When Pomelo Park homeowner Rob Headley put up a privacy wall along his property line last year he figured he’d done everything by the book. The Phoenix resident filed the permits with the city before breaking ground on the project, which was part of a major overhaul of his house and backyard (1).
Then his neighbors sounded the alarm. The new wall, they said, cuts off access to an irrigation standpipe reachable via Headley’s backyard, which helps keep the area’s lawns green in 110-degree heat.
Shane Abowitt, a resident of the area for more than four decades, told Arizona media group Arizona’s Family, “If you take out one standpipe, that could be a critical disruption to the whole water district.”…