Another Exide in the making...

[DWinTX]

I bought my first house in 1990. It was in west Coppell in a neighborhood along Coppell Rd. It was a new Fox and Jacobs (before Centex) house. It's north of DFW airport, but we checked out the flight pattern and found that it was far enough west of the house that it wasn't too noisy. We did it in a very non-technical way, just by going over there at different times/days and watching. About 2 years later DFW opened an new runway on the east side of the airport and the flights were right over the house.

I'm sure F&J was aware that the runway in the planning stages when we bought, but they said nothing. This was pre-internet so researching something like that was not so easy. Not that I would have thought to do it anyway. I was young and had no clue what I was doing.

But even with my lack of experience, if the runway had already been there we would have found it when we were "staking out" the neighborhood. I don't see how these people can claim they're being wronged. The plants were there when they bought. And they are quite visible and it looks like you go right past them to get into the neighborhood from the south.

I don't think disclosure even comes into it, does it? When it's so obvious that they are there?

[synchronicity]

Originally Posted by bluescreen73

It's pretty hard to hide an asphalt plant next to a residential neighborhood. In fact if you look on Google Maps it says "Industrial Park" right on top of the plant.

They paint it purple and then put a huge Somebody Else's Problem field over it.

(channeling Douglas Adams)