ALTA/NSPS Surveys in Rodeo, CA

Rodeo's commercial transaction volume is modest, and we scope it honestly: the ALTA/NSPS work that arises here mostly involves industrial-adjacent parcels, land deals near the refinery complex, and the older commercial buildings of the 1890s downtown grid near the shoreline. What these properties lack in volume they make up in title complexity. More than a century of industrial operation along this stretch of San Pablo Bay left a dense easement history — rail corridors, pipelines, utility rights-of-way, and access agreements — and an ALTA/NSPS survey to the 2021 Minimum Standard Detail Requirements is the instrument that plots each recorded exception on the ground, shows what it actually burdens, and reveals whether improvements or operations encroach into it.

That easement history is exactly why buyers and lenders in Rodeo should insist the survey research is done thoroughly. Pipeline and rail instruments can be old, described loosely, and recorded generations before the current parcel configuration existed. We trace them through the Contra Costa County Recorder and County Surveyor records in Martinez and resolve their locations against the resolved boundary. On waterfront-margin parcels, portions of the shoreline lie within state-mapped liquefaction zones under the Seismic Hazards Mapping Act — a disclosure item worth understanding during due diligence — and flood-zone identification is available as an optional Table A item on the survey itself.

Our Trimble terrestrial laser scanner is particularly well suited to industrial-adjacent sites where access windows are tight and repeat visits are unwelcome. One mobilization captures the full parcel — structures, tankage-side fence lines, rail spurs, pavement, and adjoiner improvements — as a survey-grade point cloud. Optional Table A items are extracted from the cloud, and the data set remains reusable after closing for facility planning or as-built documentation.