Chapter 16.08 — DEFINITIONS
Hesperia Municipal Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-02 · Hesperia
16.08.005 - Accessory building.¶
16.08.007 - Accessory structure.¶
16.08.010 - Accessory use.¶
16.08.011 - Accessory vehicles.¶
16.08.015 - Adult businesses.¶
16.08.020 - Advertising structure.¶
16.08.025 - Agricultural use.¶
16.08.030 - Airport reference point (A.R.P.)¶
16.08.035 - Aliquot part.¶
16.08.040 - Alley.¶
16.08.045 - Anatomical areas, specified.¶
16.08.050 - Apartment.¶
16.08.055 - Apartment hotel.¶
16.08.060 - Apartment house.¶
16.08.065 - Applicant.¶
16.08.070 - Approved access.¶
16.08.075 - Automobile and trailer sales area.¶
16.08.080 - Bed and breakfast use.¶
16.08.085 - Block.¶
16.08.090 - Boarding house.¶
16.08.095 - Buffer.¶
16.08.100 - Building coverage.¶
16.08.105 - Building envelope.¶
16.08.110 - Building height.¶
16.08.115 - Carport.¶
16.08.120 - Cemetery.¶
16.08.125 - City standards.¶
16.08.130 - Composite development plan.¶
16.08.135 - Community apartment project.¶
16.08.140 - Community noise equivalency level (CNEL).¶
16.08.142 - "Computerized sweepstakes device" defined.¶
16.08.145 - Contiguous or contiguous property.¶
16.08.150 - Cooling opportunities, passive or natural.¶
16.08.155 - County.¶
16.08.160 - Court.¶
16.08.165 - Dairy.¶
16.08.170 - Day care facility.¶
16.08.175 - Development code.¶
16.08.180 - Development permit, city.¶
16.08.185 - Development plan (PUD).¶
16.08.187 - Drug paraphernalia.¶
16.08.188 - Dude/guest ranch.¶
16.08.190 - Dwelling, multiple-family.¶
16.08.195 - Dwelling, one-family.¶
16.08.200 - Dwelling, two-family.¶
16.08.205 - Dwelling unit.¶
16.08.207 - Electrical generating stations.¶
16.08.208 - Electrical substations.¶
16.08.209 - Electronic smoking product and/or device.¶
16.08.210 - Environmental impact report (EIR).¶
16.08.215 - Exotic animal.¶
16.08.220 - Family.¶
16.08.225 - Final map.¶
16.08.227 - Financial institution.¶
16.08.230 - Findings.¶
16.08.235 - Fire-resistive or fire-resistive construction.¶
16.08.237 - Fish farming.¶
16.08.238 - Floor-area ratio.¶
16.08.240 - Fuel modified area.¶
16.08.245 - Future right-of-way.¶
16.08.250 - Garage, private.¶
16.08.255 - Garage, public.¶
16.08.260 - Garage, storage.¶
16.08.265 - General plan.¶
16.08.270 - Grading.¶
16.08.273 - Gross lot area.¶
16.08.275 - Guest house.¶
16.08.280 - Hazardous fire area.¶
16.08.285 - Heating opportunities, passive or natural.¶
16.08.290 - Hog raising.¶
16.08.295 - Home occupation.¶
16.08.300 - Hotel.¶
16.08.305 - Hotel, residential.¶
16.08.310 - House, lodging or rooming.¶
16.08.315 - Housing, caretaker.¶
16.08.320 - Housing, dependent.¶
16.08.325 - Housing, group.¶
16.08.330 - Housing, secondary.¶
16.08.332 - Housing supportive.¶
16.08.333 - Housing transitional.¶
16.08.334 - Hydroponic store.¶
16.08.335 - Improvement, subdivision.¶
16.08.338 - Initial study.¶
16.08.340 - Institutional use.¶
16.08.345 - Interim land uses.¶
16.08.347 - "Internet sweepstakes café" defined.¶
16.08.350 - Junk and salvage facility.¶
16.08.353 - Keeping or kept.¶
16.08.355 - Kennel.¶
16.08.360 - Kitchen.¶
16.08.365 - Labor camp.¶
16.08.370 - Labor quarters.¶
16.08.375 - Land use.¶
16.08.380 - Land use application.¶
16.08.385 - Land use decision.¶
16.08.390 - Land use district.¶
16.08.395 - Land use intensity.¶
16.08.397 - Lead agency.¶
16.08.400 - Liveable floor area.¶
16.08.405 - Loading space.¶
16.08.410 - Local agency.¶
16.08.415 - Lot.¶
16.08.420 - Lot areas.¶
16.08.425 - Lot, corner.¶
16.08.430 - Lot coverage.¶
16.08.435 - Lot depth.¶
16.08.440 - Lot dimension ratio.¶
16.08.445 - Lot, frontage.¶
16.08.450 - Lot, interior.¶
16.08.455 - Lot, key.¶
