Specific words and phrases. The following words and
phrases shall have the particular meaning assigned by this section-in
the appropriate sections of this chapter:
ACCESS DRIVE
A private drive providing vehicular access to and between
parking areas for more than two parking spaces within a land development;
any drive servicing two or more units of occupancy on a single lot.
(See also "driveway.")
ACCESSORY USE
A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal
use or building and located on the same lot as the principal use or
building. Accessory uses include, but are not limited to, such uses
as fences and walls, swimming pools, detached storage sheds, detached
garages, tennis courts, etc.
ACT
The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act of July
31, 1968, P.L. 805, No. 247, as amended and reenacted, December 21,
1988, P.L. 1329, No. 170 et seq., as amended from time to time.
ADULT-RELATED FACILITY
An establishment which engages in one or more of the following
areas of sales, services or entertainment:
(1)
Adult bookstore: Any establishment or place:
(a)
Which has a substantial or significant portion
of its stock-in-trade consisting of the following items:
[1]
Books, magazines or other periodicals, films
or other forms of audio or visual representation which are distinguished
or characterized by an emphasis on depiction, description or display
of sexual activities or conduct or uncovered male or female genital
areas; and/or
[2]
Instruments, devices or paraphernalia which
are designed primarily for use in connection with sexual activities
or conduct; and/or
(b)
To which the public is permitted or invited
wherein coin- or slug-operated or electronically or mechanically controlled
still or motion picture machines, projectors or other image-producing
devices are maintained to show images, with or without sound, where
the images so displayed are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis
on depiction, description or display of sexual activities or conduct
or uncovered male or female genital areas.
(2)
Adult theater: Any theater, auditorium, or other
place of assembly:
(a)
Presenting any form of audio and/or visual material
and in which a substantial portion of the total presentation time
measured over any consecutive twelve-month period is or will be devoted
to the showing of material which is distinguished or characterized
by emphasis on depiction, description or display of sexual activities
or uncovered male or female genital areas; or
(b)
Featuring live performances on a regular basis
which are distinguished or characterized by emphasis on depiction,
description or display of sexual activities or by exposure of uncovered
male or female genital areas for observations by patrons.
(3)
Massage establishment: Any establishment or
business which provides the services of massage and body manipulation,
including exercises, heat and light treatments of the body, and all
forms and methods of physiotherapy, unless operated by a medical practitioner,
chiropractor, professional physical therapist licensed by the commonwealth,
or a practitioner of therapeutic massage who is a member of the Associated
Bodywork and Massage Professionals or similar nationally recognized
organization. This definition does not include an athletic club, health
club, school, gymnasium, reducing salon, spa or similar establishment
where massage or similar manipulation of the human body is offered
as an incidental or accessory service.
(4)
Other adult-oriented retail, commercial service
or entertainment establishment: Any other establishment which primarily
offers its patrons or members retail goods, commercial services, or
entertainment which is characterized by an emphasis on matter or activities
relating to, depicting, describing, or displaying sexual activity
or conduct or uncovered male or female genital areas.
AGRICULTURAL OPERATION
An enterprise that is actively engaged in commercial production
and preparation for market of crops, livestock, etc. The term includes
activities that are consistent with the practices and procedures that
are normally engaged in by farmers or are consistent with technological
development.
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
The production for commercial purposes of crops, livestock
and livestock products, including the processing or retail marketing
of such crops, livestock or livestock products if more than 50% of
such processed or merchandised products are produced by the farm operator.
AGRICULTURE
The production, keeping or raising, for sale, lease or personal
use, of plants and animals useful to man, including but not limited
to forage and sod crops; grains and seed crops; dairy animals and
dairy products; poultry and poultry products; livestock, including
beef cattle, sheep, swine, horses, ponies, mules, or goats, or any
mutations or hybrids thereof, including the breeding and grazing of
any or all such animals; bees and apiary products; fur animals; trees
and forest products; horticulture, including fruits of all kinds,
including grapes, nuts and berries; vegetables; nursery, floral, ornamental,
gardening and greenhouse products; or lands devoted to a soil conservation
or forestry management program.
ALTERATION
Any change in the supporting members of a building or structure
such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders, joists or rafters,
or enclosing walls. Any renovation to a building which would change
its use.
AMUSEMENT ARCADE
An establishment which provides, as a principal use, amusement
devices and/or games of skill or chance (e.g., pinball machines, video
games, skeetball, electronic or water firing ranges and other similar
devices). This definition does not include the use of two or fewer
such devices as an accessory use.
ANIMAL, DOMESTIC
Any dog, cat, equine animal, bovine animal, sheep, goat,
or porcine (swine) animal.
ANIMAL, EXOTIC
Members of the family Felidae, except those species commonly
called house cats, and members of the family Canidae, except those
licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. Exotic animals
shall also include all nonnative animals, but excepting small animals
and birds customarily kept as house pets.
ANIMAL HOSPITAL
Any establishment offering veterinary services. Animal hospitals
can treat all types of animals and can include outdoor and overnight
boarding of animals.
ANIMAL, WILD
All animals falling into one of the following categories
as defined by Title 34 of the Pennsylvania Game and Wildlife Code:
(2)
FURBEARERBadger, fisher, mink, muskrat, opossum, otter, pine marten, striped and spotted skunk, beaver, raccoon, all weasels, red and gray foxes, and bobcat.
(3)
GAME ANIMALSElk, deer, bear, cottontail, snowshoe hare, red, gray and fox squirrels.
(4)
GAME BIRDSGeese, brant, wild ducks, mergansers and swans, coots, gallinules, rails, snipe, woodcock, turkeys, grouse, pheasants, Hungarian partridges, bobwhite quail, and mourning doves.
ANIMAL UNIT (ANIMAL EQUIVALENT UNIT)
One thousand pounds liveweight of livestock or poultry animals,
regardless of the actual number of animals comprising the unit as
defined by the Pennsylvania Nutrient Management Act.
ANTENNA HEIGHT
The vertical distance measured from the ground level to the
highest point on a communications tower, including antennas mounted
on the tower.
APARTMENT
Any dwelling unit which is located within a single structure
along with at least one other dwelling unit or with a nonresidential
use, each having a separate location within such structure.
APARTMENT, CONVERSION
A multifamily dwelling constructed by converting an existing
building into independent dwelling units for more than one family,
without substantially altering the exterior of the building.
AUTOMOBILE FILLING STATION
Any area of land, including structures thereon, that is used
for the sale of gasoline or any other motor vehicle fuel and oil and
other lubricating substances, including any retail sales of motor
vehicle accessories, which may not include major repairing, body and
fender work, painting, vehicular sales, nor rental or automatic car
washes.
