundary or right-of-way line.

• Fronts, key lots and gates: Required-front-yard rules and PD offsets apply even when a boundary is privately owned. The Town checklist restricts a key-lot fence from crossing the building line adjacent to the side street unless it is wrought iron. Every enclosure under the fence article needs at least one perimeter gate 3 feet wide. For an individual single-family driveway, Engineering Design Standards §4.04J requires the gate at least 20 feet from the right-of-way. Larger private-development entry gates have a separate 135-foot right-of-way setback and 100-foot stacking framework; they are not individual-home driveway dimensions.

• Public easements: UDC §3.04K permits walls, fences, gates and similar structures to cross public easements perpendicularly, but prohibits running them longitudinally within the easement. The checklist requires posts or columns to span a perpendicular crossing. Preserve access for the easement purpose; the Town retains applicable entry and removal rights. An alley right-of-way is not a fence location.

• Floodplain, erosion-hazard areas and open space: The Town checklist prohibits a fence or wall within floodplain. UDC erosion-hazard setback easements prohibit fences and walls within the protected area. Residential lots allowed to back or side to base floodplain, access dedication or open-space lots must have Town-approved ornamental-metal rear/side fencing; the lot owner maintains it. The required fence lies along the permitted lot edge. Creek/drainage common areas and floodway easements have separate HOA or property-owner maintenance and Town access provisions.

• Drainage and stormwater: Keep natural flow, drainage-feature access and approved maintenance paths unobstructed. Water Code §11.086 prohibits diversion or impoundment of natural surface-water flow that damages another’s property by overflow. Town stormwater and sediment-control rules apply to fence-related disturbance within their project scope. Construction operators preserve vegetation where possible, stabilize disturbed areas as soon as practicable after work ceases and use effective erosion/sediment controls; these general duties also apply to sites under 1 acre outside a larger common plan. Projects meeting the applicable state/local stormwater approval thresholds must satisfy those additional requirements. Engineering drainage standards allow an anchored fence across a qualifying overflow flume only where the upstream basin is less than 1 acre, flow remains unrestricted and the engineering conditions are satisfied.

• Required landscape areas: Fence/wall footings, blocks and construction may encroach into required landscape areas by no more than 12 inches under the Town checklist. Construction must preserve suitable adjacent soil for required plants or appropriately amend it. Required thoroughfare buffers and no-parallel-solid-fence areas are described below.

• Joint or attached fences: Agriculture Code §§143.121–.123 restrict removal of a jointly owned separating/dividing fence or a fence attached to another person’s fence, except as the subchapter permits or by mutual consent. An owner withdrawing an attached fence, or requiring an attached fence to be disconnected from a fence wholly on that owner’s land, must give the specified 6 months’ written notice to the other fence owner or that person’s agent, attorney or lessee. Ownership and any cost agreement remain separate questions.

• Pipeline easements and construction: Health and Safety Code Chapter 756, Subchapter H covers construction on, across, over or under a pipeline easement/right-of-way, or construction physically impacting or risking the pipeline. Unless a qualifying contrary written agreement or statutory exclusion applies, give the pipeline operator notice and satisfy the statutory no-increased-risk determination, protective-improvement payment, existing written agreement or prompt disaster-related regulated-utility branch before proceeding. Pipeline construction coordination is separate from the utility locate.

• Utility safety before digging: Request a Texas811 locate before fence-post digging, wait the applicable lawful period, check ticket responses and site markings, resolve missing or conflicting information through the ticket process, protect the marks and excavate carefully. Utilities Code Chapter 251 covers mechanized disturbance 16 inches or deeper; its ordinary notice window is no earlier than the 14th day before and no later than 48 hours before excavation, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays. Under §251.002(14), a Saturday notification is notice given before 11:59 a.m. Saturday; §251.151(b) then permits a Tuesday 11:59 a.m. start, or Wednesday 11:59 a.m. if the intervening Monday is a holiday. Railroad Commission pipeline damage-prevention rules separately cover specified excavation, including nonmechanized work deeper than 16 inches; follow current pipeline ticket/site-mark and second-notice requirements. The Chapter 18 ticket period is 14 working days, unless a qualifying signed longer agreement applies, and required notice/response records are kept 4 years. Private owner/tenant-only lines may fall outside statutory notification coverage and need separate locating. A locate does not grant easement access or replace other permits.

FENCE HEIGHT AND VISIBILITY RULES

• General required single-family front yard: UDC §2.11B.6 limits a fence or wall to 4 feet; a berm-plus-fence combination also may not exceed 4 feet. The front-yard approval process and through-vision requirement in Article 3.19 remain applicable.

• Single-family front yard on at least one acre: The UDC allows a front-yard fence above 4 feet, up to 8 feet, if the lot is 1 acre or larger and the fence is wrought iron or decorative tubular steel.

• Specified cul-de-sac front-yard side: Ornamental metal attached to a required screening wall may reach 8 feet only along the cul-de-sac lot side adjoining a street with right-of-way at least 60 feet wide. It cannot exceed the adjacent required screening wall’s height.

• Behind the minimum front-yard line: The general maximum is 8 feet above adjacent-property grade. Where a taller fence meets a shorter screening wall, transition to the wall’s height over 20 feet. Tennis-court fencing may exceed 8 feet but not 15 feet. Applicable PD and screening rules can specify different dimensions.

• Low solid front-yard walls: Under the fence article’s approval standards, low solid walls are limited to 3 feet, must be clay-fired brick, natural stone or manufactured stone, and cannot be concrete block, split-faced concrete block, stucco or painted.

• Street and alley visibility: UDC §2.14C.7 prohibits fences or other obstructions more than 30 inches above the street centerline from obstructing driver visibility. Its corner framework uses 25 feet at major intersections and 10 feet at neighborhood intersections. At an alley/street junction, no fence or plant taller than 2½ feet may occupy the triangle formed by points 5 feet along the alley right-of-way and 15 feet along the street right-of-way, joined diagonally.

• Engineering corner visibility geometry: Engineering Design Standards §4.09 uses right-of-way-line offsets joined to make the corner triangle: 25 feet for 4- or 6-lane intersections and NTTA intersections; 25 feet where a 3-lane/commercial 2-lane collector meets another such street; 10 feet where those streets meet a neighborhood/local residential street, and for residential collector/neighborhood/local intersections. Where curbs do not exist, use 30-foot property-line offsets. Alley/residential-street triangles use the 5-foot/15-foot geometry above. Corner triangles are dedicated as right-of-way.

• Engineering sight-line triangles: A stop-controlled driveway, alley or side street entering an uncontrolled thoroughfare, and a signal approach allowing right turn on red, also needs a sight-line triangle dedicated as a visibility, access and maintenance easement. The driver’s-eye point is 15 feet behind the intersecting curb; the sight reference runs 5 feet outside the thoroughfare curb to the left and 5 feet outside the nearest conflicting traffic-flow edge or median to the right. Join the endpoints to form each triangle. Measure left/right distances along a horizontal curve where present. Both triangles must remain clear from 30 inches to 9 feet above average gutter elevation; fences, walls, screens, hedges, berms and other obstructions cannot interfere.

For Engineering Table 4.15, left and right minimum distances are equal. In the following list the four distances are, respectively, 2-lane undivided; 2-lane divided or 4-lane undivided; 4-lane divided or 6-lane undivided; 6-lane divided:

• 25 mph design speed: 280 / 295 / 315 / 335 feet.

• 30 mph design speed: 335 / 355 / 375 / 400 feet.

• 35 mph design speed: 390 / 415 / 440 / 465 feet.

• 40 mph design speed: 445 / 475 / 500 / 530 feet.

• 45 mph design speed: 500 / 530 / 565 / 600 feet.

• 50 mph design speed: 555 / 590 / 625 / 665 feet.

The divided-road calculations assume a median one travel lane wide; add 30 feet for each additional 12 feet of median width. For the 25-mph, 2-lane-undivided case, the left distance may be 150 feet with Engineering Services approval. Other right-of-way areas must remain clear between 30 inches and 9 feet above average gutter, subject to the stated zoning/sign rules; vegetation overhang clearance is at least 7 feet above sidewalks and 14 feet above streets.

