General Info

FEMA Elevation Certificates: which may lesson considerably the amount you pay in premiums to insurance companies for flood insurance policies Boundary or property line surveys: Finding the limits of your property, preparing maps if necessary showing relationship of property lines and easements to physical features such a well, house, fence etc. Topographic surveying and mapping: often used by various design professionals for planning future construction. Land divisions: Major and Minor Land Subdivisions as defined by the State of California. This often includes the preparation of a Tentative Map (for planning purposes by the local government agencies and private consultants. GPS surveys: precise geographic coordinates or state plane coordinates are required for some projects. This is done by consultants using some form of differential GPS (in contrast to a common hand held GPS receiver.) Writing of Legal Descriptions: These are often prepared to create easements to be recorded with the County Recorder's Office.