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Closing On House, Found Out City Is Taking 15 Ft Of The Front Yard To Build Bike Trail, Cutting Down Mature Trees

Location: Wisconsin, US

We are scheduled to close on our first home this month. I joined the local Facebook group and saw a neighbor posting about the city cutting down trees on our street to build an 8 foot bike path with a 7 foot easement (city is utilizing the entirety of the easement).

On the Real Estate Condition Report, the seller had written “potential walking path/roadwork (unconfirmed)”. This was written 2/8.

We had assumed there was talk of a future sidewalk. Evidently, there was mailed notification to the sellers on 1/8 that there was a planned project to construct this trail in 2026. Further info about planned dimensions and trees being cut down was given to them at this time.

This is probably on us for not inquiring further at the time of the offer.

The city has a list of trees for people to choose from to replace the cut trees. We do not have this list, but I doubt there is an option comparable to the mature cherry trees we will be losing. These trees were advertised with the property.

I’m wondering if there’s anything we can do city-wise as far as the trees go? Can we demand better trees if they offer us shitty saplings?

As far as the house sale, should we inquire about the property value changing?

We would like to go forward with the house, and we are willing to suffer through this project if necessary. Just trying to see what we can do legal-wise.

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Closing On House, Found Out City Is Taking 15 Ft Of The Front Yard To Build Bike Trail, Cutting Down Mature Trees

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