For the purpose of this chapter, certain terms and words shall
be interpreted or defined as follows:
A.
Words used in the present tense shall include the future.
B.
Words used in the singular shall include the plural, and the plural
shall include the singular.
C.
The word "person" includes a corporation as well as an individual.
D.
The word "lot" includes the word "plot" or "parcel."
E.
The term "shall" is always mandatory.
F.
The word "used" or "occupied" as applied to any land or building
shall be construed to include the words "intended," "arranged" or
"designed to be used or occupied."
G.
The word "building" includes the word "structure."
H.
The word "erected" shall include the word "constructed."
I.
The word "moved" shall include the word "relocated."
Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following words shall,
for the purpose of this chapter, have the meanings herein indicated.
For purposes of this chapter, buildings that are subordinate
to the principal buildings on the same lot.
A use that is subordinate and incidental to the main use
or uses on the same lot or premises.
Any use of land or structures for farming, dairying, pasturage,
horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, or animal or poultry husbandry.
A service way providing a secondary means of access to abutting
properties.
(Structural or use change.) Any change in the supporting
members of a building, such as bearing walls, columns, beams, girders
or foundations, or by extending on a side, front or rear, or by increasing
in height, or the moving from one location to another, or any change
in use.
The vertical distance measured from the base of the antenna
support structure at grade to the highest point of the structure.
If the support structure is on a sloped grade, then the average between
the highest and lowest grades shall be used in calculating the antenna
height.
Any pole, telescoping mast, tower, tripod or any other structure
that supports a device used in the transmitting or receiving of radio
frequency energy.
A room or suite of rooms in a multifamily structure which
is designed for use as a single housekeeping unit and which contains
a functional kitchen, bath and toilet facilities.
A landowner or developer who files an application, as required
by the Township, for development, including the heirs, successors
and assigns thereof.
Area of a lot or site calculated from perimeter dimensions
of the site.
The total area taken on a horizontal plane at the main grade
level of a building or structure exclusive of uncovered porches, terraces
and steps.
Any premises used for the retail sale of motor fuel and lubricants,
and incidental services such as lubrication, and the sale, installation
or minor repair of tires, batteries or other automobile accessories,
but not including major repair work such as motor replacement, body
fender repair or spray painting.
Engine maintenance, repair or reconditioning, collision repair,
including straightening and repainting, replacement of parts and incidental
services.
The dismantling or disassembling of two or more motor vehicles
or trailers, or the storage, sale or dumping of two or more dismantled,
partially dismantled, obsolete or wrecked vehicles or their parts.
A portion of a building partly or completely below grade.
It shall be considered a building story if more than 50% of its clear
height is above the average level of the adjoining ground.
The offering of overnight accommodations and food service
for transient guests for compensation within the confines of a detached
single-family dwelling structure when conducted subsidiary to normal
single-family residential use.
Structure, building wall, or other outdoor surface used to
display lettered, pictorial, sculptured, or other matter which directs
attention to any product, announcement, commodity or service offered.
A strip of land which is planted and maintained in shrubs,
bushes, trees, grass or other landscaping material and within which
no structure is permitted except a wall or fence.
An independent and detached structure supported by columns
or walls or resting on its own foundation, including, but not limited
to, mobile homes, garages, greenhouses and other accessory buildings,
and utilized for shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels
or land use activities.
The vertical distance measured from the average elevation
of the finish grade to the highest point of the roof.
An imaginary line located a fixed distance from the front
line of the lot. (Refer to "yard, front.")
The building housing the main or primary use of the land.
Any business activity which renders service primarily to
other commercial or industrial enterprises as opposed to focusing
on retail level activities.
Any licensed or unlicensed trailer or other vehicle designed
or used for temporary living or sleeping purposes, regardless of whether
the wheels are attached or unattached or a permanent or semipermanent
foundation is constructed underneath, or any structure of a permanent
or semipermanent nature that is not connected to utilities. "Camping
and recreational equipment" shall include travel trailers, pickup
coaches, motorized home and boat trailers, which shall be defined
as follows:
TRAVEL TRAILERA vehicular, portable structure having an overall length of 40 feet or less and an overall width of eight feet or less, built on a chassis, designed to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation purposes and, when equipped for the road, must be licensed.
