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Title 16 — DEVELOPMENT CODE

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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