All words used in this chapter shall carry their customary dictionary
definitions as provided in the most recent edition of Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary, except where specifically defined herein. Words
used in the present tense shall include the future. The singular number
shall include the plural, and the plural the singular. The word "shall"
is always mandatory and not permissive; the word "may" is permissive.
The words "used" or "occupied," as applied to any land or structures,
shall be construed to include the words "intended, arranged or designed
to be used or occupied." The word "person" shall include the individual,
corporation, partnership, incorporated association or any other entity.
Words in the masculine gender shall include the feminine gender. The
words "includes" and "including" shall not limit the defined term
to the specific examples, but are intended to extend the terms meaning
to other instances of like kind and character.
The following definitions shall constitute the basis for the
meaning and interpretation of the following terms in their use throughout
this chapter.
A privately owned, constructed, and maintained vehicular
access from a public or private right-of-way to off-street parking
or loading spaces accessory to nonresidential uses and to shared driveways
or parking areas accessory to more than one residential unit.
Any structure designed to accommodate or used solely to house
the occupation of an accessory use.
Secondary or subordinate uses, which exist to serve or are
incidental to a principal use, wherein said secondary use could not
exist as its own establishment independent of the principal use.
The structure which is most proximate a subject building
or structure as cited in this chapter, that shares frontage and an
adjacent front yard on the same street, as measured from the corner
of the subject structure to the nearest corner of the structure at
the building line.
A premises, or part thereof, in which services are provided
to assist in meeting the needs of consumers, including personal care,
social, nutritional, health and educational needs, simultaneously
provided for four or more adults who are not relatives of the operator
and who are 60 years of age or older or who have post-stroke dementia,
Parkinsonism or a dementia-related disease such as Alzheimer's
or other organic brain syndrome.
Any of the following activities and uses as defined below:
ADULT BUSINESSAny establishment having 25% or more of its stock in trade or service provided any goods or services that are distinguished or characterized by their emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas. Such uses shall include adult book stores, adult motion-picture theaters, adult entertainment cabaret, adult videocassette rental and sales outlet, adult massage parlors or other adult uses.
ADULT ENTERTAINMENT CENTER AND/OR ADULT CABERETAny public or private establishment that features topless dancers, employees or performers displaying exposed specified anatomical areas, strippers, male or female impersonators or similar entertainers.
ADULT MASSAGE PARLORAny place of business where any person, partnership, firm, association or corporation engages in or carries on or permits to be engaged in or carried on any method of pressure on, friction against, or stroking, kneading, rubbing, tapping, pounding, vibrating or stimulating parts of the body, relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas, with the hands or with the aid or any mechanical apparatus or electrical apparatus or appliance, with or without such supplementary aids as rubbing alcohol, oil or other such items and any place of business offering any type of massage activity between 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
ADULT MOTION-PICTURE THEATER AND/OR ADULT MINI MOTION-PICTURE THEATERAn enclosed building used more than 25% of the time it is open for business for presenting motion-picture, video or similar media distinguished or characterized by their emphasis on matters depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas for observation by patrons therein.
ADULT MOTELA hotel, motel or similar commercial establishment which offers accommodations to the public for any form of consideration and provides patrons with closed-circuit television transmissions, films, motion pictures, videocassettes, slides or other photographic reproductions which are characterized by the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas and has a sign visible from the public right-of-way which advertises the availability of this adult type of photographic reproductions; or offers any single sleeping room for rent four or more times in one calendar day during five or more calendar days in any continuous thirty-day period.
ADULT VIDEOCASSETTE RENTAL AND/OR SALES OUTLETAn establishment that has 25% or more of its stock in videocassettes and/or video discs for rental or sale and that excludes minors by virtue of age.
OTHER ADULT USESAny business, activity or use similar to or of the general nature of adult book stores, adult motion-picture theaters, adult entertainment cabarets or adult massage parlors that provides goods or services distinguished or characterized by their emphasis on specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas such as escort bureaus, nude wrestling studios, phone sex services, Internet sex services, spas and studios, that exclude minors.
A street which does not exclusively serve any single lot,
whether vacant or occupied, or a street designed and approved as an
alley according to specifications specified in this chapter or the
local Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance[1] where exclusive access to any tract of land or building
is restricted.
American National Standards Institute or successor.
