ALTA/NSPS Surveys in Emeryville, CA

Emeryville packs an unusual amount of institutional-grade real estate into a very small city, and nearly all of it stands on former industrial land. That history follows title: parcels assembled and re-subdivided through successive redevelopment cycles carry dense stacks of easements — reciprocal access and parking agreements, utility corridors serving multiple owners, rail-era exceptions — and the 2021 ALTA/NSPS Minimum Standard Detail Requirements oblige us to plot every one of them against existing improvements. On a biotech campus or a mixed-use podium building, the survey also has to resolve how structures, loading areas, and shared drives relate to boundaries that were redrawn around them, which is where encroachment and access questions surface before a lender will fund.

Dense, built-out sites are where scan-based capture is decisively better than conventional methods. Our Trimble terrestrial laser scanner records the entire property in one mobilization — building envelopes, parking structures, striping, surface utility evidence, and the adjoining improvements that matter for encroachment analysis — as a survey-grade point cloud. Table A items come straight from that dataset: item 7 building footprints and square footage across a multi-building campus, item 9 parking counts including structured parking levels, item 8 substantial features. When institutional buyers' counsel negotiate a long Table A list, we are not re-mobilizing for each addition. And because Emeryville buyers are frequently planning lab conversions or tenant improvements immediately after closing, the point cloud hands their design team true existing-conditions geometry on day one — see 3D laser scanning.

Recorded documents come through the Alameda County Recorder, and any Record of Survey required by our boundary resolution under B&P Code §8762 is filed with the Alameda County Surveyor. Since virtually all of Emeryville sits on bay-margin fill within mapped liquefaction zones, we can carry that seismic hazard zone note onto the survey where the parties want it addressed.