PICKUP COACHA structure designed primarily to be mounted on a pickup or truck chassis with sufficient equipment to render it suitable for use as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation uses.
BOAT TRAILERA trailer designed to haul boats.
MOTORIZED HOMEA motorized vehicle with sufficient equipment to render it suitable for use as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation uses. This unit must be licensed and inspected.
That portion of a road which is paved, graded or improved
for travel by vehicles.
A tract or parcel of land that contains the cellular communications
antenna, its support structure, accessory building(s) and parking,
and may include other uses associated with and ancillary to cellular
communication transmission.
A structure and necessary auxiliary components for use by
a private business organization to send and receive electronic or
analogous signals as an integral component of a telecommunications
system to provide services that are paid for directly by the recipients
thereof.
Any establishment where human patients are examined and treated
by doctors or dentists but not hospitalized overnight.
An establishment operated for social, athletic, recreational
or educational purposes but open only to members and not the general
public.
A mechanical contrivance utilizing belt, chain or chute-type
devices, including frames, housing, drives, motors, tail sections,
transfer stations, electric and communication cables, pipes, fixtures
and any other related components, to transport material overland from
mining sites via owned land holdings, rights-of-ways, easements, leases
or licenses.
[Amended 10-16-2000 by Ord. No. 2000-3]
All underground areas within a continuous barrier of undisturbed
coal, from which such coal is extracted.[1]
A support facility, not a coal mining facility, required
for and used only in connection with an underground coal mine, which
is to:
Engaging in a business, enterprise, activity or other undertaking
related to or connected with trade or commerce in general.
Washington County Planning Commission.
The legally appointed Planning Commission of Carroll Township,
Washington County, Pennsylvania.[2]
A use of land to be permitted or denied by the governing
body (following public hearing) after study and recommendations by
the Planning Commission, pursuant to express standards and criteria
set forth in the chapter.
Land and any structures thereon used for a building contractor's
office, supply yard, activity area and service facilities.
A suite of rooms consisting of at least one private bedroom,
one additional habitable room, one separate and private bathroom and
separate and private cooking facilities, designed or intended for
occupancy as a separate residence, which is established in a portion
of a building originally used or designed for use by a single-family
unit.
A facility in which child day-care services are provided
for seven or more school-age, preschool or infant children in an institutional-related
structure suitable for such functions.
Any family residence other than a child's own home or
the home of a child's relative, operated for profit or not for
profit, in which child day care is provided at any one time to four,
five or six school-age children (the day the child initially enters
the first grade of a public or private school system to 12 years of
age), preschoolers (approximately three years of age to initial school
entry at the first grade level of a public or private school system)
or to infants and toddlers (from birth to approximately three years
of age), who are not relatives of the caregiver.
The area of a lot, a group of lots, or any given area of
land computed exclusive of any portion of the right-of-way of any
road, divided by the number of families housed on the lot or group
of lots.
A landowner or agent or tenant thereof who causes to be made
a subdivision of land or construction and/or development on said land.
A step or stage in growth or advancement; result of developing;
a thing that is developed.
A section of the municipality for which uniform regulations
governing the use, height, area and intensity of use of buildings
and land and open spaces about buildings are herein established.
A private accessway to a parking area, garage or structure.
A lot or land or part thereof used for the disposal, abandonment,
dumping, burial, burning or any other means and for whatever purpose
of garbage, trash, refuse, junk, discarded machinery, vehicles or
parts thereof, or waste material of any kind (excludes private or
public sewage disposal, licensed permitted municipal sanitary landfills
and junkyards).
A building or portion thereof providing complete housekeeping
facilities for an individual or family unit.
DWELLING UNITA building or portion thereof providing complete housekeeping facilities for an individual or one family.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILYA detached or separate building designed for or occupied exclusively as a residence for an individual or one family.
DWELLING, DUPLEXA detached or separate building designed for or occupied exclusively by two families or individuals living independently of each other with separate entrances and facilities.
DWELLING, MULTI- OR MULTIPLE-FAMILYA structure containing three or more separate dwelling units for families or individuals living independently of each other, which may provide joint services and/or facilities but separate housekeeping, sanitary and cooking facilities. Such structures may be referred to as apartment, garden apartment, townhouse or row house.
