EXPERT TESTIMONY
Landmark’s Professional Land Surveyors and Professional Engineers can appear in court as an expert witness offering testimony on his area(s) of expertise. These areas may include but are not limited to issues of real property ownership, property boundaries or location, permitted or proposed property usage (e.g. floodplain issues), sanitary and storm sewer layouts, parking lot configuration, or how mistakes and errors – omissions were made during a construction project.
PLANNING, BUILDING, AND ZONING HEARINGS
Landmark’s Professional Land Surveyors and Professional Engineers can assist in the presentation and/or appear before various administrative bodies or municipalities as a consultant or as one offering an opinion, based upon his expertise and experience, on boundary locations for existing or proposed improvements, layouts for the development of the property, and drainage impacts affecting the subject and adjacent (surrounding) properties. The opinion may also involve testimony or a report on the feasibility of the proposed use.
PERMIT PROCESS ASSISTANCE WITH FEDERAL - STATE - LOCAL
AUTHORITIES
(FEMA, IDOT, MWRD, etc.)
Landmark can provide full permitting services from application and drawing development, to attendance at hearings. Extensive permit experience and an innovative approach allow Landmark and the client to facilitate a clear and productive dialogue between clients and permitting officials. Permitting services may include: water supply, wastewater disposal, storm water management, wetlands, stream alteration, shore land protection, federal army corps, local zoning and planning, and state specific permits. Also, submittals are often made to the appropriate utilities, such as electric, gas, telephone and cable.