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Day Care Center. See "Child care center."
Day Care Home, Large Family. "Large family day care home" means a residential home that is licensed by the State of California as a large family day care home to provide family day care, in the provider's own home, of up to fourteen children, including children under the age of ten years who reside at the home.
Day Care Home, Small Family. "Small family day care home" means a residential home that is licensed by the state of California to provide family day care, in the provider's home, of up to eight children, including children under the age of ten years who reside at the home.
Day Nursery. See "Child care nursery."
"Decibel" ("db") means a unit or level that denotes the ratio between two quantities that are proportional to power; the number of decibels corresponding to the ration of two amounts of power is ten times the logarithm to the base 10 of this ratio.
Deck, Raised. See Patio, Elevated.
"Dedication" means the giving of property for the purpose of providing public improvements consistent with approved city master plans or capital improvement programs.
"Demolition" means the dismantling, intentional destruction or removal of structures, utilities, public or private right-of-way surfaces, or similar property.
"Density" means the total number of permanent residential dwelling units per acre of land, exclusive of all existing public streets and rights-of-way.
"Density bonus" means a density increase over the otherwise allowable zoning maximum residential density on a site as of the date of application by the applicant to the city, granted pursuant to this article. See Section 19.07.150.
"Density bonus units" means dwelling units granted pursuant to Section 19.07.170 which exceed the otherwise allowable zoning maximum residential density for a housing development.
"Department store" means a retail facility that sells clothing, appliances, furniture, or other household items through a variety of separate departments, owned by a single corporate entity and operated entirely within one building or structure as one commercial use.
"Development" means a manmade change to a piece of real property that involves the construction, reconstruction, alteration, or removal of a building or structure, including mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation, or frilling operations.
Development Standards. See Standards, Development.
"Director" means the director of the community development department of the City of Commerce.
Distribution Center. See "Warehouse."
"Driveway" means a private roadway or access way providing vehicular access to a parking space, parking lot, garage, or other parking area.
Drug Store. See "Pharmacy."
Duplex. See Dwelling, Two-Family.
"Dwelling" or "dwelling unit" means any building or portion thereof designed for living and sleeping purposes that contains independent cooking and sanitation facilities.
Dwelling, Multiple-family. "Multiple-family dwelling" means a building or a portion thereof containing three or more dwelling units designed for the independent occupancy of three or more households.
Dwelling, Second Unit. "Second unit dwelling" means an attached or detached accessory dwelling unit in the R-1 zone that provides independent living facilities for one or more persons, and which was added to the parcel sometime after construction of the primary residence on that lot was completed.
Dwelling, Single-family. "Single-family dwelling" means a detached building containing no more than one dwelling unit which, regardless of form of ownership, is designed and/or used to house not more than one household, including all domestic employees of such household.
Dwelling, Two-family. "Two-family dwelling" means a building containing two dwelling units designed for the independent occupancy of two households.
(Ord. 544 § 1(part), 2000).
(Ord. No. 656, § 10 (Exh. G), 11-19-2013)