A school, including a public school, parochial school, private
school, college, university and a private nursery school or preschool,
having regular sessions, with regularly employed instructors, which
teach subjects that are fundamental and essential in primary, elementary,
secondary or higher education under the supervision of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania or a lawfully constituted ecclesiastical governing
body, or a corporation or other entity meeting the requirements of
the commonwealth.
A professional engineer licensed as such in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
Incidental repairs, replacement of parts and servicing of
small appliances and minor household equipment such as motors, lawn
equipment and chainsaws.
Includes built, constructed, reconstructed, moved upon or
any physical operations on the land required for building activities.
Excavation, fill, drainage and similar operations shall be considered
part of the erection process.
The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance by
public utilities, municipal departments or commissions, including
buildings, necessary for furnishing adequate services for public health,
safety or general welfare. (Shall not include private, nonpublic communication,
and related facilities.)
Any act by which earth, sand, gravel, rock or any other similar
material is dug into, cut, quarried, uncovered, removed, displaced,
relocated or disturbed and any conditions resulting therefrom.
One or more persons who live together in a single housekeeping
unit and maintain a common household, as distinguished from a group
occupying a boardinghouse. A family may consist of a single person
or of two or more persons, whether or not related by blood, marriage
or adoption. For purposes of this chapter, the term "family" shall
not include group residential facilities, day-care/family homes, day-care
centers or institutional facilities.
The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors
of a building determined by dimensions measured between exterior faces
of walls as in a single-family dwelling or by dimensions measured
between common interior separating walls as in duplex, apartments
and townhouses. (Excludes cellar or basement floor areas, roofed porches,
roofed terraces and accessory buildings, whether attached or separate.
The front boundary line of a lot facing a street. The front
of a corner lot shall be considered: on the street that parallels
the long dimension of a block; on the street of higher classification
with respect to use; or on the basis of the orientation of a majority
of the other lots in the immediate vicinity.
A private garage is an accessory building with area commonly
used for housing motor-driven vehicles, the property of and for the
use of the occupants of the lot on which the garage is located. A
public garage is any garage other than a private garage as defined
herein, available to clients, operated for gain, and which is used
for storage, repair, rental, lubricating, washing and servicing or
equipping of motor vehicles.
A multifamily residential building, not exceeding three stories
in height, in which units are arranged side to side, back to back
or one above another, which may have either private external entrances
or common hall access, and which have private exterior yard area for
each unit.
A retail commercial sales establishment for the sale of plants,
garden supplies and related items. For purposes of this chapter, said
establishments shall not include the sale or service of machinery,
tractors or mowing equipment in excess of 20 horsepower.
Gas, as used herein, shall mean coal-bed methane, methane,
methane gas, natural gas, gob gas and other dry gaseous substances
and constituent produced from one or more coal seams, or the rock
or other strata in communication with a coal seam.
[Added 9-4-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-2]
A facility constructed to remove inert gases and moisture
from gas produced from wells drilled into gas-bearing formations.
The processing facility will also include the necessary compression
equipment and tanks for the storage of both processing liquids and
dry waste stream liquids.
[Added 9-4-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-2]
Any facility that directly supports a gas processing facility,
including, but not limited to, gas compressor stations, metering stations,
water treatment facilities, water storage tanks, communication towers,
power lines and pipelines.
[Added 9-4-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-2]
The Board of Township Supervisors of the Township of Carroll,
Washington County, PA
Any federal, state or local governmental agency.
A plan prepared by a registered professional engineer showing
final grade contours at vertical intervals of 10 feet or greater detail
for slopes of 5% or less.
The total floor area of all buildings in the project, including
basements, mezzanines and upper floors.
[Added 3-4-1997 by Ord. No. 1997-1]
An establishment that provides room and board in a family
environment to persons who receive supervised care limited to health,
social, rehabilitative or housing services. Such facilities may include
child and adult services for individuals not in need of hospitalization
or incarceration, but who, because of age, convalescence, infirmity,
disability or related circumstances, require such care. Group residential
facilities shall include boardinghomes for children, residential child-care
facilities, maternity homes, personal care homes for adults and similar
uses licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, provided
the scope of all such operations shall be in conformance with the
regulations of this chapter. Group residential facilities shall not
include institutional facilities, child day-care centers, day-care/family
homes and similar uses.
The cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers or vegetables on
a piece of ground adjoining the dwelling, for use of the residents
therein.
An accessory use of a service or product-oriented character,
conducted in conjunction with a single-family dwelling unit by the
residents thereof, which is clearly subordinate to the use of the
dwelling for living purposes and does not change the character thereof
or have exterior evidence of such subordinate use other than a small
announcement sign; and in connection therewith, there is not involved
the exterior keeping of, or exhibition of, stock-in-trade. In the
pursuit of such activities, all operations shall be free of any procedures
which could be construed as adversely influencing surrounding residential
uses because of noise, vibration, smoke, electrical interference,
odor or similar conditions.
Any premises, other than a mental health establishment operated
for profit, having an organized medical staff and providing equipment
and services primarily for inpatient care for two or more individuals
who require definitive diagnosis and/or treatment for illness, injury
or other disability or during or after pregnancy, and which also regularly
makes available at least clinical laboratory services, diagnostic
X-ray services and definitive clinical treatment services. The term
shall include such premises providing either diagnosis or treatment,
or both, for specific illnesses or conditions.
A building or a group of buildings in which lodging is provided
and offered to the general public or to a select group of patrons
for compensation.
An establishment that provides room and board to persons
who are residents by virtue of receiving supervised specialized services
limited to health, social and/or rehabilitative services provided
by a governmental agency, their licensed or certified agents or any
other responsible social service corporation. Hospitals, mental health
establishments and nursing homes shall be considered institutional
facilities. Institutional facilities shall not include day-care/family
homes, day-care centers or group residential facilities.
Any discarded material or article and shall include, but
not be limited to, scrap metal, abandoned or junked motor vehicles
or vehicle parts, machinery or machinery parts, papers, glass and
related items, containers or partially dismantled structures or parts
thereof. It shall also include a partially dismantled motor vehicle
not bearing current registration plates and which is not in the process
of ongoing and immediate repair. It shall not include garbage or hazardous
or toxic waste material.
The use of more than 200 square feet of the area of any lot,
whether inside or outside a building, for storage, keeping or abandonment
of junk, including scrap metals, or for the dismantling, demolition
or abandonment of automobiles or other vehicles, machinery or parts
thereof.
Any structure, pen or area set aside for the breeding, boarding,
showing, grooming or keeping of dogs, cats or similar domestic animals.
For purposes of this chapter, the keeping of five or more such animals
for economic gain shall be deemed a commercial kennel.
Any facility that is designed, operated or maintained for
the disposal of municipal waste or clean soil and rock resulting from
excavation, dredging or mining. Said landfills shall not include an
embankment or impoundment to contain, store or divert water, except
necessary sedimentation ponds accessory to the operations.
The legal or beneficial owner or owners of land, including
the holder of an option or contract to purchase (whether or not such
option or contract is subject to any condition); a lessee if he is
authorized under the lease to exercise the rights of the landowner;
or other persons having a proprietary interest in land.
A space within the main building or on the same lot therewith
providing for the standing, loading, or unloading of vehicles.
A tract or parcel of land held in single or separate ownership
that is described by reference to a recorded plat or by metes or bounds
and is intended as a unit for transfer of ownership, use, improvement,
dedication or for development.
The horizontal surface area within the lines of the lot.
A lot, abutting two or more streets at their intersection,
on which the building line for all streets must be observed.
The ratio of ground area covered by principal and accessory
structures to the total ground area of the lot.
The line contiguous with the street right-of-way line.
The line generally parallel to the front lot line which defines
the rear of the lot.
Any lot line which is not a front lot line or a rear lot
line.
The total horizontal distance across the lot, between the
side lot lines, measured at the building line.
The processing, handling or fabrication of materials and
products where no processes are involved which will produce noise,
vibration, air pollution, fire hazard, noxious emission, high traffic
volumes or other factors which will disturb or endanger neighboring
properties.
Any premises or part thereof, private or public, for the
care of individuals who require care because of mental illness, mental
retardation or inebriety, but shall not be deemed to include the private
home of a person who is rendering such care to a relative.
