About John B. (JB) Guyton
John B. (JB) Guyton, the Chairman/CEO of Flatirons, Inc. also serves as the President of the Professional Land surveyors of Colorado. He is the majority owner and principal surveyor of Flatirons, Inc. in Boulder, Colorado. He has been in the surveying profession since 1969, and is licensed in Colorado, Wyoming, California, Arizona and Nevada. He is the President and a sustaining member of the Professional Land Surveyors of Colorado, is a past president of the Colorado Section of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, and is a Colorado Representative and board member of the Western Federation of Pro fessional Surveyors. He has worked as a contributor to the state licensing examination process for Land Surveyor licensure, has been a contributor to legislation regarding monumentation and plat recordation, and he has acted as an advisor to the Colorado Attorney General's Office regarding questions on professional standards for registered surveyors and law pertaining to boundary surveys. Through his involvement with the PLSC, he continues to work to increase the quality and availability of local Surveying and Mapping programs.
Achievements:
- Counselor to the Colorado Attorney General's Office regarding questions on professional standards for registered surveyors and law pertaining to boundary surveys.
- Contributor to the state licensing examination process for Land Surveyor certificationand to legislation regarding monumentation and plat recordation
- Expert witness in court cases involving boundary and title disputes
- Knowledgeable in Land Law
- Testimony to the State Legislature regarding Senate Bill 87Speaker at Half Moon Colorado Real Estate Titles & Title Insurance Seminar, 1997
- Selected by the Survey Quorum as a panel member monitoring activities of registrants under review by the State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors, 1988 - 1998 and 2002
- Court appointed Boundary Commissioner for multiple court cases
- Colorado representative, National Council of Engineering Examiners
- Speaker at GIS In The Rockies Conference, 2002
- Speaker at Lorman Real Estate Descriptions and Survey Review Seminar, 2005
Memberships:
- Colorado Representative and Board Member, Western Federation of Proffessional Surveyors
- Past President, Colorado Section, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
- President and Sustaining Member, Professional Land Surveyors of Colorado, Inc.
- Board Member and Speaker, GIS in the Rockies Conference
Publications:
- “Letter to the membership in support of the Metro State Surveying Program”, February 1993 Sideshots Journal of the PLSC
- Flatirons Surveying informational brochure, “What Kind of Survey Do I Need?”
- PLSC informational pamphlet, “When you need a Land Survey”
- Quarterly “Letter from the President”, Side Shots PLSC Publication
- “Beware the ILC Survey”, Denver Business Journal, July 22-28, 2005
- “Drainage System Design Critically Important for Projects”, Boulder County Business Report Book of Experts, 2005
- “Professional Land Surveyors of Colorado - Making a Difference through Standards of Care, Ethics, and Education”, Side Shots, May, 2006
- “Property Line Agreements Do Not Constitute Subdivisions of Land Subject to Review By Local Authorities” , Guyton & Bristow, Side Shots, May 2006
- The Path to the Proper Summit of the Rockies, by John B. Guyton, PLS; Once in a lifetime, an opportunity may present itself to re-trace the footsteps of the original surveyors of a line so significant that it shaped the course of our country’s growth. Read the article!
- “Will GIS Do Away With the Need for Land Surveys?”, Boulder County Business Report Book of Experts, 2007
Denver Business Journal, July 2005
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