§ 30-78. Definitions and title.

For the purposes of this article, which shall be known as the "Orange County Land Development and Use Law," the following terms are hereby defined:

Abutting property shall mean any property that is immediately adjacent to or contiguous to property that may be subject to any hearing required to be held under this article or that is located immediately across any road or public right-of-way from the property subject to any hearing under this article.

Article shall mean this article and any rules and regulations adopted under the authority of this article, unless expressly stated otherwise.

Plat or replat shall mean a map, drawing or delineated representation of the division or subdivision of lands, being a complete and exact representation of the division or subdivision and other information in compliance with the requirements of all applicable provisions of any applicable ordinance and part I, chapter 177, Florida Statutes.

Street or streets shall mean a way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane, place or however designated, whenever dedicated to public use and accepted by the public.

Subdivision shall mean the division of a parcel of land, whether improved or unimproved, into two (2) or more lots or parcels of land for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transfer of ownership or building development where subdivider advocates, proposes, suggests or exhibits a proposed plan, map or plat of development of the land or where the subdivider proposes to create a street, right-of-way or easement that joins or connects to an existing public street for ingress and egress or to change an existing public street.

To plat or to replat shall mean, in whatever tense used, to divide or subdivide lands into lots, blocks, parcels, tracts, sites or other divisions, however the same may be designated, and the recording of the plat.

(Code 1965, § 32-33; Laws of Fla. ch. 65-2015, § 3; Ord. No. 2009-05 , § 1, 2-24-09)

Cross reference

Definitions and rules of construction generally, § 1-2.