When I lived with the rents, we lived on Crescent Hill and had a fairly unique landscape for our property. Nevertheless, the neighbour to the north of us called the City to complain that the tip of our spruce tree in the front yard was impeding her view of downtown. It wouldn't have been a problem to trim it for her in the name of neighbouly friendliness, but this is the same lady that tried poisoning the very same tree one day when none of us were home.
Plus, the tip of our tree that she wanted cut was ....3 inches. Her viewing window of downtown was 15 feet away. Bylaw office came; my dad told him to stick it because it was on our property and the tree had every right to grow. We never heard from the bylaw officer again or ever acted 'neighbourly' to the neighbour.
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