[Ord. 74-2, 7/2/1974]
1.
Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following words shall, for
the purpose of this chapter, have the meaning herein indicated:
A.
The singular includes the plural.
B.
The word "person" includes a corporation or other entity as well
as an individual.
C.
The word "lot" includes the word "plot" or "parcel."
D.
The term "shall" is always mandatory.
E.
Words used in the present tense shall include the future.
F.
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."
G.
The word "see" when used in connection with making a reference to
another section of this chapter shall mean that the referred to section
shall be deemed to be included to and added in the section where the
word "see" is used, as though said referred to section were fully
set forth thereto, unless the use of the word "see" and the reference
made to other sections of the chapter clearly indicate otherwise."
H.
When a series of definitions is given, the same shall be construed
consistently, wherever possible and, if they cannot be construed consistently,
shall be construed as being given in the alternative.
[Ord. 74-2, 7/2/1974; as amended by Ord. 75-1, 1/6/1975;
by Ord. 82-1, 2/17/1982; by Ord. 82-3, 2/19/1982; by Ord. 82-4, 4/6/1982;
by Ord. 82-5, 7/6/1982; by Ord. 83-2, 2/8/1983; by Ord. 1985-1, 9/3/1985;
by Ord. 1986-3, 10/7/1986; by Ord. 1994-9, 12/6/1994, § I;
and by Ord. 11.2.04, 11/2/2004]
A flood that on the average is likely to occur once every
100 years, i.e., that has one-percent chance of occurring each year,
although the flood may occur in any year.
A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal
use or building or structure and located on the same lot with such
principal use or building, but separate from the principal structure.
Includes any store, establishment or business or commercial
enterprise that engages in the sale of books, commonly denoted "adult
books" which shall be regarded as being books that have as their main
or central theme any appeal to the prurient interest without any redeeming
social value. Any such business or enterprise selling said books,
shall be included in the term "adult bookstore."
Includes any theater or other business or commercial activity
that shows any film that would commonly be noted as an "adult film"
which shall be regarded as being a film that would have as its main
or central theme any appeal to the prurient interest without any redeeming
social value. Any such business or enterprise shall be included herein
in the word "adult theater."
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 support members of a building such as bearing
walls, columns, beams, or girders.
A building arranged, intended or designed to be occupied
by three or more families living independently of each other.
A dwelling altered by converting an existing dwelling into
apartments for two or more families without substantially altering
the exterior of the building.
A landowner or developer, as hereinafter defined, who has
filed an application for development including his heirs, successors
and assigns.
Every application, whether preliminary 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.
The total of areas taken on a horizontal plane at the main
grade level of the principal building and all accessory buildings,
exclusive of uncovered porches, terraces and steps.
The total area within the property lines excluding external
streets.
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 term "auto court" includes buildings
designated as tourist courts, motor lodges, motels and similar appellations.
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 purposes of height measurement
if the vertical distance between the ceiling and the average level
of the adjoining ground is more than five feet or if used for business
or dwelling purposes.
That portion of a street lying on either side of the cartway
between the edge thereof and the adjacent road ditch, intended primarily
for stopping and parking purposes.
Any dwelling in which more than three persons, either individually
or as families, are housed or lodged for hire with or without meals.
A rooming house and a dormitory shall be deemed a boarding house.
Any structure having a roof and intended for occupancy, or the
shelter, housing or enclosure of persons, animals or chattel.
A combination of materials forming a structure and having walls
and a roof, including all mobile home and trailers intended for human
occupancy or habitation or other storage or protective purposes.
That line established by the required minimum setback from
the street right-of-way for buildings and/or structures for the district
involved. The building line shall be the point at which the lot width
shall be measured.
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 building.
A building surrounded by open space on the same lot.
The line of that face of the building nearest the front line
of the lot. This face includes sun parlors, covered porches and covered
patios, whether enclosed or unenclosed but does not include steps.
The vertical distance measured from the average elevation
of the 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.[1]
An area for camping limited to the lot owner and a limited
number of guests.
[Added by Ord. No. 04.10.2018.01, 4/10/2018]
A parcel of land used or intended to be used, let or rented
for occupancy by campers or for occupancy by or of trailers, tents
or movable or temporary dwellings, rooms or sleeping quarters of any
kind.
See "garage, private."
That portion of a street which is improved, designated, or
intended for vehicular use.
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.
An area of unobstructed vision at street intersections. It
is defined by lines of sight between points at a given distance from
the intersection of the street center lines.
