Kudzu Survey Associates

07/02/2019

Kudzu Survey Associates has a new employee! Meet Laika, the deer that can't decide if it's a dog or a surveyor.

08/14/2017

Me, when I realize that I've horribly underbid a project.

05/23/2017

Hats off to the surveyors who work with Ohio's public land system.

In 1784, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton squared off over the best way to divvy up newly American territory.

02/17/2017

I found my phone. Now it wants to go camping in the woods more often.

02/17/2017

Today I dropped my phone in the woods. I'll look for it in the morning. If I haven't returned your call, that's why.

01/27/2017

The base team is not triangulating to check the GIS. It is duplicating the measurement to check triangulation. The control network for measurements by triangulation will be adjusted so that such missions to the summit will not be necessary again for decades.

Scientists announce expedition to test theory that Nepalese earthquake took an inch off the world’s highest mountain

12/13/2016

It's about time.

A new partnership with the Digital Public Library of America will put three major LOC map collections online

10/11/2016

What to bid? What to bid?

08/29/2016

If you're building a home in a remote location, or buying one, you ought to consider installing a hydrant off the well.

MADISON COUNTY, N.C. -- Part of a Madison County home completely collapsed overnight after catching fire shortly before 1 a.m.Crews with the Ebbs Chapel Fire Department tell News 13 that the home, on Black Bear Drive, was fully engulfed in flames when they

06/29/2016

Here is an extended version of my view of Jordan's bill.

The Watauga Democrat reported on House Bill 483, introduced by Rep. Jonathan Jordan (R-Jefferson), which purports to “reform” appeals of land use decisions taken at the local level in North Carolina (June 26, “Jordan proposes changes to state land use laws”).

06/24/2016

When I mention the 5th Amendment, this is what I am talking about. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/takings

Takings: an OverviewIntroduction When a government actually or constructively takes private property for public use, that government must pay "just compensation" to the property's former owners.ContentsSources of LawTypes of TakingsLand Use RegulationPublic PurposeHow Much Compensation is JustRelate...

06/24/2016

This is quite possibly the dumbest land use legislation I have ever seen. It ignores 227 years of 5th Amendment case law and renders mute local control over development. Jordan seems to think that the local government has nothing to do with popular consent.

BOONE — A bill introduced by N.C. House Rep. Jonathan Jordan (R-Jefferson) would allow developers to apply for permits through state courts, rather than local governments, in certain cases.