Easement are important, if you have all the information for them. I've found that many tax-assessment shops rarely track them. The County clerk/recorder would have to store them for easy retrieval and a deed examiner route them to the mapping office. Easements are easily managed when they are included on new subdivisions and merge and split deed descriptions, but harder when recorded with straight-transfer and other documents.
With that being said, if you have easements and would like them to be included, they are best suited for the "encumbrance" layer as parcels if you use the local government GDB and Parcel Editing template.
And to answer your question about accuracy...they need to have a low accuracy weighting for the Least-Squares adjustment (Fabric Adjustment or LSA). I would give them a "6" accuracy, or maybe even a "7". Accuracy 6 will have little or no influence on the LSA and Accuracy 7 will be excluded completely from any Fabric adjustment.
Hope this helps.
Chris
Nick, have you tried using the Construct from parent command on multiple parcels? See this link
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Creating_new_parcels_from_multiple_exi...
Now in the above link in the screenshots, I selected those 4 parcels, and did a Construct from parent. I then used the Parallel Offset command to offset a construction line to represent the split line I will use to create the easement. I then marked the internal lines Unbuildable (dont want to use those lines as split lines). Then I built the parcels, keeping all of them current. Now this process will build two parcels, one on either side of the split line - just delete the parcel you dont want and keep the easement parcel you do want.
Does this help?
Christine
Nick, have you tried using the Construct from parent command on multiple parcels? See this link
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Creating_new_parcels_from_multiple_exi...
Now in the above link in the screenshots, I selected those 4 parcels, and did a Construct from parent. I then used the Parallel Offset command to offset a construction line to represent the split line I will use to create the easement. I then marked the internal lines Unbuildable (dont want to use those lines as split lines). Then I built the parcels, keeping all of them current. Now this process will build two parcels, one on either side of the split line - just delete the parcel you dont want and keep the easement parcel you do want.
Does this help?
Christine
Ok, based on your attached images, I can see what you are trying to do. I will take a look and see if there is a valid workflow out there to facilitate the easement you are trying to create. Definately looks like you will be wanting to work with a "donut" polygon for your easement that spans many parcels in different directions
Hi Nick
So essentially what you need to do is create the easement donut polygon for each parcel in the subdivision and then merge them altogether. I found the easiest way to do this is to do the following:
1. Right-click the first parcel you want to work with and click Duplicate to duplicate it. The duplicate parcel is now in the Parcel Explorer window - unjoined.
2. Right-click the unjoined parcel in the Parcel Explorer and click Construction - the parcel will open in the map (or, it was easier for me to work with the parcel in a local coordinate system - standalone).
3. Enter your part connector line: This line will start from an outer corner and go inwards to create the inner boundary if the easement polygon. You will need to calculate this part connector line. It doesnt matter which corners you use. You can also use multiple part connectors in a sequence as well.
4. Starting from the end point of the part connector line, traverse in the inner boundary of the easement - see attached graphic
5. Build and keep all current
6. Join the easement parcel on top of its parent parcel
7. Unjoin and delete the inner, island parcel, you just want to keep the outer, donut easement parcel. I just selected the parcels and found which one the island parcel was using the Parcel Explorer
8. Then do the same for the adjacent parcels.
9.Then select the adjacent easement parcels and merge them
See attached graphic - Merged easement parcels
So there are a few steps to this workflow, but it is the only way I can think of to achieve want you want short of writing a utility/AddIn that automates some of these steps.
Does this help?
Christine