A.Â
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.
B.Â
Words used in the present tense shall include the future.
C.Â
The singular number shall include the plural, and the plural the
singular.
D.Â
The word "shall" is mandatory; the word "may" is permissive.
E.Â
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."
F.Â
The word "person" shall include the individual, corporation, partnership,
incorporated association or any other entity.
G.Â
The word "lot" includes the words "plot" or "parcel."
H.Â
The word "building" includes "structure" and any part thereof.
I.Â
Words in the masculine gender shall include the feminine gender.
J.Â
The words "includes" and "including" shall not limit the defined
term to the specific examples, but are intended to extend the term's
meaning to other instances of like kind and character.
The following words and phrases shall have the particular meaning
specified in the purpose of interpreting this chapter:
To cease or discontinue a use or activity without intent
to resume, but excluding temporary or short-term interruptions to
a use or activity during periods of remodeling, maintaining or otherwise
improving or rearranging a facility or during normal periods of vacation
or seasonal closure.
A means of providing vehicular or pedestrian entrance to
a property.
A subordinate use which is clearly incidental and related
to that of a main structure or main use of land.
The definition for this term and for all uses included under
this term shall apply as are provided in Title 68, Part II, Subpart
E, Chapter 55, § 5502 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes,
as amended. Such definitions in Pennsylvania Statues are hereby included
by reference, including but not limited to the definitions for "adult
bookstore," "adult entertainment," "adult mini motion-picture theater,"
"adult motion-picture theater," "sexual activities," "specified anatomical
areas," and "specified sexual activities."
A paved area of a minimum width specified by this chapter,
that provides direct access to one or two rows of parking spaces and
connects those parking spaces with the driveways that provide circulation
through a parking area.
As applied to a building or structure, a change or rearrangement
in the structural parts, or an enlargement, whether by extending on
a side or by increasing in height, or the moving from one location
or position to another, or conversion of one use to another by virtue
of interior change.
See "zoning amendment."
Any premises where domestic animals are dropped off and picked
up daily for temporary care on-site and where they may be groomed,
trained, exercised, and socialized but are not kept overnight, bred,
sold or let for hire.
An establishment for the medical or surgical treatment of
animals, including the boarding of hospitalized animals. An animal
hospital shall not include a kennel.
See "dwelling types."
A public street which serves large volumes of high-speed
and long-distance traffic.
Any premises in which food, shelter, assisted living services,
assistance or supervision and supplemental health care services are
provided for a period exceeding 24 hours for four or more adults who
are not relatives of the operator, who require assistance or supervision
in matters such as dressing, bathing, diet, financial management,
evacuation from the residence in the event of an emergency or medication
prescribed for self-administration.
A facility where repairs to the frame or other structural
parts of motor vehicles, spray painting, and repair or replacement
of fenders and similar external portions of motor vehicles are conducted.
Auto repairs to the mechanized parts of a vehicle, including engine,
motor, transmission, etc., shall also be included in this definition.
The sale or rental of new or used motor vehicles or trailers.
Any building, land or structure used for dispensing, sale
or offering for sale at retail of any automobile fuels, oils or accessories,
including lubrication of automobiles and replacement or installation
of minor parts and accessories but not including major repair work,
such as motor replacement, body and fender repair or spray-painting,
commonly known as a "gasoline station."
A business which sells alcoholic beverages for consumption
on the premises as the principal use and which may offer food for
consumption on the premises as an accessory use.
That portion of the foundation of a building +between the
floor of the foundation and the floor of the first story of the building
having a portion of its height below grade, but at least 1/2 of its
height above the average grade of the adjoining ground.
A dwelling which is the principal residence of the operator
where no more than four sleeping rooms are offered to transient overnight
guests for compensation and where the only meal served and included
with the overnight accommodations is breakfast.
An off-premises sign which advertises an establishment, activity,
person, product or service which is unrelated to or unavailable on
the premises where the billboard is located.
The Zoning Hearing Board for the Borough of Canonsburg.
An individual or individuals, other than a family member
of the family occupying the dwelling unit, or part thereof, who, for
a consideration, is furnished sleeping accommodations and may be furnished
meals or other services as part of the consideration.
A dwelling in which at least one room is offered for short-term
rental (less than 30 days), whether or not meals are furnished to
lodgers, and no public restaurant is maintained. A school or college
dormitory, fraternity or sorority house, membership club with residents,
and other similar uses are not deemed a boardinghouse or rooming house.
