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GIS fun
I need to submit consent letters to the government for approval. Basically, anyone connected to my client’s project have to be sent consent letters and the government agency approves them. One nearby ranch has been split up into 4 pieces, two LLC’s, a trust and the original deed. To get approval for the letters I have to send in a GIS type map, deeds and names and addresses of the people who will get the letters.
Since this ranch is in parts now and the descriptions are a bit difficult to read I tried to make it simple.
That didn’t work, because the GIS has different legals attached to the properties.
The state can’t make anything work as they cross-check my map to the GIS map.
The GIS map even has a neighbor owning one
of the parcels in question.
I tried to tell the state that the actual main ranch home is on the parcel in question and the owners live there and that’s the address for them if you look up their address.
I also tried to explain that the older deed is the remaining parcel and all the rest land was broken out of the original, but still the same owners.
This keeps going on as I try to explain there is only one consent for the 4 parcels; it’s all the same people.
To add to the confusion one of the tracts is in a Trust and there’s no filing anywhere to figure out who the signatory name should be.
I can’t hardly ask a landowner for their documents when this project isn’t for them.
I finally had to “call the manager” and set up a meeting to get this moving.
It’s exhausting. They used to always defer to us over this stuff, now they think the GIS is “official”.
I’m still waiting on what GIS’ers call the Official PLS lines.
No one has ever explained that to me.
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