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A friend of mine has asked me to prepare a boundary line adjustment for him. I am not from the area. Poway has a checklist online which shows all of the necessary items to be shown on the plat. I am inclined to do this for him, as long as I am confident that I can resolve the boundary adequately given that I am not familiar with area standards of practice.

My question for Poway area surveyors who have done this type of work: Is the adjustment process straight forward in Poway? Or is it likely that even if I do everything exactly as described in their checklist that the jurisdiction will ask for all sorts of other things from me? Just wanted to get an idea of what I'm up against. If the jurisdiction is finicky, then I will refer him to someone local.

County of SD or City of SD?

I'm not aware of the process for either. I do know that City allows for a LLA Parcel Map that isn't conditioned (I think).

Nevermind. I thought it was County of SD but it is actually City of Poway.

My input is probably going to upset some, but IMO as time goes on it just gets harder and harder to file any maps/legals with govt agencies. The basics of land surveying have not changed and the measurements are now faster and "more accurate" due to advances in equipment, but the filing of a map just seems to take longer and longer.

land,

Subdivision maps in particular are increasingly under the regulation of the community development regime. You're right - the surveying is still the same, but the regulatory auspices drive the bus.

Records of Survey and simple legal descs should not require multiple submissions where items on the original submission are relined on the 3rd or 4th submission.
Subdivision maps are out of control. The development of east Long Beach and Lakewood with ~100 home tracts the process took ~18 months from the time the developer took the option on the farmland to the last home sold. I don't see where a lot of issues arose from that time length of process in the 60+ years they have been there.
I have a neighbor that did a high dollar upgrade to their back yard (flat land) and after approval and const started they decided to replace the existing pool equipment, that change shut the project down for over 2 months going thru County review.
How good is the review process? Another neighbor about 10 years ago lives on a corner lot and added a 2nd garage, double deep and the back half was to be 2 story for parts storage. The building is framed for a 2 story and the contractor is putting the 2nd floor plywood down and the inspector questions the thickness. When told it's standard thickness for a 2nd floor the inspector goes thru his plans and whips out his red pen and says due to the front of the house facing one street and it's address on the other street his garage cannot be 2 story. Have to wonder who checked the plans.
I did a room addition and part of it was the installation of a toilet and outside shower for the kids using the pool. The County plan checker stated the ONLY acceptable surface for the shower was ceramic tile. No way, the plan called for smooth stucco. I was finally sent to someone way in the back, he pulled out the UBC and said "non porous surface" smooth stucco is ok.