The High-Velocity Hurricane Zone — the Florida Building Code's strictest wind-load region. It covers all of Miami-Dade, which is why the hardware spec here is not the spec further north.

Will it match the gate?

The fence is drawn from the same detail as the gate, so the picket, the rail and the finish line up.

Aluminum will not rust and suits long boundary runs. Steel takes ornamental work. The site usually decides.

My ground is not level.

Panels are racked or stepped to the grade so the top line stays deliberate instead of wandering.

Fencing & Enclosures in Coral Gables, FL

Timber-look horizontal slat fence running along a path with planting behind

Concept · illustrative

Fencing & enclosures · Coral Gables, FL

The fence is drawn from the same detail as the gate, so the line carries.

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Fencing · Coral Gables

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Aluminum picket fence running along a planted boundary

Aluminum picket run · concept scene

Horizontal slat gate and fence at the side of a modern rendered house — Slat, side return

Ornamental iron fence running behind a clipped hedge under a line of palms — Iron behind hedge

Black slat gate set into a wall of climbing greenery at a modern entrance — Slat into greenery

Close view of cast spear-top finials on a black ornamental iron fence — Spear-top finials

Technician working at the control post of a tall ornamental iron gate in front of a palm-lined house. — The estate belt — Deeper setbacks and mature canopy south-west of the city — the openings with room for a two-leaf gate.

Coral Gables · Miami-Dade County

A gate that does not match its fence reads as two purchases. Picket spacing, rail height, cap detail and finish all come off the same drawing, which is the difference between a boundary and a collection of panels.

Long frontage is where a matched fence earns its keep — the same picket, the same rail height and the same finish as the gate, carried the whole length of the boundary.

Deeper setbacks change the brief entirely: there is room to make an entrance a piece of architecture rather than a barrier.

Inside the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone

Miami-Dade sits inside the Florida Building Code's High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, the strictest wind-load regime in the state, so the rating on posts, panels and hardware is not a nice-to-have here. Permits on top of that are issued locally — by the municipality or by the county — so what Coral Gables wants to see on paper is worth confirming before anything is cut.

Fencing — the full breakdown

Worth knowing

Ornamental estate
Set to the grade
Matched to the gate
Aluminum or steel
Two-leaf openings

What is the HVHZ?: The High-Velocity Hurricane Zone — the Florida Building Code's strictest wind-load region. It covers all of Miami-Dade, which is why the hardware spec here is not the spec further north.
Will it match the gate?: The fence is drawn from the same detail as the gate, so the picket, the rail and the finish line up.
Aluminum or steel?: Aluminum will not rust and suits long boundary runs. Steel takes ornamental work. The site usually decides.
My ground is not level.: Panels are racked or stepped to the grade so the top line stays deliberate instead of wandering.