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The legal description of a 2.5-acre (10,000 m 2) property under the Lot and Block system may be something like; Lot 5 of Block 2 of the South Subdivision plat as recorded in Map Book 21, Page 33 at the Recorder of Deeds.
The part of the boundary of the lot next to a street or road is the frontage. Developers try to provide at least one side of frontage for every lot, so owners can have transport access to their lots. As the name implies, street frontage determines which side of the lot is the front, with the opposite side being the back.
In Chicago, a typical city block is 330 by 660 feet (100 m × 200 m), [2] meaning that 16 east-west blocks or 8 north-south blocks measure one mile, which has been adopted by other US cities. In much of the United States and Canada, the addresses follow a block and lot number system, in which each block of a street is allotted 100 building numbers.
Block lengths of 1,000 feet (300 m) or larger rarely appear in grid plans and are not recommended as they hinder pedestrian movement (Pedestrianism, below). From the pedestrian perspective, the smaller the block is, the easier the navigation and the more direct the route.
1:100,000 maps are divided into squares representing 1 km 2, each square on the map being one square centimetre in area and representing 1 km 2 on the surface of the Earth. For 1:50,000 maps, the grid lines are 2 cm apart. Each square on the map is 2 cm by 2 cm (4 cm 2) and represents 1 km 2 on the surface of the Earth.
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House on a block in Adelaide, South Australia. In Australian and New Zealand English, a quarter acre is a term for a suburban plot of land. Traditionally, Australians and New Zealanders aspired to own a 3- or 4-bedroom house or bungalow on a section of around a quarter of an acre (about 1,000 square metres), also known locally as the Australian Dream or the New Zealand dream.
Another system used 100-acre lots each 30 by 33 + 1 ⁄ 3 chains, again arranged in 1000-acre blocks. Concession roads were 5 ⁄ 6 mile (1.3 km) apart, while sideroads were 1 + 7 ⁄ 8 miles (3.0 km) apart. Other plans used during colonial surveying used different layouts and lot sizes of 100, 150, 160, 200 or 320 acres. [8]