Serving the Town of Medley — an incorporated municipality in Miami-Dade County, FL.
Medley is unlike any other town on this map: just over a thousand residents spread across roughly five square miles, with a motto the Town prints on its own documents — “The Perfect Place for Industrial Development.” This is Miami-Dade’s warehouse-and-logistics engine, a wall-to-wall grid of distribution centers, truck yards, cement and aggregate plants, and Class-A industrial parks wedged between Okeechobee Road, the Palmetto Expressway, and Florida’s Turnpike. So a fence here is rarely a backyard privacy run — it’s a security perimeter that has to keep a working yard moving. Allday Fence builds to that reality — chain-link and welded-steel perimeters, engineered CBS and concrete-block walls, gate columns and truck gates — and pulls the permit through the Town’s own Building & Zoning office.
Why a fence is different in Medley
Most contractors quoting a Medley fence reach for Miami-Dade County’s rules. They’re on the wrong page before they start. Medley incorporated in 1949, and it permits fences and walls through its own Town of Medley Building & Zoning Department — not Miami-Dade County RER, which handles only the unincorporated land outside the Town line. That means a Town application, the Town’s zoning review, the Town’s inspectors on BS&A Online, and the Town’s own published fence standards — a different track from a parcel a mile away in unincorporated Dade. (The Town’s process does route a County review step for DERM and Fire, but the Town — not RER — issues the construction permit.)
The second difference is the kind of barrier. Medley’s tax base is industrial by design, which is exactly why its population is so small and its density so high. The work here skews hard toward commercial and industrial perimeters — heavy-gauge chain-link, welded-steel picket, truck-rated slide and cantilever gates, and CBS / concrete-block screen walls and gate columns — rather than the residential privacy fencing that dominates the rest of the county. Medley even publishes its own “Installation Requirements for Wood / Chain Link Fences” keyed to Florida Building Code sections §2328 and §2224, which is unusual for a town this size and tells you how seriously the Building Department treats a perimeter. There is a small residential pocket, and we serve it — but the center of gravity in Medley is the yard, the dock, and the gate.
Where we work inside Medley
The rule that governs your fence depends on where the parcel sits and how it’s zoned, so naming the ground matters:
- The Okeechobee Road (US-27) commercial corridor — the spine of the Town, lined with distribution and manufacturing frontage, where the job is a street-facing security perimeter and a truck gate that still reads clean from the right-of-way.
- The NW 72nd–75th Avenue / NW 74th Street industrial core — the dense warehouse blocks around the Town’s own municipal complex on NW 72nd Avenue, wall-to-wall logistics and cross-dock buildings.
- The Medley Business Park and the Class-A industrial parks feeding the Miami International Airport cargo district just to the southeast — larger campuses that need engineered perimeters, gate columns, and gate operators.
- The heavy-industrial west end around the Titan America Pennsuco cement plant and the Rinker operations, where fencing lives next to aggregate, rail, and truck traffic.
- The Miami Canal frontage that forms part of the Town’s natural borders — canal-abutting lots where the fence has to stay clear of the drainage right-of-way.
- The small residential enclave — a modest pocket of single-family and mobile-home lots where the work shifts to wood privacy, aluminum, and pool-barrier fencing.
We confirm the current Town code for your exact address before we quote — an industrial perimeter and a residential-pocket privacy fence are governed by different rules.
Fence & wall permit rules in Medley
Everything below is the general framework for a fence, wall, or gate in the Town of Medley. Heights, setbacks, and materials vary by parcel and zoning district — Allday Fence confirms the current Town code against your exact address before we quote, and we pull the permit. Where the Town’s own building-department documents state a requirement, it is safe to rely on. Where a number lives only in the Town’s zoning code (Chapter 62 / Chapter 32) — height, setback, sight triangle, barbed-wire allowance — we do not publish a figure here, because those limits are set per parcel and zoning district. We confirm those per address with the Building & Zoning Department. We do not publish a per-parcel figure we haven’t checked.
A permit is required. Medley permits fences and walls through its Building & Zoning Department, and zoning review is the first step — the Town’s Permitting Guidelines open with “ZONING REVIEW: submit zoning review form.” There is no “no-permit” tier for a real fence.
Height — front, corner, side, rear. Medley sets its own maximums in its zoning code (Chapter 62 / Chapter 32), and they are the Town’s numbers, not the County’s. As a general shape seen across Miami-Dade jurisdictions: front yards are held lower and more open; side and rear yards allow a taller fence; corner lots step down on the street side; and industrial security perimeters are typically allowed to run taller than a residential fence. We do not publish a specific front/corner/side/rear figure here — we confirm the exact maximum heights against the current Town code before we quote. Do not assume the County’s numbers apply; Medley is its own jurisdiction.
