9.99.050: "D" DEFINITIONS:
DAYS: Shall always be consecutive calendar days unless otherwise stated.
DAYS, BUSINESS: Any day a specified office, department or other agency is open to the public or normal business. This term shall normally exclude all Saturdays, Sundays, and any holiday that is recognized and observed by the specified office, department or agency.
DEDICATION: The turning over by an owner or developer of private land for public use, and the acceptance of land for such use by the governmental agency having jurisdiction over the public function for which it will be used. Dedications for roads, parks, school sites, or other public uses often are made conditions for approval of a development by the town.
DENSITY: The number of dwelling units, households or housing structures per unit of land.
DENSITY BONUS: An increase in the number of dwelling units over the otherwise maximum allowable residential density.
DENSITY, NET: The number of dwelling units per acre of developable land exclusive of public and private streets, greenways, drainage, power transmission line easements, or other public and semipublic uses.
DENSITY TRANSFER: The transfer of all or part of the permitted density from one parcel to another parcel.
DESTINATION RETAIL: Retail businesses that generate a special purpose trip and that do not necessarily benefit from a high volume pedestrian location.
DETACHED: Any building or structure that does not have a wall or roof in common with any other building or structure.
DEVELOPABLE LAND: Land that is suitable as a location for structures and that can be developed free of hazards to, disruption of, or significant impact on natural resource areas.
DEVELOPER: The legal or beneficial owner or owners of property to be developed or being developed, including the holder of an option or contract to purchase or other person(s) having enforceable proprietary interests in such property.
DEVELOPMENT: The placement or erection of any solid material or structure; discharge or disposal of any dredged material or any gaseous liquid, solid or thermal waste; grading, removing, dredging, mining or extraction of any soil or materials; change in the density or intensity of use of land, including lot splits, except where the land division is brought about in connection with the purchase of such land by a public agency for public recreational use; change in the intensity or use of water, or of access thereto; construction; reconstruction, demolition, or alteration of the size of any structure including any facility of any private, public or municipal utility; and the removal of any major vegetation. A project, as defined in Government Code section 65931, is included in this definition.
   A.   Any subdivision pursuant to the subdivision map act;
   B.   The division of a parcel of land into two (2) or more parcels;
   C.   The construction, reconstruction, conversion, structural alteration, relocation or enlargement of any structure;
   D.   Any mining, excavation, landfill or grading;
   E.   Any use or extension of the use of land; or
   F.   Any other division of land, including lot splits, except where the land division is brought about in connection with the purchase of the land by a public agency for public recreational use.
DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT: An agreement entered into between the town of Yucca Valley and a contracting party which relates to a specific real property, subject to the terms of the agreement.
DEVELOPMENT CODE: A unified text incorporating areas of regulation including administration, development review, residential districts, commercial and office districts, industrial districts, other districts, overlay districts, general standards, and other related topics.
DEVELOPMENT PLAN (PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT): A detailed, comprehensive plan of development for a planned development. This development unit plan applies limits and parameters for development derived from a development suitability analysis to a specific development scheme. Development plans shall include a detailed description of the proposed development and its effects including, but not limited to, a written text, diagrams or maps describing the program for development and the functional arrangement of structures and uses, the effect of such arrangement upon the physical characteristics of the site, available public services, the capacity of existing circulation systems and the existing and planned land use of adjacent properties. It includes a dimensioned site plan showing the location of all structures and lots in sufficient detail to permit recordation and the preparation of construction drawings.
DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE: A committee consisting of representatives from various agencies whose function is to review and make recommendations on development proposals.
DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS: The right to develop land by a landowner who maintains fee simple ownership over the land or by a party other than the owner who has obtained the rights to develop.
DEVIATIONS: Authorized variances from required distances, setbacks, areas or physical improvements.
DISABILITY: A physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of individuals, there is a record of such an impairment, or the individual is regarded as having such an impairment. It is the intent of this definition to substantially comply with the term "disability" as defined by the Americans with disabilities act of 1990, as may be amended from time to time.
DISCRETIONARY DECISION: An action taken by a governmental agency that calls for the exercise of judgment in deciding whether to approve and/or how to carry out a project.
DISTRICT: A zone or geographic area within the municipality within which certain zoning or development regulations apply.
DORMITORY: A structure intended principally for sleeping accommodations where no individual kitchen facilities are provided, and where such structure is related to an educational or public institution or is maintained and operated by a recognized nonprofit welfare organization.
DRAINAGE: Surface water runoff; the removal of surface water or groundwater from land by drains, grading or other means, which include runoff controls to minimize erosion and sedimentation during and after construction or development.
DRAINAGE AREA: A geographical area, formed by topography, which collects and changes surface runoff from precipitation to natural or manmade channels.
DRIVE-THROUGH: Any portion of a building or development intended to allow service direct from the building through a window, kiosk, or automated delivery system to vehicle occupants. Such facilities include, but are not limited to, food service windows, ready tellers, or similar service systems.
DRIVE-THROUGH RESTAURANT: See definition of Restaurant, Drive- Through.
DRIVEWAY: A private roadway for the exclusive use of the occupants of a property and their guests or patrons, and which provides vehicular access to parking spaces, garages, dwellings or other structures on a site.
DUPLEX: A detached building under single ownership that is designed for occupation as the residence of two (2) families living independently of each other.
DWELLING: A structure or portion thereof designed for residential occupancy, not including hotels or motels.
DWELLING, ATTACHED: A dwelling joined to one or more other dwellings by common vertical walls.
DWELLING, DETACHED: A dwelling that is not attached to any other dwelling by any physical means.
DWELLING, MULTIPLE: A building on a single lot containing two (2) or more dwelling units, offered for rent or lease on a monthly (or longer) basis, each of which is totally separated from the other by a wall extending from ground to roof or a ceiling and floor, extending from exterior wall to exterior wall, except for a common stairwall exterior to both (or multiple) dwelling units.
DWELLING, TOWNHOUSE: A single-family dwelling in a row of at least three (3) such units in which each unit has its own front and rear access to the outside, no unit is located over another unit, and each unit is separated from any other unit by one or more vertical common fire resistant walls.
DWELLING UNIT: A room or group of rooms (including sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation facilities), but not more than one kitchen, which constitutes an independent housekeeping unit, occupied or intended for occupancy by one family on a long term basis.
DWELLING UNIT, EFFICIENCY: A dwelling unit consisting of not more than one habitable room together with kitchen or kitchenette and sanitary facilities. (Ord. 252, 11-18-2014)