A.
It is not intended that this glossary include only
those words used or referred to in this chapter. The words are included
in order to facilitate the interpretation of this chapter for administrative
purposes and in the carrying out of duties by appropriate officers,
staff, and consultants by the Planning Commission, Zoning Hearing
Board and Board of Supervisors.
B.
Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following words
shall, for the purpose of this chapter, have the meaning herein indicated:
(1)
Words used in the present tense include the future
tense.
(2)
The singular includes the plural.
(3)
The word "person" includes a corporation, partnership
or similar legal entity as well as an individual.
(4)
The word "lot" includes the word "plot" or "parcel."
(5)
The term "shall" is always mandatory.
(6)
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."
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
A subordinate building or a portion of the main building
on a lot, the use of which is customarily incidental to that of the
main or principal buildings.
A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal
use or building and located on the same lot with such principal use
or building.
Those uses providing adult reading or view material which
depicts or describes nudity or sexual activity and/or entertainment,
including adult bookstores or video stores, adult movie theaters or
movie houses and live theaters.
An enterprise that is actively engaged in the commercial
production and preparation for market of crops, livestock and livestock
products and in the production, harvesting and preparation for market
or use of agricultural, agronomic, horticultural, silvicultural and
aquacultural crops and commodities. The term includes an enterprise
that implements changes in production practices and procedures or
types of crops, livestock, livestock products or commodities produced
consistent with practices and procedures that are normally engaged
by farmers or are consistent with technological development within
the agricultural industry.
A public thoroughfare which affords only a secondary means
of access to abutting property and not intended for general traffic
circulation.
As applied to a building or structure, means a change or
rearrangement in the structural parts or in the exit facilities, or
an enlargement, whether by extending on a side or by increasing in
height, or the moving from one location or position to another.
Any change in the supporting members of a building such as
bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
A change in use in any district which includes revisions
to the zoning text and/or the Official Zoning Map; the authority for
any amendment lies solely with the Board of Supervisors.
A tract of land or an area used principally as the location
for permanent amusement structures or rides.
An area within a building designed for use of a person or
persons for dwelling purposes, including kitchen/cooking, bathroom
and sleeping facilities, and same shall constitute a dwelling unit.
Every application, whether preliminary, tentative or final,
required to be filed and approved prior to start of construction or
development, including but not limited to an application for a building
permit, for the approval of a subdivision plat or plan or for the
approval of a development plan.
That portion of a structure designed to accommodate an aesthetic
or incidental function such as a bay window, chimney or stairway landing.
The projection shall not be used in the determination of a minimum
setback or yard.
The total of areas taken on a horizontal plane at the main
grade level of the principal building and all accessory buildings,
commonly known as the "building footprint," exclusive of unroofed
porches, terraces, and steps.
The total area within the lot lines.
A room, hall, building or structure, operated by other than
a public agency for profit, for the indoor or outdoor pursuit of leisure,
business, or religious activities, including, but not limited to,
anniversary parties, weddings, shower parties, retreats, bible study
events, men's and women's groups, and similar activities.
[Added 7-11-2011 by Ord. No. 44A]
A facility which provides sleeping rooms, meals and personal
assistance with daily activities such as dressing, grooming, and bathing
and which may include nursing care.
Any structure of any building or part thereof that is used
for the repair or painting of bodies and fenders of motor vehicles,
and the towing of such vehicles.
Any area of land, including structures thereon, that is used
or designed to be used for the supply of gasoline or oil or other
fuel for the propulsion of motor vehicles and which may include towing
services, facilities for minor repairs, polishing, greasing, washing,
spraying, dry cleaning or otherwise cleaning or servicing such motor
vehicles.
A story partly underground but having at least 1/2 of its
height above the average level of the adjoining ground. A basement
shall be counted as a story for the purpose of height measurement
if the vertical distance between the ceiling and the average level
of the adjoining ground is more than five feet or is used for business
or dwelling purposes, other than a game or recreation room.
A private, owner-operated business where overnight accommodations
and a morning meal are provided to transients for compensation.
[Amended 7-11-2011 by Ord. No. 44A]
A structure designed for the feeding, housing, and exercising
of horses not all owned by the owner of the premises.
