Serving the Village of Biscayne Park — an incorporated municipality in Miami-Dade County, FL (a village since its 1933 charter).
Biscayne Park was planted, not just platted — founder Arthur Griffing set out shrubs and trees in the 1920s so the whole village read as one continuous botanical garden, and today its identity is that arching tree canopy over quiet single-family streets. A fence or wall here has to fit under that canopy, not fight it: the Village permits through its own Building, Permits & Zoning Department, runs its fence-and-wall rules through Village Code Section 5.36, and keeps a Planning and Design Review Board in its development-review process. Allday Fence — a licensed specialty fence contractor whose scope also covers concrete walls and columns — has spent 18 years of experience filing in exactly these Miami-Dade village and county offices.
Why a fence is different in Biscayne Park
Most of Miami-Dade treats a residential fence as a quick counter permit. Biscayne Park adds two wrinkles almost no out-of-town contractor plans for.
First, the character is the code. The Village literally began as “Biscayne Park Estates,” a tomato field that founder Arthur Griffing replanted as a botanical garden of shrubs and trees; the WPA-built Log Cabin Village Hall (Dade County pine, handed to the Village in 1935) is still the seat of daily operations, and the mature tree canopy over open front lawns is the thing the Village protects hardest. That shapes fences and walls: the front yard is kept open and low so the canopy and lawn read continuously down the block, with the taller, more private runs kept to the sides and rear.
Second, the Planning and Design Review Board is in the loop. The Village’s own Fence Permit Checklist says the permit application “must be presented in front of the P&Z Advisory Board for pre-approval of the overall project” before it moves forward into plan review — so a Biscayne Park fence isn’t just a counter transaction, it runs through the Village’s design-review body first. That board (formally the Planning and Design Review Board, the Village’s local planning agency) meets the first and third Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. We build that pre-approval step into your timeline from the start and confirm the exact routing for your parcel, so a meeting date never blindsides your project.
Where we work inside Biscayne Park
Biscayne Park is small — a wedge of single-family blocks tucked between larger neighbors — and knowing the map matters at permit intake. The Village runs north to about NE 121st Street, where it meets the City of North Miami; south to the Village of Miami Shores; and its west edge follows the Biscayne Canal, with El Portal and unincorporated Miami-Dade pockets nearby. The main spines are NE 6th Avenue and Griffing Boulevard (named for the founder), threading the numbered residential streets from roughly NE 111th up to NE 121st. Ed Burke Park and the Log Cabin Village Hall on NE 114th Street anchor the center of the Village. The Village is also mapped into several residential zoning sectors with different lot and setback standards — which is why the rules can read slightly differently from one street to the next. We build to the Village code first, and to whichever sector and street condition your lot actually sits in.
Fence and wall permit rules in Biscayne Park
Everything below is the general framework for a residential fence, wall, or gate in the Village of Biscayne Park. Heights, setbacks, corner-visibility, and materials vary by parcel, zoning sector, and street — Allday Fence confirms the current Village code against your exact address before we quote, and we pull the permit. Where a figure comes straight off the Village’s official forms or fence detail, we state it plainly; where a specific number lives only in the Section 5.36 / Land Development Code text, we confirm it for your parcel rather than printing a number we can’t stand behind.
A permit is required. A fence, wall, or gate is a Village building permit — “FENCE” is a checkbox permit type on the Village’s own permit application, filed with the Building, Permits & Zoning Department at 600 NE 114th Street (the Village directs owners to file under the owner’s own email, not the contractor’s or a permit runner’s).
Height — protecting the canopy and the open front lawn. The Village sets its own fence-and-wall heights in Village Code Section 5.36. Consistent with Miami-Dade’s garden villages, the front yard is held low to keep the tree-canopy streetscape open, with taller runs allowed to the sides and rear. We do not quote a front-yard height sight-unseen; we confirm the exact front, corner/street-side, side, and rear caps for your address against the current Section 5.36 before we design.
Corner visibility (safe-sight triangle). At intersections and driveways the sightline has to stay clear for drivers. The Miami-Dade County baseline (Sec. 33-11) holds fences, walls, and hedges to 2.5 feet in height inside the safe-sight-distance triangle and within 10 feet of a driveway leading to a public right-of-way. We confirm the exact triangle and corner-height requirement for your parcel with the Village before we set a corner post.
