My question involves right of ways in the state of: North Carolina
I am told there are 30 ft. right of ways from the center of public roads which I assume are utility right of ways? My question is, can you put anything in the right of way if you own the property? My problem is, my neighbor all of a sudden decided to put up a fence to stop me from driving over his property; my house sits in a curve and for 16 years my driveway has encroached a few feet on his property (just at the very end of the driveway closest to the public road). I only have about 40 feet of road frontage as it is and now that he has put up this fence I don't think i can get my 32 foot 5th wheel camper in and out of my driveway. There is no talking to this neighbor as he is hotile; he's had my husband arrested, yes arrested for tresspassing; my husband walked down the driveway to cross the street to see our REAL neighbor and low and behold he got arrested for it! We don't disupute where the property line is, but we've lived here longer than him and he said nothing for 15 years about these few feet. I know that a few feet seems minor, but these few feet for me might as well be a mile because of the way my house sits in a curve and because my road frontage is so small. I welcome any advice as I really can't afford to hire an attorney and have found no useful information on line.

