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It’s Chrissy Oliver’s Halloween horror — neighbours and Calgary bylaw are trying to spook her out of plans to provide a unique trick-or-treat experience while raising cash for charity.

Oliver said that Tuesday afternoon while she and her husband, Jason, were in the backyard working on the elaborate haunted house they’ve set up around their Chaparral home annually for the past seven years, her sister-in-law brought back a bylaw officer.

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The tarps along the front, back and side of her home — a key piece of the setup, which she does to raise money for the Veteran’s Food Bank — have to come down, Oliver says the bylaw officer informed them.

She said a neighbour complained to the city about the look of the tarps and potential safety issues, though it was the first she’d heard of it — no neighbour ever spoke to her directly.

“We’ll get about 5,000 people every single year, and the donations that we get for the Veteran’s Food Bank are just outstanding,” she said.