Definitions beginning with D.
Minneapolis Code of Ordinances § 565.50
in effect565.50. - Definitions beginning with D.
Daily living skills. Personal management and social skills, including but not limited to home care maintenance, food preparation, personal care, money management, and child rearing skills, that are necessary for adequate functioning on an independent basis.
Day care.
Family day care. Day care for no more than ten (10) children at one (1) time, of which no more than six (6) are under school age, and which is licensed to operate as a family day care home.
Group family day care. Day care for no more than fourteen (14) children at one (1) time and which is licensed to operate as a group family day care home.
Day labor agency. An establishment engaged in the temporary employment of persons on a daily basis where persons wait on the premises for work assignments or transportation to work assignments.
Demolition. The act of moving or razing a building, including the removal, substantial removal, or relocation of sixty (60) percent or more of the building's exterior within any five (5) year period, excluding additions constructed within the five (5) year period. The building's roof shall constitute twenty (20) percent of the total exterior above the finished floor of the first story. The remainder shall be a calculation of the percent change to the perimeter of the building, measured per story, in linear feet. For the purpose of this definition, removal shall include any adjustment to fenestration or wall location from the finished floor to the surface of the floor above.
Developmental achievement center. A facility in which a program of care, supervision, training or habilitation services, including adult day care, that is licensed by the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) is provided to functionally impaired persons for less than twenty-four (24) hours per day.
Dormitory. A building operated by a college or university offering an accredited course of study, which is occupied only by university or college students and support staff who receive from the dormitory lodging or meals on the premises for compensation.
Drive-through facility. A facility which accommodates automobiles and from which the occupants of the automobiles may make purchases or transact business, including the stacking spaces in which automobiles wait. Examples include but are not limited to drive-up windows, menu boards, order boards or boxes, drive-in restaurants, and drive-up banks and automated teller machines. Drive-through facilities shall not include the direct refueling of motor vehicles, car washes, parking spaces used for customer pick-up or loading of goods or products purchased on-site or prior to the customer's arrival, or parking and loading spaces used for the donation of secondhand goods.
Driveway. The area used for vehicular access to an off-street parking area from a street or alley. Driveway shall also include the area used for vehicular access to areas of the zoning lot other than an off-street parking area.
Drug store. A convenience retail store with a pharmacy.
Dwelling. A building, or portion thereof, containing one (1) or more dwelling units, designed or used exclusively for human habitation.
Accessory dwelling unit. A dwelling unit that is located on the same lot as a principal residential structure to which it is accessory, and that is subordinate in area to the principal dwelling.
Multiple-family dwelling. A building, or portion thereof, containing three (3) or more dwelling units, not including an accessory dwelling unit.
Single-family dwelling. A building containing one (1) dwelling unit only, except that the structure may also contain an accessory dwelling unit where expressly authorized pursuant to this ordinance. A detached accessory dwelling unit shall not be considered a single-family dwelling unit for the purposes of this ordinance.
Two-family dwelling. A building containing two (2) dwelling units only, neither of which is an accessory dwelling unit, and each of which is separated from the other by an unpierced wall extending from ground to roof for at least eighty (80) percent of the length of the structure or an unpierced ceiling and floor extending from exterior wall to exterior wall.
Three-family dwelling. A building containing three (3) dwelling units only, none of which are an accessory dwelling unit, and that are attached vertically or horizontally.
Dwelling unit. One (1) or more rooms, designed, occupied, or intended for occupancy as a separate contiguous living quarter, with a single kitchen facility, sleeping area, and bathroom provided within the unit for the exclusive use of a single household.
(Ord. No. 2025-023, § 88, 5-15-2025)
Source: City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Code of Ordinances, City Charter and Park and Recreation Board Code of Ordinances (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/mn/minneapolis/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=MICOOR_TIT20ZOCO_CH565DE_565.50DEBEDFetched: 11/2/2026