[Amended 11-9-1993 by Ord. No. 446]
A. In order to regulate, designate, control and restrict the location,
occupancy and use of land, buildings or structures for trade, industry
and other purposes and the location, use and occupancy of all buildings
or other structures designed, erected, altered, reconstructed or occupied
for specified uses, the Borough of Port Vue is hereby divided into
four use districts, which shall be known as:
B. The location and boundaries of said use districts are hereby established
as shown on the Zoning District Map bearing the number and date of
this chapter, the signature of the Borough Engineer and the Secretary
of Council, bearing the Borough Seal, which Zoning District Map is
hereby declared to be a part thereof. The boundaries of districts shall be shown by heavy solid
lines on the Zoning District Map. A district boundary shown within
a street or way shall be construed to be in the center thereof and
shall remain a boundary if the street or way is vacated, unless the
boundary is changed by an amending ordinance. Where a district boundary
is not within a street or way and its location is not precisely indicated
by dimensioned distances from known lines, and where the designation
on the Zoning District Map indicates such district boundary to be
upon or approximately upon the boundary line of a recorded lot or
separate parcel of land, then the district boundary shall be construed
to be demarcated on said established line of the recorded plot or
parcel of land. Absent any of the foregoing criteria, the district
boundary shall be determined by use of the scale and legend established
in the Zoning District Map:
(1) Upon or approximately upon the boundary line of a recorded lot or
separate parcel of land, the district boundary shall be construed
to be said line of recorded lot or parcel of land;
(2) Other than as stated in Subsection
B(1), its location shall be determined by use of the scale of the map.
C. Except as herein otherwise provided, no building, structure or land
shall hereafter be erected, reconstructed, altered, used or occupied
for any purpose other than is herein permitted in the use district
in which said building, structure or land is located.
D. In case of mixed occupancy, regulations for each use shall apply
to the portion of the buildings or structure, or land, so used.
[Amended 1-19-1982 by Ord. No. 341; 11-9-1993 by Ord. No. 446]
In the Commercial District, there shall be applied the regulations
prescribed in this section and the qualifying regulations prescribed
in other parts and supplementary regulations.
A. Use. In this district, land and structures may be used and structures
may be erected, altered or enlarged, for only the use listed in this
section, provided that:
(1) All merchandise and products shall be sold only at retail, unless
otherwise stated hereunder.
(2) There may be manufacture, compounding, processing or treatment of
products which is clearly incidental and essential to a retail store
or business only when the major portion of such products is to be
sold at retail on the premises.
(3) Such uses, operations or products are not noxious or offensive by
reason of the emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, vibration, noise
or other similar causes.
B. Permitted use:
(1) Amusement enterprises including a bowling alley, dance hall, boxing
arena, and the like, provided that, if within 300 feet of property
is a residence district, same shall be conducted wholly within a completely
enclosed building.
(4) Automobile and trailer sales service and supply business, excluding
recapping or like vulcanizing processes, provided that any sales area
is located and developed as required in supplementary regulations
hereinafter appearing.
(7) Baths, Turkish and the like.
(9) Beverages, retail or wholesale distribution of.
(10)
Bicycles rental or repair.
(11)
Blueprinting, photostating and the like.
(12)
Business colleges or private school operated as a commercial
enterprise.
(14)
Cleaning of only wearing apparel, using nonexplosive and nonflammable
cleaning fluid.
(15)
Clinic or laboratory, medical or dental.
(16)
Clothes pressing and repair.
(18)
Custom dressmaking, millinery and tailoring.
(21)
Drive-in business (other than drive-in theater) where persons
are served in automobiles, such as refreshment stands, restaurants,
food stores, and the like.
(25)
Frozen food storage, excluding wholesale storage.
(26)
Funeral home or mortuary.
(27)
Furniture and furnishings, sale of.
(28)
Gasoline service stations.
(30)
Interior decorating business.
(31)
Laundry agency or cleaning agency, hand-laundry and laundry
operated by customers, such as "launderette," "laundromat" and the
like.
(34)
Music conservatory or studio.
(36)
Nursery (flower or plant), provided that all incidental equipment
and supplies, including fertilizer and supply cans, are kept within
a building.
(37)
Office appliance and supply business.
(38)
Office, professional or business.
(39)
Outpatient clinic, independently operated.
(40)
Park, public or nonprofit.
(41)
Photographer's studio, photo supplies.
(42)
Plumbing, heating and electrical business (not involving sheet
metal work) if conducted completely within an enclosed building.
(44)
Public utility structures, facilities and installations for
electricity, gas, oil, steam, telegraph, telephone (including telephone
exchange building), and water; provided, that these uses:
(a)
Do not involve storage areas;
(b)
Do not consist of overhead power lines supported by metal towers;
(c)
Do not include railroads.
(45)
Radio or television broadcasting station, not including broadcasting
towers and antennas.
(46)
Repairs. Electrical, or other household appliances, radios and
the like, shoes or timepieces.
(48)
Schools. Trade schools, and the like, excluding public and parochial
schools, and like non-taxpaying institutions.
