For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meanings given herein. Words used in the present tense include the future, words in the plural number include the singular number, and the words in the singular number include the plural number. Words not defined shall be given their common and ordinary meaning.
APPROVED PLANS: Plans approved under this code.
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM: Planning, preliminary engineering, engineering design studies, land surveys, land or right of way acquisition, engineering, permitting, construction and inspection of all necessary features of any construction project.
COMMERCIAL: All those uses defined as commercial uses by the Yucca Valley development code, as may be amended from time to time.
DEVELOPER: A person, firm, general or limited partnership, corporation, limited liability company or other entity that excavates, fills, builds structures or otherwise improves or changes a specific parcel or tract of land.
DEVELOPMENT: The construction, alteration, addition, occupancy or use of any building or structure, or alteration of land, which allows a change in land use.
DIRECTOR: The town's director of public works/engineering or other town official that may be designated to carry out the administration of this chapter.
DISTRICT BOUNDARY: Any street or road, which is used to describe a district boundary.
EXISTING: At present or in effect as of the time of the adoption hereof.
FACILITY: Something that is built, installed, purchased or established to serve a particular purpose.
FEE PAYER: A person commencing a land development activity that generates a need for additional town facilities and requires the issuance of a building permit or permit for mobilehome installation.
FLOOR AREA: The area included within the surrounding exterior walls of a building or portion thereof, exclusive of any crawl space, area used exclusively for parking or loading, breezeway, attic without floor and any open porch, deck, balcony or terrace that is not used for commercial office or industrial purposes. The floor area of a building or portion thereof provided with surrounding exterior walls shall be usable area under the horizontal projection of the roof or floor above, where such horizontal projection exists. The town shall develop administrative procedures for determining the square footage of any project which cannot be calculated using this definition.
INDUSTRIAL: All those uses defined as industrial uses by the Yucca Valley development code, as may be amended from time to time.
MULTIPLE-FAMILY DWELLING UNIT: A building or portion thereof used and designed as a residence of two (2) or more families living independently of each other, with an individual kitchen for each, including duplexes, apartment houses, apartment hotels and flats, townhouses, garden apartments, group residential facilities and apartment buildings.
OFFICE: All those uses, defined as office or institutional uses by the Yucca Valley development code, as may be amended from time to time.
PERSON: Any individual firm, company, association, general or limited partnership, society, corporation, limited liability company or group, and includes the plural as well as the singular.
SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING: A building designed exclusively for residential occupancy for a single family, not including a hotel, motel, asylum or jail or other facility where people are housed by reason of illness or under legal restraint, and includes both attached and detached single-family residential dwellings. Units within manufactured housing parks and mobilehome parks are classified as single-family residential dwelling units.
SQUARE FOOT: Every square foot of "floor area" as defined herein. (Ord. 173, 11-10-2005)