Parcel Map
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.A parcel map is required when a land owner wants to legally split their property into smaller individual parcels. Thus making the land more useful and quite often more valuable. A parcel map does however limit your land's divisions to five parcels or four parcels and a remainder parcel. A remainder parcel is utilized when the overall size of your land is not large enough to support the division of your land into five parcels that meet the minimum acreage requirements in your locality. To divide your land into more than five parcels, you will need to file what is called a Tract Map. (See below for further explanation.)

There are several steps and processes involved in the making of a parcel map. The first step is the consultation. We will meet with you and discuss all of the requirements and processes, possibilities and limitations, as well as any costs and fees assigned to your specific area. Next, our survey crews will survey your property and collect all of the necessary topographical data and physical boundary measurements needed. Once this is complete, we can more accurately determine your property's true potential. Next, if all of the conditions and requirements are met, we will put together what's called a tentative parcel map. This map is used to illustrate what you intend to do with your land to your city council, planning commission, or county planners. Upon their approval of your intentions we then submit a final parcel map to the same authorities for inspection. Once your final map is approved, our survey crews will again visit your property to set the final monuments at your new property corners. The parcel map process is a long and sometimes complicated endeavor and can take anywhere from eight months to two years to complete, but the end result is most often well worth the wait.

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