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definitions
Guest House: An accessory building for the housing of
temporary guests, not containing a kitchen and not being
rented or leased.
Height, Building: The vertical distance from grade to average
height of the highest roof structure.
Home Office: A conditional, accessory use permitted in
specific Zones that allows operation of small business in a
home providing that impacts are mitigated and a conditional
use permit issued.
Hotel: A building offering temporary accommodations for
eight (8) or more guests which may provide as accessory
uses restaurants, meeting rooms, and recreation facilities.
Illuminated: A sign utilizing an artificial or a reflective light
source.
Impervious Cover: Any hard-surfaced, man-made area
that does not readily absorb or retain water, including but
not limited to building roofs, parking and driveway areas,
graveled areas, sidewalks and paved recreation areas.
Improvement: Any building, structure, place, fence, gate,
landscaping, tree, wall, car park, or other object constituting
a physical feature which is not a natural feature.
Ingress: An entry.
Intersection: The crossing of two (2) or more roads at grade.
Landscaping: The treatment and maintenance of a property
or yard area with a combination of vegetation (ground cover,
plants, shrubs, or trees), natural elements (brick, rocks, or
water) and other natural or decorative features (walkways,
fences, pools, fountains, or benches).
Landscape Plan: A plan submitted as part of a package
for Development Plan approval indicating the proposed
landscape development, irrigation system and fences.
Loading Space, Off-street: Space logically and conveniently
located for bulk pickups and deliveries, scaled to delivery
vehicles expected to be used, and accessible to such
vehicles when required off-street parking spaces are filled.
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Lot: A piece, parcel, or plot of land occupied by or to be
occupied by one principal building, its accessory buildings
and frontage on a street.
Lot Area: The total extent of surface, measured in a horizontal
plane, within the lot lines of a lot.
Lot Coverage: The percentage of the area of a lot or parcel of
land, which is occupied by buildings or structures.
Lot Frontage: That portion of a lot which abuts a road.
Lot Line: Any line bounding a lot as herein defined.
Lot Line, Front: A line separating an interior lot from a street.
In the case of a corner lot, the orientation of existing or
proposed development shall be used to determine which lot
line shall be considered the front.
Lot Line, Rear: A lot line which is opposite and most distant
from the front lot line. In the case of an irregular lot, the
rear lot line shall be an assumed line parallel to and at the
maximum distance from the front lot line.
Lot Line, Side: Any lot boundary line not a front lot line or a
rear lot line.
Lot Width: The width of a lot at the minimum building setback
line.
Master Plan: The Jumeirah Village - South Master Plan.
Native Plant: Any species that is indigenous within the local
region.
Noise: Any undesirable audible sound.
Occupied: Arranged, designed, built, altered, converted,
rented, leased, occupied or intended to be occupied.
Open Lot: An area of open land other than a road, used or
intended to be used to provide space for the parking or
storage of motor vehicles, including parking spaces, loading
spaces, maneuvering aisles, and other areas providing
access to parking or loading spaces.
Parking, Off-Street: An off-street parking space consists of
a space adequate for parking an automobile with room for
opening doors on both sides together with properly related
access to a public street, including maneuvering room.
Paseo: A public walk or boulevard designed exclusively for
use of pedestrians and including limited amenities as urban
open spaces.
Permitted Uses: Any use allowed in a Zone by right.
Plant Materials: Living trees, shrubs, vines, ground covers,
sod, and flowering annuals, biennials and perennials adapted
to the environment of Dubai
Plaza: An urban open space that is surrounded by streets and
structures, largely paved and possibly including landscaping,
public art, seating or other features.
Public Facilities: Services or facilities provided by
government or government agencies for the benefit of the
general public and to which the public will have access.
Remodeling: The refashioning or alteration (whether
structural or not) of a building or structure without its
established use being changed.
Right-of-Way: A strip of land acquired by reservation,
dedication or condemnation and intended to be occupied by
a road, crosswalk, sidewalk, railroad, electric transmission
lines, oil or gas pipeline, water line, sanitary or storm sewer, Sign, Projecting: A sign that is partially or wholly dependent
and other uses.
Screening: A method of visually obscuring nearby structures
or land uses (car park, outdoor storage) from another with
the use of one or a combination of fencing, walls, dense
vegetation, or berms.
Setback: A line established by development control
regulations, generally parallel with and measured from the
front property line, defining the limits of a lot in which no
building, accessory building or structure may be located
above the ground.
Setback, Rear: A setback extending the full width of the lot in
the area between the rear lot line and the rear building line.
Setback, Side: A setback extending the full width of the lot in
the area between a side lot line and a side building line.
Sign: Any device designed to inform or attract the attention
of a person not on the premises on which the sign is located.
It means any structure, wall, natural object, or other device
used for visual communication which is visible from any
street or means of access and is used to advertise or direct
attention to an activity, product, place, person, or business.
Sign, Awning: A sign that is mounted, painted or attached to
an awning, canopy or marquee.
Sign, Flashing: A sign having a conspicuous and intermittent
variation in the illumination.
Sign, Illuminated: Any sign designed to emit or brightly reflect
artificial light.
Sign, Ground: A sign which is less than 1.5 meters from the
ground or is supported by a sign structure that is placed on or
anchored in the ground and is independent of any building or
other structure.
Sign, Pedestal: A sign that is mounted on one or more
freestanding poles or other support so that the bottom edge
of the sign face is more than 0.5 meters from contact with a
solid base or the ground. Also sometimes known as a “pole
sign.”
upon a building for support and that projects more than 30
centimeters from such building.
Sign, Temporary: A sign or advertising display constructed of
cloth, canvas, fabric, wood or other light material intended to
be displayed for a short period of time.
Sign, Tower: A large scale sign that is mounted near the top
of a tower that is generally used as a means of identifying an
important tenant or the name of a facility.
Sign, Wall: Any sign posted or painted in suspended from or
otherwise affixed to the wall of any building or structure in an
essentially flat position or with the exposed face of the sign in
a plane approximately parallel to the plane of such wall.