Land area used to physically and/or visibly separate one
use from another or to shield or block noise, lights, visibility or
an activity that may, or in fact does, constitute a nuisance if not
buffered from use of other lands.
Any structure having a roof supported by walls, and intended
for the shelter, housing or enclosure of persons, animals, machinery
or produced goods.
A building surrounded by open spaces on the same lot.
The line of that face of the building nearest the front line
of the lot. This face includes sun parlors and roofed porches whether
enclosed or unenclosed but does not include steps.
The vertical distance measured from the average elevation
of the proposed finished grade at the front of the building to the
highest point of the roof for flat roofs, to the deck line of mansard
roofs, and to the mean height between eaves and ridge for gable, hip
and gambrel roofs.
A building in which is conducted the principal use of the
lot on which it is located.
A motor vehicle with space and equipment, either in a rear
compartment or in an attached trailer, for sleeping and simple housekeeping.
Travel trailers, pickup coach/recreation vehicles, and motorized homes
as defined under "trailer" will also be considered campers.
[Added 5-12-2014 by Ord. No. 2-2014]
An open space for the storage of one or more vehicles in
the same manner as a private garage, which may be covered by a roof
supported by columns or posts except that one or more walls may be
the walls of the main building to which the carport is an accessory
building or extension.
A tract or parcel of land that contains the cellular phone
antenna, its support structure, accessory building(s), and parking,
and may include other uses associated with and ancillary to cellular
phone transmissions.
A story partly underground and having more than 1/2 of its
clear height below the average level of the adjoining ground. A cellar
shall not be considered in determining the permissible number of stories.
Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the dead,
including but not limited to columbariums and mausoleums.
Engaging in a business, enterprise, activity or other undertaking
for profit.
Buildings, towers and equipment erected and used for the
purpose of facilitating transmission and exchange of cellular telephone
or radio telephone message between subscribers and other business
of the transmission company. In a residential district this use category
does not include public business offices, storage of materials, truck
storage or repair facilities, or the housing of repair crews.
A lot or portion of a lot or parcel of land used to store
equipment and/or materials used by the contractor, which may or may
not include office space for the contracting business.
A multifamily dwelling constructed by converting an existing
dwelling into apartments for more than one family without substantially
altering the exterior of the building.
An unoccupied open space, other than a yard, on the same
lot with a building, which is bounded on two or more sides by the
walls of such building.
That portion or percentage of the plot or lot area covered
by the building area.
The officially established grade of the curb.
An establishment which by design, physical facilities, service,
or by packaging procedures encourages or permits customers to receive
services, obtain goods, or be entertained while remaining in their
motor vehicles.
Two dwelling units accommodating two families which are attached
side by side through the use of a party wall, or as vertical units
with the ceiling of one unit being contiguous to the floor of the
other. Required yards shall be provided as established in each zoning
district.
A building designed or used as the living quarters for one
or more families. The term "dwelling," "one-family dwelling," "multiple
dwelling," "two-family dwelling," or "dwelling group" shall not be
deemed to include automobile court, recreational vehicle RV park,
trailer coach, trailer park, mobile home park, rooming house, tourist
home or hotel.
Multifamily dwelling unit includes "townhouses," "garden
apartments" and other buildings of similar nomenclature and is defined
herein as a development of a group of a minimum of three and a maximum
of six attached single-family dwellings having a common wall or abutting
walls between units.
A house accommodating but a single family and having two
side yards.
Two dwelling units accommodating two families which are attached
side by side through the use of a party wall, or as vertical units
with the ceiling of one unit being contiguous to the floor of the
other. Required yards shall be provided as established in each zoning
district.
A building or portion thereof providing complete housekeeping
facilities for one family.
One or more persons living together in a single dwelling
unit as a traditional family or the functional equivalent of a traditional
family. It shall be a rebuttable presumption that four or more persons
living together in a single dwelling unit, who are not related by
blood, adoption, or marriage, do not constitute the functional equivalent
of a traditional family. In determining the functional equivalent
of a traditional family, the following criteria shall be present:
[2]
The group shares the entire dwelling unit.
