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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trees are great, until they fall on your house.

We had a tree looked at by an arborist who assured us it was healthy and didn’t need to be removed. It fell less than a year later and did some damage. The roots of mature trees also get into drain lines and cause all sorts of sewage issues.

There are a lot of trees in old neighborhoods that are coming to the end of their lifecycles and they are dangerous. It can cost $2-8k to remove each tree.

So while I love trees, I would see large trees in old neighborhoods to be a liability.  [/quote]

Yup, lots of the neighborhoods around here are getting to an age where the mature trees are starting to die. I see it a lot.[/quote]
Yup -- this is true in many close-in Arlington neighborhoods.  I have had a neighbor's mature silver maple drop a giant branch on my fence.  I had a mature cherry tree fall over during a storm in my own yard (miraculously not hitting any structures).  A neighbor had a branch fall on her playing children during a perfectly calm day (child ended up unconscious and in the hospital, but recovered).  A mature Oak down the block blew over and was completely uprooted during a storm.  Neighbor's tree dropped a branch on my car, cracking windshield.  Same neighbor had a sycamore fall on their house during a storm.  None of these trees were visibly dying, and several of these folks used arborists to maintain their trees.  My general feeling is that mature trees are desirable only when they are 50+ feet AWAY from any structures.  Tough to do in places like Arlington when most lots are only 50 feet wide.[/quote]

Agree with this. Lived in an older Silver Spring neighborhood (small lot sizes and some very large 70-80+ year old trees) and know of many trees that fell during various storms. Our nieghborhood was impassible for days after the derecho.  I Like trees, but would I also would prefer that the really large species are planted at least 50’ or so away from the house. There are plenty of small and mid-sized trees that are better suited for small lots or to be closer to the foundation.  [/quote]

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