So...about a month ago, my neighbor started complaining to me about the size of
my wood piles. We don't get along for too many reasons to list here.
Next, the neighbor complains to the town that my large wood piles are a nuisance and
within the road right of way (a new complaint). The road right of way extends 22 feet from the
edge of the road into my front lawn. More than a cord is obviously in the right of way.
Three cords on pallets were maybe a foot over the line.
I get a letter from the town chairman that any wood within the right of way has to be moved.
O K A Y. I'm not happy about it because many other people in the township have firewood, sheds,
etc in the road right of way, but the town responds only to complaints. I email the town chair, and
he asks for my cooperation. He says that as long as my wood is not in the right of way and within
my property, the town has no further interest in the dispute. He also mentions that he is a wood
burner.
In the interests of cooperation, I move four plus cords of wood--between the two houses. It was a
lot of work, but the pile is actually in a more convenient place for me. Problem is resolved from town's
perspective. The neighbor isn't happy.
Now the good part: Today, I get an invitation from the town chair to harvest two large oak trees
and a medium hickory tree from town property. The trees have already been felled and cut up into
sections; all I have to do is buck it up and clean up the brush. The town chair even offered the use
of town property to store the wood until next season when my own wood pile will be smaller.
my wood piles. We don't get along for too many reasons to list here.
Next, the neighbor complains to the town that my large wood piles are a nuisance and
within the road right of way (a new complaint). The road right of way extends 22 feet from the
edge of the road into my front lawn. More than a cord is obviously in the right of way.
Three cords on pallets were maybe a foot over the line.
I get a letter from the town chairman that any wood within the right of way has to be moved.
O K A Y. I'm not happy about it because many other people in the township have firewood, sheds,
etc in the road right of way, but the town responds only to complaints. I email the town chair, and
he asks for my cooperation. He says that as long as my wood is not in the right of way and within
my property, the town has no further interest in the dispute. He also mentions that he is a wood
burner.
In the interests of cooperation, I move four plus cords of wood--between the two houses. It was a
lot of work, but the pile is actually in a more convenient place for me. Problem is resolved from town's
perspective. The neighbor isn't happy.
Now the good part: Today, I get an invitation from the town chair to harvest two large oak trees
and a medium hickory tree from town property. The trees have already been felled and cut up into
sections; all I have to do is buck it up and clean up the brush. The town chair even offered the use
of town property to store the wood until next season when my own wood pile will be smaller.
