As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
- ACCESSORY BUILDING
- A subordinate building incidental to and located on the same
lot as the principal building and used for an accessory use.
- ACCESSORY BUILDING OR USE
- A building or use which is subordinate and incidental to
the main building or use located on the same lot or premises. For
purposes of this chapter, accessory uses and buildings shall be limited
to:
- A.
In "R" Residential Zones (all classes):
- (1)
Children's playhouse, garden house, greenhouse (noncommercial),
swimming pool, garage and shed.
- (2)
Storage of RVs, camping trailers, and boats, which are owned
or leased, for the use of the residents of the premises for noncommercial
purposes. No more than one RV or camping trailer or one boat may be
stored on residential property outside of a structure.
- B.
In "C" Commercial, "I" Industrial (all classes) and Overlay
Zones, storage of merchandise and goods normally carried in stock
in conjunction with retail and business use, on the same parcel or
lot of ground, stored behind six-foot opaque fencing.
- C.
In "I" Industrial Zones (all classes), storage of goods used
in or produced by manufacturing activities, on the same parcel or
lot of ground, stored behind six-foot opaque fencing.
- D.
In all zones, off-street motor vehicle parking areas and loading
and unloading areas.
- E.
No tractor-trailers may be used for storage, except for temporary
delivery purposes of no more than 48 hours, once every calendar week.
- ACCESSORY USE
- A use incidental to and subordinate to and located on the
same lot occupied by the principal use to which it relates.
- ALLEY
- A narrow serviceway providing secondary access to abutting
properties.
- ALTERATIONS
- As applied to a building or structure, a change or rearrangements
in the structural parts or exit facilities or an enlargement or moving
position or location or any change in use from that of one district
classification to another.
- APARTMENTS
- A room or suite of rooms in a multifamily structure which
is arranged, designed, used or intended to be used as a single housekeeping
unit and which contains complete kitchen, bath and toilet facilities,
permanently installed.
- AREA
- Size of a lot or site shall be calculated from dimensions
derived by horizontal projections of the site.
- AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR
- Engine repair or reconditioning, collision and body repair,
including straightening and repainting, placement of parts and incidental
services.
- BASEMENT
- A floor level completely below grade or floor level in which
more than 2/3 of the perimeter walls are below grade. A wall shall
be considered below grade where the dimension from the first floor
line to the finished grade is five feet or less, and the slope of
the finished grade extending 10 feet from the building walls does
not exceed 30°.
- BED-AND-BREAKFAST
- A single-family residence offering, for pay, overnight or
short-term lodging and breakfast for transient guests, limited to
four bedrooms, one to be occupied by the owner or manager.
- BILLBOARD
- Any sign for general advertising purposes, including any
display by painting, posting or affixing on any surface a picture,
emblem, words, figures, numbers or lettering, except as otherwise
enumerated in this chapter, which is a maximum of 100 square feet
in area.
- BUILDING
- A structure, having a roof supported by columns or walls,
for housing, shelter or enclosure of persons, animals or chattels.
- BUILDING AREA
- The total of areas taken on the horizontal plane to the outer
surface of all walls at the main grade level of the principal building
and all accessory buildings, exclusive of uncovered porches, patios,
terraces and steps.
- BUILDING HEIGHT
- The vertical distance measured from the average elevation
of the proposed finish grade at the front of the building to the highest
point of the roof for flat roofs, to the deckline of mansard roofs
and to the mean height between eaves and ridge on hip and gable roofs.
- BUILDING LINE
- The line of that face of the building nearest the front line
of the lot. This face includes porches, whether enclosed or not, patios
and similar construction, but excludes steps.
- BUILDING OR SETBACK LINE
- Imaginary line parallel to or concentric with the nearest
road right-of-way line. No portion of a building foundation or wall
may extend nearer the lot line than the required front yard depth.
- BUSINESS SERVICE
- Any business activity that renders service to other commercial
or industrial enterprises.
