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Chapter Meeting!NeXGenNow!David Lee Copenhaver will be discussing new solutions for the surveying and mapping Industry NexGenNow develops and designs aerial, surface and subsurface robotic solutions with a mobile, modular, Mobile Command Vehicle which integrates a Common Operating Picture and a Video Management System. This provides land surveyors the ability to enhance mapping operations, while making it safer, minimizing costs, and speeding up the approval and decision making process.!Many of these systems were originally designed for military operations. Now the innovation from these systems are being used for Land Surveying, Engineering and mapping solutions as well as critical infrastructure inspections, precision agriculture, transportation inspections, oil and gas
operations - as well as many new innovative business plans.!
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CALIFORNIA LAND SURVEYORS ASSOCIATION, SAN DIEGO CHAPTER!WWW.SD-SURVEYORS.ORG
Meeting Announcement NexGenNow, David Lee Copenhaver!Page 1
Executive Board Meeting Minutes Page 6
aA MONTHLY NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2014 VOLUME 20, ISSUE 8
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2014!
Best Western Seven Seas Lord Jim Room 411 Hotel Circle South San Diego, California 92108 !!!!
Schedule:
4:30 Board Meeting!
5:30 Social Networking!
6:00 Dinner/Discussion!
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Advertisements Information from our supporters!Page 9
General Meeting Minutes Page 8
Distribution and Student Stipend Information Page 5
Golf Tournament Register now for our scholarship drive!!Page 2
Book Review Modernizing American Land Records!Page 4
Recording Changes New recording process for maps and vital documents!Snake Dangers More venomous snake in San Diego!!Private records Page 3
Curt Brown T-2 To Highest Bidder Historic instrument to be sold in closed-bid auction!Page 4
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Major Changes to San Diego Document Recording!Chief Deputy Recorder to Implement New Numbering System, Other Changes August 22, 2014!
Maps such as Final Maps, Parcel Maps, and Records of Survey will be recorded with sequential numbers (regardless of map type) beginning with the recording year much like deeds are now recorded.!
Val Wood, County of San Diego Chief Deputy Recorder/County Clerk introduced the new Integrated Recording and Vitals System at a mapping subcommittee meeting in late August. At the meeting were Val Wood, several of her colleagues, County Surveyor Terry Connors, and Surveyor Mike Pallamary. I attended the meeting on behalf of the San Diego CLSA chapter.!
One of the objectives of the subcommittee is to involve Surveyors with the County Recorder/County Clerk. Val Wood discussed her professional background in the State of Washington where the County Recorder was constantly in contact with Surveyors during activities such as association meetings. She would like to see such interaction in San Diego County.!
For Land Surveyors, the most significant change to the recording process will be the numbering system of various maps. No longer will maps be recorded with category map numbers (for example, Parcel Map 17000) but it will have a map number that matches the recording number, such as 2015-7012345. This change simplifies the work of the Recorder/Clerk, but complicates the work of the Surveyor. Terry Connors expressed his difficulty with the new system by explaining that the County’s Survey Record System (SRS) is designed around the current map numbering system that has been in use for more than 100 years. Maps numbered in a new system will conflict with the existing SRS and could require an expensive overhaul of the GIS based SRS. Such an overhaul has no current funding.!
A historical map indexing project will deal with the 40-50 maps that have no date or other typical indexing information. Val Wood will work with
Surveyors to determine the best way to index such maps. Some historical maps were transferred to the San Diego Historical Society many years ago.!
Altered recorded maps known as the “Ferry Maps” were copied and altered by Chief Deputy Recorder Ferry starting in 1914. The alterations and additions included color markings showing street dedications and vacations and were often made to maps that had already been recorded. This created a versioning problem with the maps. The historical map indexing project will index such maps.!
A gradual introduction to digital recording and signatures will take place, as well as other processing changes that will occur mostly behind the scenes. The new Integrated Recording and Vitals System will be implemented by early 2015 according to Val Wood.!
Mike Pallamary has made a presentation about historic maps to the San Diego Recorder/Clerk’s office during the last year, and was also invited to speak at the California Recorder’s Association in San Diego on September 3rd.!
Val Wood has accepted an invitation to make a presentation at an upcoming chapter meeting.!
Paul E. Goebel, P.L.S., Editor!
“No longer will maps be recorded with category map numbers (for example, Parcel Map 17000)…”
Private Records Committee Report!Updated List and Location for Private Records The Private Records committee would like to improve the list showing the location and steward or owner of the records of Private Surveyors.!
The list can be found on our website at:!
http://www.sd-surveyors.org/PrivateRecords/index.php!
If you know of any records not on the list, please contact Jack at!
Submitted by the Private Records Committee !
