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Originally Posted by jeebuss31
They do look like pine trees and did you mean it'll help reduce the noise once mature?
I agree with you about the dust thing and i hoping the houses on our street will block some of that.
Although, I don't understand how it would be unsafe for the kids? We're not going to be directly on the main road. There are still houses to be built across the street from us/ There backyard will be up against the main road.
But thanks for the feedbacks! Keep them coming!
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Safety is an all-inclusive word. Not only children, but adult-wise.
Yes, a main street offers easy get-away. That's both a plus and a minus.
My folks used to live in a similar situation.
House
Residential Street
Houses across that street
Brick wall
Train tracks
I cannot count the times that the houses across the street were robbed. And I can tell you that if I were to drive back to that old neighborhood, that all of these houses have bars over the windows and a jail-bar backyard enclosures. They were beginning to do that some 35 years ago. This has happened along freeways in California too.
I know similar things happen on busy streets too; there are honest reasons for pulling over on a main street, but there are also dishonest ones. And trucks can make themselves look like they are having a mechanical issue just by opening their engine cabin. Your house across the street will probably not have to contend with this, but the people who buy those houses not yet made, might have to deal with these issues.
Health-wise: breathing dust, carbon monoxide, etc. this stuff is not good for you. Nor your kids. I was a sickly kid and very sensitive to my environment; though I did not have allergies nor asthma, I did contend with flu/colds and pneumonia that pretty much left me when we left that area.
Noise: everything is much more noisy in the middle of the night. When the world is quiet and sleeping, the traffic noise will seem much louder than in the daytime. The pine trees can help when fully grown yes, but if they are in people's backyards, then those people can cut those trees down; if they are on city land, then people cannot control those either.
Again, I do not know the area and only you can judge. If this is a "growth" area, what happens if the city decides to expand that 2 lane two-way (4 lanes total?) to be 3 lanes each way? They can buy those properties across the street and expand the roadway if they determine there's need. How might you feel if this roadway was incorporated or expanded to include your cul-de-sac?