Myself along with neighbors on either side (Los Angeles area) have a back block wall to our property that backs against a farm which has just been purchased by a developer to build single family homes, thus our properties will back against one another and share a common property line. I have an existing 8 foot block wall (4 ft retainer with 4 ft block on top of that) due to our property having been dug out when our house was built, thus their property is 4 feet above ours. The existing wall is on our property The new developer wants to build a parallel 6 foot wall on his side of the property line (6 foot height on his side) to ours, but is recommending: 1. Remove our 50 year old wall down to the retaining wall. 2. Leave our retaining wall as is 3. Build his new wall parallel to our retaining wall on his side of the property line We do not want to remove our wall which would mean his wall would be parallel to ours and just leave the retainer, however he says the retainer under the current codes will not allow to build a new wall on our retainer. Further he does not recommend keeping our wall, although he has seen it done before then filling the gap with foam. Does anybody have any thoughts to this. I am trying to talk to the city inspector as well to get his thoughts. Thanks very much

I call it the 'pizza oven', I have no idea how old it is, or if its original to my 1930 house. But I like it, its a stone oven, its about 5 feet wide, maybe 3 and a half feet tall. The only problem... its at the very edge of my property (thus on the edge of the neighbor's property). And trees and shrubs have overgrown, and I'm fairly sure it wouldn't be safe to use in that location. I'd love to move it to a completely different area about 70 feet away. But I just dont know how doable it is. I'd be prepared for the worst. I should have access to a backhoe (and an operator - my father). But I want to see if anyone has any experience or ideas on approaching something like this.