The group lives and cooks together as a single housekeeping
unit.
The group shares expenses for food, rent, utilities or other
household expenses.
The group is permanent and stable, and not transient or temporary
in nature.
Any other factor reasonably related to whether the group is
the functional equivalent of a family.
A booth or stall located on a farm from which produce and
farm products of the farm are sold to the general public.
That area of a building lot or site which is defined by the
outside dimensions of a footer or footings placed below grade to support
the load of the construction.
Land, a minimum of 0.5 acre in area with 20 or more trees
at least 12 inches in diameter at breast height (dbh).
The management of forests and timberlands when practiced
in accordance with accepted silvicultural principles, through developing,
cultivating, harvesting, transporting and selling trees for commercial
purposes, which does not involve any land development.
An enclosed or covered space in a residentially zoned area
for the storage of no more than three motor vehicles, provided that
no business, occupation or service is conducted for profit therein
nor space therein for more than one car is leased to a nonresident
of the premises.
Any garage, not a private garage in an appropriate commercial
district, and which is used for storage, repair, rental, servicing
or supplying of gasoline or oil to motor vehicles.
That area of a structure or building devoted to the conduct
of activities associated with business transactions, including but
not limited to word processing, typing, filing of records, and the
answering of telephones.
Those businesses whose primary activities involve the display,
sales of goods, products and services. This term shall not include
adult-related uses as defined herein.
The completed surfaces of lawns, walks, and roads brought
to grades as shown on official plans or designs relating thereto.
The sum of the gross horizontal inside areas of the several
floors of a building excluding cellars, attics, garages, open breezeways,
open porches and terraces.
A dwelling unit where room and board is provided to not more
than eight permanent residents who are mentally or physically handicapped;
or any number of permanent residents who are dependent and/or delinquent
children under the age of 18 adjudicated by the court system; or any
number of mentally disturbed persons of any age who are in need of
supervision by qualified staff who may or may not reside at the facility
and who provide health, social and/or rehabilitative services to the
residents under the supervision of the Pennsylvania Department of
Public Welfare, its licensed or certified agents or any other responsible
nonprofit social services corporation.
The cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers or vegetables on
a piece of ground adjoining the dwelling, excluding the keeping of
livestock, and permitting the sale of product raised thereon.
Any use customarily conducted entirely within a dwelling
and carried on by the inhabitants residing therein, providing that
the use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling
for dwelling purposes, the exterior appearance of the structure or
premises is constructed and maintained as a residential dwelling,
and no goods are publicly displayed on the premises other than signs
as provided herein.
The science and act of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers,
or ornamental plants.
Unless otherwise specified, the term "hospital" shall be
deemed to include sanitarium, sanatorium, preventorium, clinic, rest
home, assisted living facility, convalescent home and any other place
for the diagnosis, treatment or other care of ailments, and shall
be deemed to be limited to places for the diagnosis, treatment or
other care of human ailments.
A building containing rooms intended or designed to be used
or which are used, rented or hired out to be occupied or which are
occupied for sleeping purposes by guests and where only a general
kitchen and dining room are provided within the building or in any
accessory building.
Any worn, castoff or discarded article or material which
is ready for destruction or which has been collected or stored for
sale, resale, salvage, recycling, or conversion to some other use.
Any such article or material which, without alteration, disassembly,
unfastening, reconditioning, or changing, can be used for its original
purpose as readily as when new shall not be considered junk.
A motor vehicle not in running condition, stored in the open,
not being restored to operation, unlicensed and without a current
Pennsylvania State inspection sticker.
Any place, lot, tract of land, yard, establishment or location
where any junk as herein defined is accumulated, stored, disposed
of, or allowed to remain on the outside of a building or structure,
or where the business of buying, selling, trading or dealing in junk
is conducted, or where motor vehicles are accumulated or stored which
are unlicensed, are inoperable and do not have current registration
license plates and a valid inspection sticker as required by the Motor
Vehicle Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
[3]A commercial establishment keeping four or more dogs or other
domesticated animals and in which such animals are housed, groomed,
bred, boarded, trained, or sold all for a fee or compensation. A kennel
may only be established on a land area containing four acres or more,
and exterior exercise yards and structures for animals must be set
back a minimum of 100 feet from the nearest property line of the land
being used for a kennel.