- CARPORT
- A usable covered space of not less than 10 feet by 20 feet
and not more than 20 feet by 20 feet for storage of private automobiles,
such carport to be located on the lot so as to meet the requirements
of this chapter for an accessory building or, if attached to the main
building, to meet all requirements applicable to the main building.
- CARTWAY
- A portion of a road, street or highway actually intended
for vehicular travel.
- CAR WASH
- An area of land and/or a structure with machine- or hand-operated
facilities used principally for the cleaning, washing, polishing,
or waxing of motor vehicles.
- CHURCH
- A place of religious instruction or public worship and where
other customary activities occur, including but not limited to school,
meeting halls, recreational facilities, day care, counseling, weddings
and other social events, and public dinners.
- CLEAR SIGHT TRIANGLE
- A triangle defined as 35 feet back from the right-of-way
on the drive or road center line and a distance 35 feet each way from
the intersection of said driveway or road and the center line of the
perpendicular road center line.
- COMMERCIAL
- Engaging in a business, enterprise, activity or other undertaking
related to or connected with trade and traffic or commerce in general.
- COMMERCIAL RECREATION, INDOOR
- A facility that offers various indoor recreational opportunities
for its patrons, including such games as pool, billiards, bowling,
video games and similar pursuits.
- COMMERCIAL RECREATION, INTENSIVE
- Annual or seasonal festivals, held by nonprofit community
organizations or lawful businesses, which may include occasional accessory
or incidental outdoor performances.
- CONDITIONAL USE
- A use which is not specifically permitted in a particular
zoning district by zoning ordinance but which may be permitted upon
application to Council after recommendation of the Planning Commission,
with provisions and conditions placed on the use at the discretion
of Council.
- CONDOMINIUM
- A building or group of buildings in which the floor area
is owned individually, and other parts of structures, common areas,
or facilities are owned proportionally or by a separate entity, or
similar arrangements regulated by the Pennsylvania Condominium Act.
- CONSTRUCTION
- Means, for the purpose of this Code, but shall not be limited
to, the erection, construction, installation, enlargement, alteration,
repair, moving, removal, demolition, conversion, substitution, or
maintenance of all buildings or structures, their electrical or plumbing
systems, or facilities, or any other facilities and shall include
the maintaining of conditions hazardous to life or property from fire
or explosion.
- CONVERSION APARTMENT
- A suite of rooms designed or intended for occupancy or housekeeping
by one family which is established in a portion of a building originally
designed or used for residential use by a single-family unit, whether
or not separated by a partition, door or other barrier.
- COVERAGE
- The percentage of a lot covered by buildings, structures,
parking lots, driveways, or similar impervious surfaces, measured
as the total area of such impervious surfaces divided into total lot
area.
- DAY-CARE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN (DAY CARE)
- Provides out-of-home care for part of a twenty-four-hour
day to children under 12 years of age, excluding care provided by
relatives and day care furnished in places of worship during religious
services, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Child care
for less than four children will not be considered as day-care services.
Day care for four adults shall be considered substantially the same
use.
- DWELLING
- A building arranged, intended, designed or used as the living
quarters for one or more families living independently of each other
upon the premises. The term "dwelling" shall not be deemed to include
"hotel" or "motel."
- A.
— A building containing
only one dwelling unit.
- B.
— A building containing
two dwelling units, collectively defined under this chapter as a "duplex,"
regardless of configuration.
- C.
— A building containing
three or more dwelling units, including apartment houses, townhouses,
flats and garden apartments.
- D.
— A dwelling with yards on
all four sides.
- DWELLING UNIT
- A building or portion thereof providing complete housekeeping
facilities for one family and an in-law suite.
- EATING AND DRINKING PLACES
- A business establishment whose principal business is the
selling of unpackaged food to the customer in a ready-to-consume state.
This definition may include retail bakeries, coffee shops, and similar
facilities. The sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited in Mars
Borough.
- ESSENTIAL SERVICE
- The facilities of public utilities, municipal departments
or commissions, including buildings necessary for furnishing adequate
services for public health, safety, or general welfare.
