Fence Installation in Gresham, OR

A new fence in Gresham has to clear three hurdles: the city's height and clear-vision rules, ground that often slopes toward the buttes, and winter east winds coming out of the Gorge.

We start a Gresham fence installation with the layout, because the city's numbers decide where each height can go. The fence tops out at 6 feet. In the front 10 feet of the lot it drops to 4 feet. Inside a clear vision area it drops again, to 3 feet or open chain link. At a driveway that area runs 20 feet along the road and 20 feet up the drive; at a street corner it runs 40 feet each way.

Slopes get their own rule. Where the ground changes near the line, Gresham measures from the highest ground within 5 feet of the shared property line, then 6 feet up from there, and lattice on top counts toward the total. On the sloped streets near Gresham Butte we step or rack the panels so the fence follows the hill and stays inside that measurement.

Then there's the wind. NOAA research describes strong late-autumn and winter east winds coming out of the Columbia River Gorge into the east side of the metro. A solid 6-foot fence takes that wind like a sail, so on exposed lots we tighten post spacing, dig deeper, and offer steel posts hidden behind the boards.