My question involves an easement in the state of:Maryland
We purchased our single family home in 2009. There is a parking pad off of the road in the front and the house sits on a steep hill with about 3 flights of stairs from the parking pad up to the front porch. When we purchased the home, it was listed (and recorded by the land surveyor) with a rear-access drive-in gate that provided us vehicle access to the backyard. To access this gate, we have to drive a block over and enter the back gate through a church parking lot. This is the only way we can have any home maintenance services (lawn service, tree trimmers, etc) access our home because of the steep incline. My husband also has his motorcycle stored in the shed in the backyard. We bought this house because it had this rear access gate (otherwise, moving furniture, etc would be nearly impossible and we would not have considered it). Without consulting us, the church planted 4 trees against our rear access gate and put up temporary fencing so the gate is no longer accessible, by vehicle or even by walking through it. There was never an issue before and when we contacted them about it, they said it was for "security purposes". Our access gate does not block any of their parking nor have we ever parked there and the motorcycle is now trapped. Not to mention we can no longer have any of our maintenance services come to our home. Do we have grounds for an easement, etc? What should we do?