• Required residential thoroughfare screens: UDC §3.04O applies to single-family and townhome lots/subdivisions backing or siding thoroughfares/collectors, except the specified side adjoining a median-divided subdivision entry, and between a street and a parallel alley/street. Lots cannot back to a street with right-of-way less than 60 feet. The developer installs a continuous ornamental-metal fence 6–8 feet high with masonry columns 75–100 feet apart, columns/caps at most 9 feet. Measure the minimum fence/wall height from the nearest alley edge, property line where no alley exists, or sidewalk grade, whichever is higher. Metal uses solid-stock materials and tubular steel, at least 16-gauge pickets and 11-gauge posts. Development Services may waive continuity where residential lots do not directly back or side to the buffer.

• Thoroughfare buffer, ownership and parallel fences: The buffer is at least 25 feet, increased to 30 feet along Preston Road, University Drive and Dallas Parkway, within an HOA-owned/maintained private nonbuildable landscape lot. It is exclusive of streets/right-turn rights-of-way, drainage and utility easements unless Council approves; perpendicular crossings up to 15 feet wide are allowed unless Development Services approves otherwise. Provide at least a 5-foot HOA wall-maintenance easement on abutting lots. The HOA owns/maintains the required screen. Solid masonry, wood, solid metal or other solid fencing cannot run parallel within the buffer or on an adjacent lot within 25 feet of the ornamental screen.

• Required living buffer beside these screens: Alternate evergreen shrubs of at least 7 gallons, reaching 6 feet within 2 growing seasons, with shrubs of at least 3 gallons, reaching 3 feet within 2 growing seasons. Trees total at least 2 caliper inches per 10 frontage feet; at least 33% are large trees, initially at least 4-caliper inches, while ornamental trees start at least 2-caliper inches. A single species is at most 45%. Large trees are at least 25 feet apart, ornamental trees at least 12½ feet unless approved otherwise. Berms may extend up to 3 feet into right-of-way and have at most a 3:1 slope; the plan shows drainage and ground cover throughout. Required living screens/plantings receive automatic underground irrigation with 100% coverage; lines are at least 2½ feet from sidewalks unless Engineering approves reduction, and main/section lines and valves stay outside required right-of-way corner clips. Trees/shrubs use bubblers, with separate valves for spray irrigation of other landscape areas. The developer supplies the meter/backflow equipment and approved means of continuing maintenance.

Planned-development residential variations. The following provisions apply to the named district, tract, lot type or frontage. The Town’s zoning designation and legal exhibits identify the actual property. A newer grant affecting part of a district changes that tract’s rules; neighboring land may retain the older grant.

• PD1 Gentle Creek: Golf-course rear-lot fences must be metal/iron with a wrought-iron appearance. The development’s screening provisions allow 6–8-foot screening within approved landscape easements while preserving visibility.

• PD2 Willow Ridge: Along the future Lovers Lane shared line between single-family lots and the 10-foot open-space lot, Ordinance 10-107 requires 8-foot cedar board-on-board fencing with common stain and metal posts set in concrete in place of ornamental fencing. The HOA owns and maintains that fence, landscaping and open-space strip. The original grant separately assigns a 6-foot stone/brick/similar screen to the commercial user as commercial property develops beside residential uses. Its multifamily/SF separation screen is 6 feet, built by the multifamily owner/developer unless Council or its designee approves otherwise, with approved wood, stone, stucco, brick, tile, concrete or similar combined materials.

• PD3 Blue Star, Tracts 6A/3A: Privacy fences may follow property lines within yards, subject to the grant’s special offset-front-building-line privacy conditions. Fences/walls remain at least 10 feet behind the home’s front elevation and use materials consistent with the home’s exterior architectural elements. The Gates of Prosper grant governs its actually rezoned land.

• PD3 Blue Star, multifamily Tracts 6-C/7-C: Unless Council or its designee approves otherwise, the multifamily owner/developer constructs a 6-foot screen between multifamily and single-family developed areas. Materials may be exterior wood, stone, stucco, brick, tile, concrete, iron, landscape hedges/tree rows, similar materials or combinations, with design approved at development-plan review. Multifamily complexes require limited gated access, with controls/card pads/intercoms in driveway islands and adequate stacking to permit a U-turn back to the public street. The grant’s clause does not prescribe a numeric stacking length.

• PD4 Cedar Ridge: Privacy fences may follow rear/side property lines, with the grant’s offset-front-building-line conditions, but remain 10 feet behind the home’s front elevation and no more than 8 feet high. Materials must be consistent with the home’s architecture.

• PD5 Whispering Farms: Open fencing adjoining trails/greenbelts is at most 4 feet above base grade; residential fences have an 8-foot base-grade maximum. Street-facing wood is board-on-board cedar or better. Privacy walls/fences on lots larger than 20,000 square feet are prohibited except around a pool/spa; lots smaller than 20,000 square feet may have property-line privacy fences within the stated yards, including offset-front-line privacy conditions, at least 10 feet behind the home’s front elevation. Wood must be durable treated/seasoned cedar or better, board-on-board, with metal posts and concrete footers; phase covenants supply further construction details. Front-yard fencing in Tracts I-A/I-B needs Council variance approval. The ordinance does not expressly assign exactly 20,000-square-foot lots to either size branch. The developer may seek approval for perimeter masonry, iron, plastic, wood or living screens along major roads.

• PD6 La Cima, Tracts 1A/2A: Privacy fences may follow property lines within the stated yards, at least 10 feet behind the home’s front elevation, at most 8 feet, with materials consistent with the home. Wood privacy sections facing the street address are board-on-board, as are the entry-street-facing sections of corner lots backing Road A. The developer’s Road A common-area screen options include 6–8-foot masonry, 4–8-foot ornamental metal, living screening or combinations. The Road A provisions separately describe a 20-foot common/screen area and a 15-foot landscape area for the living-screen branch; use the applicable approved frontage plan.

• PD6 La Cima, Road A common-frontage details: Masonry screens have minor columns at most 10 feet on center and major columns at most 60 feet on center; ornamental-metal ends terminate at major masonry columns. Masonry frontage has one 3-caliper-inch canopy tree per 100 linear feet and shrubs along at least 15% of wall length. Metal frontage has one such canopy tree plus one 6–9-foot ornamental tree per 100 feet, with shrubs along at least 25% of fence length. Living screening uses continuous shrubs at least 5 gallons on no more than 30-inch centers, plus one 3-caliper-inch canopy tree per 100 feet; shrub/berm combinations are allowed. Landscaping/turf receives automatic underground irrigation. Low berms no higher than 3 feet and with maximum 4:1 horizontal-to-vertical slope are encouraged. Pedestrian ways are at least 2 feet from the wall face and back of curb.

• PD8 Lakes of Prosper North; PD9 Whitley Place: PD8 fences adjoining trail/open-space areas must be decorative iron. PD9 lots adjoining the designated open spaces, parks or trails in Areas A–G of Exhibit G are restricted to ornamental-metal fencing.

• PD11 Chapel Hill: Lots along the CR78 landscape buffer require 6-foot wrought-iron fencing and 6-foot evergreen trees on 20-foot centers. Wood privacy fencing cannot be placed adjacent to that iron fencing.

• PD12 Villages at Prosper Trail: The northern boundary of Buffer Area A includes a 5-foot wall-maintenance easement. The adopted development condition requires deed restrictions for rear-corner columns with board-on-board fencing between them.

• PD15 Frontier Estates: The eastern boundary requires decorative metal at least 6 feet high, with evergreen screening on its west side reaching 6 feet within 2 growing seasons. Rear lots adjoining it cannot add parallel wood privacy fencing. Major-thoroughfare fencing otherwise follows applicable Town standards.

• PD18 Greenspoint: Entry screening walls at private streets may extend into the front yard, using wrought-iron-type fencing or solid masonry at most 8 feet, except the transition curve into a structural column/gatehouse. Property lines adjoining the described open space, parkland and trails require open wrought-iron-type fencing. Major-thoroughfare lot fencing follows the subdivision screen standards.