The space enclosed by the foundation or ground-floor walls
of a building such that not more than an average of 50% of said walls
are exposed above the average grade of the ground in which it is situated.
A unit of land containing one or more lots, bounded by existing
or proposed streets which provide direct frontage to the majority
of said lots or units thereby served.
A setback line to which the building footprints or extents
of newly erected buildings are required to be built or extended.
Any structure arranged and partially or completely enclosed
or covered in order to accommodate the storage or occupation of any
person or persons, materials, or animals; whether permanent or temporary
in nature.
A line that parallels the wall of a structure most parallel
to and nearest the front lot line, excepting extensions such as unenclosed
porches.
A sign with removable panels or letters which may be changed,
removed and replaced from time to time without altering or reconstructing
the sign structure itself.
An area of unobstructed vision at street intersections, defined
by lines of sight between points at a given distance from the intersections
of center lines of streets.
Any vehicle or combination of vehicles, the operation of
which requires a commercial driver's license by the Pennsylvania
Motor Vehicle Code.
Any open space accessible to the residents of a residential
development or the patrons of nonresidential developments or the public
at large, the improvements of which are limited to those contemplated
in this chapter.
A structure that is intended for transmitting or receiving
television, radio or telephone/cellular communications and any related
accessory building and equipment which is situated on a lot absent
a principal structure or which extends more than 10 feet above the
average grade of the ground or, if attached to a principal structure,
extends more than six feet above the height of said structure, wherein
these exceptions shall be considered accessory structures.
A building designed and constructed so that all exterior
walls shall be solid from the ground to the roofline, containing no
openings except for windows and doors which are designed so that they
may be closed and any other small openings required for the ventilation
system.
The following centers as defined and regulated by the Department
of Public Welfare.
DAY-CARE CENTERA state-certified facility providing care for seven or more children;
GROUP DAY-CARE HOMEA state-certified facility providing care for no more than 12 children;
FAMILY DAY-CARE HOMEA state-certified family residence with one caregiver providing care for four, five or six children unrelated to the caregiver;
NURSERY SCHOOLA part-time preschool facility licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
A unit of sound level which is a division of a logarithmic
scale used to express the ratio of the sound pressure of the source
to the pressure of an arbitrarily chosen reference pressure; the ratio
is expressed on the decibel scale by multiplying its base 10 logarithm
by 20.
Any land development that, because of its character, magnitude,
or location, will have substantial effect upon the health, safety,
or welfare of citizens in more than one municipality in the planning
area which are:
On parcels within 500 linear feet of the municipal border of
a respective municipality; or
On parcels within 2,000 linear feet of the municipal border
of a respective municipality and create more than 500 trips per day
as defined by the Trip Generation Manual published by the Institute
of Transportation Engineer; or
Any development which generates more than 1,000 peak hour trips
as defined by Trip Generation Manual published by the Institute of
Transportation Engineers.
Signs that provide direction or instruction to guide persons
to facilities intended to serve the public, provided that such signs
contain no advertising of any kind.
A domesticated animal such as a cat or dog or a small domestic
animal such as a rabbit, hare, guinea pig, rat, or mouse, that is
normally or can generally be kept within the immediate living quarters
of a residential structure in a manner that constitutes neither a
nuisance nor a principal use in and of itself.
A sign that provides information concerning the menu of a
food service or restaurant establishment, intended to provide information
and advertising to drive through patrons of the establishment, and
which contains no advertising or print of a scale intended to bear
advertising to the general public.
A premises or part thereof in which the provision of psychiatric,
psychological, social and other therapies are provided on a planned
and regularly scheduled basis. Intensive outpatient provides time-limited
structured therapies, primarily in group sessions designed to address
the specific objectives on the treatment plan leading to stability
for those individuals with a substance use disorder. Intensive outpatient
is designed for individuals who do not require the structure and intensity
of partial hospitalization but do require more intensity and structure
than outpatient as determined by the Pennsylvania Client Placement
Criteria or other Department of Health-approved criteria. The individual
resides outside the center in the community.
A premises or part thereof in which the provision of psychiatric,
psychological, social and other therapies are provided on a planned
and regularly scheduled basis. Outpatient provides structured therapies,
primarily face-to-face one-on-one interactions between the individual
and the counselor designed to implement the specific objectives on
the treatment plan leading to stability for those individuals with
a substance use disorder. Participation in a specific group can occur
on an as-needed basis. Outpatient is designed for individuals who
do not require the structure and intensity of partial hospitalization
or intensive outpatient as determined by the Pennsylvania Client Placement
Criteria or other Department of Health-approved placement criteria.
