Serving the City of Homestead — an incorporated municipality in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
Homestead is the last real town before the Keys — the gateway between the Everglades and Biscayne Bay, built around a historic Krome Avenue downtown that was rebuilt board by board after Hurricane Andrew leveled it in 1992. It is also its own city with its own fence code, and that code changed in 2025 in a way that makes a lot of what a South Dade homeowner “knows” about fences wrong. Allday Fence works the City of Homestead permit counter and builds to Homestead’s rules — not the county’s.
Allday Fence is a licensed specialty fence contractor — fences, concrete walls, and columns — bringing 20 years of experience and 500+ installs across Miami-Dade, run out of South Dade, with permits filed, finaled, and closed against the property record. In Homestead that local knowledge earns its keep, because the city writes and enforces its own fence code — and the material rules here are not the county’s.
Why fences are genuinely different in Homestead
Two things set Homestead apart. First, the storm. Andrew came ashore essentially on top of Homestead, and that 1992 catastrophe is a big reason South Florida writes the strictest wind code in the country. If any market in Miami-Dade should take a fence’s wind rating seriously, it is this one.
Second, and bigger for what you can actually build: Homestead is an incorporated city with its own Code of Ordinances — it does not follow the Miami-Dade County zoning code inside city limits. The fence you could put up a few miles north in unincorporated Naranja or Leisure City may be flatly illegal on your Homestead lot. The clearest example is recent: a 2025 city ordinance restricts wood and chain-link fencing in a specific set of zoning districts — two of the cheapest, most common fence types in South Dade — and steers those properties toward vinyl/PVC, composite, and wrought-iron/ornamental metal instead. The districts reported at adoption are the R-TND traditional-neighborhood district and the Planned Urban Neighborhood, Business Mixed-Use, Neighborhood Mixed-Use, and Technology Mixed-Use districts. Whether the restriction reaches every single-family lot or only those named districts is exactly the kind of thing we confirm against live code for your parcel before we quote.
Homestead is one of the fastest-growing new-construction corridors in south Miami-Dade — master-planned, deed-restricted communities like Keys Gate, Waterstone, Malibu Bay, San Remo, and the Villages of Homestead are going up alongside the older neighborhoods around Modello, East Homestead, and the ag-edged Redland. In the gated communities you are usually clearing a private HOA architectural board on top of the city — the city’s own fence checklist even asks for an association approval letter for communities like the Villages, San Remo, and Keys Gate. Allday builds the fence to clear both layers.
Every Homestead install starts with a MyHausFax™ property compliance report so we know the parcel’s permit history, open files, and whether it is even inside the city line before a post hole is marked. We measure first. Then we build.
Fence permit rules in the City of Homestead
The rules below are the general framework for a residential fence, wall, or gate inside city limits. Allday Fence confirms the current code against your exact address and zoning district before we quote, and we pull the permit. Because Homestead amended its fence code in 2025 and the live code server (Municode) was not machine-readable at the time this page was drafted, the department, submittal, and product-approval requirements below are confirmed against the city’s own published Fence Checklist and Planning FAQ, while every specific height figure and code subsection is stated only as a general framework we reconfirm per parcel — nothing here should read as a promise we have not confirmed for your address.
A permit is required. New fences and straight replacements both need one, and the city routes every fence type — the checklist names concrete, wood, aluminum, and chain link explicitly — through the same submittal. The review path runs Zoning → Building → Structural (as applicable) → Building Official, filed electronically to Permits@homesteadfl.gov through Development Services, 100 Civic Court, (305) 224-4500. The city recommends calling the Planning Division first to confirm your district’s fence locations, setbacks, and permitted height.
Materials — the headline Homestead rule, and a recent change:
- A 2025 ordinance restricts wood and chain-link fencing in a specific set of the city’s zoning districts (reported at adoption as R-TND, Planned Urban Neighborhood, Business Mixed-Use, Neighborhood Mixed-Use, and Technology Mixed-Use), requiring vinyl, composite, or wrought-iron/ornamental metal instead. Whether it reaches standard single-family (R-1/R-2) lots or only the named districts is confirmed per parcel — we do not assume it applies, and we do not assume it doesn’t.
