GP Salmen & Associates

I founded GP Salmen & Associates in 1990 so that I could practice Land Surveying cost-effectively with a strong emphasis on service. 25 years later I and my staff, which now includes my son Travis, are continuing to do exactly that. Another forte of GP Salmen & Associates is our ability to process projects smoothly through the local City and County Agencies, including Records of Surveys, Lot Line Adjustments, Certificates of Compliance, and Parcel Maps. That is because, for many years, I was a contract consultant to both the City of Ventura and the Ventura County Surveyor's Office, plan checking the work of my fellow land surveyors.

Ventura County builders often require construction staking. Construction staking is a unique branch of land survey because it involves the immediate use of the survey, in the field, for construction. It means that an easy to understand 24×36" staking plan (often referred to as a "Cut Sheet" ) be left on the site the day of. Whenever practical, the GP Salmen & Associates staking plan will be the same scale as the project plans. And, for GP Salmen & Associates, the immediate nature of the construction survey triggers a very close coordination by us with the contractors and/or subcontractors with regard to offsets, line stakes, and prioritization of tasks, before we mobilize.

The following are some of the dominant Land Surveying Services within our fields of expertise. Additional information about FEMA Certificates and Topographic Surveys is in the Articles Section of this website. Property owners frequently want to know the true location of their property lines because they are planning to erect fencing or build block walls along the parcel or lot property lines, also known as boundaries. Rather than guess the location of the boundaries, or make a conservative estimate in their neighbor's favor, we encourage property owners to get a Boundary Survey so that they don't create an encroachment onto their neighbor or give up the use of portions of their land.

We provide topographic surveys that are complete for the architectural needs, and easy to read for the client. We proudly continue to serve Ventura County and neighboring communities, from Calabasas to Camarillo, Ojai to Oxnard, in Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks, and Malibu.