Ord 2013-074/SmartCode Article 7 & 8 Sign Amendments

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ARTICLE 8. DEFINITIONS OF TERMS San Marcos, Texas minimum Lot width. Prescriptions for the parking Layers pertain only to the Principal Frontage. Prescriptions for the first Layer pertain to both Frontages of a corner Lot. See Frontage. Private Frontage: the privately held Layer between the Frontage Line and the Principal Building Facade. See Table 5.3 and Table 6.1. Public Frontage: the area between the Curb of the vehicular lanes and the Frontage Line. See Table 3.2 and Table 6.1. RearAlley (RA): a vehicular way located to the rear of Lots providing access to service areas, parking, and Outbuildings and containing utility easements. Rear Alleys should be paved from building face to building face, with drainage by inverted crown at the center or with roll Curbs at the edges. Rear Lane (RL): a vehicular way located to the rear of Lots providing access to service areas, parking, and Outbuildings and containing utility easements. Rear Lanes may be paved lightly to Driveway standards. The streetscape consists of gravel or landscaped edges, has no raised Curb, and is drained by percolation. Rearyard Building: a building that occupies the full Frontage Line, leaving the rear of the Lot as the sole yard. See Table 5.1. (Var: Rowhouse, Town- house, Apartment House) Regional Center Development: a Community type structured by a long pedestrian shed or linear shed, which may be adjoined without buffers by one or several standard pedestrian sheds, each with the individual Transect Zone requirements of a TND. Regulating Plan: a Zoning Map or set of maps that shows the Transect Zones, Civic Zones, Special Districts if any, and Special Requirements if any, of areas subject to, or potentially subject to, regulation by the SmartCode. Residential: characterizing premises available for long -term human dwelling. Retail: characterizing premises available for the sale of merchandise and food service. See Table 5.4 and Table 5.7. Retail Frontage: Frontage designated on a Regulating Plan that requires or recommends the provision of a Shopfront, encouraging the ground level to be available for Retail use. See Special Requirements. Road (RD): a local, rural and suburban Thoroughfare of low -to- moderate vehicular speed and capacity. This type is allocated to the more rural Transect Zones (T1 -T3). See Table 3.3. Rowhouse: a single - family dwelling that shares a party wall with another of the same type and occupies the full Frontage Line. See Rearyard Building. (Syn: Townhouse) Rural Boundary Line: the extentof potential urban growth as determined by existing geographical determinants. The Rural Boundary Line is permanent. Secondary Frontage: on corner Lots, the Private Frontage that is not the Principal Frontage. As it affects the public realm, its First Layer is regulated. SMARTCOOE VERSION 10 SC83