Serving the City of Miami Springs — an incorporated municipality in Miami-Dade County, FL. (Not the Village of Virginia Gardens, and not unincorporated county — those are separate departments.)
Miami Springs is Glenn Curtiss’s 1926 aviation town — a small, tree-canopied grid of Pueblo Revival homes wrapped around The Circle and the golf course, hemmed in by Miami International Airport and Hialeah. The housing stock is mature, so a large share of the fence work here is replace-and-repair rather than new construction, and the City’s own zoning code keeps front yards deliberately low and open: nothing over three and a half feet along the front line, with the taller fence reserved for the side and rear. As a licensed specialty fence contractor — fences, concrete walls, and columns — Allday Fence files to the City’s own Building Department, not Miami-Dade County RER, with 18 years of experience.
Why a fence is different in Miami Springs
Most contractors quote a Miami Springs fence off generic Miami-Dade County rules. That’s the wrong book. Miami Springs is an incorporated City with its own Building Department and its own Chapter 150 Zoning Code, so a fence, wall, or gate here is permitted by the City — not Miami-Dade County RER, and not the separate Village of Virginia Gardens on the west side — and the height and placement rules are the City’s own, written into Sec. 150-013(B) of the Zoning Code (“Fences, walls, and gates”).
The headline difference is the front yard. The town was laid out in 1926 around open lawns, the golf course, and Curtiss Parkway’s tree canopy, and the code protects that look. Under Sec. 150-013(B), no fence or wall over three and one-half feet in height (above established grade) is permitted on the property lines in the front-yard areas, and no fence or wall is permitted in the front yard beyond the established front-yard line. Where a lot in unincorporated Dade lets you run a solid four-foot fence right up the front, Miami Springs keeps the street edge low and open. The taller fence — up to six feet — belongs on the side and rear. Layer on the airport: this is a compact, older city where storm damage, jet-corridor exposure, and decades-old posts make repair and replacement the everyday job, and even a repair has a permit line the City watches.
Where we work inside Miami Springs
Miami Springs reads as one small, walkable city, but the fence job shifts block to block. Around The Circle and the Hook Square business district at the town center, and along the Curtiss Parkway spine, the homes are original Pueblo Revival on tight, tree-shaded lots where a fence has to sit low in front and finish clean. Out through Country Club Estates — the original 1920s subdivision named for the course — and the streets wrapped around the Miami Springs Golf & Country Club, we’re mostly doing side- and rear-yard aluminum, wood privacy, CBS wall, and pool barriers behind the house line. Near the Glenn H. Curtiss Mansion and the older core, the historic character raises the bar on how a fence, wall, or entry column should look from the street. And along the NW 36th Street / Curtiss Parkway airport-hotel corridor on the city’s south and east edges — where Miami Springs runs right up against Miami International Airport — the work turns commercial: property-line fencing, concrete walls, dumpster and equipment enclosures, and gates. Wherever the lot sits, we confirm the front/side/rear height and the corner rule for that parcel before we quote.
Fence, wall & gate permit rules in Miami Springs
The height and placement rules below are the City’s own, verified against the City of Miami Springs’ published Sec. 150-013(B) “Fences, walls, and gates” and the Building Department’s “Fence Requirements” checklist (updated 2/2025). Heights, setbacks, and materials are still measured against your exact lot, grade, and zoning — so Allday Fence confirms the current City code for your address before we quote, and we pull the permit. We do not publish a per-lot number we haven’t confirmed for your parcel.
A permit is required. Miami Springs issues Fence Permits through its Building Department, and the City publishes a dedicated “Fence Permit” page, a fence-requirements checklist, and its own fence details. The application must be signed and notarized by both the owner and the contractor, filed with two copies of a current survey and two copies of a site plan showing the work; an unregistered contractor also completes a Contractor Registration Form. There is no informal, no-permit tier for a real fence here.
Height — front, corner, side, and rear. Per Sec. 150-013(B): the front yard stays low — no fence or wall over 3.5 ft (above established grade) on the front property lines, and none beyond the established front-yard line. Side and rear yards allow up to 6 ft along the property lines. On a corner, no fence or wall over 3.5 ft is permitted within 20 ft of any corner or street intersection. A decorative gate on a side- or rear-yard fence or wall can go up to 9 ft — but only with Miami-Dade County product approval and the required wind-load engineering (see below). Height is measured against grade for your specific lot, so we check the numbers against your address before we build.
Corner visibility (sight triangle). Sec. 150-013(B) is explicit that no fence or wall may be installed or constructed so as to obstruct the vision clearance of any pedestrian or vehicular right-of-way, and it backs that up with the numeric corner limit — nothing over 3.5 ft within 20 ft of a corner or street intersection. On Miami Springs’ compact grid with its many corner lots and the traffic circle, this rule bites often. We lay the fence out to keep the sightline clear and hold the corner low.
