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§ 16.60.025 — Definitions

Riverside Municipal Code (Supp. No. 33: codified through Ordinance No. 7776, enacted June 23, 2026) · Riverside Municipal Code § 16.60.025

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16.60.025 - Definitions.

For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them below: 1. Duplex means a building under one roof designed for or occupied exclusively for two families, living independently of each other. 2. Dwelling unit is as defined in Title 19 of this Code and also includes a manufactured dwelling unit as defined in said Title 19. 3. Mobile home is as defined in Title 19 of this Code. 4. Multiple-family dwelling unit means any dwelling unit contained in an apartment house designed for or occupied by five or more families, living independently of each other, or any dwelling unit located in a planned residential development having a density exceed six and one-half units per acre. 5. New dwelling unit means any increase in the number of dwelling units, as defined above, over the number existing on any lot on September 7, 1976. 6. New mobile home means the first placement of a mobile home on a lot or mobile home space on or after September 7, 1976. 7. Nonresidential unit means any structure, except an accessory building, which is planned or constructed primarily for a nondwelling use. 8. Single-family dwelling unit means a single-family dwelling unit or a manufactured dwelling unit as each are defined in Title 19 of this Code, or any dwelling unit located in a planned residential development having a density of six and one-half units per acre or less. 9. Quadplex means a building under one roof designed for or occupied exclusively for four families, living independently of each other. 10. Triplex means a building under one roof designed for or occupied exclusively for three families, living independently of each other. 11. Turn Key Park means the fully developed and improved land to be conveyed to City by a developer for a neighborhood or community park, improved with both on-site and off-site improvements to the standards of the City for a neighborhood or community park and including all the improvements required by the Park and Recreation Director for acceptance of such improved land into the City's public park system as a fully functioning park without the necessity of further City improvements.

(Ord. 7362 §8, 2017; Ord. 6926 §1, 2007; Ord. 6832 §3, 2005; Ord. 6393 §41, 1997; Ord. 6325 §1, 1996; Ord. 5111 §§3, 4, 5, 1983; Ord. 5018 §§3, 4, 5, 1982; Ord. 4834 §2, 1980; Ord. 4325 §2 (part), 1976)