I have ran across a situation that I have not faced before. The adjoiner to one of my adjoiners is a platted one lot business park. According to the current deed of record the plat of said business park refers to the plat as being recorded in envelope XXX-X of the plat records. Well, I go to retrieve said plat and lo and behold, there are two plats in the same envelope. One of the plats was prepared by a previous local reputable surveyor and has the proper name of the business park on it and mayor's signature; but the surveyor did not sign nor seal it, nor did the city secretary, planning and zoning chair or a notary sign it. The other plat was prepared by a local low-baller, and was signed and sealed by him, but it does not have the title of the business park, and contains no signatures of ANY city employees or board chairs. Luckily, the plats do not call out the same monumentation and the distances called out only vary by 2.81', 2.21', 0.15' (don't know what happened there), and 4.44'..SMH. I guess this is the city's version of cut & paste platting.
Good times, good times.
there's one of record here that i spent probably 6 months calculating, drafting, revising, etc. then 2008 happened and the client went belly up. never got recorded.
somebody acquired the client and all their projects and files. hired another firm to finish the development. 2012 plat gets filed by another firm. took the CAD file that we gave the client, changed the border, changed some dates and signature lines, and filed it. not a single other qualitative element was different (even down to fonts and text size )
i didn't figure that out until last year when i re-platted the adjoiner.
flyin solo, post: 449327, member: 8089 wrote: there's one of record here that i spent probably 6 months calculating, drafting, revising, etc. then 2008 happened and the client went belly up. never got recorded.
somebody acquired the client and all their projects and files. hired another firm to finish the development. 2012 plat gets filed by another firm. took the CAD file that we gave the client, changed the border, changed some dates and signature lines, and filed it. not a single other qualitative element was different (even down to fonts and text size )
i didn't figure that out until last year when i re-platted the adjoiner.
That happened to the local reputable surveyor I mentioned above on another one of his projects here in town. The out of town lowballer that did this to him was at least nice enough to reverse the direction around the tract.