Setback and placement. Fences generally run along the surveyed property line, with the front kept open per the rule above and the taller run set at the side and rear. Any additional setback — along a corner street, a canal, or a drainage easement — is parcel-specific and read off your survey and plat. We set the fence where the City will approve it, clear of recorded easements.
Concrete walls, CBS/block walls, and columns. As a licensed specialty fence contractor, Allday’s scope also covers concrete and CBS (concrete-block) walls and concrete columns and pillars — the solid-barrier and entry-feature work that a fence-only crew has to sub out. In Miami Springs a masonry or concrete wall lives under the same Sec. 150-013(B) height envelope as a fence (3.5 ft front, 6 ft side/rear), and the City has a dedicated Masonry Fence Detail for the standard case. But a masonry or concrete wall — especially a taller one, and any concrete column carrying a gate — generally needs structural engineering, a proper footing, and wind-load / product-approval documentation beyond what a standard fence requires; the specific footing and wind figures depend on the wall height and the current Florida Building Code HVHZ, so we don’t publish a number here. Allday handles the engineering and the permit on the wall or column, not just the build. (Scope note: this covers fence walls, screen walls, and columns — not retaining walls or structural building walls.)
Hurricane-zone product approval (all of Miami-Dade). Miami Springs, like every municipality in the county, sits in the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone (HVHZ) — and the City’s own fence code shows it: the 9-ft decorative gate is allowed only with Miami-Dade County product approval plus the wind-load engineering data and testing required by the Florida Building Code, Miami-Dade County, and the City. More broadly, the City’s checklist requires a signed-and-sealed spec sheet for PVC and metal fences, and its own fence detail (from the Building Department) for wood, chain-link, and masonry. Manufactured systems should carry a current Florida Product Approval or a Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance (NOA); a masonry or concrete wall carries engineer calculations instead. We do not publish a specific wind-pressure or footing-depth figure — those come from the current Florida Building Code HVHZ and the product’s own NOA. Skipping product approval is the most common reason a handyman or out-of-town fence gets rejected — and the reason to use a licensed Miami-Dade contractor.
Materials and finished side. The everyday compliant palette in Miami Springs is ornamental aluminum, wood privacy, chain-link, PVC, and CBS/masonry — the City takes a signed-and-sealed spec sheet for PVC and metal, and files its own fence detail for wood, chain-link, and masonry. There’s also a hard finish rule: per the City’s fence code, a fence with a finished and unfinished side must be erected so the finished side faces the neighbor, alley, or street and the unfinished side and supporting members face inward toward the interior of the property (an owner may file an affidavit to waive it). Given the city’s Pueblo Revival character, that reads well anyway — the low, open front and a clean side/rear run. We confirm the exact material and finish language for your zoning before we build.
Survey. A Miami Springs fence permit is filed against two copies of a current survey (less than one year old) plus two copies of a site plan (the survey marked up with the work to be done), drawn to scale — reduced copies are not accepted. If you need a City Certified Survey, a $75 fee applies, paid before the permit is submitted. Before we file, we pull the full property record on the address so we know the folio, any recorded easements, and any open or expired permits before they can hold up your fence.
Utility locate + inspection. The City’s fence checklist puts one step in writing: call Sunshine One (1-800-432-4770) before any excavation for a utility locate. Inspections typically include a location/setback check and a final. We call the locate, clear the reviews, and walk the inspection so nothing is left open.
Pool-barrier fences. When a fence doubles as the safety barrier for a swimming pool, it has to meet Florida’s residential pool-safety standard (Florida Building Code pool-barrier requirements / FS Chapter 515): a non-climbable barrier, tight enough that a small child can’t pass, with a self-closing, self-latching gate that opens away from the pool. Because Miami Springs keeps the front yard low and open, most pool barriers here land at the side and rear, where the 6-ft limit applies — commonly black ornamental aluminum. We build to the current FBC pool-barrier / FS Ch. 515 text and confirm the exact height, gap, and latch-height figures for your installation. See our pool-code barrier fencing.
Fees and timeline are valuation-based and not published as a flat fence figure — we confirm current cost and timing with the Building Department at 305-805-5030 as part of your quote rather than quote a number that isn’t real.
Framing line: Heights, the corner rule, the decorative-gate allowance, and material limits are set by Sec. 150-013(B) but measured against your exact lot — Allday Fence confirms the current City of Miami Springs code for your address before we quote, and we pull the permit.