Any agriculture use that fits within the definition of COA
or CAFO as defined in the Pennsylvania Nutrient Management Act as
may be amended from time to time.
A use which may be permitted in one or more zoning districts
upon the recommendation of the Township Planning Commission to the
Board of Township Supervisors who may grant approval pursuant to certain
standards and criteria and the provisions of this chapter.
The County of Lycoming, Pennsylvania.
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.
A court enclosed on all sides by exterior walls of a building,
or by exterior walls and lot lines on which walls are allowable.
A court enclosed on not more than three sides by exterior
walls and lot lines on which walls are allowable, with one side or
end open to a street, driveway, alley or yard.
That percentage of the plot or lot area covered by the area
of all buildings on the lot.
A relatively short dead end street with a turnaround provided.
The officially established grade of the curb in front of
the mid-point of the lot.
An excavation. The difference between a point on the original
ground and a designated point of lower elevation on the final grade.
Also, the material removed in excavation.
Any landowner, agents of such landowner or tenant with the
permission of such landowner, who makes or causes to be made a subdivision
of land or a land development.
Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate
including, but not limited to, buildings or other structures, the
placement of mobile homes, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving,
excavation, drilling operations, or the storage of materials and equipment.
The keeping of more than three dogs that are more than six
months old.
See "boarding house."
A lot or land or part thereof used primarily for the disposal
by abandonment, 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 of any kind.
A building designed or used for residential occupancy as
the living quarters for one or more families. The terms "dwelling,"
"one-family dwelling," "multiple dwelling," "two-family dwelling,"
or "dwelling group" shall not be deemed to include automobile court,
rooming house, tourist home, motel, or hotel.
A building or portion thereof providing complete housekeeping
facilities for one family.
A group of two or more one-family, two-family or multiple
dwellings occupying a lot in one ownership and having any yard in
common.
A building used or designed as a residence for three or more
families living independently of each other and doing their own cooking
therein, including apartment houses, apartment hotels, condominium,
and group houses.
A building designed for or occupied exclusively by one family.
A building accommodating but a single-family and having two
side yards.
A dwelling not used year-round or not designed for year-round
use.
[Added by Ord. No. 04.10.2018.01, 4/10/2018]
A dwelling, the walls on two sides of which are in common
with the walls of adjoining dwellings and are party or lot line walls.
No structure shall contain more than 12 units.
A building designed specifically for or occupied exclusively
by two families living independently of each other and of one-story
or two-story design.
A right-of-way granted for the limited use of land for public
or quasi-public purposes.
An assemblage of equipment for purposes other than generation
or utilization, through which electric energy in bulk is passed for
the purpose of switching or modifying its characteristics to meet
the needs of the general public.
The removal of surface materials by the action of natural
elements.
Any act by which earth, sand, gravel, rock or any other similar
material is dug into, cut quarried, uncovered, removed, displaced,
relocated or bulldozed, and shall include the conditions resulting
therefrom.
A parcel (or contiguous parcels) of land divided into two
or more mobile home lots for rent or sale, for which construction
of facilities for servicing the lot on which the mobile home is to
be affixed (including at a minimum the installation of utilities,
either final site grading or the pouring of pads or sites and construction
of structures) is completed before the effective date of this chapter
amendment.
One or more persons who live together in a common household.
May consist of a single person or two or more persons, related by
blood, marriage, or adoption. May also include domestic servants and
gratuitous guests.
Any parcel of land containing at least 10 acres which is
used in the raising of agriculture products, livestock, poultry and
dairy products. It includes necessary farm structures within the prescribed
limits and the storage of equipment used. It excludes the raising
of fur bearing animals, riding academies, livery or boarding stables
and dog kennels.
Any act by which earth, sand, gravel, rock or any other material
is placed, pushed, dumped, pulled, transported or moved to a new location
above the natural surface of the ground or on top of the stripped
surface and shall include the conditions resulting therefrom. The
difference in elevation between a point on the original ground and
a designated point of higher elevation on the final grade. The material
used to make a fill.
A temporary inundation of normally dry land areas.
That portion of the one-hundred-year floodplain outside the
floodway, excluding areas shown as approximated one-hundred-year flood
zones on Hepburn Township's Flood Boundary and Floodway Maps.
Same as "floodplain."
A relatively flat or low land area adjoining a river, stream,
or watercourse, which is subject to partial or complete inundation;
An area subject to the unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff
of surface waters from any source;
An area subject to mudslides caused by accumulation of water
on or underground;
Same as "general floodplain."
