Checking a COS for a Boundary line adjustment.- He's done it on 2 sheets for scale purposes. (Our sheets are 18"x24" for COS's)
- Here- all signatures and certifications have to be on sheet one.
Sheet 2 is the drawing- there are no bearings and distances on the drawing itself- only line calls and a big line table to the side.....
then there is sheet 1-
that's right - the first description is 5 lines of size 12 font text 20 inches wide.
the second description is 3 lines size 12 font text 20 inches wide and the third description is 2 lines of text 20 inches wide.
there is an empty space in the upper left of the sheet about 8"square.
the upper left corner of the sheet has the owner's certification and signature block there's only on common owner for both tracts. - 8 inches square - then remaining certs and signatures are scattered across the lower third of the sheet....
So to check it, I end up laying the 2 sheets side by side with a 24 in straight edge to track the legal and a 6 inch timely template in the line table.....
read the call, look at the drawing for the call number, look to the line table to check..... there are 42 lines in the line table...... and they aren't sequential around either of the tracts.......PITA..... I just check for errors and omissions style isn't my perogative.....
I have a hard enough time explaining to my employees. It's a real problem when someone is technically fulfilling what is "legal" on a legal document. Some people just have a worse sense of what is comprehensive.
The best thing I can suggest is for the guy making the plat is to try to use it later as though they were trying to follow it. They might begin to see when numbers are too tiny to read if they actually have to write them down plug them in to a calculator. They might begin to see how hard it is to type in a coordinate value that's in the "millions" without the benefit of commas, and/or in tiny print. And they might see how difficult it is to cross-reference line-number or curve-number codes with a table somewhere else. It's always good to have the actual bearing and distance on the sketch over hopping back and forth.
It might make sense when you are creating the plat, but the real problems emerge when you are in a place of needing to use the information.
