Fence Rules in Bogart, Georgia

Unconfirmed for fences: the city code requires a building permit for any building or other structure, defined as anything built that needs a place on the ground, and it treats fences as structures, but no permit rule or fee names fences. Ask Oconee County Planning & Code Enforcement, which handles Bogart permits by contract, before you build. In the downtown (CBD) district a fence needs a Special Use Permit from Mayor and Council first; see historic districts. Oconee County Planning & Code Enforcement · 706-769-3907 First Floor, 7635 Macon Highway, Watkinsville, GA 30677 City Hall · 770-725-7386

Only in residential zoning, 4 ft max in the required front yard along each street. Farm zoning (AR, AR-3) may count too; ask Planning & Code Enforcement.

Only in residential zoning, 8 ft max, but 4 ft in the required front yard where the side or back of the lot faces a street. Farm zoning (AR, AR-3) may count too. US 78 / GA 316 business overlay (no homes allowed): 8 ft max anywhere on the lot. Other zoning: none stated, except near a street corner.

Measured from the average ground level at the base to the top. In the US 78 / GA 316 overlay, measured from the finished grade. The limits apply in an R district, which the code never defines. It lists R-1, R-2, R-3 and M-H (mobile home) as its residential districts and AR and AR-3 as farm districts; its pool rule calls AR and AR-3 residential too. Every side of a lot along a street counts as a front, so a corner lot or a lot with a street behind it has a required front yard along each street. The required front yard runs from the right-of-way back to the minimum house setback: 40 ft on a major road and 30 ft on a minor street in R-1, M-H, AR and AR-3; 35 ft or 25 ft in R-2; 30 ft or 25 ft in R-3. Where the houses within 100 ft on each side, on the same block and side of the street, sit farther back or closer on average, the required depth can follow that average; ask Planning & Code Enforcement. Other zoning: no front-yard limit stated, except near a street corner and in the US 78 / GA 316 overlay. Bogart UDC Secs. 203, 402, 409.02, 412.01, 206.02

Every side of the lot that faces a street counts as a front yard, so in residential zoning the 4 ft limit applies in the required front yard along each street. In every zoning district, nothing between 3 ft and 15 ft high within 20 ft of where street, road, highway or railroad right-of-way lines meet. Utility poles, light and sign posts and tree trunks are exempt. Bogart UDC Secs. 402, 1008.04.e(1)

Barbed wire, unless the fence holds horses or similar animals.

The city has no historic commission and no design approval (certificate of appropriateness). Downtown (CBD) district: building, changing or removing a fence needs a Special Use Permit from Mayor and Council before work starts, reviewed for fit with the district's historic character. Bogart UDC Sec. 205.01.c(2)

Residential zoning: a fence in any front yard area at least 3 ft back from the right-of-way; none on side or back lines. Farm, office, business and industrial zoning: no setback, but keep street intersections visible. Easements: only if the easement's terms allow it, and drainage easements must be kept clear; ask the City Engineer. Bogart UDC Secs. 410.02, 1115.03, 1116.13, 1117.13

None for a home fence. Fences in the buffers that apartment, office, business and industrial projects must keep next to homes or farmland: at least 6 ft tall, at least 3 ft off the property line with plantings between, finished side facing the neighbor, rot-resistant or waterproofed; no chain link.

Pool gates: self-closing, self-latching and locked when no owner or occupant is at the pool (see pool fences).

Fences are an allowed use in the Flood Prone overlay (the zoning layer over land subject to flooding). In a flood hazard area (the FEMA-mapped flood zones, which can also take in land known to have flooded), any development, meaning any man-made change to land, needs a city development permit first. Floodway (the stream channel and nearby land that must stay open to carry floodwater): no new construction or other development unless a registered professional engineer certifies it will not raise flood levels or widen the floodway. Along a stream in a mapped flood hazard area with a mapped flood height but no mapped floodway: no fill, structure or other encroachment within the stream's width or 20 ft of the top of the bank, whichever is greater, unless a registered professional engineer certifies it will not raise flood levels at all; in the rest of that flood area, none unless an engineer certifies that, with all other existing and expected development, it will raise flood levels no more than 1 ft anywhere in the city. Along a stream in a mapped flood hazard area where no floodway is mapped and no flood elevation data are available from any source: no fill, structure or other encroachment within the stream's width or 20 ft of the top of the bank, whichever is greater, unless a registered professional engineer certifies it will not raise flood levels at all. Along any year-round stream or other state waters: no construction, clearing or grading within 25 ft of the bank, and more along the Oconee, Middle Oconee and Apalachee rivers (100 ft) and in mapped conservation corridors. These flood and stream rules never name fences, but a fence is a man-made change to land, which the flood rules call development; ask Planning & Code Enforcement before fencing in one of these areas. Fence work that causes only minor soil erosion is exempt from the city's soil erosion rules. Bogart UDC Secs. 206.01, 904, 905, 907, 1105, 1129 to 1133

None.

Governed by the city's own Unified Development Code (adopted August 12, 2024), not Oconee County's zoning code, in both the Oconee and Clarke County parts of the city. Oconee County Planning & Code Enforcement handles permits and inspections by contract. The city approved amendments to this code on April 13, 2026. Their text is not published, so these rules may have changed; ask City Hall. City Hall · 770-725-7386 · 125 Main Street, Bogart, GA 30622 Oconee County Planning & Code Enforcement · 706-769-3907 · 7635 Macon Highway, Watkinsville, GA 30677