REM 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Spatial Analysis, Commercial Property, Starbucks
Document Summary
Legal land description: an address (like 55 dundas st. west, toronto) does not adequately describe land from a legal point of view, most jurisdictions have not completed linked addresses to latitude and longitude. Ontario land description history: late 1700s, the province was divided into counties, then subdivided to townships, then split to concessions, then parcelled out into lots. One acre is about 200m by 200m. the land parcel would be described as. Lot 5 in concession ii in the township of anytown": the basics of this system are still in place today. Old, often along waterways, lots of 200 acres. Road allowances of 66 feet width: double front township. Lots likely to be around half the size, 100 acres. Metes means the distance and bounds means the direction directional bearing: all directions can be described as north degrees east, north degrees west,