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Guy With The Brown Thumb wrote:


The new neighbors next door (adjoining 5-acre plots) recently built
their church (oops, I mean house) and we cannot go out our backdoor
now without feeling that their house is going to sit on top of us and
cannot enjoy backyard privacy while they are in the lawn chairs
watching our every move. (The terrain slopes sharply upward toward
them so their front deck is about 20' higher than our back deck).

Usually this is a developers trick. Build the house at the bottom of the
hill first then, once it is sold, build the one above and so on, up the
hill, because it will be harder to sell with a house towering over it.

Local codes do not permit a giant wall or 15-20' fence but do allow
trees and there is no "view protection" so it really doesn't matter
how tall the trees grow.

(snip, whack)

I don't know much about trees but I hope your neighbor is to your north
because, you will be throwing quite a shadow.

Thanks for any advice.

-The Guy With The Brown Thumb

(I'm using a friend's computer so please excuse the email
address...lol)

Good luck,

- Billy
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