Allow the Align Parcels tool to align groups of parcels when there are no adjacent parcels
We understand the Align Parcels tool was designed with parcels in mind. For that reason, if you are trying to complete an alignment and there are no adjacent parcels to the parcels that are selected to participate in the alignment, then the alignment will fail. Essentially, the tool is expecting to see other parcel polygons within the alignment buffer area:
We would like to request that the Align Parcels tool be enhanced so that it is possible to align a scenario like the one pictured above without receiving an error. For now, we can either create a dummy parcel adjacent to the selected parcels or drop one of the parcels from the alignment.
In our organization, we model posting plans as connection lines in the parcel fabric. In other jurisdictions, these types of plans may be called Monument plans, or Boundaries Act plans - they are survey plans with no parcels, only lines. In the scenario pictured above, we are attempting to align a block of parcels to a new posting plan - this is why we are selecting all parcels in that block to participate in the alignment and why all our alignment links go between the selected parcels and the connection lines representing the posting plan.
For us, this is a very common scenario and it would be ideal not to have to use a workaround.