or a softer skull.
so last thing i did 'fore getting out was to set up a new project for the guy taking over from me. got the proposal signed, start date set, got him and the tech up to speed on the details.
they go out and set control, shoot in boundary, start to as-built it. hundreds of acres of bare land, gonna be hundreds of homes in the next few years. and a park and probably a couple soccer fields and maybe a grocery store or a chik-fil-a or whatever.
client acquired title about 10 years ago, as well as the CAD files from the firm who did all the title work. it's in texas central zone. problem being the project is about 10 miles south of the central/south central zone line. whether this was done on purpose or not is not known- but is a fairly common oversight seen around here.
so of course the client has gotten back around, over the past couple of years, to having all kinds of preliminary design work done on the sight by land planners, all based upon the title CAD. which is wrong. "my" guys shoot it in the correct zone, tasked with doing real design topo and boundary recovery for platting. turn files over to client, who immediately blows a gasket because it's in the "wrong" place relative to the CAD they already have.
replacement calls me and asks how i would proceed. i tell him that if it were me, i'd try to convince the client that the time to swallow the bitter pill is now, before dilbert the dirt guy, pete the pipe layer, carl the concrete setter, freddy the foundation guy, EMS, fire, county engineer, appraisal district and GIS, and the local domino's delivery guy show up on site. because these days those kinds of cats are nearly innumerable on a project of this scope, and 98% of them will turn on an antenna and commence to choppin'. and when their antenna tells them they're 1500 miles from where they're supposed to be, well...
i guess the client doesn't want to hear it, refuses to see that it will be any kind of problem at all.
so i told replacement to get them to sign a proposal for $500 per phone call received regarding "bad coordinates" from the date of signed proposal until the the last fee transfer of fee title from the client occurs on the subject tract.
i don't know if he'll actually do try it, but i'll report back in about 8 years and see what's unfolded.