An accessory building or structure for keeping, boarding
or training for small domestic animals, including but not limited
to dog and cat kennels.
Any of the following activities:
The improvement of one lot or two or more contiguous lots, tracts
or parcels of land for any purpose involving:
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
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.
A subdivision of land.
Development in accordance with Section 503(1.1) of the Municipalities
Planning Code, Act 247 of 1968,[4] as amended by Act 170 of 1988.
A lot or land or part thereof used primarily for the disposal
by abandonment, or storage, dumping burial, burning or any other means
and for whatever purpose of garbage, sewage, trash, refuse, junk,
discarded machinery, vehicles or part thereof, or waste material regulated
by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
Specified industrial uses that meet the performance standards,
bulk controls, and other requirements established in this chapter.
Manufacturing facilities involving hard or soft goods production
where assembly or manufacturing used are the primary processes and
which do not involve environmental hazards to the Township.
DIFFUSEDThat form of lighting wherein the light passes from the source through a translucent cover or shade.
DIRECT or FLOODThat form of lighting wherein the source is visible and the light is distributed directly from it to the object to be illuminated.
INDIRECTThat form of lighting wherein the light source is entirely hidden, the light being projected to a suitable reflector from which it is reflected to the object to be illuminated.
The dividing line between the street right-of-way line and
the lot boundary line.
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.
A parcel of land abutting on two or more intersecting streets.
A lot other than a corner lot.
The lines bounding a lot as defined herein.
Factory built, single-family structures that meet the National
Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act (42 U.S.C.
§ 5401) commonly known as the HUD, U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development Code.
Establishments engaged in the mechanical or chemical transformation
of materials or substances into new products, including the assembling
of component parts, the creation of products, and the blending of
materials, such as lubricating oils, plastics, resins, or liquors.
A voluntary negotiating process in which parties in a dispute
mutually select a neutral mediator to assist them in jointly exploring
and settling their differences, culminating in a written agreement
which the parties themselves create and consider acceptable.
The excavation or extraction of any earth products of natural
mineral deposit, except where such excavation is for purposes of grading
for a building lot or roadway where grass sod is removed to be used
for landscaping, or where materials are excavated from a lot for use
on that same lot by the owner of the property.
Any aggregate or mass of mineral matter, whether or not coherent.
The term includes, but is not limited to, limestone and dolomite,
sand and gravel, rock and stone, earth, fill, slag, iron ore, zinc
ore, vermiculite and clay, anthracite and bituminous coal, coal refuse,
peat and crude oil and natural gas.
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 structure consisting of two or more modules, sections or
units, which were designed to be moved from the place of manufacture
to a home site and there permanently connected together and placed
upon a foundation to form an integral and immobile dwelling, having
the external appearance of a conventional house. (See also "manufactured
housing.")
A building or group of buildings, whether detached or in
connected units, used as individual sleeping or dwelling units designed
primarily for transient automobile travelers and providing for accessory
off-street parking facilities.
The number of dwelling units in relation to the land area
actually in use or proposed for use for residential purposes not including
areas set aside for public use, recreation, utility easements, stormwater
management or street rights-of-way.
A business or commercial activity administered or conducted
as an accessory use which is clearly secondary to the use as a residential
dwelling and which involves no customer, client or patient traffic,
whether vehicular or pedestrian, pickup, delivery or removal functions
to or from the premises, in excess of those normally associated with
residential use. The business or commercial activity must satisfy
the following requirements:
[5]
The business activity shall be compatible with the residential
use of the property and surrounding residential uses.
The business shall employ no employees other than family members
residing in the dwelling.
There shall be no display or sale of retail goods and no stockpiling
or inventory of a substantial nature.
There shall be no outside appearance of a business use, including
but not limited to parking, signs or lights.
The business activity may not use any equipment or process which
creates noise, vibration, glare, fumes, odors or electrical or electronic
interference, including interference with radio or television reception,
which is detectable in the neighborhood.
The business activity may not generate any solid waste or sewage
discharge in volume or type which is not normally associated with
residential use in the neighborhood.
