Parcel Maps in Pleasant Hill, CA

Pleasant Hill's housing stock is dominated by postwar ranch homes on flat lots, and flat, regular ground is exactly what makes a small-lot division pencil. Much of our parcel map work here is infill-driven: an owner wants to split a deep lot, or more commonly, an ADU project has exposed a lot-line problem — a garage or new unit that would straddle a side line, a rear yard that needs a few feet from a willing neighbor. A lot line adjustment under the Subdivision Map Act resolves those situations without a full subdivision, provided no new parcel is created and the resulting lots conform to zoning. We handle the adjustment plat, the new legal descriptions, and coordination with the city, and where owners ask about SB 9 urban lot splits we give a sober eligibility read before anyone spends money on mapping — the statute's owner-occupancy and zoning conditions eliminate more candidate lots than they qualify.

The feasibility wrinkle in Pleasant Hill is water. Creek corridors and engineered flood channels thread through the city, and a proposed split that looks clean on the assessor's map can lose its second building site to a creek structure setback or floodplain constraint. That is why we sequence every project feasibility-first: confirm zoning minimums, access, and creek or channel setbacks before preparing the tentative map. When a division proceeds, the map is examined by the Contra Costa County Surveyor and recorded with the Contra Costa County Recorder in Martinez, and we shepherd it from tentative approval through final map and recordation.

Because nearly every Pleasant Hill division or adjustment also needs site design — an ADU plot plan, drainage, a new driveway — we mobilize once with our Trimble terrestrial laser scanner and capture boundary evidence and a survey-grade topographic base together. One visit yields the map, the topo, and the record of any monuments we must perpetuate under Business & Professions Code §8771.