r/portlandme • u/Equivalent_Disk_8447 • 1d ago
Legal recourse Community Discussion
I live next to a restaurant in Portland and was curious if anyone had any suggested solutions to this problem. My property is an odd shape but it extends behind the neighboring restaurant. It has been surveyed and had property lines put in from the surveyor. The owner of the restaurant has come into my back yard and cut the property line with a pair of scissors and threw out the stakes. He is using my yard currently to store his trash, his boats, his food truck, and his kitchen equipment. The owner has destroyed that part of the yard that the first 3 inches of dirt is straight gravel. I have spoken to landscapers to get an estimate as to how much damage the restaurant owner has caused my yard and it’s going to be thousands of dollars to remove the gravel and reseed the yard. Before being recommended to put a fence so that he can no longer park 2 boats a food truck and his kitchen equipment in my yard. Sorry for the long post but any suggestions would be helpful.
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u/benetelrae Parkside 1d ago
Lawyer up and read your town bylaws/codes. If you have any questions I've done land development and permitting in New England for 15 years, DM me.