Bearings and distances shall be tabulated on the plan when they are too numerous to be drawn or shown clearly along or near the boundary line. The condition described is that they are:

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Bearings and distances are the measurements that define each boundary line. When there are many boundary lines, annotating every bearing and distance directly along or beside the boundary would clutter the drawing and make the geometry hard to read. In those cases, the plan includes a separate tabulation of the bearing and distance data. This rule describes exactly when to use that tabulation: when the data are too numerous to draw or show clearly along or near the boundary line. The purpose is to keep the plan legible while still providing all the necessary measurements for legal and surveying purposes. It isn’t about client demands or a fixed number of lots—it's about the density of data on the boundary.