Permitted work in the public right-of-way — built to the agency’s standards
Almost every project eventually has to touch land it doesn’t own: the public right-of-way where your driveway meets the road, where a new utility ties into the main, or where a sidewalk and curb front your property. That work is an encroachment, and it can’t just be done — it has to be permitted and built exactly to the controlling agency’s standards.
Across Northern California, that agency might be a city, a county public works department, or Caltrans on a state highway — each with its own details and inspectors. CCS handles encroachment work as part of site development: the permits, the coordination, and the construction that connects your property cleanly to the public infrastructure around it.
CCS provides encroachment permitting and right-of-way work throughout Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, Sacramento, and San Joaquin Counties.
Right-of-way work creates planning problems that don’t exist anywhere else on a project, because the rules belong to someone other than the property owner.
Encroachment work often requires coordination with city engineering departments, county public works, utility providers, or Caltrans — sometimes more than one on the same project. Every agency has different construction standards, permit requirements, and inspection procedures. We identify which authority controls the right-of-way at your project’s frontage, prepare and submit the encroachment permit, and coordinate with utility providers where a tie-in is involved. Early coordination is what keeps a project moving instead of stalling at the property line.
Right-of-way construction gets inspected by the agency that owns it, to its own standard details — not a generic building inspection. We build to those specifications from the start so the work passes the first time, and we manage final restoration of the roadway as part of close-out.
Because we’re the same contractor building your site and the right-of-way work that connects to it, the tie-ins — driveway, utilities, frontage — are coordinated end to end instead of handed off between separate crews.
PROFESSIONAL INSIGHT
Unpermitted work in the right-of-way can stop an entire project cold — and what’s perfectly acceptable on your own land can be rejected outright if it doesn’t match the agency’s standard details. Knowing each authority’s requirements before you build is what keeps the project moving at the property line.
It’s permission from the agency that owns the road to do work in the public right-of-way — a driveway approach, utility connection, or curb and sidewalk work.
Whichever agency controls that road: a city, the county, or Caltrans on a state highway. We identify the right authority and handle the process.
No — connecting to a public road almost always requires a permit, and unpermitted work can be red-tagged.
Yes, where the work affects the roadway, we provide the required traffic control and restoration.
It varies by agency and scope. We manage the submittal and follow-up to keep it moving.
Connecting to the Public Right-of-Way?
From a driveway approach to a utility tie-in, CCS handles encroachment permitting and construction so your site connects to the public infrastructure without a hitch. Contact us to review your project.
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