Any combination of structural and nonstructural additions,
changes, or adjustments to structures which reduces or eliminates
flood damage to real estate or improved real property, water and sanitary
facilities, structures, and their contents.
The designated area of a floodplain as shown on Hepburn Township's
Flood Boundary and Floodway Maps required to carry and discharge a
flood of a one-hundred-year frequency without cumulatively increasing
the water surface elevation more than one foot at any point.
The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors
of a building and its accessory buildings on the same lot, excluding
cellar and basement floor areas not devoted to business or dwelling
purposes but including the area of roofed porches and roofed terraces.
All dimensions shall be measured between exterior faces of walls.
The quotient of the sum of all the floor area of a building
divided by its lot area.
The aggregate of the horizontal areas of all rooms used for
habitation, such as living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom, but
not including hallways, stairways, cellar, attics, service rooms or
utility rooms, bathroom, closets, nor unheated areas such as enclosed
porches, nor rooms without at least one window or skylight opening
onto an outside yard or court. At least 1/2 of the floor area of every
habitable room shall have a ceiling height of not less than seven
feet and the floor area of that part of any room where the ceiling
height is less than five feet shall not be considered as part of the
habitable floor area. The minimum total window area, measured between
stops shall be 10% of the habitable floor area of such room.
A factor of safety usually expressed in feet above a flood
level for purposes of floodplain management. "Freeboard" tends to
compensate for the many unknown factors that could contribute to flood
heights greater than the height calculated for a selected size flood
and floodway conditions, such as wave action, bridge openings, and
the hydrological effect of urbanization of the watershed.
An enclosed or partly enclosed space for the storage of one
or more 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. For the purposes of
this chapter, the term "private garage" shall include the term "carport."
Any garage not a private garage, and which is used for storage,
parking, repair, rental, servicing or supplying of gasoline or oil
to motor vehicles.
That portion of the floodplain area for which no special
flood profiles exist and which is designated as approximated area
on Hepburn Township's Flood Boundary and Floodway Maps.
The Board of Supervisors of Hepburn Township, Lycoming County,
Pennsylvania.
The elevation of the center line of the streets as officially
established by the municipal authorities.
The completed surfaces of lawns, walks and roads brought
to grades as shown on official plans or designs relating thereto.
Any structure that is:
Listed individually in the National Register of Historic Places
(a listing maintained by the Department of Interior) or preliminarily
determined by the Secretary of the Interior as meeting the requirements
for individual listing on the National Register.
Certified or preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the
Interior as contributing to the historical significance of a registered
historic district or a district preliminarily determined by the Secretary
to qualify as a registered historic district.
Individually listed on a state inventory of historic places
in states with historic preservation programs which have been approved
by the Secretary of Interior.
Individually listed on a local inventory of historic places
in communities with historic preservation programs that have been
certified either:
A home occupation is a use entirely within a dwelling or
accessory building that is clearly incidental and secondary to the
principal residential use provided the following are met:
That no external alterations or structural changes are necessary.
The occupation does not produce offensive noise, vibrations,
heat, dust or other objectionable conditions.
No outside storage is required.
No more than 25% of the gross area of a dwelling unit is used
for such purpose.
Not more than one nonoccupant is employed.
Adequate off-street parking provided.
Does not alter in any material way the character of the property
as essentially a residence.
A place for the diagnosis, treatment, or other care of humans
and having facilities for inpatient care including such establishments
as a sanatorium, sanitarium, and preventorium.
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 transient guests and where only
a general kitchen and dining room are provided within the building
or in an accessory building.
See "recreation vehicle."
See "scrapyard."
The improvement of one or more contiguous lots, tracts or parcels
of land for any purpose involving:
A division of land into lots for the purpose of conveying such
lots singly or in groups to any person, partnership or corporation
for the purpose of the erection of buildings by such person, partnership
or corporation.
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 having a
remaining term of not less than 40 years, or other persons having
a proprietary interest in land, shall be deemed to be a landowner
for the purposes of this chapter.
A business premises equipped with individual clothes washing
machines for the use of retail customers, exclusive of laundry facilities
provided as an accessory use such as in the case of an apartment house.
The dividing line between the street right-of-way and the
lot.
A building in which three or more rooms are rented and in
which meals are not served.
