plat
Example Sentences
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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
An 1870 plat map for Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit, in the Huntington Library archives, shows the spot as “Point Zuma or Duma.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2022
Security guards stand on a plat Enrique’s Journey form over the freight cars, watch for migrants, and pull them off before they cross the bridge.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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