- Compliant go-to materials on a typical Homestead lot: aluminum / ornamental metal, PVC/vinyl, and masonry / concrete walls and columns.
- Barbed wire, razor wire, glass, nails, and similar on residential fences, and electric fences, are the kind of restriction the city’s fence rules address — we build only to what the current code allows, confirmed for your parcel.
Height (residential — general South Florida framework, confirmed per parcel):
- Typically ~6 ft in the side and rear yards (behind the established front building line).
- Typically ~4 ft in the front-setback area (front yard); the exact front-setback depth is set by your zoning district, so the trigger line varies by parcel.
- Lower near a corner, where a fence must stay out of the driver-sightline area at an intersection.
The city does not publish these figures on its public fence pages — its Planning FAQ simply states there are height restrictions and directs you to call the Planning Division for the number that applies to your lot. So we don’t quote a height blind: we confirm the code figure and the corner rule for your exact parcel and zoning district before we design.
Corner visibility, setbacks, and easements. On a corner lot the fence height drops and the fence has to stay clear of the driver-sightline area the city marks for your intersection; fences otherwise generally follow the surveyed lot line. If a line runs through a public or utility easement, placing a fence there can be at the owner’s risk — city or utility crews may remove or disturb it. We read your survey and place the fence where it is approvable and out of harm’s way, and we confirm the exact clearance and any setback with the city for your parcel.
Survey required. The city requires a current property survey showing the fence and gate locations. Note a wording difference between the city’s own sources — the Fence Checklist references a “current legal survey,” while the Planning FAQ references “two sets of signed and sealed property surveys.” Because the two official pages differ, we confirm the exact count and format with Development Services for your submittal before filing.
Notice of Commencement. For a fence job over $2,500, a recorded Notice of Commencement is required — the city’s checklist notes it must be in place by the first inspection. On Homestead NOC and lien documents the contractor entity is Allday Fence — we prepare and record it correctly as part of the job.
HVHZ and product approval. The city’s fence checklist requires a current Miami-Dade County NOA / Florida Product Approval for PVC and vinyl fences, and routes masonry and concrete walls and engineered or taller fences through structural review (signed-and-sealed structural documents where the reviewer requires them). The checklist lists the NOA requirement specifically for PVC and vinyl; whether aluminum also triggers a product-approval requirement in a given review we confirm with the department for your product and site. This is exactly where an unlicensed or out-of-town install fails plan review — and, in the city Andrew leveled, exactly the step worth doing right.
Fees and timeline. Homestead’s fence permit fee is valuation-based under the city fee schedule with state and county surcharges — there is no flat “fence = $X” figure published, and the city does not publish a guaranteed turnaround. We confirm current cost and timing with the department at (305) 224-4500 as part of your quote.
Framing line: Heights, materials, and setbacks vary by parcel, zoning district, HOA status, and even whether you are inside the city at all — we confirm the current City of Homestead code for your exact address before we quote, and we pull the permit.
Concrete and masonry walls — not just fences
Allday Fence is a licensed specialty fence contractor whose scope also covers concrete walls and concrete columns — CBS / block privacy and boundary walls, decorative concrete columns and pillars framing an entrance or gate, and the engineered footings under them. On a Homestead lot where the 2025 ordinance points certain districts away from wood and chain-link, a masonry or concrete wall is often the most durable, storm-ready answer, and it’s a material the city’s own fence checklist recognizes.
A concrete or masonry wall is a different animal from a standard fence at plan review. Taller masonry walls generally require structural engineering, engineered footings, and wind-load / product-approval documentation beyond what a standard aluminum or vinyl fence needs — which is exactly why Homestead routes them through structural review. Allday handles both sides of that: the structural engineering and the city permit, so the wall is designed to the wind code, footed correctly, and finaled — not red-tagged. (This is freestanding fence-line and boundary wall and column work — not retaining walls or structural building walls.)
