For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACCESSORY BUILDING. A subordinate building excluding garages, having a use customarily incidental to the main structure. A structure housing an accessory use is considered part of the main structure and not an ACCESSORY BUILDING when it has part of a wall in common with the main structure or is under an extension of the main roof and designated as part of the main structure.
ACREAGE.
(1) GROSS. The acreage included within the boundary of a plat.
(2) NET. The acreage included within the boundary line of a particular subdivision, tract, parcel, lot, etc., but excluding all public right-of-ways (abbreviated R.O.W.).
ALLEY. A public right-of-way less in size than a street, designed for the special accommodation of the property it reaches, and not intended for general travel or primary access.
APPLICANT. The owner or the authorized representative of land proposed to be subdivided or platted.
BLOCK. A tract of land bounded by streets, or by a combination of streets and a public parks, cemeteries, railroad rights-of-way, shore lines of waterways, or boundary lines of municipalities.
BOND. Any form of security including cash deposit, surety bonds, collateral, property, or instrument of credit in an amount and form satisfactory to the City Council.
BUILD. To erect, convert, enlarge, reconstruct, restore, or alter a building or structure.
BUILDING. Any structure which is built for the support, shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels, or moveable property of any kind.
BUILDING SETBACK LINE. The line within a property defining the minimum horizontal distance between a building and the adjacent street line.
CENTRAL SEWER SYSTEM. The collection of sewage from substantially all lots in the subdivision for disposal at a centrally located site.
CITY. The Town of Lakeside, Texas.
COMMISSION. The Planning and Zoning Commission of the town.
COMMON AREA. Private lots owned and maintained by the property owners’ association.
COMPREHENSIVE MASTER PLAN. Those plans and policies adopted by the City Council as a guide to the systematic physical development of the town.
COUNCIL. The City Council of the Town of Lakeside.
COUNTY PLAT RECORDS. The plat records of Tarrant County, Texas.
CROSSWALK WAY. A public right-of-way, 12 feet or more in width between property lines, which provides for pedestrian circulation.
DENSITY.
(1) GROSS. The number of dwelling units per gross acre.
(2) NET. The number of dwelling units per net acre.
DESIGN CRITERIA MANUAL. A document approved by the City Council which described the construction criteria used by the Town of Lakeside.
DEVELOPER. The authorized representative of or the owner of land proposed to be subdivided or developed.
DEVELOPMENT. Any activity that requires the submission of a subdivision plat, development plan or the securing of a building permit.
EASEMENT. A right granted for the purposes of limited public or semi-public use across, over, or under private land.
(1) COMMON ACCESS. An easement which is intended to provide shared drives for commercial, industrial and high-density residential developments. These easements are privately owned and maintained by the adjacent lot owners.
(2) DRAINAGE. (Abbreviated D.E., typically D.U.E. when combined with utility easements.) A delineated portion of land set aside for the overland or underground transfer of storm water. This area shall not have any permanent structures, fences, or other obstacles hindering the safe transfer of water through the easement.
(3) EMERGENCY ACCESS. An easement for the purpose of ingress, egress, access and passage to and across private property for police, fire and other public safety and governmental vehicles and personnel. This easement is privately owned and maintained by the owners of the land encumbered by the easement and typically used in conjunction with private streets.
(4) PEDESTRIAN ACCESS. A public easement for the purpose of pedestrian ingress and egress and passage to and across private property. The owners of the land encumbered by the easement shall maintain the property.
(5) PRIVATE ACCESS. An agreement between two parties for the purpose of limited private access across, over, or under private land.
(6) PUBLIC LANDSCAPE. (Abbreviated P.L.E.) A public easement typically located adjacent to thoroughfare street R.O.W. for the purpose of planting trees or other landscape plants. Maintenance of the easement shall be the responsibility of the land owner; however, the town has the right to maintain, through pruning, replacement or other means, any plantings placed in the easement.
(7) UTILITY EASEMENT. An easement generally used for the installation, maintenance and operation of water, sewer, electric, telephone, cable, gas and other similar utilities. No permanent structures other than fences shall be allowed in these easements.
ENGINEER. Any person who has been licensed and registered by the Texas State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers to engage in the practice of civil engineering.
ESCROW. Money placed in an escrow account in the possession or the town to accomplish the purpose set out in this chapter, including, but not limited to the following: purchase of right-of-way, design and construction of drainage and sanitary sewer facilities, water, curb, gutter and pavement.
EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION (ETJ). The area of land lying outside and adjacent to the corporate limits of the Town of Lakeside over which the Town of Lakeside has legal control as set forth in Chapter 42 of the Local Government Code [within one mile of the corporate limits].
F.E.M.A. Federal Emergency Management Agency.
FLOOD. A temporary rise in stream level that results in inundation of areas not ordinarily covered by water.
FLOOD HAZARD BOUNDARY MAP (F.H.B.M.). An official map of the community issued by the Federal Insurance Administration, where special flood hazard areas have been designated.
FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAP (F.I.R.M.). An official community map showing special flood hazard areas and the risk premium zones applicable to the community as issued by the Federal Insurance Administration.
FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY. The official Federal Insurance Administration report containing profiles, the water surface elevation of the base flood and the flood hazard boundary map.
FLOODFRINGE. The area located within the floodplain and outside of the floodway.
FLOODPLAIN. An area identified by F.E.M.A. as possibly being flood-prone or below the immediate floodline (100-year floodplain).