The process of breaching the skin or mucous membrane for
the purpose of insertion of any object, including but not limited
to jewelry, for cosmetic purposes. The term does not include ear piercing
or nail piercing.
An establishment which is engaged in any extent in providing
body piercing to customers.
The Borough Council of Canonsburg.
A line, usually a property or street right-of-way line or
the center line of a recognizable physical feature, such as a highway,
stream or railroad, that demarcates the edge of a district or area.
A commercial use which brews ales, beers, meads and/or similar
beverages on a large scale, brewing more than 15,000 barrels of product
per year, which may include a public tasting room but does not offer
food or restaurant services.
See "microbrewery."
A landscaped area of a certain depth specified by this chapter,
which shall be planted and maintained in trees, grass, ground cover,
shrubs, bushes or other natural landscaping material and shall consist
of a mix of types and sizes of plant material which, within three
years of planting, meets the standard of providing a compact year-round
visual screen at least six feet in height or an existing natural barrier,
such as vegetation and/or topography, which duplicates the effect
of the required buffer area, provided the natural barrier is maintained
with vegetation or landscaping at all times.
A roofed structure, whether or not enclosed by walls, to
be used for shelter, enclosure or protection of persons, goods, materials,
animals, things or an area of land. (See also "completely enclosed
building.")
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 decklines of mansard roofs,
and to the mean height between eaves and ridge for gable, hip and
gambrel roofs.
A line parallel to or concentric with the front lot line,
the minimum measurement of which is the front yard depth required
by this chapter.
The minimum distance between two buildings on the same lot,
measured from the outermost wall or projection, excluding bay windows,
chimneys, flues, columns, ornamental features, cornices and gutters
that project beyond the wall of the building no more than two feet.
Any office of recognized professions, other than medical,
such as lawyers, architects, engineers, real estate brokers, insurance
agents and others who, through training, are qualified to perform
services of a professional nature and other offices used primarily
for accounting, corresponding, research, editing or other administrative
functions, but not including banks or other financial institutions.
Establishments engaged in providing services to business
offices on a fee or contract basis, including, but not limited to,
advertising and public relations; management and consulting services;
employment services; building security and maintenance services; equipment
servicing, rental/leasing and sales; computer and data processing
services; mailing, photocopying, quick printing and fax services;
sale of office supplies; and similar business services; but not including
the rental, sale or repair of vehicles or heavy equipment.
A facility, whether automatic, semiautomatic or manual, for
washing and polishing vehicles.
A structure to house or protect motor vehicles, which is
open to the weather for at least 40% of the total area of its sides.
That portion of the street right-of-way that is surfaced
for vehicular use, excluding curbs and shoulders.
That portion of the foundation a building between the floor
of the foundation and the floor of the first story of the building
having 1/2 or more of its height below the average grade of the adjoining
ground.
Property used for interring of dead persons or domestic pets,
including mausoleums and columbariums, but not including crematoriums
or family plots.
A document issued by the Zoning Officer indicating that a
premises for which a building permit and/or a zoning certificate has
been issued is ready for occupancy and is in compliance with the provisions
of this chapter and the Building Code, if applicable.
A use involving the supervised care of children under age
16 outside of the children's own home(s) primarily for periods
of less than 18 hours per child during the average day. This use may
also include educational programs that are supplementary to state-required
education, including "nursery school" or "Head Start" programs. The
following three types of day care are permitted without regulation
by this chapter: 1) care of children by their own relatives, 2) care
of children within a place of worship during regularly scheduled religious
services, and 3) care of one to three children within any dwelling
unit, in addition to children who are relatives of the caregiver.
See also definitions of "day-care center" "family day care home" and
"group day care home."
A triangular area of unobstructed vision at the intersection
of two streets or of a driveway and a street defined by line of sight
a given distance from the intersection of the center lines of two
streets or the center lines of the driveway and the street. (See Illustration
in Appendix A.)[1]
Any establishment, including mobile diagnostic units, where
human patients receive medical, dental, chiropractic, psychological
and surgical diagnosis, treatment and counseling under the care of
a group of licensed medical doctors and dentists and their supporting
staff, where said patients are not provided with board or room or
kept overnight on the premises.
