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This looks great, but I feel like the trees might become a problem to the adjacent buildings when they mature, unless they’re the type of trees that only grow tall and skinny?
I have similar trees in front of my apartment building and I love them, they make me feel like I'm living in a tree house in the summer.
Not every tree essence grows as much as oak. I know some linden trees, older than I am, that were pruned properly one or twice a year and have kept a manageable size. I think hackberry tree don't get much thick with time and there essences of tree that are chosen to be put in the street because they don't grow that much in European climate.
It took two years to do the transformation. Do you think it'll be difficult to do another transformation when the time comes?
Nobody wants to cut down trees once they've grown.
Dude, there are whole industries based on cutting down trees once they have grown.
What are you smoking? ... can I have some?
Cities don't want to pay for that. No one is backing logging equipment down a Paris side street.
But yeah, it's not an issue. I'm sure people planted trees knowing they get bigger. Lemmings just like to point to obvious issues as if no one thought about them.
They are. All cities contract arborists on a regular basis. You don't need massive machinery, just a person with ropes and a chainsaw, some ground crew and smallish truck and maybe a chipper to remove the wood.
(Source: have worked as ground crew before.)
You should get a prescription, it will do wonders to your humour.
Street trees are trimmed regularly in France when it's needed. People enjoy to see the green and the added privacy when it reaches their windows.
Id be worried about the roots fucking up the sidewalk and foundations not the greenery.
I have seen it happen with old trees, but I think now they have either species or techniques to avoid that. Trees in streets are very common in France, it's not a recent thing. There's even a specific term for streets with trees: "avenue", although many people use it without knowing.
Can’t you cut trees to make them grow tall and skinny?
I don’t know, I’m not a tree expert. I mean it would be cool if that’s how it works tho
I don't think the trees will grow much more.
Were I live there is a tendency to put trees in holes (about 1m wide) on the road side of the sidewalk - which puts them at least 1m away from the houses, generally more - and unless they get really tall (20m + tall) their roots are only really a problem for the sidewalk itself (which gets raised and bumpy) and even in this it depends on the kind of tree (so, for example, pine or oak are a problem but not orange trees).
I don't remember even seeing even the kind of brick wall that might surround a property cracked due to such nearby trees, much less actual buildings. Mind you, buildings over here are made of brick and concrete and have actual foundations.