A.
It is not intended that these definitions include only words used
or referred to in this chapter. The words are included in order to
aid in the interpretation of this chapter for administrative purposes
and in the carrying out of duties by appropriate officers and by the
Zoning Hearing Board.
B.
Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following shall, for the purpose
of this chapter, have the meanings indicated as follows:
(1)
Words used in the present tense include the future tense.
(2)
The word "person" includes a profit or nonprofit corporation, company,
partnership or individual.
(3)
The words "used" or "occupied," as applied to any land or building,
include the words "intended, arranged, or designed to be used or occupied.”
(4)
The word "building" includes structure.
(5)
The word "lot" includes plot or parcel.
(6)
The word "shall" is always mandatory.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
The relinquishment of property, or a cessation of the use
of the property, by the owner or lessee without any evidence of transferring
the rights to the property to another owner or of resuming the use
of the property for a period of 12 consecutive months.
Having a common border with, or being separated from such
a common border by a right-of-way, alley, or easement.
A subordinate building, structure or portion of the main
building on the same lot, the use of which is customarily incidental
to that of the main or principal building, including but not limited
to detached garages, noncommercial greenhouses in residential districts,
storage sheds, swimming pools, children's playhouses, decks, carports
and private animal pens and doghouses, located in the required side
or rear yards.
All adult-oriented businesses or sections of other businesses
exceeding 15 square feet of floor area devoted to the display and
selling of materials depicting, describing, or relating to specified
sexual activities or specified anatomical areas, in the form of books,
magazines, films, videos, DVDs, live entertainment or similar trade.
This includes but is not limited to adult bookstores, novelty stores
and video/motion-picture stores/theaters. This type of business also
includes adult escort agencies, nude model studios and sexual encounter
centers, message parlors, nightclubs, bars, taverns, restaurants,
arcades, theaters, motels, hotels or similar businesses that provide
for entertainment characterized as depicting or displaying specified
sexual activities and/or specified anatomical areas.
The production, keeping or maintenance, for sale, lease or
personal use, of plants and animals for human use and consumption,
including but not limited to crops, grains and seeds; dairy animals/products;
poultry and poultry products; livestock; bees and apiary products;
silvicultural, tree and forest products; fruits and vegetables; and
horticultural, nursery and floral products.
As applied to a building or structure, means a change or
rearrangement in structural parts or in the existing facilities or
an enlargement, whether by extending on a side, the front or the back
or by increasing height, or the moving from one location or position
to another.
Revisions to the zoning text and/or the Official Zoning Map;
the authority for any amendment lies solely with the Borough Council
and is pursuant to the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.
[1]A place where animals are given medical care and the boarding
of animals is limited to short-term care incidental to the hospital
use.
An application required to be filed and approved by the Borough
of Punxsutawney prior to the start of construction or development.
The total of areas taken on a horizontal plane at the main
grade level of the principal building and all accessory buildings.
A building used primarily for making major repairs to motor
vehicles, including overhauling, body work, refinishing, and upholstering
and incidental servicing.
A house, or portion thereof, where short-term lodging rooms
and meals are provided. The operator of the inn shall live on the
premises or in abutting premises.
A surface whereon advertising matter is set in view conspicuously,
and which advertising does not apply to the premises wherein it is
displayed or posted.
The Borough of Punxsutawney, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.
The Borough Council of the Borough of Punxsutawney, Jefferson
County, Pennsylvania.
Any structure designed or intended for use to transmit or
relay any digital, electronic, radio, television or microwave signal
via the atmosphere, excluding satellite receivers less than 18 inches
in diameter and transmission facilities required for public safety.
A structure having a roof supported by columns or walls and
intended for use for shelter or storage of any individual, animal,
process, equipment, goods or materials.
A statement, based on an inspection, signed by the Zoning
Officer, setting forth either that a building, structure or use of
a parcel of land complies with this chapter or that a building, structure
or parcel of land may lawfully be employed for a specified use, or
both.
An institution that people regularly attend to participate
in or hold religious services, meetings, and other activities. The
term "church" shall not carry a secular connotation and shall include
buildings in which religious services of any denomination are held.