- FAMILY
- An individual, or two or more persons related by blood, marriage,
adoption or foster child care, including domestic servants or gratuitous
guests thereof, or a group of not more than four unrelated persons
living together without supervision in a dwelling unit, or any number
of persons protected by the provisions of the Fair Housing Act (42
U.S.C. § 3601 et seq., as now or hereafter amended) living
together in a group living arrangement with supervision, provided
those persons do not have a criminal record. "Family" shall not include
persons living together in a group home, assisted living facility,
or nursing home, as defined herein, or any other supervised group
living arrangement for persons other than those protected by the Fair
Housing Act or persons who constitute a direct threat to others or
their physical property.
- FAMILY DAY-CARE/GROUP DAY-CARE HOME
- A facility in which area is provided for no more than six
children at any time when the child-care facility is being used as
a family residence and no more than the number allowed by the Pennsylvania
Department of Public Welfare when the facility is not a residence;
one or more persons who live together as a single housekeeping unit,
as distinguished from a group occupying a boardinghouse; may also
include domestic servants and gratuitous guests.
- FLOOR AREA
- The sum of the gross area of the several floors of a building
or buildings, measured from the face of the exterior walls or from
the center line of the walls separating two buildings.
- GARAGE, PRIVATE
- An accessory building with an area for the housing of motor-driven
vehicles, the property of and for the use of the occupants of the
lot on which the garage is located.
- GARAGE, PUBLIC OR REPAIR
- Any garage, other than a private garage, available to the
public, operated for gain, and which is used for the storage, repair,
rental, lubricating, washing, servicing, or equipping of automobiles
or other motor vehicles.
- GARDEN APARTMENT
- A single-family one-, two-, or three-bedroom dwelling unit,
built predominantly on one level and used as a single-family housekeeping
unit. Each unit is to contain a complete kitchen, bathroom, toilet
facilities and living space. A garden apartment building may contain
up to 12 units in one building and may be a maximum of three stories.
- GASOLINE SERVICE STATION
- An area of land, together with any structure thereon, used
for the retail sale of motor fuel and lubricants and incidental services,
such as lubrication and washing of motor vehicles, and the sale, installation
or minor repairs of tires, batteries or other automobiles accessories.
- GROSS FLOOR AREA (GFA)
- The total floor area for which the tenant pays rent and that
is designed for the tenant's occupancy and exclusive use.
- GROUP HOMES
- A facility in which unrelated persons live in a structured
atmosphere, not to exceed four residents plus facility personnel.
(See "family.")
- HALFWAY HOUSE
- A transitional residential facility, licensed and operated
by a government, contractor, or social service agency, that provides
a supervised environment to residents who require psychiatric, correctional
or behavioral treatment between periods of institutional and independent
living.
- HAZARDOUS
- Any material which may cause harm to the environment or to
persons, plants, or animals, or cause noxious odors, or materials
generally recognized by county, commonwealth or federal agencies to
be dangerous.
- HEALTH CARE FACILITY
- A facility licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to
provide acute health care or some level of assisted lifestyle, including
but not limited to day care, group homes, sheltered care, nursing
homes, intermediate care, personal care homes, clinics and hospitals.
- HEAVY INDUSTRY
- The manufacture, storage, processing, and treatment of materials
which are potentially hazardous or processes which produce significant
amounts of smoke, noise, glare, or dust or odor as a primary or secondary
effect of the principal use of the land or buildings.
- HEIGHT OF BUILDING
- The vertical distance measured from the highest level of
finished grade along all the exterior walls of the building to the
highest point of the roof and to the highest point on any structure
which rises wholly or partly above the roof.
- HIGH-RISE APARTMENT BUILDING
- A dwelling unit within a multistory, multifamily structure,
with at least four and not more than eight living floors. (This is
exclusive of a basement if said basement is wholly subgrade and contains
no living units.)
