ORD-2025-01 Development Code Effective January 25, 2025

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Definitions

103. Fence: means any structure or partition, constructed of any material or combination of materials, including, but not limited to wood, stone, rock, brick, wire, steel, metal or plastic, and [then] erected for the purpose of enclosing a piece of land, or to divide a piece of land into distinct portions, or to separate two contiguous properties. Fence also includes any enclosure about a space, or about any object intended to prevent intrusion from without or straying from within. 104. Flood or Flooding: a general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas from:

113. Historic Landmark: Any individual site, building, structure, object, cultural landscape, historic landscape, or historic resources which has historic architectural, or cultural significance, as determined in accordance with Chapter 2, Article 5, Division 4. 114. Historic Structure and Site: Any individual site, building, structure, object, cultural landscape, or historic landscape which is potentially eligible for local, state, or National Register of Historic Places designation. 115. Holder: the person who applied for and obtained approval of an application, license, or permit, or the successor-in interest of such person. 116. HUD-Code Manufactured Home: a Structure, constructed on or after June 15, 1976, according to the rules of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and V.T.C.A., Occupations Code, Chapter 1201, transportable in one or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length, or, when Erected on site, is 320 or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems. The term does not include a Recreational Vehicle as that term is defined by this Development Code. pavement or rooftops, which prevent the infiltration of water into the soil and bedrock. 118. Improved Lot or Tract: a Lot or tract that has a Structure or other Improvement on it that causes an Impervious Coverage of the soil under the Structure or Improvement. 119. Improvement: any man-made Alteration of land, a Lot, a Building or a Structure. 120. Industrialized Home (single-Family, also called modular prefabricated Structure or Modular Home): a structure or building module, as defined under the jurisdiction and control of the Texas Department of Labor and Standards, that is transportable in one or more sections on a temporary chassis or other conveyance device, and that is designed 117. Impervious Cover: impermeable surfaces, such as

a. The overflow of waters; or

b. The unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source.

105. Frontage Width: Lot Width.

106. Geologic Assessment: a report prepared by a Qualified Geologist describing site-specific geology. 107. Geologic Feature: a feature including, but not limited to, closed depressions, sinkholes, caves, faults, fractures, bedding planes, interconnected vugs, reef deposits and springs.

108. Grass: See “turf or turf grass”.

109. Greenfield: an area that consists of open or wooded land or farmland that has not been previously developed.

110. Green Roof: a roof of a Building on which plants are grown.

111. Height, Sign: the vertical distance between the highest part of the Sign or its supporting Structure, whichever is higher, and the greatest elevation of the ground at the base of or below the Sign. 112. Historic District: an Overlay District intended to preserve and protect Historic Structures, Thoroughfares, and neighborhoods that serve as visible reminders of the history and cultural heritage of the City, the State and the United States, as determined in accordance with Chapter 2, Article 5, Division 4. A district possesses a significant concentration, linkage, or continuity of sites, buildings, structures, or objects united historically or aesthetically by plan or physical development.

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Amended: January 21, 2025 San Marcos Development Code