In compliance with zoning regulations, the City of North St. Paul requires you to place your fence fully inside your property lines. You cannot have a fence installed on the property lines, on public property, or on an adjacent neighbor’s property. It is your responsibility to know the exact location of your property line. Property line markers need to be in place prior to your fencing installation. If you are unsure of the exact location of your property lines, you will want to hire a survey professional to identify them.

You will also need to know the location of any easements on your property. The City of North St. Paul restricts us from installing a fence on top of any easements.

Both Northland and the City of North St. Paul encourage you to discuss your fence plans with all neighbors whose property is adjacent to yours. By doing so, you can avoid any disputes over property lines.

The City of North St. Paul requires that you obtain a zoning permit prior to installation of your new fence. When you apply for your zoning permit, you must submit a detailed site plan showing property lines, measurements, location of easements, and proposed fence placement for review. Your zoning permit application will take approximately 10 business days so that your site plan can be reviewed. Upon completion, you will be required to schedule an inspection with the city. You must give the city a minimum of 24-hour notice prior to when the inspection can be conducted.

The installation team is responsible for calling Gopher State One Call to arrange for utility location services. By the time we are ready to dig, the utility lines will already be identified and marked so that they will be avoided during the installation.

The City of North St. Paul requires fences to be no taller than 6-1/2 feet when they are located anywhere on the property except for the front yard where the fence height cannot exceed 3-1/2 feet. All fences must be installed with the finished side facing away from your property with all fence posts placed on the inner side of the fence (in cases where the fence posts are on the same side as the fence).

You are not allowed to build on top of an easement. During installation, we will carefully plan your installation around any rights-of-ways and driveways, or build your fence within the vision field of intersections. We will also keep you in compliance with the city in regards to easements. It is against regulation to build on top of an easement or block other access to utilities.

It is illegal to install an electrified or wire fence in the City of North St. Paul and across the state of Minnesota.