DENSITY. The number of dwelling units per acre of land.
(1) GROSS DENSITY. A number of units per acre of the total land to be developed, including public right-of-way and dedicated open space.
(2) NET DENSITY. A number of units per acre of land when the acreage involved includes only the land devoted to intended uses, excluding public right-of-way and dedicated open space.
DEVELOPMENT. Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate. Development does not include activities such as the maintenance of existing buildings and facilities such as painting, re-roofing, resurfacing roads, or gardening.
DISTRICT. A section of the city also called a zone identified on the district map of this zoning code for which the regulations governing the use of buildings and premises, or the height and area of buildings are uniform for each class of permitted use therein.
DRIVE-IN FACILITY. Any portion of a building or structure from which business is transacted or is capable of being transacted, directly with customers located in a motor vehicle during such business transactions.
DRIVEWAY. A private roadway providing access for vehicles to a parking space, garage, dwelling or other structure intended for motor vehicle access.
DWELLING. A building or portion thereof which is designed and used exclusively for residential purposes containing living, sleeping, housekeeping, accommodations, and sanitary facilities for occupancy by one or more families.
DWELLING, MANUFACTURED HOUSING. A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which in the traveling mode is eight body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length or, when erected on site, is 320 or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning and electrical systems contained therein; which meets the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. §§ 5401 et seq.), effective June 15, 1976, and the federal manufactured home construction and safety standards and regulations promulgated by the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. The term MANUFACTURED HOME does not include commercial trailers, job site trailers, or temporary classroom trailers or structures.
DWELLING, MOBILE HOME. A detached dwelling unit designed to be repeatedly transported on highways, and when arriving at the site for placement involving only minor and incidental unpacking, assembling, and connection operations, but which involves no substantial reconstruction which would render the unit unfit as a conveyance on the highway. A transportable structure that is wholly, or in substantial part, made, fabricated, formed or assembled in manufacturing facilities for installation or assembly and installation on a building site and designed for long-term residential use and built prior to, or not conforming to, enactment of the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. §§ 5401 et seq.), effective on June 15, 1976, and usually built to the voluntary industry standard of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) - A119.1 Standards for Mobile Homes. The term MOBILE HOME does not include commercial trailers, job site trailers, or temporary classroom trailers or structures.
DWELLING, MULTI-FAMILY. A building consisting of three or more dwelling units, including
condominiums, with varying arrangements of entrances and party walls. Individual kitchen dining and restroom/bathing facilities shall be provided in each separate dwelling unit. Multi-family housing may include public housing and industrialized units.
DWELLING, SINGLE FAMILY ATTACHED. A single family dwelling which is attached to one or more single family dwellings by party walls and each of which has independent access to the outside of the building at ground level.
DWELLING, SINGLE FAMILY DETACHED. A single family dwelling on its own lot.
DWELLING UNIT. One room or a group of rooms in a dwelling designed for or used by one family for living and sleeping purposes and having only one kitchen or kitchenette for cooking and food preparation.
(Ord. 2003-51, passed 5-20-03)