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Some months ago our neighbor built a wood frame extension to the parlor floor of his masonry house on top of the ground floor extension (no permits were posted in the front of the house) and built a wooden deck behind it with a wooden staircase descending into the garden. He has a solid wooden slat fence/ wall around the parlor floor deck. This deck wall is a foot or so away from the wall between the two properties and is about 4 or more feet higher than the property wall. So in effect, we have a very tall combined wall on the neighbor’s side. This doesn’t appreciably block light, but it restricts some of the openness of our yard. We haven’t said much as we don’t want to start a war across the property line. Comments?