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  2. Sidewalk - Wikipedia

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    The sidewalk is separated from the main street by six bollards in front of the building. Raised wooden sidewalk by a dirt road, Staten Island, N.Y., early 20th century. Sidewalks have operated for at least 4,000 years. [14] The Greek city of Corinth had sidewalks by the 4th-century BC, and the Romans built sidewalks – they called them ...

  3. City block - Wikipedia

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    Not only sidewalks, but also inner alleys, common gardens, etc. Some street parts, such as a street greenway, isolated and with no related lot, can be also represented as a block without sidewalks. without sidewalks: represented by polygon obtained by the external border of the union of a set of touching land lots (illustration opposite).

  4. Real Estate Definitions Every Seller Should Know - AOL

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    When it comes to selling a home there's a lot to know beyond staging and setting a reasonable list price. As with any industry, there are real estate definitions (homestead, quit-claim) and a set ...

  5. Special assessment tax - Wikipedia

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    Only certain property can be specially assessed. The "property" to be assessed must be real estate as opposed to "personalty". Personalty is a taxation term which means personal property. Examples of personal property include the machinery, equipment, furniture and fixtures which a person or corporate entity may own.

  6. Site plan - Wikipedia

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    Example of a site plan. A plot plan. A site plan or a plot plan is a type of drawing used by architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and engineers which shows existing and proposed conditions for a given area, typically a parcel of land which is to be modified. Sites plan typically show buildings, roads, sidewalks and paths/trails ...

  7. Impervious surface - Wikipedia

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    An estimation of PIMP is given by PIMP = 6.4J^0.5 where J is the number of dwellings per hectare (Butler and Davies 2000). For example, woodland has a PIMP value of 10%, whereas dense commercial areas have a PIMP value of 100%. This variable is used in the Flood Estimation Handbook. Graph of impervious surface coverage in the US. [5] [6]

  8. Land lot - Wikipedia

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    In real estate, a land lot or plot of land is a tract or parcel of land owned or meant to be owned by some owner(s). A plot is essentially considered a parcel of real property in some countries or immovable property (meaning practically the same thing) in other countries.

  9. Column: LA's cracked, ruptured sidewalks are a scandal. Where ...

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    An audit of L.A.'s scandalous response to broken sidewalks put the service call backlog at 50,000, but there is no long-range plan in place to make those fixes Column: LA's cracked, ruptured ...