[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 200]
a. 
Unless a contrary intention clearly appears, the following words and phrases shall have for the purposes of this chapter the meanings given in the following subsections.
b. 
For the purpose of this chapter, words and terms used herein shall be interpreted as follows:
(1) 
Words used in the present tense include the future.
(2) 
The singular includes the plural.
(3) 
The word "person" includes an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, association or government entity; including a trustee, a receive, an assignee or a similar representative.
(4) 
The word "lot" includes the word "plot" or "parcel."
(5) 
The term "shall" is 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 occupied."
(7) 
The word "Supervisor" and the words "Board of Supervisors" always mean the East Rockhill Township Board of Supervisors.
(8) 
The word "Commission" and the words "Planning Commission" always mean the East Rockhill Township Planning Commission.
(9) 
The word "Board" or the words "Zoning Hearing Board" always mean the East Rockhill Township Zoning Hearing Board.
(10) 
The words "Zoning Officer" always mean the East Rockhill Township Zoning Officer.
c. 
Any word or term not defined herein shall be used with a meaning of standard usage.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 202; as amended by Ord. 194, -/-/2000, Art. III; and by Ord. 201, 5/13/2003, § III]
a. 
Prime Farmland. The following soil types classified in the Soil Survey of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, September 2002 Report, or as amended, shall be recognized as prime agricultural soils. Soils mapping within the soil survey shall be utilized to determine the presence of prime agricultural soils unless a site specific soil classification of the tract has been completed by a certified soil scientist. The Township reserves the right to obtain its own soil scientist to confirm any reclassification efforts.
Map Symbol
Soil Name
AlA
Alton gravelly loam, 0% to 3% slopes
AlB
Alton gravelly loam, 3% to 8% slopes
ArB
Arendtsville gravelly silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
BeA
Bedington channery silt loam, 0% to 3% slopes
BeB
Bedington channery silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
BrB
Brecknock channery silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
BsA
Brownsburg silt loam, 0% to 3% slopes
BsB
Brownsburg silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
CdA
Chester silt loam, 0% to 3% slopes
CdB
Chester silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
CmB
Clarksburg silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
DaA
Delaware loam, 0% to 3% slopes
DaB
Delaware loam, 3% to 8% slopes
DfB
Duffield silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
DuA
Duncannon silt loam, 0% to 3% slopes
DuB
Duncannon silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
EcB
Edgemont channery loam, 3% to 8% slopes
FoA
Fountainville silt loam, 0% to 3% slopes
FoB
Fountainville silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
GlB
Gladstone gravelly silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
GrA
Glenville silt loam, 0% to 3% slopes
GrB
Glenville silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
LgA
Lansdale loam, 0% to 3% slopes
LgB
Lansdale loam, 3% to 8% slopes
LkA
Lawrenceville silt loam, 0% to 3% slopes
LmA
Lehigh channery silt loam, 0% to 3% slopes
LmB
Lehigh channery silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
Lt
Linden loam
MaB
Manor loam, 3% to 8% slopes
McA
Matapeake silt loam, 0% to 3% slopes
McB
Matapeake silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
MdA
Mattapex silt loam, 0% to 3% slopes
MlA
Mount lucas silt loam, 0% to 3% slopes
MlB
Mount lucas silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
NbB
Nashaminy silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
PeA
Penn channery silt loam, 0% to 3% slopes
PeB
Penn channery silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
PnB
Penn-Lansdale complex, 3% to 8% slopes
RaA
Raritan silt loam, 0% to 3% slopes
RaB
Raritan silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
ReA
Readington silt loam, 0% to 3% slopes
Ro
Rowland silt loam
WaB
Washington silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
b. 
Statewide Important Farmland. The following soil types classified in the soils survey of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, September 2002 Report, or as amended, shall be recognized as statewide important farmland soils. Soils mapping within the soil survey shall be utilized to determine the presence of statewide important farmland soils unless a site specific soil classification of the tract has been completed by a certified soil scientist.