See "private club."
A public street which, in addition to giving access to abutting
lots, intercepts local streets and provides a route for carrying considerable
volumes of local traffic to community facilities and arterial roads.
St[2]
See "recreation, commercial."
See "school, commercial."
A parcel or parcels of land or an area of water, or a combination
of land and water within a development site designed and intended
for the use or enjoyment of the occupants or residents of a development,
not including streets, parking areas or areas set aside for public
facilities.
Any structure designed for transmitting or receiving wireless
communications of video, voice, data and similar transmissions, including,
but not limited to, omnidirectional or whip antennas, directional
or panel antennas and satellite or microwave dish antennas which may
be mounted on an existing building, an existing public utility storage
or transmission structure or an existing communications tower, excluding
transmission and receiving devices licensed by the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) exclusively for private use by citizens.
A manned or unmanned structure which contains the equipment
necessary to maintain and operate communications antennas and which
covers an area on the ground in excess of 200 square feet.
An unmanned structure which contains the equipment necessary
to maintain and operate communications antennas and which covers an
area on the ground of no more than 200 square feet.
Any structure, whether freestanding or attached to a building,
designed to support multiple communications antennas, including monopole,
self-supporting and guyed towers and one or more of the following
mounts for antennas: rotatable platform, fixed platform, multipoint
or side-arm mounts and pipe mounts for microwave dish antennas.
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.
A use authorized by this chapter which may be granted only
by the Borough Council following review by the Planning Commission
and a public hearing subject to express standards and criteria contained
in this chapter.
A structure where each unit in the structure is individually
owned and the owner of each unit has a proportional interest in the
common areas and facilities of the structure and the parcel.
A structure designed, used or constructed to provide temporary
offices for construction supervision on the site of an approved subdivision
or land development during the time that a valid building permit or
grading permit is in effect.
The administrative offices of a business that provides landscaping,
construction, remodeling, home improvement, land development and related
services on a contractual basis and which may include the storage
of materials, equipment and vehicles, provided all materials, equipment
and vehicles are stored within a completely enclosed building.
An establishment which may or may not include administrative
offices for a business that provides landscaping, construction, remodeling,
home improvement, land development and related services on a contractual
basis, but which involves the outdoor storage of all or part of the
materials, equipment or vehicles used in the business.
A retail store with a gross floor area of 7,500 square feet
or less, offering a limited selection of grocery, household and personal
items for quick purchase.
A lot at the intersection of and fronting on two or more
street rights-of-way.
See "lot coverage."
An establishment containing a furnace where a corpse can
be burned and reduced/cremated to ashes as permitted by the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Protection.
The angle formed by a line drawn from the direction of light
rays at the light source and a line perpendicular to the ground from
the light source, above which no light is emitted.
A facility, licensed by the commonwealth, located within
a building which is not used as a dwelling unit, for the care, on
a regular basis, during part of a twenty-four-hour day of children
under the age of 16 or disabled or elderly persons.
See "family day care home and group day care home."
Final adjudication of any board or other body granted jurisdiction
under any land use ordinance or this chapter to do so, either by reason
of the grant of exclusive jurisdiction or by reason of appeals from
determinations. All decisions shall be appealable to the Court Of
Common Pleas of the county and judicial district wherein the municipality
lies.
Any uncovered outdoor living area, without a roof, in excess
of 24 square feet constructed on or above the surface of the ground.
See "dwelling unit density."
Any man-made change to an improved or unimproved land or
water area, including, but not limited to, construction of buildings
or structures or additions thereto, mining, dredging, filling, grading,
paving, excavation or drilling operations.
A curb cut on or a private driveway leading directly to a
public street right-of-way. In the case of the requirement for direct
vehicular access to an arterial or collector street, the point of
access shall be onto the arterial or collector street without traversing
any other public street right-of-way.
See "brewery."
See "zoning district."
Animals that are normally considered to be kept in conjunction
with a dwelling for the pleasures of the resident family. This shall
include dogs, cats, birds, hamsters, gerbils and other animals commonly
sold in retail pet shops.
Any principal use or accessory use which involves a window,
service lane, bay or other facility where customers are provided services
either inside or outside their vehicles and where cars may or may
not wait in line to access these services, including but not limited
to drive-in" or drive-through windows at fast-food restaurants, banks
or other businesses, exterior automated teller machines (ATMs), quick
oil change facilities, car washes and similar automotive services
and other such facilities.