Structures and installations necessary to the operation of
an underground coal mine, which shall include slopes, shafts or portals
for the primary purpose of a gaining access from the surface to an
underground coal mine by persons or equipment to mine and remove coal,
coal preparation and cleaning plants and related equipment, ponds
and treatment facilities, coal refuse disposal areas, silos for storage
of coal, access roads, aboveground repair, personnel areas and structures,
and transport facilities. Transport facilities shall not include a
coal mine conveyor, as provided under this chapter.
[Added 10-16-2000 by Ord. No. 2000-3]
A transportable single-family dwelling structure designed
and intended for permanent occupancy, with a minimum body width of
eight feet and a minimum body length of 32 feet, built on a chassis
for towing on its own running gear, contained in one unit or in two
units designed to be joined into one integral unit capable of later
being separated for repeated towing, which arrives at a site complete
and ready for occupancy, except for minor and incidental unpacking
and assembly operations, and constructed for use without attachment
to a permanent foundation other than being secured to appropriate
piers, tie-downs or similar approved anchoring devices and structures.
Any contiguous parcel or tract of land under single ownership,
used or intended to be used for the placement of two or more mobile
homes for nontransient use, together with the required improvements
and facilities upon the land, whether or not consideration or rental
is required for the use of the parcels or facilities thereon.
A factory-fabricated transportable building unit, other than
a mobile home, designed to be used independently or incorporated with
similar units into a modular structure on a permanent foundation at
a permanent building site.
A building designed for and occupied exclusively as a residence
for two or more families living independently of each other, including
houses separate except for common adjoining walls.
A neighborhood-oriented commercial facility that provides
essential everyday needs to the residents of the immediate community
and is not dependent upon transient or non-area trade.
Service or charitable activities conducted on a voluntary
or nonprofit basis by individuals or public or service groups and
organizations.
A structure or part of a structure manifestly not designed
to comply with the applicable use or extent of use thereto, such as
minimum setback, minimum yard, maximum height, maximum lot coverage
and parking and loading requirements, where such structure lawfully
existed prior to enactment of this chapter or amendment thereto. Such
nonconforming structures include, but are not limited to, nonconforming
signs.
A lot, the area or dimension of which was lawful prior to
the adoption of this chapter or any amendment thereto, but which fails
to conform to the requirements of the zoning district in which it
is located, such as minimum lot area and minimum lot width requirements,
by reason of such adoption or amendments.
A use, whether of land or of a structure, that does not comply
with the applicable use provisions in this chapter or any amendment
thereto, where such use was lawfully in existence prior to enactment
of this chapter or amendment thereto.
A permit signed by the Zoning Officer setting forth that
a building, structure or parcel of land is in compliance with the
chapter and may lawfully be occupied or employed for specified uses.
A facility in which services, clerical work, professional
duties and similar functions are carried out.
One who owns; the rightful proprietor; one who has the legal
or rightful title.
Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code (Act 247 of 1968,
as amended by Act 170 of 1988) and amendments of same as may be adopted
from time to time.[3]
A use by right which is specifically authorized in a particular
zoning district.
A commercial establishment providing services and/or goods
to individuals and businesses.
Development of a tract of land for primarily residential
purposes under single ownership or control, the development of which
is unique and of a substantially different character than that of
the surrounding area. Such development shall be based on a plan that
allows for flexibility of design not available under standard zoning
district requirements.
The Carroll Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, Planning
Commission.
A tract or parcel of land. See definition for "lot."
The major or dominant use of a lot or land parcel.
An organization catering exclusively to members and their
guests at premises for social, recreational or athletic purposes,
which are not conducted primarily for gain, providing that any merchandising
or commercial activities are conducted only as required generally
for the membership of such organization.
An office or business conducted by an individual, group or
association dealing with medicine, law, accounting, real estate, architecture,
engineering, finance or related services.
"Public" includes any use activity owned and/or operated
by federal, state, county or local governmental units.
For purposes of this chapter, "recreation" shall be defined
as follows:
MUNICIPAL RECREATIONDeveloped or undeveloped open spaces and/or structures and facilities which are provided by a governmental body for public use for the purposes of play, amusement or relaxation. Such uses may include sports facilities, parks, assembly buildings, passive areas, gardens and related amenities and activities.
