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Chapter 919: Definitions <br /> <br /> Page 919-5 <br />Day Care of Non-Residential Care Program: Care, supervision, rehabilitation, training or <br />habilitation of a person provided outside the person's own home and provided for fewer than 24 <br />hours a day, including adult day care programs. Non-residential care programs include home and <br />community-based services and semi-independent living services for persons with developmental <br />disabilities that are provided in or outside of a person's own home. <br />Deck: A horizontal, unenclosed platform with or without attached railings, seats, trellises, or <br />other features, attached or functionally related to a principal use or site at any point extending <br />above grade. <br />Development. Any man -made change to real estate, including but not limited to construction or <br />reconstruction of buildings, installing manufactured homes or travel trailers, installing utilities, <br />construction of roads or bridges, erection of levees, walls, or fences, drilling, mining, filling, <br />dredging, and storage of materials. <br />District, Zoning: An area delineated on the official zoning map that sets forth standards and <br />guidelines for all development within the prescribed zoning district. <br />Drive-In: Any use where products and/or services are provided to the customer under <br />conditions where the customer does not have to leave the car or where service to the automobile <br />occupants is offered regardless of whether service is also provided within a building. <br />Drive-Up Window Service: A building opening, including windows, doors, or mechanical <br />devices, through which occupants of a motor vehicle receive or obtain a product or service. <br />Drop-In Child Care Program: As defined in Minnesota Statute 245A.02, "drop-in child care <br />program" means a non-residential program of child care in which children participate on a onetime <br />only or occasional basis up to a maximum of 90 hours per child, per month. <br />Dwelling: A building or portion thereof designated for residential occupancy, including one- <br />family, two-family, multiple family dwellings and group homes, but not including hotels, motels, <br />boarding houses or nursing homes. <br />Dwelling, Attached: A structure intended for occupancy by more than one family, including <br />duplexes, townhomes, multi-family dwellings and apartments. Accessory dwelling units as <br />defined and permitted by this ordinance are incidental to a principal dwelling unit and are not <br />considered to be attached dwellings. <br />Dwelling, Single-Family: A building designed for occupancy by one household. Must be attached <br />to a foundation that extends below the frost line; must have sides made of wood, brick, stone, <br />concrete, glass, and/or composite materials; and must conform to the standards of the Minnesota <br />State Building Code. May be constructed on-site or may be constructed in modules off-site and <br />assembled on-site. Also known as a “detached dwelling.” Includes “modular home” but not <br />“manufactured home” or “mobile home.” Does not include a structure subject to the <br />requirements of the National Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 <br />(HUD Code) or the Manufactured Home Building Code. <br />Dwelling, Multiple-Family: A building designed with 3or more dwelling units exclusively for <br />occupancy by 3 or more families living independently of each other but sharing hallways and main <br />entrances and exits. <br />Dwelling, Two- or Three-Family: A building designed for occupancy by two or three households <br />but other wise conforming to the definition of Single-Family Dwelling. May be platted into separate <br />ownership tracts as a zero-lot-line dwelling or through the provisions of the Minnesota Common Interest <br />Community Act.