outlot

plural outlots

1. A plot of undeveloped land, sometimes without access to public roads, designated by a developer on a plat for future construction or noted for its unsuitability to be designated a full lot.

   The court ruled that although Moquino did not have any plans to build on his outlot, Ntchorere violated the owner's property rights by erecting a portion of her mansion on the eastern corner of the site.

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   Where the owner of land, in platting it, designated a small strip, 20 feet in width, lying between lots and the street, which he dedicated to the public, as an outlot, and numbered it with other similar strips, and did not use the land, and the public made no use of it, there was no intention shown to dedicate.

   1902, “Evans et al. v. Welch et al.”, in The Pacific Reporter, volume 68, Saint Paul, MN: West Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 776

   A Panda Express restaurant is planned for the outlot in front of the former Kmart building on W. Bluemound Road in the Town of Brookfield.

   2017 January 23, Corrinne Hess, “Panda Express planned on Bluemound in Town of Brookfield”, in BizTimes, archived from the original on 14 Feb 2017

   Synonyms: outparcel

2. historicalA lot that corresponds with an in-town lot, being an open space on the edge of town where the owner can grow some crops and, in some cases, pasture some livestock.

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   In Louisiana and Missouri there were two chief forms of grants—urban and rural. These urban grants consisted of inlots, outlots, and common lands, very much like the Pennsylvania plan, but on a broader basis. The earliest settlers, for social reasons and protection, seemed to favor settling together. The rural grants varied from several hundred to thousands of acres, the league square, consisting of 7,056 arpents, not being unusual.

   1899, James Curtis Ballagh, “Southern Economic History: Tariff and Public Lands”, in Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1898, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 257

   The general position of the [Perrysburg, Ohio] town site with reference to surrounding sections is shown in Figure 8 taken from the State Auditor's records. The state records show the adjoining fractional sections subdivided into a diagonal system of parcels, by what authority it is not clear. The inlots and outlots within the town tract were surveyed and offered for sale by the United States in accordance with the plat of which Plate 33 is a reduced copy.

   1925, C.E. Sherman, Original Ohio Land Subdivisions, volume III: Volume III of Final Report (in Four Volumes), Ohio Co-operative Topographic Survey, Press of the Ohio State Reformatory, page 150