RAMP: A sloping walkway, roadway or passage used to join and provide a smooth transition between two (2) levels of different elevations. Driveways leading to parking aisles.
RECLAMATION 1 : The combined process of land treatment that minimizes water degradation, air pollution, and damage to wildlife habitat, flooding, and erosion caused by either surface mining operations or adverse surface effects incidental to underground mines. Mined lands are reclaimed to a usable condition when they are readily adaptable for alternate land uses and create no danger to public health or safety. The process may extend to affected lands surrounding mined land and may require backfilling, grading, resoiling, revegetation, soil compaction, stabilization or other measures. 2
RECREATION, ACTIVE: A type of recreation or activity that requires the use of organized play areas including, but not limited to, softball, baseball, football and soccer fields, tennis and basketball courts and various forms of children's play equipment.
RECREATION, COMMERCIAL: A commercial land use providing facilities for recreation in exchange for financial or other consideration.
RECREATION, PASSIVE: A type of recreation activity that does not require the use of organized play areas.
RECREATIONAL COURTS: Facilities developed for the purpose of playing court sports, including, but not limited to, tennis, paddle tennis, handball, racquetball, and other similar uses.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE: A vehicle towed or self-propelled on its own chassis or attached to the chassis of another vehicle and designed or used for recreational or sporting purposes. The term recreational vehicle includes, but is not limited to, travel trailers, pickup campers, camping trailers, motor coach homes, converted trucks or buses, boats and boat trailers, and all- terrain vehicles.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE PARK: An area where spaces are offered to users of recreational vehicles for occupancy on a temporary basis.
RECYCLABLE MATERIAL: Reusable material, including, but not limited to, metals, glass, plastic, paper and wood, intended for reuse, remanufacture or reconstitution for the purpose of being used in an altered form.
RECYCLING: The process by which waste products, including automobiles, are reduced to raw materials and transformed into new products.
RECYCLING COLLECTION POINT: An incidental use that serves as a neighborhood drop off point for temporary storage of recoverable resources where no processing of such items is allowed. This facility would generally be located in a shopping center parking lot or in other public/quasi-public area.
RECYCLING FACILITIES: This land use type includes a variety of facilities involved with the collection of recyclable materials. A "certified" recycling or processing facility is certified by the California department of conservation as meeting the requirements of the California beverage container recycling and litter reduction act of 1986. Recyclable material includes reusable domestic containers and other materials that can be reconstituted, remanufactured, or reused in an altered form, including glass, metals, paper, and plastic. Recyclable material does not include refuse or hazardous materials. This land use does not include storage containers located on a residentially, commercially, or industrially designated site used solely for the recycling of material generated on the site.
A. Collection Facility (Small): A facility that occupies an area of three hundred fifty (350) square feet or less where the public may donate, redeem, or sell recyclable materials and may include:
1. A mobile unit;
2. Bulk reverse vending machines or a grouping of reverse vending machines occupying more than fifty (50) square feet. A bulk reverse vending machine is a reverse vending machine that is larger than fifty (50) square feet, is designed to accept more than one container at a time, and issues a cash refund or redeemable credit slip based on total weight instead of by container.
3. Kiosk type units that may include permanent structures.
B. Collection Facility (Large): A facility that occupies an area of more than three hundred fifty (350) square feet and/or includes permanent structures where the public may donate, redeem, or sell recyclable materials.
C. Reverse Vending Machine: An automated mechanical device which accepts at least one or more types of empty beverage containers and issues a cash refund or a redeemable credit slip with a value not less than the container's redemption value, as determined by state law. These vending machines may accept aluminum cans, glass and plastic bottles, and other containers. The vending machines typically occupy an area of less than fifty (50) square feet.
D. Processing Facility: A structure or enclosed space used for the collection and processing of recyclable materials. "Processing" means the preparation of material for efficient shipment, or to an end user's specifications, by such means as bailing, briquetting, compacting, flattening, grinding, crushing, mechanical sorting, shredding, cleaning and remanufacturing. Processing facilities are not allowed in the town of Yucca Valley.
RECYCLING PLANT: A facility that is not a junkyard and in which recoverable resources, such as newspapers, magazines, books, and other paper products; glass; metal cans; and other products that are recycled, reprocessed, and treated to return such products to a condition in which they may again be used for production.
REGULATORY FLOODWAY: See definition of Floodway.
RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY: See definition of Church (Place Of Religious Worship/Assembly).
RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION: See definition of Church (Place Of Religious Worship/Assembly).
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: Establishments primarily engaged in industrial or scientific research, including limited product testing.
RESIDENTIAL: A land use category with the principal purpose of providing shelter for people on a long term basis.
RESIDENTIAL CARE FACILITIES (CONGREGATE CARE): Residential facilities in which group care, supervision and/or assistance are provided for persons who may or may not have a disability. Residential facilities do not include family daycare, foster care or any medical services, including nursing services, beyond that required by the residents of the facility for sustaining the activities of daily living. Examples of residential care facilities include, but are not limited to, facilities for the following:
A. Elderly Residential Care Facility: Provides twenty four (24) hour care for adults sixty (60) years of age and older.
B. Adult Residential Care Facility: Provides twenty four (24) hour care for adults who are between eighteen (18) and fifty nine (59) years of age.
C. Group Home: Provides twenty four (24) hour care for children under eighteen (18) years of age.
RESORT HOTEL: A group of buildings containing guestrooms and providing outdoor recreational activities.
RESTAURANT: See definition of Eating And Drinking Establishments.
RESTAURANT, DRIVE-THROUGH: A use providing preparation and retail sale of food and beverages, as defined under "restaurant" with the added provision of one or more drive-through lanes for the ordering and dispensing of food and beverages to patrons remaining in their vehicles.
RETAIL: The exchange of goods directly to the ultimate consumer in exchange for financial or other consideration.
RETAIL SALES: Establishments engaged in selling goods or merchandise to the general public for personal or household consumption and rendering services incidental to the sale of such goods.
REVERSE VENDING MACHINE: See definition of Recycling Facilities.
REVERSION OF ACREAGE: The process by which subdivided real property may be reverted to acreage.
REVIEW AUTHORITY: The person, committee, commission or council responsible for the review and/or final action on a land use entitlement or discretionary decision.
REZONING: An amendment to the map and/or text of a zoning ordinance to effect a change in the nature, density, intensity or regulation of uses allowed in a zoning district and/or on a designated parcel or land area or an amendment to procedures regarding implementation of zoning regulations.
RIGHT OF WAY: See definition of Public Right Of Way.
RIPARIAN LANDS: Comprised of the vegetative and wildlife areas adjacent to perennial and intermittent streams. Riparian areas are delineated by the existence of plant species normally found near fresh water.
ROOM, HABITABLE: A room meeting the requirements of the uniform housing code.
ROUNDING OF QUANTITIES: The consideration of distances, unit density, density bonus calculations, or other aspects of development or the physical environment expressed in numerical quantities which are fractions of whole numbers; the numbers are to be rounded to the nearest highest whole number when the fraction is 0.5 or more, and to the next lowest whole number when the fraction is less than 0.5, except as otherwise may be provided in this development code.
RUNOFF: That portion of rain or snow that does not percolate into the ground and is instead discharged into streams or other bodies of water. (Ord. 252, 11-18-2014)
Notes
| 1 | 1. PRC § 2733. |
| 2 | 1. PRC § 2733. |