An organization catering exclusively to members and their
guests; or a premises and building for recreational or athletic purposes
which are not conducted primarily for gain, provided that any vending
stands, merchandise or commercial activities are conducted only as
required generally for the membership of each club.
A structure planned for commercial practices, the design
of which reflects a purpose of displaying goods or services and of
consumer access to the goods or services.
[Added 5-30-2012 by Ord. No. 1120]
An establishment housing an occupation, employment or enterprise
that is carried on for profit by the owner, lessee, or licensee, involving
a sale of goods or services.
A commercial establishment offering gasoline, prepared food
primarily for off-premises consumption, packaged food and dairy products,
beverages and related items, typically over extended hours or open
for 24 hours.
The renovation and portioning of a single-family residential
structure into no more than two apartments, each having a minimum
of 800 square feet of gross floor area, for rent or for sale.
The ratio of the horizontal area, measured from the exterior
surface of the exterior walls of the ground floor of all principal
and accessory buildings on a lot, to the total lot area.
A facility in which part-time care is provided for children
or adults, having the necessary licenses and permits required by the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
An open, unroofed platform or structure having a vertical
elevation above the ground extending from a principal building.
A ratio of the number of dwelling units per acre that occupy
or may occupy an area of land.
The developable area of a lot is that portion of a lot, outside
of areas required for setbacks, easements, rights-of-way and physical
constraints, which is available for construction of a building or
structure in conformance with all ordinances of the Borough.
The provisions for development of a planned residential development,
including a plat of subdivision, all covenants relating to use, location
and bulk of buildings and other structures, intensity of use or density
of development, streets, ways and parking facilities, common open
space and public facilities. The phrase "provisions of the development
plan," when used in this chapter, shall mean the written and graphic
materials referred to in this definition.
An area constituted by or pursuant to this chapter and delineated
by text and map as to location, extent, nature and contents.
Any premises licensed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control
Board wherein alcoholic beverages are sold at retail for consumption
on the premises.
The inpatient or outpatient treatment or examination of individuals
for drug or alcohol addictions or the administering of drugs or substances
for the treatment, maintenance or detoxification of individuals.
[Added 6-10-2013 by Ord. No. 1127]
A building or portion thereof that provides living facilities
for one or more families.
A building or portion thereof for occupancy by three or more
families living independently of each other and containing three or
more dwelling units.
One of two or more residential buildings having a common
or party wall separating dwelling units.
A residential building containing not more than one dwelling
unit entirely surrounded by open space on the same lot.
A building arranged, designed, or intended for occupancy
by two families living independent of each other and doing their own
cooking therein, on a single lot.
One or more rooms physically arranged so as to create an
independent housekeeping establishment for occupancy by one family,
with separate toilets and facilities for cooking and sleeping.
The right of a person, government agency, or public utility
company to use public or private land owned by another for a specific
purpose.
A commercial establishment that serves food and beverages
primarily for on-premises consumption. This includes cafes, sit-down
restaurants and outdoor cafes.
A retail outlet where food or beverages are sold to a substantial
extent for consumption off premises or where a drive-in window is
provided.
The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance by
public utilities or public service establishments or municipal or
other governmental agencies of: underground gas, electrical, telephone,
radio, television transmission or distribution systems; and public
water, public sanitary sewer and public storm sewer facilities, including
wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, fire alarm boxes, traffic
signals, hydrants and similar equipment and accessories in connection
therewith; including buildings necessary for the furnishing of adequate
services for the public health, safety and general welfare; excluding
sanitary landfills.
An artificially constructed barrier of any material or combination
of materials erected to enclose, separate or screen areas of land.
FENCE, CLOSEDA solid fence with 0% open area, including gates, effectively screening the activities conducted on a property from adjacent properties and rights-of-way.
FENCE, OPENA fence with greater than 25% open area, including gates, including but not limited to a split-rail fence.
In reference to signage, to give off light or be lighted
in sudden or intermittent bursts, excluding steadily lighted changing
sign messages.
An occasional or periodic market held in an open area or
structure where groups of individual sellers or dealers offer goods
for sale to the public.
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.
A group of people formally organized for a common interest,
usually cultural, religious or entertainment, with regular meetings,
rituals and formal written membership requirements.
