TOR Town Settled Inappropriately Close

I see the issue of proximity of settlement of a city as being different than a land claim.  Perhaps others disagree.  The distinction in my mind is this:  HUGcr makes no attempt to claim land for possible future city settlement, nor to prevent others from settling in areas near HUGcr cities, unless such settlements pose a problem for the growth of already existing cities.  That is potentially the case here.  (Note:  HUGcr also makes a practice of posting a marker army on locations to which a settler or Exodusing city is headed; this marker could be regarded as a claim of sorts, although I see it more as a "heads up, something is happening here" communication.)

HUGcr has not yet even made a demand that the city be moved.  In other similar situations it has been possible to negotiate a settlement with regard to future sovereignty claims that allowed both cities to stay in their positions.  I don't know whether that will be possible here.  I do know that it won't be possible unless we talk to each other.

It could of course be argued that making a territorial claim and not allowing any settlement of other than one's own alliance would prevent all such conflicts.  This is possibly true.  However, my personal belief is that the ability of a diversity of players from multiple alliances to settle in reasonable proximity to each other creates more enjoyment for all and is worth the hassle of occasional situations such as this one.