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Originally Posted by dewilson58
Really????
Villagers purchased lots/homes next to Turnpike and now they are complaining about the noise.
Really?
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I agree. The house in question is 100 yards from the freeway. Didn’t they stand outside in the back and listen? Of course it’s going to be loud outside. There’s a good chance they won’t hear it inside with the windows closed, though, and some music playing. I wouldn’t buy that lot, and that’s probably why the price wasn’t very high for it. As it is, my house is 250 yards from 466, so I can hear that road, but so it goes. It also has golf carts going past on the golf course. It goes with the territory. It could be that the homeowners could get the interstate highway commission to put up barriers, but it shouldn’t be something we pay through our fees.
As for what an individual homeowner should do, there are dense shrubs that could be planted in several rows and would in a few years be six feet tall and cut the decibels perceived on the lanai enough so it’s less awful.
The people comparing this to airports are right. Denver International Airport was built miles out on the prairie, far from houses. Then thousands of houses were built a few miles away. Now homeowners are suing to get the flight paths changed. Really? Is that fair? Let the buyer beware! Or, as it says in the book of Revelation, “Let he who has ears, hear!”