plat
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The homeless are served entrée, plat, dessert, plus a cheese course and wine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
Auburn is also one of many cities that allows for final plat applications to be administratively approved.
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
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
With mining partners, Smithers platted the town of Renton in 1875.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
Some were “dream towns” imagined by real estate developers, planned and platted and sold, but never born.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
The policies effectively platted South Los Angeles as a zone of enduring inequity for subsequent waves of immigrants, whether from Louisiana, Mexico or El Salvador.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
Most of Dansville hadn’t been platted, meaning there was no legal map showing divisions of the land.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 15, 2018
J. D. Trumbull platted the village in 1857, and christened it Maiden Rock, from the celebrated rock of that name a few miles further down the lake.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman
Shark said that SDCI, per land code, looks for alternative divisions of land to maximize tree retention while platting new lots for development.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
In 1907, they passed a bill authorizing the platting and selling of shoreland around Lake Union and Lake Washington.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
It’s really, really impressive — the platting of all those strands.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2019
The county finished platting, aside from a portion in the northwest corner, paving the way for housing.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 15, 2018
He immediately sold his claim to Henry M. Rice, who bought it with the intention of platting it as a town site.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman
