My neighbor 3 houses down the street in Pacific Beach has 2 tall trees (about 60 feet high) which obstruct my view to Mission Bay. There is no HOA in this area. Are there any regulations on how tall the trees can grow before they need to be trimmed?
My parents have a spectacular ocean view from their home in Sunset Cliffs. A few years ago, a neighbor did a teardown and built a home that blocks some of the other neighbors view of the ocean. Several residents tried to block the construction with no luck.
You can try contacting the city about it to see if you have any rights, or, possibly, contact your neighbors directly. Both may be worth a try.
Yup, these are tales as old as time. There are some darkly hilarious tales of rich rivals intentionally building tall structures to block their neighbor’s views, especially from the wild past in New York City.
Your only legitimate hope is a kindness campaign where you try to befriend the neighbor and figure out how attached they are to the trees. Tree trimming is expensive, and trees have a way of continually growing. The neighbor may not necessarily care about keeping the trees, but they also may not want to invest any sort of money to trim or remove them.
So yeah, if you can afford it and it’s worth it to you, you could offer to pay for trimming or removal. Otherwise you’re out of luck.
City of San Diego has zoning rules about protecting public views but not private ones. So if somebody’s trees were blocking the view from Kate Session Park, it’d probably be a different story.
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