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Subpart B-LAND USE REGULATIONS <br />Chapter 1Q6-ZONING <br />ARTICLE i|NGENERAL <br />Lot area per dwelling unit means the lot area required for each dwelling unit located on a building lot. <br />Lot, corner means a building lot situated at the intersection of two existing or proposed street h8hts- <br />Lot coverage means the area under roof mnany given lot. <br />Lot, depth means the mean horizontal distance between the front lot line and the rear lot line of the <br />building lot measured within the lot boundary. <br />Lot, interior means abuilding lot other than acorner kt. <br />Lot line means a boundary of a building lot. <br />Lot line, front means that boundary of o building lot which is the line of an existing or dedi�cahed <br />street. Upon corner lots either street line may be selected as the front lot line providing a front and rear <br />yard are provided adjacent and opposite, respectively to the front lot line. <br />Lot line, rear means that boundary of e building lot which is most distant from and is. or is most <br />nearly parallel tothe front lot line. <br />Lot line, side means any boundary ofobuilding lot which innot afront lot line orerear lot line. <br />Lot ofrecord means an area of land designated as a lot on a plat of a subdivision recorded pursuant <br />to statutes of the state with the county clerk or an area of land held in single ownership described by <br />metes and bounds upon a deed recorded or registered with the county clerk. <br />Lot, residential large moans o home site for single-family home that is comprised of at least one <br />acre (43.560 square feet). Minimum lot width shall be SO feet. <br />Lot, single-family dwelling, special means any residential lot for single-family dvve||imQ purposes with <br />anarea ofless than 0.00Osquare feet, but greater than 4.5UOsquare feet. <br />Lot, through means a building lot not a corner |ot, both the front and rear lot lines of which adjoin <br />street lines. Dnathrough lot both street lines shall be deemed front lot lines. <br />Lot, width maema the minimum distance measured in a straight line between the side lot lines of <br />building lot along estraight line, which shall bemnthe side ofthe building. <br />Manufactured housing means m struntuma, transportable in one or more sectimns, which in the <br />traveling mode is eight body feet or more in m/|dUl mr4U feet in |emgth, or, when erected on -site. is 320 or <br />more square feet in size and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling <br />with or without a foundation system when connected to the required utilities, and includes the p|unnbing, <br />heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems contained therein. Such manufactured housing may or <br />may not beconstructed under H.U.0.specifications. <br />Manufactured housing parks means a development under single ownership intended for the rental or <br />leasing only ofmanufactured housing units. <br />Manufactured housing subdivision means a subdivision designed and/or intended for the sale of lots <br />for residential occupancy by manufactured housing meeting H.U.D. specifications aoestablished under <br />the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Act. <br />Mobile home means a structure that was constructed before June 15. 1976. transportable in one or <br />more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or4O body feet or more in <br />|ength, or, when erected on site, is 320 or more square feet, and which is built on apermanent chassis <br />and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the <br />required utNities, and includes the p|umbing, heating, eipoonditinminQ, and electrical systems. <br />Multi -family residential developmentmeans the use ofalot for four ormore dwelling units, within one <br />La Porte, Texas, Code of Ordinances Page 7 <br />