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

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251. Thoroughfare Plan: [Future Transportation Plan] a Street plan that is part of the Comprehensive Plan. 252. Tiedown: any device designed for the purpose of anchoring a Mobile Home or manufactured home to ground anchors, as required by V.T.C.A., Occupations Code, Chapter 1201. 253. Trailer, Hauling: a vehicle or device which is pulled behind an automobile or Truck and which is designed for hauling animals, produce, goods or commodities, including boats. a range of different conditions, results or habitats. The rural-urban Transect of the human environment is used to describe Character Based Districts and the physical form and character of a place. 255. Transition Zone: with respect to the Edwards Aquifer, the area Adjoining the Recharge Zone where faults, fractures, or other Geologic Features or Manmade Features would present a possible avenue for recharge of surface water to the Edwards Aquifer. The Transition Zone is identified as such on official TCEQ maps, which are incorporated in this Development Code by reference. new streets and existing roadways and/or highways. A transportation plan typicaly inlcudes the location, names and proposed cross sections identifying all right-of-way elements including vehicle, pedestrian, bicycle and transit provisions. 258. Transportation Impact Assessment: A detailed description of the existing and proposed infrastructure in the area surrounding the site for transit, pedestrians and cyclists. 259. Tree: any living, self-supporting woody plant species which normally grows to an overall minimum height of 15 feet. 260. Tributary: any Waterway, having a Drainage area of 120 acres or more, that drains directly into Purgatory Creek or Sink Creek or the Blanco River. A Tributary is measured from its confluence with the Creek or river upstream to a point at which the contributing area is less than 64 acres. 254. Transect: a cross-section of the environment showing 256. Transit Route: an existing or planned route for public intracity or intraurban transit service in the local or regional transportation plan or the plan of the relevant transit service provider. Does not include temporary routes. 257. Transportation Plan: A transportation plan illustrating

261. Turf or Turf Grass: means a surface layer of soil bound by grass and its roots into a thick mat that requires regular maintenance, mowing, and watering.

262. TXDOT: the Texas Department of Transportation.

263. Underbrush: low-growing vegetation, brush and Trees with a Caliper less than three inches. 264. Upland Zone: any area within the Recharge Zone or the Transition Zone that is not part of a Water Quality Zone, Buffer Zone or Sensitive Feature Protection Zone. 265. Urbanized: generally, developed. Specific to Character Based Districts, developed at intensities higher than those of CBD-2 (Rural). 266. Use: the classification of the functions, activities, purposes, or uses accommodated by a Building or Lot or for which land or Buildings are designated, arranged, intended, occupied or maintained. See Table 5.1(Land Use Matrix) and Chapter 5, Article 1, Division 1. Adjustments to deviate from or vary one or more standards of this Development Code applicable to a Development Application that is reviewed and decided under Chapter 2, Article 8, Division 2 of this Development Code. 269. Vines: any of a group of woody or herbaceous plants which may cling by twining, by means of aerial rootlets or by means of tendrils, or which may simply sprawl over the ground or other plants. 270. Vision SMTX Comprehensive Plan, or Vision SMTX or the Comprehensive Plan: the Comprehensive Plan adopted by the City entitled “Vision SMTX Comprehensive Plan”, as amended. 271. Violation: the failure of a person, entity, Structure, Building, Lot, Improvement, Subdivision, or other Development to fully comply with this Development Code. 267. Use, Nonconforming: See Section 1.6.2.1 of this Development Code. 268. Variance: authorization from the Zoning Board of

272. VTCA: Vernon’s Texas Codes Annotated.

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San Marcos Development Code Amended: January 21, 2025