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Things that just chap my hide
Working on a design survey covering several sections, everything along the route has been divided up by aliquot parts and every single description for Public Use Easements is Book and Page referencing one aliquot part line or another. Fun jig saw puzzle to piece together, except when I run across one done about ten years ago by a local engineering firm that relies on an exhibit A type drawing to describe the public use easements secured for the local government for a road realignment using our tax dollars. There is absolutely zero reference to what control they used since that information would be proprietary. I contact the engineering firm to ask about control used and they refer me to the local government Capitol Projects people who turns out haven’t got a clue what I’m talking about, finally telling me they have nothing, leaving me with few options but having to do a section breakdown to delineate the easements on the ground, paid for with my property taxes. I finally got the engineering firm to share their data with me, but I feel strongly that the information should be a part of the exhibit and description to begin with since it was paid for with public funds and I shouldn’t have to grovel for it. In this instance there is a hodge-podge of bogus corners out there that serve no other purpose than to aid me in getting it wrong. Had they done a Record of Survey my work would have been so much easier, but that might affect their bottom line or open them to scrutiny and we just can’t have that.
There. I feel better. Carry on!
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