Just adding a note that there are other easements as well. For instance the back line of my family's property grants an easement to the utilities for maintainin

Just adding a note that there are other easements as well. For instance the back line of my family's property grants an easement to the utilities for maintaining the electric and telecom wires. Another way of thinking about it is that the notion of "ownership" is limited in a variety of ways. We also don't have mineral rights or control of the airspace above our house.