On 10/15/2012 10:20 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:23:25 -0400, Norminn
wrote:




I see you already have many nice and helpful answers. Mine is a
little different.
Your neighbor is a jerk. Keep in mind, everything overhanging your
yard is allowed to be cut. I'd get someone with a chain saw to lop
every branch on your side of the properly line so he has a hideous
looking tree. Maybe it will fall onto his house.

Good luck with your problem.


Bad advice! The neighbor is already unfriendly, so provoking him is
bad. Cutting the branches as you suggest is a code violation where I
lived in Florida!

Some branches already fell so it is proven to be a danger. Cut away.
Not a code violation where I live. May even be required if a hazard.


No, big difference. Apparently slicing off a neighbor's branches along
the property line has been tried too many times...it specifically is
cited in the city code where I lived in Florida. In general, that code
leaves a property owner to care for trees on their own property as they
wish, but for "hazardous" trees....if a tree might drop limbs or fall,
it doesn't have to be on the right of way to have removal ordered. Also
not supposed to remove trees of certain size without permit.

The towns/cities I've lived at in last 10 years have very pro-tree
policies....some programs to provide free (young) trees, or reduced cost
for planting larger trees. They certainly make a better looking
community, IMO.