AUTOMOBILE SALES
Any building or land devoted to the retail sales of passenger
vehicles, including accessory service and repair facilities if conducted
within a wholly enclosed building.
AUTOMOBILE SERVICE
The retail repair, servicing, maintenance and reconstruction
of passenger vehicles, but not including car washes per se.
BASE FLOOD
The flood having a one-percent chance of being equaled or
exceeded in any given year (one-hundred-year flood).
BED-AND-BREAKFAST
A single-family detached dwelling, where between one and
five rooms are rented to overnight guests on a daily basis for periods
not exceeding two weeks. Meals may be offered only to registered overnight
guests.
BEEKEEPING
The raising or keeping of bees within a man-made box (beehive)
for hobby or business purposes.
BILLBOARD
An off-premises, permanent sign that directs attention to
a product, service, business or cause.
BOARD
The Zoning Hearing Board of Elizabeth Township.
BOARDINGHOUSE
A building or portion thereof arranged or used for sheltering
or feeding, or both, as a gainful business, more than five and not
more than 10 individuals who do not constitute a family, but excluding
criminals, halfway houses, and homes for the elderly in need of medical
care.
BUFFER AREA
A landscaped area intended to be used as a means of limiting
the effects created by a use on adjoining properties, streets and
uses.
BUILDING
Any structure with a roof intended for shelter or enclosure
of persons, animals or property.
(1)
Detached: a building that has no party wall.
(2)
Semidetached: a building that has only one party
wall in common.
(3)
Attached: a building that has two or more party
walls in common.
BUILDING, ACCESSORY
A detached subordinate building, the use of which is customarily
incidental and subordinate to that of the principal building and which
is located on the same lot as that occupied by the principal building.
BUILDING AREA
The total of areas taken on a horizontal plane at the main
grade level of the principal building and all accessory buildings,
exclusive of uncovered porches, terraces, and steps.
BUILDING, FARM
A building for agricultural uses, namely, barns, poultry
houses, corncribs, silos, and other similar farm structures.
BUILDING HEIGHT
A building's vertical measurement from the mean level of
the ground abutting the building to the highest point of the roof.
BUILDING LINE
The actual line of that face of the building nearest an adjacent
right-of-way or street line. This face includes sun parlors and covered
porches, whether enclosed or unenclosed, but does not include steps.
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL
A building which is enclosed within exterior walls or fire
walls, built, erected, and framed of component structural parts, designed
for housing, shelter, enclosure, and support of individuals, and is
the main structure on a given lot.
CAMPGROUND
A lot, tract, or parcel of land upon which two or more campsites
are located or established, intended and maintained for occupation
by transients in recreational vehicles or tents.
CAMPSITES
A plot of ground within a campground intended for occupation
by a recreational vehicle or tent.
CELL SITE
A commercial communications antenna site occupied by a cellular
telephone antenna and accessory facilities.
CEMETERY
Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the deceased,
including columbariums, crematoria, mausoleums, and mortuaries when
operated in conjunction with the cemetery and within the boundaries
thereof.
CHANNEL
A natural or artificial watercourse with a definite bed and
banks that confine and conduct continuously or periodically flowing
water.
CHURCH AND RELATED USES
A building, structure, or group of buildings or structures,
including accessory uses, designed or intended for public worship.
This definition shall include rectories, convents, and other church-related
residences. This definition shall not include commercial schools.
CLUB, PRIVATE
An organization catering exclusively to members and their
guests, or premises or buildings for social, recreational and administrative
purposes, provided that there are not conducted any vending stands,
merchandising or commercial activities except as required for the
membership of such club. Clubs shall include, but not be limited to,
service and political organizations, labor unions, as well as social
and athletic clubs.
CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT
A form of development that permits a reduction in lot area
and bulk requirements, provided that there is no increase in the number
of lots permitted under a conventional subdivision or increase in
the overall density of development, and the remaining land area is
devoted to open space, active recreation, preservation of environmentally
sensitive areas, or agriculture.
COLUMBARIUM
A structure of vaults for cinerary (crematory) urns.
COMMUNICATIONS ANTENNA
Any device used for the transmission or reception of radio,
television, wireless telephone, pager, commercial mobile radio service
or any other wireless communications signals, including without limitation
omnidirectional or whip antennas and directional or panel antennas,
owned or operated by any person or entity licensed by the Federal
communications Commission (FCC) to operate such device. This definition
shall not include private-residence-mounted satellite dishes or television
antennas or amateur radio equipment, including, without limitation,
ham or citizen band radio antennas.
COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT BUILDING
An unmanned building or cabinet containing communications
equipment required for the operation of communications antennas and
covering an area on the ground not greater than 250 square feet.
COMMUNICATIONS TOWER
A structure other than a building, such as a monopole, self-supporting
or guyed tower, designed and used to support communications antennas.
CONDITIONAL USE
A use which may not be appropriate to a particular zoning district as a whole but which may be suitable in certain localities within the district only when specific conditions and criteria prescribed for such uses have been complied with. Conditional uses are reviewed by the Board of Supervisors after recommendations by the Planning Commission, in accordance with §
185-122 of this chapter.
CONSERVATION DISTRICT
The Lancaster County Conservation District or any entity
successor thereto.
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No. 2016-1]
CONSTRUCTION
The construction, reconstruction, renovation, repair, extension,
expansion, alteration or relocation of a building or structure, including
the placement of mobile homes.
CONVENIENCE STORE
Any retail establishment offering for sale prepackaged food
products, household items, newspapers and magazines, sandwiches and
other freshly prepared foods for off-site consumption, and other goods
commonly associated with the same.
CREMATORIUM
an establishment containing a crematory furnace.
CROPS, LIVESTOCK AND LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS
Crops, livestock and livestock products shall include but
are not limited to the following:
(1)
Field crops, including corn, wheat, oats, rye,
barley, hay, potatoes and dry beans.
(2)
Fruits, including apples, peaches, grapes, cherries
and berries.
(3)
Vegetables, including tomatoes, snap beans,
cabbage, carrots, beets, onions and mushrooms.
(4)
Horticultural specialties, including nursery
stock, ornamental shrubs, ornamental trees and flowers.
(5)
Livestock and livestock products, including
cattle, sheep, hogs, goats, horses, poultry, fur- bearing animals,
milk, eggs and furs.
(6)
Timber, wood and other wood products derived
from trees.
(7)
Aquatic plants and animals and their byproducts.