The individual resides outside the center in the community.
A premises or part thereof in which the provision of psychiatric,
psychological, social, and other therapies are provided on a planned
and regularly scheduled basis. Partial hospitalization provides multiple
behavioral interventions through intensive group and individual therapy
and skill development in a structured milieu. Partial hospitalization
is designed for those individuals with a substance use disorder who
would benefit from more intensive services than are offered in intensive
or outpatient treatment, but who do not require twenty-four-hour inpatient
care as determined by the Pennsylvania Client Placement Criteria or
other Department of Health-approved criteria. The individual resides
outside the center in the community.
A building or portion thereof which contains sleeping, eating,
and living facilities designed for residential use or any portion
thereof employed as a residence by one family. Dwelling unit types
are defined as follows:
SINGLE-FAMILYA dwelling unit, which constitutes the sole dwelling unit and only principal use of a single building, occupied by one family.
DUPLEXA use where two dwelling units are contained in and constitute the sole principal uses of one building and which are arranged such that the uses possess separate exterior entrances and where the stories occupied are arranged adjacent to and not above or below the other dwelling unit.
TOWNHOUSEAny number of dwelling units arranged wherein one or two of the exterior walls of any of the units constitute party walls shared by an abutting unit in a manner in which the abutting unit is horizontally adjacent and does not occupy space above or below a separate dwelling unit or more than one duplex on one lot.
PATIO HOMEAn arrangement of three or more units wherein each unit bear at least two walls, perpendicular to one another, that are exposed exterior walls that do not function as party walls.
MULTIFAMILYDwelling unit where a building or portion thereof contains two or more dwelling units that do not constitute a duplex, patio home, or townhouse arrangement as defined herein.
Any building that serves as the location for storage, distribution,
maintenance and/or repair of facilities and/or equipment associated
with the operation of an essential service, including pump stations.
The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance by
public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies or authorities,
of underground or overhead gas, electrical, communication, steam or
water transmission, distribution, collection, supply or disposal systems,
including poles, wires, mains, drains, sewer pipes, conduits, cables,
fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants, and
other similar equipment, or structures accessory to the consistent
and efficient delivery of the aforementioned transmissions, fuels,
resources, and products between residential and nonresidential units
and source of production, refinement, or treatment of said items excepting
communications towers and buildings.
A place that comprises an economic unit, generally at a single
physical location, where business is conducted or services or industrial
operations performed.
An individual, a group of two to three individuals unrelated
by blood or marriage which may be in addition to a group of individuals
related by blood or marriage, or a group of individuals related by
blood or marriage; which occupies one dwelling unit.
A structure designed, intended or utilized to circumscribe,
designate, delineate, define or in some manner enclose an area or
some feature or element thereon including retaining walls greater
than four feet in height.
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 that does not involve any land development.
The linear footage of a lot line directly abutting a street.
A bore hole drilled or being drilled for the purpose of or
to be used for producing, extracting or injecting any gas, petroleum
or other liquid related to oil or gas production or storage as regulated
by the Act of December of 1984, known as the Oil and Gas Act,[2] including brine disposal, but excluding bore holes drilled
to produce potable water to be used as such.
The square footage of floor space within a completely enclosed
building occupied by all elements of an establishment, including but
not limited to public and semipublic areas, storage, offices, and
garage space utilized for the storage of vehicles commercially utilized
for any particular establishment.
A sign that is directly affixed to the ground and not supported
by or attached to any building.
A story which is entirely housed within a hip, gable, mansard,
or similar type of roof structure.
A physical or mental impairment which limits one or more
of a person's major life activities, a record of having such
impairment, or being regarded as having such an impairment.
Any of the following materials or substances: acetone, ammonia,
benzene, calcium carbide, carbon disulfide, celluloid, chlorine, hydrochloric
acid, hydrocyanic acid, magnesium, nitric acid, nitric oxides, petroleum
products, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, sulphur, sulphur products,
pesticides, insecticides, fungicides and all poisons, flammable gases
and radioactive substances.
