BALLOON PLT LANDS AT STREET INTXN IN PROX OF HOUSES. VISIBLE SIGNS OF IMPENDING UNSTABLE WX CONDITIONS WERE EVIDENT TO PLT. HAD ASKED PERMISSION FROM RESIDENTS FOR LNDG PERMISSION. POLICE MAY ISSUE CITATIONS.

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AT THE CONCLUSION OF A PLEASURE FLT FROM LAUGHLIN; NV; TO BULLHEAD CITY; AZ; APPROX 4 MI; I DECIDED TO TERMINATE THE FLT. HAVING PASSED OVER SEVERAL VACANT LOTS I DSNDED TO TREE TOP LEVEL WHERE THE WIND WAS EXTREMELY LIGHT AND VARIABLE. THIS WAS OVER AN AREA OF MIXED USE HOUSING AND SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCES. THE LNDG SITE I HAD CHOSEN WAS AN INTXN. I REQUESTED AND WAS GRANTED PERMISSION; FROM SEVERAL LCL RESIDENTS; TO LAND IN THE INTXN. THE CHASE CREW WAS ON SITE AND I LANDED WITH THEIR ASSISTANCE. I DEFLATED AND PACKED UP THE SYS IN THE STREET. THERE WAS NO PROPERTY DAMAGE OR INJURY TO PAX OR BY-STANDERS. I DECIDED TO LAND BASED UPON FUEL REMAINING; APPROX 50%. POSSIBLE LNDG SITES REMAINING AND THE WINDS ALOFT; WHICH WERE SOUTHERLY; THE FIELDS TO THE S SHOWED SEVERAL DUST- DEVILS (THERMAL ACTIVITY). I BELIEVE THAT FURTHER FLT IN A SOUTHERLY DIRECTION WOULD HAVE BEEN UNSAFE. THE WINDS ALOFT WERE ACCELERATING AND DROPPING LOWER TO THE SURFACE. WITHIN 20 MINS WINDS RPTED FROM THE BULLHEAD CITY ARPT WERE 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 33 MPH. SEVERAL LCL POLICEMEN ARRIVED AND INFO WAS EXCHANGED. THE POLICEMEN ARE DECIDING WHETHER TO ISSUE CITATION(S) OR NOT.