DAY-CARE FACILITY, CHILD OR ADULT
(1)
Any dwelling, building, or portion thereof,
including any on-site outdoor play area, where regularly scheduled
child or adult day-care services other than the following are provided.
Where applicable, said facility shall be licensed by the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania and shall not provide overnight accommodations.
(a)
The temporary or occasional care of any number
of children or adults not related to the person giving care, which
takes place at the home of the person giving care.
(b)
The temporary or occasional care of any number
of children or adults not related to the person giving care, which
takes place at the home of the person receiving care.
(2)
Child and adult day-care facilities shall be
further differentiated by the following two classifications:
(a)
[1]
A combined total of seven or more children or
adults per day, where the child or adult care areas are being used
as a family residence; or
[2]
Any number of children or adults per day, where
the child or adult care areas are not being used as a family residence.
(b)
FAMILY DAY-CARE HOMEAny premises or dwelling unit, other than the home of the child or adult being provided care, where the day-care areas are being used as a family residence, operated for profit or not for profit, in which day care is provided at any one time to up to six nondependent children or adults per day.
DCED
The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development
or any agency successor thereto.
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No. 2016-1]
DECISION
The final adjudication of the Zoning Hearing Board and the Board of Supervisors for cases under its jurisdiction as identified in §
185-113 of this chapter. Appeals from a decision go directly to the Court of Common Pleas.
DEDICATION —
The deliberate appropriation of land by its owner for general
public use.
DEED
A written instrument whereby an estate in real property is
conveyed.
DENSITY
A term used to express the allowable number of dwelling units
per acre of land.
(1)
Density, net: the number of dwelling units in
relation to the land area actually in use or proposed to be used for
residential purposes, exclusive of public rights-of-way, streets,
sidewalks, parks, playgrounds, common open spaces, floodplains or
wetlands.
(2)
Density, gross: the number of dwelling units
in relation to an area of land actually in use or proposed to be used
for residential purposes, exclusive of exterior public rights-of-way.
DETERMINATION
(1)
A final action by an officer, body, or agency
charged with the administration of any land use ordinance or applications
thereunder, except the following:
(b)
The Zoning Hearing Board; or
(c)
The planning agency, only if and to the extent
the planning agency is charged with final decision on preliminary
or final plans under the Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance
or planned residential development provisions.
(2)
Determinations shall be appealable only to the
boards designated as having jurisdiction for such appeal.
DEVELOPMENT
Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate,
including, but not limited to, buildings or other structures, the
placement of mobile homes, streets or other paving, utilities, filling,
grading, excavation, mining, dredging or drilling operations and the
subdivision of land.
DRAINAGE EASEMENT
A right granted by a landowner to a grantee, allowing the
use of private land for stormwater management purposes.
DRIVEWAY
A private drive providing vehicular access between a street
or access drive and a parking area for a single residential unit of
occupancy or a private drive for nonresidential uses permitted to
provide less than three parking spaces. (See also "access drive.")
DWELLING
Any building or portion thereof designed and used exclusively
for residential occupancy, including those listed below, but not including
hospitals, hotels, boardinghouses, rooming houses and lodging houses,
institutional houses, tourists courts, and the like, offering overnight
accommodations for guests or patients. All dwellings shall be properly
connected to approved and permanently designed sewer, water, electrical
and other utility systems.
(1)
Single-family detached: a freestanding building
containing one dwelling unit for one family, and having two side yards,
one front yard, and one rear yard; in the case of a corner lot, the
building will have two front yards and one side and rear yard. Mobile
homes can be considered single-family detached dwellings if, in addition
to the requirements listed for all dwellings, the mobile home is securely
anchored to the permanent foundation and all of the apparatuses used
to transport the unit shall be removed, including the towing hitch.
Recreational vehicles shall not be construed as dwellings. Modular
homes can be considered single-family detached dwellings so long as
they comply with the general requirements of a dwelling.
(2)
Duplex (two-family; single-family semidetached):
a freestanding building containing two dwelling units for two families,
arranged in a side-by-side or over-and-under configuration. Those
units placed on common grounds shall have one front and rear yard
and two side yards. Those units constructed on individual lots shall
have one front, side and rear yard.
(3)
Multiple family: a building containing three
or more dwelling units, at least one of which must be located above
or below the remaining units.
(4)
Townhouse: a building containing between three
and eight dwelling units arranged in a side-by-side configuration
with one or more common party walls.
DWELLING UNIT
A building or portion thereof arranged or designed for occupancy
by not more than one family and having separate cooking and sanitary
facilities.
EARTHMOVING ACTIVITY
Any construction or other activity which disturbs the surface
of the land, including, but not limited to, excavations, embankments,
land development, subdivision development, mineral extraction and
the moving, depositing or storing of soil, rock or earth, but excluding
the tilling of the soil.
EASEMENT
A right granted by a landowner to a grantee, allowing for
limited use of private land for a public or quasi-public or private
purpose and with which the landowner of the property shall not have
the right to make use of the land in a manner that violates the right
of the grantee.
ECHO HOUSING
An additional dwelling unit placed on a property for occupancy
by either an elderly, handicapped, or disabled person related by blood,
marriage, or adoption to the occupants of the principal dwelling.
EXISTING
For the purposes of this chapter, "existing" shall mean in
existence on the effective date of this chapter (October 1, 2003),
unless another date is indicated.
FAMILY
For the purposes of this chapter, a family shall be defined
as follows:
(1)
Two or more persons related by blood (within
and including the degree of first cousin), marriage or adoption, including
foster children, living together in a single housekeeping unit and
sharing all of the facilities of that unit in common;
(2)
Not more than two unrelated persons, persons
related to either or both of them by blood (within and including the
degree of first cousin) or adoption, and including foster children;
provided, however, that they live together in a single housekeeping
unit and share all of the facilities of that unit in common; or
(3)
One or more individuals with disabilities, as
defined and protected by the Federal Fair Housing Act, as amended,
who live together primarily for purposes relating to their disabilities
as the functional equivalent of a family in a shared living arrangement
licensed or certified by the appropriate county, commonwealth or federal
agency.
FARM
Any parcel of land of at least 10 acres in size which is
used principally for gain in the raising of agricultural products,
livestock, poultry or dairy products, including necessary farm structures,
farm dwellings and the storage of equipment customarily incidental
to the primary use.
FARM DWELLING
A dwelling unit occupied by the farm owner, whether or not
he/she is farming the land, or by permanently employed persons and
their families who receive housing in lieu of all or part of their
wages.
FARM DWELLING, ACCESSORY
An accessory farm dwelling is a second dwelling having as
its occupant(s) an owner or one or more full-time laborers (or any
family member thereof) on the farm.
