I am building a new construction home and I’m a bit concerned about all the utilities that are being shoved in the small area of grass on the front right side of my house (when looking at it from the driveway).
For better understanding, here’s an overhead view of my property outline. The area of concern is the smaller side towards the top left side of the picture next to the driveway.
https://i.imgur.com/CFEKhMW.jpg
I knew going into this house that the left side (when looking at the house from the driveway) had a huge gap of 25 feet between our house and the next house. There’s an easement due to a huge sewer pipe running underneath to the lake.
My concern is the right side of our house (when looking at it from the driveway) only has 10 feet between our house and the next. The neighbor (to our right) has their driveway to the left, so our driveways are side by side and flair our pretty close to each other.
In that small 10 foot space, that narrows closer to the street and is smaller than 10 feet closer to the road, we have the following utilities in between.
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2 Water Boxes
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1 Fire Hydrant
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1 Water Main?
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1 Electrical Relay
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1 Cable Box
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1 Speed Limit Sign
Here’s a picture. From the far left water box to the far right water box is approximately 12 feet, which is wider than the distance between our houses.
https://i.imgur.com/zRZSp8r.jpg
When I look at my property stakes that are plotting out the four corners of my house…it looks like the fire hydrant is going to be right next to the driveway (maybe on it) and the water box is definitely going to be in the driveway. I even ran a tape measure down to better show it.
https://i.imgur.com/PRzEjSY.jpg
Here’s a straight up picture of our property line and it definitely looks like we’re going to have issues with the fire hydrant and water box in the driveway.
https://i.imgur.com/Rs9MalC.jpg
To make matters worse, I looked at my neighbor’s property line (to the right of me) and their stakes are just outside of their water box…meaning they won’t have any issues.
https://i.imgur.com/vRC9Ahb.jpg
I paid $25,000 for this lot as it’s on a lake, but I did not sign up to have all this crap on my driveway. Is there some sort of law for how close my driveway can be to a fire hydrant? I don’t want it to get hit as I’m backing my truck up into the right side of the driveway.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!