• PD23 Legacy Lakes: Lot sides along the four entry spine roads require a 6-foot board-on-board capped fence, consistent stain and steel posts internal to the lots, installed by the individual builder.

• PD24 Ariana Estates: Lots backing/siding to Prosper Trail or Coleman Street use a wrought-iron/masonry-wall combination within 10-foot landscape lots along the thoroughfare. Evergreen living screening follows the iron sections, decorative plants occupy inset masonry planters, and canopy trees are on 30-foot centers along the road-side property line. The sidewalk lies within the buffer with trees between sidewalk and road. Mechanical irrigation and HOA ownership/maintenance are required.

• PD25 Brookhollow, Tract A: Major-thoroughfare screening follows Town subdivision standards and cannot use thin-wall brick. Exhibit F requires street/common-area-visible walls/screens to be matching masonry, masonry with wrought iron, or wrought iron; concealed walls/screens may be smooth-finish redwood or #1 cedar. Posts are steel set in concrete, concealed from alleys/other dwellings; tops are level and stepped with grade. A common 4-foot wrought-iron detail applies to rear/side greenbelt/floodplain fencing. Solid equipment screening matches the residence. Front-yard and greenbelt-facing side/rear retaining walls are mortar-jointed matching brick or Millsap stone; elsewhere concrete/rock are allowed.

• PD25 Brookhollow, Tract B: Exhibit G requires front street-visible walls/screens to be matching masonry, masonry with wrought iron, or wrought iron; side/rear fences may be smooth redwood, #1 cedar or other approved materials. Steel/concrete posts, alley/neighbor concealment and level/stepped tops apply. The developer selects a common 4-foot wrought-iron detail as required. Equipment is screened from streets, alleys, common areas and neighboring lots; the same location-specific retaining-wall materials as Tract A apply.

• PD29 Whispering Meadows: Privacy walls/fences are prohibited on lots larger than 20,000 square feet, except around a pool/spa. On lots smaller than 20,000 square feet, privacy fences may follow the stated property-line yards, including the special offset-front-line privacy condition, at least 10 feet behind the home’s front elevation. Materials are consistent with the home; wood is durable treated/seasoned cedar or better, board-on-board with metal posts and concrete footers, subject to phase covenant details. Front fences in Tracts 1/2 need Council variance approval. Exactly 20,000-square-foot lots are not expressly assigned to either size branch.

• PD30 Prosper Creek Estates/Crestview: The adopted amendment requires a 6-foot masonry thin-wall screen along the southern property line, allows it in the private-street lot and assigns ownership/maintenance to the HOA. Wood fences on the retaining wall adjoining Trails of Prosper require metal posts anchored in concrete.

• PD31 Saddle Creek: Entry-spine lot sides require 6-foot board-on-board capped fencing with steel posts internal to lots, consistent stain and individual-builder installation. Internal open-space edges require decorative metal at least 5 feet. Rear screens along Prosper Trail combine stone brick and decorative metal with columns 100 feet on center; masonry may occupy no more than 50% of the screen excluding retaining walls. Decorative metal has a living screen reaching 6 feet within 2 growing seasons; 50% of masonry screening has 6-foot-wide landscape beds with ornamental shrubs/ground cover. Preston Road side yards require masonry walls; the specified Tracts 1/2 screening is 6-foot masonry.

• PD32 Christie Farms: Wood privacy walls/fences are prohibited except privacy fencing around a pool/spa. Fences/walls stay 10 feet behind the front elevation and use materials consistent with the home. The wood-construction clause specifies durable treated/seasoned cedar or better, board-on-board with metal posts/concrete footers and phase covenant details. Front-yard fencing needs Council variance approval and then may be at most 6 feet with at least 50% open space. Developer perimeter masonry/iron/plastic/wood/living screening requires approved plans.

• PD36 Legacy Crossing, Types I/II/III: All three single-family lot types require consistent board-on-board wood, steel posts in concrete concealed from other dwellings, and level tops stepped with grade. Open-space-adjoining fences must be wrought iron or other ornamental metal. The newer PD115 grant governs its actually rezoned tract.

• PD39 Brookhollow, Tracts 1/2: Major-thoroughfare screens follow Town subdivision standards. East First Street has a 25-foot landscaped edge with berm screening. Exhibit F applies the street/common-visible matching-masonry/masonry-plus-iron/iron standard and concealed redwood/#1 cedar option, steel/concrete posts concealed from alley/other dwellings, level/stepped tops, common 4-foot iron greenbelt/floodplain rear/side detail, matching solid equipment screening and the front/greenbelt retaining-wall material rules described for PD25 Tract A.

• PD40 Windsong Ranch, Types A–F: The lot-type standards require fence/wall/hedge heights of 4–8 feet unless the Town specifically requires otherwise. Open-space-abutting edges are decorative metal. Other fencing is cedar board-on-board with top rail, galvanized steel posts, common stain and developer detail. Fencing may not extend forward of 10 feet behind the front wall plane. The 2023-37 amendment describes a 168.550-acre tract; the separate 2021-51 retail amendment describes 16.986 acres.

• PD40 pedestrian-oriented mixed-use area: Single-family-attached/townhouse uses are among its allowed residential uses. Its general fencing clause limits fences to 3 feet, requires a 30-foot break after no more than 50 feet of fence length, and permits wrought iron or decorative steel.

• PD40 separate townhouse amendment, Ordinance 19-05: The 57.406-acre amendment has its own patio provisions. Its area table allows end-building patio encroachment of 7 feet with decorative-metal fencing; the additional patio provision permits front/end patios with trellis and/or metal or cedar fencing, with patios at least 3 feet from side/front lot lines. End patios may not encroach on utility or access easements. These are the amendment’s distinct patio clauses.

• PD44 Creekside, Types A/B/C: Fences/walls/hedges must be 4–8 feet unless the Town specifically requires otherwise. Open-space edges require decorative metal; Type A also includes common-space edges. Other fences are cedar board-on-board with top rail and galvanized steel posts, or decorative metal, with common stain/detail. Fences stay 10 feet behind the front wall plane. Along Frontier Parkway/Legacy Drive, the single-family thoroughfare screen is 6-foot ornamental metal with masonry columns within a 25-foot HOA landscape buffer, with 3-caliper-inch trees each 30 feet, at least 10 five-gallon shrubs each 40 feet and a 3:1 berm slope.

• PD49 Whitley Place West; PD50 Whitley Place Tolleson: PD49 designated park/open-space edges require ornamental metal; wood is at least stained/sealed board-on-board with metal posts. Lots backing existing First Street require 8-foot stained/sealed board-on-board wood with metal posts. The specified East First Street segment west of Whitley Place Drive is exempt from the grant’s referenced subdivision-screen requirement. PD50 designated open-space edges require ornamental metal; its wood clause calls for stained/sealed board-to-board fencing with metal poles.

• PD53 Preserve at Doe Creek: Single-family privacy fences stay 10 feet behind the main-building front elevation and at most 8 feet above grade. Open-space/park/floodplain edges require ornamental metal; wood is board-on-board with metal posts/common stain. The Glenbrooke subdivision boundary specifically requires wood board-on-board with metal posts. The thoroughfare buffer is at least 40 feet in a private nonbuildable HOA lot, with Town-standard plantings/screens.

• PD59 Twin Creeks: All single-family fencing is ornamental metal, wrought iron or tubular steel. Privacy fences stay 10 feet behind the front elevation and at most 8 feet above grade. Lots backing Wilson Creek are exempt from the grant’s referenced requirement to install a fence along base floodplain. The later Frontier Parkway screen amendment permits the required landscape buffer behind the screen, landscaping in front of its masonry and a berm/landscaping behind; the HOA maintains it. Landscaping within TxDOT right-of-way requires the applicable TxDOT permit.

• PD60 Legacy Crossing Connection: Fences adjoining designated open spaces must be ornamental metal. Wood is at least stained/sealed board-to-board with metal poles, also meeting Town fence rules.

• PD63 Legacy Creek Estates; PD70 Falls of Prosper; PD71 Windridge: Privacy fences stay 10 feet behind the main-building front elevation and at most 8 feet above grade. The stated open-space/park/floodplain edges require ornamental metal/tubular steel. Wood is cedar board-on-board with top rail and common developer stain. PD70 also requires metal on every lot adjoining Highland Meadows or Whispering Meadows. PD115 governs its rezoned portions of PD63; PD138 governs its described tract formerly in part PD71.

