For the purpose of this chapter, certain terms
and words shall be interpreted or defined as follows:
A.Â
Words used in the present tense shall include the
future.
B.Â
Words used in the singular shall include the plural
and the plural shall include the singular.
C.Â
The word "person" includes a corporation as well as
an individual.
D.Â
The word "lot" includes the word "plot" or "parcel."
E.Â
The term "shall" is always mandatory.
F.Â
The word "used" or "occupied" as applied to any land
or building shall be construed to include the words "intended," "arranged"
or "designed to be used or occupied."
G.Â
The word "building" includes the word "structure."
H.Â
The word "erected" shall include the word "constructed."
I.Â
The word "moved" shall include the word "relocated."
Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following
words shall, for the purpose of this chapter, have the meaning herein
indicated.
For purposes of this chapter, accessory buildings shall include,
but not be limited to, the following, which are subordinate to the
principal buildings on the same lot and may not contain any housekeeping
facilities.
[Amended 11-14-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-5]
In all Residential Zones:
Children's playhouse, picnic shelter, greenhouse
(noncommercial), garage, carport, garden house or storage building
for domestic storage.
Swimming pool, ornamental pool, tennis court,
basketball court or similar private recreational facility.
Storage of camping, sports and similar equipment,
owned or leased for noncommercial purposes, for the use of the residents
of the premises.
Home gardening.
A use that is subordinate and incidental to the main use
or uses on the same lot or premises. Said uses shall not include nonconforming
uses under the terms of this chapter.
Any place where the public is permitted or invited wherein
coin-operated or electronically, electrically or mechanically controlled,
still or motion picture machines, projectors or other image-producing
devices are maintained to show images to five or fewer persons per
machine at any one time, and where the images displayed are distinguished
or characterized by the depicting or describing of specified sexual
activities or specified anatomical areas as defined herein.
Any commercial establishment in which is offered for sale
as a substantial or significant portion of its stock in trade video
cassettes, movies, books, magazines or other periodicals or other
media which are distinguished or characterized by their emphasis on
nudity or sexual conduct or on activities which if presented in live
presentation would constitute adult entertainment.
An adult arcade, adult bookstore, commercial movie theater
or movie house, or other adult entertainment as defined herein. In
the event that an activity or business which might fall under a use
category other than adult business activity is combined with and/or
includes activities which constitutes an adult bookstore, adult movie
theater or movie house or adult entertainment as defined herein, then
such activity or business shall constitute an adult business and shall
be governed by those provisions in this chapter applicable to adult
business uses and not by provisions applicable to any other use category.
A facility in which adult day care services are provided
in an institutional related structure suitable for such functions.
A family residence operated for profit or not for profit,
in which adult day care is provided in a single-family residence.
Care and monitoring provided for persons of adult age during
daily intervals that do not include overnight domicile of the patrons.
A commercial establishment providing, either as a sole use
or in connection with or in addition to other uses, entertainment
consisting of the use of nudity or of live dancing, posing, displaying,
acting, or other live presentation or use of persons whose actions
are distinguished or characterized by emphasis on use of the human
body in a manner intended to or resulting in arousal of sexual excitation
or sexual titillation or a prurient interest or intended to or resulting
in producing lustful emotions.
Any commercial movie theater which on a regular continuing
basis shows rated "X" or "NC17" by the Motion Picture Coding Association
of America, or any movie theater which presents for public viewing
on a regular, continuing basis so-called "adult-films" depicting sexual
conduct, as defined by this chapter.
Any use of land or structures for farming, dairying, pasturage,
horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, or animal or poultry husbandry.
Accessory structures permitted in conjunction with an agricultural
use may include barns, stables, corn cribs, silos and other similar
structures that are clearly related to an agricultural operation.
Accessory activities may include farm machinery and equipment repair
conducted by on-site residents.
A service way at least 20 feet wide, providing a secondary
public means of access to abutting properties.
Any change in the supporting members of a building such as
bearing walls, columns, beams, girders or foundations, or by extending
on a side, front or rear, or by increasing in height, or the moving
from one location to another, or any change in use.
A room or suite of rooms in a multifamily structure, which
is designed for use as a single housekeeping unit, and which contains
a functional kitchen, bath and toilet facilities, permanently installed.
