paden cash, post: 329770, member: 20 wrote: The Council has taken it upon themselves to attempt some sort of action that will cure the City's traffic problems. I suggested to my Councilman that while they're at it, why don't they pass an ordinance against certain diseases? After all, if Council decrees it, it shall come to pass...
I feel your pain. Why should a Council, that has no idea about engineering, Surveying, environmental make decisions without advice from outside sources? We are dealing with that in Sebastian. City "Engineer" appears to think he can certify "surveys" done by his parks and rec guys and pass it off as good. I've recorded all the Council meetings and after the next one he says it was surveyed by his guys, i'm sending it to the Board.
As for the younger guys, I'm 42. Have a license, NOT by 4 year degree, but experience, as do most of us my age and older. I do agree, the younger kids, i can't believe i'm saying that, don't have the work ethic that I (we) were taught. It's all about how much, not about what i've done.
my 0.02
Paul
I had to defend one of my surveys before a town board. Thirty years before my survey a local company had resurveyed the town boundary (platted late 1800s) and did a fine job of it, excellent work; but then based the ROW as a calculated location not based on evidence. The town then asked surveyors to use the new survey when doing lot work within the town. Well it seems a lot of the guys were on board whether it matched the field evidence or not. I surveyed my client's corner lot by using old fences and other evidence that defined the ROW and matched platted widths very well, as well as the surrounding developed lots. That put my lot 1.5' off from the calculated ROW and meant my client's new house was in the calculated setback. Told the county surveyor I used the best available evidence and he said the town boundary was the best evidence. I just stared at him, and called the county attorney and told him that he needed a good course in boundary law and that I would not move my pins. Said I would move the pins if my client got an exception and only if she agreed. When I went before the board for the variance, I gave them a lesson in boundary rights and that they could not arbitraily dictate that all deeds would be based on the new control set by a surveyor 90 years after the plat was created and lost were developed. I understand the local surveyors were trying to keep order but it is not always neat and tidy.
I think I upset the apple barrel, darn new kid.