• PD65 Prosper Center; PD104 Greens at Legacy: Fences are at most 8 feet above grade, at least 10 feet behind the main-building front elevation. Open-space/park/floodplain edges are ornamental metal. Wood facing a public street is cedar board-on-board with top rail, steel posts and common stain.

• PD66 Star Trail, Types A–D: Plat-designated public-park/hike-bike-trail edges require decorative metal at least 4 feet. Other fencing may be masonry, decorative metal or cedar; cedar has a top rail, galvanized steel posts at 8-foot centers, common stain/detail. Solid masonry is allowed only on lots adjacent to or abutting HOA common-area lots. Street-side corner fences are decorative metal or cedar board-on-board with masonry columns at 21-foot centers. The front-wall-plane offset is 10 feet for Types A/B and 15 feet for Types C/D.

• PD67 Gates of Prosper, Subdistrict 3 single-family: Fences are 6 feet high, decorative metal, masonry or board-on-board cedar under developer guidelines. Public park/hike-bike-trail edges require ornamental metal. The northern tier of single-family homes along Main and McKinley Streets requires open fencing.

• PD67 Gates of Prosper, Subdistrict 4 Types A/B: Plat-designated public-park/trail edges require decorative metal at least 6 feet. Other fences may be masonry, decorative metal or cedar board-on-board with top rail, galvanized steel posts, common stain/detail; the grant states 8-foot on-center minimum for posts. Solid masonry is only for lots adjoining HOA common-area lots. Street-side corner fencing is metal or cedar board-on-board with masonry columns at 21-foot centers. Fences stay 15 feet behind the front wall plane. Town wood standards independently require posts no more than 8 feet on center.

• PD74 Legacy Crossing Addition: Open-space-adjoining single-family fences require ornamental metal/tubular steel. Wood is cedar board-on-board/top rail/common stain. Privacy fences stay 10 feet behind the home’s front elevation and at most 8 feet above grade.

• PD77 Parkside; PD129 Creekside: Wood is at most 8 feet, reduced to 6 feet atop a retaining wall 2 feet or taller. PD77 permitted wood is board-on-board under Town standards. Street-abutting corner-lot fencing and all returns are ornamental metal at most 6 feet. PD129 also expressly requires ornamental metal at most 6 feet on open-space-abutting edges; permitted wood meets Town ordinances.

• PD86 Brookhollow Centre; PD88 Harlan; PD89 Grace Academy: The retained single-family components use the visible-versus-concealed material, steel/concrete concealed posts, level/stepped tops, 4-foot rear/side greenbelt/floodplain iron detail, equipment screening and retaining-wall standards described for PD25 Tract A. Grace Academy’s grant includes single-family Tract A. PD107 replaces the described 63.298-acre PD86 portion; PD105 replaces its described 58.135-acre portion; PD114 replaces its described 277.6-acre portion.

• PD87 Lakewood; PD90 Brookhollow North: Lakewood Tract A and Brookhollow North Style A use the visible-versus-concealed materials and greenbelt/floodplain rules described for PD25 Tract A. Lakewood Tract B and Brookhollow North Style B instead require matching masonry/masonry-plus-iron/iron for front street-visible walls/screens and allow smooth redwood, #1 cedar or other approved side/rear materials. Both use steel posts/concrete, concealed from alley/other dwelling, level/stepped tops, common 4-foot iron detail as required and the stated front/greenbelt retaining-wall materials. PD90 Tract B includes townhouse use. PD111 replaces its described 119.429 acres.

• PD105 cemetery/SF15 tract: The grant retains SF15 permitted uses and adds funeral-home/cemetery/crematorium use. Its development-screening clause waives a masonry wall adjoining residential property and permits the illustrated wooden trestle-style fence with stone columns each 100 feet. The approved cemetery plan and use-specific screening govern that installation.

• PD107 Brookhollow Ladera: The grant allows age-55-plus detached dwellings on a single lot. Custer Road screening is ornamental metal with masonry columns at least 6 feet; southern-line and public-trail edges require ornamental metal at least 6 feet. Northern-line metal may abut the existing neighbor fence, or maintain at least a 3-foot maintenance gap. Fences/trails may occupy the 20-foot perimeter building setback. The adopted Council condition replaces the exhibit’s Simtek areas with capped board-on-board wood meeting Town ordinances.

• PD111 Brookhollow West: The rezoned area separates 43.284-acre single-family Tract B from 76.145-acre mixed-use/fee-simple-townhouse Tract A. For single-family lots, street-facing front-elevation side-yard returns are matching masonry, masonry-plus-iron or iron; side/rear fences may be smooth redwood, cedar or other approved materials. Steel posts are set in concrete and tops level/stepped with grade. The developer selects a common 4-foot iron detail. Equipment is screened from streets/alleys/common areas/neighbors; front/greenbelt retaining walls use matching mortar-jointed brick or Millsap stone, elsewhere concrete/rock. Major-thoroughfare screens follow applicable subdivision standards. The 2024-29 amendment changes townhouse area/building requirements, leaving unrelated fence provisions in place.

• PD114 Rutherford Creek, single-family West/East: Front side-yard returns are 6-foot black wrought iron/tubular steel; masonry wing walls are allowed. A decorative-metal corner column at the front/side intersection is 12–18 inches taller than the fence and 10–12 inches wide. Side/rear lot-to-lot fencing is stained, weather-treated board-on-board with steel posts and at least 6-foot height. A 6-foot-long black-metal transition joins side wood to metal across the front side yard or rear line. Street-side corner fences are 6-foot black metal with a living screen reaching 6 feet within 2 growing seasons, using at least 5-gallon shrubs generally on 5-foot centers along the full side fence. Street-backing lots cannot add a parallel fence behind existing rear iron/tubular fencing. Park, HOA open-space and hike/bike-trail edges use a common 4-foot black-metal detail. Different front/side/rear fence heights transition to the same height at their intersections. Equipment screening may be matching solid wall, redwood, cedar or landscaping; front/greenbelt retaining walls use matching mortar-jointed brick or Millsap stone, elsewhere concrete/rock. The central spine-road frontage has a 15-foot landscape edge with black tubular or double-faced brick/stone screens; thin-wall brick is prohibited. Townhouse Tract 3 and multifamily Tract 4 have their separately applicable development rules.

• PD115 Legacy Garden: Types 8F/9F/10F fence/wall/hedge height is at most 6 feet, except where otherwise specifically required by the Town or originally built before the ordinance. Required street-side yards on corner lots need decorative metal at most 5 feet. Types 9F/10F specifically require decorative metal on open-space-abutting edges; Type 8F remains subject to applicable Town open-edge standards. The grant rezones a described 121.4-acre tract from PD36/PD63.

• PD119 Pradara, Neighborhood subdistrict townhomes: Fencing between the primary facade and property line is at most 42 inches, wrought iron, tubular steel/similar material or masonry. The masonry portion is at most 3 feet and at least 30% open per residential unit/lease space. Each unit/lease space needs an operable street-opening gate. The Highway subdistrict carries the same frontage clause within its own mixed-use scope.

• PD134 Prosper Oaks: The mapped minimum-50%-open perimeter segments along Parvin Road/Frontier Parkway are at least 50% ornamental metal/tubular steel with masonry columns, fence height 6–8 feet, masonry less than 50% of total fencing, columns 75–100 feet apart and at most 9 feet including caps. Measure from the nearest alley edge, property line without an alley or sidewalk grade, whichever is higher; metal has at least 16-gauge pickets/11-gauge posts. Street-side corner fencing and returns are metal/tubular steel at most 6 feet, with the mapped exceptions: entryway corner masonry at most 6 feet and other materials expressly shown on the adopted landscape plan. East Tract allows detached homes; West Tract’s active-adult age restrictions are set by private covenants.