- HOME OCCUPATION
- An accessory use of a service character, customarily conducted
within a dwelling unit by the residents thereof, which is clearly
secondary to the use of the dwelling for living purposes and does
not change the character thereof or have any exterior evidence of
such secondary use other than a small nameplate, and, in connection
therewith, there is not involved the keeping of or exhibition of stock-in-trade,
and compliance with the requirements of the "no-impact home-based
business" definition.
- A.
The office of a physician, dentist, engineer, attorney, realtor,
insurance agent, e-commerce, instructors and tutors, municipal official
or similar professional persons and service activities, such as barbering,
beauty operators, radio-TV and minor repair, shall be deemed to be
home occupations, provided the operations are managed and operated
solely by the individuals residing on the premises or by one additional
employee, off-street parking is provided in accordance with applicable
local regulations and all operations are conducted indoors and are
free of any procedures which could be construed as adversely influencing
surrounding residential uses because of noise, vibration, smoke, odor
or similar conditions. Principal stock-in-trade shall not be on the
premises at any time.
- B.
Tearooms, tourist homes, convalescent homes, funeral homes and
stores, trades or business of any kind shall not be deemed to be home
occupations.
- HOSPITAL
- An institution providing health services primarily for human
inpatient medical or surgical care for the sick or injured and including
related facilities, such as laboratories, outpatient departments,
training facilities, central services facilities and staff offices
that are an integral part of the facilities.
- INDUSTRY, LIGHT
- Manufacturing in which there is no significant impact from
noise, dust or odor, and impacts are limited to secondary effects
related to vehicular traffic, incidental noise, or movement of materials.
"Light industries" include but are not limited to food processing;
wood products manufacturing (without chemical treatment); production
of machine tools and similar metalworking; manufacturing of plastic
products; laboratories, testing and research facilities; printing;
pharmaceuticals production; and similar facilities for assembling
and fabricating.
- JUNK
- Any discarded material or article, including, but not limited
to, scrap metal, scrapped or abandoned motor vehicles, machinery,
equipment, paper, glass, containers and structures. It shall not include,
however, refuse or garbage kept in a proper container for the purpose
of prompt disposal. For the purpose of this chapter, a "proper container"
shall mean a solid plastic or metal container, with a sealable lid,
specifically designed for the storage of waste matter.
- JUNKYARD
- A lot or land, or part thereof, where waste or used or secondhand
materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, collected, baled, packaged,
disassembled or handled, including but not limited to scrap iron,
other metals, paper, rags and rubber tires, and further includes an
auto-wrecking yard, machinery or vehicle salvage and sale of parts
thereof. The collection and/or storage of two or more vehicles or
heavy machinery units not in running condition constitutes a junkyard
within the scope of this chapter. Junkyards must be fenced by a six-foot
opaque fence.
- LIMITED RETAIL BUSINESS
- Small-scale retail enterprises intended to benefit neighborhood
residents or tourists. Limited retail businesses are distinguished
from other retail businesses by smaller size (less than 5,000 square
feet gross floor area) and confining all commercial activities indoors.
- LOT
- A parcel, tract, or area of land. It may be a single parcel,
separately described in a recorded deed or plot, or it may include
parts of or a combination of such parcels when adjacent to one another
and used as one.
- LOT AREA
- The dimensions of a lot expressed in square feet or acres.
For the purposes of this chapter, "minimum lot area" shall not include
all lands within the rights-of-way of planned or existing public streets
or highways.
- LOT, CORNER
- A lot at the junction of and having frontage on two or more
intersecting streets. Setbacks shall be measured from the road right-of-way.
- LOT DEPTH
- The mean horizontal distance between the front lot line and
the rear lot line, measured in the general direction of the side lot
lines. Setbacks shall be measured from the road right-of-way.
- LOT LINE, FRONT
- In the case of a corner lot, a line separating the narrowest
frontage of the lot from the street, and, in the case of an interior
lot, a line separating the lot from the street or place. Setbacks
shall be measured from the road right-of-way.