16.08.460 - Lot line adjustment.¶
16.08.465 - Lot line, front.¶
16.08.470 - Lot line, rear.¶
16.08.475 - Lot line, side.¶
16.08.480 - Lot merger.¶
16.08.485 - Lot, mobile home park.¶
16.08.490 - Lot, reversed corner.¶
16.08.495 - Lot, through.¶
16.08.500 - Lot width.¶
16.08.505 - Maintained public street.¶
16.08.510 - Manufactured home.¶
16.08.513 - Reserved.¶
16.08.515 - Minimum parcel size.¶
16.08.520 - Mining and reclamation plan.¶
16.08.525 - Mining waste.¶
16.08.527 - Mitigation or mitigation measures.¶
16.08.530 - Mobile home.¶
16.08.532 - Mobile food vehicle.¶
16.08.535 - Mobile home park.¶
16.08.537 - Money service business.¶
16.08.540 - Motel.¶
16.08.542 - Negative declaration.¶
16.08.543 - Net lot area.¶
16.08.545 - Noise contour.¶
16.08.550 - Nonaccess.¶
16.08.555 - Nonconforming building.¶
16.08.556 - Nonconforming structure.¶
16.08.557 - Nonconforming use.¶
16.08.560 - Nonvehicular access.¶
16.08.565 - On-site detention.¶
16.08.570 - On-site retention.¶
16.08.575 - Open space.¶
16.08.580 - Open space, common.¶
16.08.585 - Open space, private.¶
16.08.590 - Outdoor advertising.¶
16.08.595 - Overburden.¶
16.08.600 - Owner.¶
16.08.605 - Parcel.¶
16.08.610 - Parcel map.¶
16.08.615 - Parcel, original.¶
16.08.620 - Parcel, remainder.¶
16.08.625 - Parcel, reserve.¶
16.08.630 - Park and ride.¶
16.08.635 - Parking area, public.¶
16.08.640 - Parking space, automobile.¶
16.08.642 - Pawnshop.¶
16.08.645 - Permittee.¶
16.08.650 - Person.¶
16.08.655 - Phase.¶
16.08.660 - Premature development.¶
16.08.665 - Pre-zone.¶
16.08.670 - Property owners association.¶
16.08.672 - Project.¶
16.08.675 - Public facilities.¶
16.08.680 - Public improvements.¶
16.08.685 - Public way.¶
16.08.690 - Reclamation, mining.¶
16.08.695 - Recreational use.¶
16.08.700 - Recreational vehicle park (R.V.P.)¶
16.08.705 - Retail sale.¶
16.08.707 - Responsible agency.¶
16.08.710 - Reversion to acreage.¶
16.08.712 - Roaming mobile food vehicle.¶
16.08.715 - Schools, elementary and high.¶
16.08.720 - Screening.¶
16.08.725 - Scrap metal processing facility.¶
16.08.730 - Service station.¶
16.08.735 - Setback, street.¶
16.08.740 - Setback line, street.¶
16.08.745 - Sewage disposal area.¶
16.08.750 - Sexual activities, specified.¶
16.08.755 - Site.¶
16.08.760 - Site planning.¶
16.08.763 - Smoking lounge.¶
16.08.764 - Smoke shop.¶
16.08.765 - Social care facility.¶
16.08.770 - Solar energy system.¶
16.08.771 - Solar or wind farms.¶
16.08.775 - Solid wastes.¶
16.08.780 - Stable, private.¶
16.08.785 - Stable, public.¶
16.08.790 - Story.¶
16.08.795 - Stream.¶
16.08.800 - Street.¶
16.08.805 - Street line.¶
16.08.810 - Structure.¶
16.08.815 - Structure, approved.¶
16.08.820 - Structure height.¶
16.08.825 - Substandard housing unit.¶
16.08.830 - Substandard lot.¶
16.08.835 - Surface mining operations.¶
16.08.840 - Tentative map.¶
16.08.843 - Tobacco paraphernalia.¶
16.08.844 - Tobacco product.¶
16.08.845 - Trailer camp or park.¶
16.08.850 - Tree, native.¶
16.08.855 - Tree removal.¶
16.08.860 - Truck terminal.¶
16.08.865 - Use.¶
16.08.870 - Vehicles, operative.¶
16.08.875 - Vehicular-access rights.¶
16.08.877 - Vehicle repair facility—Major.¶
16.08.879 - Vehicle repair facility—Minor.¶
16.08.880 - Watercourse.¶
16.08.885 - Wild land.¶
16.08.889 - Wind farm.¶
16.08.890 - Windmill.¶
16.08.895 - Yard.¶
16.08.900 - Yard, front.¶
16.08.905 - Yard, interior side.¶
16.08.910 - Yard, rear.¶
16.08.915 - Yard, side street.¶
16.08.920 - Zone district.¶
16.08.925 - Zone/land use district.¶
16.08.930 - Diagram of lot and yard definitions.¶
16.08.935 - Single price overstock/discount stores (SPODS).¶
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