Garbage, refuse or sludge from an industrial or other wastewater
treatment plant; sludge from a water supply treatment plant or air
pollution control facility; and other discarded material, including
solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material, resulting
from municipal, commercial, industrial, institutional, or mining activities,
or combination of the above, which because of its quantity, concentration
or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may do one of
the following: Cause or significantly contribute to an increase in
mortality or increase in morbidity in either an individual or total
population; or pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human
health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported,
disposed of or otherwise managed. The term does not include coal refuse
as defined in the Coal Refuse Disposal Control Act (52 P.S. §§ 30.51
to 30.101). The term does not include treatment sludges from coal
mine drainage treatment plants, disposal of which is being carried
on under and in compliance with a valid permit issued under the Clean
Streams Law (35 P.S. §§ 691.1 to 691.1001). The term
does not include solid or dissolved material in irrigation return
flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to
permits under Section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act
(33 U.S.C. § 1341) or source, special nuclear or byproduct
material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. §§ 2011
to 2284).
Consists of trees of a deciduous nature with a minimum height
of six feet at planting and a caliper of 1 1/2 inches at planting
and trees of an evergreen nature with a minimum height of six feet
at planting. All measurements and plant quality shall be consistent
with the American Standards for Nursery Stock published by the American
Association of Nurserymen, Inc., Washington, D.C., which will bear
an ultimate height exceeding 25 feet.
Any low-impact or home-based business which does not constitute
a separate principal use as defined and regulated within this chapter.
Materials that are impenetrable and thus unable to absorb
stormwater or other liquids; areas such as buildings, structures and
paved areas.
Building structures and land owned and occupied by the Township
within the Planning Area, the East Allegheny School District, or any
of either's agencies and used to provide services to the residents
of the Planning Area. Such municipal or school district facilities
may include but not be limited to schools, administrative offices,
public works buildings, storage yards, libraries, fire company building
and grounds, ambulance service buildings and grounds, senior centers,
recreation facilities and fields, and parks and buildings. Bus garages
shall not be included within this definition.
A facility licensed by the Department of Health pursuant
to the act of July 19, 1979 (35 P.S. §§ 448.101-448.904),
known as the Health Care Facilities Act that provides skilled or intermediate
nursing care or both levels of care to two or more patients, who are
unrelated to the nursing home administrator, for a period exceeding
24 hours.
A parcel or a tract of land defined by deed, recorded plat,
or a land lease.
LOT, CORNERAny lot situated at the intersection of two or more streets, except alleys, having an angle of intersection of not more than 135° and when abutting a curved street possess tangents to the curve at its points of beginning within the lot or at the point of intersection of the side lot lines with the street line where the intersection at an interior angle is not more than 135°.
LOT, FLAGAny lot approved after the adoption of this chapter, the sole access of which is provided by a strip of land under the same fee simple ownership as the remainder of the lot, where the strip of land accessed provides less than the required street frontage in the district in which the lot is situated.
LOT, REARAny lot approved after the effective date of this chapter, which is accessed from a street only by an access easement over another separate lot.
LOT, THROUGHAny lot having frontage on two streets such that the streets are either parallel or where continuing at the same angle would not intersect at any point abutting said lot.
The area, in square feet or acreage, of the polygon that
a lot comprises, bounded by all lot lines and excluding rights-of-way.
The area of a lot, as a percentage, covered by buildings.
The bounding lines of a lot.
The lot line that directly abuts a street except an alley,
whether in whole or in part; or where rear lots or flag lots exist,
that which most nearly parallels the street through which access is
provided.
Consists of shrubs and any other plant species that is greater
than two feet in height at planting and less than six feet in height
at planting. All measurements and plant quality shall be consistent
with the American Standards for Nursery Stock published by the American
Association of Nurserymen, Inc., Washington, D.C.
A premises or part thereof in which mental health treatment
is provided including psychiatric, psychological, and other related
therapies. This is designed for children/adults with serious mental
illness or children/adolescents with a serious emotional disturbance
who would benefit from more intensive services than are offered in
mental health outpatient treatment centers, but who do not require
twenty-four-hour inpatient care. Partial hospitalization is provided
on a planned and regularly scheduled basis.
A facility licensed by the Department of Health to use the
drug methadone in the treatment, maintenance or detoxification of
persons.
