43 Tex. Admin. Code § 11.51 - Definitions
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
(1) Access
connection--Facility, such as a driveway, street, road, or highway, that
connects to a highway on the state highway system for entry or exit.
(2) Access denial line--The boundary line
between the right-of-way of a state highway and adjacent property where the
department owns all rights of access from the adjacent property to the state
highway.
(3) Access management
standards--The standards, criteria, and specifications prescribed in Chapter 2,
Access Management Standards, of the department's Access Management Manual that
govern the location, design, construction, and maintenance of access
connections.
(4) Commercial
driveway--An entrance to or exit from a multifamily residential dwelling or a
commercial, business, or similar type establishment.
(5) Commission--The Texas Transportation
Commission.
(6) Construction of an
access connection--The installation, construction, reconstruction, relocation,
enlargement, or other material modification of an access connection.
(7) Department--The Texas Department of
Transportation.
(8) Design
division--The administrative office of the department responsible for the
development of engineering design guidance and oversight of projects developed
on the state highway system.
(9)
Development--The new construction or the enlargement of any exterior dimension
of a building, structure, or improvement.
(10) Director--The chief administrative
officer in charge of the design division.
(11) District--One of the 25 geographic
districts into which the department is divided.
(12) District engineer--The chief
administrative officer in charge of the district in which the access connection
is located, or that officer's designee.
(13) Eligible county--A county with a
population of 3.3 million or more or a county adjacent to a county with a
population of 3.3 million or more.
(14) Engineering study--An appropriate level
of analysis as determined by the department, which may include a traffic impact
analysis, that determines the expected impact that permitting access will have
on mobility, safety, and the efficient operation of the state highway
system.
(15) Executive
director--The executive director of the department, or a designee not below the
level of deputy executive director.
(16) Local access management plan--A plan or
guideline in a formally adopted rule or ordinance that is related to the
application of access management within the municipality's or eligible county's
jurisdiction.
(17) Local access
road--A local public street or road, generally one parallel to a highway on the
state highway system to which access for businesses or properties located
between the highway and the local access road is provided as a substitute for
access to the highway. A local access road may also be called a lateral road or
reverse frontage road, depending on individual location and
application.
(18)
Permit--Authorization for entry to or exit from a state highway and adjacent
real property, issued by the department under Transportation Code, Chapter
203.
(19) Permittee--A real
property owner, or the owner's authorized representative, who receives an
access connection permit from the department to construct or modify an access
connection from the owner's property to a highway on the state highway
system.
(20) Platted access
point--An access connection identified in a plat or replat of a subdivision of
real property properly recorded in the county clerk's office in accordance with
Property Code, §
12.002.
(21) Private driveway--An entrance to or exit
from a single-family residential dwelling, farm, or ranch for the exclusive use
and benefit of the permittee.
(22)
Public driveway--An approach from a publicly maintained street, road, or
highway.
(23) Regionally
significant highway--A highway functionally classified as a minor arterial or
higher.
(24) Traffic impact
analysis--A traffic engineering study to the level of analysis determined by
the department that determines the potential current and future traffic impacts
of a proposed traffic generator and is signed, sealed, and dated by an engineer
licensed to practice in the state of Texas.
(25) Undeveloped property--The real property
identified in a plat or replat of a subdivision properly recorded in the county
clerk's office in accordance with Property Code, §
12.002, on which
development has not commenced.
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