Sometimes you just want to go to the cemetery and dig up that SOB and kick his butt all over the place for about 30 minutes then drop him back in the hole, add a large clump of fresh liver to attract varmints and then leave without backfilling the hole.
Trying to reconstruct a 1995 subdivision plat that contains maybe one-half of the essential data to do so.?ÿ The warring factions were already entrenched long before a surveyor was called.?ÿ Both factions have far too much money available for the retaining of A****neys.?ÿ Geezers can relate to my quote:?ÿ This is an Excedrin Headache #28.
Hey, if it wasn't for him you wouldn't have so much to do!!!
How many monuments can be found? Surely with some mons you could reverse engineer the plat to find the unstated assumptions?
shout ?????ÿ
Missing bearings, missing distances, run the loop one way to find a certain point then run the loop a different way and miss by 60 feet.?ÿ A total disaster.?ÿ Worst I have ever encountered.
Picture a short street entering a cul-de-sac bulb.?ÿ No distance along the street sides.?ÿ No dimensioning of circle circumference/radius/diameter.?ÿ Four lots front on the curved portion of one cul-de-sac but no way to know where they are to hit it.?ÿ No dimensions/bearings on those lot sidelines.?ÿ The perimeter of the subdivision on the back sides of those lots shows dimensions but no bearings to go with them but you can see the lines are kinked.?ÿ 15', 45.8', 112.7', 108', 73.4' and you finally get to the subdivision corner.?ÿ The boundary line meeting it at that corner has a similar string of distances without bearings but visible kinks.
Add in the brilliance of the developers.?ÿ The plat shows a street width of 38 feet.?ÿ Back of curb to back of curb is a bit over 37.6 feet.?ÿ Guess how many of the bars shown on the plat along those street sidelines still exist in a run of nearly 1000 feet.?ÿ At the entrances to the cul-de-sacs nice rounded curves have been added such that the property corner is far out into the paved street.?ÿ Apparently the city has allowed construction in this residential area with effectively zero building line setbacks except for the occasional utility easement along a lot line.?ÿ One cul-de-sac shows a bar set directly in line with the center line of the entering street on the far side of the circle.?ÿ Guess where a five foot by five foot concrete drain apron was built.?ÿ ?ÿ Similar drain found along the primary street more or less centered of where the lot corner was supposed to be.?ÿ Best guess on a recently constructed stone two-car garage is that the eave corner may or may not still be on the appropriate lot.?ÿ Can't tell at this point.
Can you say "RE-PLAT".
@holy-cow We had an old surveyor here who ALWAYS left off a call on at least one line.?ÿ You couldn't prove him wrong because the plats never closed.?ÿ We found plats of his dated TWO DAYS APART of adjoining properties.?ÿ The call on the common line (supposedly to the same monuments) was over 100 feet different.?ÿ He's been gone for quite a while now but the headaches from his work still resurface from time to time.
Andy
We had an old surveyor here who ALWAYS left off a call on at least one line.?ÿ You couldn't prove him wrong because the plats never closed.?ÿ We found plats of his dated TWO DAYS APART of adjoining properties.?ÿ The call on the common line (supposedly to the same monuments) was over 100 feet different.?ÿ He's been gone for quite a while now but the headaches from his work still resurface from time to time.
Andy
Wow. Was reading the op thinking he was just scaling in a certain square footage for lot sizes.
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edit: If you can really 'scale in' square footage
