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Originally Posted by BrianL99
You're right, most people don't understand easements and ownership.
You are incorrect.
An "Easement" is not a legal grant to allow a utility to come on to your property that you 100% own". Easements have 2 parts ... the Dominant estate and the Servient estate.
It depends on what easement is in questions and and where it's located.
The "Easements" along the sides of Villages roads/streets do NOT belong to homeowners.
Easements between homes, typically belong to abutting home owners, but not always.
In this case, the poster says they were digging trenches on "both sides of his driveway" ... that doesn't make sense. It's not likely there's an easement for utilities, through or over his driveway (other than within the road layout).
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Definitely under my driveway and nowhere near the curb/road. I will research the existence of the exact easements in my particular instance. It was clear they were dragging this cable under everybody’s driveways no matter what each individual property may stipulate regarding the existence of easements etc. Said another way, they must be batting 1,000 as not a single property was left untouched - all good, I will welcome better fiber for my own use if that is what the project will ultimately yield.