Hi @dvertz
OK. I see. I've done that many times and I can tell you with 100% confidence, your efforts to 'line up' will always be off. Why? Because that survey is wrinkled and that wrinkledness won't allow the property boundary (black pixels) in your image to be accurate.
You are dealing with parcel boundaries in the USA and that's public information. Many Counties in many States offer downloadable parcel outlines to the public free of charge and the county of your site, Norfolk County, is no exception. It offers parcel data that can be downloaded in shapefile format.
Attached you'll find a portion of the parcel shapefile for Norfolk County. I say portion because it only zeros-in on your specific area of the neighborhood, not the entire County. To get the parcels in a drawing, I'd suggest opening a new, brand new drawing first, adding the boundary or boundaries, then cutting-and-pasting from that new drawing into your working file.
The attached file is a zipped shapefile NOT DWG!!! Unzipped the folder first. To use it in a workflow applicable to Map3D, do this:
1. Open a clean, brand new drawing. Use MAPCSASSIGN and assign the State Plane and zone as shown in image-1.
Image-1
2. Use the MAPIMPORT command to import the shp that's contained in the unzipped folder. (Do NOT edit, add or delete contents contained in the unzipped folder--keep it as is. Be sure to Create Object Data. Grab ALL data that's in the shapefile's database even if you don't plan to use it. <<It's better to have it than not have it.>>
Image-2
3. Zoom extents to view. Don't forget, modelspace is accurately GEOREFERENCED to Virginia state Plane, NAD83, South Zone, feet. In the Layer Properties Manger you may change the layer to orange. The red arrow shows your parcel, correct? If you turn on Bing Hybrid you can use the aerial imagery as a basemap.
Image-3
4. When zoomed-in, your site is this. You may now cut-and-paste from this temporary drawing to your working drawing.
Image-4
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