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Originally Posted by The Cheat
There are many other species of tree that grow tall and can handle an urban environment. Some of grow 60 to 100 feet tall, including the Honey Locust (which is native to this area), Norway Maple, and White Ash.
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Ugh...I'm not a big fan of locust trees. We have scads of them in my development (I think they were here before our houses were built), and while they offer lots of shade, they also grow very tall, with a shallow root system. Every summer, one or more of these trees comes crashing down....usually after a storm.
Several years ago, one of them came down and squished the shed in our backyard. Ironically, the same thing happened to a neighbor a few weeks later. I'll take a Norway maple over a locust tree any day.