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Wrongfully removed Little Free Library POI
Location 32.675616,-114.431768
City: Yuma
Country: United States
Additional Information (if any): This Little Free Library was removed today as a POI. I think this is due to the LFL not being on the post for maintenance for a couple days as it did get damaged. It since has been fixed and installed once again. I believe the removal of this POI was wrong and as it does meet all criteria. From time to time a LFL will need some repairs or maintenance. *EDIT Added photos of property lines from my county website showing the property line and the marker is outside of the property line falling on county property. The map isn’t super clear when zoomed in this much, but you can see the easement (concrete sidewalk) in the photo from the county and in my photos you can verify its location being at the edge of the sidewalk and outside of the property line.
above are links to the city site where the mapping is for boundaries and a link directly to the CADASTRAL Mapping System. This shows an proves that the POI was in fact was not placed on SFPRP Single Family Private Residential Property.
Thank you for the welcome to the forum! The LFL is actually placed on county property and has been approved so by the county. It is placed at a city bus stop. Do you know how long the appeal process can take? I dont thin this is the issue, as the LFL is not on SFPRP and meets all criteria for a POI. I believe the Isse was as stated, the LFL was removed for a couple days due to a damaged door that needed repaired de to wind damage. I believe this is why it as reported.
I can’t give you a standard time. Staff may reply to this today, tomorrow, or a couple of weeks if it is really busy here. If they haven’t responded in a couple of weeks, then I would bump this post.
Asking for reinstatement rather than just submitting it again is the smart way to go. It will have been removed for reasons.
It will hard to prove this is on public property since it is on the front yard of the private property. It would be very unusual for a property line to exclude the front yard, but if this is actually what happens here, you have a chance of reinstatement.
Well I did provide photos from the city that shows their mapping system proving the boundary of the property line and showing that it does not go all the way to the street. Attached is a link to the mapping system and the City site.
From the various screenshots, I get the idea that perhaps the pinned coordinates were farther from the street than the actual LFL location, so show up as being on the residential property instead of the public right of way.
It might be worth checking that and resubmitting with corrected coordinates.
Normally I wouldn’t either. I was predicating it on the removal being location based AND the possibility that the coordinates were inaccurate. Since as screenshots show, the pinned location was very close to the surveyed boundary.
The actual location of the POI is normally what causes a removal for being SFPRP. If the actual location and the wayspot location are different, this would cause a correction or a removal for being badly located.
Can you please explain as to why this POI was removed and why you will not reconsider its removal? It does follow all criteria for a POI 100% @NianticLC
@NianticLC attached is more proof that this POI was in the Public Right of Way as per the City of Yuma recorded documents. You can see in the various screen shots the Orange line represents the parcel boundary which indicates the location of the POI was not on SFPRP and in fact located upon the right away as officially and legally Designated by the the City of Yuma. When removing the layer “Right of Way” it shows the edge of the parcel boundary more clearly helping to further prove my case.
Also there is Land Surveyor Certificate, Development Services Certificate, among many others verifying the authenticity. I do ask that you take a further and deeper look into this matter as the POI follows all rules and requirements set forth by Niantic Wayferer.
Below are links to the City website to view the CADASTRAL mapping system shown in the screen shots.
I may be mis-understanding the maps but to me the “C9” mark is the concrete and will be city owned, the LFL is on the “pebbled area” off the concrete and “IMO” looks like the Residential property.
The road signs do confuse the situation but from a UK view this is not unheard of with street signs on screwed to boundary walls and even the house itself.
As stated the orange line is the property boundary and you can see this in the “legends” C9 is just the lot number and it can be removed from the photo through the different layers. I am not sure what about the street signs is confusing? Do you mean the Street name in the maps that are on the roads? Or the street sign on top of the stop sign in the original photos?
You can also see then I click on the parcel it highlights green and shows the parcel information. The POI location is outside of the parcel boundary in the public Right of Way at a city bus stop.
The marker is the location at which this wayspot was located and where the LFL is. This is categorically inside the green overlay which you have said is private property. You can even see this on your image.