Map Symbol
Soil Name (Farmland of Statewide Importance)
AbA
Abbottstown silt loam, 0% to 3% slopes
AbB
Abbottstown silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
AbC
Abbottstown silt loam, 8% to 15% slopes
AmA
Amell silt loam, 0% to 3% slopes
AmB
Amell silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
ArC
Arendtsville gravelly silt loam, 8% to 15% slopes
BeC
Bedington channery silt loam, 8% to 15% slopes
BrC
Brecknock channery silt loam, 8% to 15% slopes
BsC
Brownsburg silt loam, 8% to 15% slopes
BwB
Buckingham silt loam, 8% to 15% slopes
CbA
Chalfont silt loam, 0% to 3% slopes
CbB
Chalfont silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
CdC
Chester silt loam, 8% to 15% slopes
CyB
Culleoka-weikert channery silt loam, 0% to 3% slopes
CyC
Culleoka-weikert channery silt loam, 8% to 15% slopes
DgC
Duffield-ryder silt loams, 8% to 15% slopes
EcC
Edgmont channery loam, 8% to 15% slopes
FoC
Fountainville silt loam, 8% to 15% slopes
GlC
Gladstone gravelly silt loam, 8% to 15% slopes
GlD
Gladstone gravelly silt loam, 15% to 25% slopes
GnC
Glenelg channery silt loam, 8% to 15% slopes
Ha
Hatboro silt loam
KIB
Klinesville very channery silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
LgC
Lansdale loam, 8% to 15% slopes
LgD
Lansdale loam, 15% to 25% slopes
LkB
Lawrenceville silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
LmC
Lehigh channery silt loam, 8% to 15% slopes
MaC
Manor loam, 8% to 15% slopes
MlC
Mount lucas silt loam, 8% to 15% slopes
NbC
Neshaminy silt loam, 8% to 15% slopes
NkA
Nockamixon silt loam, 0% to 3% slopes
NkB
Nockamixon silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
NkC
Nockamixon silt loam, 8% to 15% slopes
PeC
Penn channery silt loam, 8% to 15% slopes
PkB
Penn-klinesville channery silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
PkC
Penn-klinesville channery silt loam, 8% to 15% slopes
PkD
Penn-klinesville channery silt loam, 15% to 25% slopes
PnC
Penn-lansdale complex channery silt loam, 8% to 15% slopes
RaC
Raritan silt loam, 8% to 15% slopes
ReB
Readington silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
RlA
Reaville channery silt loam, 0% to 3% slopes
RlB
Reaville channery silt loam, 3% to 8% slopes
RlC
Reaville channery silt loam, 8% to 15% slopes
StB
Steinsburg gravelly loam, 3% to 8% slopes
StC
Steinsburg gravelly loam, 8% to 15% slopes
WaC
Washington silt loam, 8% to 15% slopes
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 203]
As applied to a building or structure, a change or rearrangement in the structural parts, or an enlargement or diminution, whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height, or the moving from one location or position to another.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 204; as amended by Ord. No. 303, 3/26/2024]
a. 
LOT AREA — The area contained within the property lines of the individual parcels of land shown on a subdivision plan or required by this chapter, excluding any area within an existing or designated legal or designated future street right-of-way, or any area required as open space under this chapter, and the area of any easement for stormwater management and/or drainage facilities.
b. 
FLOOR AREA — The sum of the areas of the several floors of the building or structure, including areas used for human occupancy or required for the conduct of the business or use, and basements, attics and penthouses, as measured from the exterior faces of the walls. It does not include cellars, unenclosed porches, attics not used for human occupancy, nor any floor space in an accessory building nor in the main building intended or designed for the parking of motor vehicles in order to meet the parking requirements of this chapter, nor any such floor space intended and designed for accessory heating and ventilating equipment.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 205]
A space having 1/2 or more of its floor-to-ceiling height above the average level of the adjoining ground and with a floor-to-ceiling height of not less than 6 1/2 feet. A basement shall be counted as a story for the purposes of height measurement or the determination of square footage or floor area.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 206]
A person, except family, occupying any room or group of rooms forming a single, habitable unit used or intended to be used for living and sleeping, but not for cooking or eating purposes, and paying compensation for lodging or board and lodging by prearrangement for a week or more at a time to an owner or operator. Any person occupying such room or rooms and paying such compensation without prearrangement for less than a week at a time shall be classified for purposes of this chapter not as a roomer, boarder or lodger but as a guest of a commercial lodging establishment (motel, hotel, inn, bed and breakfast, tourist home).
