Building Stakeouts
Although we do issue a drawing with this service, this is a field activity. We place stakes in the ground for the carpenters to build forms around. Sounds simple, doesn't it? If it was, everyone would do it. We have to keep the building inside the setback lines. That means we have to verify the building setback lines through the building department as well as the building plans. We show the lines on the drawing. We absolutely require a copy of the approved building permit. We have to re-do all calculations from scratch. We have to double-check all elevations from County monuments. We have to locate all immediately adjacent buildings, to double-check that no neighbor appears to violate their own building setback lines. (That would suggest some sort of lot line agreement or zoning variance that might impact our client.) All this for four little stakes in the ground. Not even pretty stakes. Then the neighborhood kids find that the stakes, and the level pad, make a great playground.