This chapter shall be known and may be cited
as the "1960 Zoning Ordinance of the Borough of Trafford," and the
district map shall be known and may be cited as the "Official Zoning
Ordinance Map."
This chapter is adopted for the purpose of lessening
congestion in the streets, to secure safety from fire, panic and other
dangers, to promote health and the general welfare, to provide adequate
light and air, to prevent the overcrowding of land, to avoid undue
concentration of the population, to facilitate the adequate provision
of transportation, water, sewage, schools, parks and other public
requirements. This chapter is inclusive zoning in that no use may
be operated in a district unless it is specifically listed as a use
by the right for the district.
For the purpose of this chapter, certain terms
or words used herein shall be interpreted or defined as follows:
A.
Words used in the present tense include the future
tense.
B.
The singular includes the plural.
C.
The word "person" includes a corporation as well as
an individual.
D.
The word "lot" includes the words "plot" or "parcel."
E.
The term "shall" is always mandatory; "may" is always
permissive.
F.
The words "used" or "occupied", as applied to any
land or building, shall be constructed to include the words "intended,
arranged or designated to be used or occupied."
G.
The word "building" includes the word "structure."
Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following
words shall, for the purpose of this chapter, have the meanings herein
indicated:
A building subordinate to the main building and used for
purposes customarily incidental to those of the main building.
The Zoning Hearing Board.
The Borough of Trafford, Pennsylvania.
A boundary or limit beyond which no structure may project,
usually being the face of the building, including porches but not
including steps.
Engaging in a business, enterprise, activity or some other
undertaking for profit.
The Council or legislative body of Trafford.
The digging or boring of a well for the purpose of exploring
for, developing or producing oil and/or gas or other hydrocarbons.
[Added 4-21-2009 by Ord. No. 731]
The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance by
public utilities or municipal departments or commissions, including
buildings necessary for the furnishing of adequate services for the
public health, safety or general welfare.
The permission or approval granted by the Board in situations
where provision therefor is made by the terms of this chapter.
Any number of individuals living and cooking together as
a single housekeeping unit, as distinguished from a group occupying
a boardinghouse.
The open space extending across the width of the lot between
the front building line and the street right-of-way or front lot line.
Any fluid, either combustible or noncombustible, which is
produced in a natural state from the earth and which maintains a gaseous
or rarefied state at standard temperature and pressure conditions
and/or the gaseous components or vapors occurring in or derived from
petroleum or natural gas.
[Added 4-21-2009 by Ord. No. 731]
The drilling and/or extraction of gas or oil.
[Added 4-21-2009 by Ord. No. 731]
Any well drilled, to be drilled, or used for the intended
or actual production of gas.
[Added 4-21-2009 by Ord. No. 731]
The number of square feet in the area under consideration,
which will include streets, parks and other open space, business and
industrial areas as well as residential areas.
For a building it shall be measured from the mean level of
the ground surrounding the building to a point midway between the
highest and the lowest points of the roof, provided that chimneys,
spires, towers, tanks and similar projections shall not be included
in the calculation.
The parcel of land on which a main building and any accessory
buildings are placed, together with the required open spaces.
A building in which is conducted the principal use of the
lot on which it is situated.
A building designed for and occupied exclusively as a residence
for two or more families living independently of one another.
The number of square feet, excluding about 30% of the total
land area which is devoted to parks, schools, churches, streets, alleys
and other uses.
Hydrocarbons in liquid form at a standard temperature of
60° F. and pressure of 14.7 pounds per square inch absolute (psia).
[Added 4-21-2009 by Ord. No. 731]
Any well drilled, to be drilled, or used for the intended
or actual production of oil.
[Added 4-21-2009 by Ord. No. 731]
Any area of land which is predominantly free of structures.
An area maintained in its natural state as a public property
for recreation.
[Added 4-21-2009 by Ord. No. 731]
Floods experienced every 10 years or thereabouts.
An accessory building for the storage of motor vehicles owned
and used by the owner or tenant of the lot for a purpose accessory
to the use of the lot and for not more than one additional motor vehicle
owned and used by others.
A building, not a private garage, used for the storage or
repair of motor vehicles.
The required open space extending from the rear of the main
building and along the rear lot line, not a street line, throughout
the whole width of the lot.
A residential building, other than a hotel, in which part
or parts are kept, used or held out to be a place where sleeping accommodations
are offered for hire for three or more persons, but not open to transient
guests.
In a single building, it is subordinate to the principal
use. In this instance, such use shall include offices and apartments
on the second floor of buildings in C-1 Districts. Apartments on the
ground floor in a C-1 District will not be permitted.
A yard between the building and the adjacent side line of
the lot extending from the front line of the building to the rear
line of the building. Corner lots shall have a street side yard of
the same dimensions as a front yard.
Any writing, including a letter, word or numeral; pictorial
representation, including an illustration or decoration; emblem, including
a device, symbol or trademark; flag, including a banner or pennant;
or any other figure of similar character which is visible from outside
a building, is a structure or any part thereof or is attached to,
painted on or in any other manner represented on a building. An illuminated
sign within a building and located in a window is a "sign."
A building designed for and occupied exclusively as a residence
for only one family.
The line defining the edge of the legal width of a street
right-of-way.
Any licensed or unlicensed piece of mobile equipment designed
or constructed to be towed or pulled by a motor vehicle.
Any licensed or unlicensed trailer or other vehicle designed
or used for living or sleeping purposes, regardless of whether the
wheels are attached or unattached or a permanent or semipermanent
foundation is constructed underneath or any structures of a permanent
nature are attached thereto.
A lot or premises occupied or designed for occupancy by two
or more house trailers.
Authorization by the Board for the use of property by an
owner when, owing to special conditions, a literal enforcement of
this chapter would result in unnecessary hardships. All authorized
variances must be forwarded to the Council and made a part of their
official minutes.
The Code Enforcement Officer of the Borough of Trafford.
[Amended 10-20-1998 by Ord. No. 667]
