plat
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The homeless are served entrée, plat, dessert, plus a cheese course and wine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
Local governments can delegate the final plat approval to planning directors or other designated officials to save time, bringing greater efficiency to the permit process and reducing an unnecessary cost pressure on housing.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
Nichols’ restrictions started with a few sentences on neighborhood plat documents and eventually ran for a few pages.
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2023
Pope, bald, with a trimmed white beard, sat amid stacks of plat maps and paper diagrams of the canals, surrounded by LCD screens with spreadsheets marking volumes of water and their destinations.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2022
There was a sheet iron stove in the center of a wooden frame filled with sand, and a faded map on the wall and the dingy plat of a township.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
It’s sort of sleepy at the moment, like a city that has been platted but not fully built, with a lot of open space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
The policies effectively platted South Los Angeles as a zone of enduring inequity for subsequent waves of immigrants, whether from Louisiana, Mexico or El Salvador.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
Together, they platted Centralia and established Centralia’s public square, first church and cemetery.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2020
So up it went in 1889, a year after the community was platted.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2019
Was platted August, 1856, W. F. Duffy, surveyor, in the south half of section 35, township 35, range 21.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman
Shark said that SDCI, per land code, looks for alternative divisions of land to maximize tree retention while platting new lots for development.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
It’s really, really impressive — the platting of all those strands.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2019
The county finished platting, aside from a portion in the northwest corner, paving the way for housing.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 15, 2018
SAT Stories of Fremont’s history, culture and people and celebrate the 140th anniversary of the first property platting in Fremont, 2 p.m.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2015
The salt is all tied up in small bales or bundles, the outward wrapper being matting or platting of strips of the leaves of the doom-palm, called by the people kabba.
From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by Richardson, James
