Los Angeles County · Land Surveying
Agoura Hills incorporated in 1982 to protect its oaks and open space, and the city kept its word — a Santa Monica Mountains gateway below Ladyface peak, with Old Agoura's equestrian lanes, conservancy edges, and now the world's largest wildlife crossing rising over the 101.
Oak lot, horse property, or open-space edge — tell us the parcel and we will scope lines and terrain together. Call (213) 787-3342 to talk it through.
The 1982 incorporation vote was explicitly about protection — open space, native plants, and oak trees — and the city that resulted wears it: hillside neighborhoods threaded with trails, Old Agoura's horse properties along unhurried lanes, and the Reyes Adobe, the area's first home from 1850, preserved as a city landmark below Ladyface's 2,031-foot profile.
Survey work here serves that character. Oak protection shapes where improvements and even monuments can go; equestrian parcels carry barns, corrals, and trail easements; conservancy and open-space lands border private lots along recorded edges; and the 101 corridor — now crossed by the Wallis Annenberg wildlife bridge at Liberty Canyon — has its own frontage history.
Hillside retracement works subdivisions that curved with the terrain, under a canopy the city defends. Protected oaks near lines and corners call for careful technique — offset monuments, precise search, no needless disturbance — and projects that touch tree protection zones want trunk and canopy locations mapped alongside the boundary. We plan all of it into the scope.
The recorded edges matter as much as the lines. Conservancy and parkland boundaries run behind many parcels, trail easements serve Old Agoura's equestrian network, and open-space dedications from the subdivision era encumber hillside banks. We plot the instruments against the boundary so fences, corrals, and clearing stay where the record allows.
Six services carry the city's work — lines, terrain, and the oak and open-space edges that define it:
The projects that bring Agoura Hills owners in usually involve:
Any of these focus the research and firm the number:
We research the subdivision and open-space records together, confirm scope with you, then field the work with respect for the oaks. The sequence is on our how it works page.
It changes the technique, not the result. Corners under canopy get recovered by precise search or preserved by offset references rather than excavation, and where a project touches the tree protection rules, we map trunks and driplines with the boundary so your plans respect both. The oaks stay; the lines get established.
Lines and the recorded trail network, together. Corrals and barns get sited from located boundaries and setbacks, and the community's trail easements — which shape what can be fenced where — get plotted from the record. It is the same discipline as any estate survey, with tack rooms.
Construction of that scale reworks frontage, drainage, and access details around it, all by recorded instruments — and nearby owners sometimes discover their own records deserve a refresh. A current survey documents your boundary and improvements as a baseline while the area around them evolves.
On a recorded line we can retrace and mark — and it frequently sits somewhere other than the brush line or fence suggests. Owners along conservancy edges value the certainty in both directions: improvements stay on private land, and the protected land stays whole.
Where widenings touched them, yes — by recorded takes and dedications we retrace like any instrument. Corridor-adjacent owners occasionally plan from pre-widening dimensions; the survey replaces those with the parcel as it exists today, including any access rights the corridor work created or removed.
We serve property throughout Agoura Hills and across Los Angeles County — request a survey quote for any parcel in the area.
Survey scope and deliverables depend on title records, site conditions, and what your project requires. Call (213) 787-3342 to discuss the property and the survey you need.
Call Southern California Land Surveyors at (213) 787-3342 with the parcel and the plan, and we will scope lines, terrain, and the recorded edges together.