You can place a chain link fence on your property up to the property line except for the front of the property, closest to the road on a corner lot. When your property is a corner lot, you need to ensure traffic visibility. The Northland Fence building tool can help you design and plan a fence within your property lines.

As long as you aren’t planning to build your new fence on the division line between your property and your neighbor’s land, you don’t need to notify them of your plans. Of course, it’s always a neighborly thing to do, and it helps you maintain a positive relationship.

No, you don’t need a fence permit to build a new fence, but the city does regulate fences. You need to understand all the local fencing codes before you begin building or replacing an existing fence.

When you’re building a fence on your own, you need to be the one to call the local utility companies to ensure that you don’t damage any cables or pipes. As part of our process, our team always finds and marks utilities, before we start digging.

In Maple Grove, a fence can’t be over six feet tall. However, decorative fences at the front of the property can’t be taller than three and a half feet.

While the city of Maple Grove doesn’t prohibit you from building a fence on an easement, it isn’t a good idea. Most easements are used by the city or a local utility company to bury cables and pipes. When they need access to these buried utilities, they will damage your fence to get to them, and you don’t have any recourse to get them to repair the fence.