- LOT WIDTH
- The dimensions of a lot, measured between side lot lines
on the building line.
- MEDIATION
- The settlement of a dispute between or among interested parties
in land use matters through the use of a mutually acceptable independent
third party.
- MINI MALL
- A shopping center that may include offices, eating and drinking
places, retail services and retail shops in which the total area of
buildings is less than 100,000 square feet of gross floor area.
- MOBILE HOME
- A transportable, single-family dwelling intended for permanent
occupancy, contained in one or more units designed to be joined into
one integral unit capable of again 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
so that it may be used without a permanent foundation. Structures
known as "double-wide homes" or "modular homes" shall not be considered
to be mobile homes under the terms of this chapter and shall be treated
as single-family residences.
- MOBILE HOME LOT
- A parcel of land in a mobile home park, improved with the
necessary utility connections and other appurtenances necessary for
the erection thereon of a single mobile home.
- MOBILE HOME PARK
- A parcel of land under single ownership which has been planned
and improved for the placement of mobile homes for nontransient use,
consisting of two or more mobile home lots.
- MOTEL
- A building or group of detached or connected buildings designed
or used primarily for providing sleeping accommodations for automobile
travelers and having a parking space adjacent to a sleeping room.
The definition includes hotels, motor lodges and similar uses.
- MULTIPLE DWELLING
- 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.
- NET LOT AREA
- Shall not include any portion of a lot regarded as "nonbuildable
areas," including all lands within the rights-of-way of planned or
existing public streets or highways or within the rights-of-way of
existing or proposed overhead utility lines; all land in designated
floodplains; and all land in designated wetlands or open water; and
all land containing slopes greater than 25%. Due to geologic, topographic
and hydrologic hazards, which require reductions in density to mitigate,
the following calculations will also be made to minimum lot area where
necessary: Steep slopes of 16% to 24% shall be measured; minimum lot
area shall be increased by 40% for lands containing such slopes.
- A.
A business or commercial activity administered or conducted
as an accessory use which is clearly secondary to the use as a residential
dwelling and which involves limited customer, client or patient traffic,
whether vehicular or pedestrian, pickup, delivery or removal functions
to or from the premises, in excess of those normally associated with
residential use. The business or commercial activity must satisfy
the following requirements:
- (1)
The business activity shall be compatible with the residential
use of the property and surrounding residential uses.
- (2)
The business shall employ only one employee other than family
members residing in the dwelling.
- (3)
There shall be no display or sale of retail goods and no stockpiling
of inventory of a substantial nature.
- (4)
There shall be no outside appearance of a business use, including,
but not limited to, parking signs or lights.
- (5)
The business activity may not use any equipment or process which
creates noise, vibration, glare, fumes, odors, or electrical interference,
including interference with radio or television reception, which is
detectable in the neighborhood.
- (6)
The business activity may not generate any solid waste or sewage
discharge, in volume or type, which is not normally associated with
residential use in the neighborhood.
- (7)
The business activity shall be conducted only within the dwelling
and may not occupy more than 25% of the habitable floor area.
- (8)
The business may not involve any illegal activity.
- B.
If the business meets all such requirements, it shall be considered
a lawful accessory use to a dwelling.
- NONCONFORMING LOT
- A lot, the area or dimension of which was lawful prior to
the adoption or amendment of this chapter, but which fails to conform
to the requirements of the zoning district in which it is located
by reasons of such adoption or amendment.
- NONCONFORMING STRUCTURE
- A structure or part of a structure manifestly not designated
to comply with the applicable use or extent of use of this chapter
or an amendment hereafter enacted, where such structure lawfully existed
prior to the enactment of this chapter or amendment or prior to the
application of this chapter or amendment to its location by reason
of annexation. Such nonconforming structures include, but are not
limited to, nonconforming signs.
- NONCONFORMING USE
- A building or use of land that does not conform to the use
regulations for the district in which it is situated.
