ALTA/NSPS Surveys in Crockett, CA

Crockett sees few commercial transactions, and we will not pretend otherwise — but the ones that do occur are rarely simple. This is a company town built around the C&H Sugar refinery beneath the Carquinez Bridge, and that history runs through the title records. Land here often traces back through company ownership, and the waterfront and the ground near it carry the recorded footprints of a working industrial shoreline: the rail corridor, utility rights-of-way, and access instruments layered over more than a century. An ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey to the 2021 Minimum Standard Detail Requirements is how a buyer, lender, or title insurer gets those exceptions off the paper and onto the ground — each one plotted against the resolved boundary, with encroachments identified in both directions.

The terrain adds its own issues. Crockett's early-1900s buildings sit on small terraced lots stacked up steep hillside streets, held apart by retaining walls that were often built to convenience rather than to the record line. On commercial and mixed-use buildings in the downtown blocks, walls, stairs, and building faces frequently sit at — or across — boundaries, and documenting those conditions precisely is core ALTA work. We resolve boundaries from the maps, deeds, and corner records on file with the Contra Costa County Recorder and County Surveyor in Martinez, and where original monuments are at risk from any planned construction, California Business and Professions Code §8771 governs their preservation. Waterfront-margin ground also lies within state-mapped liquefaction zones under the Seismic Hazards Mapping Act, which belongs in any due-diligence file.

Steep, tight sites are where our Trimble terrestrial laser scanner outperforms conventional methods decisively. From a handful of setups we capture buildings, retaining walls, stairs, and adjoiner improvements as millions of survey-grade points in one mobilization — no ladders, no repeat visits — and measure optional Table A items from the cloud. The point cloud stays useful to the new owner after closing for renovation and structural documentation.