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 207]
a. 
BUILDING — A structure under rook, used for the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals or property. The word "building" shall include any part thereof.
b. 
BUILDING, ACCESSORY — A subordinate building located on the same lot as a principal building and clearly incidental and subordinate to the principal building. Any portion of a principal building devoted or intended to be devoted to an accessory use is not an accessory building.
c. 
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL — A building in which is conducted, or is intended to be conducted, the principal use of the lot on which it is located.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 209]
That area of a lot that has no development restrictions. The building envelope shall not include the area of any required setbacks (except for driveways which would cross yards), buffer yards, natural features with 100% protection standard and the portion of those natural features that may not be developed or intruded upon as specified in § 27-1900, "Natural Resource Protection Standards."
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 210; as amended by Ord. 253, 4/20/2010]
A vertical distance measured from the elevation of the finished grade at the front of the building or structure to the mean roof height of the building or structure.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 211]
The rear line of the minimum yard, as herein designated for each use and each district, measured at a distance equal to and no greater than the minimum front yard from the street line as defined in § 27-251, "street line." For exceptions, see § 27-230(d), "lane lot."
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 212]
The minimum distance between buildings. The minimum building spacing shall be measured from the outermost wall or projection, excluding bay windows, chimneys, flues, columns, ornamental features, cornices and gutters. These exceptions may encroach no more than two feet.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 213]
A space with less than 1/2 of its floor-to-ceiling height above the average finished grade of the adjoining ground or with a floor-to-ceiling height of less than 6 1/2 feet. A cellar is not counted as a story for the purposes of height measurement or the determination of square footage or floor area unless the cellar is used for dwelling, office or business purposes.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 214]
Real estate, portions of which are designated for separate ownership and the remainder of which is designated for common ownership solely by the owners of those portions. Real estate is not a condominium unless the undivided interests in the common elements are vested in the unit owners.
A condominium is a unit with all of the following characteristics:
a. 
The unit may be any permitted land use. A condominium is an ownership arrangement, not a land use.
b. 
All or a portion of the exterior open space and any community interior spaces are owned and maintained in accordance with the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act, 68 Pa.C.S.A. § 3103 et seq., and in accordance with the provisions for open space, roads or other development features in this chapter and the Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance [Chapter 22].
[Ord. No. 303, 3/26/2024]
An unenclosed patio or porch attached to or immediately adjoining a dwelling unit.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 215]
A measure of the number of dwelling units per unit of area. Density shall be expressed in dwelling units per acre.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 216]
Any manmade change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paring, excavation or drilling operations.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 217; as amended by Ord. No. 303, 3/26/2024]
Any room or group of rooms located within a residential building and forming a single housekeeping unit with facilities which are used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking and eating by one family.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 218]
A person who is employed or is engaged in gainful activity. For the purposes of this chapter, the term shall refer to the maximum number of employees on duty at any time at a place of business whether the employees are full- or part-time. If shifts are involved in which two shifts overlap, it refers to the total of both shifts.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 219; as amended by Ord. No. 303, 3/26/2024]
One or more persons related by blood, foster relationship, guardianship, marriage or adoption and, in addition, any domestic servants or gratuitous guests thereof; or one or more persons who need not be so related, and in addition, domestic servants or gratuitous guests thereof, who are living together in a single housekeeping unit and maintaining a single cooking facility. A roomer, boarder, or lodger shall not be considered a member of the family.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 220; as amended by Ord. 185, 5/11/1999, Art. 1; and by Ord. 194, -/-/2000, Art. IV; and by Ord. 278, 2/10/2015]
a. 
Any areas of East Rockhill Township classified as special flood hazard areas (SFHAs) in the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) and the accompanying Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), dated March 16, 2015, and issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), or the most-recent revision thereof, including all digital data developed as part of the Flood Insurance Study; and
b. 
