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Borough of Indiana, PA
Indiana County
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A. 
Principal permitted uses:
(1) 
Single-functional family detached dwellings.
[Amended 8-7-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-03]
(2) 
Libraries, parks and playgrounds.
(3) 
Essential services.
B. 
Accessory uses:
(1) 
Private garage and parking areas for three or less vehicles.
[Amended 10-7-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-04; 2-2-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-03]
(2) 
Other accessory uses and structures, including tool sheds, children's playhouses, swimming pool, play court, etc.
C. 
Special exceptions:
(1) 
Transitional residential facilities (group homes).
(2) 
Nursery schools or day-care centers.
(3) 
Churches and church social and educational buildings.
(4) 
Schools: public, parochial and private, elementary and secondary (not including commercial or trade schools).[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Subsection 3.135, Public parking lot, which immediately followed this subsection, was repealed 5-3-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-04.
(5) 
Home occupations.
(6) 
Student housing shall be permitted, providing the property is the permanent residence of the owner of such property.
[Added 8-7-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-03]
(7) 
Rooming house and/or boardinghouse as defined in § 460-62.
[Added 8-7-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-03]
(8) 
Private garage and parking areas for four or more vehicles.
[Added 10-7-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-04; amended 2-2-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-03]
(9) 
Expansion and construction of driveways or parking areas at front of property.
[Added 2-2-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-03]
A. 
Principal permitted uses:
(1) 
Single-functional family detached dwellings.
[Amended 8-7-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-03]
(2) 
Two-functional family dwellings.
[Amended 8-7-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-03]
(3) 
Libraries, parks and playgrounds.
(4) 
Essential services.
(5) 
Health services office.
B. 
Accessory uses:
(1) 
Private garages and parking areas for three or less vehicles.
[Amended 10-7-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-04; 2-2-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-03]
(2) 
Other accessory uses and structures, including tool sheds, children's playhouses, swimming pools, play court, etc.
C. 
Special exceptions:
(1) 
Nursing homes.
(2) 
Transitional residential facilities (group homes).
(3) 
Nursery schools or day-care centers.
(4) 
Churches and church social and educational buildings.
(5) 
Schools: public, parochial and private, elementary and secondary (not including commercial or trade schools).[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Subsection 3.236, Public parking lot, which immediately followed this subsection, was repealed 5-3-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-04.
(6) 
Home occupations.
(7) 
Student housing shall be permitted, providing the property is the permanent residence of the owner of such property.
[Added 8-7-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-03]
(8) 
Funeral homes.
(9) 
Rooming house and/or boardinghouse as defined in § 460-62.
[Added 8-7-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-03]
(10) 
Private garages and parking areas for four or more vehicles.
[Added 10-7-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-04; amended 2-2-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-03]
(11) 
Expansion and construction of driveways or parking areas at front of property.
[Added 2-2-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-03]
A. 
Principal permitted uses:
(1) 
Single-family detached dwellings.
(2) 
Two-family dwellings.
(3) 
Townhouses or row houses.
(4) 
Multiple-family dwelling buildings.
(5) 
Nursing homes.
(6) 
Nursery schools or day-care centers.
(7) 
Libraries, parks and playgrounds.
(8) 
Essential services.
(9) 
Health services office.
(10) 
Funeral homes.
B. 
Accessory uses:
(1) 
Home occupations.
(2) 
Private garages and parking areas for three or less vehicles.
[Amended 10-7-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-04; 2-2-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-03]
(3) 
Other accessory uses and structures, including tool sheds, children's playhouses, swimming pools, play courts, etc.
C. 
Special exceptions:
(1) 
Transitional residential facilities (group homes).
(2) 
Membership social organizations, clubs, lodges (not including college-related fraternity or sorority).
(3) 
Churches and church social and educational buildings.
(4) 
Schools: public, parochial, private, elementary and secondary (not including commercial or trade schools).
