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Resident urges fix after resurfacing left 4–5-inch hump at driveway; board schedules site visit
Summary
A Jefferson County resident told supervisors that recent paving raised the road surface and left a 4–5-inch hump at his mother's driveway, damaging concrete; the board agreed to a road tour to inspect and consider repairs after hearing competing claims about responsibility and right-of-way rules.
Trevor, a Pleasant Plain resident, told the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors that last week’s resurfacing left a “pretty big hump” — about four to five inches — at his mother’s paved driveway, damaging the surface and creating a daily bump for vehicles.
Trevor said crews arrived at about 8:30 a.m. and covered part of the driveway without notifying his mother, who works at home. He described sweeping and shoveling “gobs of sand” and rock off the concrete and estimated the repair would require about four yards of concrete to remove the last six feet of the driveway and match the road elevation.
County staff and the engineer said the paved driveway extends into the right of way and that, as a general rule, the county is not required to modify private driveways after overlay. The engineer noted local agreements with the city and Department of Transportation guidance that can affect responsibility. Board members acknowledged the inconvenience and that repeating the overlay on other roads will raise similar issues.
Rather than make an immediate funding decision, supervisors voted to conduct a road tour to view the driveway and nearby sections of Greenville/Pleasant Plain Road. The board set the inspection for 9 a.m. Friday, meeting at the engineer’s office, and asked staff to place a road-tour item on a future agenda if further action is recommended.
The scheduled site visit will give supervisors an opportunity to assess whether cutting out and re-pouring a short section of driveway is appropriate and to consider whether the county should change its overlay procedures to avoid similar impacts elsewhere.