The business activity shall be conducted only within the dwelling
and may not occupy more than 25% of the habitable floor area.
The business may not involve any illegal activity.
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.
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 use, whether of land or of 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.
Open pit mining shall include all activity which removes
from the surface or beneath the surface of the land some material,
mineral resource, natural resource or other element of economic value,
by means of mechanical excavation necessary to separate the desired
material from an undesirable one; or to remove the strata or material
which overlies or is above the desired material in its natural condition
and position. Open pit mining includes, but is not limited to, the
excavation necessary to the extraction of: sand, gravel, topsoil,
limestone, sandstone, coal, clay; shale and iron ore.
An unoccupied space open to the sky on the same lot with
the building or area intended for use by all owners of individual
building lots within the perimeter of a planned residential development.
The keeping in an unroofed area of any goods, junk, material,
merchandise, or vehicles in the same place for more than 24 hours.
All that area of land within an area specifically defined
as an overlay district following the application of standards established
for uses in the underlying zoning districts.
The area required for parking one automobile, which is held
to be an area nine feet wide and 18 feet long, and the minimum area
per parking space shall be 180 square feet exclusive of aisleways
and pedestrian passageways. Driveways and traffic aisles serving individual
parking spaces shall not be less than 25 feet wide for ninety-degree
parking, 12 feet wide for parallel parking, 17.5 feet wide for sixty-degree
parking, and 13 feet for forty-five-degree parking.
An underlying prepared base or support of cemented concrete
blocks or similar masonry placed upon a footer (the footer must be
below the frost line) upon which a structure is placed and which completely
encloses the structure exclusive of half-windows, windows, or doors.
The map or plan of a subdivision or land development, whether
preliminary or final.
A covered area in excess of four feet by five feet or 20
square feet in area at a front, side, or rear door.
The use of offices and related space for such professional
services and activities as are provided by doctors, dentists, lawyers,
architects, engineers, surveyors, realtors, teachers, artists, musicians,
magistrates, and similar services or by any such persons licensed
to practice.
Any lot, parcel or tract of land and any building constructed
thereon.
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 in accordance with the provisions of the Pennsylvania
Municipalities Planning Code, as amended.
A forum held pursuant to notice under 65 Pa.C.S.A. Ch. 7
(relating to open meetings).[6]
A notice published once each week for two successive weeks
in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality. Such notice
shall state the time and place of the hearing and the particular nature
of the matter to be considered at the hearing. The first publication
shall not be more than 30 days and the second publication shall not
be less than seven days from the date of the hearing.
Building, structures, and facilities, including generating
and switching stations, poles, lines, pipes, pumping stations, repeaters,
antennas, transmitters and receivers, valves, and all buildings and
structures relating to the furnishing of utility services, such as
electric, gas, telephone, water, sewer, and public transit, to the
public.
Four attached dwellings in one building in which each unit
has two open space exposures and shares one or two walls with adjoining
unit or units.
A recreational facility for the exclusive use of the owner
of the land or parcel, but not open to the general public.
A lot, land or structure, or part thereof, used primarily
for the recycling, collecting, storage and sale of wastepaper, rags,
scrap metal, plastic or discarded material; or for the collecting,
dismantling, storage and salvaging of machinery equipment or vehicles
not in running condition, and for the sale of parts thereof.
Any establishment where horses are kept for riding, driving,
or stabling for compensation or incidental to the operation of any
club, association, ranch or similar establishment.
A vegetative material of sufficient height and density to
conceal from the view of property owners in adjoining residential
districts the structures and uses on the premises on which the screen
planting is located.
A building or structure containing lockable stalls rented
to members of the general public for self-access storage of their
personal household goods and personalty.
Any object, surface, fabric, device or structure, or part
thereof, whether situate inside or outside of a structure, bearing
lettered, pictorial or sculptured matter intended, designed, or used
to convey information visually and exposed to public view which directs
attention to an object, product, place, activity, person, institution,
organization, or business. The term "sign" does not apply to a flag,
emblem or insignia of a nation, political unit, school, athletic scoreboards,
or the official announcements or signs of government for highway/traffic
purposes or otherwise, including but not limited to government activities
of the Township of Darlington.