FARM OCCUPATION
An accessory use to the primary agricultural use of a property
in which residents engage in a secondary occupation conducted on the
farm.
FEMA
The Federal Emergency Management Agency or any agency successor
thereto.
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No. 2016-1]
FLOODPLAIN
A relatively flat or low land area which is subject to partial
or complete inundation from an adjoining or nearby stream, river or
watercourse, and/or any area subject to the unusual and rapid accumulation
of surface waters from any source.
FLOODPLAIN AREA, IDENTIFIED
The floodplain area specifically included in this chapter
as being inundated by the one-hundred-year flood. Included would be
areas identified as "floodway," "flood fringe" and "general floodplain."
FLOOR AREA, GROSS (GLA)
The sum of the floor areas of a building as measured to the
outside surfaces of exterior walls and including all areas intended
and designed for the conduct of a business or use.
FLOOR AREA, HABITABLE
The sum of the floor areas of a dwelling unit as measured
to the outside surfaces of exterior walls and including all rooms
used for habitation, such as living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom,
bathroom, closets, hallways, stairways, but not including cellars
or attics, or service rooms or areas such as utility rooms, nor unheated
areas such as enclosed porches.
FUNERAL HOME
A principal use for the preparation and viewing of the dead
prior to burial or cremation. Funeral homes shall not include cemeteries,
columbariums, mausoleums, or entombments but do include mortuaries
and crematoria.
GARAGE, PRIVATE
An enclosed or covered space for the storage of one or more
vehicles or vessels, provided that no business, occupation, or service
is conducted for profit therein and no more than one space therein
for a vehicle or vessel is leased to a nonresident of the premises.
GARAGE, PUBLIC
Any structure, other than a private garage, that is used
for the storage, repair, rental, servicing or supplying of gasoline
or oil for motor vehicles for compensation.
GREENHOUSE
A building whose roof and sides are made largely of glass
or other transparent or translucent material and in which the temperature
and humidity can be regulated for the cultivation of delicate or out-of-season
plants for subsequent sale or for personal enjoyment.
GREENHOUSE, COMMERCIAL
A greenhouse which is part of a retail sales operation for
the sale of plants and related equipment and supplies.
HAZARDOUS WASTE
Any garbage, refuse, sludge from an industrial or other wastewater
treatment plant, sludge from a water supply treatment plant, or air
pollution facility and other discarded material including solid, liquid,
semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from municipal,
commercial, industrial, institutional, mining, for agricultural operations,
and from community activities, or any combination of the above, which
because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or
infectious characteristics may:
(1)
Cause or significantly contribute to an increase
in mortality or an increase in morbidity in either an individual or
the total population; or
(2)
Pose a substantial present or potential hazard
to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored,
transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed.
HAZARDOUS WASTE FACILITY
Any structure, group of structures, aboveground or underground
storage tanks, or any other area or buildings used for the purpose
of permanently housing or temporarily holding hazardous waste for
the storage or treatment for any time span other than the normal transportation
time through the Township.
HEAVY COMMERCIAL USE
A commercial use with a predominantly manufacturing or industrial
character due to the extent of production, repairing, or storing of
goods, such as contractor's yards, or storage tanks.
HEIGHT, BUILDING
A building's vertical measurement from the mean level of
the ground abutting the building to the highest point of the roof.
HEIGHT, STRUCTURE
A structure's vertical measurement from the mean level of
the ground abutting the structure to the highest point of the structure.
HISTORIC STRUCTURE
Any structure that is:
(1)
Listed individually in the National Register
of Historic Places (a listing maintained by the Department of the
Interior) or preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the Interior
as meeting the requirements for individual listing on the National
Register; or
(2)
Certified or preliminarily determined by the
Secretary of the Interior as contributing to the historical significance
of a registered historic district or a district preliminarily determined
by the Secretary to qualify as a registered historic district; or
(3)
Individually listed on a state inventory of
historic places in states with historic preservation programs which
have been approved by the Secretary of the Interior; or
(4)
Individually listed on a local inventory of
historic places in communities with historic preservation programs
that have been certified either:
(a)
By an approved state program as determined by
the Secretary of the Interior; or
(b)
Directly by the Secretary of the Interior in
states without approved programs.
HOME BUSINESS
An occupation, profession, activity or use conducted within
a single-family detached dwelling unit or existing accessory building
by the residents thereof and not more than two nonresident employees.
Home business uses are intended to be of a service nature and may
involve the incidental purchase and/or sale of goods on the premises.
The use shall be clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the
dwelling unit for dwelling purposes, and the exterior appearance of
the structure and premises shall remain residential in character.
There shall be no external evidence of the home business except a
permitted sign, and the use shall cause no offensive noise, vibration,
smoke, dust, odor, heat or glare. Since the use may be of such nature
that may require regular visits by customers and/or deliveries, adequate
off-street parking space shall be required in addition to the spaces
required for the residential use.
HOME OCCUPATION
A no-impact home-based business which is a business or commercial
activity administered or conducted as an accessory use, which is clearly
and secondary to the use as a residential dwelling and which involves
neither customer, client, or patient traffic, nor pickup, delivery,
or removal functions, in excess of those normally associated with
residential use. The use shall be of such nature that will not require
regular visits by customers and/or deliveries, and the use shall cause
no offensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odor, heat or glare.
HORTICULTURE
The growing of fruit, vegetables, flowers, ornamental plants,
or trees for a profit.
HOSPITAL
A place for the diagnosis, treatment, or other care of humans
and having facilities for inpatient care.
HOTEL
An establishment which is open to transient guests and in
which lodging with or without meals is offered for compensation and
in which there are sleeping accommodations for more than 10 individuals.
IMPERVIOUS MATERIAL
Any substance placed on a lot which covers the surface in
such a fashion as to prevent natural absorption of surface water by
the earth. The following items shall be deemed to be impervious material:
buildings, concrete sidewalks, paved and gravel driveways and parking
areas, swimming pools and other nonporous structures or materials.
INDUSTRIAL USE
(1)
HEAVY INDUSTRIAL USEManufacturing, processing, packaging, sales, storage and wholesaling of products, which, because of their shipping, storage, noise, dust, odors, hours of operations and other requirements, should not be located in close proximity to residential areas. Examples include foundries, steel fabrication and mills, large-scale manufacturing or processing operations, paver plants, breweries, pickling processes, rendering or slaughtering operations, refineries, solid waste disposal or processing, truck or motor freight terminals, concrete/asphalt plants, etc.
