Fence & Gate Installation in La Marque, TX

What we install in La Marque

We build the same range of fencing and gates in La Marque that we build across the rest of our Galveston-area service area:

• Wood and cedar privacy fences, like the one below.
• Vinyl in open-picket and solid-privacy styles.
• Chain link for yards and larger lots.
• Aluminum and ornamental iron for a more open, decorative line.
• Gates: walk gates and driveway gates, with electric operators and access control if you want them, plus commercial fencing and gates for La Marque businesses that need the nonresidential screening rule below.

Financing is available through the providers on our financing page, subject to credit approval.

La Marque’s fence rule is a height threshold, not a blanket ban on permits

La Marque’s Code of Ordinances, Section 71-21 (“Screening elements and fences”), caps a fence at 7 feet, measured from the adjacent grade line. Stay at or under that height and the City’s own Permits FAQ is direct: no permit is required. Go over it and a $100 fence permit applies, with the first inspection included, per the City’s Fee Schedule (February 2026). An electric fence carries its own $100 permit line item on that same fee schedule - separate from the height rule, so it applies even to a 7 ft or shorter electric run, which matters most for farm, ranch and pet-containment fencing.

The City’s FAQ points homeowners back to Sec. 71-21 itself for “other requirements to the placement of a fence” rather than listing every case in the FAQ - that’s exactly what the two rules below (corner lots and nonresidential screening) are.

Where the fence sits - and your flood zone - add two more checks

Height and electrification aren’t the only variables. On a corner lot, Sec. 71-21 keeps a “vision triangle” clear: nothing between 2 ft and 10 ft tall is allowed within 25 ft of the street-line intersection, so a 6-foot privacy fence that’s otherwise well under the 7 ft cap can still violate this rule if it sits inside that triangle. Where a nonresidential use - a business, storage yard or similar - sits next to a home, the shared side or rear property line has to be screened 6 to 12 ft high, taller than the ordinary residential cap, because the goal there is blocking the view of the nonresidential use rather than capping a backyard fence.

La Marque also sits inland of Texas City on ground FEMA maps into Special Flood Hazard Areas, and the City runs its own floodplain development permit ($450, plus a $150 plan review fee) for development within city limits or its extraterritorial jurisdiction, reviewed by the City Engineer, under Chapter 32 (Flood Damage Prevention, last enacted by Ordinance No. O-2014-0011). We couldn’t confirm from the published chapter text whether an ordinary residential fence is specifically treated as “development” the way a building is - so if your lot is in a mapped flood zone, we’d confirm that question with Development Services, (409) 938-9219, before ordering material, rather than assume either way.

Recent work in La Marque

One job so far, with its own write-up:

• Red Western Cedar Privacy Fence in La Marque, Texas

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