land surveys aren't just done for fun, they're done for legal compliance. and if the law you need to comply with requires something to be measured in feet, the

land surveys aren't just done for fun, they're done for legal compliance. and if the law you need to comply with requires something to be measured in feet, the surveyor needs to provide a measurement in feet. until the NOAA and NIST have the power to rewrite all the zoning laws (at the federal, state, and local levels) that say roads must be X feet wide, or structures must be set back X feet from the property line, or utilities need to be buried X feet away from something, the reports that surveyors produce will need to include measurements in feet (or at the very least, there needs to be an official conversion factor between metres and feet, which is what is being discussed here).