Neighbor's dimensional anchor is drifting into my yard (Quelm Heights)
My neighbor installed a dimensional anchor last fall and it's been slowly drifting south ever since. It's now about a foot and a half past the property line into my yard, and the stabilization field is affecting my garden -- everything in a 3-foot radius around it is growing sideways.
I've talked to him twice and he says it's "within tolerance." I looked it up and municipal code says anchors need to be 4 feet from the property line. His is currently negative one feet from the property line, which is to say, in my yard.
Who do I even call about this?
You want the Dimensional Setback office at the county, not O.O.P.S. They handle anchor encroachment specifically. File form DS-4 (Anchor Drift Complaint). Be warned, they're going to send an inspector out and the inspector is going to measure from the anchor's ORIGINAL installation point, not its current position, so bring documentation showing where it's moved to.
Also, take photos of the sideways garden. That's strong evidence of field overlap and they take that seriously.
Had the same issue. Turned out my yard was the thing drifting, not the anchor. The anchor was doing exactly what it was supposed to -- my property had a slow positional drift that nobody caught because we don't get surveys done often enough. Worth checking before you escalate. My surveyor found my house had moved about eleven feet south over five years. It was very upsetting.