An enclosed space for the storage of one or more motor vehicles,
either attached to or detached from the principal building, 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.
The sum of the total horizontal areas of all floors of a
building sustaining a particular use, measured from the exterior face
of exterior walls, or from the center line of a common wall separating
two buildings or uses, excluding any space where the floor-to-ceiling
height is less than six feet and any interior parking/garage/loading
space.
A facility or dwelling unit providing food, shelter and personal
guidance with supervision to four or more persons who are not within
the second degree of kinship and are operating as a group family household,
including but not limited to handicapped persons, foster children,
elderly, and battered children and women, and which operates as a
special treatment facility providing less than primary health care.
In a dwelling unit, the sum of the interior floor area excluding
the area devoted to a kitchen, bathroom/powder room, closets, pantry,
hallways, basement, garage, porch/deck, attic and storage space.
An occupation, profession, activity, or use, other than a
no-impact home-based businesses as defined in this chapter, permitted
under the provisions and conditions of this chapter.
The science or art of cultivating fruits, vegetables, flowers,
or ornamental plants.
A facility offering transient lodging accommodations on a
daily rate to the general public and providing additional services,
such as restaurants, meeting rooms, and recreational facilities.
Renovation, reconstruction and/or rehabilitation activities,
defined to include one or more of the following:
Exterior additions or alterations that alter the gross floor
area, whether enclosed or not;
Removal of an exterior wall;
Filling in, boarding up or enclosing any portion of an existing
window, door opening or porch;
Adding new window or door openings;
Alteration of the exterior surface materials of an existing
wall;
Replacing architectural features not using materials of similar
composition and appearance as the prevailing style of the structure;
Alteration of the roofline;
Construction of an accessory building with a floor area in excess
of 100 square feet;
Construction of a new principal building; and
Demolition or relocation of a structure.
A tract of land that has been planned, developed and operated
as an integrated facility for a number of individual light industrial
users, with special attention to circulation, parking, utilities,
aesthetics and compatibility.
A use engaged in the manufacture, predominantly from previously
prepared materials, of finished products or parts, including processing,
fabrication, assembly, treatment, packaging, incidental storage, sales,
and distribution of such products, but excluding basic industrial
processing.
Old, dilapidated, scrap or abandoned metal, paper, building
material and equipment, bottles, glass, appliances, furniture, beds
and bedding, rags, rubber, motor vehicles, and parts thereof.
A commercial establishment on a lot or structure, or part
thereof, used primarily for the collecting, storage, and sale of wastepaper,
rags, scrap metal or discarded material, or for the collecting, dismantling,
storage and salvaging of machinery or vehicles not in running condition,
and for the sale of parts thereof.
Any of the following activities are included as land developments:
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.
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 person having a proprietary interest in land.
A platted parcel of land intended to be separately owned,
developed, and otherwise used as a unit.
The area of horizontal plane bounded by the vertical planes
through front, side, and rear lot lines.
A lot abutting two or more streets at their intersection.
Determined by dividing that area of lot that is occupied
or covered by the total horizontal projected surface of all buildings
and structures, including covered porches and accessory buildings,
by the gross area of that lot.
The average horizontal distance between the front and rear
lot lines.
On an interior lot, the lot line abutting a street; or on
a corner lot, the shorter lot line abutting a street; or on a through
lot, the lot line abutting the street providing the primary access
to the lot; or on a flag lot, the interior lot line most parallel
to and nearest the street from which access is obtained.
A lot other than a corner lot.
A lot where its existence, location, and dimensions have
been legally recorded or registered in a deed or on a plat.
The horizontal distance between side lot lines, measured
at the required front setback line.
Buildings housing a combination of two or more permitted
residential, commercial, service and/or office uses.
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 is only permitted in a mobile home park
and 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 building or group of detached or connected buildings designed
or used primarily for providing sleeping accommodations for automobile
travelers and having a parking space adjacent to a sleeping room.
The Borough of Punxsutawney, Jefferson County Pennsylvania.
A commercial establishment having a maximum size of 2,000
square feet of gross floor area, primarily to serve residents of the
immediate neighborhood.
