Back in 2011 I was doing work in a 1963 era subdivision and stumbled on a 21' bust in the remonumentation of a lot corner by a subsequent retracing surveyor in the early 1980's. Apparently he used some ties in his notes to put the corner back, but in the wrong place. Puts about a 4 degree rotation in the boundary of several parcels that have been replatted four different times since then , each and every one of them perpetuating that bust. This is fairly high dollar commercial land. I found the original corner and it fit within .2' of the overall subdivision picture, but I guess nobody bothered to look for it. Now I'm back again doing work in this portion of the subdivision and I'm faced with the dilemma of this 'alternate reality'. Thankfully I'm not tasked with clearing up this mess, but I guess it's my turn to 'kick that can on down the road'. I'm not platting anything. On a humorous note the corner in question happened by pure coincidence to be the corner of one of my former surveyor employers from years back. A couple of their surveyors and drafters came down to say hello and ask what I was doing. When I said I was looking for their corner they quickly pointed to the cap that was 21' out. Right ... humor me guys, so I stake out to where I'd computed it off several other originals in different blocks, pull out my schondstedt and I'll be darned if doesn't sing over the spot. Dig down about a foot and there it is, a 1" IP in perfect condition, identical to the others I'd found. *Crickets* from my former compadres. They'd been getting an extra 20' of space they'd been using for their office parking. Of course I'm sure they didn't know.
Doh!!!!!!!!!!!
Looks like they built an 8' fence to protect their 'claim' even after I'd shown them the original and they knew there was an error but they chose to ignore it because the error benefited them. WTF. Apparently ethics is hard, even for some of my peers.