The development or extraction of mineral deposits, including
but not limited to limestone, coal, sand, rock, clay, dirt, gravel,
and other materials, and quarry aggregate from their natural occurrences
on affected land. The term includes but is not limited to open pit
mining and surface operations, strip mining, quarrying, dredging,
pumping and the disposal of refuse therefrom, excepting mining of
previously mined sites for the purpose of reclaiming the land and
the extraction of crude oil and/or natural gas.
A building in which contains one or more principal nonresidential
uses permitted within the respective zoning district, and one dwelling
unit.
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 arrives at a site complete and ready for
occupancy except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembly operations,
and constructed such that it is used without a permanent foundation
as otherwise required by this chapter and applicable building codes.
A parcel of land in a mobile home park, improved with the
necessary utility connections and other appurtenances necessary for
the erections thereon of a single mobile home.
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.
The Municipalities Planning Code, Act of 1968, PL 805, No.
247 as reenacted and amended.[3]
The North American Industrial Classification System, 2002,
as published by the Office of Management and Budget.
A business or commercial activity administered 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 where the business or commercial activity satisfies
the following requirements:
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.
There shall be no 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 which
creates noise, vibration, glare, fumes, odors or electrical or electronic
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 use in the neighborhood.
The business activity shall be conducted only within the dwelling
and may not occupy more than 25% of the habitable floor area.
The business may not involve any illegal activity.
Airborne sound levels expressed in dB or decibel and obtained
by the use of certain frequency-dependent weighting networks, as specified
in the reference standards and indicated by proper notation; where
A-weighting is employed, and the sound level is indicated as dB(A).
Any lot that is defined by deed prior to the adoption of
this chapter, and any lot shown on an approved preliminary or final
subdivision plat as approved within five years prior to the adoption
of this chapter.
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 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.
Any principal use which does not constitute a dwelling unit
as defined in this chapter.
The customary and generally accepted activities, practices
and procedures that farmers adopt, use or engage in year after year
in the production and preparation and processing for market of any
and all plant and animal products and is for market of poultry, livestock
and their products and in the production and harvesting of agricultural,
agronomic, horticultural, silvicultural and aquicultural crops and
commodities, which for purposes of this chapter shall include NAICS
Sector 115210, Support Activities for Animal Production.
A sign which serves to draw attention to or commercially
advertise for an establishment which is no longer actively operating.
Any establishment principally engaged in management, professional
service, or administrative activities as defined by the NAICS.
Common open space which may include recreational fields,
play equipment, tennis courts, basketball courts, and similar facilities
constructed in accordance with National Recreation and Parks Administration
Standards or locally recognized standards; wherein structures are
limited to those accessory to the aforesaid structures.
Common open space which may include walking trails, pedestrian
amenities such as park benches, picnic areas and pavilions accessory
thereto; that acts to preserve existing or proposed woodlands and
natural areas and topography.
Trees at least four feet in height at planting, with a minimum
caliper of 1 1/2 inches, the ultimate height of which will not
exceed 25 feet.
A wall separating independently accessed structures and containing
the proper fire rating as required by the Uniform Construction Code
such that the adjoined units function independently in terms of access
and utilities.
A premises in which food, shelter, and personal assistance
or supervision are provided for a period exceeding 24 hours, for four
or more adults who are not relatives of the operator, who do not require
the services in or of a licensed long-term care facility, but who
do require assistance or supervision in such matters as dressing,
bathing, diet, financial management, evacuation of a home in the event
of an emergency, or medication prescribed for self-administration.
An area of land, controlled by a landowner, to be developed
as a single entity for a number of dwelling units, or combination
of residential and nonresidential uses, the development plan for which
does not correspond in lot size, bulk, type of dwelling, or use, density,
or intensity, lot coverage and required open space to the regulations
established in any one district created, from time to time, under
the provisions of a municipal zoning ordinance.
The municipal jurisdiction of North Versailles Township,
located within Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
Signs announcing political candidates seeking public office,
political parties and/or political and public issues contained on
an upcoming ballot.
Any structure designed for or hosting the operation of a
principal use.
The primary use or uses operating or existing on a lot such
that any such use may function as its own establishment in contrast
with uses which exist only as subordinate or accessory uses to another
use.
A sign that is directly affixed to the wall of a building,
excluding wall signs, which faces in a direction perpendicular to
the wall to which it is affixed.
