This course provides participants with the knowledge and skills needed to interpret and utilize legal survey plans. Through theoretical instruction and practical exercises, participants develop a comprehensive understanding of the various components of a survey plan, its importance and applications in the real estate and property development sector.
Objectives
- Define the role of a Professional Land Surveyor in real estate and land development projects
- Identify the types of Plans produced by a Land Surveyor for real estate and land development projects
- Interpret various components of Survey Plans
- Discuss the purpose of the Surveyor’s Certificate and Report
- Utilize a Plan for Real Estate transactions
Key Topics
- Introduction and Purpose of a Plan of Survey (Legal Survey Plan)
- Defining the Role of an Ontario Land Surveyor, the licensing process and Association of Ontario Land Surveyors’ role
- Acknowledging the Land Titles system and quality of Title
- Understanding legal and basic definitions
- Expanding on the process of creation from start to finish
- Identifying the various types with samples and purpose
- Components of the Plan
- Identifying the legal features; fabric, title block, certificates
- Understanding the fabric and street limit creation
- Understanding the boundary definition, types, methodology and evidence by Common Law used to redefine existing boundaries
- Ensuring the Plan is certified by the Surveyor’s Certificate and is up to date
- Reviewing the physical topographic features
- Reading the Part 2 expanded report
- Identifying other features such as but not limited to units, tables, legal comments, scale, benchmark
- Process of the Plan Creation
- Researching the property’s title and evidence for boundary retracement
- Understanding the physical field work involved
- Calculating the boundaries
- Drafting the plan and reviewing its contents
- Ensuring it complies to regulatory standards on the field via monumentation and on paper
- Providing client care via delivery and feedback
- Process of creating legal entities; PINs and the underlying fabric; severances plans, m-plans, condominium plans
- Understanding the legal existing fabric
- Exploring the process of creating new fabric via Subdivision Plans, Condominium Plans and Reference Plans
- Analysing the Parcel Identification Number (PIN) and its registered instruments
- Practical Applications
- Utilizing a Plan for Real Estate transactions via buying, selling and leasing a property
- Integrating a Plan into land development for landscaping, severances, upgrading property title and other large-scale development such as Condominium and Subdivision developments
- Formulating opinions for dispute resolution
- Case Studies and Practical Exercises
- Sharing real world examples of the various Plans
- Presenting a Plan to identify the components and application
- Discussing how to analyze the process of the Plan’s creation
Who Should Attend:
Real estate professionals, Land and Property developers, Lawyers, Architects, Engineers, Construction Field Surveyors and Land Surveying Technicians.
Gold Seal credits: 4
Please find the course schedule here.
class location:
70 Leek Crescent, Richmond Hill, L4B 1H1
Satesh Lakhan, BSc, MSc, OLS, OLIP, is a registered Ontario Land Surveyor (AOLS) with a Masters in Project Management, a Bachelors in Geomatics Engineering and a Post Graduate Certificate in Building Information Modeling Management. He has successfully engaged in certifying a wide range of survey plans for various small to large scale clients ranging from private sales to full sized developments.