Neighbor has elected to damage over 20 trees

[goeduck]

My description says the road meanders. I could probably spend a small fortune with attorneys and surveyors to define where exactly it meanders to and from, not that it makes a hill of beans of difference.

 

[Oldoak]

That's the way they do ROW's here too. From the center of the road however ever the road my go.
I had some property I own surveyed that had never had a survey. The survey man went to the center of the dirt road and set up his device. He then set pins for the front corners of the property and worked from those pins

Starting a survey such as that from the middle of the road can sometimes cause problems if the surveyor didn't do his homework and research before the actual field work. Reason being the very thing mentioned in my comment #407.

 

[goeduck]

That's the way they do ROW's here too. From the center of the road however ever the road my go.
I had some property I own surveyed that had never had a survey. The survey man went to the center of the dirt road and set up his device. He then set pins for the front corners of the property and worked from those pins

The surveyor was likely just setting up in the road as a place to work from unless there was a know marker in the road. No creditable surveyor would set up in the middle of a road and assume that the road was placed correctly and what he estimates as the center is the original center. Surveying has changed a lot, but back in the day I worked for a short time for a surveyor and we always triangulated off of known points, monuments, etc. Was he setting up over a known point? I know my easements asphalt has a number of survey pins in it.

 

[ultrarunner]

After the 1991 Oakland Firestorm where 3000 homes were lost... the surveyor screwed up re-establishing monuments...

People were rebuilding and were over the line or encroached on side yard set back.

The solution was for ALL lots affected to be redrawn 7 feet over to conform to the introduced inaccuracy from the monument... the city ended up buying the last lots that lost area...

 

[747driver]

The surveyor was likely just setting up in the road as a place to work from unless there was a know marker in the road. No creditable surveyor would set up in the middle of a road and assume that the road was placed correctly and what he estimates as the center is the original center. Surveying has changed a lot, but back in the day I worked for a short time for a surveyor and we always triangulated off of known points, monuments, etc. Was he setting up over a known point? I know my easements asphalt has a number of survey pins in it.

Our surveyor worked from a known benchmark marker at the beginning of the road. Like you said....you have to start from a known benchmark to get a accurate survey.