The wife and I lived in El Segundo for 2 years in the 1990’s. We knew two families well enough to say hi to on the street, but all of the others stayed indoors and to themselves. One neighbor, a few houses up, wanted to expand their home and could only go up with it. His immediate neighbor sued him because the new second story blocked the immediate neighbor’s view of the waste treatment plant. Go figure.
His immediate neighbor sued him because the new second story blocked the immediate neighbor’s view of the waste treatment plant.
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Maybe if the new second story had an un-shaded bathroom window facing the immediate neighbor ... ?
Most times neighbors only talk to each other when it comes time to pay for a new fence.
Maybe there was a sliver of ocean view through the Hyperion waste haze?
I had family for many years in Port Townsend, Washington, some parts of which have a gorgeous view, some parts of which were and possibly still are plagued by odor from the paper mill up the way. Those family members have long since removed to the saner side of the Cascades but I still remember their absolute amazement and disgust at being taxed at a much higher, exhorbitant rate due to adding a second story to their house. Houses were taxed on the view. They did have a minor issue with neighbors behind for that reason, but those neighbors lost because they had no view, it was a one story house with evergreens on the view side.