Snakes a Danger in San Diego!U Vet Warns Of Neurotoxic Snakes In Suburban San Diego Neighborhoods September 3, 2014 (San Diego’s East County) – Neurotoxic snake bites, known as “super bites”, were formerly rare in our region, found mainly in the Mojave Desert. But 10 News reports these serious bites are occurring now in suburban areas of San Diego and East County.!
A dog with a neurotoxin bite in Del Cerro, for example, went into shock and had difficulty walking. The dog was treated at Pet Emergency and Specialty Center in La Mesa, where vets told 10 news that three of the ten snakebites treated in the past week have been neurotoxic bites.!
Some doctors have theorized that Mojave green rattlesnakes, the most potent species of rattlesnake, may have made their way into our region or cross bred with other rattlers to produce more toxic venom. A fisherman bitten along Boulder Creek near Julian in 2010 lost conscienciousness and died within minutes, as ECM reported, one of several severe reactions seen recently in humans as well as pets. !
If your or your pet is bitten by a rattlesnake, it’s important to seek out medical treatment immediately, since anti-venom injections can save lives.!
Source: Miriam Raftery, East County News!
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Book Review!By Paul E. Goebel, PLS!
Modernizing American Land Records By Earl F. Epstein and Bernard J. Niemann Jr.!2014 Esri Press!
In the realm of GIS and public records, this book has been a topic of conversation lately and has been recommended to me several times in the last few weeks. I ordered a copy and enjoyed reading it very much.!
Modernizing American Land Records presents a design for a modern American Land Records System (ALRS) in a 181 - page book complete with coverage of the history of American land records, detailed explanations of how record systems work, identified problems with our current system, and meaningful planning ideas for a new records system.!
The book is very concise and is organized into three parts: Part I, Introduction and problems; Part II, History of land, land records, and land governance in America; and Part III, Solutions, actions, and prospects. !
Part I discusses a vision for geospatial land records system inspired by the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) devised in the 1780s, but modernized to use a geospatial system that would enable many more records to be associated, such as natural features, land planning and management, earthquake zones, flood zones, and many types of data. The vision goes far beyond recording deeds for land transactions. !
The authors are impressed by the organization of the PLSS, and the way it
combined geographic location with area assessment, land type identification, a unique parcel numbering system, and an authoritative basis for future land titles. !
Relating land planning and management documents to land title documents is a central element in the book and is mentioned several times. The chaos mentioned in the book’s subtitle refers to the many separate and unrelated repositories for planning documents, land use controls, easements, covenants, regulations, zoning, and land titles that can’t easily be accessed (or associated in a meaningful way) by most citizens. !
Missing land titles are addressed specifically, by example of those lost in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Confusion between the assessor’s tax parcels and actual written titles was discovered that were difficult to remedy after many personal records were destroyed.!
Part II is particularly interesting to Surveyors. A history of land titles is given, starting with precolonial land concepts. The evolution of American land titles was driven by major processes such as formation of the colonies, the PLSS, the industrial revolution, the Homestead Act, big industry and finance, and the sweeping environmental laws of the 1970’s. !
A concept of a “bundle of rights” emerged with time. Free access to the records granting or restricting these rights is a benefit of using GIS to organize land records. Open government, open records, and participatory governance are presented as important goals of an ALRS.!
The multipurpose Cadastre, introduced in a 1975 thesis by John D. McLaughlin is discussed in detail. Interestingly, McLaughlin was an Engineer and Surveyor who understood land titles and boundary location. He envisioned multipurpose maps much like assessor’s parcel maps, but rich with other attributes. His idea can now be fully realized with GIS capability.!
Part III discusses the basic attributes of a future ALRS. The modern ALRS must include data that are:!
•authoritative!• open!•complete!•connected!•timely!•institutional!
Each of these attributes is discussed in detail earlier in the book and brought together in well reasoned fashion in chapter 6!
I was pleased to see many references to Surveyors and surveying concepts in the book. In each case, the role of the Surveyor is supported with
technical information and explanation. !
Geodetic control information is covered over several pages and presented as the basis for making the relative location of features.!
American survey law is recognized several times, with emphasis given to the priority of on-the-ground physical evidence over maps and deeds. Many references are given to commonly used surveying texts such as Brown, C.M., W.G Robillard, and D.A. Willson. (1986) Boundary Control and Legal Principals, 3rd ed. New York: Wiley.!
About the Authors (from book cover)!