This includes business or commercial activity administered
and conducted as an accessory use clearly secondary to the residential
use of the dwelling (or conducted within an accessory building so
long as the requirements of Subsection G are met), and which involves
no vehicular or pedestrian customer, client or patient traffic, and
the business use requires no pickup, delivery or removal functions
to or from the premises in excess of those normally associated with
the residential use. The business or commercial activity must satisfy
the following:
[Amended 12-12-2022 by Ord. No. 1170]
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;
The business shall not involve the 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 that
creates noise, vibration, glare, fumes, odors, electronic or electrical
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 uses in the neighborhood;
The business activity shall be conducted only within the dwelling
or within an accessory building so long as the accessory building
is 350 feet from the nearest neighboring dwelling, and may not occupy
more than 25% of the square footage of all structures on the property;
and
The business may not involve any illegal activity.
Renovation, reconstruction and/or rehabilitation activities,
defined to include the following:
Changes in use that do not cause any exterior changes in appearance
to the building or lot;
Maintenance, repair or replacement of architectural features
using materials of similar composition and appearance as the prevailing
style of the structure;
Replacement of doors and windows using existing openings;
Replacement of roofing using the same roofline;
Construction of an accessory building with a floor area not
exceeding 100 square feet;
Exterior painting;
Interior renovations; and
Fences and signs.
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 reason 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 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.
An institution for the care of the aged or the infirm, who
are residents by virtue of requiring specialized care and supervision
relating to health, social and/or rehabilitative services, but not
for the care and treatment of alcoholism or narcotics addiction. The
facility shall be licensed in accordance with appropriate state and/or
county laws and regulations.
Any parcel or designated land area in its natural state or
essentially unencumbered by either principal or accessory uses, buildings,
structures, or impervious surfaces.
A continuous quantity of land in the possession of or owned
by, or recorded as the property of, the same person or persons.
An area on a lot and/or within a building intended for the
use of temporary parking of a personal vehicle. This term is used
interchangeably with “parking stall.” Each parking space
must have a means of access to a public street. Tandem parking stalls
in single-family detached, single-family attached, and townhouse residential
uses shall be considered to have a means of access to a public street.
An unroofed area or courtyard built at ground level, paved
with concrete, bituminous, brick or a similar dustless all-weather
surface, adjoining a residential dwelling, used as an area for outdoor
lounging, dining, etc.
Construction of an all-weather, cohesive and dust-free surface
in the form of bituminous material, concrete, bricks and/or pavers
and similar materials that yield an all-weather, cohesive and dust-free
surface.
Commercial establishments in that portion of a building or
property located at or closest to the level of the public sidewalk
or within 40 feet of a public sidewalk.
Act of 1968, P.L. 805, No. 247, as reenacted and amended,
the enabling legislation that permits municipalities in Pennsylvania
to prepare and enact comprehensive development plans, zoning ordinances
and other land use controls.[3]
A set of criteria or limits relating to a use that a particular
use, activity or process may not exceed, and made part of an approval
under this chapter.
Facilities that provide lodging, food and some support services
for people who are elderly or who have mental or physical disabilities,
who are unable to care for themselves but who do not require twenty-four-hour
nursing services in a licensed nursing care facility. Typically, residents
of these facilities need help with dressing, feeding, taking medications,
mobility issues and finances.
Offices of organizations primarily involved in dispensing
or receiving aid from funds set aside for humanitarian purposes.
The Planning Commission of the County of Jefferson.
A map, plan or layout of a subdivision indicating the location
and boundaries of individual properties.
A roofed open area, which may be glazed or screened, attached
to and directly accessible to/from a principal building, conforming
to the dimensional requirements required for principal buildings in
the respective zoning district.
A structure in which the principal use of the site is conducted.
The main use of land or structures, as distinguished from
a secondary or accessory use.
The office of a member of a recognized profession or practitioner
of a calling or occupation that is commonly identified to be professional
in character by virtue of specialized knowledge, training, education
and/or experience required for the practice of said calling or occupation.
Said professions shall include but not be limited to law, medicine,
chemistry, ministry, architecture, accounting, engineering, writing
and education. Said professions or practitioners shall not include
drug and alcohol rehabilitation and treatment.
[Amended 6-10-2013 by Ord. No. 1127]
A formal meeting held pursuant to public notice by the governing
body, the Commission or the Zoning Hearing Board, intended to inform
and obtain public comment, prior to taking action in accordance with
this chapter.