(5) 
Athletic complex.
(6) 
Health services clinic.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Subsection 3.347, Public parking lot, which immediately followed this subsection, was repealed 5-3-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-04.
(7) 
Private garages and parking areas for four or more vehicles.
[Added 10-7-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-04; amended 2-2-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-03]
D. 
Conditional uses:
[Added 2-2-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-03]
(1) 
All other required parking other than parking at rear of property.
A. 
Principal permitted uses:
(1) 
Single-family detached dwellings.
(2) 
Two-family dwellings.
(3) 
Townhouses or row houses.
(4) 
Multiple-family dwelling buildings.
(5) 
High-rise apartment buildings not to exceed six stories or 65 feet.
(6) 
Nursing homes.
(7) 
Nursery schools or day-care centers.
(8) 
Libraries, parks and playgrounds.
(9) 
Essential services.
(10) 
Health services clinic.
(11) 
Health services office.
(12) 
Churches and church social and educational buildings.
(13) 
Schools: public, parochial, private, elementary, secondary or collegiate (not including commercial or trade schools)
(14) 
Funeral homes.[1]
[1]
Editor’s Note: Original Subsection 3.425, regarding apartments within integrated residential commercial buildings, which immediately followed this subsection, was repealed 5-3-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-02.
B. 
Accessory uses:
(1) 
Home occupations.
(2) 
Private garages and parking areas residential uses with two or fewer dwelling units.
[Amended 10-19-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-01]
(3) 
Other accessory uses and structures, including tool sheds, children's playhouses, swimming pools; play courts, etc.
(4) 
Storeroom on the ground floor or basement level of a mixed residential and commercial building, provided the use of the storeroom is a retail commercial or retail service use listed in Subsection C below, and the residential floor area in the building is at least equal to that allocated for storerooms.
C. 
Special exceptions:
(1) 
Apartments within an integrated residential-commercial building.
(2) 
Transitional residential facilities (group homes).
(3) 
Dormitories, private or university-related.
(4) 
Rooming houses/boardinghouses and motels.
(5) 
Joining of residential buildings existing prior to September 1, 1963, to create one structure.
(6) 
Clubs, lodges, fraternities and sororities, provided no fraternity or sorority fronts on a street across from an R-1 or R-2 Zone District.
(7) 
Athletic complex.
(8) 
Hospital.
(9) 
Public parking lot.
(10) 
Parking facilities, university-related.
(11) 
Bicycle rental, repair and sales, excluding motorized vehicles.
(12) 
Bus waiting room and ticket office.
(13) 
Banks, savings and loan or credit union.
(14) 
Food sales.
(15) 
Offices, business, professional or college.
(16) 
Personal services: barber, beauty shop, laundromat, dry cleaning pickup, tutorial services, etc.
(17) 
Restaurant.
(18) 
Retail sales.
D. 
Conditional uses:
[Added 2-2-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-03]
(1) 
All other required parking other than parking at rear of property.
A. 
Principal permitted uses:
(1) 
Public facilities, including properties owned and operated by the United States, Indiana County and Indiana Borough governments and by the Indiana Area School District.
(2) 
Academic and convocation facilities.
(3) 
Housing owned and operated by the University.
(4) 
Athletic and physical fitness facilities.
(5) 
Student support services.
(6) 
Administrative offices, maintenance and utilities generation and distribution/collection facilities.
(7) 
Public garages and parking areas.
B. 
Accessory uses:
(1) 
Private garages, parking and servicing areas.
(2) 
Other accessory uses and structures that are customarily appurtenant to the principal use.
C. 
Conditional uses:
[Added 2-2-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-03]
(1) 
All other required parking other than parking at rear of property.
A. 
Principal permitted uses in the C-1 Zone:
(1) 
Antique sales.
(2) 
Apartments within an integrated residential-commercial building.
(3) 
Automotive parts sales.
(4) 
Bakeries with all product sold at retail on premises.
