A driveway gate is the one part of a perimeter with a motor on it — the piece that has to perform on demand, every day, and still stop someone who wants in. We specify the automation first and build the gate to suit it: an operator sized to your real traffic, safety loops, backup power, and a manual release, fabricated in our own shop and drawn for your site before any steel is cut.
In the City of Los Angeles, LADBS permits perimeter work and the height rules are unforgiving: Municipal Code 12.22-C caps a front-yard fence at 42 inches, allows six feet at the side and rear, and anything taller needs a variance or a determination from City Planning. Hillside parcels and the Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones add brush-clearance and fire-access requirements to any gated drive, and stretches of the Westside and the coastal canyons fall under separate specific-plan or Coastal review. We pull the parcel's zoning and overlays before drawing a line.
Los Angeles gate work runs from hillside driveway gates in Los Feliz and the Hollywood Hills, where the drive is steep and the operator is sized for it, to truck-rated slide gates on Valley industrial yards, all drawn to LADBS height rules and any hillside or fire-zone overlay.
A driveway gate is the one part of a perimeter with a motor on it — the piece that has to perform on demand, every day, and still stop someone who wants in. We specify the automation first and build the gate to suit it: an operator sized to your real traffic, safety loops, backup power, and a manual release, fabricated in our own shop and drawn for your site before any steel is cut.
Grade, span, power and how vehicles approach the entrance.
You approve the design and hardware before steel is cut.
Welded and finished in our shop — not drop-shipped.
Set, automated, and tested at every safety device before we leave.
Scoped to your property, not a flat per-item rate. These are the factors that move the number, in the order they usually matter.
Most driveway gates are fabricated and installed within four to six weeks of drawing approval, depending on span and finish.
Often yes, and HOA approval as well, depending on the city. We handle the drawings and submittals, including fire-department access requirements.
Every install includes battery backup and a manual release, so the gate keeps cycling through an outage and can always be opened by hand.
Name, phone and ZIP. We walk it before we price it.
We protect people, property, and peace.
