Peeing on walks every 5 secs

My two huskies live in a very dog friendly neighborhood/suburbs. With 3 dog parks each having a dog poop bags on each side of the park, really dog friendly. In which case 1 in 5 houses owns at least one dog, and their owners take them to walk outside around the neighborhood.

Because of this our huskies stop by every 2 mailboxes, trees, bushes, lamp post, fire hydrants etc, to sniff and mark their territory. Is this normal? Do you try to stop it or let happened? Currently I’m at a point where I’m walking in the middle of the road so they don’t get close enough to go around smelling and peeing. Also if they get closed enough I pulled on their leash to prevent from smelling.