Texas Administrative Code › Title 43 - TRANSPORTATION › Part 1 - TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 11 - DESIGN › Subchapter C - ACCESS CONNECTIONS TO STATE HIGHWAYS › Section 11.51 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
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 for entry and/or exit such as a driveway, street, road, or
				  highway that connects to a highway on the state highway system.
(2) 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.
(3) Commercial
				  driveway--An entrance to, or exit from, any commercial, business, or similar
				  type establishment.
(4)
				  Commission--The Texas Transportation Commission.
(5) Construction of an access connection--The
				  installation, construction, reconstruction, relocation, enlargement, or other
				  material modification of an access connection.
(6) Department--The Texas Department of
				  Transportation.
(7) 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.
(8)
				  Development--The new construction or the enlargement of any exterior dimension
				  of a building, structure, or improvement.
(9) Director--The chief administrative
				  officer in charge of the design division.
(10) District--One of the 25 geographic
				  districts into which the department is divided.
(11) District engineer--The chief
				  administrative officer in charge of the district in which the access connection
				  is located, or that officer's designee.
(12) 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.
(13) 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.
(14) Executive
				  director--The executive director of the department, or a designee not below the
				  level of deputy executive director or assistant executive director.
(15) 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.
(16) 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.
(17)
				  Permit--Authorization for entry to or exit from a state highway and adjacent
				  real property, issued by the department under Transportation Code, Chapter
				  203.
(18) 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.
(19) 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.
(20) Private driveway--An entrance to or exit
				  from a residential dwelling, farm, or ranch for the exclusive use and benefit
				  of the permittee.
(21) Public
				  driveway--An approach from a publicly maintained street, road, or
				  highway.
(22) Regionally
				  significant highway--A highway functionally classified as a minor arterial or
				  higher.
(23) 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.
(24) 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.