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• Sep 27, 2026 What Is an Encroachment An encroachment is a structure or use that crosses a lot line or an easement without a right to be there.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Lot Split A lot split divides one parcel into two or more parcels under the local land-division rules.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Lot Merger A lot merger, or combination, joins two or more lots into one tax parcel or one building site.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Minor Subdivision A minor subdivision is a small land division the local code allows with a shorter review than a full subdivision plat.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Remainder Parcel A remainder is the piece left after a split, the part the owner did not convey.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Parent Tract The parent tract is the larger parcel that existed before a split or a subdivision.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Boundary Line Agreement A boundary line agreement is a recorded instrument in which neighbors accept a line, often where the monuments are uncertain.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Party Wall A party wall is a shared wall on or astride a lot line, with rights in both owners, usually written in a recorded agreement or on the plat.
• Sep 27, 2026 Condo Plat vs Subdivision Plat A subdivision plat divides land into lots. A condo plat divides a building or a tract into units and common elements.
• Sep 27, 2026 How Townhouse Lot Lines Work Townhouse plats often put a lot line through the common wall so each home sits on its own lot.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is Common Area on a Plat Common area is land the plat sets aside for shared use, usually owned by an association.
• Sep 27, 2026 HOA Tracts on a Subdivision Plat HOA tracts are the pieces the plat conveys or reserves to the association instead of to a lot buyer.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Double Frontage Lot A double-frontage lot has street frontage on two opposite sides, sometimes called a through lot.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Reverse Frontage Lot Reverse frontage means the house fronts the local street while the rear of the lot faces a highway or arterial.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Pie Shaped Lot A pie-shaped lot is narrow at the street and wide at the rear, common on the outside of a curve.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is an Irregular Lot An irregular lot has more than four sides, or sides that are not close to parallel, because of a curve, a creek, or a remainder.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Landlocked Parcel A landlocked parcel has no recorded access to a public road.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is an Ingress and Egress Easement Ingress and egress means the right to enter and leave, the core of an access easement.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Blanket Easement A blanket easement covers an entire tract instead of a defined strip.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Prescriptive Easement A prescriptive easement is a right to cross land that may arise from long, open, adverse use, if that state's tests are met.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is an Exclusive Easement An exclusive easement gives the holder the sole right to use the strip for the purpose stated, keeping even the fee owner from using it in a conflicting way.
• Sep 27, 2026 Overhead vs Underground Utility Easements An overhead easement allows wires and poles. An underground easement allows buried lines. A general utility easement may allow both.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Drainage Swale on a Plat A drainage swale is a shallow grassed channel the plat uses to move stormwater without a pipe.
• Sep 27, 2026 Floodplain Line vs Lot Line A floodplain line is a mapped water elevation. A lot line is the edge of the property.