A landowner or developer, as hereinafter defined, who has
filed an application for development including his heirs, successors
and assigns.
Area of a lot or site shall be calculated from dimensions
derived by horizontal projection of the site.
The total of areas taken on a horizontal plane at the main
grade level of a building or structure exclusive of uncovered porches,
terraces and steps.
Engine maintenance, repair or reconditioning, collision repair,
including straightening and repainting, replacement of parts and incidental
services.
The dismantling or disassembling of two or more used motor
vehicles or trailers, or the storage, sale or dumping of two or more
dismantled, partially dismantled, obsolete or wrecked vehicles or
their parts.
Any premises used for the retail sale of motor fuel and lubricants,
and incidental services such as lubrication, and the sale, installation
or minor repair of tires, batteries, or other automobile accessories;
but not including major repair work such as motor replacement, body
fender repair or spray painting.
A portion of a building partly or completely below grade.
It shall be considered a building story if more than 50% of its clear
height is above the average level of the adjoining ground.
The offering of overnight accommodations and food service
for transient guests for compensation within the confines of a detached
single-family dwelling structure when conducted subsidiary to normal
single family residential use.
Structure, building wall, or other outdoor surface used to
display lettered, pictorial, sculptured, or other matter which directs
attention to any product, announcement, commodity, or service offered
only elsewhere than on the premises.
A strip of land which is planted and maintained in shrubs,
bushes, trees, grass, or other landscaping material and within which
no structure is permitted except a wall or fence.
An independent and detached structure having a roof supported
by columns or walls, or resting on its own foundation or on skids;
including but not limited to mobile homes, garages, greenhouses, and
other accessory buildings; and utilized for housing, shelter, or enclosure
of persons, animals, chattels or activity sites.
[Amended 11-14-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-5]
For the purpose of this chapter, references to Building Code
requirements shall apply to the most recent applicable edition of
either the BOCA National Building Code, as published by the Building
Officials and Code Administrators, International, Inc., or the CABO
One- and Two-Family Dwelling Code, as published by the Council of
American Building Officials.
The vertical distance measured from the average elevation
of the finish grade to the highest point of the roof.
An imaginary line located a fixed distance from the front
line of the lot. (Refer to "yard, front.")
Any licensed or unlicensed trailer or other vehicle designed
or used for temporary living or sleeping purposes, regardless of whether
the wheels are attached or unattached or a permanent or semipermanent
foundation is constructed underneath, or any structure of a permanent
or semipermanent nature that is not connected to utilities. "Camping
and recreational equipment" shall include travel trailers, pickup
coaches, motorized home and boat trailers and shall be defined as
follows:
TRAVEL TRAILERA vehicular, portable structure having an overall length of 40 feet or less and an overall width of 8 feet or less built on a chassis designed to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation purposes, permanently identified as a "travel trailer" by the manufacturer of the trailer and, when equipped for the road, must be licensed.
PICKUP COACHA structure designed primarily to be mounted on a pickup or truck chassis with sufficient equipment to render it suitable for use as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation uses.
BOAT TRAILERA trailer designed to haul boats.
MOTORIZED HOMEA motorized vehicle with sufficient equipment to render it suitable for use as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation uses. This unit must also be licensed and inspected.
That portion of a road which is paved, graded or improved
for travel by vehicles.
A structure and necessary auxiliary components for use by
a private business organization to send and receive electronic or
analogous signals or digital signals as an integral component of a
telecommunication system.
Any establishment where human patients are examined and treated
by doctors or dentists but not hospitalized overnight.
An establishment operated for social, athletic, recreational
or educational purposes but open only to members and not the general
public.
Engaging in a business, enterprise, activity or other undertaking
related to or connected with trade or commerce in general. (Excludes
home occupation)
Beaver County Planning Commission.
The legally appointed Planning Commission of Raccoon Township,
Beaver County, Pennsylvania.
A use of land to be permitted or denied by the governing
body (following public hearing) after study and recommendations by
the Planning Commission, pursuant to express standards and criteria
set forth in the chapter.
An area of land and any structures thereon used for building
contractor's office, supply yard and service facility.
