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Bannock County denies request to validate ‘dogleg’ access on Lower Rock Creek Road
Summary
The Bannock County Board of Commissioners voted to deny a request to validate a short spur off Lower Rock Creek Road that a real estate agent and buyer said is the only access to a 60-acre parcel near Inkom, Idaho.
Bannock County commissioners voted to deny a landowner request to validate a short spur — described at the hearing as a “dogleg” — off Lower Rock Creek Road that an agent said is the only recorded access to a 60-acre parcel near Inkom, Idaho.
The decision followed a public hearing in which county staff, an agent for the seller and an adjacent landowner described conflicting records: county maps and maintenance logs show the main Lower Rock Creek route as county-maintained, but maintenance records and other documents do not clearly verify county maintenance of the dogleg that leads to the Powers family parcel.
Kyle Burmister, Bannock County public works director, told commissioners that the county has maintenance records for the stretch “going to the east” but not for the spur that reaches the 60-acre parcel. Burmister said some county roads are lightly maintained “once a…
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