• PD135 McCasland; PD138 Bella Prosper: McCasland’s adopted North Pocket Park/common-connector plan includes board-on-board wood and masonry columns; its street frontage/secondary-entry plans include masonry screens. Those are common development improvements. Bella Prosper includes separately lotted townhomes and rezones a described 60.1-acre tract formerly Agricultural/PD71; its applicable Town fence baseline and approved common-area plan govern.

• General multifamily perimeter screening: UDC §2.08F.2 applies to multifamily districts; a PD containing landscape standards uses its PD standards. Public-street perimeters have at least a 25-foot landscape area, with 3-caliper-inch large trees on 30-foot centers or Town-approved quantity/size substitution. Street landscapes exclude easements/restrictions inhibiting planting permanence; approved building/adjoining-parking landscaping is installed before that building’s units receive occupancy certificates. Single-family-zoned/future-plan single-family adjacency needs a 25-foot perimeter, two rows of 3-caliper-inch trees on 50-foot offset centers, one shade row and one evergreen row, unless Development Services approves otherwise. Other adjoining uses need a 15-foot landscape area and one 3-caliper-inch large tree per 50 adjoining linear feet, within that perimeter or between the property line and side/rear building line. Berms are 3–6 feet high, averaging at least 4½ feet along US380, Frontier Parkway/FM1461/Parvin Road, Custer Road/FM2478, Preston Road, Dallas Parkway and FM1385. RV/trailer parking has a solid evergreen-tree living screen.

• Multifamily/residential adjacency screening under the UDC: When a multifamily boundary sides/backs to land zoned or designated for non-multifamily residential use, UDC §2.11B requires at least an 8-foot solid masonry screen on the dividing property line. The less-restrictive-use owner builds it; the Planning and Zoning Commission may substitute an irrigated living screen after a landscape plan demonstrates equal screening. Required walls are equally finished on both sides; clay-fired brick or approved suitable permanent material has no more than 40 square inches of openings per square foot. Openings need gates equal in height/screening; concrete block, poured concrete, tilt-up or concrete panels require Commission approval. Downtown properties screen only boundaries both zoned residential and shown residential on the future-land-use plan, using 8-foot cedar board-on-board under the fence ordinance.

• Loading, waste and mechanical screens in residential projects: Where the UDC’s project service/loading provisions apply, screening is 14 feet with a row of evergreen trees at least 8 feet; the wall alternative is a double evergreen row on offset 50-foot centers in a 15-foot landscape edge, half canopy evergreens. Shared trash/recycling areas use permanent walls on three sides, with metal service gate equal to wall height, normally closed; an opening facing right-of-way or residential zoning needs at least 250 feet separation. Receptacles/compactors are fully screened by at least 8-foot clay-fired brick/stone, matching primary-building color; collection/recycling together require a double enclosure. An irrigated landscape strip at least 5 feet wide borders the three walls, with Nellie R. Stevens holly or other approved evergreens initially at least 4 feet, maturing to at least 6 feet. No collection area occupies the 15-foot-by-15-foot street-corner visibility triangle. Mechanical screening rises at least 12 inches above equipment with the prescribed parapet/masonry treatment; approved metal/acrylic/similar alternatives apply where equipment remains visible from the stated 6-foot-high property-line viewpoint or public right-of-way.

• PD14 Legacy Pointe multifamily/townhouse areas: The grant permits townhouses within Business Park/Business Center areas and separately allows, rather than universally requires, a 6-foot multifamily-to-single-family screen by the multifamily owner/developer. Approved materials may include stone, stucco, brick tile, concrete, iron, landscape hedges/tree rows or similar combinations; design is approved with the development plan. Limited gated developments locate controls/card pads/intercoms in driveway islands and provide 100 feet of stacking for U-turning, unless Council approves otherwise. Business-Park-to-residential buffers have at least 15 feet landscape width and any screen wall/fence at least 6 feet.

• PD34 Meadowcreek and PD35 multifamily frontage: PD34’s specially regulated tract is multifamily; its separately rezoned single-family land uses the stated base districts. PD35’s multifamily eastern road frontage requires a 6–8-foot berm, two tree rows—evergreens at least 7 feet at planting and large deciduous trees at least 5 inches diameter—plus an approved third species row on the east side of the dedicated right-of-way near the single-family rear lot lines, generally 35 feet on center. The frontage includes an 8-foot hike/bike trail. Its applicable frontage setback is 50 feet between parking and road when the dedicated right-of-way is 60 feet; a 100-foot right-of-way uses the standard setback.

• PD41 Prosper West urban residential subdistricts: Downtown and original Uptown frontage fences between the primary facade and property line are at most 42 inches, using wrought iron, tubular steel/similar material or masonry. Masonry portions are at most 3 feet; the ordinance also specifies that the masonry portion be at least 50% open per residential unit/lease space. Each unit/lease space has an operable gate to the street. Downtown’s internal street-design exception uses traffic-control devices instead of ordinary internal sight triangles; Town triangles remain required at exits onto Dallas Parkway and US380. Retained original Uptown provisions require Town triangles at exits onto Lovers Lane and the north-south spine road. Within 20 feet of public-street intersections, shrubs/groundcover are at most 2 feet high and first tree branches at least 7 feet above ground; public-safety requirements remain applicable. In the amended Office Park area allowing mapped multifamily, waste/loading screens are 6 feet, compactors 8 feet, with matching primary-building/approved solid masonry and metal gates of equal wall height kept closed. The 2017 amendment describes 126.51 acres of the original 202.573-acre grant.

• PD94 West Side residential development: The older 2018/2022 grants prohibit gates/fences on pedestrian or vehicular ways accessing Kent Drive. The 64.501-acre 2023 amendment permits its planned Kent Drive pedestrian entry. Its multifamily northern boundary uses an 8-foot wall/fence, equally finished both sides, with permanent materials and no more than 40 square inches of openings per square foot; irrigated approved trees are at least 3-caliper inches on no more than 30-foot centers. The multifamily clause prohibits shrubs/trees within the northern 25-foot Upper Trinity Regional Water District easement; the retail interface clause also expressly bars screening walls/fences there. Parking overhang areas are demarcated and maintained at 2 feet, and the rural-open-space buffer is at least 10 feet. Use the grant applicable to the particular tract and approved access plan.

• PD98 Alders retirement multifamily; PD100 assisted living: Alders’ western single-family adjacency requires an 8-foot masonry wall. The adopted PD100 courtyard plan depicts 60-inch wrought-iron fencing around its garden and a 72-inch Hardie-siding trash screen. These are residential-facility site screens.

• PD128 Prosper Arts District multifamily/mixed-use areas: Screening and retaining walls require masonry veneer compatible with surrounding development. Architectural screens, masonry screen walls and/or landscaping completely screen mechanical/service/utility equipment, including transformers, from public view, with rear/out-of-road-view placement where possible. The landscape buffers are at least 25 feet along Prosper Trail and Shawnee Trail and 30 feet along Dallas Parkway; the illustrated Phase1A service-area branch uses a 30-foot landscaped/bermed front setback/buffer. Visitor parking/ancillary multifamily uses between buildings and streets stay at/beyond the landscape setback and have headlight screening by berm and/or shrub row. Along the stated Prosper Trail/Shawnee Trail segment south of the manmade water feature, shrubs need not sit atop the berm; the combination of shrubs, berms, trees and meandering trail provides the screen. The grant permits gated multifamily development subject to the detailed approved design.

• PD14 and PD34 tract changes: The PD14 original notes partial amendment by PD66, and PD34’s cover notes its amendment by the Star Trail grant. Apply retained multifamily/common-area provisions only to the tract still governed by them. PD34’s multifamily development provision includes an 8-foot-wide trail; PD35’s eastern tree-screen frontage extends approximately 1,320 feet.

• PD40 mixed residential access, parking and service areas: For multifamily/townhouse controlled access, controls/card pads/intercoms are in driveway islands with at least 100 feet of stacking and an island break allowing a U-turn back to the public street. Residential garages/parking structures are screened from public view. Mixed-use surface parking is street-screened by a dense evergreen hedge at least 3 feet high, in 7-gallon size at installation, measured above parking grade. Visible garages occupy at most 2 sides of a block, with development liners shielding others. Parking medians are 6 feet wide with trees each 35 linear feet. Service areas cannot front/be visible from streets except the prescribed screened arrangements; dumpsters/trash stay in the building envelope and out of view from US380, Gee Road and Fields Road. Loading is at least 50 feet from single-family lots/public right-of-way unless wholly within a building. Service screens complement building materials/colors and roof equipment is screened. Street-tree planters are 5 by 10 feet, with 12-inch ornamental-steel fencing or a brick turn-up edge, leading edge 1½ feet from curb.