A suite of rooms, consisting of at least one private bedroom,
one additional habitable room, one separate and private bathroom and
separate and private sanitary cooking facilities, designed or intended
for occupancy by one family, which is established in a portion of
a building originally used or designed for use by a single family
unit.
Any family residence other than a child's own home or the
home of a child's relative, operated for profit or not for profit,
in which child day care is provided at any one time to four, five
or six school age children (the day the child initially enters first
grade of a public or private school system to 12 years of age), preschoolers
(approximately three years of age to initial school entry at the first
grade level of a public or private school system) or to infants and
toddlers (from birth to approximately three years of age) who are
not relatives of the caregiver.
A facility in which child day care services are provided
for seven or more school age, preschool or infant children in an institutional
related structure suitable for such functions.
The area of a lot or group of lots computed exclusive of
any portion of the right-of-way of any road, divided by the number
of families housed on the lot or group of lots.
Any landowner, agent of such landowner, or tenant with the
permission of such landowner, who makes or causes to be made a subdivision
of land or a land development.
A step or stage in growth or advancement; result of developing;
a thing that is developed.
A section of the municipality for which uniform regulations
governing the use, height, area, and intensity of use of buildings
and land and open spaces about buildings are herein established.
A private accessway to a parking area, garage or structure.
A lot or land or part thereof used primarily for the disposal,
abandonment, dumping, burial, burning or any other means and for whatever
purpose, of garbage, sewage, trash, refuse, junk, discarded machinery,
vehicles or parts thereof, or waste material of any kind (excludes
private or public sewage disposal and permitted municipal sanitary
landfills).
A building or portion thereof providing complete housekeeping
facilities for one family unit.
DWELLING UNITA building or portion thereof providing complete housekeeping facilities for one individual or one family.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILYA detached or separate building designed for or occupied exclusively as a residence for one family.
DWELLING, DUPLEXA detached or separate building designed for or occupied exclusively by two families living independently of each other with separate entrances and facilities.
DWELLING, MULTI OR MULTIPLE-FAMILYA structure containing three or more separate dwelling units for families living independently of each other which may provide joint services and/or facilities but separate housekeeping, sanitary and cooking facilities. Such structures may be referred to as apartment, garden apartment, townhouse or row house.
A school, including a public school, parochial school, private
school, college, university and a private nursery school or preschool,
having regular sessions, with regularly employed instructors, which
teaches those subjects that are fundamental and essential in elementary,
secondary, or higher education under the supervision of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania or a lawfully constituted ecclesiastical governing
body, or a corporation meeting the requirements of the commonwealth.
A professional engineer licensed as such in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
Incidental repairs, replacement of parts and servicing of
small appliances and minor household equipment such as motors, lawn
equipment and chain saws.
Includes built, constructed, reconstructed, moved upon or
any physical operations on the land required for development or building
activities. Excavation, fill, drainage and the like shall be considered
part of the erection.
The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance by
public utilities, municipal departments or commissions, including
buildings, necessary for furnishing adequate services for public health,
safety or general welfare.
Any act by which earth, sand, gravel, rock or any other similar
material is dug into, cut, quarried, uncovered, removed, displaced,
relocated or disturbed and any conditions resulting therefrom.
One or more persons who live together in a single housekeeping
unit and maintain a common household, as distinguished from a group
occupying a boarding house. A family may consist of a single person
or of two or more persons, whether or not related by blood, marriage
or adoption. For purposes of this chapter, the term "family" shall
not include group residential facilities, day-care/family homes, day-care
centers or institutional facilities.
The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors
of a building determined by dimensions measured between exterior faces
of walls as in a single-family dwelling or by dimensions measured
between common interior separating walls as in duplex, apartments
and townhouses (excludes cellar or basement floor areas, roofed porches,
roofed terraces and accessory buildings whether attached or separate).
The front boundary line of a lot facing a street. The front
of a corner lot shall be considered: on the street that parallels
the long dimension of a block; on the street of higher classification
with respect to use; or, on the basis of the orientation of a majority
of the other lots in the immediate vicinity.
