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Landowner asks Brown County to vacate unused road; county counsel outlines 60‑day legal process
Summary
A property owner asked Brown County commissioners to vacate about 700 feet of a long-unused road so he can place a fence on his property line. County counsel described the statutory petition, viewer and survey steps and said partial vacation with retained easements is possible.
A landowner asked the Brown County Board of Commissioners to vacate roughly 700 feet of a dirt road near a creek, saying the bridge that once made the road passable has been out of service for decades and that vacating would allow him to place a fence on his property line rather than observe a 20-foot setback.
County Counselor Austin reviewed the legal steps the county must follow. "It's a state statutory process on how we go about road vacation," he said,…
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