Any sign or part of a sign which changes physical position
by any movement or rotation or which gives the visual impression of
such movement or rotation.
The entire face of a sign, including the advertising surface
and any framing, trimming or molding, but not including the supporting
structure.
A sign that is mounted or painted on, or attached to an awning,
canopy, or marquee that is otherwise permitted by ordinance.
A sign which directs attention to a business, commodity,
service or entertainment conducted, sold or offered at a location
other than the premises on which the sign is located.
A sign which directs attention to a business or profession
conducted, or to a commodity or service sold, offered or manufactured,
or to an entertainment offered on the premises where the sign is located.
A temporary sign erected on the premises on which construction
is taking place, during the period of such construction, indicating
the names of the architects, engineers, landscape architects, contractors
or similar artisans, and the owners, financial supporters, sponsors,
and similar individuals or firms, having a role or interest with respect
to the structure or project.
Signs limited to directional messages, principally for pedestrian
or vehicular traffic, such as "one-way," "entrance," and "exit."
The area or display surface used for the message.
Any directly or indirectly illuminated sign which exhibits
changing natural or artificial light or color effects by any means
whatsoever.
Any nonmovable sign not affixed to a building.
A sign erected and maintained pursuant to the discharge of
any governmental functions, or required by law, ordinance or other
governmental regulation.
The entire area within a single continuous perimeter enclosing
the extreme limits of such sign. All signs shall be limited to not
more than two faces. All area limitations shall be computed in square
feet. Each face of a double-face sign may equal the maximum size permitted
for the particular type of sign. When individual letters are used
separately on the surface of a building wall, the spaces between said
letters shall be included in computing the area of the sign.
Any sign, other than a pole sign, placed upon or supported
by the ground independent of any other structure.
A sign containing only the name and occupation of a permitted
home occupation.
A sign giving the nature, logo, trademark or other identifying
symbol, address, or any combination of the name, symbol and address
of a building, business, development or establishment on the premises
where it is located.
A sign lighted by or exposed to artificial lighting either
by lights on or in the sign or directed towards the sign.
A sign, tablet or plaque memorializing a person, event, structure
or site.
A sign, located on the premises, giving the name or address,
or both, of the owner or occupant of the building premises.
A sign that is mounted on a freestanding pole or other support
so that the bottom edge of the sign face is six feet or more above
ground.
A temporary sign announcing or supporting political candidates
or issues in connection with any national, state or local election.
A sign that is not permanent, affixed to a building, structure
or the ground.
A temporary sign advertising private sales of personal property
such as house sales, garage sales, rummage sales, and the like or
private not-for-profit events such as picnics, carnivals, bazaars,
game nights, art fairs, craft shows and Christmas tree sales.
A sign that is wholly or partly dependent upon a building
for support and which projects more than 12 inches from such building.
A sign pertaining to the sale or lease of the premises, or
a portion of the premises, on which the sign is located.
A sign that is mounted on the roof of a building or which
is wholly dependent upon a building for support and which projects
above the point of a building with a flat roof, the eave line of a
building with a gambrel, gable or hip roof or the deck line of a building
with a mansard roof.
A sign supported by one or more uprights, poles, posts, monolithic
wall structure or braces placed in or upon the ground in a fixed location,
and not attached to any building or structure. A self-supporting sign
many contain off-premises advertising.
A sign fastened to or painted on the wall of a building or
structure in such a manner that the wall becomes the supporting structure
for, or forms the background surface of the sign, and which does not
project more than 12 inches from such building or structure.
A sign that is applied or attached to the exterior or interior
of a window or located in such manner within a building that it can
be seen from the exterior of the structure through a window.
An accessory building in which horses are kept for private
use and not for hire, remuneration or sale.
A building in which any horses are kept for remuneration,
hire, or sale.
As used in this chapter, stock includes, but is not limited
to, the keeping, breeding, and raising of rabbits, ferrets, minks,
chinchillas, and all domesticated animals.
A covered or uncovered area at a front, side or rear door
not exceeding four feet by five feet or 20 square feet in area.
