Which would you use?
The previous post about using a boundary performed by another surveyor brings up a question regarding platted boundaries. I no longer perform boundary surveys or do any platting. All we do is new housing construction surveying, (too busy with house$ for other low paying stuff). When a client asks us to be the project surveyor for a new just platted subdivision I always charge a fee for verification of Boundary, vertical, and centerline control. (Florida requires permanent control points be set at all pc, pt, pi, prc??s etc.)
We run the centerline control and vertical at the same time with a TS and tie into boundary monuments along the way. The findings are amazing. I have had C/L control points missing boundary by up to 0.9??. All houses are at absolute setbacks so there is no room for a 0.1 here and there. Usually the model homes are staked for construction long before any roads are in by the platting surveyor who uses the boundary monuments then we do the rest. The Models create a head scratcher for following surveyors who use the centerline control. They will then find that the Models agree with themselves but not C/L control thus setback encroachments pop up and the title company goes berserk, and pin cushioning starts.
Which control, boundary or centerline, would you use to lay out 100-300 houses?
I always use the centerline control regardless of the initial Model problems.
What say you?
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