[Ord. 206, 4/15/1957, § 22]
1.
Conformance and Permits Required. No structure shall be erected,
reconstructed, structurally altered, enlarged, or moved, nor shall
any structure or land be used or designed to be used, for any use
other than is permitted in the district in which such structure or
land is located and then only after applying for and securing all
permits and licenses required by all laws and ordinances.
2.
Zoning of Annexed Areas. Any area annexed to the Borough after the
effective date of this chapter shall, immediately upon such annexation,
automatically be classified "A" Residence District until a zoning
plan for said area has been adopted by Council. The Zoning Commission
shall recommend to Council appropriate zoning for the annexed area
within not more than two months after the effective date of annexation.
3.
Substandard Dwelling. No structure shall be used or occupied as a
dwelling, or as a boarding or rooming house, if such structure is
in need of major structural repairs or is unsafe or unsanitary, or
if the premises do not have connection with the Borough sewer system
or alternative sanitary sewage facilities approved by the Planning
Commission.
4.
Notification of Property Owners. Wherever in this chapter, there
is a requirement for the notification of property owners, or wherever
it is specified that a use may be permitted provided consents of certain
property owners are obtained, the provisions shall apply irrespective
of municipal boundary lines.
5.
Location of Vehicular Entrances or Exits of Certain Uses. Any use
or structure involving as a principal part of the conduct of a business,
the use or servicing of motor vehicles, such as an automobile and
gasoline service station; automobile sales area; community garage;
community parking area; major garage; major parking area; drive-in
business; distribution plant; or a freighting or trucking terminal,
shall be so located that no vehicular entrance or exit shall be closer
than 200 feet to a principal entrance or exit, to any elementary or
secondary or vocational school; playground; hospital; church; or public
library that is located on the same street or way (except when the
latter are nonconforming uses or structures). Similarly, no principal
entrance or exit to any elementary or secondary or vocational school;
playground; hospital; church; or public library shall be located closer
than 200 feet to a vehicular entrance or exit such as first noted
above (except when the first mentioned uses or structures are nonconforming).
6.
Zoning Districts Dividing Property. Where one parcel of property
is divided into two or more portions by reason of different zoning
district classifications, each of these portions shall be used independently
of the others, in its respective zoning classification; and, for the
purpose of applying the regulations of this chapter, each portion
shall be considered as if in separate and different ownership.
[Ord. 206, 4/14/1957, § 23]
1.
Area Requirements. Except as hereinafter provided, no structure hereafter
shall be erected or reconstructed or enlarged or moved on a lot, or
moved to another lot, unless such structure or enlargement conforms
with the area regulations of the district on which such structure
is located or is to be located.
2.
No Reduction of Open Spaces on Zoning Lot. No yards or other open
spaces shall be diminished below that prescribed by this chapter.
3.
No Open Space on a Zoning Lot Appurtenant to Another Zoning Lot.
No required yard or other open space around an existing structure,
or which hereafter is provided around any structure for the purpose
of complying with the provisions of this chapter, shall be considered
as providing a yard or open space for any other structure; nor shall
any yard or other required open space on an adjoining lot be considered
as providing a yard or open space on a lot whereon a structure is
to be erected.
4.
No Reduction of Parking Areas. No parking area which is provided
for the purpose of complying with the provisions of this chapter shall
thereafter be reduced below the parking space requirements herein
established; nor shall any parking area designated as providing the
parking space requirements for one use be again considered as providing
the parking space requirements of another use except, however, in
those cases where an exception has been granted as hereinafter provided.
5.
No Future Street Space to Be Included as Yard Space. No occupancy
permit shall be issued for a structure on a lot over which there extends
a street located by Borough ordinance unless there is provided, between
the structure and the line of the located street, a yard or yards
as prescribed herein for the lot as it will be after the located street
is opened.
6.
Yard Screening and Maintenance. In Commercial or Industrial Districts,
when a side or rear yard abuts property in an "A" Residence District,
or when a zoning lot abuts an "A" Residence District:
A.
It shall be screened from such "A" Residence District by a masonry
wall or solid fence 6 1/2 feet high extending along the property
line adjoining the abutting "A" Residence District but not closer
to a street than the buildable area of the lot, in the latter instance,
that portion of yard between the street and the buildable area of
the lot shall be planted and maintained, in keeping with landscape
treatment of abutting property, for a distance of at least 15 feet
therefrom; when a zoning lot abuts an "A" Residence District directly,
there shall be provided and maintained in addition to the wall a yard,
extending inside the Commercial District and along such wall, at least
five feet.
7.
Vision Clearance. On a corner lot:
A.
In an "A" Residence District there shall be no structure or fence,
shrubbery or other planting, more than three feet higher than the
curb level at the street roadway within 25 feet of the intersection
of any two street lines.
B.
In a Commercial District no structure or other obstruction shall
be permitted within 12 feet of the hypothetical intersection of any
two curblines.
C.
Abutting a major traffic thoroughfare no structure or other obstruction
shall be permitted within eight feet of the intersection of the line
of the major traffic thoroughfare and any other street line.
