Reflective Blog 2


Reflective Blog 2
Dylan Staveley-Watson


Cadastral Surveying is the specialty of establishing and re-establishing property boundaries. A Cadastral Surveyor will attempt to create and re-create boundaries in a way that is acceptable by the laws and will establish these boundaries by creating legal documents,  plans of survey and placing physical monuments in the ground. It is important that the surveyor strictly follows these laws in the chance that a legal dispute was to occur between adjacent land owners. If the case were to be brought to civil court  the surveyors job is to act as non partial interpretation to give a professional opinion of where the boundary may be and his/her practices may be called to question.

There are many different types of boundaries within Canadian law: Parcels, Jurisdictions, Zones, Administrative Areas and Indigenous Areas. A Cadastral Surveyor may be called to establish, re-establish or delineate any of these boundary types. In particular when a surveyor is asked to Subdivide Parcels of land or create a boundary, legal and physical actions must take place in order to complete the survey.  



This process begins when a land owner wants to create a boundary and goes to a professional land surveyor to carry out the legal and physical actions required to complete the subdivision of land.  Upon deciding where the boundary of the subdivided land will be, the surveyor can then create an application document for the application of a severance. Once presented to the municipality committee of adjustment, the application has to be approved in order for the process to continue. It must meet all the laws within that municipality in order to get approved by the committee of adjustment. During this process there is also a public hearing that will include the neighbors and citizens opinion who have an interest in that property. 

Here is an example of the application that must be filled out in order to have a severance approved.  http://www.hastingscounty.com


The Delineation process represents the boundary spatially, using distances, directions and area between adjacent property boundaries to describe the piece of land being surveyed on a legal survey plan. These plans must be created by a licensed professional land surveyor. In most cases this requires the surveyor to retrace the existing boundaries in order to establish the boundary of the subdivided land within the existing parcel of land.  This retracement requires the physical location of the existing property markers in order to create a new plan of survey. The hierarchy of evidence is taken into consideration when retracing existing property boundaries, some evidence is considered to have more weight then other evidence in the decision of delineating where the existing property boundary is.
Example of evidence:

Stone Monument 



Cut Cross 



Once the retracement process is completed the Demarcation of the severed parcel of land may commence. This is done after the Professional Land Surveyor has confirmed the location of the original boundaries of the parcel and the application for the severance have been approved.  These boundaries may be established by placing physical monuments in the ground in order to determine the extent of the property.

Placement of a Standard Short Iron Bar (SSIB) 


SSIB 




Establishing existing boundaries and creating new boundaries requires the surveyor to follow and complete the legal applications, compare physical evidence found in the field with previous recorded measurements on other plans and create a legal plan of survey with descriptions, measurements bearings.



  

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