LANDSCAPE: Site or development area characterized by plantings, screens, buffers, and other features intended to provide aesthetic or functional relief.
LIGHTING: The illumination of structures and/or buildings and signs.
LOT: A fractional part of divided lands having fixed boundaries, being of sufficient area and dimension to meet minimum zoning requirements for width and area. The term shall include tracts or parcels.
LOT AREA: The total horizontal area within the boundary lines of a lot, excluding any street right of way or access easement.
LOT, CORNER: A lot situated at the junction of and bordered by two (2) intersecting city streets, alleys and driveways are not considered public streets for the purposes of determining corner lots.
LOT DEPTH: The length of the lot measured on a line approximately perpendicular to the fronting street and midway between the side lot lines of the lot.
LOT LINE: Any line enclosing the lot area.
LOT LINE ADJUSTMENT: The adjustment of a boundary line between existing lots which results in no more lots than existed before the adjustment.
LOT LINE, FRONT: The line separating any lot or parcel of land from a street right of way. On a through lot, the line abutting the street providing primary access to the lot. In the case of a corner lot, the front line shall be considered to be along both street lot lines.
LOT LINE, REAR: The lot line opposite and most distant from the front lot line, and in the case of a triangular, irregular or other odd shaped lot, the line bordering the lot, generally parallel to, and at the maximum distance from the front lot line.
LOT LINE, SIDE: Any lot line that is not a street or rear lot line.
LOT OF RECORD: An area or parcel of land as shown on an officially recorded plat or subdivision, or an area or parcel of land to which a deed or contract is officially recorded as a unit of property, or which is described by metes and bounds or as a fraction of a section.
LOT SIZE AVERAGING: Lot size averaging is an approach to dividing land that allows a parcel to be divided such that some of the resulting lots are smaller than the minimum lot size required in the applicable zone, in order to preserve critical areas or other topographical adversities and provide greater flexibility, provided that the average lot size in the development as a whole meets the minimum lot size.
LOT, THROUGH: A lot fronting on two (2) streets that is not a corner lot.
LOT WIDTH: The distance between the side lot lines measured at right angles to the line establishing the lot depth at a point midway between the front lot line and the rear lot line. Any area used as an access easement shall be excluded from the computation of the lot width. (Ord. 792, 7-29-2004; amd. Ord. 2021-1073, 3-10-2021)