• PD40 Lagoon common amenity: Along Pepper Grass Lane, the amenity amendment permits an 8-foot minimum landscape buffer, primarily stone/precast-block retaining walls, minimal grading/landscaping and trees initially at least 3-caliper inches each 30 linear feet. The north-side sidewalk is 5 feet; the stated stormwater-easement encroachment extends at most 300 linear feet west from the Pepper Grass/Bellardia intersection. The adopted plan includes artificial turf. Other arterial/collector buffers remain at least 25 feet.

• PD41 residential-project frontage landscapes: Downtown and mapped-multifamily Office Park major/minor thoroughfare buffers are 25 feet, with at least one 3-caliper-inch large tree and 15 five-gallon shrubs per 30 frontage feet. Berms/shrubs screen abutting parking. Office Park streets without on-street parking use a 15-foot buffer at those planting rates. Service-equipment screening is subject to the utility provider’s permission.

• PD86/PD90/PD114 residential-project common boundaries: The applicable legacy PD86 multifamily/townhouse and PD90 townhouse controlled-access provisions require driveway-island controls, 100-foot stacking and a U-turn break. PD114 townhouse Tract3/multifamily Tract4 carry that same branch. Their residential/retail interface uses 6-foot masonry, an inside irrigated buffer at least 15 feet, 3-caliper-inch trees on 30-foot centers and at most 45% of one tree species, with Planning and Zoning Commission site-plan approval of alternatives. PD114 equipment is screened from the ground-level property line and adjacent single-family second story; plantings, berms or fencing may be used, with fence finishes similar to the building facade/trim/roof. Actual newer tract grants govern rezoned land.

• PD98 and PD100 residential-facility service screens: PD98’s adopted waste-container gate uses an access-monitored key panel connected to the leasing office. PD100’s 48-inch rooftop air-conditioning screen matches the structure; its fences/retaining walls appear on the site plan and require Building Official approval. Its perimeter landscape areas are 5 feet front/side and 10 feet at the street corner, with conflict-free relocation elsewhere on the property allowed by the grant.

• PD106/PD108 Downtown Lofts residential projects: PD106 has a 5-foot minimum landscape setback except the stated Fifth/McKinley frontages, plus its tandem-parking landscape-island exception. PD108 uses townhouse-district baseline with multifamily uses and 30 townhouse-style units; perimeter landscape buffers/landscaping are not required beside right-of-way. Their adopted facade plans require public-view screening of mechanical equipment and parapet/screen-wall treatment of roof equipment under zoning standards.

• PD119 residential service and waste screens: In Highway and Neighborhood subdistricts, service/equipment areas are screened from adjacent property/streets subject to utility-provider permission. Waste/loading screens are at least 8 feet, matching principal-building material or approved solid masonry, with equal-height metal gates normally closed and shrub screening from the public realm. Roof equipment visible from a point 20 feet above ground at the property line needs alternative screening; approved metal/acrylic/similar equipment screens are available through Development Services.

• PD138 residential parking-structure screens: Where a parking structure serves the residential project, visible elevations are architecturally finished compatibly with the surroundings, using louvered, solid or opaque vertical screening elements. The grant lists metal, glass, precast concrete, masonry and concrete block for those elements.

MATERIAL AND CONSTRUCTION LIMITS

• Wood species, posts and pickets: Article 3.19 requires insect-resistant wood such as cedar or pressure-treated yellow pine; spruce is prohibited. Vertical posts are galvanized steel at least 16 gauge, no more than 8 feet on center, set in concrete. Picket, split-rail, ranch/agricultural and other approved open decorative fences may use wood posts. Pickets are at least ½ inch thick.

• Wood orientation and fastening: Exposed posts/rails face away from the adjacent street/right-of-way. Street-adjacent visible wood is board-on-board with top rail. Secure boards to stringers, stringers to posts and the top rail for a safe, maintained condition.

• Wood ground clearance and treatment: Prevent ground-to-wood contact using a concrete strip between supports or at least a 3-inch picket-to-ground gap. A 2-by-6-inch kickboard may cover that gap and contact the ground. Wood is stained, pressure-treated, painted or adequately sealed against decay. A pool barrier must also meet its separate maximum bottom gap; its construction must satisfy both applicable requirements.

• Vinyl/PVC and alternate materials: The general fence article does not specifically classify vinyl/PVC as an ordinary residential fence material. The Town Manager may approve alternate fence/low-wall materials through the stated application/appeal process. PD permission for a developer’s approved plastic perimeter screen applies to that particular screen.

• Chain-link: Residential chain-link has its finished edge at the top and must be vinyl-coated, except athletic-field installations on school-district or Town property. It is prohibited in required residential front yards. Pool chain-link has additional opening and public-pool limitations below.

• Open edges and added screening: Along public/private open space or parks, hike/bike trails and designated thoroughfare/collector streets, use ornamental metal, tubular steel or split rail with at least 50% through vision. Legally installed wood dating to October 7, 2015 or earlier may be replaced with wood complying with current wood standards. The Town permit checklist calls for wrought iron at parks/trails/open space; confirm the proposed open-edge design with Building Inspections. Added fence screening must preserve at least 50% through vision. Nonliving screening material cannot occupy a building setback; living screens include trees, bushes, shrubs and other living plants.

• Prohibited and agricultural/security construction: Fence arms, plywood, fiberglass/panels, corrugated steel, sheet iron and razor wire are prohibited. Barbed wire is prohibited except on parcels actually used for agriculture, where barbed wire or other agricultural fences require the stated Building Official/designee approval. Continuous electrical current is prohibited; approved low-voltage-regulated single-strand wire is allowed along the interior fence baseline.

• Animal confinement: The Town’s animal-control definitions address physical confinement by a building, wall, pen or sufficiently strong fence on the premises behind the owner’s/custodian’s front building line, or the alternative lawful physical-restraint conditions. A securely enclosed/confined area uses substantial, escape-preventing fencing/construction that isolates the animal from the public and other animals except those under the owner’s control. Invisible/electronic fencing does not qualify for that definition; applicable zoning also applies.

• Dangerous-animal enclosures: The secure-enclosure definition requires at least 6-foot height, locked, secure sides/top/bottom, escape-preventing design and exclusion of young children. Section2.03.003 requires the dangerous-animal owner, within 30 days after learning of that status, to maintain immediate physical leash control or the prescribed secure enclosure. The definition calls for warning signs on all sides in 4-inch letters; §2.03.003 separately specifies signs on all four sides in 1-inch letters. Confirm that specific sign-size difference with Animal Control before installing the enclosure/signs.

• Guard dogs on duty: The stated on-duty guard-dog branch uses an enclosed building or securely fenced and locked area, with publicly visible “guard dog” signs on all sides in 4-inch letters.

• Lawful livestock premises: Adequate fences/barriers must prevent livestock escaping and damaging neighboring property; escape creates the code’s rebuttable presumption of inadequacy. The livestock provision lists underground electronic barriers, electrified wire, wood, wire, wood-and-wire, masonry or other materials forming an enclosure sufficient in usual circumstances to turn livestock of ordinary habits/disposition. Article3.19’s separately stated installation, electrical and agricultural-approval conditions remain applicable.

• Fowl, rabbits and guinea pigs: These animals must be indoors or, if outdoors, in a secure pen/enclosed yard. The exception is ducks/other waterfowl inhabiting natural or manmade watercourses or water bodies.

• Agricultural operations: Texas Agriculture Code Chapter 251 limits municipal requirements affecting qualifying agricultural operations; application depends on the statutory health/safety findings and conditions. Its agricultural-improvement protection includes qualifying fences, does not excuse conduct expressly prohibited by statute or a valid applicable governmental requirement, and preserves state/federal enforcement. These protections apply to operations satisfying Chapter251’s statutory conditions.

