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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Deck. A platform, either freestanding or attached to a building that is supported by pillars or posts <br />(see also, “Balcony”). <br /> <br />Department Store. A retail sales use occupying at least sixty thousand (60,000) square feet of gross <br />leasable area, that is operated subject to the overall management of a single entity or appears as such <br />to the general public, and that sells a range of goods and services including men’s and women’s <br />clothing, clothing accessories, and house wares and home furnishings. Department stores may also <br />sell or provide a range of other goods or services such as appliances, electronic items, toys, giftware, <br />specialty foods, financial or insurance services, travel services, coffee shops, etc., typically included or <br />frequently found in businesses identified in the United States, as “department stores.” <br /> <br />Depth.See “Lot Depth.” <br /> <br />Detention Facilities. Publicly owned and operated facilities providing housing, care, and supervision <br />for persons confined by law. <br /> <br />Distinguished or Characterized by an Emphasis upon. The dominant or essential theme of the object <br />described by such phrase. For instance, when the phrase refers to films “which are distinguished or <br />characterized by an emphasis upon” the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or <br />specified anatomical areas, the films so described are those whose dominant or predominant <br />character and theme are the depiction of the enumerated sexual activities or anatomical areas. See <br />Pringle v. City of Corvina, 115 Cal.App.3d 151 (1981). <br /> <br />Distribution Line. An electric power line bringing power from a distribution substation to consumers. <br /> <br />District. A portion of the City within which the use of land and structures and the location, height, and <br />bulk of structures are governed by this Code. <br /> <br />Domestic Violence Safe House. A single housekeeping unit that exclusively houses survivors of <br />domestic abuse and, if applicable, their children. The adult house members are to be within a program <br />that counteracts the impacts of domestic violence and may receive Federal, State or City funding. <br />House members agree to a program that maintains strict confidentiality of the safe houses’ location, <br />with unpublished phone and address numbers, a prohibition on mail deliveries, and limitations or <br />prohibition of visits from friends or family. <br /> <br />Drive-up Facility. Service of food, goods or services from a building to persons in vehicles. <br /> <br />Drugstore. Establishments which have the primary use devoted to the sale of miscellaneous <br />household items, including hair products, various toiletries, food items, housekeeping supplies, <br />stationery supplies, etc., and which include the sale of prescription and non-prescription drugs as an <br />accessory use. <br /> <br />Dwelling, Duplex. See “Two-Family Residential.” <br /> <br />Dwelling, Multi-Family. A building containing three or more dwelling units. <br /> <br />Dwelling, Single-Family. A building containing one dwelling unit.