Would it be okay with you if the neighbors contacted you and tried to persuade you to change the roof pitch to their liking, even though your project complies with the building permit?
Not just
my neighbors. As a regularly baptized Christian who often strolls through the residential area, I would very much appreciate it if
all neighbors spent less energy practicing neighborly hatred at the fence. Neighborhood is not a one-way street – if I can restrain myself from being deliberately nasty, Hubert and Elfriede will sometimes help shovel my snow and won’t roll their bin so close to my driveway on trash collection day.
Consideration doesn’t hurt, and communication is not persuasion.
Furthermore, I am convinced that aesthetics also have something to do with harmony. Both in proportions – except for Wright, I have never seen pleasing ultra-flat hipped roofs anywhere – and in the sense that I can also ruin my house by uncoordinatedly jabbing it like a spike into the surrounding ensemble.
Peace, brother, building is not war!