Private roads, that are not maintained by the county,�in St. Mary's are clearly labeled as such with blue signs. Public roads have green signs. When you drive down to Pt. Lookout, just before you enter the park there's a perfect example. The sign says something like "3rd Way" and under it "Private". You can't quite clearly see it on Street View on GoogleMaps but here's an image of it:
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3rd Way
http://goo.gl/maps/e4Qu9
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Camp Brown Road
http://goo.gl/maps/INJ4o
If they guy is growing weed or making meth, I personally don't care. Just let me have an unobstructed view of the snipe field
Tyler Bell
<jtylerbell...>
California, Maryland
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From: Steve Long <steve.long4...>
To: Maryland Birding Birding <mdbirding...>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: Fwd: [MDBirding] Re: Private property problems
After looking at the photo, I am wondering if we
know for sure that Camp Brown Road is not a private road.� If it does
belong to the county, then somebody with a county map should probably find-out
how wide the right-of-way is.
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I can tell you from personal experience that
partygoers in the house across the street are allowed to park on the 40'-wide
right-of-way of our road, even though that puts their tires several feet into
the lawns of some of the neighbors.� The police just were not interested in
enforcing the idea that parking on a maintained lawn was inappropriate in
soaking wet weather.
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On the other hand, in rural areas, there are a lot
of private roads that are NOT maintained by the counties, even though they may
lead to multiple residences.� In those cases, the owners of the right of
way for those private roads DEFINITELY have the right to exclude whomever they
wish, no justification required.� Some of those private roads look better
than some of the county roads in the same area.
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So, it seems like a good idea to know for sure who
ownes the road you are on if you want to challenge a landowner about your right
to be there.
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Steve Long
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>From: James Tyler Bell
>To: Maryland Birding Birding
>Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 10:14 PM
>Subject: Re: Fwd: [MDBirding] Re: Private property problems
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>Since 95% of the people on this list have no idea of where this location is and the distance from Camp Brown Road to the house where this landowner thinks we're peeping, I've attached a screen shot from GoogleEarth that shows the house is 0.37 miles away. Even the best scope under ideal conditions would have a hard time discerning people inside the house. If the landowner had asked Mikey to move down the road so that he was looking at an angle toward the trees, that would have been fine, but to forbid Mikey and anyone else from exercising their rights on a public road just irritates the hell out of me.
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>Anyway, it might be a moot point as the numbers of snipe found today were well below what we observed yesterday so the flock may have moved to another location which may or may not be visible publicly.
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>Tyler Bell
><jtylerbell...>
>California, Maryland
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