Setback from the property line. In Biscayne Park the building (dwelling) setbacks — how far the house must sit from the street, sides, and rear — are larger than, and separate from, where a fence or wall may go; those dwelling setbacks vary by zoning sector. Fences generally may run at or near the property line subject to the sight triangle; we confirm the Village’s own fence-line rule, and any applicable dwelling setback, per parcel.
Material and design (Section 5.36(f)). The Village code is explicit: “Fences or walls shall be constructed of masonry materials, wood, chain link, P.V.C. or other materials approved by the building code,” and “the decorative side of wall or fence shall face the exterior or public side.” So masonry and concrete/CBS walls, wood, chain-link, and PVC/vinyl are all allowed — but the finished face looks out toward the street or neighbor, with the supporting members facing into your own yard.
Concrete, CBS & masonry walls and columns. Allday’s specialty-contractor license covers more than fencing — it covers concrete/CBS and masonry walls and concrete columns and pillars, which is exactly what Section 5.36(f) means when it lists “masonry materials” and “walls.” A masonry wall is a different animal from a panel fence: especially at greater heights it generally needs structural engineering, a proper footing, and wind-load / product-approval documentation beyond what a standard fence requires — and Allday handles that engineering and the permit, not just the pour. We build freestanding perimeter, privacy, and decorative walls and columns to the same finished-side-out Section 5.36 streetscape rules.
Hurricane-zone product approval (all of Miami-Dade). Biscayne Park is in the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone. The Village’s wood-fence detail designs simple wood fences up to six feet to the Florida Building Code wind loads (75 mph fastest-mile / 115 mph 3-second gust for fences not exceeding six feet), with pressure-treated 4×4 posts embedded 24 inches into a 10-inch-diameter concrete footing and a minimum of three horizontal 2×4 rails — and it warns that “premanufactured sections may not comply … Product Approval may be required.” Any factory-made system (aluminum, PVC, composite, ornamental) therefore carries a current Florida Product Approval or a Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance (NOA) into the file.
Chain-link. Simple chain-link builds to the Florida Building Code / Miami-Dade standard chain-link detail (FBC §2224): 12½-gauge fabric minimum, posts at 10 feet on center maximum, with the bottom of the fence allowed to clear the ground contour by up to 5 inches to follow the grade.
Survey. The Village’s Fence Permit Checklist requires two copies of the property survey — one an unmarked copy of the original, and one marked to show exactly where on the lot the fence or wall will go. The exact survey-age rule is confirmed with the department.
Notice of Commencement. For work over the statutory threshold, a Notice of Commencement must be recorded and posted on the job site before the first inspection.
Fees and timeline. Village permit fees are valuation-based — the application includes a Construction Cost Affidavit breaking down the job value. We do not quote a Village fee or a turnaround as a fixed number; the fence-permit fee and processing time are confirmed with the Building Department for your valuation and parcel.
The permitting authority — and who it is NOT
Biscayne Park permits through its own Building, Permits & Zoning Department at 600 NE 114th Street (305-899-8000, building@biscayneparkfl.gov) — not Miami-Dade County RER, which handles only unincorporated parcels. A fence or wall runs off one Village application that, per the Village’s Fence Permit Checklist, goes to the Planning and Design Review Board for pre-approval, then through plan review to the Building Official, then the required inspections through final. We file it, work any corrections, and walk the inspections. The Village enforces the Florida Building Code, its own Section 5.36 / Land Development Code fence-and-wall rules, and Miami-Dade product-approval and pool-barrier standards on top.
Pool-barrier fencing in Biscayne Park
When a fence doubles as the safety barrier for a pool, Biscayne Park enforces the Florida “Residential Swimming Pool Safety Act” (F.S. §515 / FBC-R). The barrier must be at least 4 feet high, non-climbable, with no gaps a child can crawl under or squeeze through; access gates must open outward away from the pool and be self-closing and self-latching, with the latch release positioned to the state standard (generally at least 54 inches above the ground, or shielded/inside if lower). The detail that trips people up is a Miami-Dade Board of Rules & Appeals (BORA) interpretation carried right in the Village’s fence detail: when horizontal pickets are used in a pool barrier, they must have no gaps, openings, indentations or protrusions — because horizontal gaps make the barrier climbable. On top of the statute, the Village issues the state Pool Safety Act notice packet and applies its own barrier definitions, which we confirm for your build. We design a pool-code fence to that whole stack from the first sketch. See our pool-code barrier fencing.
