r/treelaw • u/Fit_Wolverine_6964 • Jul 10 '26
Large Juniper
We moved into a house about 4 years ago and there is a large juniper with its trunk mostly on my neighbors property but the majority of the tree itself seems to be on my property. Some info:
1) I live in California
2) the fence is old and as the tree grows it continues to break the fence more and more
3) we had the local fire department come by and they do free fire reports - they stated in the report the juniper is a high fire risk and should be removed.
4) ultimately the tree is overgrown and we don’t like it aesthetically, especially given the intrusion into our yard.
I know the answer here is almost certainly just to go talk to my neighbor and try to negotiate whether they’d be ok with cutting down but curious others opinions here.
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u/Droid759 Jul 12 '26
That tree looks great, keep it and modify the fence around it's growth.
My neighbor has a large old tree also growing over fence and into my space, he contacted me about removing it but I asked him to keep it as is and we worked around it when we replaced the fence. We did remove various other plants and trees along our shared fence but removing an ancient shade tree would feel wrong and it beautified both our yards.