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
Local governments can delegate the final plat approval to planning directors or other designated officials to save time, bringing greater efficiency to the permit process and reducing an unnecessary cost pressure on housing.
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
It’s sort of sleepy at the moment, like a city that has been platted but not fully built, with a lot of open space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 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
Many of those areas had yet to be platted for homes.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2022
Most of Dansville hadn’t been platted, meaning there was no legal map showing divisions of the land.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 15, 2018
Was platted August, 1856, W. F. Duffy, surveyor, in the south half of section 35, township 35, range 21.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by William Henry Carman Folsom
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 borough’s platting board in January denied the Citizens Way name, but the idea was resurrected by the borough’s planning commission this month.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 27, 2016
SAT Stories of Fremont’s history, culture and people and celebrate the 140th anniversary of the first property platting in Fremont, 2 p.m.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2015
As the platting soon rots in the water, it is renewed at least once a-year; in order to which, the vessel is taken entirely to pieces.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr
