First SMA and PLS Acts
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 1:21 pm
Question came up in the shop about standard of care and PLS duties back during the passage of the first SMA and PLS Acts. Interesting topic.
Example, I've seen rectangular lot, block and gridded street subdivisions in the Santa Cruz Mountains that were clearly imaginary and not based off of any sort of survey or even sensible planning.
I've also seen articulate and detailed maps in the Bay Area hills the looked like Dr. Seuss communities, no straight alignments in the streets.... But when you look closely you notice the streets followed the terrain as if they followed old wagon roads or that the alignments were surveyed and engineered. Impressive map closures in terms of the road alignment curvatures, etc. The lots and blocks fronted the streets in logical fashion for ingress/egress, etc.... Turn of the century maps!
Might there have been some passage of the LS Act and/or SMA that could have affected the quality and content of subdivision mapping going back to the late 1800s early 1900s?
Can somebody post the first LSA and SMA?
Regards,
Example, I've seen rectangular lot, block and gridded street subdivisions in the Santa Cruz Mountains that were clearly imaginary and not based off of any sort of survey or even sensible planning.
I've also seen articulate and detailed maps in the Bay Area hills the looked like Dr. Seuss communities, no straight alignments in the streets.... But when you look closely you notice the streets followed the terrain as if they followed old wagon roads or that the alignments were surveyed and engineered. Impressive map closures in terms of the road alignment curvatures, etc. The lots and blocks fronted the streets in logical fashion for ingress/egress, etc.... Turn of the century maps!
Might there have been some passage of the LS Act and/or SMA that could have affected the quality and content of subdivision mapping going back to the late 1800s early 1900s?
Can somebody post the first LSA and SMA?
Regards,