Outlot

Quick meaning: Outlot is a noun meaning 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.

Meaning

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.

More Meanings

1. (chiefly historical) A 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.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• outlots

Synonyms for outlot

Depending on context, synonyms include outparcel.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include outparcel, shoplot, backlot, plat, playlot, outpad.

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