Sign Ordinance Adopted 06-04-2012 - City of Deltona, Florida

Density: total number of dwellings per net acre of land. For purposes of applying a specified densityregulation, a fractional part of an acre will permit that fractional part of the number of dwellings allowedfor a full acre; calculations resulting in a fractional part of a dwelling shall be rounded up to the nextwhole number of dwellings whenever the fractional part of a dwelling is one-half or greater.Department: the City Manager or his authorized designee, and fire and rescue department of the Cityand the City law enforcement agency, including their directors, workers, officers and agents.Design fall radius: the property area within which, in the event of a failure, a communication towerwould entirely fall, as determined by the engineering design.Designated thoroughfare: A principal arterial, minor arterial or collector road that is designated as a“Thoroughfare” as part of the City of Deltona Comprehensive Plan Thoroughfare Roadway System Map,as amended.Designated thoroughfare plan: plan or plans of all or such portions of the geographical area of the Cityas the city commission shall from time to time adopt in conformity with the requirements of section 70-29and which depicts a unified network or system of thoroughfares designed or intended to meet present andanticipated future needs of the City.Deteriorated tree: degenerated or damaged to the point where death of the tree is imminent or to the pointwhere the tree poses a significant hazard.Determination of capacity: comparison of a development's impact on public facilities with the capacityof the required public facilities that are or will be available concurrent with the impacts of development asprovided in chapter of this Code.Developer: any person engaged in developing or improving a project or group of lots for use, occupancyor sale.Developed lot: any lot which has a building or mobile home on it including all appropriate infrastructure.Developed lot shall include in its definition the swale area.Development: any human initiated change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but notlimited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavating, drillingoperations, or storage of materials and equipment, or the dividing of land into two or more parcels.Development shall include:(1) A reconstruction, or remodeling when said remodeling includes the alteration of exterior lighting,alteration of the size, or structural change in the external appearance of a structure on land.(2) A change in the intensity of use of land, such as: an increase in the number of dwelling units in astructure or on land, or a material increase in the number of businesses, manufacturingestablishments, offices, or dwelling units in a structure or on land.(3) Alteration of a shore or bank of a river, stream, lake, pond or canal, or other governmentally-definednavigable waterway.(4) Commencement of drilling, except to obtain soil samples; mining; or excavation on a parcel of land.(5) Demolition or removal of a structure.(6) Clearing of land as an adjunct of construction.(7) Deposit of refuse, solid or liquid waste, or fill on a parcel of land.(8) Any land altering activity described in F.S. § 380.04.Ordinance No. 04-2012 Adopted June 4, 2012 Page 16 LDC Section 70-30