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:
(1) 
The lot or tract is part of a plat of record, properly approved by the planning and zoning commission and filed in the plat records of Ector County.
(2) 
The site, plot or tract is all or part of a site plan officially approved by the planning and zoning commission in a planned development district after favorable action by the city council, 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 have been required and properly dedicated and the necessary public improvements provided.
(3) 
The plot, tract or lot faces upon a dedicated street and was separately owned prior to December 28, 1971, or prior to annexation to the City of Odessa and the boundaries of which have not been changed even though the ownership may have changed, whichever is applicable, and no main building exists on the plot, tract or lot, 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 subsections 14-12-1(1) and 14-12-1(2) of this section.
(Ordinance 2019-13 adopted 4/9/19; Ordinance 2020-08 adopted 3/10/20)