Land occupied or to be occupied by a building and its accessory
buildings, or by a dwelling group and its accessory buildings, together
with such open spaces as are required under the provisions of this
chapter, having not less than the minimum area and width required
by this chapter for a lot in the district in which such land is situated,
and having its principal frontage on a street or on such other means
of access as may be determined in accordance with the provisions of
law to be adequate as a condition of the issuance of a zoning or building
permit for a building on such land.
The lines bounding a lot as defined herein.
A parcel of land held in single and separate ownership described
by a recorded deed or other legal instrument which may or may not
conform to the minimum regulations required herein.
A parcel of land at the junction of, and fronting on, two
or more intersecting streets.
A lot other than a corner lot.
An interior lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately
parallel streets.
A transportable, single-family dwelling intended for human 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.
In floodplain areas only, "mobile home" shall include any park
trailer, travel trailer, recreational vehicle or other similar vehicle
which is placed on a site for more than 180 days or for a period of
at least 30 consecutive days.
For purposes of this chapter a mobile home shall not include
park trailers, travel trailers, recreational vehicles, or other similar
vehicles.
A parcel of land for the placement of a single mobile home
and the exclusive use of its occupants.
A parcel of land under a single ownership which has been
planned and improved for the placement of mobile homes for nontransient
use.
The Township of Hepburn, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.
Structures for which the start of construction commenced
on or after February 17, 1982, and includes any subsequent improvements
thereto.
A business or commercial activity administrated 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. (See § 27-633, Subsection 1.)
A structure or land lawfully occupied by a use that does
not conform to the regulations of the district in which it is situated.
Any structure containing sleeping rooms where persons are
housed or lodged and furnished with meals and nursing care.
A space, not occupied by a structure, open to the sky and
on the same lot with the building or structure.
The area required for parking one automobile, which in this
chapter is held to be an area of not less than 180 square feet, nine
feet wide and 20 feet long, plus space for access and passageways.
A street serving a minor subdivision, which is intended to
remain permanently as a private street without being accepted, maintained
or developed by the Township in any way and which shall not be offered
for dedication by the developer nor offered or proposed or requested
to become a public street by any person or entity in any matter.
An area of land, controlled by a landowner, to be developed
as a single entity for a number of dwelling units, the development
plan for which does not correspond in lot size, bulk or type of dwelling,
density, lot coverage and required open space to the regulations established
in any one residential district created, under the provisions of a
municipal zoning ordinance.
The Hepburn Township Planning Commission.
The map or plan of a subdivision or land development, whether
preliminary or final.
Preliminary. A tentative plan indicating the proposed layout
of a subdivision prepared by the subdivider for submission to the
Planning Commission for its consideration.
Final. A complete and exact plan of subdivision which is presented
to the Planning Commission for approval and thence to the Board of
Supervisors for final approval, and when approved, will be submitted
by the subdivider to the Recorder of Deeds of Lycoming County for
recording in accordance with law.
Any lot, parcel or tract of land and any building constructed
thereon.
At least 51% of the actual cash value of the structure, less
land value, is above ground.
A driveway consisting of an easement or lot extension serving
not more than one lot and having a width of at least 20 feet, but
less than 50 feet.
All streets, roads or highways that have not been accepted
by appropriate Township resolution as a public street or otherwise
made a public street by court order or by statute of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania. This term shall include those streets defined herein
as a permanent private street.
Includes:
Notice given of not more than 30 days and not less than 14
days in advance of any public hearing required by law. Such notice
shall be published once each week for two successive weeks in a newspaper
of general circulation in the Township of Hepburn, Lycoming County,
Pennsylvania. Such notice shall state the time and place of the hearing
and the particular nature of the matter to be considered at the hearing.
A lot or land or part thereof used for the purpose of extracting
stone, sand, gravel or top soil for sale or for processing into a
product for sale, and exclusive of the process of grading a lot preparatory
to the construction of a building.
Any portable or mobile vehicle used or designed to be used
for travel, recreation and/or living purposes; and with its wheels,
rollers, or skids in place. A recreation vehicle shall include trailer,
airplane or other similar vehicle providing partial and usually temporary
living and sleeping quarters and which may or may not include kitchen
and bathroom conveniences.
A tract of land where:
A dwelling mostly occupied by permanent guests and not by
transients. It may include restaurants, newsstands and other accessory
services primarily for serving its occupants and only incidentally
the public.
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.
The surface water discharge or rate of discharge of a given
watershed after a fall of rain or snow that does not enter the soil
but runs off the surface of the land.
A private hospital, whether or not such facility is operated
for profit.
