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This is so stupid the designer probably can't even spell his own name correctly.?ÿ It's D-U-M-B-A-S-S.
Yeah, I think I worked for that guy in college...
Ooops. This is what happens when the layout is done by the construction crew, without a surveyor. The Engineers CAD file does show this light pole in the sidewalk. No one around smart enough to move it back 4ft before setting. This was overlooked by the GC, the excavator, the concrete crew, and the electricians.?ÿ On a $1.2B project.
They just ask me to As-Built it's location.
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Found an intentional pincushion.?ÿ
And they didn't give a bearing for that 0.09 to the nearest second? ????ÿ
@bill93 Probably staked with RTK too!
Such foolishness is nothing new.?ÿ Here's one from our city GIS in a neighborhood laid out in 1958.
I read the photocopy of the plat in the Recorder's office not as 0.09 but 0.9, which fits better but still doesn't exactly close.?ÿ It seems foolish to not use a common corner with the rest for that small distance.
That is essentially two #6 rebars side-by-side.?ÿ Forget setting pipes.
This happens when the focus is eeking out every last 8,000 square foot lot, where wasting 0.3 square feet is looked on as an abomination. Fairly stupid..
Well at least the ASbuilt will be true, and not some mumbo jumbo construction drawings with red line and change clouds being called as builts...
That and a flame about 3 feet high really burn my ass.... ??? ??? ???? ?????ÿ
I always wished these ??Land Planners?, and I use that term lightly, would, after they are done with their final approved hallucinogenic layout give it to a surveyor for the geometry, not a cadd monkey. ?????ÿ
They had to have a minimum 40' wide lot. And notice the north and south lot lines are parallel. So instead of using the PC to control the layout, they already had the north line designed and offset it 40 feet.?ÿ
I wish I could say I've never seen such lazy design work, but I'd be lying.?ÿ
As my last job as an LSIT I was the one to take the Landscape Architect's plan of lot layouts and "digitize" them, assign coordinates, bearings, distances, etc.?ÿ This was 40 plus years ago and at the time I calculated that every corner staked cost $50+ dollars, forget the cost of materials or the idiocy of placing them that close together.?ÿ Of course Landscape Architects loved to use French or Ships curves for streets too.
Andy
When I use to do plat reviews I noticed certain outfits would put in the absolute bare minimum effort for their first submittals and after a while I caught on to their model of shifting the QC work onto the reviewer. Usually the layers of stupid would be like an onion, peal away one layer of stupid and underneath was another and another. Felt like I needed a shower after completing reviews for a few select outfits feeling used and abused.?ÿ
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
It should be a curve actually but it doesn't even seem to be labeled.
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The reviewing surveyors I've worked with probably would have just dragged the lot line onto that point and corrected the nonsense.?ÿ
@bstrand?ÿ
I did that just recently during my QA/QC of a plat.?ÿ Turns out that was a bad thing as I suddenly shrunk the buildable?ÿ area of the lot from 25' wide to 24.86' wide.?ÿ A building permit would not be approved under these circumstances so It was moved back before going final.?ÿ It's not all bad design.?ÿ It is optimal? No.?ÿ Bad? Hardly.?ÿ Set the pin(s) and move on.