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In most cased, who owns the property between the street and a fence?

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It depends. In some instances, like a highway, property lines may stop at
the road, but in most subdivisions, even older ones, the street actually
sits on a platted easement across each lot. The easement is almost always
wider than the street, to allow for utility runs and such. Note that the
legal easement may or may not match the actual paving, so don't count on the
center of the street being the property line. Only way to tell for sure is
to look at a plat of the neighborhood, or a plot plan for the houses
involved. And although surveyors now make their working drawings with GPS,
in the old days you sometimes had to go quite a ways to get trusted
benchmarks to work back off of. Subdivisions are famous for 'additive
errors', where each lot is off just a hair, and by the time you get to the
end of the block, you are off an entire wig of hair.

Having said that, even if she owns the land, using it for a staging area for
brush pickup would probably be considered a part of the 'public use' of the
easement. But IANAL, and this would seem to fall into the category of
battles not worth fighting. Just pile it in front of your place, and let the
old biddy have her way. The guy on the truck really doesn't care- after the
first hour he is numb to it all anyway. (BTDT)

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