(5) 
Banks, savings and loans and credit unions.
(6) 
Barbershops and beauty salons.
(7) 
Blueprinting, photostating and photocopying establishments.
(8) 
Books, magazines, newspapers, stationery goods.
(9) 
Catalog stores.
(10) 
Churches and other places of worship, including educational facilities and social halls.
(11) 
Clothing sales, including shoes.
(12) 
Computing equipment software and instruction.
(13) 
Day-care centers.
(14) 
Department or variety stores.
(15) 
Drugstores.
(16) 
Dry cleaning, dyeing and pressing.
(17) 
Floor covering and carpet sales.
(18) 
Florists.
(19) 
Food sales, including supermarkets, delicatessens and specialty foods.
(20) 
Funeral homes.
(21) 
Furniture sales.
(22) 
Gift and card shops.
(23) 
Hardware and paint sales, including home improvement centers.
(24) 
Hotel.
(25) 
Household appliance sales.
(26) 
Interior decorating services.
(27) 
Jewelry, watches, china and silverware sales and repair.
(28) 
Laundromat and/or dry cleaning pickup.
(29) 
Leather goods and luggage sales.
(30) 
Locksmiths.
(31) 
Mailing services.
(32) 
Medical, dental, chiropractic and optical offices, laboratories and/or clinics.
(33) 
Music, musical recording, television and musical instrument sales.
(34) 
Newsstands.
(35) 
Offices: business, professional, institutional or governmental.
(36) 
Office and business machine sales and service.
(37) 
Office supplies sales.
(38) 
Package liquor stores.
(39) 
[1]Photographic studios and photography supplies and film developing.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection A(39), regarding private parking lots and garages, as amended, was repealed 10-19-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-01. This ordinance also redesignated former Subsection A(40) through (51) as Subsection A(39) through (50).
(40) 
Publicly owned facilities and service buildings.
(41) 
Radio, television and recording studios and facilities.
(42) 
Repair services for small household appliances: electric, electronic and computing equipment and business machines.
(43) 
Restaurants.
(44) 
Rental of videos and party goods.
(45) 
Social halls, lodges, fraternal organizations and clubs, but not including fraternities or sororities.
(46) 
Sporting goods stores.
(47) 
Tailors and dressmakers.
(48) 
Taverns.
(49) 
Theaters.
(50) 
Upholsterers.
B. 
Accessory uses:
(1) 
Crematories.
[Added 2-2-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-03[2]]
[2]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also provided for the redesignation of former Subsection B(1) and (2) as Subsection B(2) and (3), respectively.
(2) 
Private parking and servicing areas.
(3) 
Other accessory uses and structures that are customarily appurtenant to the principal use.
C. 
Special exceptions:
(1) 
Apartment building, residential only.
(2) 
Back-office operations without walk-in customer services.
(3) 
Business school.
(4) 
Retail sales or personal/business service use not listed as a principal permitted use above, but which, in the opinion of the Planning Commission, as noted in its recommendation to the Zoning Hearing Board, meets at least two of the following criteria:
(a) 
It is similar to and compatible with the uses that are permitted by right in the C-1 Zone.
(b) 
The entire operation is conducted indoors and walk-in customers are encouraged.
(c) 
Any drive-through part of the business is accommodated from a side or rear street.
(d) 
There are display windows facing the sidewalk advertising goods and/or services available on the premises.
(e) 
There is a demonstrated need for location with direct access to a sidewalk.
D. 
Conditional uses:
[Added 5-3-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-04]
(1) 
Parking lot, public.
(2) 
All other required parking other than parking at rear of property.
[Added 2-2-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-03]
(3) 
Parking lots and garages, private.
[Added 10-19-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-01]
A. 
Principal permitted uses:
(1) 
Antique sales.
(2) 
Amusement enterprises (billiards, pool, bowling, roller-skating, game machines, etc.).
