Looking to divide land to make a profit or build a house for family? Need to add an additional acreage for your new workshop from your neighbour? Or how about take your farm and turn it into a new subdivision of single family homes? Your first start to any of these questions is a visit to your Land Surveyor. During any of these processes the Land Surveyor will guide you through any of the regulations imposed on such activities by the jurisdiction. Regarding such topics as minimum lot size, amount of road frontage or drainage patterns around new construction.
Subdivision is the process of taking one lot and creating two or more lots from the original lot. Pending on the use of the new lots their may be restrictions and guidelines set out by the town or municpality, department of enviroment and even transportation. When approaching a Land Surveyor regarding a subdivision it is best to start out with your intentions before wasting any time. There is client confidentiality when it comes to surveying and your intentions are safe from public scrutiny at this level. If you plan on constrtuction a house or building you must meet a certain lot size, set backs from water bodies, offsets from boundary lines, minimum road frontage. All of which your Land Surveyor will be knowledgeable in your local jurisdiction.
Consolidation is the process of taking two adjacent lots and combining them to become one lot. Such as obtaining a strip of land from a neighbour for water access purposes and consolidating it with yours. Just note in some cases the consolidation of two lots could never been undone with new subdivision rules and the previous lots were grandfathered in.
Subdivision and Consolidation are two well used terms together in the Surveying world. If you have a driveway that is encroaching on a neighbor’s driveway and an agreement has been made to purchase said driveway. One would have to subdivide the driveway into its own lot and then consolidate it with yours.