Land Surveyor in Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz is the county seat of Santa Cruz County, incorporated as a town in 1866 and a charter city since 1876, with 62,956 residents at the 2020 census. Its history runs from Mission Santa Cruz, established in 1791, to the Beach Boardwalk, founded in 1907 and the oldest surviving amusement park in California. Downtown changed abruptly in 1989, when the Loma Prieta earthquake destroyed nearly all of the 19th-century buildings in the downtown area and the old Pacific Garden Mall gave way to a new downtown plan. Boundary and existing-conditions work here often means reconciling early maps with lots and buildings that were rebuilt after the earthquake.

Above town, UC Santa Cruz occupies about 2,001 acres of forested hillside on the former Cowell ranch, and on the sloping lots around town, topographic surveys for additions, retaining walls, and drainage need real control rather than a few spot grades. We provide boundary and topographic surveys, as-built surveys, and 3D laser scanning tied to survey control, with registered point clouds and scan-to-CAD plans, sections, and elevations. Our office is in Lotus, in El Dorado County, so we plan Santa Cruz work as a mobilization, with scope and access settled before we travel.