• Maintenance: Keep fence exterior surfaces in good condition. Eliminate peeling/flaking/chipped paint and repaint; stabilize/coating-inhibit rust and corrosion, and remove oxidation stains. Surfaces designed to stabilize by oxidation are exempt from that treatment requirement.

• Retaining-wall maintenance zones: Retaining walls on residential lots stay on private property outside right-of-way. A wall crossing 3 or more lots, or forming a residential-development perimeter, needs a recorded wall-maintenance easement. Its width includes the wall plus the engineer-established/Town-approved no-building zone. No added structure, pool, landscaping or other load may be placed in that easement where the wall was not designed for the load; provide maintenance crew/equipment access. Creek/floodplain-adjacent retaining-wall materials are clay-fired brick, stone, patterned concrete, modular concrete block or split-faced concrete masonry units under UDC §2.08; channel walls controlling water flow are excepted, and PD rules may specify different materials.

Pool and spa barriers. Prosper’s 2021 pool/spa barrier requirements set the following local construction conditions. Classification matters: private home/townhouse pools, public pools and covered multiunit/association pools have distinct applicable branches.

• One-/two-family and townhouse safety-cover exception: A spa/hot tub with a lockable ASTM F1346 safety cover, or a swimming pool with a powered ASTM F1346 safety cover, qualifies for the stated exception from ISPSC §§305.2–305.7. In-ground pool/spa sites still need construction fencing at least 4 feet high from excavation until the permanent barrier is completed.

• Local pool barrier height and gaps: Barrier height is at least 48 inches, measured on the side away from the pool, maintained around the full perimeter and for a 3-foot horizontal exterior area. Bottom clearance is at most 2 inches over grass/gravel or other nonsolid grade, or 4 inches over solid surface. A barrier on top of an above-grade pool/spa has at most a 4-inch gap to that structure. Openings cannot pass a 4-inch sphere. Solid barriers cannot provide climbing handholds/footholds except normal construction tolerances/tooled masonry joints.

• Local pool mesh barrier: Install per manufacturer instructions. The bottom is at most 1 inch above deck/grade; the fence cannot be lifted more than 4 inches and cannot pass a 4-inch sphere beneath a panel. Each section’s attachment is at least 45 inches above grade, with the required secure/spring-retained connection. Deck sleeves are nonconductive; mesh cannot mount on top of an onground residential pool. The inside of the mesh is at least 20 inches from the water edge. Hinged gates meet the gate requirements.

• Local pool horizontal, chain-link and diagonal members: Where horizontal-member tops are less than 45 inches apart, horizontals face the pool and vertical/decorative-cutout openings are at most 1¾ inches. At 45 inches or more, vertical openings may be 4 inches, but decorative cutouts remain at most 1¾ inches. Chain-link openings are at most 1¾ inches, including any top-and-bottom-fastened slat reduction; chain-link is prohibited as the barrier for public pools built after January 1, 1994. Diagonal openings are at most 1¾ inches, with diagonals no more than 45 degrees from vertical. Pool equipment outside the barrier is at least 36 inches from it.

• Local pool gates and latch operation: Pedestrian gates open away from the water, self-close, self-latch and accommodate a locking device. Unused utility/service gates remain locked; double/multiple gates have at least one secured leaf and the adjacent leaf self-latches. At residential pools, an outside-accessed non-self-locking release is at least 54 inches high; self-locking key/electronic/combination controls/releases are at most 54 inches. An inside-only private-pool release is at least 3 inches below the gate top; openings within 18 inches of an inside release are at most ½ inch. The local public-pool branch specifies outside non-self-locking releases 52–54 inches, and self-locking controls/releases 34–48 inches.

• Dwelling wall serving as local pool barrier: For a one-/two-family dwelling or townhouse/accessory structure, direct-access doors/gates and operable windows with indoor sill below 48 inches require the stated UL2017 water-hazard alarm protection, or a listed ASTM F1346 cover or approved equivalent protection such as self-closing/self-latching doors. Alarm deactivation controls are at least 54 inches in dwellings not required to be Accessible/Type A/Type B units, and 48–54 inches in those units; the other-structure branch also uses 48–54 inches.

• Onground residential pools and natural barriers: A manufacturer-approved onground pool wall alone must start at grade, reach at least 48 inches around the perimeter and meet the barrier rules. A compliant barrier mounted on it must also reach 48 inches and follow manufacturer instructions. Secure, lock or remove ladders/steps unless enclosed by a compliant barrier; resulting openings cannot pass a 4-inch sphere. For a qualifying one-/two-family or townhouse pool beside a natural water body, the shoreline exception requires no public shoreline access and barriers extending at least 18 inches beyond the water edge. Approved natural rock/topographic barriers must provide equivalent protection.

• Covered apartment/association pool ownership: Health and Safety Code Chapter 757 common-pool enclosure requirements applies to the specified multiunit-rental-complex and property-owners-association pools, and dwelling openings into pool yards in multifamily, condominium, cooperative and townhome projects. Its definition covers a “permanent swimming pool, permanent wading or reflection pool, or permanent hot tub or spa over 18 inches deep”, including ground-level, above-/below-ground and indoor locations. The multiunit definition includes at least two units under common ownership/management on the same/adjacent lots and condominium projects; it excludes overnight lodging and specified single-family homes outside condominium projects. An ordinary private backyard pool follows its applicable private-pool rules.

• Chapter757 covered enclosure: Completely enclose the pool yard, subject to the existing-enclosure branches below. Height is at least 48 inches measured from outside ground. Gaps beneath cannot pass a 4-inch sphere. Where horizontal-member tops are at least 45 inches apart, openings cannot pass a 4-inch sphere; when closer, they cannot pass a 1¾-inch sphere. Enclosures built after January 1, 1994 cannot be chain-link or have diagonal members below 49 inches above ground. Decorative openings are at most 1¾ inches in any direction; solid outside surfaces have no climbable features beyond normal tolerances/tooled masonry. Permanent equipment/structures cannot provide ready climbing access. Building walls require compliant doors/windows. Minimum pool walkways still apply; the chapter sets no additional pool-to-enclosure distance, and secondary enclosures do not have to satisfy Chapter757.

• Chapter757 covered gates: Gates open away from the pool and self-close/self-latch without human or electrical power, with hardware accommodating a padlock or built-in key/card/combination lock. Latches are at least 60 inches above ground, unless accessible only from the pool side, at least 3 inches below the top, with no opening larger than ½ inch within 18 inches of the latch, including the gate/post gap. A latch at least 42 inches is allowed where a key/card/combination is required on both sides. Existing-enclosure exceptions follow.

• Chapter757 pre-1994 branches: An enclosure built/modified before January 1, 1994 without then-applicable municipal standards still meets the chapter, except existing chain-link may have openings passing no 2¼-inch sphere, or horizontal members at least 36 inches apart may use the 4-inch opening limit. A pre-1994 enclosure compliant with municipal enclosure standards existing January1,1994 is exempt from §757.003, the outward-gate-swing provision and §757.004(b)’s latch-height requirements; other applicable gate/maintenance duties remain.

• Chapter757 dwelling doors and windows: Direct hinged, French or sliding-door entry is prohibited when initial electrical service to the building or pool began on/after January 1, 1994. Earlier qualifying access needs the statutory safeguards: an ordinary hinged door has an automatic latch, self-closing hinge/closer and qualifying keyless bolting device 36–48 inches above the inside floor. For French doors, one leaf has the automatic latch; the other has the specified upper-jamb keyed/keyless device plus floor/threshold keyless device, or interior edge-operated bolts throwing at least ¾ inch into both. A sliding door has a handle latch or security bar no more than 48 inches high, plus a pin lock no more than 48 inches high. Qualifying devices installed before September 1, 1993 may be as high as 54 inches; qualifying deadbolts installed in a dwelling on/after that date have at least a 1-inch throw. A qualifying keyless device may be an interior-only deadbolt with at least a 1-inch throw into the specified facing-jamb strike plate or metal jamb serving as the strike plate. For the drop-bolt option, half the central plate overlaps the door and half the jamb; the jamb restraint is fixed to its frame by 3 case-hardened screws at least 3 inches long, and a person inside must lift the plate off the restraint to open the door. The full-width bar/tube option is secured to studs by heavy hooks at least 3 inches long, permanently attached and prevents opening until removed by someone inside. Chain/flip/surface-slide/mortise/surface-barrel/surface-swing/night-latch/foot-bolt devices do not qualify. The limited nonresident-use building area with no access beyond the pool yard has the stated device exception. Pre-1994 enclosure-wall windows need latches and existing screens secured; new screens are not required. In a building constructed on/after January1,1994, ground-floor enclosure-wall windows are permanently closed/unopenable. Dwelling doors/windows/screens inside the enclosed yard also meet the applicable safeguards.