(2)
LIGHT INDUSTRIAL USEManufacturing, processing, packaging, sales, storage and wholesaling of products which are characterized by smaller scaled and nonintrusive operations that can be compatible with neighboring residential and other uses. Examples include farm machinery sales, contractor, printing, small-engine repair and machine shops, lumberyard and building supplies and other small-scale industrial uses, etc.
INTENSIVE AGRICULTURAL OPERATION
Any agricultural animal or poultry operation which would
be considered a concentrated animal operation or a concentrated animal
feeding operation under the Pennsylvania Nutrient and Odor Management
Act or the regulations promulgated under such statute.
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INTERIOR DRIVE
Any on-site vehicular movement lane(s) that are associated
with a use other than a single-family dwelling.
JUNK
Any discarded materials or articles, including, but not limited
to, waste paper, rags, metal, building materials, house furnishings,
machinery, tires, vehicles, or parts thereof, with or without the
dismantling, processing, salvage, sale, or other use or disposition
of the same. It shall not include, however, refuse or garbage kept
in a proper container for the purpose of prompt disposal.
JUNKYARD
Any unlicensed place where junk, as herein defined, is stored,
accumulated, or disposed of. (See "salvage yard.") The deposit or
storage on a lot (other than in a licensed salvage yard) of one or
more unlicensed, wrecked, or disabled vehicles, or the major part
thereof, shall be deemed to constitute a "junkyard." (A "disabled
vehicle" is a vehicle intended to be self-propelled that shall not
be operable under its own power for any reason, or a vehicle that
is required to and does not have a valid current registration plate
or a certificate of inspection which is more than 60 days beyond the
expiration date.) Unlicensed vehicles and equipment routinely used
in agricultural operations and/or construction operations on the property
on which they are parked or stored shall not constitute a junkyard.
KENNEL
A structure on any lot on which animals (except livestock,
horses, or poultry) are kept, boarded, raised, bred, treated, or trained
for a fee, including but not limited to dog or cat kennels.
LAND DEVELOPMENT
(1)
Any of the following activities:
(a)
The improvement of one lot or two or more contiguous
lots, tracts or parcels of land for any purpose involving:
[1]
A group of two or more residential or nonresidential
buildings, whether proposed initially or cumulatively, or a single
nonresidential building on a lot or lots regardless of the number
of occupants or tenure; or
[2]
The division or allocation of land or space,
whether initially or cumulatively, between or among two or more existing
or prospective occupants by means of, or for the purpose of, streets,
common areas, leaseholds, condominiums, building groups or other features.
(c)
Except as provided below, development in accordance
with Section 503(1.1) of the Municipalities Planning Code.
(2)
"Land development" shall not include the following:
(a)
The conversion of an existing single-family
detached dwelling or single-family semidetached dwelling into not
more than three residential units, unless such units are intended
to be a condominium;
(b)
The addition of an accessory building, including
farm buildings, on a lot or lots subordinate to an existing principal
building; or
(c)
The addition or conversion of buildings or rides
within the confines of an enterprise that would be considered an amusement
park. For purposes of this subsection, an "amusement park" is defined
as a tract or area used principally as a location for permanent amusement
structures or rides. This exclusion shall not apply to newly acquired
acreage by an amusement park until initial plans for the expanded
area have been approved by proper authorities.
LANDOWNER
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/she
is authorized under the lease to exercise the rights of the landowner,
or other person having a proprietary interest in land, shall be deemed
to be a landowner for the purposes of this chapter.
LANDSCAPING
Landscaping shall include, but not be limited to, grass and
other plantings such as trees, shrubs, and bushes and may also include
mulch and/or decorative stone.
LANE
A private access and/or a vehicular drive exclusively serving
agricultural production, horticultural and/or forestry related activities
and farm occupations.
LIVESTOCK
Any living creature maintained for commercial use or profit
but not maintained as a pet.
LOADING SPACE
An off-street space or area suitable for the loading or unloading
of goods and having direct usable access to a street or alley.
LOT
A parcel of land separately described by a metes and bounds
description which is recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds
of Lancaster County by deed description or is described by an approved
subdivision plan recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of
Lancaster County.
(1)
LOT, CORNERA lot at the point of intersection of and abutting two or more intersecting streets and which has an interior angle of less than 135º at the inter of the two street lines. Front yards are required on all street frontages. One yard other than a front yard shall be deemed a rear yard, and the other, or others, side yards.
(2)
LOT, FLAGA lot whose frontage does not satisfy the minimum width requirements for the respective zone but that does have sufficient lot width away from the lot's frontage.
(3)
LOT, INTERIORA lot, other than a corner lot, the sides of which do not abut a street.
(4)
LOT, THROUGHAn interior lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel streets.
LOT AREA
The area contained within the property lines of individual
parcels of land, excluding any area within a street right-of-way,
but including the area of any easement.
LOT COVERAGE
A percentage of the lot area which may be covered with all
impervious materials.
LOT DEPTH
The horizontal distance measured between the street right-of-way
line and the closest rear property line. On corner and through lots,
the depth shall be measured from the street right-of-way line of the
street of address to the directly opposite property line.
LOT WIDTH
The horizontal distance measured between side property lines.
On corner lots, lot width shall be measured between the right-of-way
line for the nonaddress street and the directly opposite property
line. Unless otherwise specified, lot width shall be measured at the
actual building setback line and shall parallel the street line even
if it is curvilinear.
MAINTENANCE GUARANTEE
Financial security filed by the developer with the Township
to secure structural integrity of all required improvements as well
as the functioning of said improvements for an initial period of time.
MANURE
The fecal and urinary excrement of livestock and poultry,
often containing some spilled feed, bedding or litter.
MANURE STORAGE FACILITIES
A detached structure or other improvement built to store
manure for future use or disposal. Types of storage facilities are
as follows: underground storage, inground storage, trench silo, earthen
bank, stacking area, and aboveground storage.
MAUSOLEUM
A building for entombment of the dead above ground.
MEDICAL OR DENTAL CLINIC
Any building or group of buildings occupied by medical practitioners
and related services for the purpose of providing health services
to people on an outpatient basis.
MINERALS
The term includes, but is not limited to, any aggregate,
earth, fill, coal, oil, and natural gas.
MINI WAREHOUSE
A building and/or series of buildings divided into separate
storage units for personal property and/or property associated with
some business or other organization. These units shall be used solely
for dead storage, and no processing, manufacturing, sales, research
and development testing, service and repair, or other nonstorage activities
shall be permitted.
MIXED USE
Occupancy of a building or land for a commercial and an accessory
residential use.
