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[quote=Anonymous]Our backyard backs onto a culdesac where there are two families with elementary aged kids living.  In order for them to catch the school bus they have to walk about 10 minutes down their street and up ours to the top of the street where the bus stop is.  Or, they have a 3 minute walk if they walk across our lawn.  This was previously not a real issue because the bus used to pick up at the bottom of their street so the walk was about the same either way.  They would occasionally cross our yard to get to the top of our street but like a couple of times per month.  Now there are 4 kids crossing twice per day and sometimes they have friends with them.  I want to be a reasonable neighbor but I worry about:
1.  Wear and tear on our lawn (it's just grass, no pavers)
2.  Liability if a kid slips and hurts themselves in our lawn when we've granted permission for them to cross
3.  Our yard becoming some sort of right of way over time.

Our street is much busier and therefore the houses are less expensive.  The houses on the culdusac enjoy a lot of privacy and a very quiet street.

My kids aren't close with any of the kids (not unfriendly but the genders and ages are off my kids' genders and ages so they very infrequently play together).  I'm fairly good friends with one of the moms but barely know the other one.  If we were close friends I guess I'd feel differently.

I know the kids will be pretty pissed off having to walk around but I'm thinking of telling them they can walk through our yard twice per week and no more than that and no friends.

Anyone else have this situation?[/quote]

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