Bob, according to DSIRE, it's something that you have to do proactively. So I would have to take my neighbor to the south through some administrative proceeding that would mark some sort of easement on their property before they added a second story that would block my solar access. If you wanted to do that with the city, start by filing a solar right declaration in bernalillo county against the city and see what happens. You do have to have a 'solar collector' installed (evidence of your improvement). There is a strange prior appropriation definition that may protect a structure or building that already blocks the solar access, prior to you wanting to assert your solar access right. I don't think that applies to trees though.
It also states that absent a local ordinance ( I doubt ABQ has come up with one) someone can block your solar access by a tree as long as the shading is only 10 percent of the daily sunlight.
Geoff
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I have been researching the laws guiding the solar rights of homeowners, especially as it protects us from harm by governing bodies. This has been a problem for me because the city in the Lead/Coal rebuild put in trees that block my solar collection in the winter. I think this in included in a late specific amendment to the state solar rights laws but I can?t locate it. Others might like to look at the codes I have found so far so I am posting them here. It seems if a person wants to defend their solar rights from a governing body they have to sue.
Good luck.
Sincerely,
Bob Anderson
Albuquerque, NM
citizen@comcast.net
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