[quote author="mikeirvine"]
If the Lot wall is next to Sand Canyon you can hear the cars noise very clearly and at peak hours the first floor with the wall is not that bad, but the second floor master bedroom will be open to the road noise.
That not the worse, when the garbage and container trucks pass by the lots you get the vibrations and loud band noises. I stand at the lot for 1 hour in the morning, almost gone crazy ..... SSSSSSSssss, band, sssssSSSSSSS Band Band LOL
The dust is a problem living next to the Sand Canyon, I'm currently renting next to the Sand Canyon (25 metre away from the SC rd) but not that close as the sonoma offer Lot. I want to have a jacuzzi in the yard but that will be cover with dust ....
The worse part of sonoma is at the corner of Sand canyon and Trabuco you get the noise coming close and far from the RD and freeways.
After turning down the offers at WB, I drove to PS and seat on a chair at the balcony of one of the model home, listening to the ceiling music from the room, birds singing from the trees .... no vehical noise, the chair is not dusty = Priceless. I make an offer to that PS model home, But I still prefer WB for it location and let see what sonoma offer for the phase 3.
What do you guys think about PS?
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Mike...excellent and informative first couple of posts. Appreciate your insight --- and welcome to Talk Irvine.
With regard to Portola Springs vs. Woodbury, there has been much previous discussion on this. The general opinion of many here is that while PS is certainly less developed now, in the long run it will certainly be the more desireable of the current Irvine New Home Communities. In addition to the more serene hillside locations, it also is zoned to higher performing schools (Stonegate/formerly Westwood) Elem and Northwood HS). But it will be few more years before that community "blossoms" --- unlike Woodbury which is fully built out on day 1. Word is that TIC will begin to PS build out effort in earnest toward the end of 2010, once the current Woodbury/WBE effort is exhausted.
A note to the couple of posters here yesterday who were suggesting that anyone with a dissenting opinion on the 2010 home collection was
"whiner" who
"couldn't afford" the Woodbury homes. Mike illustrates above exactly what us "whiners" have been trying to say --- and you chose to ignore. Some here are of the opinion that the 2010 collection is not priced appropriately for what you get. I am not "whining' because I can't afford it. I'm saying that for almost $1M you should not have to listen to garbage trucks rolling by (Sonoma) or deal with overflow parking from your motorcourt neighbors (Carmel). How are you going to feel in a $1M+ home in Carmel with strange cars from Montecito polluting your street? Is that going to give you a "special" feeling you should get from a $1M house? And you know there are going to be cars everywhere. Montecito is set up for multigenerational families which = lots of cars. Where are they going to park? In front of Carmel, that's where. And that's my point on Montecito as well...for $800k+, you should expect more than a driveway/alley in front of your house, with your front door probably 50 feet from the front door across the street. Again, that does not make Montecito a *bad* house, just at that price point you should expect (and demand) more for your money.
But, it is your money, and I'll wish you well and shut up. Maybe I should be thanking you. Maybe all the money so easily swayed by a glossy ad or a nice smelling model house will be exhuasted soon. And maybe that will mean those of us who can wait for (and demand) a better product at that price point will actually get it when Orchard Hills, Laguna Crossing and perhaps even the next phases of PS get built out.
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