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ARTICLE 6. DEFINITIONS OF TERMS San Marcos, Texas Park: a Civic Space type that is a natural preserve available for unstructured receation. See Table 3.4. Parking Occupancy Rate: an accounting for parking spac- es that are available to more than one Function. See Table 5.6. Parking Reserve: Parking Structure or parking lot within a quarter -mile of the site that it serves. See Section 5.9.2 Parking Structure: a building containing one or more Stories of parking above grade. Passage (PS): a pedestrian connector, open or roofed, that passes between buildings to provide shortcuts through long Blocks and connect rear parking areas to Frontages. Path (PT): a pedestrian way traversing a Park or rural area, with landscape matching the contiguous Open Space, ideally connecting directly with the urban Sidewalk network. Pedestrian Shed: An area that is centered on a Common Destination. Its size is related to average walking distances for the applicable Community Unit type. Pedestrian Sheds are applied to structure Communities. See Standard, Long, Linear or Network Pedestrian Shed. (Syn: walkshed, walk- able catchment.) Planter: the element of the Public Frontage that accommodates street trees, whether continuous or individual. Playground: an Open Space designed and equipped for the recreation of children. Plaza: a Civic Space type designed for Civic purposes and Commercial activities in the more urban Transect Zones, generally paved and spatially defined by building Frontages. Principal Building: the main building on a Lot, usually located toward the Frontage. See Table 6.1. Principal Entrance: the main point of access for pedestrians into a building. Principal Frontage: On corner Lots, the Private Frontage designated to bear the address and Principal Entrance to the building, and the measure of minimum Lot width. Prescriptions for the parking Layers pertain only to the Principal Frontage. Prescriptions forthe 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. Rear Alley (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. SMARTCOOE VERSION 10 SC67