If the government built a fence on their property, the burden is on them to maintain it. What other agreement is there?

estearum 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Your position is that if the government builds a fence it is de facto obligated to maintain it to any abutting property owner's standards in perpetuity?

There is no agreement whatsoever, that's the point. No agreement was made or mentioned. The mere existence of a fence on government property does not constitute an agreement to maintain said fence.

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dylan604 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not stipulating anything about abutting property. I'm saying that if the government builds something on their land it is theirs to do with and is on them to maintain it. If they decide to no longer maintain it, that is also their decision. To clarify my point, if someone bought property when the government's fence was intact believing it will always remain so they did not have to build a fence, it is a bad decision on the neighbor's part and not the government's. If you require a fence, the only way to ensure you have a fence is to build and maintain your own fence. There are plenty of examples of the government building something on their land and then walking away and abandoning it when it is no longer needed.

	▲	estearum an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Okay so I don't know why you're responding as if you're disagreeing with me. We're on the same page.

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cucumber3732842 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

>The mere existence of a fence on government property does not constitute an agreement to maintain said fence.

Can you imagine the sneering and hand wringing that would ensue in the comments if you tried to make such an argument about private property?

If a private landowner failed to maintain anything that was created by man (as opposed to nature) they'd say things like "public nuisance", "blighted", "antisocial" and all the other buzzword people of that bent love to use.

I don't really care what the standard is. If some standard is good enough to be worth legislating enforcing then it ought to apply equally to all land owners regardless of public or private.

	▲	estearum an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It seems like everyone here is literally conjuring up first an agreement, and now laws out of thin air. What law is the state exempting itself? Anyway tree law is super, super well-established and it works the same way for private parties. Your neighbor's trees are none of your business until they are on your property, and then they're exclusively your business (except you can't structurally damage or kill the tree e.g. by cutting roots that cross onto your property). You clearly have some strange bone to pick. You should pick it elsewhere.

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jmaw 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Are you going to call the HOA on the government to enforce them to maintain their fence?