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.
BOUNDARY DISPUTES
The boundary survey is a land survey that focuses on major factors affecting and influencing the location of boundary lines. It is often used in disputes over possible encroachments, such as property line fence locations, outbuilding structure placement such as sheds and detached garages, foliage and landscaping plantings, or driveway location. It often culminates in the deliberate location or re-location of the perimeters, division lines or boundaries of a certain lot, parcel or quantity of real estate.
A boundary survey used in boundary disputes typically include clear and legible notes identifying all pertinent information, measurements and observations made in the course of the field survey and memorialized on a plat of survey; a legal description for any parcel surveyed, and stakes or other monuments or witness points visible on the property itself.
In a boundary dispute, the property owner may also need a written legal description for use in a deed, lease or easement, a topographic or as-built survey to locate existing improvements and features on or near the property, an ALTA/ACSM survey for an extended title policy or a proposed transaction or an environmental mapping to locate trees, wetlands and sensitive areas.
Landmark has extensive experience in performing boundary surveys for boundary line disputes.
A boundary survey used in boundary disputes typically include clear and legible notes identifying all pertinent information, measurements and observations made in the course of the field survey and memorialized on a plat of survey; a legal description for any parcel surveyed, and stakes or other monuments or witness points visible on the property itself.
In a boundary dispute, the property owner may also need a written legal description for use in a deed, lease or easement, a topographic or as-built survey to locate existing improvements and features on or near the property, an ALTA/ACSM survey for an extended title policy or a proposed transaction or an environmental mapping to locate trees, wetlands and sensitive areas.
Landmark has extensive experience in performing boundary surveys for boundary line disputes.
BOUNDARY LINE ADJUSTMENTS
A boundary line adjustment is the process by which a property line between adjoining owners is relocated. No new lots are created. This may be necessary for any number of reasons, such as resolving encroachments, recording the results of a settled dispute, or changing the configuration of the parcels. In some areas, this may also be called a replat. The adjustment is then placed of record and serves as notice of the change.
The bases for use of a boundary line adjustment often include the use of other services, such as: a topographic or as-built survey to locate existing improvements and features on or near the property; an ALTA/ACSM survey for an extended title policy or a proposed transaction; environmental mapping to locate trees, wetlands and sensitive areas; a boundary survey to establish the limits of the land to be developed; zoning change applications and processing or land planning and processing of the development application.
The bases for use of a boundary line adjustment often include the use of other services, such as: a topographic or as-built survey to locate existing improvements and features on or near the property; an ALTA/ACSM survey for an extended title policy or a proposed transaction; environmental mapping to locate trees, wetlands and sensitive areas; a boundary survey to establish the limits of the land to be developed; zoning change applications and processing or land planning and processing of the development application.