Can I trim a neighbor's tree overhanging an alley?

[Anonymous]

Do they have cameras on the house and can you get away with it? Is it over a power line such that a utility might come cut it if you call it in?

If you kill the tree you are responsible for it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:• Talk to the neighbor.
•(consult with your insurance company?)
•Talk to the community authorities.
• Talk to others with any interest/ electric etc.
• Have game plan on what you have decided to do based on conversations.
• Put your scheduled proposed actions on paper and courteously mail to all parties allowing time to respond.
• Proceed with your plan as scheduled when no objections are received.
• Revise and repeat steps when necessary.

Whoa! Don’t call the insurance company. If you leave a dead/dying tree up that you know of, you’ll be responsible if it falls before you get to it.

[Anonymous]

Cut it!

[Anonymous]

I thought tree trimming should not be done after March.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a major pet peeve with people allowing their trees to obscure public walkways. On multiple occasions, I have gotten poked in the eye by branches while walking on the sidewalk after dark. And I’m really afraid some kid is going to get knocked off his bike into the greet by a branch hanging low over the sidewalk, or swerving to avoid a bush that is blocking half the sidewalk.
Trim your branches people and don’t plant stuff so close to the property line!

We just met w an arborist about the trees on our property. And he explained to us that most trees along a fence line of a property was not purposely planted there. It was planted there via squirrels and birds! Eating, then pooping seeds, all the while running along the fence. Thought that was such a cool thing.

That being said, we found out that we have a wild cherry tree that is sick and is not on our property. While we could trim it back, he suggested we ask the neighbors if we could pay to get it removed since he knows that it wasn’t purposefully planted there.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely cut what’s over your property line. You are the only ones who can it that.

Don’t cut the alley portion unless you are sure that it’s not privately owned.

[Anonymous]

I’m on team cut it now, it’s vacant so no bad blood yet