I don't know about trying to cheat a client out of land, but it's a pretty crappy practice to describe any land for boundary purposes with grid distances. Boundaries have always been measured on the surface, and descriptions are for land owners to use. I would feel pretty stupid trying to explain that the distances in their deed don't represent anyhting on the actual surface of the earth.?ÿ
In your case the differences may have been trivial, but in many cases they are not.?ÿ
ABSOLUTELY! And they should all be set prior to the Plat being recorded/filed.
@aliquot. ?ÿObviously you??re not familiar with the creature known as the shaded deed. There are no distances other than the calls for width from centerline. Working on the grid is the least of the problems....
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Sounds like the the Holy Hand grenade of Antioch.....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrgLj9lOwk
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These lots should be surveyed together at least once and it should be the surveyor who signed the plat.?ÿ
Imagine, you buy a lot in a Subdivision, there are no monumented corners, only paper ones. I won't do that.?ÿ?ÿ
That's why many Counties and municipalities require the developer post a monumentation bond or cash deposit prior to Subdivision approval.?ÿ If you don't monument the lots for whatever reason (bankruptcy, death,?ÿ ??) then they'll use the bond/deposit to complete the Subdivision monumentation.?ÿ They are serious concerning this,?ÿ a monument field inspection is performed by the agency before the fund/deposit is released.?ÿ The Final Plat can be approved & recorded prior to interior monumentation given that earthwork, utilities, streetwork would destroy monuments set prior to recordation.
It's a good thing because the surveyor submits a letter stating that he/she have been paid for their services and he/she releases their claim on the surety or the developer doesn't get his/her money back.?ÿ Also the developer can't get the "Pink" slips for the lots which authorize the sale or lease of them until after Bond release is completed,?ÿ although it's more complicated than that.?ÿ Therefore developer has a powerful motivation to pay you promptly.
Usually this stuff does not apply to Short Plats of five lots or less.
You didn't explain that in your original post. One would assume that if a land surveyor was objecting to grid distances in a deed, there would be actual measurements in the deed.?ÿ
I certainly see why you thought that was ridiculous now.?ÿ
There's a guy in town, probably in your town too, I call him "Tenth Long" because he uses the -30mm prism with the 0mm setting in the instrument year after year.
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