You can change a ridge height that is too high! Raise the roof, remove the masonry, put the roof back on. Of course, that costs money, but it can be reasonable, since distance areas serve to protect the neighbors.
There is nothing that does not exist. I have always been more relaxed about it (actually still am), but when the neighbor measured the distance from the excavated ground slabs to the street with a folding ruler in a late-night operation (she is about 70 years old) and then filed a complaint with the town hall because of exactly 3.5 cm, I knew my first sentence held true...
I have heard from the construction department since my apprenticeship that the neighbor is the best building inspector. *g*
My architect said recently that when he is on a property and wants to check something, it is not, for example, the building authority that wants to inspect something, but the neighbor.