For areas abutting streams and watercourses where the one-hundred-year floodplain (one-percent annual chance flood) has not been delineated by the Flood Insurance Study, the applicant shall submit a floodplain identification study. The study, prepared by a registered professional engineer expert in the preparation of hydrologic and hydraulic studies, shall be used to delineate the one-hundred-year floodplain. The floodplain study shall be subject to the review and approval of the Township. All areas inundated by the one-hundred-year flood shall be Included in the floodplain area.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 223]
The ratio of the floor area to the lot area as determined by dividing the floor area by the lot area.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 224]
An activity for gain customarily carried on in a dwelling, or in a building or structure accessory to a dwelling, clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for residential purposes.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 225]
A soil that is saturated, flooded or ponded long enough during the growing season to develop anaerobic conditions that favor the growth and regeneration of wetlands vegetation. Wetlands vegetation are those plant species that have adapted to the saturated soils and periodic inundations occurring in wetlands. The following soils, classified in the "Soil Survey of Bucks and Philadelphia Counties, Pennsylvania," U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, July 1975, are hydric soils:
a. 
Bowmansville silt loam.
b. 
Doylestown silt loam.
c. 
Fallsington silt loam.
d. 
Hatboro silt loam.
e. 
Towhee silt loam.
f. 
Towhee extremely stony silt loam.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 226]
Those surfaces which do not absorb water. All buildings, parking areas, driveways, roads, sidewalks, and any areas in concrete, asphalt and packed stone shall be considered impervious surfaces within this definition. In addition, other areas determined by the Township Engineer to be impervious with the meaning of this definition will also be classed as impervious surfaces.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 227]
A measure of the intensity of use of a piece of land. It is measured by dividing the total area of all impervious surfaces within the site by the base site area.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 228; as amended by Ord. 194, -/-/2000, Art. V]
Natural or artificial bodies of water which retain water, exclusive of retention basins. Artificial ponds may be created by dams, or result from excavation. The shoreline of such waterbodies shall be measured from the spillway crest elevation rather that permanent pool if there is any difference. Lakes are bodies of water two or more acres in area. Ponds are any waterbody less than two acres in area.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 230]
a. 
LOT — A parcel of land, used or set aside and available for use as the site of one or more buildings and any buildings accessory thereto or for any other purpose, in one ownership and not divided by a street, nor including any land within the right-of-way of a public street upon which said lot abuts, even if the ownership to such right-of-way is in the owner of the lot. A lot, for the purpose of this chapter, may or may not coincide with a lot record. A lot shall front on a public street.
b. 
LOT AREA — See § 27-204(a), "area."
c. 
CORNER LOT — A lot which haw an interior angle of less than 135° at the intersection of two street lines. A lot abutting upon a curved street or streets shall be considered a corner lot if the tangent to the curve at the points beginning within the lot or at the points of intersection of the side lot lines with the street lines intersect at an angle of less than 135°.
d. 
LANE LOT — A lot which meets the criteria for an exception to the minimum lot width requirements. See § 27-1704, "Exceptions to Minimum Lot Width Standards."
e. 
THROUGH LOT — An interior lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel streets.
f. 
LOT DEPTH — The mean distance from the street line of the lot to its opposite rear line, measured in the general direction of the side lines of the lot.
g. 
LOT WIDTH — The distance measured between the side lot lines at the specified distance of the required building setback line as defined in § 27-211, "building setback line." In a case where there is only one side lot line, lot width shall be measured between such side lot line and the opposite rear lot line or street line.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 231]
a. 
LOT LINES — Any boundary line of a lot.
b. 
LOT LINE, REAR — Any lot line which is parallel to or within 45° of being parallel to a street line, except for a lot line that is itself a street line, and except that in the case of a corner lot the owner shall have the option of choosing which of the two lot lines that are not street lines is to be considered a rear lot line. In the case of a lot having no street frontage or a lot of an odd shape, only the one lot line furthest from any street shall be considered a rear lot line.
c. 
LOT LINE, SIDE — Any lot line which is not a street line or a rear lot line.
d. 
