platting
- noun
- Specialized
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- The city council approved the platting of new residential lots for the housing development.
- town platting
Examples
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More growth came with the platting of planned agricultural colonies such as Greeley and Longmont (Brown 1948, 444-461).
Academic text (1993) -
This investigation offers evidence from the Willamette Valley in Oregon of the eventual variety and geographical distribution of town-platting conventions that developed in this Pacific Coast "destination" setting and the possible provenance in the Ohio Valley of certain early Oregonian town-plan features.
Academic text (2006) -
It is reasonably clear that he brought knowledge of the cross alley with him from the Midwest and is certain that he applied such knowledge in the platting of Oregon City and Champoeg.
Academic text (2006) -
The remaining fixation force was the railroad, for four decades a magnet for town platting of the most slavish kind, creating several I-towns, but only where the rails were laid, which left an ample number of regional interstices for villages to spring up.
Academic text (2006) -
This variety resulted from the proliferation of easy platting models requiring minimal knowledge of mathematics and surveying drawn from experience in the East or the Midwest, the paucity of official rules, and the competitive, short-term efficiency-rewarding frontier setting in which sophisticated urban design was a concept best left for later generations.
Academic text (2006) -
During the meeting, they discussed the platting of the land to ensure proper utilities would be accessible.
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After the platting process was completed, surveyors marked the boundaries of each plot for future owners.
Synonyms
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8.9
The act of dividing land or other areas into smaller parts
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5.1
Dividing something into parts and giving those parts to people
Dividing land into separate pieces to sell or build on
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Platting (land) comes from the old word plat, meaning a small 'map' or 'plan' of land and like the word plot. So platting is the act of making a map and dividing land into separate plots ready for sale or use.