Terms Used In Texas Local Government Code 212.201

  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Municipality: means a general-law municipality, home-rule municipality, or special-law municipality. See Texas Local Government Code 1.005
  • United States: includes a department, bureau, or other agency of the United States of America. See Texas Government Code 311.005

In this subchapter:
(1) “Affordable dwelling unit” means a residential unit offered at a below market rate for rent or sale under a municipal, county, state, or federal program.
(2) “Consumer price index” means the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), U.S. City Average, published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor or its successor in function.
(3) “Improvement” and “market value” have the meanings assigned by § 1.04, Tax Code.
(4) “Land value” means the market value of land per acre, not including an improvement to the land.
(5) “Median family income” means the United States Census Bureau’s most recent American Community Survey’s five-year estimate of median family income for all families within the applicable municipality.
(6) “Multifamily unit” means a residential unit other than a detached single-family or two-family dwelling.
(7) “Parkland” means an area that is designated as a park for the purpose of recreational activity. The term includes an open space, a recreational facility, and a trail.
(8) “Parkland dedication” means the fee simple transfer of land or the dedication of an easement to a municipality for nonexclusive use as parkland.
(9) “Parkland dedication fee” means a fee imposed by a municipality on a landowner for the acquisition, development, repair, and maintenance of parkland.
(10) “Plan” means a subdivision development plan, subdivision plan, site plan, land development plan, and site development plan each proposing the development of multifamily, hotel, or motel units.