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Building under a power line?
Posted on 2/19/21 at 8:27 am
Posted on 2/19/21 at 8:27 am
My family lives in an older, original part of Baton Rouge. Our home is the second from the corner. The corner lot is a bit of an oddball (small and weird layout). There have been renters there for 20+ years and we have had conversations with the owners abt possibly purchasing the lot one day to extend our current home. The caveat here is there is an overhead power line in between our lot and their lot (I also think it's technically a city servitude as well since it's a power line). Could you build under if that is the case? Would Entergy move the line underground? Any idea who the person to speak with this at Entergy would be? Just forget it in general?
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Posted on 2/19/21 at 8:54 am to bgbam07
Is this a distribution pole? I think there is a chance you could get them to move it underground but you would have to pay for it
Posted on 2/19/21 at 9:09 am to bgbam07
They could move it underground possibly but you aint building a house on top of it. I have buried lines in the back of my lot and it has to remain “natural” landscape.
Posted on 2/19/21 at 11:03 am to baldona
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They could move it underground possibly but you aint building a house on top of it.
Exactly... even if they do move it underground, the land will still have the same easement/servitude attached to it and you couldn’t build there.
I would imagine your only option would be to have Entergy relocate the line elsewhere and remove the current easement so you could build there. Of course all of this would be at your expense.
It certainly could be done, but you’d have to be willing and able to grease the right palms.
Posted on 2/19/21 at 11:20 am to bgbam07
Run title search on your house & the vacant lot to make sure there isn't setback lines that prohibit building within x number of feet of the lot lines. If so, you have to go to the legal expense of replatting the 2 lots into the one.
Title search also reveals any utility easements that might prevent you building across lot lines.
Title search also reveals any utility easements that might prevent you building across lot lines.
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