Earl F. Epstein coauthored the National Academies of Sciences’ 1980 report Need for a Multipurpose Cadastre. He taught quantum mechanics and survey law, and helped draft the social science component of the National Science Foundation’s proposed Center for National Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA). Since 1988, he has studied and taught environmental, water, and natural resource law and policy at The Ohio State University, where he is professor emeritus, School of Environment and Natural Resources.!!Bernard J. Niemann Jr. is professor emeritus, Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Director of the Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For three decades he taught GIS and land information system concepts and applications at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. In 1989, he helped establish and fund the Wisconsin Land Information Program (WLIP). He is a coauthor of Citizen Planners: Shaping Communities with Spatial Tools (Esri Press 2010).!
“…the role of the Surveyor is supported with technical information and explanation.”
“The chaos mentioned in the book’s subtitle refers to the many separate and unrelated repositories for ….. documents…”
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Student stipend policy The Stipend program’s goals are to: provide funding for local students taking college level survey related classes. The stipend will be limited to one survey class per student per semester. The class must have been completed within the last 6 months. Applicants must be current members of the San Diego Chapter of CLSA at the time the class was taken.!
Licensed Land Surveyors are eligible.!
The stipend schedule is:!
$100.00 for “A” grade!
$50.00 for “B” grade!
The limit of total stipends the chapter will grant is $2,000 per semester, on a first-come, first-served basis. All applications are subject to approval by the executive board. Applicants need to mail in a copy of their grade documenting completion of a surveying class and an application form to: CLSA San Diego, 5519 Clairemont Mesa Blvd. Mail Box 261, San Diego, California 92117.!
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Notices, original articles, and other relevant information are encouraged for publication in the newsletter. There are many interesting and pertinent articles in other publications. Mention of articles is encouraged, but please provide your remarks summary in a Word doc format and a link to the article, rather than copying the whole article. PDF or JPEG format sized to approx. 300 KB or less is best for graphics. Large reference files may have to be sent separately. Newsletter is distributed by the first Wednesday of the month. Send items to Paul Goebel at [email protected] by the last Saturday of the month.!
Information in this newsletter is not necessarily endorsed by CLSA or CLSA San Diego.!
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Curtis M. Brown-Owned Wild T-2 Instrument Will Go To Highest Bidder To Support Scholarship Fundraising!Historic Theodolite To Go To Winning bidder From San Diego CLSA Chapter This instrument will be available to chapter members through a closed bid auction. The winner will be announced at the chapter Christmas party in December of 2014.!
Some history about the T-2 instrument:!
Curt M. Brown was a Principal of Daniels, Brown and Hall, which later became Hall Engineering. In the early 1990’s, Gary Lintvedt and Trish McColl bought Hall Engineering and changed the company name to Lintvedt McColl and Associates. Much of the old equipment including this T-2 were included in the company sales. In about 2009 Lintvedt McColl and Associates was bought out by David Evans and Associates at which time Gary Lintvedt donated many of the old records, field books, and the T-2 to Rick Engineering. The T-2 instrument was eventually donated to the chapter for fundraising.!
Further details of the closed bid auction will be made available in the October edition of this newsletter.!
Photos: Dirk Nasland, PLS
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Executive Board Meeting Minutes!August 20, 2014!
Meeting held at Best Western Seven Seas, 411 Hotel Circle South, San Diego CA!Board Members Present!Tony Nothdurft, President! ! ! Gary Mellom, Representative!Steve Heise, Vice President! ! ! Marv Sylakowski, Representative!Mark Macfarlane, Treasurer! ! ! Greg Hopkins, Representative!Dirk Nasland, Secretary! ! ! Blake Torgersen, Representative !Other Members Present!Armand Marois, Alternate Rep! ! Karen Koklich, GIS/Private Records!Jack Getcher, Website! ! ! John Butcher, Education/Community College!Tony Nothdurft called the meeting to order at 4:46 PM. !President’s Report-Tony!Golf Tournament updates?!Membership Drive, need final numbers.!Nominating Committee – Nominations due at August meeting, for Member approval in September. !Vice President’s Report-Steve!This month’s General meeting is Greg Hopkins City Surveyor!September meeting on the 10th with David Copenhaver of NexGenNow-Location Seven Seas!Joint meeting in October is set to have the President Elect, Location TBD!Treasurer’s Report-Mark!General Fund……….$7551.23!Education Fund……$2035.27!Local Ed. Fund……..$5058.26!Total………………..$14,644.76!Looking into potential markets for our CD’s. Rates are still low and there may be no benefit for moving at the moment.!Secretary’s Report-Dirk!No Report!Representatives: Marv S, Gary M, Greg H, Armand M, Blake T!Everyone has received a Ballot regarding recommended changes to our State Association Bylaws. A letter from Joe Padilla of Orange County raised some questions about the effects of some of the changes on larger chapters, such as the limit of two Alternates per chapter. The San Diego Board recommends everyone read these changes carefully before voting. The majority of the recommended changes are being made to bring our bylaws into line with State law.!Special Meeting to discuss Bylaws Sept 4, Logan’s Roadhouse 3698 N Freeway Blvd, Natomas!Legal training about conduct by Attorney!More closed door sessions with Attorney!NSPS update: The Board has suspended negotiations with NSPS until NSPS agrees to discuss the 100% Membership and Representative by Population concerns. !Membership-Blake!We have enough members to keep 6 Reps this year.!
