Eastern Plains
A Morgan County driveway may need Road and Bridge review
A Porch Note from Colorado Porch — plain-English local details for all 64 Colorado counties.
On an acreage, a driveway belongs to the road system as much as to the yard. The county thinks of the strip where private property meets the public road as something it has to keep working for everyone.
Road and Bridge maintains the roads, bridges, and storm-drainage facilities in that public right-of-way. The same office issues a Road Right of Way Permit, publishes its right-of-way regulations, and takes an application for driveway access.
Those forms come into play with a new access point, a change to an old one, any work inside the county right-of-way, or a plan that will bring heavy construction traffic over the entrance. A driveway that has carried a pickup for years may not pass as-is once it has to serve a new home, a shop, or a business use, since the demands on the culvert and shoulder change.
Grade the entrance only after a quick word with Road and Bridge. A plan is easy to adjust while it is still lines on paper, and a good deal harder once a culvert, a ditch, or the road shoulder has already been reshaped to fit the wrong layout.
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