Land Surveying in Holly Springs, GA

Land Surveying in Holly Springs, Georgia

Every acre of Holly Springs is Cherokee County. No part of the city crosses a county line, so the recording question is settled before it is asked and the whole of the work sits with one clerk and one assessor. The 2020 Census put 16,213 residents and 6,353 housing units inside the city, which made Holly Springs the third most populous city in Cherokee County behind Woodstock and Canton. That density of rooftops is what most of the survey work here follows.

Deeds and plats are recorded by the Cherokee County Clerk of Superior Court at 90 North Street, Suite G-170, in Canton, roughly seven road miles north up I-575 and State Route 5. Ownership, acreage and assessed value come from a separate office, the Cherokee County Board of Assessors at 2782 Marietta Highway, Suite 200, which publishes parcel records on qPublic. Those two sets of records disagree more often than owners expect, because an assessor's acreage figure is an assessment number and a deed call is a legal one.

Plat review belongs to the Land Development team inside the Holly Springs Community Development Department at 3237 Holly Springs Parkway. A plat has to be prepared and reviewed by that staff before it is recorded, and the review looks for lot lines, building lines, rights of way, easements and setbacks, for the location of storm drainage structures, floodplains, water quality buffers and best management practices, and for the notes the city ordinance requires on the face of the sheet. Rezonings, zoning text amendments and conditional use permits go elsewhere. The Planning and Zoning Commission hears those and makes a recommendation to City Council.

A Holly Springs subdivision does not clear final inspection until as-built surveys are in hand. Land Development reviews them to confirm that what was built matches the approved plans, and the drawings have to document the storm drainage system down to inlets, pipes, outlets, swales and ditches, the stormwater best management practices, and the built upon impervious area. On a lot carrying an impervious limit, the figure on the as-built is the figure the city checks. Streets and infrastructure in a new subdivision are guaranteed by a bond program the same department administers.

Four named streams cross the city limits: Toonigh Creek, Avery Creek, Badger Creek and Blankets Creek. Their buffers and floodplains are why a plain residential lot survey in Holly Springs so often turns into a buffer question, and why the city inspects stream and lake buffers, erosion control and impervious limits during construction rather than only at the end. Roadway and drainage construction, proof rolling, stormwater management and zoning compliance are all inspected on site.

S&S Land Surveying is based at 549 West Ave in Cedartown. Bart Sims is the licensed Georgia land surveyor at the firm and signs and seals the plats. Estimates cost nothing.