When working for the Department of Transportation I would have to stake out tangent lengths of 0.14' between curve points. Just dumb!
I don't understand why anyone would have a problem with this. Please explain further.
Not having them be the same potentially adds some confusion that doesn't need to be there.
This reminds me of the first PLS I worked with though-- he really wasn't a fan of nails in sidewalks, especially nails in joints.?ÿ I was sort of indifferent at first but now I see where he's coming from-- they do look lazy and kind of cringeworthy.
I'm not sure how old the monuments in this picture are but I think I'd try to set just about anything other than a nail.
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When working for the Department of Transportation I would have to stake out tangent lengths of 0.14' between curve points. Just dumb!
I have a set of mile marker posts I drive by now and then on an interstate highway. They have mile marker signs, sometimes there is an equation station marked with a back and ahead sign next to each other, one set is difficult to unsee. They say something like BK 186.56 Ah 186.55. Go figure, do they really need something like that as a milepost sign?
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You can throw all theories of statistical odds, random selection and analysis out the window, the fence guy is going to choose the incorrect one.
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We call that a 50-50-90.?ÿ
That is it is a 50/50 statistical chance, but will be gotten wrong 90% of the time.?ÿ
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This is adjacent to the next lot so there was no reason NOT to move the property corner to the PC/PT.
Don??t monument the R/W BC, simple. No one really needs it. The homeowner is going to landscape up to the the sidewalk.
A city locally requires every single last point be monumented, doesn??t allow for common sense. Set over 50 rebar caps in an office park, stupidly ridiculous. Most in shared lanes in between the parking lots, who really cares? Put some key points in for the ALTA guys but 25 rebars around an office building, unnecessary in my opinion. Rules like that don??t leave room for practical reality.
Office parks usually adjust the lot lines every project, tried to tell the city that, nope rules are rules. There were 100s of rebars in the vacant fields, half were hit by towner disks over the years. 3/4s of them no longer valid because of adjustments. Like a rebar truck exploded out there.
Better to actually monument it, but set it below grade so land owners don't get confused. It's not as big of deal now that we don't often measure with steel tapes anymore, but it still is helpful to future surevors and landowners (by keeping resurevy costs down and thus boundary disputes.
Using a cap big enough to explain what is being marked doesn't prevent stupid, but can reduce errors.?ÿ
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