In This Issue • Editor's Corner • Metrorail Team • Intersecting Paths of Success • Indelible Imprints • Preserving a Wahi Pana • Zoning, Land Use, and Annexation • Location, Location, Location • Trials and Tribulations
Editorial: What A(nother) Year!
Who would have thought that, four years in, we'd still be in a recession? Any of you who have been around as long as I have have seen many down cycles in the construction economy. But always before, after six months, or a year at most, things would naturally pick back up. With the housing market we've dug ourselves quite a hole this time. Several years ago, I recall seeing a USA Today headline .... Read the Article
Elevated Monitoring: Metrorail Team
Ihe 23.1-mile Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project will expand the reach of the existing regional rail system, connect the existing system to Washington Dulles International Airport and points west, and reduce travel time into and out of downtown Washington, D.C. The project owner is the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA), and the end .... Read the Article
Intersecting Paths of Success: TPA, eGPS and Champion Instruments
Surveyors understand entrepreneurialism. It's one of the things that made our country great, and how most of the survey companies in existence today got their start. We recently visited Atlanta to learn about a group of companies that exhibit this unique American trait. The story is actually about three surveyors, one Chinese GNSS expert and import/export .... Read the Article
Indelible Imprints—A GNSS Memoir
October 18, 1989, the Queen Elizabeth Auditorium in London, around 8:30 am. Unknown to me, two 60-minute periods were about to imprint themselves indelibly on my memory. I walked up the stairs to the exhibition booth of my company, Ashtech, at The Royal Institute of Navigation conference. My good friend, the late Ann Beatty, met me and .... Read the Article
CyArk: Digitally Preserving a Wahi Pana
During the first week of December 2010 I was lucky to escape the drizzly rain and fog of San Francisco winter (not that it's much different from our summer) and fly to the sun-kissed beaches of the Big Island of Hawai'i. It was going to be a week in a tropical paradise, but with a busy agenda ahead there were no plans for hammocks or Mai Tais. I arrived ... Read the Article
Footsteps: Vision Church v. Village of Long Grove
Zoning and land use regulations have a great impact on the property rights of land owners in the United States. A recent case from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Vision Church v. Village of Long Grove, deals with a dispute over zoning regulations that impacted development of a 27-acre parcel in Illinois. It contains some important principles and warnings regarding zoning and a municipality's ... Read the Article
Vantage Point: About Face
The way we choose where to live is complicated. The meaning of the traditional "location, location, location," is more nuanced than it may first appear. While the phrase would appear to strictly physical in nature, there are a variety of factors (and more than three) that loosely translate as "location." Location = proximity to amenities such as schools, recreational areas, cultural venues
Location = access to ... Read the Article
Reconnaissance: Trials and Tribulations
Recently I developed and presented several continuing education programs in which I explored the complaint process against surveyors in Indiana. We took the audience through the progression all the way from the initial filing of the complaint to the end of the processwhether that was by dismissal, Board action or through a court decision. Having been on the Indiana State Board of Registration for Land .... Read the Article
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