• jet@hackertalks.com
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      1 year ago

      The people in the old house had windows that had a bonus view for a while. Now the property’s being developed and their bonus view just becomes a wall. If they wanted to maintain line of sight they should have purchased this property next to theirs.

      It’d be a crazy world where you can’t build on your property because you would block the window of somebody else’s property

      • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        It looks like it’s being built in front of their house, not next to it, but I guess this is a corner lot? If it’s next to it then that’s normal.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      Do local govts/authorities not block people from blocking others’ windows?

      Around here you have to be a certain distance away from other windows, have your roof at a particular angle to make sure sunlight still reaches and a bunch of other stuff prior to approval… and even then neighbors are still free to block construction if it’s impacting their light