rfc, post: 432008, member: 8882 wrote: Davy Crockett once said:
"First, make sure you're right...
Then go ahead!"
Well, you are close....
Gene Kooper, post: 433403, member: 9850 wrote: I have mixed feelings about licensing boards employing the rule-making process as a substitute for the licensee's professional judgement on what should be placed on a land survey plat.
As an example, the Colorado Board expanded Section 6.8 Basis of Bearing Statements of the Rules to include 9 example statements. Seven were considered good examples and two were classified as woefully inadequate. Heck, they even asked me to submit an example. Below is a PDF attachment showing the examples. I'll let others decide which one I wrote. 🙂
I have this nagging feeling that over the next few years, the Board will feel compelled to do something similar for statements on plats justifying the setting of pin cushions. I can't wait!
I question the need for this regulation. I work in an area where some deeds are still based on magnetic compass bearings from the colonial era and the property has been transferred over the generations based on that description. We have all heard of this thing called magnetic declination, haven't we?
Regardless of the basis of bearings the geometry can be recreated by using the interior angles calculated from the bearings. I have never met a surveyor who has physically taken solar observations to determine azimuth and apply the magnetic declination adjustment to get close.
I believe that the intent of any plan of survey is to make it possible to follow in our footsteps to retrace it and the basis of bearings have noting to do with that.
The younger among us in the profession rely too heavily on modern equipment and most would be lost if they had to work off paper plans and a non programmable calculation.
A big consideration is whether or not any landowner has used or somehow relied on either location. If someone has built or designed in good faith to a poorly researched monument, then it gains greater standing. It doesn't sound like it in this case, just has to be considered.
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It's professional "pokemon." Gotta find 'em all!