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Originally Posted by Rathji
I think a complaint would be likely, but it depends on the neighbours. At my place, both our decks pretty much back into the fence, so if I went to the neighbours and asked them to add a foot or 2 they would probably be happy with it. If it just juts up in the one place and looks bad, the chances go up drastically.
Consequences are you lose a couple hundred bucks of lumber, lattice, etc plus your time and possibly face a fine.
A better, but more expensive solution, would be to put in columnar aspen as a privacy screen. Even smaller caliper ones are gonna be high enough to obstruct view, and narrow enough as they mature that they don't eat up a large chunk of the yard.
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Ugh, I hate those trees. We had one in my backyard when I was a kid, one. A single tall skinny tree, an unhealthy one at that, sticking up along a 30' stretch of fence. Not one of the finest landscaping moments by the family.
Maybe there's a way you can sell this to the neighbor without bringing up the 'you're creepy' angle. Tell him it's for some vines or something. I'm assuming if there's no complaint the chances of you being required to take it down are pretty slim. They don't actually send people around looking for tall fences do they? Please say no.