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Tree issues of this nature are a civil matter between two property owners. LCI staff can't make a determination about the tree's health during the non-growing season (unless there are broken hanging limbs that pose a danger). Staff will take a look at the tree.

The State of Connecticut offers this guidance: https://www.cga.ct.gov/2015/rpt/pdf/2015-R-0278.pdf

You may want to have a licensed arborist inspect the subject tree. You may also want to send your neighbor a certified letter to provide notice if the arborist concludes the tree is an issue.

Unfortunately, when trees grow- no one knows in what direction they will grow and its a natural process. However, you can cut any branch that is over your property line that way you are able to protect your property. Additionally, because the tree posses a threat to both properties, perhaps you can be neighborly and split the cost for removal. Unfortunately, tree removals are expensive but more expensive is to tend to the damages post a spontaneous fall. Your homeowners policy would be employed not the neighbors because they are considered "acts of nature" I was told unless you can proof via an arborist that the tree is diseased which also comes with the inspection expense to you. Hardship of homeownership! Best of luck

LCI Citywide Helper assigned this issue to vacant

Since I live in and own the house next door to 43 West Park and have had problems with that tree (and its owner for whom it is solely property to rent out) for the 20 years I have lived here, I beg to differ with the LCI comment above. I have filed complaint after complaint with LCI, especially in the past year about the situation.They sent an inspector out at least three or four times during the spring and summer months (which negates their statement that "... LCI staff can't make a determination about the tree's health during the non-growing season (unless there are broken hanging limbs that pose a danger)." While I don't have the exact dates of their visits in front of me, I do have them in my records should anyone wish to question the fact. So they did see it on several occasions during the growing season and remarked that, except for it being covered from the ground to the top of the tree with entangling poison ivy, poison sumac, and poison elm vines, it did indeed look as if it were dying. I was left with the impression that they intended to do something about the situation based on one parting comment from an inspector that "you have to understand these things take lots and lots of time before you realize action has been taken."

My driveway is a series of cracked, fragmented, broken up and raised areas, with there being as much as an 8 inch difference between two adjoining spots where one side has sunk into the ground while the other has literally been raised far above by that tree's roots, which can be clearly seen since they have pushed far above ground level.In taking the garbage out one evening a little over a month ago, my foot caught in the raised area and I was quite literally thrown backwards, hitting the asphalt hard from my neck to my legs, missing no bones in between. This situation would have been horrific under any circumstances, but as a result of a hit and run accident three weeks following my husband's memorial ten years ago, and seven failed spinal surgeries over the course of ten years, I am now considered "disabled." I called LCI to report the accident and their reply was what they wrote above: "Tree issues of this nature are a civil matter between two property owners." I never heard another word from them and unfortunately the fall did extensive further damage to the degree that I am now enduring escalating neurological problems to my upper and lower extremities.

And I did have licensed arborists inspect the tree on several times throughout the twenty years I have been here (which I told the LCI inspectors), each of whom concurred that the tree was sick (and getting sicker) and should come down before the winds from some storm cause it to fall and create irreparable damage to one or both of the houses and everything in between. My problem was that I neglected to have them write a written report stating that fact.

I also completely fail to understand why "LCI Citywide Helper assigned this issue to LCI Beaver Hills," which is no where near the West Park Avenue locale.

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Unfortunately the City has no standing to compel action.
The complainant blames everybody, parsing LCI down to its "Helpers".
In for a Penny in for a pound it seems.
The resident @ "next to 43" would be well born to file a private civil suit.
Buck up, hire an Attorney and keep the City out of it.
Otherwise....nothing will happen.
Best wishes

Please see guidance from the State of CT about tree issues between neighbors.

https://www.cga.ct.gov/2015/rpt/pdf/2015-R-0278.pdf