The tree-canopy / design-review layer
Biscayne Park’s whole reason for existing is the planted streetscape — the botanical-garden canopy Arthur Griffing laid down and the WPA-era Log Cabin civic heart the Village grew up around. That is why the front-yard fence line is kept low and open, why the finished side has to face the street, and why the Village keeps a Planning and Design Review Board in its process at all. Before we design a Biscayne Park fence or wall we confirm the current Section 5.36 heights for your street, check whether your scope is routed to the board, and build the drawings to the tightest rule on your parcel — so the fence reads as part of the canopy, not a wall dropped in front of it.
How an Allday Biscayne Park project runs
- Property record first. Before we quote, we pull a MyHausFax™ property compliance report on your parcel to surface permit history, open permits, the zoning sector, and any recorded restriction — so we design against the real record, not a guess.
- Design to the Village split. A low, finished-side-out front element under the Section 5.36 front-yard rule; the taller, more private fence, wall, or column runs to the sides and rear; the corner-visibility triangle and any pool-barrier requirement built in from the first sketch.
- Full package filed. The Village permit application, the two required survey copies (one unmarked original and one marked with the fence/wall line), the Section 5.36(f)-compliant material, the Miami-Dade standard wood detail or the Florida Product Approval / Miami-Dade NOA for a manufactured system, structural engineering for a masonry wall or columns where required, the Construction Cost Affidavit, and — where required — the recorded Notice of Commencement, filed at 600 NE 114th Street.
- Board pre-approval and corrections cleared. Per the Village’s Fence Permit Checklist the application is presented to the Planning and Design Review Board for pre-approval; we prepare it for that step, then answer building and zoning comments and keep the file moving to the Building Official’s final approval.
- Install + inspections. Built to the approved plans and the FBC/HVHZ details; the required inspections walked with the Village inspector.
- Permit closed. Closed against the property record in writing — nothing left open to surface at a sale, a refinance, or a four-point inspection. If a fence or wall is already up without a permit, our sister company Permit Solutions Services runs the after-the-fact / legalization path.
What Allday installs in Biscayne Park
Low, finished-side-out front-yard and ornamental fencing built to the Section 5.36 line, taller wood and aluminum privacy on the sides and rear, concrete / CBS masonry walls and concrete columns and pillars engineered and permitted to the Village’s own standard, pool-code barrier fencing built to the F.S. §515 non-climbable standard, chain-link and gated / commercial systems to the FBC §2224 detail, and fence and wall repair and storm restoration across the Village. Every job is a permit-tied install — designed to the Village code, engineered or product-approved where the HVHZ requires it, pulled, and finaled. Allday Fence is a licensed specialty fence contractor — fences, concrete walls, and columns.
Also serving nearby in Miami-Dade County
Biscayne Park sits in the north-Dade village corridor beside several markets we work regularly. Two neighbors with their own permitting quirks:
- Miami Shores fence contractor — the Village directly south, with its own Building Department, a strict front-yard fence cap, and an alley-trash-area rule.
- North Miami Beach fence contractor — up the north-Dade corridor, with its own building department and process.
The Village’s immediate neighbors also include the City of North Miami to the north and the Village of El Portal to the southwest; Allday serves those parcels too, always through the correct municipal authority.
Allday Fence serves Miami-Dade County only. With 18 years of experience in exactly these north-Dade village and county offices, we file, final, and close every permit against the property record — including on the tree-lined single-family blocks that give Biscayne Park its name.
Reviewed by Victor L. Moreno, Chief Compliance Officer, before publish. This page is general guidance, not a code determination for any specific parcel — Allday Fence confirms the current Village of Biscayne Park code for your exact address before quoting. Allday Fence is a licensed specialty fence contractor (fences, concrete walls, and columns) and is the contractor of record (NOC / lien entity) on Village permits.