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Yes, you can build on a property easement, even a utility easement.

Spell out the ways in which your neighbor is interfering with your easement rights. Enclose a copy of the deed and highlight the relevant sections. Advise your neighbor that unless he stops the interference, you will pursue legal action. Hand-carry or mail your letter to your neighbor, remembering to keep a copy.

Easements are a pervasive element in Texas property law and are generally defined as a right, privilege, or advantage that exists as a distinct interest from ownership rights in real property. Most commonly, an easement allows a person (or the public) to use the land of another in a certain manner.

Easements in Texas provide individuals or entities like utility companies with the right to use or access a person's property for a particular purpose. It's important for a property owner to read and understand who has easement rights to their land and what precisely those rights include when buying a parcel of land.

HEALTH & SAFETY CODE § 342.004. If a city has an easement, the city has authority to maintain the easement in a way that protects the city's property rights while still allowing some use by the property owner. The easement holder also has the duty to maintain the easement.

Driveways: The minimum width of an easement for driveway purposes is 30 feet. Pedestrian Facilities: A minimum of a 10 foot easement is required, but may need more depending on location and use. Private Roads: A 30-foot width will work for a private roadway with up to 6 users.

An easement is a means by which a landowner grants another person the right to use the landowner's property for a specific purpose. The land on which the easement is granted is referred to as the “servient estate”, and the land the easement benefits is referred to as the “dominant estate”.

To establish an easement by necessity, the party seeking the easement bears the burden of proving three elements: Unity of ownership of the dominant and servient estates prior to severance, Necessity of a roadway, and. Existence of the necessity at the time of the severance of the two estates.

(1) Utility easements (along property lines) shall be eight feet on each side of the property line; (2) Drainage easements shall be the width of the drainage structure plus five feet on each side, rounding the total distance down to the nearest foot, or the width of the 50-year floodplain, whichever is greater.