A lot, land or structure, or part thereof, used primarily
for the collecting, storage or sale of waste paper, rags, scrap metal
or discarded material; or for the collecting, dismantling, storage
or salvaging of machinery or thereof. Such uses shall be classified
as industrial.
The process by which mineral or organic matter is accumulated
or deposited by moving wind, water, or gravity. Once this matter is
deposited (or remains suspended in water), it is usually referred
to as "sediment."
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 facilities
used or designed to be used for polishing, greasing, washing, dry
cleaning or otherwise cleaning or servicing such motor vehicles. Automotive
parts may be sold.
Any structure or device for visual communication that is
used for the purpose of bringing the subject thereof to the attention
of the public. "Sign" shall include, but not be limited to, any identification,
description, illustration, structure or device which is visible from
any public place and which draws attention to a product, service,
place, activity, person, entity, institution, business, profession,
commodity or entertainment. "Sign" shall also include, but not be
limited to, any solicitation or the presentation and display of any
emblem, painting, banner, pennant, placard or other structure or device
whether played temporarily or permanently, to advertise, identify
or convey information. "Sign" shall not include national, governmental,
religious or corporate flags.
OUTDOOR ADVERTISING DEVICEAny outdoor sign, light, figure, painting, drawing, message, plaque, poster, billboard or other structure or device which is designed, intended or used to advertise or inform or to draw attention to the subject of the same. As used throughout this chapter, the word "sign" shall include an outdoor advertising device, unless the same is specifically excluded.
ON-PREMISES SIGNA sign which carries only messages strictly incidental to the lawful use of the premises on which the sign is located. Such sign may include, but not be limited to, messages including the business transacted, services rendered, goods sold or produced or activities conducted on the premises; the name of the business, name of the person, firm or corporation occupying the premises.
OFF-PREMISES SIGN or OFF-SITE SIGNA sign, the subject of which need not necessarily be limited to a message or communication strictly incidental to the lawful use of the premises upon which it is erected, but may refer to subject matter or activities which are not carried out upon nor incidental to the use of the premises upon which the sign is erected.
SIGN AREAThe area of a sign shall be measured by the smallest square, rectangle, triangle, circle, or combination thereof which will encompass the entire sign. Sign area shall be inclusive of any border and trim, but shall not include the base or apron, supports, or other structural members.
A plan submitted at the option of the applicant, usually
a freehand drawing of any idea for a proposed subdivision and land
development; which may show the layout of streets, lots, and other
pertinent features. It is advisable that it be drawn on a general
topographic or tax map.
The face of an embankment or cut section; and ground whose
surface makes an angle with the plane of the horizon. Slopes are usually
expressed in a percentage based upon vertical difference in feet per
100 feet of horizontal distance.
Chemical or structural treatment of a mass of soil to increase
or maintain its stability or otherwise to improve its engineering
properties.
A special use in one or more districts granted by the Zoning Hearing Board pursuant to certain specified conditions and the provisions of the Zoning Ordinance [Chapter 27].
A special approval which is required for hospitals, nursing
homes, jails, new mobile home parks, substantial improvements to existing
mobile home parks, and emergency response facilities when such development
is located entirely or partially within a designated one-hundred-year
floodplain.
A building in which one or more horses are kept for private
use and not for hire, remuneration or sale.
A building in which one or more horses are kept for remuneration,
hire or sale.
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 ceiling
next above it.
A story under a gable, hop or gambrel roof, the wall plates
of which on a least two opposite exterior walls are not more than
two feet above the floor of such story.
The officially established grade of the street upon which
a lot fronts or in its absence the established grade of other streets
upon which the lot abuts, at the mid-point of the frontage of the
lot thereon. If there is no officially established grade, the existing
grade of the street at such mid-point shall be taken as the street
grade.
Street 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 and for the purposes of this chapter shall be classified
as follows:
ARTERIAL STREETSThose which are used primarily for through, fast or heavy traffic.
COLLECTOR STREETSThose which carry traffic from minor streets to the major system of arterial streets, including principal entrance streets of a residential development and streets for major circulation within such developments.
MINOR STREETSThose which are used primarily for access to the abutting properties. These may be primarily access to homes in which case they will be minor residential streets.
MARGINAL ACCESS STREETSMinor streets which are parallel to and adjacent to arterial streets and which provide access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
ALLEYSMinor ways which are used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
REVERSE FRONTAGE STREETA minor street that provides access to lots that would otherwise front on an arterial street. With the introduction of a reverse frontage street, the lots front on the minor street with the rear lot lines along the arterial.
