Kill Devil Hills, NC Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Encroachment Permits (2026)

16(A) makes property owners who install driveways, walkways, culvert pipes, ditches or swales in town-owned rights-of-way responsible for construction and maintenance, and requires them to submit construction plans showing width, length, elevations and materials for Public Services Department approval, schedule an on-site pre-construction meeting, and secure final approval before a certificate of occupancy issues on new construction. Only concrete or asphalt may be used absent a site-specific Public Services exception, and single- and two-family driveways need at least one paved section a minimum of 10 feet wide with up to a 15-foot radius and 10-foot length from the existing pavement edge, built of 4-inch 3,000 psi concrete (6 inches within 3 feet of the pavement edge) or an ABC stone base topped with asphalt.

Culverts crossing town ditches must be installed before the driveway is built, using aluminum or double-walled HDPE pipe per NCDOT specifications, sized as the Public Services Department directs (with a specific size table for the east side of Memorial Boulevard), and inspected by the department before backfilling. 16(B) allows adjacent owners to seed or landscape the right-of-way strip between the pavement and their property line but flatly bans hard or permanent structures there and bars anything that would obstruct the street or drainage. 16(C) requires private developers building a new street in a town right-of-way to post a seeding-and-stabilization bond, calculated from a certified cost estimate plus 15% contingency, held for up to 120 days after the Board of Commissioners accepts the completed work.