The permitting authority — and who it is NOT
Miami Springs permits through its own Building Department on the 2nd floor of City Hall, 201 Westward Drive, Miami Springs, FL 33166 (305-805-5030), with online intake through the City’s eTRAKiT / Community Development portal — not Miami-Dade County RER, which handles only unincorporated parcels, and not the separate Village of Virginia Gardens enclave on the city’s west side. Because the “Miami Springs, FL 33166” mailing area also touches airport property and unincorporated pockets, the first move on any job is confirming the parcel is actually inside City of Miami Springs limits. A Miami Springs fence runs a Zoning review (the front-yard rule, height, setback, and the corner sight rule under Sec. 150-013(B)), a Building/Structural review (the sealed spec sheet, product approvals, and HVHZ wind-load — with engineering behind any 9-ft decorative gate or masonry/concrete wall), and a Sunshine One locate before any excavation. Inspections typically include a location/setback check and a final. Allday Fence is a licensed specialty fence contractor — fences, concrete walls, and columns — working across Miami-Dade, and pulls the permit as Allday Fence — the contractor of record on the City application, on your Notice of Commencement, and on the closed permit.
Historic character over HOA covenants (how Miami Springs is different)
Unlike the master-planned, deed-restricted suburbs — a Doral or a Miami Lakes, where an architectural board rules nearly every lot — most of Miami Springs is an older, non-HOA grid, so on a typical single-family lot the City permit is the whole story. What stands in for an HOA here is the city’s own Pueblo Revival historic character and its front-yard-open code: the review that matters is the City’s, and the design standard the street expects is the city’s own look, not a private covenant. Where a newer association or a condo pocket does apply, that approval clears your private covenants but not the City — they’re two separate approvals — and we check the community’s rules so the drawings we file already meet the tighter of the two. But the honest framing for most Miami Springs homeowners is simpler than in the HOA suburbs: get the City permit right, keep the front low and open, finish the side and rear clean.
How an Allday Miami Springs project runs
- Property record first. Before we quote, we run a MyHausFax™ property compliance report on your parcel to surface permit history, open or expired permits, and any recorded easements — so we design against the real record, not a guess, and we know up front whether an old fence needs legalizing.
- Confirm the parcel and the zoning. We verify the lot is inside City of Miami Springs limits (not the county or Virginia Gardens) and confirm the front (low/open), side, rear, and corner heights under Sec. 150-013(B) for that address.
- Survey and details. Two copies of a current survey (less than one year old) and two copies of a to-scale site plan showing the work — a City Certified Survey if needed — plus the signed-and-sealed spec sheet for PVC or metal, or the City’s fence detail for wood, chain-link, or masonry, with product approval / NOA and engineering behind any 9-ft decorative gate or masonry/concrete wall or column.
- File and clear reviews. Application signed and notarized by owner and contractor, filed through eTRAKiT, with Zoning and Building/Structural comments worked to clearance and the Sunshine One locate called before excavation.
- Install + inspections. 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, a refinance, or a four-point inspection. If a fence is already up without a permit, our sister company Permit Solutions Services runs the after-the-fact / legalization path.
What Allday installs in Miami Springs
Low, clean ornamental aluminum fencing for the side and rear of the Pueblo Revival lots, wood privacy where the block and code allow it, chain-link for yards and utility runs, PVC where it fits, CBS / concrete and masonry walls where a solid barrier is permitted, concrete columns and entry pillars to carry gates and mark a driveway, engineered decorative gates and entry features built to product approval, pool-code barrier fencing for the city’s pool homes, commercial fencing, walls, enclosures, and gates along the NW 36th Street airport-hotel corridor, and fence repair and storm restoration across the city — the bread-and-butter work on Miami Springs’ mature, airport-adjacent housing stock, including post replacement, aluminum refinishing, and privacy-panel swaps. Every job is a permit-tied install — surveyed, detailed, pulled, inspected, and finaled.
Also serving nearby in Miami-Dade County
Miami Springs is boxed in by the airport and a handful of markets we work every week. Two neighbors with their own permitting tracks:
- Hialeah fence contractor — the dense, high-volume city directly north across Okeechobee Road and the Miami Canal, permitted through Hialeah’s own building office.
- Miami fence contractor — the City of Miami plan-review track to the south and east, past Miami International Airport, a different building department from the City of Miami Springs.
Allday Fence serves Miami-Dade County only. As a licensed specialty fence contractor — fences, concrete walls, and columns — with 18 years of experience filing in exactly these offices, we survey, detail, pull, inspect, and close every permit against the property record — including the aluminum, privacy, CBS-wall, and repair-and-replace work that makes up so much of the job on Miami Springs’ mature, airport-side lots. We file, final, and close every Miami Springs 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 City of Miami Springs code for your exact address before quoting.