Anything constructed or erected, the use of which demands
a location on the soil, or attachment to something located in or on
the soil. A structure shall also include any man-made object having
an ascertainable stationary location on or in land or water, whether
or not affixed to the land.
Person, copartnership or corporation, who or which owns land
in the Township and for which a land subdivision application is filed
and processed under the provisions of this chapter.
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
for heirs or devises, transfer of ownership or building or lot development;
provided, however, that the division of land for agricultural purposes
into parcels of more than 10 acres, not involving any new street or
easement of access, shall be exempted;
Any development of parcel of land or plan thereof, which involves
the installation of streets or alleys or both, whether or not proposed
for dedication, and any development of land for a shopping center,
or for multiple dwellings.
MAJOR SUBDIVISIONAny subdivision involving five or more lots, parcels of land or other divisions of land whether or not they involve new streets, additional utilities or other facilities immediate or future.
MINOR SUBDIVISIONAny subdivision involving not more than five lots, parcels of land or other divisions of land which abut a street of sufficient width and does not require a new street, the installation of sanitary sewers, storm sewers, water mains, or pipes, or other facilities, except that a subdivision otherwise qualifying as a minor street or streets are required, provided that the plans as submitted to the Planning Commission contain the same street detail as required for major subdivisions unless a degree of lesser detail is accepted by the Planning Commission.
Damage from any cause sustained by a structure whereby the
cost of restoring the structure to its before-damaged condition would
equal or exceed 50% or more of the market value of the structure before
the damage occurred.
Any repair, reconstruction, or improvement of a structure,
the cost of which equals or exceeds 50% of the market value of the
structure either (A) before the improvement or repair is started or
(B) if the structure has been damaged and is being restored, before
the damage occurred. For purposes of this definition "substantial
improvement" is considered to occur when the first alteration of any
wall, ceiling, floor or other structural part of the building commences
whether or not that alteration affects the external dimensions of
the structure. The term does not include either (1) any project for
improvement of a structure to comply with existing state or local
health sanitary, or safety code specifications which are solely necessary
to assure safe living conditions or (2) any alteration of a structure
listed on the National Register of Historic Places or a state inventory
of historic places.
A low-lying stretch of land which gathers or carries surface
water runoff.
A building and its equipment erected and used for the purpose
of facilitating transmission and exchange of telephone messages between
subscribers and other business of the telephone company.
A building or part of a building devoted to the showing of
moving pictures 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.
Surface soils and subsurface soils which presumably are fertile
soils and soil material, ordinarily rich in organic matter or humus
debris. Top soil is usually found in the uppermost soil layer called
the "A Horizon."
A map showing the elevations of the ground by contours or
elevations.
A group of buildings, including either separate cabins or
a row of cabins which:
A dwelling in which overnight accommodations are provided
or offered for transient guests for compensation.
Hepburn Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.
A duly registered professional engineer employed by the Township
or engaged as a consultant thereto.
See "recreation vehicle."
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 regulations of the Zoning Ordinance [Chapter 27] granted by the Zoning Hearing Board on the grounds of practical difficulties or unnecessary hardship, not self-imposed, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
A permanent stream, intermittent stream, river, brook, creek,
or a channel or ditch for water whether natural or man-made.
An opening to the outside other than a door which provides
all or part of the required natural light, natural ventilation or
both to an interior space. The glazed portion of a door in an exterior
wall may be construed to be a window.
An unoccupied space, open to the sky, on the same lot with
a building or structure.
A yard extending the full width of the lot and situated between
the street right-of-way line and the required setback line projected
to the side lines of the lot. The depth of the front yard shall be
measured between the required setback line and the street right-of-way
line.
A yard extending the full width of the lot and situated between
the rear line of the lot and situated between the rear line of the
lot and the line establishing the required rear yard projected to
the side lines of the lot. The depth of the rear yard shall be measured
between the rear line of the lot, or the adjacent right-of-way line
of the alley or street if there be an alley or street, and the line
establishing the rear yard.
A yard situated between the line establishing the required
side yard area and adjacent side line of the lot and extending from
the front yard to the rear yard. Any required yard not a rear yard
or a front yard shall be deemed a side yard.
Corner lots have two front yards, one side yard and one rear
yard.
[1]
Editor’s Note: The former definition of "camp," which
immediately followed this definition, was repealed by Ord. No. 04.10.2018.01,
4/10/2018.