A forum held pursuant to notice under the Act of July 3,
1986 (P.L. 388, No. 84), known as the "Sunshine Act."[4]
Notice published once each week for two successive weeks
in a newspaper of general circulation in the Punxsutawney Borough
area. 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.
Includes public and semipublic uses of a welfare and educational
nature, such as parks, churches/houses of worship and accessory structures
(i.e., convent, rectory, parsonage or similar), fire stations, municipal
buildings and fund-raising activities by the agencies or groups that
own and/or operate these facilities, essential public utilities that
require enclosures within a building, municipal active and passive
recreational facilities, and easements for alleys, streets, and public
utility rights-of-way.
Unfinished good consumed by a permitted light industrial
manufacturer in providing finished goods, that may exist as a basic
substance in its natural, modified, or semiprocessed state, used as
an input to a production process for subsequent modification or transformation
into a finished good.
Leisure-time activities requiring specialized equipment,
sites and fields, carried out in an organized fashion and usually
performed by teams or other individuals.
A leisure-time activity not considered active, occurring
in a nonstructured manner and requiring little if any community infrastructure
or equipment, including but not limited to hiking, bicycling, nature
walks and rustic camping.
A facility that is not a junkyard and in which recoverable
resources, such as newspapers, glassware, plastic containers, and
metal cans, are collected, stored, flattened, crushed, or bundled,
essentially by hand, within a completely enclosed building.
A collection point for small refuse items, such as bottles
and newspapers, located either in a container or small structure.
A strip of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a
street, crosswalk, railroad, electric transmission line, oil or gas
pipeline, water main, sanitary or storm sewer main, shade trees, or
other special use.
A public or private way that affords principal means of access
to abutting properties. The word "road" shall include but not be limited
to the words "street," "highway," "alley," and "thoroughfare."
For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions
are employed:
MAJOR ARTERIALA road whose function is to provide for the movement of high volumes of through traffic, subject to necessary control of entrances, exits and curb use.
COLLECTORA road or street that provides for the movement of large volumes of traffic between arterials and local roads and direct access to abutting properties.
LOCALA road whose function is to provide for local traffic movement and direct access to abutting properties.
ALLEYA public right-of-way used primarily for secondary access for the rear or sides of lots of record.
PRIVATE or NONPUBLICAll streets which are not public, including but not limited to streets maintained by private agreements, by private owners or for which no maintenance responsibility has been established, and including all private driveway easements or rights-of-way for access.
A form of accommodation involving residents renting bedrooms
and the use of shared common facilities such as bathrooms, lounges,
kitchens, dining areas and laundries, but not a complete dwelling
unit. One or more meals per day may also be provided.
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 warehousing facility where separate storage spaces of varying
size are available for lease or rental, usually on a self-service
basis. For the purposes of this chapter, there shall be no residential
occupancy nor commercial sales conducted from such storage areas.
A facility or dwelling unit with specific amenities to serve
senior individuals or families as defined by the United States Department
of Housing and Development and the United States Department of Agriculture,
as amended, and as adopted by the Borough for purposes of this section.
[Added 5-10-2010 by Ord. No. 1098]
Any premises where gasoline and other petroleum products
are sold and/or light maintenance activities, such as engine tune-ups,
lubrication, minor repairs, and carburetor cleaning, are conducted
for motor vehicles.
The required minimum horizontal distance between the building
line and the related front, side, or rear property line or right-of-way
line, whichever is closer to the building line.
A group of commercial establishments planned, constructed,
and managed as a total entity, with customer and employee parking
provided on site, and provision for goods delivery separated from
customer access.
A structure that consists of any device, light, letter, word,
model, banner, pennant, trade flag, logo, insignia, balloons or representation
that advertises, directs, or announces the use conducted or goods,
products, services or facilities available, or that influences persons
or conveys information, or that calls attention to the building or
the use located on the lot. The term "sign" does not include the flag
of the United States of America or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
or any federal, state or municipal traffic or directional sign or
other official federal, state, county or municipal government signs.
SIGN, FREESTANDINGAny nonmovable sign not affixed to a building.
