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In most cased, who owns the property between the street and a fence?
The houses on our street have the front doors facing one street, and if
you drive around the block to the other side, the back fences are up
against the other street, similar to an alley way, but it's a normal
paved and named city street.
In other words, whereas many more suburban and/or newer neighborhoods
have the following setup:
street-house-yard--fence-yard-house-street,
these are single with it being
street---house--yard--fence--street.
with narrower blocks overall. It's an older neighborhood.
Most of the homes have separated detached garages up against the back
fence. Some have back entrance driveways or back entrance gates in
these fences.
Clear as mud?
Okay, so between the back fences and the street there is a few feet of
grass (no sidewalks).. and I want to know who owns that patch of
property in most cities.
The crabby old woman who lives next door approached me today to
complain because back in November, when the city did brush pickup, I
placed my brush on this strip of property. She says it's her property
and I am not allowed to do that... and all I did was add my brush to
some other brush already piled up there (small pile) that I assume she
had put there. Mind you, I have never met her and this was the first
time she'd approached me.
I did so because it made sense to just make one medium sized pile
instead of 2 little ones, and because we only have street parking here
and all other logical spots were either places where people normally
park cars, or would have blocked a driveway or something similar.
Following all regulations, I placed the brush pickup out there when I
was supposed to and it was out there for a max of 48 hours before the
city picked it up.
I just looked at her like she was nuts and basically blew her off,
because the issue is moot until next brush pickup at least, but I would
like to be able to tell her she's wrong, if indeed this isn't "her"
property after all. She was unnecessarily rude about this and like I
said, it happened four months ago! (ironically she finished her
complaint by saying she "doesn't want problems".. whatever)
During past brush pick-up times, I have noticed people will put brush in
anyone else's brush pile if they've missed their own pick-up in their
neighborhood. Is it actually against the "rules" to put your trash out
next to or along with someone else's trash? Sheesh!
Thanks if you know the answer to this one!
Chris
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Crazy neighbor... who is right?