A private garage is an accessory building with area commonly
used for housing motor driven vehicles, the property of and for the
use of the occupants of the lot on which the garage is located. A
public garage is any garage other than a private garage as defined
herein, available to clients, operated for gain, and which is used
for storage, repair, rental, lubricating, washing and servicing or
equipping of motor vehicles.
A multifamily residential building, not exceeding three stories
in height, in which units are arranged side to side, back to back
or one above another, which may have either private external entrances
or common hall access, and which may have private exterior yard area
for each unit.
A retail commercial sales establishment for the sale of plants,
garden supplies and related items. For purposes of this chapter, said
establishments shall not include the sale or service of machinery,
tractors or mowing equipment in excess of 20 horsepower.
The Board of Township Supervisors of the Township of Raccoon,
Beaver County, Pennsylvania.
Any federal, state or local governmental agency.
A plan prepared by a registered professional engineer or
licensed land surveyor showing final grade contours at vertical intervals
of 10 feet, or greater detail for slopes of 5% or less.[1]
An establishment that provides room and board in a family
environment to persons who receive supervised care limited to health,
social, rehabilitative or housing services. Such facilities may include
child and adult services for individuals not in need of hospitalization
or incarceration, but who because of age, convalescence, infirmity,
disability or related circumstances require such care. Group residential
facilities shall include boarding homes for children, residential
child care facilities, maternity homes, personal care homes for adults
and similar uses licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Public
Welfare, provided the scope of all such operations shall be in conformance
with the regulations of this chapter. Group residential facilities
shall not include institutional facilities, child day-care centers,
day-care/family homes and similar uses.
The cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers or vegetables on
a piece of ground adjoining the dwelling for use of the residents
therein.
An accessory use of a service or product oriented character,
conducted in conjunction with a single-family dwelling unit by the
residents thereof, which is clearly subordinate to the use of the
dwelling for living purposes, and does not change the character thereof,
or have exterior evidence of such subordinate use other than a small
announcement sign; and in connection therewith, there is not involved
the exterior keeping of, or exhibition of, stock in trade. In the
pursuit of such activities, all operations shall be free of any procedures
which could be construed as adversely influencing surrounding residential
uses because of noise, vibration, smoke, electrical interference,
odor or similar conditions.
Any premises, other than a mental health establishment operated
for profit, having an organized medical staff and providing equipment
and services primarily for inpatient care for two or more individuals
who require definitive diagnosis and/or treatment for illness, injury
or other disability or during or after pregnancy, and which also regularly
makes available at least clinical laboratory services, diagnostic
X-ray services and definitive clinical treatment services. The term
shall include such premises providing either diagnosis or treatment,
or both, for specific illnesses or conditions.
A building or a group of buildings in which lodging is provided
and offered to the general public or to a select group of patrons
for compensation.
Includes any of the following: bathroom, kitchen and laundry
room.
[Added 11-14-2017 by Ord.
No. 2017-5]
An establishment that provides room and board to persons
who are residents by virtue of receiving supervised specialized services
limited to health, social and/or rehabilitative services provided
by a governmental agency, their licensed or certified agents or any
other responsible social service corporation. Hospitals, mental health
establishments and nursing homes shall be considered "institutional
facilities." "Institutional facilities" shall not include day-care/family
homes, day-care centers or group residential facilities.
Any discarded material or article and shall include, but
not be limited to, scrap metal, abandoned or junked motor vehicles
or vehicle parts, machinery or machinery parts, papers, glass and
related items, containers, or partially dismantled structures or parts
thereof. It shall also include a partially dismantled motor vehicle
not bearing current registration plates and which is not in the process
of ongoing and immediate repair. It shall not include garbage or hazardous
or toxic waste material.
The use of more than 200 square feet of the area of any parcel
of land or lot, whether inside or outside a building, or the use of
any portion of any parcel of land or lot that adjoins the street for
storage keeping, or abandonment of junk, including scrap metals, or
for the dismantling, demolition or abandonment of any automobiles
or other vehicles, machines or machinery or parts thereof.
Any structure, pen or area set aside for the breeding, boarding,
show, grooming or keeping of dogs, cats or similar domestic animals.
For purposes of this chapter, the keeping of five or more such animals
for economic gain shall be deemed a commercial kennel.
The legal or beneficial owner or owners of land, including
the holder of an option or contract to purchase (whether or not such
option or contract is subject to any condition); a lessee if he is
authorized under the lease to exercise the rights of the landowner;
or other persons having a proprietary interest in the land.
A space within the main building or on the same lot therewith
providing for the standing, loading, or unloading of vehicles.
A designated parcel, tract or area of land established by
a plat or otherwise as permitted by law and to be used, developed
or built upon as a unit.
The horizontal surface area within the lines of the lot.
A lot, abutting two or more streets at their intersection,
on which the building line for all streets must be observed.
The ratio of ground area covered by principal and accessory
structures to the total ground area of the lot.
The line contiguous with the street right-of-way line.
The line generally parallel to the front lot line, which
defines the rear of the lot.
Any lot line which is not a front lot line or a rear lot
line.
The total horizontal distance across the lot, between the
side lot lines, measured at the building line.
The processing, handling or fabrication of materials and
products where no processes are involved which will produce noise,
vibration, air pollution, fire hazard, noxious emission, high traffic
volumes or other factors which will disturb or endanger neighboring
properties.
Any premises or part thereof, private or public, for the
care of individuals who require care because of mental illness, mental
retardation or inebriety but shall not be deemed to include the private
home of a person who is rendering such care to a relative.
A building or portion thereof designed and used for storing
personal property of an individual or family separate from their residential
site. This shall not include the storage of any merchandise, stock,
furnishings or vehicles of a business or commercial activity of any
kind.
A transportable, single family dwelling intended for permanent
occupancy, contained in one unit, or in two 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.
A parcel or contiguous parcels of land which has been so
designated and improved that it contains two or more mobile home lots
for the placement thereon of mobile homes.
A factory fabricated transportable building unit, other than
a mobile home, designed to be used independently or incorporated with
similar units into a modular structure on a permanent foundation at
a permanent building site.
A building designed for, and occupied exclusively as, a residence
for two or more families living independently of each other, including
houses separate except for common adjoining walls.
Service or charitable activities conducted on a voluntary
or nonprofit basis by individuals, or public or service groups and
organizations.
A structure or part of a structure manifestly not designed
to comply with the applicable use or extent of use provisions in a
zoning ordinance or amendment heretofore or hereafter enacted, where
such structure lawfully existed 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. Such nonconforming structures
include, but are not limited to, nonconforming signs.
A lot the area or dimension of which was lawful prior to
the adoption or amendment of a zoning ordnance, but which fails to
conform to the requirements of the zoning district in which it is
located by reasons of such adoption or amendment.
A use, whether of land or of a structure, which does not
comply with the applicable use provisions in a zoning ordinance 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.
The showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic area,
or buttocks with less than a fully opaque covering, or the showing
of the female breast with less than a fully opaque covering of any
portion thereof below the top of nipple, or the depiction of covered
male genitals in a discernible turgid state.
A permit signed by the Zoning Officer setting forth that
a building, structure or parcel of land is in compliance with the
chapter and may lawfully be occupied or employed for specified uses.
A facility in which services, clerical work, professional
duties and similar functions are carried out.
One who owns; the rightful proprietor; one who has the legal
or rightful title.
Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code (Act 247 of 1968
as amended by Act 170 of 1988) and amendments of same as may be adopted
from time to time.[2]
A use by right which is specifically authorized in a particular
zoning district.
A commercial establishment providing services and/or goods
to individuals and businesses.
An area of land, controlled by a landowner, to be developed
as a single entity for a number of dwelling units, or combination
of residential and nonresidential uses, the development plan for which
does not correspond in lot size, bulk, type of dwelling, or use, density
or intensity, lot coverage and required open space to the regulations
established in any one district created, from time to time, under
the provisions of a municipal zoning ordinance.
The Raccoon Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania Planning
Commission.
The major or dominant use of a lot or land parcel.
A tract or parcel of land - See definition for "lot."
An organization catering exclusively to members and their
guests at premises for social, recreational or athletic purposes which
are not conducted primarily for gain, providing that any merchandising
or commercial activities are conducted only as required generally
for the membership of such organization.
An office or business conducted by an individual, group or
association dealing with medicine, law, accounting, real estate, architecture,
engineering, finance or related services.
