There was a vacant commercial site with a communication facilities in the middle. The easement around the facilities is to QWest. When the new commercial plant was built they rerouted the communication facilities around the building, with a new communication to QWest. The old easement, now under the building, was to be released but that didn't happen.
I write to Qwest spelling this out, and their reply is that the city planner can handle that release. Really? The city planner can release a communication easement that has nothing to do with the city and not in favor of the city, since only QWest is named in the easement.
I sent them a polite reply asking them to please route the request to their QWest land or legal department. I presume they have one, probably full of clerks and attorneys who hopefully know up from down.
> I write to Qwest spelling this out, and their reply is that the city planner can handle that release. Really? The city planner can release a communication easement that has nothing to do with the city and not in favor of the city, since only QWest is named in the easement.
I think the City Planner just has to go to the GIS database and change the status of the communication easement.....
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(that's a joke in case you were about to re-evaluate the dumbest reply ever.)
>I presume they have one, probably full of clerks and attorneys who hopefully know up from down.
That's the key word in all this - "presume". I doubt there is any legger here who has not had their lunch delivered in the wrong paper bag by presuming, assuming, I told you, you didn't say..... yadda yadda talk. All you did was tell them it was goofed up, and you can help fix it, and that is our job.
Or it could be that the host of clerks, attorneys that may know up from down are all left handed. Nobody knows what the right hand is doing, I presume.
presumption
"I presume we'll enjoy the play." President Abraham Lincoln to his wife as they entered the Ford Theater.
presumption
Well, besides the tragic incident, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
Those City Planners are pretty smart. I know one that is a licensed Landscape Architect. She recently told me that under her licence she couldn't do surveys but she could prepare a subdivision plan. "Really" I said as I swallowed my key and headed for the door.
In many places anyone can prepare a subdivision "plan", but only a surveyor can produce the final plat.
I hope that is the case. It is hard enough to close some plans, could you imagine if a landscape architect completed one? I would expect it to be pretty and eventually turn into a series of BLAs.
Landscape Architects always plant over their mistakes.
You know what they say about horticulturalist? "You can lead a hor-to-culture, but you can't meke her think!":-P