The one structural number we can cite — the 12-foot HVHZ engineering line. This is the industrial detail that matters most in Medley, and it comes straight from the Town’s own fence-requirements form: a chain-link fence in excess of 12 feet in height must be engineered to the Florida Building Code Chapter 16 High-Velocity Hurricane Zone wind loads, while a chain-link fence under 12 feet may either be engineered or built to the Town’s Table 2224 minimum post-and-footing schedule (posts embedded to within 6 inches of the bottom of the concrete foundation; 10-foot on-center maximum post spacing; sizes stepped by fence height). That is a structural/wind requirement — it does not by itself tell you how tall the zoning code lets your parcel build, which is a separate limit we confirm per address.
Corner visibility (sight triangle). Like every Miami-Dade jurisdiction, Medley keeps the sightline clear at intersections and driveway/curb-cut edges — critical here, where semis pull out of yards onto busy corridors — so a solid wall or tall fence can’t be pushed into the corner. The exact triangle dimensions and the height allowed inside it are set by the Town zoning code, and we confirm them for your parcel before we design.
Setback and placement. Where the fence or wall may sit relative to the property line, and any additional setback along a corner, a right-of-way, or the Miami Canal, is parcel-specific and set by the Town code. We read your survey and set the barrier where the Town will approve it.
Barbed wire, razor ribbon, and security toppings. In an industrial town this is a routine question, not a rare one — but the allowance, and the height above which a topping is permitted, is set by the Town’s zoning for your industrial district, not by a countywide rule. We confirm what your parcel actually allows against the current Town code before we design it in. Either way, the fence system still has to carry HVHZ product approval or engineered plans.
Materials and the finished side. Medley’s working palette runs the full industrial range — galvanized and vinyl-coated chain-link, welded steel, ornamental aluminum, wood privacy, PVC, and CBS / concrete-block masonry walls and concrete gate columns. The Town’s fence form confirms two material rules directly: wood fences must be built of decay- and termite-resistant material (FBC §2304.12), and — a stated zoning requirement — the recognizable finished side must face adjacent properties and rights-of-way. Whether chain-link is restricted forward of the front building line in the residential pocket, and any material limits by district, are set by the zoning code and confirmed per address.
Concrete and masonry walls are not fences — and we’re licensed for both. Allday Fence is a licensed specialty fence contractor whose license covers fences, concrete walls, and concrete columns. That matters in Medley, where a solid barrier is often a CBS or concrete-block wall rather than a fence. The Town’s published standard details cover only wood and chain-link fences — so a masonry wall, a poured-concrete wall, or the concrete columns and pillars that carry a gate or an entry feature fall outside those stock details. By the Town’s own rule, anything not covered by the standard details must be built to signed-and-sealed architect’s or engineer’s plans or an authorized Product Approval / Notice of Acceptance. A taller masonry wall in particular carries engineered footings and HVHZ wind-load calculations a standard fence doesn’t. Allday handles both the structural engineering and the Town permit — freestanding fences, walls, and gate columns, the perimeter itself.
Hurricane-zone product approval (all of Miami-Dade). Medley, like every municipality in the county, sits in the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone (HVHZ) — the strictest wind-code jurisdiction in the country. The Town’s own form is blunt about it: pre-manufactured fence sections “may not comply with this code” and product approval may be required, and any method not covered by the standard details must be built to an architect’s or engineer’s plans or an authorized Product Approval / Notice of Acceptance (NOA). Manufactured aluminum, PVC, and restricted-airflow chain-link systems have to carry a current Florida Product Approval or a Miami-Dade NOA; a masonry wall or concrete column carries engineer calculations instead. Skipping product approval is the single most common reason an out-of-town or unlicensed fence gets rejected.
Design / overlay note — environmental, not HOA. Here Medley breaks sharply from cities like Doral or Coral Gables. There is essentially no homeowners-association architectural board stacking an aesthetic standard on top of the code, because this is an industrial town, not a master-planned subdivision. The overlay that actually bites in Medley is environmental — the Town’s own permit process routes a County review step for DERM (Miami-Dade’s environmental resources review) on top of Town review, which can affect what happens at the ground and in the footings on some industrial parcels. Whether a DERM/environmental review touches your specific fence footings depends on the parcel — we confirm it before we dig.
Pool-barrier fences (residential pocket). When a fence in Medley’s small residential enclave also serves as the safety barrier for a swimming pool, it has to meet Florida’s Residential Swimming Pool Safety Act (Chapter 515) — non-climbable, spaced so a small child can’t pass, with a self-closing, self-latching gate that opens away from the pool. We confirm the exact current height, gap, and latch-height figures against the statute for your build. See our pool-code barrier fencing.