(3) 
Automotive parts sales.
(4) 
Automotive tire sales and installation and glass replacement.
(5) 
Automotive repair.
(6) 
Automotive sales and service, new vehicles and used.
(7) 
Automotive washing and/or rental.
(8) 
Back-office operations without walk-in customer services.
(9) 
Bakery.
(10) 
Banks, savings and loans and credit unions.
(11) 
Barbershops and beauty salons.
(12) 
Beverage distributorship.
(13) 
Bicycle sales, accessories and service.
(14) 
Blueprinting, photostating and photocopying establishments.
(15) 
Books, magazines, newspapers and stationery goods.
(16) 
Boat and other watercraft sales, accessories and repairs.
(17) 
Bottling works.
(18) 
Brewery, mini.
(19) 
Building material sales.
(20) 
Bus waiting room and ticket office.
(21) 
Business school.
(22) 
Cabinet making, custom carpentry and millwork.
(23) 
Catalog store.
(24) 
Catering business.
(25) 
Churches and other places of worship, including educational facilities and social halls.
(26) 
Clothing sales, including shoes.
(27) 
Computing equipment, software and instruction.
(28) 
Contractor's office and storage yards.
(29) 
Convenience sales, including gasoline sales.
(30) 
Day-care centers.
(31) 
Department or variety stores.
(32) 
Drugstores.
(33) 
Dry cleaning, dyeing and pressing.
(34) 
Floor covering and carpet sales.
(35) 
Florists.
(36) 
Food sales, including supermarkets, delicatessens and specialty foods.
(37) 
Funeral homes.
(38) 
Furniture sales.
(39) 
Gift and card shops.
(40) 
Hardware and paint sales, including home improvement centers.
(41) 
Hotel or motel.
(42) 
Household appliance sales.
(43) 
Interior decorating services.
(44) 
Jewelry, watches, china and silverware sales and repair.
(45) 
Laundromat and/or dry cleaning pickup.
(46) 
Lawn and garden supplies, including nursery stock and greenhouses.
(47) 
Leather goods and luggage sales.
(48) 
Locksmiths.
(49) 
Mailing services.
(50) 
Manufacture, assembling and/or packaging of finished or semi-finished products or components from parts or previously prepared materials produced elsewhere.
[Amended 2-2-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-03]
(51) 
Manufacturing, assembling and/or packaging or electric, electronic and/or computing equipment, instruments or devices or parts thereof.
(52) 
Manufacture of clothing, carpeting, drapery, footwear, luggage items, furniture and similar products made from textiles and leather produced elsewhere.
(53) 
Medical, dental, chiropractic and optical offices, laboratories and/or clinics.
(54) 
Music, musical recording, television and musical instrument sales.
(55) 
Newsstands.
(56) 
Offices, business, professional, institutional or governmental.
(57) 
Office and business machine sales and service office supplies sales.
(58) 
Package liquor sales.
(59) 
[1]Pet shops and supplies.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection A(59), regarding private parking lots and garages, as amended, was repealed 10-19-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-01. This ordinance also redesignated former Subsection A(60) through (79) as Subsection A(59) through (78).
(60) 
Photographic studios and photography supplies, and film developing.
(61) 
Printing, engraving, job printing and photo engraving.
(62) 
Publicly owned facilities and service buildings, maintenance facilities and storage yards.
(63) 
Public utility buildings, garages and storage yards.
(64) 
Radio, television and recording studios and facilities.
(65) 
Repair services for household appliances, electric, electronic and computing equipment and business machines.
(66) 
Restaurants.
(67) 
Rental of tools, equipment, videos, appliances and party goods.
(68) 
Social halls, lodges, fraternal organizations and clubs, but not including fraternities or sororities.
(69) 
Sporting goods stores.
(70) 
Tailors and dressmakers.
(71) 
Taverns.
(72) 
Taxidermists.
(73) 
Technical and trade schools.
