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We need some advice on a problem that we are having with our neighbor. She recently began work on a one story extension in the back of her house. Unfortunately, the previous owner of our house placed a dryer vent in the side wall of our house adjacent to her property. The new extension will block the dryer vent. Therefore, we are trying to find a solution to either move the dryer vent so that it exhausts abover her extension, or to build the vent into the outer wall of her extension. She says that the dryer vent was placed there illegally, and although she is probably correct, she did not take this up with the previous owner and allowed the vent to be there for the last 5 years. What are the city’s regulations for vents or similar placed at the side of row homes? Since our extension/dryer vent was there first do we have any argument to ask her to work around the vent? Or do we have to suck it up and deal with the fact that our dryer will now be useless? Does anyone have any possible alternative solutions?