Who owns street curbs

Check with your city planning department to determine the local requirements and expectations. It varies from one area to the next. Forgot to answer your question: You own it, but the local government has a permanent right of way eminent domain that reaches from the centerline of the road to XX feet in both directions.

In my case, it's 33 feet to each side. Since my half of the road is about 8 feet, they can take the other 21 feet whenever they feel like it. They recently did just that to some people in our town. They widened the 2 lane road to a 5 lane. Everyone bordering that road lost their front yard. Gevans is correct. The State owns from the center of the road to about 6 feet onto my property. They maintain the apron in front of my driveway as I live on a State Road.

Ditto, on a town road. The State has permission from the homeowner to plant trees in the State area and recently I was asked by the State if they could cut down a tree that needed to be removed on my rental property - next door to me. They gave me a choice to keep the wood or they will haul it away.

I will take the nice hard maple wood for my wood burning stove insert in my fireplace. Also have a log splitter and 3 sons to share the wood - and do the work.

Here in SW MO, in the county and in some parts of the towns, the land owner owns to the center of the road and gets to pay taxes on the amount of land they have but city, county, state has control over it for the road, ditch, embankment.

However in a subdivision where lots and roads are plotted the land owner only owns that which is legally deeded to him. Usually that does not include the road. In my small town I own to the center of the main road but government entity has control over so much of it, depending on the type and width of road. However in other parts of the subdivision my property line stops at my deeded lot and the road does not belong to me.

City at one time told me to mow it and I told them to check the records and get the owner to mow it. Guess who that was. I don't care who owns it. If my "apron" needed repair, I would have my guys do it.

It is pretty simple to pour the concrete. We would do the work on a weekend, just to avoid the situation gevans had, with the City's crew interfering with him. And I would be prepared to deny knowledge. Mike45, LOL I planned the job for a weekend, but our concrete did not show up as planned. Monday we got caught. I do lots of jobs on the weekend and after hours. Much less stress. Thanks for all the responses everyone. Sounds like it varies from one municipality and road to the next.

I'll check with the borough. Please consult your solicitor to clarify the above. You can be refused a crossing installation and reasons can be individual to that location. The points below may prohibit or offer guidance to a proposed dropped crossing:. A domestic vehicle crossing may only be used by a private light goods or similar vehicle.

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