SIGN, BUSINESSA sign that directs attention to a business or profession conducted, or to a commodity or service sold, offered or manufactured, or to an entertainment event offered on the premises where the sign is located.
SIGN, BILLBOARDA sign that directs attention to a business, commodity, service or entertainment conducted, sold or offered at a location other than the premises or land on which the sign is located.
SIGN, AWNINGA sign painted on or attached to a removable frame, of the hinged, rolled or folding type, that may have a covering, either combustible or noncombustible.
SIGN, COMMERCIAL OR OFFICE CENTERA directory, on or off premises, used to identify specific enterprises that are located within the commercial, industrial, business or office center.
SIGN, MARQUEEA sign painted on, attached to, or consisting of an interchangeable copyreader on the face of, a building or as part of a freestanding sign.
SIGN, PROJECTINGA sign, other than a wall sign, that is attached to and projects from a building face or wall or from a structure whose primary purpose is other than the support of the sign.
SIGN, WALLA 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 10 inches from such building or structure.
SIGN, WINDOWA sign affixed to the surface of a window, or within the display area of a window, with its message intended to be visible to and readable from the public right-of-way and/or from adjacent properties.
SIGN, SANDWICH BOARDA portable sign having changeable letters or sign face that may have up to two sign areas for temporary placement on a sidewalk or other frontage.
The area of the smallest geometric figure or sum of the combination
of regular geometric figures and background that comprise the sign
face, excluding structural supports, and decorative trim, that displays
the sign copy.
The development and/or maintenance of a forest or wooded
preserve.
A use permitted in a particular zoning district pursuant to the provisions of Articles VI and IX of Act 247, the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, as amended.
These include less than completely and opaquely covered human
genitals or pubic region; human female breast below the top of the
areola; and human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even
if completely and opaquely covered.
These activities include human genitals in a state of sexual
stimulation or arousal; acts of human masturbation; sexual intercourse
or sodomy; or fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals,
pubic region, or female breast.
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 any floor and the ceiling
next above it.
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, 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 into parcels of more than 10 acres,
not involving any new street or easement of access or any residential
dwelling, shall be exempted.
Any permanent or temporary pool or open tank, not located
within a completely enclosed building, and containing, or normally
capable of containing, water to a depth any point greater than two
feet. Ponds and/or lakes are not included, provided that swimming
is not the primary purpose for their construction. Barrier requirements
for aboveground pools shall be measured from the ground.
A lot or structure, or part thereof, used primarily for the
collection and/or storage of garbage, refuse and other discarded materials,
including but not limited to solid and liquid waste materials resulting
from industrial, commercial, agricultural and residential activities.
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 modification of the literal provisions of this chapter pursuant to the provisions of Articles VI and IX of Act 247, the Pennsylvania Municipalities Code, as amended, which the Zoning Hearing Board is permitted to grant when strict enforcement would cause undue hardship owing to circumstances unique to the individual property on which the variance is sought.
Terminal facilities and buildings used for the storage of
goods and materials and/or handling of freight, with or without maintenance
facilities.
The business of selling merchandise to retail, industrial,
commercial, institutional, professional or other business users, or
to other wholesalers; or acting as agents or brokers and buying merchandise
for, or selling merchandise to, such individuals or companies.
An open space that is between the principal building or group
of buildings and the nearest public right-of-way line or lot line,
whichever is closer to the building(s). Such space shall be unoccupied
and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as may herein be permitted.
YARD, FRONTAn open space between the principal building or group of buildings and the front right-of-way/lot lines, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, extending the full width of the lot.
YARD, REARAn open space extending the full width of the lot between a principal building and the rear right-of-way/lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward.
YARD, SIDEAn open space extending from the front yard to the rear yard between a principal building and the nearest side right-of-way/lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward.
The Zoning Hearing Board of Punxsutawney Borough.
The Official Zoning Map of Punxsutawney Borough, together
with all notations, references and amendments that may subsequently
be adopted. The Zoning Map shall be considered a part of this chapter.[5]
The administrative officer charged with the duty of enforcing
the provisions of this chapter.
The ordinance in effect, as adopted or amended, that controls
or regulates land use in the Borough.
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 district in which it
is located.
