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Fencing in Metairie is a Jefferson Parish project, not a city one. Metairie is unincorporated, the largest community in the parish at over 140,000 people, so permits, servitude rules, and inspections all run through the parish, and the parish is strict: a building permit is required for fencing of any size, including replacing an existing fence, with the lone exception of swapping boards on posts that do not move. On lots drained by the parish's pump-and-canal system, much of Metairie sits 6 to 8 feet below sea level, the drainage servitude along your rear line is not a suggestion. Nothing gets built over or into a servitude without parish and utility approval. W2 Commercial Construction installs fences across Metairie with that whole rulebook handled.
We are a licensed Louisiana contractor (LA Lic# 78829) that crosses the Causeway from Covington for Metairie work every week, wood privacy, vinyl, chain link, and ornamental aluminum on the tight urban lots of Airline Park and Bonnabel Place, the tree-lined streets of Old Metairie, and the canal-backed yards near Bucktown. Our broader Metairie services live on the Metairie page; here is what fence work in this parish really involves.
The parish's own guidance is blunt: erecting or replacing a fence requires a permit, whatever the size. The only carve-out is repair, replacing boards or stringers with no change in location, height, type, or design, and no posts added, removed, or moved. Corner lots and driveways carry sight-triangle requirements on the site plan, gates near traffic need review, and no part of a fence or its footing may sit in the public right-of-way. Height limits exist too, they vary by yard and district under the parish zoning code, so we verify the current numbers for your address before a single hole gets dug.
The servitude rule deserves its own paragraph, because in Metairie the back of the lot often carries the drainage that keeps the neighborhood dry. The parish states flatly that no construction may sit over or encroach on any servitude without approval from the parish and the utilities involved. Parish Engineering can confirm what runs through your servitude before you plan the fence line. We design around servitudes by default, and near canals and levees we check the levee district's permit zone as well.
Metairie's drained-swamp ground is famous for two things: clay and water. Soil series mapped on this side of the lake run well past 60 percent clay, and the water table sits close to the surface even with 72 parish pump stations working. Dig a post hole here and you will often hit water before you hit depth. The answer is technique: augering to the right depth, gravel at the base, concrete placed correctly in a wet hole, and post materials that tolerate the moisture for decades instead of years.
Old Metairie adds one more consideration: it sits inside a neighborhood conservation district and a tree preservation district, which brings extra review to work there, and its oaks deserve the same root-smart layout we use on the Northshore. On small urban lots we also plan around what is real in Metairie yards, AC pads, drainage swales between houses, and neighbors close enough to care where the good side of the fence faces.
Greater New Orleans is the hardest-hit Formosan termite area in the country, the pest costs the U.S. about a billion dollars a year and this metro was the target of a multi-year federal control program. For fences, the practical translation is simple: untreated wood in ground contact is termite food. Pressure-treated pine is the floor, posts matter more than pickets, and for many Metairie homeowners vinyl, ornamental aluminum, or chain link is the better 20-year answer.
Wind finishes the materials conversation. Jefferson Parish permits are written around hurricane-zone design standards, and fences here should be too: sturdier posts, honest footing depth, and panel styles chosen for exposure. We quote the options straight, wood where wood makes sense, metal or vinyl where it does not, and build whichever you choose to survive the parish's weather and its inspectors alike.
Metairie areas we serve: Old Metairie, Metairie Club Gardens, Bucktown, Old Bucktown, Fat City, Airline Park, Bonnabel Place, Bissonet Plaza.
Metairie ZIP codes served: 70001, 70002, 70003, 70005, 70006.
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“Knowledgeable, professional and friendly guy. He and his crew did a great job on my fence and gates. The two six-foot gates he built are very sturdy.”
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