A lot or portion of a lot, or parcel of land used to store
equipment or materials outside of a building but within a fenced and
screened area as an accessory use to a commercial establishment.
That portion of a building included between the surface of
any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there
be no floor above it, then the space between any floor and the ceiling
next above it.
A story under a gable, hip or gambrel roof, the wall plates
of which on at least two opposite exterior walls are not more than
two feet above the floor of such story.
Includes street, avenue, boulevard, road, highway, freeway,
parkway, lane, alley, viaduct and any other ways used or intended
to be used by vehicular traffic or pedestrians whether public or private.
The officially established grade of the street upon which
a lot fronts. If there is no officially established grade, the grade
of the street shall be taken as the existing street grade.
Any man-made object having an ascertainable stationary location
on or in land or water, whether or not affixed to the land.
The division or redivision of a lot, tract or parcel of land
by any means into two or more lots, tracts, parcels or other divisions
of land, including changes in existing lot lines for the purpose,
whether immediate or future, of lease or sale, partition by the court
for distribution to heirs or devisees, transfer of ownership or building
or lot development; provided, however, that the subdivision by lease
of land for agricultural purposes in parcels of more than 10 acres,
not involving any new street or easement of access or any residential
dwelling, shall be exempted.
A commercial establishment storing, or offering for sale,
building supplies, including light wood fabricating and woodworking,
landscaping supplies, steel supplies, heavy equipment, feed and grain
and similar goods. Supply yards do not include the wrecking, salvaging,
dismantling or storage of automobiles and similar vehicles.
A registered land surveyor licensed as such by the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
Any reasonably permanent pool or open tank, 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.
A dwelling that may be permitted to be placed on a lot that
already contains one dwelling, based on a family hardship encountered
by the residents of the existing dwelling that can be cured during
the extent of the hardship by the presence of the second dwelling.
A building or part of a building or open amphitheater devoted
to the showing of moving pictures or theatrical productions on a paid
admission basis.
An open lot or part thereof, with its appurtenant facilities,
devoted primarily to the showing of moving pictures or theatrical
productions, on a paid admission basis, to patrons seated in automobiles
or on outdoor seats.
Include travel trailers, pickup coaches, motorized homes,
and recreation equipment as follows:
TRAVEL TRAILERA portable structure built on a chassis designed to be towed and used as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational, and vacation purposes, and permanently identified as a travel trailer by the manufacturer of the trailer.
PICKUP COACH or RECREATIONAL VEHICLEA structure design primarily to be mounted on a pickup or other truck chassis with sufficient equipment to render it suitable for use as a temporary dwelling, travel, recreational, and vacation purposes.
MOTORIZED HOMEA portable dwelling designed and constructed as an integral part of a self-propelled vehicle.
BOATA vessel designed to travel on water.
BOAT TRAILERA trailer designed to haul a boat as defined above.
A tract of land:
A building containing three individual dwellings designed
for occupancy by not more than three families living independently
of each other.
The specific purpose for which land or a building is designed,
arranged, intended, or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained.
The term "permitted use" or its equivalent shall not be deemed to
include any nonconforming use.
A building or building and premises in combination where
qualified veterinary services are offered including the treatment
and boarding of infirm or sick animals.
An unoccupied space open to the sky, on the same lot with
a building or structure.
An open unoccupied space on the same lot with a main building,
extending the full width of the lot and situated between the street
line and the front line of the building projected to the side lines
of the lot. The depth of the front yard shall be measured between
the front line of the building and the street line.
An open unoccupied space on the same lot with a main building,
extending the full width of the lot and situated between the rear
line of the lot and the rear line of the building projected to the
side lines of the lot. The depth of the rear yard shall be measured
between the rear line of the lot and the rear line of the building.
An open unoccupied space on the same lot with the main building,
situated between the building and the side line of the lot and extending
from the front yard to the rear yard. Any lot line not considered
a rear line or a front line shall be deemed a side line.
A specifically delineated area or district in a municipality
within which uniform regulations and requirements govern the use,
placement, spacing, and size of land and buildings.
The administrative officer designated to administer the zoning
ordinance and issue zoning permits.
