You can place a new vinyl fence anywhere on your Lakeville property, but it must be within your property lines, including the footing. The city won’t survey the land for you, which makes our fence planning tool your new best friend.

While the fence ordinances in Lakeville, MN don’t mention anything about notifying your neighbors about an upcoming installation, you might consider letting them know anyway. It can help you keep a friendly relationship with them.

In Lakeville, MN, you need a zoning permit before building a fence up to seven feet tall. If your planned fence is over seven feet tall, it requires a fence permit. You’ll need to keep the permit clearly posted during installation, and after the fence is installed, you’ll need the city to do a final inspection to approve the work.

If you’re planning on putting up a fence on your own, you must call Gopher Services at 651-454-0002 to determine the location of all the utility lines and avoid accidents. Our team at Northland Fence takes utility lines seriously, and our first step in the installation process is to locate and mark these lines.

In Lakeville, MN, you can’t build a fence over seven-foot-tall without a fence permit. However, this doesn’t guarantee that your plans for a taller fence will be approved. If you’re placing a fence in the front yard of a home, the fence can’t be any taller than four feet.

You can build your fence on an easement, but you don’t want to. An easement is an area of land that the city or a local utility company retains the right to on your property to bury cables or pipes. At some point in the future, they’ll need access to these cables, and they’ll tear up your fence to get to them.