MOBILE HOME
Any structure intended for or capable of permanent human habitation, with or without wheels, and capable of being transported or towed from one place to the next, in one or more pieces, by whatsoever name or title it is colloquially or commercially known, but excluding transport trucks or vans equipped with sleeping space for a driver or drivers, and travel trailers. Mobile homes placed in parks shall meet the requirements for mobile home parks listed in §
185-83 of this chapter. Mobile homes placed on individual lots shall be considered single-family-detached dwellings and be bound by the requirements there imposed. For the purposes of §
185-22 of this chapter, any travel trailer, as defined herein, that is contained on the same parcel for more than 180 days in any calendar year shall be considered a mobile home.
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 or contiguous parcels of land which have been so
designated and improved to contain two or more mobile home lots for
the placement thereon of mobile homes.
MOTEL
A hotel primarily for transients traveling by motor vehicles
with a parking space for each lodging unit and with access to each
unit directly from the outside.
MUNICIPAL USE
Any use owned or operated by the Township or an authority
created by the Township or under contract to the Township.
MUSEUM
A facility for the public display of items, materials, or
information that is related to some historic, educational, cultural,
or scientific purpose. Museums can include related accessory uses
(e.g., restaurant, gift shop, etc.) so long as these remain incidental
to the primary museum use. Museums can be operated as a business but
shall not involve the retail sales of museum displays.
NIGHTCLUB
Any building used for on-site consumption of alcoholic or
nonalcoholic beverages where live entertainment is offered. For the
purposes of this definition, "live entertainment" is meant to include
the use of disc jockeys for the purposes of supplying musical entertainment.
Nightclubs may also provide for the on-site consumption of food. Additionally,
nightclubs can offer the retail sale of carryout beer and wine as
an accessory use. This is meant to include an "under 21" club which
features entertainment.
NONCONFORMING LOT
A lot the area or dimension of which was lawful prior to
the adoption or amendment of a zoning ordinance 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 designed to comply with the applicable use or extent of use provisions in Chapter
185, Zoning, or amendment heretofore or hereafter enacted, where such structure lawfully existed prior to the enactment of such ordinance or amendment or prior to application of such ordinance or amendment to its location by reason of annexation. Such nonconforming structures include, but are not limited to, nonconforming signs.
NONCONFORMING USE
A use, whether of land or of structure, which does not comply with the applicable use provisions in Chapter
185, Zoning, or amendment heretofore or hereafter enacted where such use was lawfully in existence prior to the enactment of such ordinance or amendment or prior to the application of such ordinance or amendment to its location by reason of annexation.
NONCONFORMITY, DIMENSIONAL
Any aspect of a land use that does not comply with any size,
height, bulk, setback, distance, landscaping, coverage, screening,
or any other design or performance standard specified by this chapter,
where such dimensional nonconformity lawfully existed prior to the
adoption of this chapter or amendment thereto.
NORMAL FARMING OPERATIONS
The customary and generally accepted activities, practices,
and procedures that farmers adopt, use, or engage in year after year
in the production and preparation for market of crops, livestock and
livestock products and in the production and harvesting of agricultural,
agronomic, horticultural, silvicultural, and aquacultural crops and
commodities.
OFFICE
A place where the primary use is conducting the affairs of
a business, profession, service, or government, including administration,
recordkeeping, clerical work, and similar business functions. An office
shall not involve manufacturing, fabrication, production, processing,
assembling, cleaning, testing, repair, or storage of materials, goods
or products or the sale or delivery of any materials, goods, or products
which are physically located on the premises. Office supplies used
in the office may be stored as an incidental use.
ON-SITE SEWER SERVICE
The disposal of sewage by use of septic tanks or other safe
and healthful means within the confines of the lot on which the use
is located as approved by the PADEP.
ON-SITE WATER SERVICE
A safe, adequate and healthful supply of water to a single
user from a private well.
PADEP
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
PARENT TRACT
When used in determining the permissible number of lots which
may be subdivided or dwellings or other principal nonagricultural
uses which may be erected in the Agricultural Zone (A), all contiguous
land held in single and separate ownership, regardless of whether
such land 1) is divided into one or more lots, parcels, purparts or
tracts; 2) was acquired by the landowner at different times or by
different deeds, devise, partition or otherwise; or 3) is bisected
by public or private streets or rights-of-way, which was held by the
landowner or his predecessor in title on July 20, 1976, or, if such
land was not classified as the (A) Agricultural Zone on July 20, 1976,
which was held by the landowner or his predecessor in title on the
date such land was first classified as (A) Agricultural Zone after
July 20, 1976.
[Amended 8-11-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-2]
PARKING COMPOUND
An open lot where passenger vehicles may be stored for short-term,
daily or overnight off-street parking, and connected to a street by
an access drive.
PARKING LOT
An accessory use in which required and additional parking spaces are provided subject to the requirements listed in §
185-38 of this chapter.
PARKING SPACE
An off-street space available for the parking of one motor
vehicle and having usable access to a street or alley.
PARKS, PUBLIC
Those facilities designed and used for recreation purposes
by the general public and owned and or operated by a governmental
body This definition is meant to include the widest range of recreational
activities, excluding adult entertainment uses, and amusement arcades.
PENNDOT
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
PERSON
An individual, corporation, partnership, association, estate,
trust, or other legally recognized entity, and the officers of such
corporation or the members of such partnership or association.
PLANNED CENTER
A group of uses planned and designed as an integrated unit
with controlled ingress and egress and shared off-street parking provided
on the property as an integral part of the unit. Such centers also
may include "planned center signs" as regulated herein.
PREMISES
The property upon which the activity is conducted as determined
by physical facts rather than property lines. It is the land occupied
by the buildings or other physical uses that are necessary or customarily
incident to the activity, including such open spaces as are arranged
and designed to be used in connection with such buildings or uses.
The following are not considered to be a part of the premises on which
the activity is conducted, and any signs located on such land are
to be considered off-premises advertising:
(1)
Any land which is not used as an integral part
of the principal activity, including land which is separated from
the activity by a roadway, highway, or other obstruction, and not
used by the activity; and extensive undeveloped highway frontage contiguous
to the land actually used by a commercial facility, even though it
might be under the same ownership.
(2)
Any land that is used for, or devoted to, a
separate purpose unrelated to the advertised activity.
(3)
Any land which is in closer proximity to the
highway than to the principal activity and developed or used only
in the area of the sign site or between the sign site and the principal
activity and whose purpose is for advertising purposes only. In no
event shall a sign site be considered part of the premises on which
the advertised activity is conducted if the site is located on a narrow
strip of land which is nonbuildable land, or is a common or private
roadway, or is held by easement or other lesser interest than the
premises where the activity is located.
