08-21-14 Regular Meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission

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SubpartBLANDUSEREGULATIONS Chapter106ZONING ARTICLEI.INGENERAL transportable section or component of each industrialized house or building to indicate compliance with the state standards. An industrialized house or building is not a mobile or manufactured home as defined herein. Landscape buffers means use of landscaping to provide separation between dissimilar land uses. Width is based on the zoning of the development and abutting property and adjoining streets. Landscaped means adorned or improved by contouring land and placing thereon live flowers, shrubs, trees, grass, wood, stone, and ponds or streams. Light truck means any truck, as defined in this chapter, with a limited manufacturers rated carrying capacity. This definition is intended to include those trucks with such rated carrying capacity being not in excess of one ton, panel delivery trucks and carryall trucks. Loading berth means a parking area provided for commercial motor vehicles, designed for the receipt or distribution by such vehicles of materials or merchandise to or from the use to which such parking area is accessory. Loading Dock means a recessed bay in a building or facility where trucks are loaded and unloaded. They are commonly found on commercial and industrial buildings and warehouses in particular. Loading docks may be exterior, flush with the building envelope, or fully enclosed. They are part of a facility's service or utility infrastructure, typically providing direct access to staging areas, storage rooms, and freight elevator. Lot area per dwelling unit means the lot area required for each dwelling unit located on a building lot. Lot, corner means a building lot situated at the intersection of two existing or proposed street rights- of-way, the interior angle of such intersection not exceeding 135 degrees. Lot coverage means the area under roof on any given lot. Lot, depth means the mean horizontal distance between the front lot line and the rear lot line of the building lot measured within the lot boundary. Lot, interior means a building lot other than a corner lot. Lot line means a boundary of a building lot. Lot line, front means that boundary of a building lot which is the line of an existing or dedicated street. Upon corner lots either street line may be selected as the front lot line providing a front and rear yard are provided adjacent and opposite, respectively to the front lot line. Lot line, rear means that boundary of a building lot which is most distant from and is, or is most nearly parallel to the front lot line. Lot line, side means any boundary of a building lot which is not a front lot line or a rear lot line. Lot of record means an area of land designated as a lot on a plat of a subdivision recorded pursuant to statutes of the state with the county clerk or an area of land held in single ownership described by metes and bounds upon a deed recorded or registered with the county clerk. Lot, residential large means a home site for a single-family home that is comprised of at least one acre (43,560 square feet). Minimum lot width shall be 90 feet. Lot, single-family dwelling, special means any residential lot for single-family dwelling purposes with an area of less than 6,000 square feet, but greater than 4,500 square feet. Lot, through means a building lot not a corner lot, both the front and rear lot lines of which adjoin street lines. On a through lot both street lines shall be deemed front lot lines. LaPorte,Texas,CodeofOrdinancesPage9