(74) 
Theaters.
(75) 
Truck transportation terminal, including storage and distribution facilities.
(76) 
Upholsterers.
(77) 
Used merchandise sales.
(78) 
Warehousing, storage, cold storage and mini self-storage.
B. 
Accessory uses:
(1) 
Crematories.
[Added 2-2-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-03[2]]
[2]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also provided for the redesignation of former Subsection B(1) and (2) as Subsection B(2) and (3), respectively.
(2) 
Private parking and servicing areas.
(3) 
Other accessory uses and structures that are customarily appurtenant to the principal use.
C. 
Special exceptions:
(1) 
Apartments within an integrated residential commercial building.
(2) 
Apartment building, residential only.
(3) 
Manufacture of machine tools, dies, jigs, patterns, machinery, motors; generators, pumps, compressors, sheet metal components, automobile or aircraft parts, or doors, sash or other building components.
(4) 
Manufacturing process involving stamping, forging, plating, heating, grinding, coating, welding, polishing, stripping or vulcanizing.
(5) 
Single-family dwelling as provided for in § 460-25D.
(6) 
Business use not listed as a principal permitted use above, but which, in the opinion of the Planning Commission, as noted in its recommendation to the Zoning Hearing Board, meets at least two of the following criteria:
(a) 
It is similar to and compatible with the uses that are permitted by right in the C-2 Zone.
(b) 
The use would be inappropriate in the C-1 Zone because it requires a large site and/or depends on vehicular access from the street on which it fronts.
(c) 
If a processing, assembly or manufacturing business, all aspects of the business are conducted indoors, except for finished products ready for sale, such areas screened from adjacent residential properties.
D. 
Conditional uses:
[Added 5-3-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-04]
(1) 
Parking lot, public.
(2) 
All other required parking other than parking at rear of property.
[Added 2-2-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-03]
(3) 
Parking lots and garages, private.
[Added 10-19-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-01]
A. 
Principal permitted uses:
(1) 
Automobile and metal appliance manufacturing and assembly.
(2) 
Automobile service stations, including major repairs.
(3) 
Automobile, truck, trailer, and motorcycle sales and repairs.
(4) 
Bakeries.
(5) 
Building materials sales, including lumberyards.
(6) 
Bus, train, and truck terminals.
(7) 
Industrial and scientific research and testing centers.
(8) 
Manufacturing, assembly or packing of products from previously prepared materials, such as cloth, rubber, plastic, paper, leather, precious or semiprecious metals, or stones.
(9) 
Manufacturing of electrical and electronic instruments and devices, such as televisions, radio, and photographic equipment.
(10) 
Manufacturing of food products, pharmaceuticals and the like, but not including production of fish or meat products, sauerkraut, vinegar or the like, or the rendering or refining of fats and oils.
(11) 
Radio, televisions transmitting or receiving towers and facilities.
(12) 
Railroad yards and freight stations.
(13) 
Structural steel fabricating shops, machine shops, forges and foundries.
(14) 
Wholesale offices and storerooms, including storage, distribution and sales establishments.
(15) 
Wholesale produce and meat markets.
(16) 
Crematories.
[Added 2-2-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-03]
B. 
Accessory uses:
(1) 
Private parking and loading areas.
(2) 
Signs.
(3) 
Other accessory uses and structures customarily appurtenant to a permitted use.
C. 
(Reserved)[1]
[1]
Editor’s Note: Former Subsection C, Special exceptions, as amended, was repealed 2-2-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-03.
D. 
Conditional uses:
[Added 2-2-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-03]
(1) 
All other required parking other than parking at rear of property.
(2) 
Single-family dwelling.
(3) 
Low-density, nonstudent housing in the M-1 Manufacturing District.
[Added 2-2-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-03]
A. 
Principal permitted use:
(1) 
Amusement enterprises (billiards, pool, bowling, roller-skating, game machines, etc).
(2) 
Antique sales.