PRESERVATION or PROTECTION
Conservation and safeguards of natural and historic resources.
Not to be interpreted to authorize the unreasonable restriction of
forestry, mining, or other lawful uses of natural resources.
PRIME AGRICULTURAL LAND
Land used for agricultural purposes that contains soils of
the first, second, and third class as defined by the U.S. Department
of Agriculture.
PUBLIC
Owned, operated, or controlled by a governmental agency (federal,
state, or local, including a corporation created by law for the performance
of certain specialized governmental functions, and the Board of Education).
PUBLIC HEARING
A formal meeting held pursuant to public notice by the governing
body or planning agency, intended to inform and obtain public comment,
prior to taking action on zoning-related matters.
PUBLIC MEETING
A forum held pursuant to notice under the act of July 3,
1986 (65 Pa.C.S.A. § 701 et seq.), known as the "Sunshine
Act."
PUBLIC SEWER
A municipal sanitary sewer or a comparable common or package
sanitary facility approved and permitted by the PADEP. Such systems
are capable of serving multiple users.
PUBLIC USES
Includes public and semipublic uses that are specifically
established to offer some public welfare, health, safety or recreation
services to the residents, businesses and landowners of Elizabeth
Township. Such uses can include parks, fire stations, municipal buildings
and garages, etc. Churches and schools are not included in this definition.
PUBLIC UTILITIES
Use or extension thereof which is operated, owned or maintained
by a public utility corporation, municipality or municipal authority
or which is privately owned and approved by the Pennsylvania Public
Utility Commission for the purpose of providing public sewage disposal
and/or treatment; public water supply, storage and/or treatment; or
for the purpose of providing the transmission of energy or telephone
service.
PUBLIC WATER
A municipal water supply system, or a comparable common water
facility approved and permitted by the PADEP. Such systems are capable
of serving multiple users.
RECREATION FACILITY
A facility, open to the public, for the purpose of public
recreation or entertainment, including, but not limited to, bowling
alleys, drive-in motion-picture facilities, swimming pools, miniature
golf courses, museums, etc. This does not include adult-related uses
or amusement arcades, as defined herein.
RECYCLING CENTER
Any facility that is involved in the recycling of paper,
plastic, glass, and metal products, including the collection and storage
of such materials on site following recycling.
RECYCLING COLLECTION FACILITY
An accessory use which serves as a collection point for the
temporary storage of refuse items, such as, but not limited to, bottles,
cans, plastics, and newspapers, from which resources are recovered
at another location.
RECYCLING PLANT
A facility that is not a junkyard or a salvage yard and in
which recoverable resources, such as newspapers, magazines, books,
and other paper products, glassware, metal cans, plastics, and other
products, are recycled, reprocessed, and treated to return such products
to a condition in which they may again be used for production.
REPORT
A written document such as a letter, review, or memorandum
made by any body, board, officer, or consultant other than a solicitor
for the purpose of rendering a decision or a determination. All reports
are deemed recommendatory and advisory only.
RESIDENTIAL ZONE
Includes all zoning districts where a residential use is
a permitted use.
RESTAURANT
An establishment that serves prepared food primarily on nondisposable
tableware, but can provide for incidental carry-out service so long
as the area used for carry-out service does not exceed 5% of the total
patron seating area nor 80 square feet (whichever is less). Caterers
shall be included in this definition.
RESTAURANT – DRIVE-THROUGH OR FAST-FOOD
An establishment that serves prepared food generally packaged
in paper wrappers and/or disposable plates and containers. Such food
can be consumed either on or off of the site.
RETAIL STORE/SALES
Retail stores are those businesses whose primary activities
involve the display and retail sales of goods and products. This term
shall not include adult-related facilities as defined herein.
RIDING CLUB
An establishment where horses are kept, bred, trained and/or
exercised and where equestrian instruction and equestrian competition
may be offered, including but not limited to polo clubs, public show
rings and rodeos.
RIDING STABLE
An establishment where horses are kept, bred, trained and/or
exercised and where equestrian instruction may be offered, but excluding
riding clubs.
RIGHT-OF-WAY
A corridor of publicly owned land for purposes of maintaining
primary vehicular and pedestrian access to abutting properties, including,
but not limited to, roads, streets, highways and sidewalks. Abutting
property owners are prohibited from encroaching across the right-of-way
line. (See also "street line.")
SALVAGE YARD
A lot, land or structure, or part thereof, properly licensed
by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which is used primarily for the
collecting, storage and sale of waste paper, rags, scrap metal, building
materials, house furnishings, machinery, vehicles, or parts thereof,
or for the collecting, dismantling, storage and salvaging of machinery
or vehicles not in running condition, and for the sale of parts thereof
(see "junkyard.")
SATELLITE DISH ANTENNA
A device incorporating a reflective surface which is solid,
open mesh or bar-configured and is in the shape of a shallow dish,
cone, horn, or cornucopia. Such device shall be used to transmit and/or
receive radio or electromagnetic waves between terrestrially and/or
orbitally based uses. This definition is meant to include but not
be limited to what are commonly referred to as "satellite earth stations,"
"TVROs," and "satellite microwave antennas."
SCHOOL
A principal use in which supervised education and/or instruction
is offered.
SCREENING
The use of plant or landscaping materials, fencing, walls
and/or earthen berms to aid in the concealment of one element of a
use or property from other elements or from adjacent or contiguous
development.
SETBACK
The minimum required horizontal distance between a setback
line and a property or street line.
(1)
SETBACK, FRONTThe distance between the street right-of-way line and the front setback line projected the full width of the lot. Commonly called "required front yard."
(2)
SETBACK, REARThe distance between the rear lot line and the rear setback line projected the full width of the lot. Commonly called "required rear yard."
(3)
SETBACK, SIDEThe distance between the side lot line and the side setback line projected from the front yard to the rear yard. Commonly called "required side yard."
SETBACK LINE
A line within a property and parallel to a property or street
line which delineates the required minimum distance between some particular
use of property and that property or street line.
SHOOTING RANGE
A place where members of the public, for a fee or by invitation,
can discharge firearms for recreation, competition, skill development
and training. For the purpose of this chapter, a firearm shall include
any instrument that uses a propelling charge to move a projectile
(e.g., rifle, gun, shotgun, pistol, air gun, or archery). A shooting
range does not include hunting when conducted in accordance with the
rules and regulations of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
SHOPPING CENTER
A group of stores planned and designed for the site on which
it is built, functioning as a unit, with shared off-street parking
provided on the property as an integral part of the unit.
