I will admit that in the past, the hedge - the whole hedge, had grown out over the sidewalk, like 6 inches (which is a lot but not sidewalk blocking) and we'd have the landscapers every so often trim it back, but our hedge homeowner adopted a zero tolerance for even as much as a leaf growing over.

She'd demand that this never happen, we'd say It's Nice to Have Demands and that we'd schedule a trim at some point, she'd call the county and report a dangerous hedge, they'd come out, would be confused, she'd argue that the county regs would say that hedges couldn't grow over the sidewalk, they -

- would say Oh, I guess that is one way to interpret it, and would call our property manager who would say We'll Get It Trimmed at some point, and they'd say cool. And that would be it. The county doesn't want to argue with her, but the reasonableness standard is not on her side.

BUT the big danger is her constantly implying that the hedges are unsafe (you see how unsafe they are) has been influencing our board vice president, who suggested we remove the hedges to avoid even the shadow of a hint of liability, and we had a big argument about that, shutting down that noise.

Absolutely not! The scar that would leave is just…that would be so shameful. And removing a single tree in the time of global warming is a sin. I’d sooner get her a pair of sheets and tell her to stick em where the sun don’t shine.

In an email exchange (I try to avoid emailing with her) I mentioned that her insistence that 1 leaf was too much was motivating hedge-removal discourse and maybe let’s compromise on expectations, and she was all-in on “remove them if you must” so it has been wild. I brought up hedge removal as a -

- topic at the annual meeting some years ago, and the community correctly said “Hell No” so I use that as a shield 🌳 🛡

This hedge-policing neighbour seems a little... unbalanced.