Agenda - Planning Commission - 07/05/1995

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THE ZONING REPORT Page Six ;Iiscellaneous Records of Washington County, which is eligible to receive a building permit for any use permitted, if such permit would have issued but for the minimum lot size provi- sions of the district~ regardless of whether or not contiguous tax lots are in the same owner- ship. Each tax lot lawfully created by a deed or sales contract prior to the effective date that the District is applicable to the subject property, shall be deemed a lot-of-record. When a tax lot consists of two or more non- contiguous lots or parcels Created as a result of a lawful partition by deed or sales contract prior to the effective dat~ that the district is applicable to the subject property, each non- contiguous lot or parcel shall be considered a lot of record. "Lot of Record (Urban - in all the urban dis- tricts. Rural - in the EFC District.): Any lot or parcel created by a lawful sales contract or deed and of record on the effective date of this Code. Two or more such lots or parcels which are contiguous and under identical own- ership of record only if the creation of the lot(s) or parcel(s) was approved by the County under a County Partitioning or Subdivision Ordinance." [Washington Co, Hillsboro OR] Definition of tract and parcei "Parcel: The unit of land that is created by a partitioning of land. "Parent Parcel: The most recent legal lot, parcel or tract of land including all contiguous lots, parcels or tracts of land under the same ownership, prior to or at a given point in time. "Tract: An area of land which has not been partitio.ned or subdivided (including PUD) pursu- ant to the definitions of this [zoning] ordi- nance .... " . lin Sec. 3.3.800, as footnotes to table 3.3]: "Tract all lands which are not parcels or lots. "Parcel - units of land created by a major or minor partition. "Lot - units of land created by a subdivision or PUD." [Coos Co, Coquille OR] "Parcel. A unit of land that is created by a partitioning of land. Parcel includes lot unless the context requires otherwise. A parcel in- cludes a unit of land created: ".1 By partitioning land as defined [by state statute]; ".2 In compliance with all applicable plan- ning, zoning and partitioning ordinances and regulations; or ".3 By deed or land sales contract, if there 'were no applicable planning, zoning or parti- tioning ordinances or regulations. ".4 Does not include a unit of land created solely to es'tab~ish a separate tax account." [Washington Co, Hillsboro OR] Definition of related terms "Record owner means the owner of a particular property, as established by the deed records of the county in which the property is located. "Site means a contiguous, tract or parcel of land, subdivided lot or contiguous lots, or parts thereof, or land acreage intended and suitable for development, which is a genuine part of the development; or the ground or area on which a building or buildings or a townhouse has been proposed to be built or has been buil't. A site shall not extend across a public street or ROW." [Austin TX] "Block. That property abutting one side of a street and lying between the two nearest in- tersecting or intercepting streets or the near- est intersecting or intercepting street and rail- road ROW, unsubdivided acreage, river or live stream or between any of the foregoing and any other barrier to the continuity of develop- ment.'' [Montgomery Co, Silver Spring MD] lin the zoning, code]: "Deed. A legal document conveying ownership of real property. "Fee simple. A private property land right~ sometimes also referred to as fee simple abso- lute, whereby a property owner unconditionally owns a specified piece of land. J~u~3, 1995 issue