outlot

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outlot (plural outlots)

  1. A plot of undeveloped land, sometimes without access to public roads, designated by a developer on a plat for future construction or noted for its unsuitability to be designated a full lot.
    The court ruled that although Moquino did not have any plans to build on his outlot, Ntchorere violated the owner's property rights by erecting a portion of her mansion on the eastern corner of the site.
    • 1902, “Evans et al. v. Welch et al.”, in The Pacific Reporter, volume 68, Saint Paul, MN: West Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 776:
      Where the owner of land, in platting it, designated a small strip, 20 feet in width, lying between lots and the street, which he dedicated to the public, as an outlot, and numbered it with other similar strips, and did not use the land, and the public made no use of it, there was no intention shown to dedicate.
    • 2017 January 23, Corrinne Hess, “Panda Express planned on Bluemound in Town of Brookfield”, in BizTimes, archived from the original on 14 February 2017:
      A Panda Express restaurant is planned for the outlot in front of the former Kmart building on W. Bluemound Road in the Town of Brookfield.

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