(49)
Shops or stores for the sale of books, beverages, confections,
drugs, dry goods, flowers, foodstuffs, gifts, hardware, household
appliances, jewelry, notions, periodicals, radios and the like, stationery,
sundry small household articles, tobacco or wearing apparel.
(50)
Sign painting, if conducted wholly within a completely enclosed
building.
(52)
Theater or cinema, excluding drive-in theater.
(53)
Upholstering and minor repair of furniture, and home or office
furnishings, if business is conducted wholly within a completely enclosed
building.
(54)
Signs. As prescribed in supplementary regulations. Billboards
are specifically excluded herewith and prohibited in a commercial
area.
(55)
Detached dwelling for one or two families.
(57)
Multiple dwelling or apartment dwelling.
(58)
Mixed occupancy (residential and commercial use).
C. Such other uses which may be noxious or offensive by reason of emission
of odor, dust, smoke, gas, vibration or noise, or which may be inconsistent
with the primary use of property in this Borough as an industrial
and residential community, are hereby prohibited and specifically
excluded in the Commercial District.
[Amended 5-9-1969 by Ord. No. 1969-1; 11-9-1993 by Ord. No.
446]
Within any "A" Residence District, no building, structure or
premises shall be used or arranged or designed to be used, except
for one or more of the following uses:
A. Permitted uses:
(1) A detached dwelling exclusively for one family or a single housekeeping
unit of not more than three persons.
(2) Churches and other places of worship.
(3) Recreation buildings, playgrounds and parks, private and/or public
swimming pools.
(4) Accessory uses customarily incident to any of the above permitted
uses.
(5) Extended-care facility. (The definition of "extended-care facility"
shall be the same as used by the Pennsylvania Department of Public
Welfare and the United States Department of Health and Human Services.)
(6) Group home.
[Added 9-6-2005 by Ord. No. 538]
B. Trailer parks, and/or trailers, with or without wheels, are hereby prohibited and specifically excluded in the "A" Residence District, and junkyards as defined in §
310-10, Industrial District, are also excluded.
[Amended 11-9-1993 by Ord. No. 446]
Within any "B" Residence District, no building, structure or
premises shall be used, arranged or designed to be used, except for
one or more of the following uses:
A. Permitted uses:
(1) A detached dwelling for only one family or for one housekeeping unit.
(3) Accessory uses customarily incidental to any of the above permitted
uses.
(4) Multiple dwelling or apartment dwelling.
(5) The taking of boarders or the leasing of rooms by a resident family,
provided the total number of boarders and roomers does not exceed
two in a one-family dwelling or four in any two-family dwelling.
(6) Clubs, lodges, social and community center buildings, except those
in which a chief activity is a gainful service or activity usually
conducted as a business.
(7) Institutions of an educational or religious character, other than
correctional institutions
(8) Home office of a doctor of medicine, osteopathy, chiropody, chiropractic
or minister of religion:
(a)
Such office shall be located in the dwelling unit which is the
home of the practitioner.
(b)
No assistants shall be employed and no colleagues or associates
shall share such offices.
(c)
Except for a minister of religion, such office shall not be
used for general professional practice, but only for emergency consultation
and treatment as an adjunct to a principal office elsewhere.
(d)
No sign shall be used other than a nameplate.
(9) Home parlor of a beauty shop and/or parlor operator.
(a)
Such office shall be located in the dwelling unit which is the
home of the operator.
(b)
No assistants shall be employed and no colleagues or associates
shall share such parlor.
(c)
No sign shall be used other than a nameplate.
(10)
Telephone exchange building: Such building shall only be permitted
in a "B" Residence District upon special application to the Board
which shall regulate the size, location, type of structure and other
reasonable regulations with the purpose of insuring that such proposed
structure shall be in harmony, in all respects, with other structures
in the vicinity of the proposed location thereof.
B. Trailer parks and/or trailers, with or without wheels, are hereby prohibited and specifically excluded in the "B" Residence District; also excluded are junkyards, as defined in §
310-10, Industrial District.
[Amended 11-12-1971 by Ord. No. 280; 11-9-1983 by Ord. No.
446]
A. Intent. This district is designed to accommodate and promote wholesale
activities, warehousing and industrial operations dependent on existing
land uses, physical conditions and the availability of nearby municipal
utilities and transport facilities. The district accommodates industrial
activities in these areas so as to minimize any detrimental effects
that they might have on other uses in the Borough and at the same
time provide an industrial zone free from the encroachment of other
activities.
B. Permitted uses. Any use not otherwise prohibited by law of a manufacturing,
fabricating, processing, packaging, compounding or treatment nature
which, in the opinion of the Zoning Officer, would be nonobjectionable
in terms of smoke or dust emission, odors, noise or glare and will not otherwise be injurious to the public health,
safety and welfare and will not have an adverse effect on adjacent
areas. Should the Zoning Officer feel there is any likelihood of the
aforementioned dangers or nuisances, the applicant must prove to the
contrary to the Zoning Hearing Board before a permit is issued. In
such a case, the Borough Planning Commission shall be notified of
the hearing in order to provide the Zoning Hearing Board with a recommendation.
(1) Warehousing and wholesale establishments and storage yards, not including
junkyards.
(2) Railroad, trucking, busing and other transit facilities, including
storage, repair and transfer operations.