STREET LINE — See § 27-251, "street line."
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 232]
A transportable, single-family dwelling unit intended for permanent occupancy, office, or place of assembly, contained in one unit, or in two 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. For the purposes of this chapter, any inhabited mobile home shall be considered a detached dwelling unit and as such shall be subject to all applicable regulations in this chapter or other Township ordinances. As a structure, a mobile home shall be used only in conformance with § 27-304 and Parts 4 through 13.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 233]
An parcel of land in a mobile home park, improved with the necessary utility connections and other appurtenances (accessory attachments) necessary for the erection thereon of a single mobile home which is leased by the park owner to the occupants of the mobile home erected on the lot.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 235]
A dwelling unit erected on a foundation and made of one or more sections built in a factory. The completed unit shall meet the building code in effect.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 236; as amended by Ord. 184, 4/20/1999, Art. 1]
Open space is land used for recreation, agriculture, resource protection, amenity, educational or municipal use. Open space is accessible to residents of the Township and/or the development as approved by the Township, except in the case of agricultural lands where access may be restricted. Open space is protected by the provisions of this chapter and the Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance [Chapter 22] to insure that it remains in such uses. Open space does not include land occupied by nonrecreational or noneducational buildings, public roads or rights-of-way; nor does it include the yards or lots of dwelling units or parking areas for those dwelling units as required by the provisions of this chapter. Open space for recreational, educational or municipal uses may contain impervious surfaces; and such surfaces shall be included in the calculation of the impervious surface ratio prior to subdivision or land development approval by the Township. Refer to § 27-1903, "Open Space in Residential Developments," for limitations on the use of open space for buffer yards, utility easements, community sewage systems and/or stormwater management improvements.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 237]
A measure of the intensity of land use. It is arrived at by dividing the total amount of open space within the site by the base site area.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 239]
a. 
RIGHT-OF-WAY — Land set aside for use as a street, ally or other means of travel.
b. 
EXISTING RIGHT-OF-WAY — The legal right-of-way as established by the Commonwealth or other appropriate governing authority and currently in existence.
c. 
FUTURE RIGHT-OF-WAY — The right-of-way deemed necessary to provide adequate width for future street improvements.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 240]
a. 
PUBLIC SEWER — Any Township or privately owned sewer system in which sewage is collected and piped to an approved sewage disposal plant or central septic tank disposal system. It may also be referred to as "off-lot" or "offsite" sewer. This shall include capped sewers when installed to Township specifications.
b. 
PRIVATE SEWER — An "onlot" disposal system generally providing for disposal of effluent for only one building or a group of buildings on a single lot.
c. 
COMMUNITY SEWAGE SYSTEM — A system for the treatment of effluent from two or more homes that is applied to the land either on the surface or below.
[Ord. No. 303, 3/26/2024]
A permanent and nontransitory occupancy of a dwelling unit where the occupancy of the dwelling unit is stable, permanent, and increases the strength and continuity of the community.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 242]
A parcel or parcels of land intended to have one or more buildings or intended to be subdivided into one or more lots.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 243]
All land area within the site as defined in the deed. This area shall be determined from an actual site survey rather than from a deed description.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 244]
The area of the site remaining after subtracting land which is not contiguous land previously subdivided and road and utility rights-of-way from the site area. See § 27-1901(b)(1) for the specific calculations.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 245]
The area of the site which may be altered, disturbed or regraded for development purposes. The net buildable site area could contain buildings, roads, parking areas, sewage systems and stormwater management facilities. The net buildable site area would not contain required open space, recreation areas and natural resource protection areas. See § 27-1901(b)(7) for the specific calculations.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 245; as added by Ord. 194, -/-/2000, Art. VI; as amended by Ord. 201, 5/13/2004, § V]
The nonbuildable site area is the portion of a tract to be subdivided for single-family detached dwellings in the AP District that may not be developed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. Land on this tract must be reserved from development if it includes the portion of prime farmland or farmland of statewide importance that must be protected in accordance with § 27-304(b)(2) of this chapter, or the portion of a natural resource that must be protected in accordance with § 27-1900 of this chapter.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 246]
The maximum number of lots or dwelling units, the maximum impervious surfaces, the net buildable site area and the minimum required open space as calculated under the provisions of § 27-1901(b)(10), "Site Capacity Summary."
