My husband and I bought our first home five months ago. Our property has a sewage lift station towards the end of our backyard. The yard is completely fenced with a working gate large enough to drive a truck through. The pathway to the station is maintained and completely free of any obstacles (trees, shrubs, etc. nothing, but lawn). The fence and lift station have been here for many years, but now the city public works wants to move the fence over 20 ft so they don't have to enter our backyard. This will cut off half of our yard. The two reasons they gave us were because of our dog (who is large but non-aggressive and stays inside when we're not here) and they need to be able to get equipment back there. We have offered to build a larger gate, however when we came home today from work our lawn was spray painted with boundary markers. Do they have the right to move our fence and take half our yard?