FLOODWAY. The area regulated by federal, state, or local requirements to provide for the discharge for the base flow, so that the cumulative increase in water surface elevation is no more than a designated amount within the 100-year floodplain. A river, channel, or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than a designated height. Normally, the FLOODWAY will include the stream channel and that portion of the adjacent land areas required to pass the base flood (100-year flood) discharge without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation at any point more than one foot above that of the pre-floodway condition, including those designated on the Flood Insurance Rate Map.
FRONTAGE. Land contiguous to, and having access to a dedicated public street.
LOT. An undivided tract or parcel of land having frontage on a public street or approved private street and which is, or in the future may be offered for sale, conveyance, transfer or improvement, which is designated as a distinct and separate tract, and which is identified by a tract or lot number or symbol in a duly approved plat which has been properly filed of record.
MARKER. A permanent iron rod generally used on lot corners, points of curvature and tangency.
MONUMENT. A permanent concrete survey monument generally used on subdivision property corners adjacent to public right-of-way.
OWNER. Any person having legal title to the subject property. The term OWNER shall also include the OWNER’S authorized agent or representative.
PAVEMENT WIDTH. The portion of a street available for vehicular traffic where curbs are laid. PAVEMENT WIDTH is the portion between the face of curbs.
PERSON. An individual, firm, partnership, corporation, organization, association or other entity.
PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT. A development concept which allows flexibility in accordance with the zoning ordinance.
PLAT. The schematic representation of the division of land in accordance with this chapter.
(1) AMENDING. A plat which meets the procedures and requirements as set forth in Chapter 212 of the Tex. Local Government Code.
(2) FINAL. A plat which substantially conforms to the approved preliminary plat, unless otherwise specified in this chapter, and contains all or a portion of the property within the approved preliminary plat. A FINAL PLAT as referenced in this chapter may also refer to a plat revision, replat, amending plat or minor plat. Only FINAL PLATS may be filed of record in the county plat records.
(3) MINOR. A plat which contains four or fewer lots, and is less than three acres in size, fronting on an existing street and not requiring the creation of any new street or the extension of municipal facilities.
(4) PRELIMINARY. The initial plat or working draft map or plan of a proposed development showing the general layout of streets, blocks and lots, utility systems and drainage submitted for approval by the Planning and Zoning Commission.
(5) REPLAT. A revision to a recorded plat, but does not follow the same procedure as an amending plat.
PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY. A water supply and distribution system owned and operated by a municipality or public water district as opposed to a privately owned or user owned system.
PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR. Town staff person responsible for administering the development provisions of this chapter.
REGULATORY FLOOD. A flood which is representative of large floods known to have occurred generally in the area and reasonably characteristic of what can be expected to occur on a particular stream. The REGULATORY FLOOD generally occurs once approximately every 100 years as determined from an analysis of floods on a particular stream and other streams in the same general region.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. (Abbreviated ROW.) A strip of land, other than a drainage or utility easement, occupied or intended to be occupied by a street, crosswalk, railroad, road, electric transmission line, oil or gas pipeline, water main, sanitary or storm sewer main, or for another special use.
STREET. A traveled roadway and public right-of-way, however designated, which provides vehicular access to adjacent land.
(1) ARTERIAL. A through street designed for the movement of heavy traffic volume intended to carry traffic from collector streets to state/county highways.
(2) COLLECTOR. A street intended to move traffic from minor collector or local streets to or toward the arterial and state/county street system.
(3) COUNTY SECTION. A street located within the extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) of the town, built to specifications determined by the county and maintained by the county.
(4) CUL-DE-SAC. A street that intersects only one street and terminates at the opposite end with a vehicular turnaround.
(5) DEAD-END. A street that terminates without a vehicular turnaround.
(6) ESTATE SECTION. Any street without concrete curb and gutter, but not including state, county or federal highways.
(7) INTERNAL. Generally, any street whose entire width is contained within a development.
(8) MARGINAL ACCESS. A street which is parallel to and adjacent to an arterial street and primarily provides access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
(9) MINOR COLLECTOR. A street which is local in character and use, but due to its configuration within the development, serves as a collector of local streets; thereby, connecting them to a collector street.
(10) MINOR or LOCAL. A street which provides access from individual tracts to minor collectors or collector streets.
(11) PERIMETER. Any street which abuts a development or one whose width lies partly within a development and partly without.
(12) PRIVATE. A street which is similar to public streets and roadways except that ownership and maintenance is privately used and retained and is not dedicated to the public for general use and maintenance.
(13) STATE/COUNTY. State Highway 199, F.M. 1886 or other state or county designated streets.
SUBDIVISION. A division of any tract of land situated within the corporate limits, or extraterritorial jurisdiction of the town into two or more parts for the purpose of laying out a subdivision of any tract of land or an addition to the town, or laying out suburban lots or building lots, or any lots, or streets, alleys, parks or other portions intended for public use or the use of purchasers or owners of lots fronting thereon or adjacent thereto. SUBDIVISION includes resubdivision, but it does not include the division of land into parcels or tracts of greater than five acres and not involving the dedication of any new street, alley or easement of access or public improvements. The use of the term SUBDIVISION in this chapter may also refer to a single lot that is proposed to be developed.
SURVEYOR. Any person registered as a registered public surveyor or licensed state land surveyor by the Texas Board of Land Surveying.
TOWN. The Town of Lakeside, Texas.
TOWN ADMINISTRATOR. The chief administrative officer of the town appointed by the City Council, or his or her designee.
TOWN ENGINEER. Town staff person responsible for administering the engineering design requirements of this chapter.
TOWN PLANNER. Town staff person responsible for administering the planning and zoning processes and ordinances requirements, or his or her designee.
TxDOT. Texas Department of Transportation.
(Ord. 353, passed 7-10-2013)