Public includes any use activity owned and/or operated by
federal, state, county or local governmental units.
A system for acquiring, treating and delivering potable water
that is operated under the auspices of the Pennsylvania Public Utility
Commission or any successor agency, or operated by a municipal corporation,
utility or authority or a bona fide association of lot owners approved
by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection or the
Public Utility Commission.
For purposes of this chapter, recreation shall be defined
as follows:
MUNICIPAL RECREATIONDeveloped or undeveloped open spaces and/or structures and facilities which are provided by a governmental body for public use for the purposes of play, amusement or relaxation. Such uses may include sports facilities, parks, assembly buildings, passive areas, gardens and related amenities and activities.
RECREATION, COMMERCIAL INDOORIndoor facilities for leisure time activities that are provided as a business pursuit, including facilities open to the public and those requiring membership; including but not limited to indoor theatres, lodges, fraternal organizations, bowling alleys, indoor skating facilities and similar uses and activities.
RECREATION, COMMERCIAL OUTDOOROutdoor facilities for leisure time activities that are provided as a business pursuit, including outdoor facilities open to the public and those requiring membership; including but not limited to swimming pools, tennis courts, riding stables, drive-in theatres, golf courses and similar uses and activities.
RECREATION, PRIVATEDeveloped or undeveloped open spaces and/or structures and facilities which are provided by individuals or private organizations for the use of specified individuals or groups of individuals sharing common relationships or associations for the purposes of play, amusement or relaxation. Such uses may include sports facilities, parks, assembly buildings, passive areas, gardens and related amenities and activities.
A parcel or contiguous parcels of land which has been so
designated and improved that it contains two or more lots for the
placement thereon of camping and recreational equipment.
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No. 2017-5]
An establishment where refreshments, meals or prepared foods
may be obtained by the public, where customers thereof customarily
arrive at the premises via motor vehicle, and where only a portion
of the persons served consume the food or drink served to them within
the main building on the premises. This definition shall include,
inter alia, such enterprises as drive-in ice cream or custard stands,
hot or cold drink or sandwich establishments and the like. Where more
than 25% of the gross business of any establishment is covered under
this definition, such establishment shall be considered a drive-in
restaurant for purposes of this chapter.
A restaurant, tea room or similar establishment where customers
purchase and consume food or drink on site.
Land reserved for use as a street, alley, interior walk,
or other public purpose and dedicated for public use. For purposes
of this chapter, public right-of-way lines shall prevail over private
parcel lines that are designated as falling within the public right-of-way.
When a lot abuts a right-of-way of a public thoroughfare or alley,
all applicable lot area and front, side and rear lot requirements
shall be computed from the public right-of-way line.
Stands offering for sale agricultural products grown on the
premises.
A multifamily dwelling structure, consisting of at least
three single-family dwelling units that are attached side by side
by unpierced party walls.
An arrangement of fencing, walls or vegetative material of
sufficient height and density to conceal from view of property owners
in adjoining residential districts the structures and uses on the
premises on which the screen or buffer planting is located.
A building, buildings, premises, or portions thereof which
are used for the sale of gasoline or other fuel for motor vehicles,
as well as minor automobile repair and servicing.
The minimum distance that a structure can be located from
a right-of-way or property line or another structure, thereby creating
a required open space on a lot.
Patently offensive representations of descriptions of ultimate
sexual acts, normal or deviant, actual or simulated, and patently
offensive representations, descriptions of acts of masturbation, excretory
functions, homosexuality, sodomy, sadism, masochism, sexual intercourse
or physical contact with a person's clothed or unclothed genitals,
pubic area, buttocks or if such person be female, breasts.
A combination of retail commercial uses on a common contiguous
site, designed as a unit, with adequate off-street free parking area,
and usually consisting of a series of one story buildings or an arcade
flanked by shops.
For purposes of this chapter, a sign shall be considered
as any writing (including letter, word or numeral); pictorial representation
(including illustration or decoration); emblem (including device,
symbol, trademark, banner or pennant); or any other figure of similar
character which is a structure or any part thereof, or is attached
to, painted on, or in any other manner represented on a building or
other structure and is used to announce, direct attention to, or advertise.
