I had a client request a boundary survey for the lot where his house sits; this lot being on the edge of its subdivision.?ÿ He came back a couple days later and wishes to add a lot that adjoins the house lot, but is in another subdivision, to the survey.?ÿ I've never actually run into this before but I'm guessing I'll need to draft 2 separate records of survey for these parcels?
I understand rules vary from one region to the next, just curious to hear if anyone has encountered this before and how it was handled.?ÿ Also, I'm in Idaho if that matters.
My take: the term record of survey does not necessarily imply a single parcel. A single survey can be performed for multiple parcels.
Unless there's something in the statutes that specifically requires a separate ROS for each parcel, I say file it as one. No reason to split it up. Just make sure that the legend is clear on record bearings & distances since you do have two different subdivisions involved.
I've performed, and seen, ROS and ROW surveys encompassing several dozen parcels scattered across multiple subdivisions and never had a problem with any of them.
Having multiple filings with different bases of bearings, just because they happened to be in multiple subdivisions, causes far more of a headache for future professionals than making a single filing showing all of the parcels surveyed at the same time and how they all relate to each other.
In my area of operation (AR, TN, MS. AL), you would show both subdivisions on the Plat of Survey with indexing instructions.?ÿ If both subdivisions are contained in the same quarter section, it only has to be indexed once; if in two quarter sections, then 2 separate notes for indexing instructions. In Arkansas, each section corner and quarter section corner recovered would be reported individually.
I agree with what Rover83 said 100%.?ÿ?ÿ
Just make sure you bill accordingly...
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It is acceptable to show both lots on one survey, just be sure the mapping and narrative support the lines and corners for both lots...
The subdivisions are 70 and 80 years old so I'm not expecting to find many monuments out there which I thought might make mixing the 2 kind of messy.?ÿ But, upon closer inspection the non-house parcel is part of a vacated right-of-way and its description references the house/lot subdivision, so I think this will make things quite a bit simpler.
Good to know multiple subdivisions can be shown on one ROS without causing a bunch of heartburn though.
There should be no issue from the survey side of things.?ÿ It's the power hungry midget bureaucrats that will develop vapor lock and keel over.
One time and one time only, I ran into one of those fellows.?ÿ He swore up and down that the same person could not own abutting lots with each in a different subdivision of his city.?ÿ I think the way I laughed out loud, both long and hard, offended him.?ÿ He was the city manager's toady.?ÿ Followed him to this city and left when the city manager was told to try to find some other location dumb enough to hire him.