Survey. A Medley fence or wall permit is filed against a current survey / site plan showing the barrier location, length, height, and distance to the property lines — on an industrial parcel that also means showing gates, gate columns, truck aprons, and any easement or canal right-of-way. Before we file, we run a MyHausFax™ property compliance report on the address so we know the folio, any recorded easements, and any open permits before they can hold up your fence.
Fees. Medley publishes a flat fence-and-wall permit fee schedule by linear footage rather than pure valuation. The Town’s Building & Zoning Fee Schedule, adopted April 13, 2022, lists fences/walls (chain-link, wood, iron, aluminum) at $175 for 0–500 linear feet, $225 for 501–1,000 L/F, $0.05 for each additional foot over 1,000, and $0.85 per L/F for CBS/masonry, with a minimum permit fee of $225 commercial / $175 residential. Fee schedules are updated periodically, so we confirm the current figure at filing. We confirm current timing with the Building & Zoning Department at 305-887-6913 as part of your quote.
The one line that governs this whole page: heights, setbacks, materials, security toppings, and the sight triangle vary by parcel and zoning district — we confirm the current Town of Medley code for your exact address before we quote, and we pull the permit.
The permitting authority — and who it is NOT
Medley permits through its own Town of Medley Building & Zoning Department at 7777 NW 72nd Avenue, Medley, FL 33166 (305-887-6913; building@townofmedley.com) — not Miami-Dade County RER, which handles only the unincorporated land outside the Town limits. The Town’s permit sequence runs zoning review first (a required zoning-review form), then DRC site-plan review, civil/engineering pre-application, and Town discipline review (building/structural — engineered drawings or product approvals for the fence, wall, or column system, HVHZ wind-load, and Table 2224 footings for chain-link), a County review step for DERM and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, and finally issuance, with footing and final inspections scheduled through BS&A Online. A commercial or industrial perimeter can also draw gate-operator (electrical) review where a motorized truck gate is involved. Allday Fence is a licensed specialty fence contractor — fences, concrete walls, and columns — and a Miami-Dade contractor. We pull the permit as Allday Fence — the contractor of record on the Town application, on your Notice of Commencement, and on the closed permit.
How an Allday Medley project runs
- Property record first. Before we quote, we pull the property-compliance report referenced above and read your survey — so on an industrial parcel we design against the real lines, easements, canal rights-of-way, and any open permit, not a guess.
- Zoning review, then design to the Town standard. We file the zoning-review form first, then design to the district: correct height for your zoning, corner sight triangle handled, finished side out, security topping only where the code allows it, and Table 2224 footings (or engineered footings above 12 feet) for chain-link — or engineered footings and wind-load calcs for a CBS/masonry wall or gate column.
- Full package filed with the Town. Product approvals or NOAs, engineer-sealed drawings where required (tall perimeters, masonry walls, concrete columns, motorized gates), and a current survey/site plan — assembled the way Medley expects.
- Corrections cleared in one pass. We resolve zoning and building/structural comments together rather than one at a time.
- Install + inspections. Built to the approved plans and phased so a working yard keeps operating; footing and final inspections walked with the Town inspector, corrections resolved on site.
- Permit closed. Closed against the property record in writing — nothing left open to surface at a sale, a refinance, a lender’s inspection, or a Certificate of Use review. 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 Medley
Engineered commercial and industrial security perimeters with slide, cantilever, and roll gates for the warehouse and logistics corridor — heavy-gauge chain-link, welded-steel picket, CBS / concrete-block screen walls, and concrete gate columns and pillars built to Table 2224 and HVHZ product approval or engineer-sealed plans — plus wood privacy and aluminum residential fencing and pool-code barrier fencing for the Town’s small residential pocket, and fence and wall repair and storm restoration across the industrial core. Every job is a permit-tied install — designed to the Medley code, engineered where required, pulled, and finaled.
Also serving nearby in Miami-Dade County
Medley sits among markets we work every week, each on its own permitting track:
- Hialeah fence contractor — the dense, high-volume city on Medley’s eastern border, permitted through Hialeah’s own building office.
- Doral fence contractor — the incorporated city on Medley’s southern border, permitted through Doral’s own building department (and a code that bars chain-link — the opposite of industrial Medley).
Allday Fence serves Miami-Dade County only. With 18 years of experience filing in exactly these offices — the Town of Medley’s Building & Zoning counter and the neighboring city and County RER centers — we’ve pulled and closed permits against parcels across the area, so there’s nothing left open on your property record when you refinance, sell, or renew a Certificate of Use. As a licensed specialty fence contractor — fences, concrete walls, and columns — we file, final, and close every Medley permit as Allday Fence, the contractor of record.
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 Town of Medley code for your exact address before quoting.