RECREATION, COMMERCIAL INDOORIndoor facilities for leisure-time activities that are provided as a business pursuit, including facilities open to the public and those requiring membership; including but not limited to indoor theaters, lodges, fraternal organizations, bowling alleys, indoor skating facilities and similar uses and activities.
RECREATION, COMMERCIAL OUTDOOROutdoor facilities for leisure-time activities that are provided as a business pursuit, including outdoor facilities open to the public and those requiring membership; including but not limited to swimming pools, tennis courts, riding stables, drive-in theaters, golf courses and similar uses and activities.
RECREATION, PRIVATEDeveloped or undeveloped open spaces and/or structures and facilities which are provided by individuals or private organizations for the use of specified individuals or groups of individuals sharing common relationships or associations for the purposes of play, amusement or relaxation. Such uses may include sports facilities, parks, assembly buildings, passive areas, gardens and related amenities and activities.
An establishment where refreshments, meals or prepared foods
may be obtained by the public, where customers thereof customarily
arrive at the premises via motor vehicle, and where only a portion
of the persons served consume the food or drink served to them within
the main building on the premises. This definition shall include,
inter alia, such enterprises as drive-in ice cream or custard stands,
hot or cold drink or sandwich establishments and the like. Where more
than 25% of the gross business of any establishment is covered under
this definition, such establishment shall be considered a drive-in
restaurant for purposes of this chapter.
A restaurant, tea room or similar establishment where customers
purchase and consume food or drinks on site.
Land reserved for use as a street, alley, interior walk,
or other public purpose and dedicated for public use. For purposes
of this chapter, dedicated public right-of-way lines shall prevail
over private parcel lines that are designated as falling within the
public right-of-way. When a lot abuts a right-of-way of a public thoroughfare
or alley, all applicable lot area and front, side and rear lot requirements
shall be computed from the public right-of-way line.
Stands offering for sale agricultural products grown on the
premises.
A multifamily dwelling structure, consisting of at least
three single-family dwelling units that are attached side by side
by unpierced party walls.
An arrangement of fencing, walls or vegetative material of
sufficient height and density to conceal from view of property owners
in adjoining residential districts the structures and uses on the
premises on which the screen or buffer planting is located.
A building, buildings, premises or portions thereof which
are used for the sale of gasoline or other fuel for motor vehicles,
as well as minor automobile repair and servicing.
The minimum distance that a structure can be located from
a right-of-way or property line or another structure, thereby creating
a required open space on a lot.
A combination of retail commercial uses on a common contiguous
site, designed as a unit, with adequate off-street free parking area,
and usually consisting of a series of one-story buildings or an arcade
flanked by shops.
For purposes of this chapter, a sign shall be considered
as any writing (including letter, word or numeral); pictorial representation
(including illustration or decoration); emblem (including device,
symbol, trademark, banner or pennant); or any other figure of similar
character which: a) is a structure or any part thereof or is attached
to, painted on, or in any other manner represented on a building or
other structure; and b) is used to announce, direct attention to,
or advertise. The term "sign" shall not apply to a religious symbol
void of lettering when applied to a place of worship.
A plan, to scale, showing uses and structures proposed for
a parcel of land that includes lot lines, streets, building sites,
buildings, open space and other information.
The permission or approval for a land use activity expressly
granted by the Zoning Hearing Board, after formal application, in
situations where provision therefor is made by the terms of this chapter.
The use of land and structures for the raising and care of
fur-bearing animals, stabling and care of horses, animal kennels,
bird raising or similar operations.
An establishment housing riding horses for hire by the general
public for recreational purposes.
That portion of a building included between the surface of
any floor and the surface of the floor next above it or, if there
is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling
next above it.
A public or private way that affords the principal vehicular
or pedestrian means of on-grade access to abutting properties. A street
may be designated as a highway, thoroughfare, alley, parkway, boulevard,
road, avenue, lane, drive, place or other appropriate name.
The following street classifications shall apply to all streets
in the Township:
EXPRESSWAYExpressways are limited-access freeways that carry through traffic between major urban centers and to and from points outside of a region with no local interference.
ARTERIALArterials carry major movements of traffic within or through the community.
COLLECTORCollectors carry the internal traffic movements within the Township and connect developed areas with the arterial system. The collector system simultaneously provides abutting property with road access and accommodates local internal traffic movements.
