Acreage Land Surveying LLC of Shoreline

Acreage Land Surveying LLC of Shoreline is a surveyor in Shoreline, WA. Founded in 1999 as a local, family-run business, the firm offers consulting services in land surveying, land development, and planning throughout the Puget Sound Region. Its surveying work covers topographic surveys that detail existing site conditions such as structures, improvements, utilities, contours, and trees; site plans showing the arrangement of buildings, parking, drives, and landscaping; ALTA/ACSM surveys prepared to set standards that show boundaries, improvements, use, occupation, and easement locations; boundary surveys that define the exterior boundaries and corners of a parcel and flag easements and encroachments; subdivision work including short plats, formal plats, and binding site plans; and construction staking that interprets construction plans and marks the location of proposed roads or buildings. The firm holds a rating of 5.00.

The business is led by Jouni Paavola, a Professional Land Surveyor in Washington State. He trained at Mikkeli Technical and Vocational College and began his surveying career in Finland before moving to Washington in the 1990s, settling in Edmonds. He gained technical experience with firms including D. R. Strong Consulting Engineers and Hammond Collier Wade Livingstone before founding Acreage Land Surveying LLC in 2008. Jouni and his family continue to run the business as a small, mom-and-pop operation. The firm uses a robotic total station for remote operation, shifting effort from manually recording angles and distances to calculating and verifying measurements, along with survey-grade GPS receivers that establish location points without a clear line of sight, allowing work in challenging conditions.

The firm's clients include private residential owners, who make up most of its projects, alongside public-facing organizations. A client who hired ALS for a complete residential lot survey, later recorded with the county, described Jouni as knowledgeable and referred others to the firm. A small construction company building single-family homes has used ALS for topographic surveys for building and permitting needs for over five years, reporting surveys and county recording returned within about a week. Another client of over five years cited attention to detail, quick turnaround, and having a single point of contact who handles all parts of the work.

Acreage Land Surveying serves Shoreline and the greater Seattle area from its location on 107th Pl W.