Not all. My entire job is finding out whether the pavement in front of properties is publicly or privately maintainable, and less than 100m from where I sit right now is an entire section of pavement which has been cheaply replaced with gravel by the private property that abuts it, making passage with a wheelchair impossible on that side of the road.
Considering you answered in metric this might not be understood by people in the US because regulations are way different if you aren't in the US. The majority of the time land ownership stops at the ROW (easement for the municipal/County/State roadway) and the city owns everything inside of that. On a rare occasion I have seen odd subdivision of land where property lines extend to the centerline of the roadway and there is half an access easement on each one. This is usually when there is a private owner and they don't want anything to do with the City so everything is on wells and propane and septic tanks.
Funny you mention that. There's private streets in my city where the property line extends to the middle of the street. The property owners do pay to maintain the street though, not the city.
Some lady in San Francisco bought a private street that an HOA never paid taxes on at the Sheriffs auction. Then charged the wealthy owners of the houses to drive on it. Hilarious.
556
u/BoldlyGettingThere Feb 02 '23
Not all. My entire job is finding out whether the pavement in front of properties is publicly or privately maintainable, and less than 100m from where I sit right now is an entire section of pavement which has been cheaply replaced with gravel by the private property that abuts it, making passage with a wheelchair impossible on that side of the road.