- NURSING HOME
- A facility to give long-term skilled care to geriatric or
handicapped patients and licensed as such a facility by the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
- OFFICE
- The office or studio of a physician, surgeon, dentist, lawyer,
architect, artist, engineer, certified public accountant, real estate
broker or salesman, insurance broker or agent, musician, teacher or
similar occupation.
- OFFICIAL MAP
- A map adopted by ordinance pursuant to Article IV of the
Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.
- PARKING SPACE
- An off-street space available for parking of one motor vehicle
and having a minimum dimension of nine feet by 18 feet for right angle
parking and a similar square dimension for angle parking exclusive
of passageways and driveways appurtenant thereto, and giving access
thereto and having direct access to a street or alley.
- PERSON
- Includes but shall not be limited to corporations and partnerships,
as well as individuals.
- PERSONAL CARE HOME
- A facility giving geriatric care in a home-like setting and
licensed as such by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
- PET, DOMESTIC
- Any variety of domesticated or tamed creatures, such as birds,
cats or dogs, which are commonly kept within the confines of the home
and yard area.
- PLANNING CODE
- The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act 247 of
1968, as reenacted and amended by Act No. 170 of 1988 and Acts 67
and 68 of 2000, and as further amended from time to time.
- PUBLIC
- For the purposes of this chapter, means land, buildings,
structures or facilities owned, leased, or operated by a government
entity.
- PUBLIC HEARING
- Public hearings are conducted to obtain, add, and provide
information and a stenographic or recorded record, which are retained
as transcripts for future use in an appeal or other related matter.
- PUBLIC MEETING
- Public meetings are conducted to obtain, add, and provide
information necessary to take informed formal action. A stenographic
or recorded record is not necessary.
- PUBLIC PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS
- Parks and playgrounds that are owned and operated by the
Borough or by an authority created for such purposes by the Borough
or any government agency.
- RIGHT-OF-WAY
- That portion of land dedicated to the public use for street
or utility purposes.
- ROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY
- A strip of land dedicated to public uses as a road or other
public use.
- SCREENING
- A fence, screen planting, or wall provided in such a way
that it will block a line of sight.
- SCREEN PLANTING
- For this chapter, means an evergreen hedge, at least six
feet high at time of planting, planted in such a way that it will
block a line of sight. The screening may consist of either one or
multiple rows of bushes or trees and shall be at least four feet wide.
It shall be the responsibility of the property owner to maintain a
screen planting, replacing trees as needed. The Zoning Officer may
require replacement of screening trees.
- SELF-SERVICE STORAGE FACILITIES
- A building consisting of individual, small, self-contained
units that are leased or owned for the storage of business and household
goods or contractors supplies.
- SERVICE SHOPS
- Any enterprise conducted for man which primarily offers services
to the general public, such as shoe repair, valet services, watch
repairing, barbershops, beauty parlors and related activities.
- SERVICE STATION
- A building, buildings, premises or portions thereof which
are used or arranged, designed, or intended to be used for the retail
sale of gasoline or other fuel for motor vehicles or motorboats, as
well as limited minor repairs.
- SHOPPING CENTER
- A commercial facility developed as a mixture of uses, including
retail sales, theaters, personal services and eating and drinking
places, but planned, constructed, managed or promoted as an integral
whole.
- SIGN
- Any structure arranged, intended or used as an advertisement,
announcement or direction, or words or a picture which is posted,
painted or placed in some fashion on a building, structure or any
surface for the purpose of visual communication.
- SIGN, BUSINESS
- A sign that directs attention to a business, profession or
industry conducted on the premises or to products sold, manufactured
or assembled upon the same premises upon which it is displayed.
- SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING
- A building designed for and occupied exclusively as a residence
for only one family.
- SPECIAL EXCEPTION
- The permission or approval expressly granted by the Zoning
Hearing Board, in situations where provision therefor is made by the
terms of this chapter, after written application is made therefor.
- STORY
- The portion of a building included between the surface of
any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or, if there
be no floor above, then the space between any floor and the ceiling
next above it.
