§ 16. CREATION OF BUILDING SITE

16-100.  No permit for the construction of a building or buildings upon any tract or plot shall be issued until a building site, building tract or building lot has been created by compliance with one of the following conditions:

(16-101) The lot or tract appears on a plat properly approved by the city council and planning and zoning commission and filed in the plat records of Denton County where the lot or tract is located.

(16-102) The site, plot or tract is all or part of a site plan officially approved by the city council in a planned development district after recommendation by the planning and zoning commission, which site plan provides all utility and drainage easements, alleys, streets and other public improvements necessary to meet the normal requirements for platting, including designation of building areas and such easements, alleys and streets as have been required and properly dedicated and the necessary public improvements provided.

(16-103) The plot, tract or lot faces upon a dedicated street and was separately owned prior to the effective date of this ordinance or prior to annexation to the City of The Colony whichever is applicable, in which event a building permit for only one main building may be issued on each such original separately owned parcel without first complying with 16-101.