(3) 
Athletic and physical fitness facilities.
(4) 
Automotive parts sales.
(5) 
Bakeries with all products sold at retail on premises.
(6) 
Barbershops and beauty salons.
(7) 
Banks, savings and loan or credit union.
(8) 
Blueprinting, photostating and photocopying establishments.
(9) 
Bicycle rental, repair and sales, excluding motorized vehicles.
(10) 
Books, magazines, newspapers, stationery goods.
(11) 
Catalog stores.
(12) 
Catering business.
(13) 
Churches and church social and educational buildings.
(14) 
Clothing sales, including shoes.
(15) 
Computing equipment software and instruction.
(16) 
Day care.
(17) 
Department or variety stores.
(18) 
Dormitories, private or university-related.
(19) 
Drugstores.
(20) 
Dry cleaning, dyeing and pressing.
(21) 
Essential services.
(22) 
Floor covering and carpet sales.
(23) 
Florists.
(24) 
Food sales, including supermarkets, delicatessens and specialty foods.
(25) 
Funeral homes.
(26) 
Furniture sales.
(27) 
Gift and card shops.
(28) 
Hardware and paint sales, including home improvement centers.
(29) 
Home occupations, commercial ground floor/residential second floor.
(30) 
Student housing not including fraternities or sororities.
(31) 
Household appliance sales.
(32) 
Industrial and scientific research and testing centers.
(33) 
Interior decorating services.
(34) 
Jewelry, watches, china and silverware sales and repair.
(35) 
Laundromat and/or dry-cleaning pickup.
(36) 
Leather goods and luggage sales.
(37) 
Libraries, parks and playgrounds.
(38) 
Locksmiths.
(39) 
Mailing services.
(40) 
Medical, dental, chiropractic and optical offices, laboratories and/or clinics.
(41) 
Motel/hotel and bed-and-breakfast (three stories or less).
(42) 
Music, musical recording, television and musical instrument sales.
(43) 
Newsstands.
(44) 
Offices: business, professional, institutional or governmental.
(45) 
Office and business machine sales and services.
(46) 
Office supplies sales.
(47) 
Pet shops and supplies.
(48) 
Photographic studios and photography supplies and film developing.
(49) 
Printing, engraving, job printing and photo engraving.
(50) 
Radio, television and recording studios and facilities.
(51) 
Repair services for small household appliances: electric, electronic and computing equipment and business machines.
(52) 
Rental of videos and party goods.
(53) 
Restaurant.
(54) 
Schools: public, parochial, private, elementary and secondary (not including commercial or trade schools).
(55) 
Single-functional family detached dwellings.
(56) 
Sporting goods stores.
(57) 
Tailors and dressmakers.
(58) 
Taxidermists.
(59) 
Theaters.
(60) 
Townhouses or row houses.
(61) 
Two-functional family dwellings.
(62) 
Upholsterers.
(63) 
Used merchandise sales.
B. 
Accessory uses:
(1) 
Private garage and parking area as per use (§ 460-37F).
(2) 
Other accessory uses and structures, including tool sheds, children's playhouses, swimming pool, play court, etc.
(3) 
Other accessory uses and structures that are customarily appurtenant to the principal use with Planning and Zoning Official approval.
C. 
Conditional uses:
(1) 
Athletic complex.
(2) 
Automotive repair and service.
(3) 
Automobile service stations, including major repairs.
(4) 
Commercial businesses along the peripheral edge of the district.
(5) 
Clubs and lodges.
(6) 
Fraternities and sororities, are only permitted west of South 7th Street between Washington Street and Locust Street and West of Wayne Avenue between Locust Street and Maple Street.
(7) 
Mini self-storage.
(8) 
Rooming house and/or boardinghouse as defined in § 460-62.
(9) 
Principal use of private garages and parking areas.
(10) 
Public parking lot.
(11) 
All other required parking other than parking at rear of property.