A premises or part thereof in which mental health evaluation
or treatment, including psychiatric, psychological, and other related
services, are provided under medical supervision. It is designed for
children/adolescents with emotional disturbance and adults with mental
illness on a planned and regularly scheduled basis.
Signs that provide information or advertising related to
the sale of a property on which the sign is located.
A use involving religious exercise where any exercise of
religion, whether or not compelled by, or central to, a system of
religious belief takes place, wherein such use constitutes the principal
use or function of the establishment specified. Uses separately defined,
including but not limited to day care, clinics as otherwise defined
herein, or any other use, the function of which customarily exists
apart from a religious congregation or regular assembly shall be classified
and authorized a manner consistent with the said use specified.
The individual governing body or jurisdiction within the
Planning Area in which a parcel, parcels, or landowner are the subject
of or party to enforcement proceedings, applications, appeals, or
other proposals.
Any use generally classified as retail by the NAICS, also
to include food services.
A sign, attached to a building, which projects more than
three feet above the walls of said building, or which is directly
represented upon a roof.
The area of land in which building activity is restricted
in accordance with the bulk regulations of this chapter located within
a specified yard, as regulated in the bulk regulations of this chapter
and expressed in number of feet from a specified lot line.
A building constructed for permitted accessory uses, primarily
storage, which does not rest upon a footer or foundation and which
occupies no more than 200 square feet of land area and is no more
than 10 feet in height.
A parcel or parcels on which permitted nonresidential uses,
including at least one retail or anchor retail establishment, share
parking and access drives, excluding out-parcels bearing a freestanding
unit with independent parking.
Any text, display, or illustration which is affixed to, painted
on, or represented upon any surface or building.
The male genitals in a state of sexual arousal and/or the
vulva or more intimate parts of the female genitals or breasts, including
the female breast below the top of the areola, or any portion of the
male or female pubic hair, anus or cleft of the buttocks.
Includes any of the following: The fondling or other erotic
touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus or female
breasts; sex acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including
intercourse, oral copulation or sodomy; masturbation, actual or simulated;
or excretory functions as part of or in connection with any of the
activities set forth in the preceding statements.
Areas of existing topography where, in over a one-hundred-foot
horizontal distance, or where the difference in elevation is over
20 feet, the slope equals or exceeds 25% from the top to bottom of
the break in grade.
That portion of a building, other than a basement, 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.
Any corridor, excepting access drives, improved to a mud-free
and permanently passable condition, or for which the governing body
holds financial security for the construction of the aforesaid in
accordance with the local subdivision ordinance, in a manner accommodating
the movement of vehicular traffic including cartway of improved area
and additional rights-of-way abutting said cartway; where said right-of-way
is dedicated to public use or when private, provides legal access
to abutting lots, easements, or rights-of-way (excepting easements
or rights-of-way which serve or potentially serve no more than one
dwelling unit).
A combination of materials to form a construction for use,
occupancy, or ornamentation whether installed on, above, or below
the surface of the land.
A sign which is not permanently affixed to the ground, which
is designed such that it is portable and of a transient nature.
The Township of North Versailles, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
Any purpose for which a building, structure, or lot is designed
or modified including any activity, operation, or business operating
within a building, structure, or on a lot.
A sign that is directly affixed to the exterior wall of a
principal building such that the sign lies flat upon the surface from
the wall to which it is affixed and faces in the same direction as
said wall.
Any sign which advertises on-site business activities or
sales that is affixed to the interior portion of a window, the text
of which is visible on the exterior of said window.
Any portion of a lot extending from a lot line to a line
parallel or tangent to the wall or walls of the principal structure,
not including an unenclosed porch, closest to the respective lot line,
which bisects the lot in manner where no other portion of the building
is traversed.
YARD, FRONTAny yard which directly abuts a street except an alley; or where rear lots or flag lots exist, that which most nearly parallels the street through which access is provided, extending from the walls of the principal structure directly facing said street to the entirety of the property line which wholly or partially abuts said street.
YARD, REARThe yard abutting the lot line or lines most nearly parallel to or opposite from the front yard lot line or lines except that such lines on corner lots shall be considered side yards.
YARD, SIDEThe yards abutting lot lines that are most nearly perpendicular to the front yard and those abutting all remaining lot lines, aside from front yard lot lines, on corner lots extending to the abutting walls of the principal structure.
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