- STREET
- A public or private right-of-way which affords the principal
means of access to abutting property. A street may be designated as
a highway, thoroughfare, parkway, boulevard, road, avenue, lane, drive,
place or other appropriate name.
- STREET LINE
- The line defining the edge of the legal width of a dedicated
or other public street from a contiguous lot, parcel, or tract of
land.
- STRUCTURE
- Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires
location on the ground or attachment to something having location
on the ground. Structures shall be construed as any assembly of materials
forming an enclosure, including, among others, but not limited to,
buildings, dwellings, stadiums, tents, stands, platforms, staging,
towers, radio towers (pursuant to state or federal regulations and
approval), sheds, and garages.
- SUPPLY YARD
- A business that stores or maintains stocks of building materials,
such as block, brick, stone, plastic pipe, culverts, concrete or wood,
in an outdoor setting for sale to contractors or the general public.
- TEMPORARY STRUCTURE
- Anything constructed or erected, not permanently attached
to the ground, or being constructed out of materials, such as canvas,
plastic or fabric, and which is intended to be used as a garage, shed,
or storage area; does not include awnings.
- TOWNHOUSE
- A single-family dwelling unit attached on one or two sidewalls
with a single occupancy from the ground to the roof. Each unit is
to have its own at-grade access. Townhouse buildings shall be limited
to six units in a building.
- TRAILER COURT (CAMP)
- Any plot of ground upon which area and provision is made
for five or more house trailers occupied for dwelling or sleeping
purposes. The terms "trailer court or park" and "mobile home park"
or similar designations shall be interpreted to have the same meaning
as the term "trailer camp."
- TRAILER (HOUSE OR MOBILE HOME)
- A vehicle so constructed as to permit its conveyance upon
the public rights-of-way, and duly titled as such, and constructed
in such a manner to permit occupancy thereof as a dwelling or sleeping
place for one or more persons. The removal of wheels, establishment
of foundations and/or similar modifications shall change the classification
of such unit to that of a building.
- TRAVEL TRAILER
- A self-propelled or towed vehicle with sleeping and/or cooking
quarters, licensed, or intended to be licensed, for travel on the
highways of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
- TRIPLEX
- See "dwelling."
- TRUCK TERMINAL
- Land and buildings used as a relay station for the transfer
of a load from one vehicle to another or one party to another. The
terminal cannot be used for permanent or long-term accessory storage
areas for trucks and buildings or areas for the repair of trucks associated
with the terminal.
- USE
- The specific purposes for which land or a building is designed,
arranged or intended or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained.
The term "permitted use" or its equivalent shall not be deemed to
include any nonconforming use.
- VARIANCE
- A form of relief granted by the Borough Zoning Hearing Board
pursuant to Articles VI and IX of the Pennsylvania Municipalities
Planning Code and this chapter.
- VETERINARY CLINIC
- A facility used for the treatment of domestic animals for
pay, with health treatment provided by a licensed veterinarian.
- WAREHOUSING AND DISTRIBUTION
- A use engaged in storage, wholesale and distribution of manufactured
products, supplies and equipment, but excluding bulk storage of materials
that are inflammable or explosive or that create hazardous or commonly
recognized offensive conditions. For the purpose of this chapter,
storage of explosive, inflammable, hazardous or commonly recognized
offensive conditions shall be considered heavy industry.
- YARD
- A space on the same lot with a principal building, open,
unoccupied and unobstructed by structures, except as otherwise provided
in this chapter.
- YARD, FRONT
- A yard extending across the full width of the lot, unoccupied
other than by steps, walks, terraces, driveways, lampposts, and similar
structures or improvements, the depth of which is the least distance
between the front lot line and the building line.
- YARD, REAR
- A 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 accessory buildings, steps, walks, terraces, driveways,
lampposts and similar structures and improvements.
- YARD, SIDE
- A yard between the principal building 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.
- ZONING OFFICER
- The Zoning Officer of the Borough of Mars, or his/her authorized
representative.