Building a fence in Fairfax County - Is it required to be a "good neighbor fence?"

[Anonymous]

We want to build a fence and one of the companies we had come out for an estimate told us that it has to be a "good neighbor fence" - basically has to look the same on both sides. Is this true? Does anyone have any experience with this in Fairfax Co? This is the only company we heard this from, and we can't find any information on it in the Fairfax county codes. Thanks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We want to build a fence and one of the companies we had come out for an estimate told us that it has to be a "good neighbor fence" - basically has to look the same on both sides. Is this true? Does anyone have any experience with this in Fairfax Co? This is the only company we heard this from, and we can't find any information on it in the Fairfax county codes. Thanks

I don't know if you have to have a good neighbor on your side, but you definitely have to have a good neighbor fence on the outside. You should also have a finished fence on inside for resale. I had a stockade fence put up and did the good neighbor fence on both sides.

[Anonymous]

We just replaced our fence. We did "good neighbor" on the sides visible to the street. Our back and sides are good in towards us and "bad" (?) to the neighbors because they also have fences against ours. We used Northern Virginia Deck and Fence.

[Anonymous]

Never heard of that before. 3 fence quotes (Long, Carter Bros, Han) and none of them mentioned this. We did as others and had the "good" side facing us as our adjacent neighbors gave us the "bad" side.