• Chapter757 inspection and maintenance: Owners/associations exercise ordinary reasonable care to inspect, maintain and repair required enclosure, gate and self-close/latch components under their control and inspect them at least every 31 days. Listed dwelling-window/sliding-door devices receive required repairs after tenant notice; qualifying conspicuous lease/association provisions may require written notice, otherwise oral notice is effective. These duties cannot simply be waived. Chapter757 does not itself require barriers around natural water bodies or listed drainage/detention facilities; applicable Town/PD edge-fencing obligations remain. Its compliant-enclosure, existing greater-height ordinance, authorized greater-state-standard and specified duty-supersession provisions govern alongside Local Government Code §214.101 and unchanged landlord security-device duties.

• DSHS common/public pool classification: DSHS public-pool and spa rules, 25 TAC Chapter 265, Subchapter L, classify apartment/condominium/association member-and-guest pools as Class C; ordinary private pools for no more than 2 resident families and guests are excluded private-residential pools. ClassA competition and ClassB general-public pools have different standards. A Chapter757-covered ClassC pool follows that chapter’s enclosure branch under §265.192(c).

• DSHS barriers for covered facilities: Covered pool/spa yards are completely enclosed by durable, not easily climbed barriers. No planters, light poles, furnishings or other climbing aids are within 36 inches horizontally outside; inside furnishings cannot facilitate outside climbing, and limbs are trimmed. Solid outside surfaces have no hand/footholds beyond normal tolerances/tooled masonry. Multiple pools/spas may share an enclosure.

• Other ClassC/day-camp pools outside Chapter757: These barriers are at least 48 inches measured perpendicularly from outside ground, with no through/bottom gap passing a 4-inch sphere. New/replaced horizontal-and-vertical barriers from January 1, 2021 are nonclimbable with no horizontal midrail; horizontal members on a 48-inch fence are at least 45 inches apart. ClassC pools/spas constructed on/after October 1, 1999 cannot use chain-link; replacement chain-link for earlier facilities is also prohibited. Openable windows sit above required outside-ground barrier height and open at most 4 inches, or have a nonremovable screen. Building access is limited to the specified support-room/no-outside-access or compliant indoor-enclosure arrangements.

• Other ClassC/day-camp gate controls: Gates open outward, self-close/self-latch, stay latched when unused, accommodate locks and remain locked outside operating times or during hazardous-condition/repair/chemical closure. For pools/spas constructed on/after January 1, 2021, the rule permits opening hardware at least 3½ feet above deck/walkway or a pool-side release at least 3 inches below the top, with no opening larger than ½ inch within 18 inches of the latch; the key/card/combination-both-sides branch permits a latch at least 42 inches.

• ClassA/ClassB/resident-youth-camp facilities: When the facility’s actual classification reaches this branch, the barrier is at least 6 feet perpendicular to outside ground, nonclimbable with no horizontal midrail and no opening passing a 4-inch sphere. Chain-link mesh is at most 1¾ inches; openable windows cannot sit below the 6-foot barrier height. Building doors are limited to the stated pool-support rooms without outside exits. Entry gates/doors are continuously staff-supervised or locked, open outward and are locked outside operating hours and during hazardous-condition/repair/chemical closures.

• DSHS service and indoor access: Users enter through an enclosure gate/door, and exits lead to a public or common-user walkway. Gates cannot be propped except for work reasonably requiring it while the owner’s agent/employee/contractor is present. Service-only gates need not self-close/latch, but cannot be user entrances/exits and remain securely locked except during actual service. Indoor building walls may provide the enclosure with applicable gate rules; elevator doors cannot open into/out of the pool yard. An indoor/outdoor connection may swing into the outdoor yard only when it is not an exit from that yard. Outdoor public pools also require the applicable building-code means of egress.

PRIVATE RESTRICTIONS

HOA/deed covenants, architectural-review requirements, private easements and fence ownership, maintenance or cost agreements can impose independent obligations within Texas statutory limits. Recorded public plat conditions and publicly required HOA screen maintenance also remain applicable. A Town fence permit does not decide ownership or authorize work across a private boundary.

• Protected pool enclosures: Property Code §202.022 protects a qualifying nonclimbable enclosure surrounding a pool/spa/water feature, made of transparent mesh or clear panels in metal frames, no more than 6 feet high, and complying with state/local safety requirements. An association may regulate appearance/colors, but cannot prohibit a black transparent-mesh enclosure in metal frames within that protection.

• Security-fence protection and exceptions: Property Code §202.023 generally prevents a covered association from prohibiting perimeter-security measures, while allowing regulation of fence type and prohibitions on fencing obstructing a license area, public/community sidewalk or drainage easement/area. It allows a driveway-gate setback of at least 10 feet from right-of-way when the driveway meets a laned road, and, if a restrictive covenant provides it, a prohibition on fencing ahead of the dwelling’s front-most building line. The section excludes condominiums and Chapter215 master mixed-use associations.

• 2025 security-fence protections: An owner may maintain perimeter or front-building-line fencing installed/constructed before September 1, 2025. The front-building-line prohibition also cannot be applied where the owner’s address is legally exempt from disclosure or the owner supplies law-enforcement documentation of a need for enhanced security. These protections remain subject to applicable public safety and Town requirements.

REVIEW AND ENFORCEMENT CONTEXT

Fence issues are typically reviewed during permit or approval review when required, and through complaint-based code enforcement. Examples include:

• Permit and plan review: Building Inspections checks required applications, repair-exemption applicability, layout, material/construction details and completed work. Development Services, the Town Manager or Council addresses the particular front-yard, alternate-material, PD or unplatted-tract approval.

• Height, street visibility and development screening: Review applies the correct yard, lot type, tract, frontage, grade measurement, open-edge treatment and approved subdivision/common-area screen plan.

• Drainage, easements and retaining walls: Engineering review addresses drainage flow, floodplain exclusions, public-easement crossings, maintenance access, approved grading and wall-loading conditions.

• Pool barriers: Pool classification, construction fencing, permanent barriers, gate/latch operation and allowed cover/wall arrangements are checked under the applicable local and state pool rules.

• State and private issues: Utility/pipeline notice duties and statutory attached-fence removal requirements operate independently of the permit. Private boundary, cost and covenant disputes are separate from Town code administration, with association enforcement subject to Texas law.

USING THIS INFORMATION

This page provides general orientation on how residential fence rules are structured and applied within the Town of Prosper, Texas. Updated November 2026.

In addition to local fence rules, certain Texas laws apply statewide. See Statewide Fence Laws in Texas.

It is not legal advice and does not replace official statutes, ordinances, orders, permits, certificates, development approvals, applicable building-code requirements, surveys, recorded documents or professional guidance. Rules and interpretations may change, and application may vary with municipal or unincorporated location, applicable extraterritorial authority, zoning or special-area status, code adoption and amendments, site conditions, subdivision or plat conditions, easements, rights-of-way, drainage and floodplain requirements, historic or design districts, pool use, agricultural operations and stock laws, fence ownership or attachment, coastal or public-access conditions, utility and pipeline excavation requirements, and private restrictions subject to Texas law. Before purchasing materials or beginning construction, confirm current requirements and site-specific limitations with Town of Prosper Building Inspections and the responsible office for each applicable issue, and review applicable private agreements. If this page conflicts with controlling law, adopted regulations or official requirements, the controlling authorities govern. For legal advice or legal interpretation, consult a licensed attorney.