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<I can 100% guarantee you that the first 8-12 feet of someone's yard in a subdivision IS NOT declared to be "public property". It will most certainly belong to the property owners. What there is out there is an easement so that utilities can be run, accessed and maintained... Sometimes there is even a sidewalk. While it is true that you cannot CT the cable guy from the box out front, nor prevent kids from riding bikes on the sidewalk... The doctrine of an easement is to give access to another person or party to what is wholly and entirely YOUR property. Just because any member of the public can walk down the sidewalk easement in front of my house does not make it public property,>

I wouldn't 100% guarantee it. The street and typically a sidewalk adjacent to the street are located within a Right of Way (ROW) that is city (public) property. In Richardson the alley way behind our homes are also included in a ROW. Your property may be additionally encumbered with various other utility and access easements where the property owner owns the land (pays the taxes) but various organizations have access via those easements. I'm a civil engineer and work for a city and I have to clear this topic up with at least one resident each and every week when I tear down a tree building a road that they think is theirs or some other property they have installed in City ROW.