The main thing that happens when a road is vacated, is the county and or township no longer have to maintain the road, and have no obligation to do so. Since the bridge is already gone, and no plan to build a new one, the county would prefer to not maintain the road itself either. So this is kind of a plus for the county, and not you. What does this mean for you? The road bed will no longer be maintained. Even though it's just a dirt road, it will likely not even get graded by the road grader no longer.
If you didn't request this, your neighbor did. He's the one that doesn't want people driving on the road on his property. Basically on the other side of the bridge coming from the other direction (assuming this would be a through road if wasn't for bridge out). If the road is vacated, he can put up gates and what not, and treat it as a closed road. It's likely the traffic from the other direction (on him) that he wants shut down. If they can drive basically all the way through his property to the bridge out (from other direction), this is what he don't want.
The public meeting is basically for anybody that wants to protest it. If nobody protests it ( mainly you), they will likely proceed with vacating it.
If I was you, I would show up at that meeting and protest it. Make the suggestion that they only vacate the portion of road that is on his (the neighbors) property. If you got to provide easement to this landlocked neighbor, you will want the county/township to maintain that easement. And if they vacate it, the county WILL NOT maintain it, and NEITHER will your neighbor. Now you got a road that you can't tear out because of an easement, and your not going to want to maintain it. Eliminating a fence sounds kind of good, but the rest of it will be crappy for you.
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