You may have noticed by now that our cul-de-sac situation needs to be updated a bit as it relates to our linework. As with most designs, there tends to be a bit of scope creep, and very rarely are we able to complete a design in our first pass.

In this instance, we had originally laid out our parcels with the assumption that the roadway following our ALG – Subdivision Side Road – Cul-De-Sac alignment would be a dead end. Our client has now asked that we make this an official cul-de-sac, which will require us to adjust our parcel layout slightly to accommodate the extended turnaround capacity.

That said, utilizing a combination of our AutoCAD tools and our Civil 3D tools, we’ll need to make a few adjustments to our Residential Subdivision design. To update our Right-of-Way and parcels in the vicinity of our cul-de-sac, we’ll want to start by opening up our Site Plan Reference.dwg file located within...