Comments on: Trees block solar panels, and a feud ends in court

California's Solar Shade Act was an obscure curiosity until Carolynn Bissett and Richard Treanor were convicted.
(From The New York Times)

[ydoineedausername]

just sink this state already

these wacky liberals make me laugh! :)

[OlsonBW]

So let's say I have a tree that grows to 500 feet tall ...

This all SHOULD start and end with what is reasonable.

It is "reasonable" that somebody should be able to plant a tree,
build a structure, etc., knowing that this would block things
such as sunlight, a view of the mountains, etc.?

You could say yes until it happens to you? Not that it has for
me.

Assuming the people that planted the trees do not have very
low IQs I would assume that they had, before they planted
them, seen full height trees of this kind before.

Did they not realize that they would grow tall and block their
neighbor's sun, regardless if they were going to have solar
panels or not?

The house with the planted trees is not in an orchard anymore.
Therefore they have a responsibility not to plant trees that
would grow tall enough or side enough to block sun light or
grow over into their neighbor's yard. That is only common
sense an courtesy.

Keep in mind that the neighbor loosing their sun light offered
to pay to have the existing trees removed and have reasonably
trees/bushes planted in their place. Their very -nice- and -
considerate- neighbors with the trees refused their offer. I'm
glad I don't have them for neighbors.

For those of us who didn't get it, they obviously are NOT nice
and considerate neighbors despite how they were treated and
are apparently trying to live in a dream world that exists in an
orchard that exists some times in the past.

[Manhattan2]

Leave the trees the Solar Panels need to go.

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