SIGN
A structure or other outdoor surface or any device used for
visual communication which is used for the purpose of bringing the
subject thereof to the attention of the public or to display, identify
and publicize the name and product or service of an individual, business,
organization, or institution. Any object, device, display or structure,
or part thereof, situated outdoors or indoors, which is used to advertise,
identify, display, direct or attract attention from outside the building
or structure to an object, person, institution, organization, business,
product, service, event, or location by any means, including words,
letters, figures, designs, symbols, fixtures, colors, illumination
or projected images. A sign shall not include flags or other insignia
of any government, fraternal, or similar organization.
SINGLE AND SEPARATE OWNERSHIP
The ownership of a lot by one or more persons, which ownership
is separate and distinct from that of any abutting or adjoining lot.
Ownership shall be considered separate and distinct where lots have
been separately described as such, by metes and bounds, in a recorded
deed or conveyance prior to the enactment of this chapter, or an amendment
thereto, and have continued since that date to be so separately described
in all subsequent recorded deeds of conveyance.
[Added 5-27-2020 by Ord. No. 2020-01]
SOLID WASTE
Any waste, including, but not limited to, municipal, residual
or hazardous wastes, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained
gaseous materials.
SPECIAL EXCEPTION
A use that is generally compatible with a particular zone once specified criteria have been met. Special exception uses are listed by zone and approved by the Zoning Hearing Board in accordance with §
185-113C of this chapter.
STOCKYARDS
An industrial use whereby livestock are imported to, stored
upon and exported alive from the site. In no case shall any slaughtering
or rendering operations be permitted.
STORAGE
A function involving the deposition of materials, goods and/or
products for safekeeping.
STORY
That part of a building located between a floor and the floor
or roof next above. The first story of a building is the lowest story,
having 75% or more of its wall area above grade level. A half-story
is a story under a gable, hip or gambrel roof, the wall plate of which
on at least two opposite exterior walls is not more than two feet
above such story.
STREET
A public or private right-of-way which includes street, avenue,
boulevard, road, highway, freeway, lane, alley, viaduct and any other
ways used or intended to be used by vehicular traffic and/or pedestrians,
whether public or private.
STREET CENTER LINE
The horizontal line paralleling the street that bisects the
street right-of-way into two equal widths. In those instances where
the street right-of-way cannot be determined, the street center line
shall correspond to the center of the cartway.
STREET LINE (RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE)
A line defining the edge of a street right-of-way and separating
the street from abutting property or lots. The street line shall be
the same as the legal right-of-way line currently in existence.
STRUCTURE
(1)
Any man-made object, including buildings, having
an ascertainable stationary location on or in land or water, whether
or not affixed to the land.
(a)
STRUCTURE, ACCESSORYA structure associated with an accessory use (e.g., swimming pools, patios, antennas, tennis courts, garages, utility sheds, etc.).
(2)
Structures shall not include such things as
fences, sandboxes, decorative fountains, swingsets, birdhouses, birdfeeders,
mailboxes, and any other similar nonpermanent improvements.
SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE
Damage from any cause sustained by a structure whereby the
cost of restoring the structure to its before-damaged condition would
equal or exceed 50% or more of the market value of the structure before
the damage occurred.
SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENT
Any reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition or other improvement
of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds 50% of the market
value of the structure before the start of construction of the improvement.
This term includes structures that have incurred substantial damage,
regardless of the actual repair work performed. The term does not,
however, include either:
(1)
Any project for improvement of a structure to
correct existing violations of state or local health, sanitary, or
safety code specifications which have been identified by the local
code enforcement official and which are the minimum necessary to assure
safe living conditions; or
(2)
Any alteration of an "historic structure," provided
that the alteration will not preclude the structure's continued designation
as an "historic structure."
SWIMMING POOL
Any pool, not located within a completely enclosed building,
and containing, or normally capable of containing, water to a depth
at any point greater than 1 1/2 feet. Farm ponds and/or lakes
are not included, provided that swimming was not the primary purpose
for their construction.
TAVERN
An establishment that serves primarily alcoholic beverages
for mostly on-premises consumption and which is licensed by the Pennsylvania
Liquor Control Board. Taverns may also serve food, but no live entertainment
shall be permitted.
TRAVEL TRAILER
A portable structure, primarily designed to provide temporary
living quarters for recreation, camping or travel purposes. In addition
to the above, any of the following attributes are characteristic of
a travel trailer:
(1)
The unit is of such size or weight as not to
require a special highway movement permit from the Pennsylvania Department
of Transportation when self-propelled or when hauled by a standard
motor vehicle on a highway;
(2)
The unit is mounted or designed to be mounted
on wheels;
(3)
The unit is designed to be loaded onto, or affixed
to, the bed and/or chassis of a truck;
(4)
The unit contains, or was designed to contain,
temporary storage of water and sewage; and
(5)
The unit contains some identification by the
manufacturer as a travel trailer.
TWO-FAMILY CONVERSIONS
The conversion of an existing single-family detached dwelling
unit to contain two separate dwelling units.
USE
The specific purpose for which land or a structure is designed,
arranged, intended, occupied or maintained.
(1)
USE, ACCESSORYA use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use or building and located on the same lot with this principal use or building.
USE AND OCCUPANCY PERMIT
A permit issued by the Zoning Officer certifying a use's compliance with information reflected on the zoning permit and Chapter
185, Zoning.
VARIANCE
A modification of any provision of this chapter granted by
the Zoning Hearing Board subject to findings specified by the Act.
VETERINARIAN'S OFFICE
A building used primarily for the treatment, by a veterinarian,
of all types of animals. No outdoor boarding of animals is permitted.
WATERCOURSE
A permanent or intermittent stream, river, brook, run, creek,
channel, swale, pond, lake or other body of surface water carrying
or holding surface water, whether natural or artificial.
WECS UNIT
Shall include blades, hubs to which blades are attached,
and any device, such as a tower, used to support the hub and/or rotary
blades, etc.
YARD
An area between the permitted structures and the property
lines.
(1)
YARD, FRONTThe area contained between the street right-of-way line and the principal structure.
(2)
YARD, REARThe area contained between the rear property line and principal structure.
(3)
YARD, SIDEThe area(s) between the principal structure and any side lot line(s).
ZONING
The designation of specified districts within a community
or township, reserving them for certain uses, together with limitations
on lot size, heights of structures and other stipulated requirements.
ZONING OFFICER
The duly constituted municipal official designated to administer
and enforce this chapter in accordance with its literal terms.
ZONING PERMIT
A permit stating that the purpose for which a building or
land is to be used is in conformity with the uses permitted and all
other requirements under this chapter for the zone in which it is
to be located.