wa8yxm wrote:
Laws on property vary from place to place but in SOME areas the property line is the centerline of the road (in other places it is like the house side of the sidewalk or farther back even) IF the street is "your property" A good lawyer could likely have fun with that ordinance.. But since I'm not a lawyer that's all I can say (This is called stirring the pot. I'll leave now).
I actually do own to the middle of the road and the county is granted an easement 30 feet on either side of that center line. You cannot build on to the easement, you can't plant trees on the easement and there are probably thousands of other things you can't do.
Having a lawyer stir that pot would be more like kicking a hornet's nest. Counties, cities and states have unlimited access to attorneys. They are paid from tax revenues which mean you as a citizen are paying them to fight you. If you were to somehow prevail, they have the ability to use the law to attack you on thousands of other fronts. Very few people want to be put under the microscope by code enforcement officers looking under every rock for something out of place. I prefer to let sleeping dogs lie.