ALTA
An ALTA Survey is one of the most detailed surveys available prepared in accordance with the standards specified by the American Land Title Association. An ALTA Survey shows boundaries, improvements, use and occupation, and the location of any and all easements.
Reasons you need an ALTA Survey from APS Survey & Mapping:
- Required by the title company and financial institution, prior to purchasing, to ensure you receive the title insurance needed
Boundary Line Adjustment
Boundary Line Adjustments (BLA’s) are the process of adjusting existing boundary lines of adjoining lots. BLA’s do not create additional lots and must meet minimum County or City lot size and setback requirements. This process allows for corrections to created gaps or overlaps of property caused by erroneous occupation or legal descriptions.
Reasons you need a BLA from APS Survey & Mapping:
- To enhance buildable area by reconfiguring existing boundary lines
- To resolve boundary issues due to fence lines, driveways or building encroachments
- To accommodate setback compliance to boundary lines, critical areas, and shorelines
Boundary Survey
A boundary survey is to clearly define the exterior boundary lines and corners of a parcel of land described in a deed. It also indicates the extent of any easements or encroachments and may show the limitations imposed on the property by state or local regulations.
Reasons you need a Boundary Survey from APS Survey & Mapping:
- Knowing the extent of the land you’re developing
- When preparing to build a fence or structure along boundary or setback lines
- If there is no prior survey or the existing survey is out of date
- To resolve a boundary line dispute
- If you suspect encroachments
- To verify or identify easement rights
Record of Surveys
A Record of Survey is an official map that documents the evidence and procedures used by a licensed land surveyor to determine a boundary, and shows the new monuments set to demarcate that boundary in the physical world.
Building Height Verification
Some local jurisdictions have building height limitations. A building height verification ensures your building is in compliance with local regulations.
Construction Staking
When developing land, accurately laying out plans is vital. Our construction staking layout and verification fills the communication gap between the project engineer and construction personnel.
APS Survey & Mapping specializes in construction staking of clearing limits, footings and walls, roads, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, bio swales, rockeries, sewer, storm, water, power utilities, vaults, ponds, grid lines, fencing, and saved trees for commercial and residential buildings, railroads, parks, sports fields, trails, data centers, piles, bridges, docks, harbors, and wetland mitigation.
Right-of-Way Resolution
Disputes with Public Right of Way is a type of ROW that allows the public to travel over a private piece of land unhindered. This type of ROW is in reference to sidewalks and roads that are adjacent to private land.
Utility Mapping
Underground utility mapping refers to the detection, positioning and identification of buried pipes and cables beneath the ground. … Thus, underground utility mapping which combines the use of detection and positioning technology, requires the land surveyors to acquire new skills, knowledge and technique.
Feasibility
A feasibility survey provides you with the information necessary to determine if the site conditions meet your development goals. Details included on a feasibility survey include wetlands, floodway/floodplain, critical slopes, zoning, land use, shoreline, site access and easements, encroachments, title discrepancies, utility and water availability.
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Elevation Certificate
A FEMA Elevation Certificate is an administrative tool used to provide elevation information necessary to determine the proper insurance premium rate, support a letter of map amendment (LOMA), and ensure compliance with community floodplain management ordinances.
Reasons you need a FEMA Elevation Certificate from APS Survey & Mapping:
- To ensure the proper insurance premium rate
- To ensure compliance with community floodplain management ordinances
- To support the request of a Letter of Map Amendment
- To reduce the cost of flood insurance or understand the need for additional coverage
Legal Description
A legal description provides essential details about a piece of property or easement represented by the deed, including the dimensions, improvements, location, land area and relation to adjacent properties.
APS Survey & Mapping will write legal descriptions that are detailed and accurate, designed to protect your interests. APS Survey & Mapping will also review title reports and/or legal descriptions to help identify any possible conflicts with your investment.
Settlement Monitoring
Establishing a baseline elevation to determine any movement or settling of site and surrounding improvements.
Reasons you need the accuracy of APS Survey & Mapping’s Settlement Monitoring:
- To monitor large excavation projects
- To ensure nearby construction is not affecting your property
- To ensure your construction is not affecting your neighbor’s property
- To help ensure you stay within limits established by local municipalities, departments, and organizations
Subdivision
Short plats, formal plats, and binding site plans provide maximum development opportunities.
Topographic Survey
A topographic survey map details the existing site conditions including structures, improvements, utilities, contours, and trees. Topographic maps are used during design through construction by architects, engineers, builders and local jurisdictions.
Bathymetric / Hydrographic Surveys
The results from a hydrographic survey are normally plotted to produce a bathymetric contour map, which is a plan of the depth of the sea bed arranged in such a manner as to show lines of equal depth from the coastline.
Tribal Surveys
Surveys conducted on Tribal land.
Wetland Location Surveys
The boundary of the wetlands is determined by a trained biologist observing the soil types, vegetation, hydrologic indicators, and reasonable scientific judgment. Typically numbered blue or pink colored flags are then placed in key locations to denote the boundary of the wetlands. These flags are then roughly mapped by the biologist. He then provides the surveyor with this rough map including number of flags and high-water marks shown. The surveyor then accurately locates the before mentioned flags and marks. The surveyor draws a map to reference the boundary of the surrounding plots or parcels of land. A chart is added to the drawing providing flag numbers and state plane coordinates for future reference.
Aerial Mapping Survey Control
Ground Control Points (GCP) are points on the ground with known coordinates in the spatial coordinate system (i.e. both coordinates defining horizontal position and the altitude coordinate). … In the field, ground control points are marked in a way that makes them visible later aerial photographs.
Encroachment Surveys
Encroachment is a situation in real estate where a property owner violates the property rights of his neighbor by build ing on or extending a structure to the neighbor’s land or property.
Cadastral Retracement Surveys
A retracement survey is a boundary survey, which re-establishes the corners and boundary lines of a parcel of land previously surveyed.
Critical Area Surveys
Encroachment is a situation in real estate where a property owner violates the property rights of his neighbor by build ing on or extending a structure to the neighbor’s land or property.
Surveys to Support Engineering Design
Engineering design surveys are considered by many civil engineers to be an indispensable design tool that provide the base mapping of civil engineering and land development projects. Partner’s professional land surveyors work in concert with civil engineers to provide the measurements needed for a successful design.
Geodetic Positioning Satellite Surveying
Geodetic Survey measures large areas of the Earth’s surface using satellite observations, global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), light detection and ranging (LIDAR), or related sources.
As-Built Surveys
Unlike land or boundary surveys which measure the boundaries or features of the land itself, an as-built survey is designed to show any and all improvements to the land at a given point in time.
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