Couple frustrated after VDOT stops trimming roadside overgrowth in their yard

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — A retired couple living just off Courthouse Road in Chesterfield say they have spent the past year stressed over overgrown vegetation from a nearby VDOT-maintained road that is growing over the fence and into their yard.

The couple, who asked not to be named, purchased the home nearly two decades ago. They say VDOT had trimmed the overgrowth for years, but last year a representative told them that would no longer continue.

“He stood right there and he said that, ‘no, we can’t come on you all’s property.’ I said, ‘well, they have came on our property.’ ‘Well, we’re under new management now and that’s the old management,'” the wife said…

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