[Added by Ord. 278, 2/10/2015]
Areas subject to periodic flooding listed in the Official Soil Survey provided by the United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Web Soil Survey (http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/), as soils having a flood frequency other than none.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 247; as amended by Ord. 194, -/-/2000, Art. VII]
Areas of at least 1/4 acre in size where the average slope exceeds 15% which, because of this slope, are subject to high rates of stormwater runoff and, therefore, erosion and flooding.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 248]
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 and including those basements used for the principal use. A half story is a space under a sloping roof which has the line of intersection of the roof and wall face not more than three feet above the floor level, and in which space the possible floor area with head room of five feet or less occupies at least 40% of the total floor area of the story directly beneath.
027a Story.tif
Source: Moskowitz & Lindbloom, "The Illustrated Book of Development Definitions," (1981 Rutgers University).
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 249]
That story with its floor level immediately above the average finished grade level of the adjoining ground at any particular point or side of the building.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 250]
A public way used or intended to be used for passage or travel by motor vehicles and/or to provide access to abutting properties.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 251]
The dividing line between the street and the lot. The street line shall be the same as the legal right-of-way; provided, that where a future right-of-way width for a road or street has been established, then that width shall determine the location of the street line.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 252]
A combination of materials assembled, constructed or erected at a fixed location on or in land or water, including a building or a mobile home, whether or not affixed to the land.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 253]
Those which measure at least 10 inches dbh (diameter at breast height of 4 1/2 feet above the ground).
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 254]
a. 
USE — Any activity, occupation, business or operation carried on, or intended to be carried on, in a building or other structure or on a tract of land.
b. 
USE, ACCESSORY — A use located on the same lot with a principal use and clearly incidental or subordinate to, and in connection with, the principal use.
c. 
USE, PRINCIPAL — The main use on a lot.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 255]
Those services customarily rendered by public utility corporations, municipalities, or municipal authorities, in the nature of electricity, gas, telephone, water and sewerage, including the appurtenances used in connection with the supplying of such services (buildings, wires, pipes, poles and the like).
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 255a; as added by Ord. 194, -/-/2000, § VIII]
An intermittent or perennial stream of water, river, brook, creek or swale identified on USGS (United States Geodetic Survey) or SCS (Soil Conservation Service) mapping; and/or delineated Waters of the Commonwealth.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 256; as amended by Ord. 194, -/-/2000, Art. IX]
Those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions, including swamps, marshes, bogs, fens and similar areas.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 257]
The transitional area extending from the outer limit of the wetland. For the purposes of this chapter, the wetlands margin shall extend 100 feet from the wetland boundary or the limit of the hydric soils, whichever is less.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 258]
Areas comprised of one or more acres of mature or largely mature trees in which the largest trees measure at least six inches dbh (diameter at breast height or 4 1/2 feet above the ground). The woodland shall be measured from the drip line of the outer trees. Woodlands are also 10 or more individual trees which measure at least 10 inches dbh and form a contiguous canopy.
[Ord. 5/26/1987, § 259]
a. 
YARD — An open space unobstructed from the ground up except for permitted projections and plantings, on the same lot with a structure, extending along a lot line or street line and inward to the structure. The size of a required yard shall be measured as the shortest distance between the structure and a lot line or street line.
b. 
YARD, FRONT — A yard between a structure and a street line and extending the entire length of the street line. In the case of a corner lot, the yards extending along all streets are front yards. In the case of a lot other than a corner lot that fronts on more than one street, the yards extending along all streets are front yards, See § 27-1704, "Exceptions to Minimum Lot Width Standards."
c. 
YARD, REAR — A yard between a structure and rear lot line and extending the entire length of the rear lot line.
d. 
YARD, SIDE — A yard between a structure and a side lot line, extending from the front yard to the rear yard. In the case of a lot having no street frontage or a lot of odd shape, any yard that is not a front yard or a rear yard shall be considered a side yard.