LOCALLocal streets provide access to immediately adjacent land but normally carry a small portion of the total vehicle miles traveled daily.
PRIVATEAny vehicular way that is not dedicated as a public street.
The line defining the edge of the legal width of a dedicated
street right-of-way.
Any man-made object having an ascertainable stationary location
on or in land or water, whether or not affixed to the land. Structures
include, but are not limited to, buildings, sheds, signs, manufactured
homes, and other similar items.
A commercial establishment storing or offering for sale building
supplies, coal, heavy equipment, feed and grain, and similar goods.
Supply yards shall not include the wrecking, salvaging, dismantling
or storage of automobiles and similar vehicles.
The extraction of minerals from the earth, from waste or
stock piles, or from pits or banks by activities conducted upon the
surface of the land that require the removal of the overburden, strata
or material overlying, above or between the minerals, or by otherwise
exposing and retrieving the minerals from the surface. These activities
include, but are not limited to, strip, drift, auger and open pit
mining, dredging, quarrying, leaching, slope top removal, box cutting,
and activities related thereto. Mining activities carried out beneath
the surface by means of shafts, tunnels or other underground mine
openings are not included in this definition.
One who makes a journey, especially for pleasure.
A lot or contiguous group of lots in single ownership or
under single control and usually considered a unit for purposes of
development.
A facility designed to accommodate the service and storage
of trucks and which may also provide warehousing activities.
The purpose of the activity for which the land or building
thereon is designed, arranged or intended, or for which it is occupied
or maintained. The term "permitted use" or "use by right" or its equivalent
shall not be deemed to include any nonconforming use.
A modification of the literal provisions of this chapter,
which the Zoning Hearing Board is permitted to grant when strict enforcement
of said provisions would cause undue hardship owing to circumstances
unique to the individual property on which the variance is sought.
Facilities for the sale and service of vehicles, includes
used car and truck dealers, factory authorized car and truck dealers,
mobile home dealers, self-propelled or towed recreational vehicle
and boat dealers, farm or construction equipment dealers, or any similar
automotive related dealers.
An establishment that provides for the treatment and prevention
of diseases and injuries in domestic animals together with related
boarding of said animals.
A building or portion thereof designed and used for storing
personal property of an individual or family separate from their residential
site. This shall not include the storage of any merchandise, stock,
furnishings or vehicles of a business or commercial activity of any
kind.
A bore hole drilled or being drilled for the purpose of or
to be used for producing, extracting or injecting any gas, petroleum
or other liquid related to oil or gas production or storage, including
brine disposal, but excluding bore holes drilled to produce potable
water to be used as such.
A space on the same lot with a principal structure, open,
unoccupied and unobstructed by structures, except as may be otherwise
provided in this chapter.
YARD, FRONTA yard extending across the full width of the lot, unoccupied other than by steps, walks, terraces, driveways, lampposts and similar improvements, the depth of which is the least distance between the front lot at the right-of-way line and the building line.
YARD, REARA yard extending across the full width of the lot between the rear of the principal building and the rear lot line, unoccupied other than by steps, walks, terraces, driveways, lampposts and similar improvements.
YARD, SIDEA yard between the principal structure and the side lot line, extending from the front yard, or from the front line where no front yard is required, to the rear yard. The width of the required side yard is measured horizontally, at 90° with the side lot line, from the nearest part of the principal building.
The Board appointed by the Carroll Township Supervisors and
assigned the duties of judging various appeals and variance requests
of persons aggrieved by the interpretation of this chapter and, further,
assigned to consider the qualification of special exceptions under
the terms and conditions specified in this chapter.
The Official Zoning Map or Maps of Carroll Township which
are part of this chapter, together with all amendments subsequently
adopted.[4]
The individual authorized by the Carroll Township Supervisors
to be the administrator of the day-to-day application of the provisions
contained in this chapter.
A statement signed by the Zoning Officer indicating that
the application for permission to construct or alter is approved and
in accordance with the requirements and terms of this chapter.
[1]
Editor's Note: The original definition of "coal mine
facilities, underground," which immediately followed this definition,
was repealed 10-16-2000 by Ord. No. 2000-3.
[3]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.
[4]
Editor's Note: The Zoning Map, as amended, is on file in the
Township's office.
