Shadow Easement
I’ve been hired to prepare an easement for a billboard. Typical rectangle easement in the corner of a parcel. Then they want access for maintenance easement as well. And lastly I have been asked to include the location of the shadow of the sign. Of course they don’t want to pay someone to (nor would I want to) be there all day tracing the shadow as it moves along the ground. Not to mention, the property is in the Northern Hemisphere and this is short of a month from the summer solstice. I brought up these reasonable questions, and they said well we will just add a buffer around the sign for the shadow. I am not going to represent that I know where the shadow is, or is going to be, just by adding a buffer. I did a quick search on here to see if it had been discussed before and did not see anything come up so my question to fellow surveyors…
It seems like with the latitude and height of the sign, there should be a way to calculate how long of a shadow would be cast.
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