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Originally Posted by fdpaq0580
There are 7 types of easement. Each specifies certain arrangements per access requirements. Basically, for homes the easement gives the homeowner right to use as he/she wishes so long as there is no blockage of access for utility/maintenance/emergency personnel or equipment. Easement does not allow unfettered access for the general public as a community common ground, park or parking area, or dog walking, as some wish to believe.
Earlier in this thread there was even mention of the ability to have your home taken from you due to easement. No! That can happen if the government enacts Eminent Domain to aquire large tracts of land for highways/interstates. But first they must pay the property owners.
Bottom line, if you don't own it, stay out of it, off of it, don't touch it. Be a decent, respectful human being.
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You are confusing the word "easement" with a "road". In the case of the roads in TV are NOT located on Easements, they are Fee Simple properties. The paved portion is OWNED by the County. The un-paved area of the Roads are owned by TV or the County.
The only "easement' involved a road, is an Easement to allow ALL of the Public (TV owners or not), use of that land. TV and/or the County are the Grantors of the Easement.
Abutting property owners do not own the land, but have an easement to use it (along with everyone else) and the obligation to maintain it.
BTW, there are thousands of types of easements, not "7". The various kinds of easements are limited only by a Grantor's imagination. I hold "view easements" on properties. I hold easements to "cut trees to maintain a view", I hold easements to "reconfigure frontage" and install utilities. I once owned a piece of property that had a deed restriction that prohibited anyone who had spent time in an Insane Asylum or was a member of the Jewish faith from occupying the property.