I send our secretary or someone else with no connection to the project. Generally, the traits I value in others are conspicuously missing in Planning Departments.
Perhaps there are more productive windmills to challenge.
ÛÏDestiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected. Look there, Sancho Panza, my friend, and see those thirty or so wild giants, with whom I intend to do battle and kill each and all of them, so with their stolen booty we can begin to enrich ourselves. This is nobel, righteous warfare, for it is wonderfully useful to God to have such an evil race wiped from the face of the earth."
"What giants?" Asked Sancho Panza.
"The ones you can see over there," answered his master, "with the huge arms, some of which are very nearly two leagues long."
"Now look, your grace," said Sancho, "what you see over there aren't giants, but windmills, and what seems to be arms are just their sails, that go around in the wind and turn the millstone."
"Obviously," replied Don Quijote, "you don't know much about adventures.Û
Û¥ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
James Fleming, post: 351138, member: 136 wrote: Next you'll be suggesting that being nice to engineers and architects is good for business. 😀
Perish the thought! 😉
"Next you'll be suggesting that being nice to engineers and architects is good for business. :-D"
I most enthusiastically support the first half of that thought. The part about ark-e-tex-, not so much.
Rich., post: 351143, member: 10450 wrote: We dont file all plats either. In fact our clerks website says surveys cannot be recorded, only subdivisions and apportionment maps....
In my State County Recorders are required ro record ANYTHING presented as long as it meets a few statutory requirements primarily related to document size and text height. Content of the document is irrelevant to its recordability...
Jim in AZ, post: 351332, member: 249 wrote: In my State County Recorders are required to record ANYTHING presented as long as it meets a few statutory requirements primarily related to document size and text height. Content of the document is irrelevant to its recordability...
Same in Washington: [sarcasm]something about liability; I'm not sure.....[/sarcasm]
While chatting with our local County Clerk on Wednesday I reported to him on this particular thread. Started out by telling him he was the focus of a thread on an internationally renowned website for land surveyors. He suspiciously inquired as to how I knew it was about him specifically. I said, "The thread topic was labeled Crazy County Clerk." Hence, it had to be about him.
BTW, we were in high school at the same time over 45 years ago.
Holy Cow, post: 351524, member: 50 wrote: While chatting with our local County Clerk on Wednesday I reported to him on this particular thread. Started out by telling him he was the focus of a thread on an internationally renowned website for land surveyors. He suspiciously inquired as to how I knew it was about him specifically. I said, "The thread topic was labeled Crazy County Clerk." Hence, it had to be about him.
BTW, we were in high school at the same time over 45 years ago.
Looks like you have the same "Sensitivity rating" as I do.
Rich., post: 351093, member: 10450 wrote: My office tried to file a survey today at the county clerks office. It is a map with a proposed relocation of a property line which does not create a new lot, just swaps land.
They wouldn't accept the map unless the proposed line wasn't a solid line, it had to be dashed (the line was solid but thin compared to the bold current lines. And the proposed was labeled as such)
You have CAD software don't you? Switch the line types and make some money.
Back in the old days, those crusty old surveyors would probably do the same....lay an erasing shield on that puppy and erase a couple parts of the line and move on to the next job.
imaudigger, post: 351598, member: 7286 wrote: You have CAD software don't you? Switch the line types and make some money.
Back in the old days, those crusty old surveyors would probably do the same....lay an erasing shield on that puppy and erase a couple parts of the line and move on to the next job.
It's still annoying.....that happens around here too. These people don't have the authority or the right to require you to do things that are not in the code.... Especially the clerk. If a municipal engineer or surveyor wanted something additional shown for some reason, I might be able to accept that based on that professional's judgment. (depends on what it is exactly and the reason for it). I don't think anyone else should be able to refuse to file something because they don't like the way it looks for whatever reason they come up with. I bet this person hasn't filed many plans like this, and the last one he/she saw looked as described so they assume that is the only way it is acceptable.
