Can a municipality pave private property w/o property owner's permission?

Asked in Meriden, CT - 7 months

Our street legally ends just before our second driveway. The remaining road is about 150 feet; it connects to an adjacent business. We own about 3/4 of the way across; neighbor across the street owns the remaining 1/4. City came in and paved the street, paving also that last 150 feet of privately owned road. Because they changed the grade/pitch of the road, eliminated the gravel-only part that helped prevent flooding, and removed the burr we had put in to prevent flooding, we are now experiencing run-off flooding. We told engineers the day they paved that flooding would occur. We asked if they knew where street legally ended. They did. But they went forward anyway. Now we have flooding problems. Did they have legal obligation to at least consult us first before paving our property?