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Easements are prepared to
provide other parties access to your property or
to provide you access to another party’s property
for a variety of purposes. The more common
easements are for access purposes (vehicles or
pedestrians) and utilities (sewer, drainage,
electrical, gas, telephone etc.), but they can be
created for practically any purpose. We prepare a
lot of legal descriptions for easements to remedy
building or fence line encroachments and many
other types of structural encroachments.
Another
type of easement that has gained popularity lately
is a “View Easement”. If you live
on a hillside lot that has a view of the city you
may want to make sure that the person building on
the lot next door to you does not construct a new
structure that will obstruct the view from your
house. In this case we would prepare a legal
description that describes the position and the
height limitation of the construction envelope the
neighboring lot can build within to protect your
view.
It is up
to you to decide what the easement is needed for.
The surveyor’s part of the project is to define
the legal boundaries of the easement with a “metes
and bounds” legal description and prepare a map to
show the position of the easement on the property
it is located. Both of these items will get
recorded at the county, along with the Easement
document which describes the purpose of the
easement and the parties involved in its
dedication.
Bay Area Land
Surveying has prepared hundreds of
easements over the years and we are
experts at describing them in a way that will
create them in the exact position that you need
them and our Easement Maps are always very clear
and
legible.
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