The HOA overlay — and why it can matter more in Homestead
In most Miami-Dade cities, “city-approved is not HOA-approved” is a scheduling note: you clear the association’s architectural board and you pull the city permit, two separate sign-offs, and the association is often stricter on color, style, and height. Homestead adds a wrinkle. So much of the city’s recent growth is deed-restricted — Keys Gate, Waterstone, Malibu Bay, San Remo, the Villages of Homestead — that the city’s own fence checklist asks for an association approval letter for those communities as a matter of course. A city permit does not override your HOA, and HOA approval does not satisfy the city. You need both. We design the fence or wall to clear your association’s architectural review and the city code, and we submit to both so nothing stalls.
Pool-barrier fences in Homestead
If your fence doubles as the barrier for a new pool, it answers to Florida’s Residential Swimming Pool Safety Act on top of the city fence code. As a general guide, a pool barrier must be at least 4 ft high on the outside, with no gaps a young child could crawl under, squeeze through, or climb over, and any gate must be self-closing and self-latching and open outward, away from the pool, with the release on the pool side out of a child’s reach. Because chain-link is off the table in several Homestead districts, most pool barriers here are aluminum or PVC/vinyl carrying a current NOA. We build and permit these to pass the barrier inspection on the first visit — see pool-code barrier fencing.
Neighborhoods and communities we fence in the City of Homestead
Keys Gate · Waterstone / Stonebrook · Malibu Bay · San Remo · The Villages of Homestead · Modello · East Homestead · the historic Krome Avenue downtown · the Redland edges · ZIP codes 33030, 33031, 33032, 33033, 33034, 33035.
A jurisdiction note that matters more here than almost anywhere in the county: many parcels with a “Homestead” address are actually unincorporated Miami-Dade — parts of the Redland, Naranja, Leisure City, and Princeton — and those follow Miami-Dade County RER and Chapter 33 / 8CC (which allows chain-link and sets its own heights), not the city code on this page. We confirm jurisdiction by folio and address on any borderline lot before applying these rules.
How a Homestead fence or wall project runs with Allday
- Jurisdiction + property record confirmed. We pull the MyHausFax™ report, confirm the parcel is inside the City of Homestead, and review its permit history and open files before we quote.
- Design to Homestead’s own code. Compliant material for your specific district (aluminum, PVC/vinyl, or masonry/concrete wall and columns), correct heights, and corner-visibility clearance — plus your community’s architectural board where one applies.
- Full package filed. Permit application with notarized owner and qualifier signatures, current license and insurance, fence/wall detail, current survey, Miami-Dade NOA for PVC/vinyl, the city’s Fence Addendum and Hold Harmless form (required on every fence submittal), the Owner/Builder Affidavit where applicable, the HOA approval letter, and the Notice of Commencement on jobs over $2,500 — filed to Permits@homesteadfl.gov.
- Zoning → Building → Structural review. We carry the submittal through the city’s review path and respond to corrections; masonry and concrete walls run the structural leg.
- Install + final inspection. Built to the approved plans, walked with the inspector, corrections resolved on site.
- Permit closed. Closed against the property record, in writing — nothing left open to surface at a sale, refinance, or 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 path.
What Allday Fence installs in Homestead
Ornamental aluminum fencing for front yards and pool barriers, PVC/vinyl privacy carrying a current Miami-Dade NOA, and masonry and concrete walls, block/CBS walls, and concrete columns with engineered structural documents, plus commercial fencing for South Dade businesses and pool-code barrier fencing and fence repair and storm restoration across the city. Every install is a permit-tied install — pulled through the City of Homestead Development Services, built to a current product approval, and finaled. See the full range in residential fencing.
Also serving nearby in Miami-Dade County
Homestead sits at the southern end of the markets we work, bordered by municipalities with their own permitting counters:
- Florida City fence contractor — the incorporated city directly south, gateway to the Keys, with its own building department and code.
- Cutler Bay fence contractor — the Town of Cutler Bay up US-1 to the north, a separate town review track.
Allday Fence serves Miami-Dade County only — 20 years of experience, permits filed, finaled, and closed against the property record on every install. We work the Development Services counter at 100 Civic Court on Homestead jobs and hold South Dade fence and wall files open until the city signs them closed.
This page is general guidance, not a code determination for any specific parcel — Allday Fence confirms current City of Homestead code for your exact address before quoting. Reviewed by Victor L. Moreno, Chief Compliance Officer, before publish.