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• Sep 27, 2026 What Lot Depth Means on a Plat Lot depth is the distance from the front line toward the rear, defined by the code or shown between two lines on the plat.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Lot Frontage Means on a Plat Frontage is the length of the lot line that touches the street right of way.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Corner Clip on a Plat A corner clip is a short diagonal the plat cuts across a lot's street corner, often dedicated as extra right of way.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Chamfered Corner on a Lot A chamfer is the angled corner of a lot where the plat replaced a sharp intersection corner with a short diagonal line.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Vision Clearance Easement A vision clearance easement keeps a triangle at a driveway or corner free of obstacles above a stated height.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Turnaround Easement A turnaround easement gives a neighbor or the public a place to turn a vehicle at the end of a narrow drive or a dead-end.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Temporary Construction Easement A temporary construction easement lets a project enter a strip of a lot for grading or access, then ends.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Slope Easement A slope easement allows a road or a neighbor to keep fill or cut on your lot so the street bank stays stable.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Retaining Wall Easement A retaining wall easement allows a wall and its footings to stand on a lot, often for a neighbor's grade or a road.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is an Aerial Easement An aerial easement is a right in the airspace, used for wires, a bridge, or a balcony that crosses a line.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Subsurface Easement A subsurface easement is a right below a stated depth, used for tunnels, deep utilities, or a basement encroachment that was settled.
• Sep 27, 2026 Mineral Rights and the Lot Line The lot line on a plat describes the surface lot. Mineral rights can be severed and owned by someone else.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is the Surface Estate The surface estate is the ownership of the ground you can stand on, as opposed to minerals or an easement.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is an Acreage Tract An acreage tract is land described by area and a boundary, not by a lot number in a dense subdivision.
• Sep 27, 2026 Platted Lot vs a Metes and Bounds Tract A platted lot is cited by lot number on a recorded plat. A metes-and-bounds tract is cited by the perimeter calls.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Farm Split A farm split is a division of agricultural land under rules that are often different from a residential subdivision.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is an Exempt Land Division An exempt division is a split the local ordinance does not count as a full subdivision, such as a large-acreage cut or a transfer to an adjoining owner.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Boundary Adjustment A boundary adjustment moves a line between two owners so each ends up with a revised tract, without creating an extra lot.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Lot Line Adjustment A lot line adjustment moves a line between two platted lots, usually to fix an encroachment or to add yard, while keeping the same number of lots.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Reconfiguration Plat A reconfiguration plat redraws several lots in a block into a new pattern, a kind of replat focused on rearranging rather than adding a street.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Consolidation Plat A consolidation plat merges platted lots into fewer lots on one new sheet.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Dedication of Right of Way A dedication of right of way is the owner's grant of a strip for a public street, made on the plat or by a separate deed.
• Sep 27, 2026 Fee in the Street vs an Easement for the Road Some dedications convey the fee title of the street to the public. Others grant only an easement, and the adjoining owners keep the underlying fee.
• Sep 27, 2026 What Is a Gap Between Deeds A gap is a strip or polygon that no deed covers because two descriptions do not meet.