ALTA/NSPS Surveys in Vallejo, CA

Mare Island — the West Coast's first naval shipyard, now one of the Bay Area's major adaptive-reuse districts — is where Vallejo commercial due diligence gets genuinely difficult, and genuinely interesting. Parcels conveyed out of the former shipyard carry military-era utility systems, rail trackage, and easement history that a title commitment can only partially describe, and the original construction drawings for many dry docks, machine shops, and support buildings are lost or incomplete. An ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey to the 2021 Minimum Standard Detail Requirements is the instrument that reconciles all of it: we resolve the boundary from the record, plot each locatable Schedule B exception, document the improvements that actually exist today, and state plainly where a recorded right cannot be located from its description.

Vallejo's waterfront redevelopment parcels raise a related set of questions. Much of the waterfront sits on fill within state-mapped liquefaction zones under the Seismic Hazards Mapping Act — a geologic overlay rather than a title matter, but one lenders routinely want depicted relative to the parcel, alongside flood classification as negotiated Table A item 3. Because Vallejo is in Solano County, all record research — deeds, recorded maps, easements, Records of Survey — runs through the Solano County Recorder and County Surveyor in Fairfield, and we build that into every project schedule. Where our boundary work encounters existing monuments, we preserve and perpetuate them as Business and Professions Code §8771 requires.

On Mare Island, our Trimble terrestrial laser scanner solves the lost-drawings problem directly: one mobilization captures a full parcel — building envelopes, crane rails, dock edges, yard utilities — at survey-grade density. Table A items 6(b), 7, 8, and 11 come from the point cloud, and after closing that same cloud becomes the existing-conditions basis for as-built drawings where no reliable originals survive.