Depending on the zoning laws, I suppose they could sue as abutters and delay it at every turn. But yeah *halving* the project sounds uh pretty drastic and I wouldn't be bragging about it.

Ah, OK. So she's deliberately misleading people. Urgh :(

Which she admitted!

honestly, I don't know this woman in the slightest, but she looks and acts a little too much like a young, inexperienced pushover, so it kinda sounds like the neighbors yelled at her, and she jumped to fix their problem!