The term "sign" shall not apply to a religious symbol, void of lettering,
when applied to a place of worship.
A plan, to scale, showing uses and structures proposed for
a parcel of land that includes lot lines, streets, building sites,
buildings, open space and other information.
The permission or approval for a land use activity, expressly
granted by the Zoning Hearing Board, after formal application, in
situations where provision therefore is made by the terms of this
chapter.
An establishment housing horses for hire by the general public
for recreational purposes, for boarding horses, and for other activities
normally related to the foregoing.
[Amended 11-14-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-5]
That portion of a building included between the surface of
any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there
is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling
next above it.
A public or private way that affords the principal vehicular
or pedestrian means of on grade access to abutting properties. A street
may be designated as a highway, thoroughfare, alley, parkway, boulevard,
road, avenue, lane, drive, place or other appropriate name.
The following street classifications shall apply to all streets
in the Township:
EXPRESSWAYExpressways are limited access freeways that carry through traffic between major urban centers and to and from points outside of a region with no local interference.
ARTERIALArterials carry major movements of traffic within or through the community.
COLLECTORCollectors carry the internal traffic movements within the Township and connect developed areas with the arterial system. The collector system simultaneously provides abutting property with road access and accommodates local internal traffic movements.
LOCALLocal streets provide access to immediately adjacent land but normally carry a small portion of the total vehicle miles traveled daily.
PRIVATEAny vehicular way that is not dedicated as a public street.
The line defining the edge of the legal width of a dedicated
street right-of-way.
Any man-made object having an ascertainable stationary location
on or in land or water, whether or not affixed to the land.
A commercial establishment storing or offering for sale building
supplies, coal, heavy equipment, feed and grain, and similar goods.
Supply yards shall not include the wrecking, salvaging, dismantling
or storage of automobiles and similar vehicles.
One who makes a journey, especially for pleasure.
A lot, or contiguous group of lots in single ownership or
under single control, and usually considered a unit for purposes of
development.
A facility designed to accommodate the service and storage
of trucks and which may also provide warehousing activities.
The purpose of the activity for which the land or building
thereon is designed, arranged or intended, or for which it is occupied
or maintained. The term "permitted use" or "use by right" or its equivalent
shall not be deemed to include any nonconforming use.
A modification of the literal provisions of this chapter
which the Zoning Hearing Board is permitted to grant when strict enforcement
of said provisions would cause undue hardship owing to circumstances
unique to the individual property on which the variance is sought.
Facilities for the sale and service of vehicles; includes
used car and truck dealers, factory authorized car and truck dealers,
mobile home dealers, self-propelled or towed recreational vehicle
dealers, farm or construction equipment dealers, or any similar automotive
related dealers.
An establishment that provides for the treatment and prevention
of diseases and injuries in domestic animals together with related
boarding of said animals.
A space on the same lot with a principal structure, open,
unoccupied and unobstructed by structures, except as may be otherwise
provided in this chapter.
YARD, FRONTA yard extending across the full width of the lot, unoccupied other than by steps, walks, terraces, driveways, lamp posts and similar improvements, the depth of which is the least distance between the front lot at the right-of-way line and the building line.
YARD, REARA yard extending across the full width of the lot between the rear of the principal building and the rear lot line, unoccupied other than by steps, walks, terraces, driveways, lamp posts and similar improvements.
YARD, SIDEA yard between the principal structure and the side lot line, extending from the front yard, or from the front line where no front yard is required, to the rear yard. The width of the required side yard is measured horizontally, at 90º with the side lot line, from the nearest part of the principal building.
The Official Zoning Map or Maps of Raccoon Township which
are part of this chapter, together with all amendments subsequently
adopted.
The Board appointed by the Raccoon Township Supervisors and
assigned the duties of judging various appeals and variance requests
of persons aggrieved by the interpretation of this chapter, and further,
assigned to consider the qualification of special exceptions under
the terms and conditions specified in this chapter.
The individual(s) authorized by the Raccoon Township Supervisors
to be the administrator of the day to day application of the provisions
contained in this chapter.
A statement signed by the Zoning Officer indicating that
the application for permission to construct or alter is approved and
in accordance with the requirements and terms of this chapter.
