On Thu, 14 May 2015 08:09:12 -0400, Frank "frank wrote:

On 5/13/2015 11:15 PM, micky wrote:
A friend moved to a more rural area, to a new subdivision.

There are one or more parts of her plat we don't understand.

She and 4 neighbors live on a private road, which comes from a newly
built road. I guess this bigger road has been given to the county, but
she seems to share responsibility for maintaining the private road.
There is a little "bulge" in the public road at the end of it. Not as
big as a cul de sac, and barely big enough to make a u-turn in.

Even though her lot is basically 4-sided, the plat shows 5 bands, each
about 10 feet wide, going side-by-side down the private rood, to where
it meets the public road (which has a bulge at its end.) OTOH, if
one starts at the public road, each band ends when it reached the lot it
is attached to.


Each band is either 10.25', 11,04', or 10.02' for a total of 52.6 feet.
The private road is not that wide, so some of this land is off the road
and looks like it belongs to lot owners along the way.

Do I have to explain further, because I'm having trouble describing
this, or does some one here already know what I'm talking about?

Does she really own a strip of land reaching all the way to the bulge,
or do they all share the road and the plat just represents it that way?





Where I live is something like that. When we moved in, the road was
private and maintained by a maintenance corporation owned by the
community. Several lots were oddly shaped along the road, particularly
those at the entrance to the state road.

I've got a neighbor in back of me, outside our community, who has a pipe
shaped lot where the pipe stem runs ~700 ft from the main plot where the
house is for his drive to get to the state road.

Yeah, that's it. So she really does own the land. I was going to say:
although of course it has to be used for the road, but I think the road
is no more than 20 feet wide and the pipe stems total 52 feet wide, she
owns 10 feet of one side of neighbor's yard, the side that abuts the
private road. Interesting, since he's trying to claim 3 feet of her
yard on the side where their two yards meet. Last fall he started
mowing it and just now he was about to plant bushes on it. She's
probably going to have to get a survey done. $1400, I think she said.

I'm sure her pipe-stem doesn't really help her, but I wanted us both to
understand the situation.

The plat refers to a separate document about maintaining the prviate
road, but the pipestems probably indicate how the cost is apportioned.
She has to pay 1/5 of the her 600 feet (only 300 of which is stem), her
neighbor to the right pays the same as she does plus 1/4 of his 300
additional feet. The next neighbor pays the same as #2 plus 1/3 of his
400 additional feet.... and the last one pays what the one to his left
does plus the all of his 100 feet. I've wondered about that in the
past and this is the only thing that is really fair.

Even though the plat shows 10 feet wide strips, in practice they
probably divide the width of the road by 5 where there are 5 lots using
it, or at least they bill it that way. Even if her 10 feet is all
covered by grass.