On Thu, 14 May 2015 08:41:39 -0400, Pat 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?


I am not sure I am following, but could you be looking at easements?
The lot owner owns the areas in question, but untility companies have
the right to those strips for underground pipes (gas, water) and
underground wires (cable, phone, power) and possibly even above ground
poles and wires.

Besides utility easements there also exist walkway, driveway, and
drainage easements, and though this plat doesn't mark any easements, not
even utilities**, either the other document about the road goes into the
driveway easement, or maybe it's in the deed, which I haven't read.

**The plat for my townhouse n'hood marks all of them, except I guess the
cable tv runs in the back of the houses and that's not mentioned on the
plat. I'm pretty sure they had cable tv when the project was planned,
about 1974. Right? Maybe they thought it would be in the front of the
houses where it's just called a utility easement, and what utilities are
not specified, or maybe they just forgot about cable. Anyhow, there is
also a 6' wide walkway easement in the back and the cable company
used/uses that space.

But no, I wasn't talking about strips for utilities.

Frank and Ivan have it right. Thanks anyhow.