Fence Company in City View, SC

Anderson Fence Company is a fence company in City View, SC, and it is one of the smallest places we serve. The 2020 census counted 1,322 people in roughly half a square mile of land, wrapped tight against the city of Greenville on the west side of town.

There is not much to say about City View that is not about scale. It is a compact grid of older, modest houses on small lots, the kind of housing that grew up around the Greenville mills. The old Monaghan mill village and the Greenville Textile Heritage Park on Smythe Street sit right at its doorstep. Fences here are short, close to the house and almost always shared with somebody, and that shapes everything about how we quote them.

Small lots, shared lines, short runs

On a City View lot the whole perimeter is often less fence than one side of a suburban back yard, which is good for the price and hard on the layout. Every foot of the line touches somebody. Two side lines run right past the neighbors' windows, and the back line usually faces another back yard rather than open ground.

That means three decisions get made before we price anything. Which way the finished face points. Whether to match what is already up next door or build deliberately differently. And how close to the house corner the run starts, because on a narrow lot the gate is the only way to get a mower, a wheelbarrow or a dead appliance out of the back yard.

Access drives the labor line on these quotes more than the footage does. A truck parks at the curb. Posts, panels, concrete and spoil all move by hand down a side yard that may be six or eight feet wide with a meter bank and an AC unit in the middle of it. We would rather tell you that up front than surprise you on the invoice.

1,322 people in about half a square mileCity View at the 2020 census, which makes it one of the densest and smallest pieces of our service area.

City rules or county rules

City View is a census designated place, not a town. It has no mayor, no council and no fence ordinance of its own. Because it sits hard against the city of Greenville, the practical question on any given street is whether the address falls inside the city limits or in unincorporated Greenville County. Those two answers come with different rules on height and placement, and the boundary here does not follow anything obvious from the curb.

We confirm that before the quote is written, not after the posts are set. South Carolina has no statewide fence permit and no state height limit, so whatever applies to your yard comes from the local jurisdiction you are actually in. If the answer changes the plan, holding a tall fence behind the front building line for instance, we redraw it while it is still a drawing.

One rule holds no matter which side of the line you are on: keep the corner sight lines clear. On tight streets with cars parked along the curb, a solid six foot fence run right up to a driveway edge makes backing out a guess. We hold tall panels back and step the height down toward the street where that is a risk, which usually costs nothing and prevents a real problem.