Nominating Committee-Steven Heise, Gary Mellom, Paul Goebel
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2015 Slate:!Immediate Past President! Tony Nothdurft!President!! ! Steven Heise!Vice President! ! Mark Macfarlane!Treasurer!! ! Dirk Nasland!Secretary!! ! Rafi Hanna!!State Directors:!Current: !Greg Hopkins (1 year remaining), Marv Sylakowski (1 year remaining), Paul Goebel (1 year remaining)!Blake Torgersen (replacing Casey Lynch, expiring), Gary Mellom (expiring), Anne Hoppe (expiring)!Directors Nominated:!Blake Torgersen! ! 2 year term!Armand Marois! ! 2 year term!Gary Hus!! ! 2 year term!!Alternates Nominated:!Gary Mellom!Tony Nothdurft!Education-John Butcher !Looking to straighten out and streamline local scholarships and applications.!Community College-John Butcher!Career Enhancement was had at the college. There was discussion about Boundary Control and Legal Principles class potentially be run combined with the other survey classes. There has not been enough students to maintain the course, however it is required for a degree and needs to be offered yearly. !Classes start for Survey Drafting Aug 23rd with Jaime T.!The college has allotted $15,000 for equipment for the survey classes. Kate Alder went after $25,000 and they came back with $15,000.!John B. is working on a video presentation for the State CLSA website about the local college.!State looking for potential room for seminars at Cuyamaca College. !Legislative Report-Anne!Meeting October 3rd!Private Records-Jack!Looking to get the records list updated. Notice should be sent to the membership to contact Jack G. with any updates or knowledge of Private Records locations/stewards.!GIS-Karen!No report!Golf Tournament-Mike Dauer!Need to update website payment section.!Need everyone’s support for Swag Buckets/Gift Baskets for the raffle and prizes.!Curt Brown T2-Greg!Looking to use the T2 to generate proceeds for the Curt Brown scholarship.!A MOTION was made by Greg H. to verify the offer we had for a total of $1500 is still good and if so, give notice of the offer in the newsletter. If anyone else is interested we will have a closed bid auction. MOTION was SECONDED. MOTION CARRIED!A MOTION to adjourn was made by Gary M. and SECONDED. MOTION CARRIED.!Meeting adjourned at 6:04PM
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General Meeting Minutes!August 20, 2014!
Meeting held at Best Western Seven Seas, 411 Hotel Circle South, San Diego CA!Tony Nothdurft called the meeting to order at 7:03 PM. !Number Attending: 32!President’s Report-Tony!
• Membership Drive-we have just enough members to keep 6 Directors.!• Golf Tournament Coming up Sept 19th at The Vineyard in Escondido. Signup online. !• State Members should have received a ballot for proposed bylaw changes. !• Nominations:!
2015 Slate:!Immediate Past President! Tony Nothdurft!President!! ! Steven Heise!Vice President! ! Mark Macfarlane!Treasurer!! ! Dirk Nasland!Secretary!! ! Rafi Hanna!!State Directors:!Current: !Greg Hopkins (1 year remaining), Marv Sylakowski (1 year remaining), Paul Goebel (1 year remaining)!Blake Torgersen (replacing Casey Lynch, expiring), Gary Mellom (expiring), Anne Hoppe (expiring)!Directors Nominated:!Blake Torgersen! ! 2 year term!Armand Marois! ! 2 year term!Gary Hus!! ! 2 year term!!Alternates Nominated:!Gary Mellom!Tony Nothdurft!!Vice President’s Report-Steve!
• This month’s General meeting is Greg Hopkins City Surveyor!• September meeting on the 10th with David Copenhaver of NexGenNow-Location Seven Seas!• Joint meeting in October is set to have the President Elect, Location TBD!
Treasurer’s Report-Mark!General Fund……….$7551.23
Education Fund…… $2035.27 Local Ed. Fund…….. $5058.26 Total……………….. $14,644.76!Speaker Greg Hopkins - Assistant Deputy Director !City Land Surveyor and Deputy City Engineer for the City of San Diego !Greg discussed what’s happening at Development Services from a management perspective (organizational changes, political changes, etc.) He also be updated us on the industry committees currently operating with regards to records, horizontal and vertical control, subdivision processes and monument preservation.!A MOTION to adjourn was made and was SECONDED. MOTION CARRIED.!Meeting adjourned at 8:20 PM!
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