A private vehicular way providing access between a street
and a parking area or garage located on a lot.
A building designed exclusively as living quarters for one
or more families, including single-family, two-family, triplex, fourplex,
modular and multifamily dwellings, group care facilities, personal
care boarding homes and transitional dwellings, but not including
hotels, motels or boardinghouses.
The following dwelling types are included in this chapter:
SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLINGA detached residential building which is the only principal structure on the lot, designed exclusively for occupancy by one family, as defined herein, and containing one dwelling unit.
TWO-FAMILY DWELLINGA residential building which is the only principal structure on the lot, designed exclusively for occupancy by two families living independently of each other, and containing two dwelling units, each with a separate entrance directly to the outside, including double houses and duplexes.
TRIPLEXA residential building designed exclusively for occupancy by three families living independently of each other, containing three dwelling units, each having independent access directly to the outside and having no other units above or below, which units are attached at right angles to one another with the entrance to each unit facing a different direction.
FOURPLEXA residential building designed exclusively for occupancy by four families living independently of each other, containing four dwelling units, each having independent access directly to the outside and having no other units above or below, which units are attached at right angles to one another with the entrance to each unit facing a different direction.
TOWNHOUSEA multifamily residential building, no more than 2Â 1/2 stories in height which contains at least three, but no more than five dwelling units, each of which are separated from the adjoining unit or units by a continuous, unpierced vertical wall extending from the basement to the roof, each unit having independent access directly to the outside and having no other units above or below.
MULTIFAMILY DWELLINGA residential building designed exclusively for occupancy by three or more families living independently of each other and containing three or more dwelling units.
APARTMENTA room or suite of rooms, intended, designed or used as a residence by a single-family, in a building with its own cooking, food storage, bathing and toilet facilities and with access directly or via a common hall to the outside.
HIGH-RISE APARTMENTA multifamily residential building containing at least four but no more than eight stories.
GARDEN APARTMENTA multifamily residential building no more than three stories in height, containing three or more dwelling units which share a common entrance to the outside, usually through a common corridor, and which dwelling units may have other dwelling units either above or below them.
GROUP CARE FACILITYA group living arrangement licensed by the commonwealth that provides room and board and specialized services to permanent residents that exceed the number authorized in the definition of "family" or that fail to meet the criteria for the group living arrangement established in the definition of "family," but not including any short-term or transient residents as regulated by the definition of "transitional dwelling."
PERSONAL CARE HOMEA dwelling licensed by the commonwealth where room and board is provided to more than three permanent residents who are not relatives of the operator, and who are mobile or semimobile and require specialized services for a period exceeding 24 consecutive hours in such matters as bathing, dressing, diet and medication prescribed for self-administration, but who are not in need of hospitalization or skilled nursing or intermediate nursing care.
TRANSITIONAL DWELLINGA dwelling unit occupied on a short-term basis by persons assigned by a court of law, or referred by a public, semi-public or nonprofit agency, and managed by a public, semi-public or nonprofit agency responsible for the occupants' care, safety, conduct, counseling and supervision for a specified period of time, including alcoholic recovery, shelters for battered persons and their children, maternity homes, community reentry services following incarceration, prison assignment, house arrest or other court-ordered treatment, and other such short-term supervised assignments.
Two or more rooms designed for or occupied by one family
only and containing sleeping facilities, cooking and food storage
facilities, and, in a separate room, toilet, and tub or shower, with
hot and cold water supply, all for the exclusive use of the family
occupying the dwelling unit.
The number of dwelling units authorized by this chapter per
acre of land.
A right-of-way or other right to use property, granted by
the property owner to another, such as for access, drainage, utility
lines, slope or other purposes.
An establishment that provides training to individuals or
groups in specialized recreational activities or avocations, including
but not limited to dance, gymnastics, martial arts, photography, arts
and crafts and similar pursuits.
A notice given by a municipality through the internet of
the time and place of a public hearing and the particular nature of
the matter to be considered at the hearing.
A person who, for consideration, agrees or offers to act
as a companion, guide or date for another person, or who agrees or
offers to privately model lingerie or to privately perform a striptease
for another person.
A person or business association who furnishes, offers to
furnish or advertises to furnish escorts as one of its primary business
purposes for a fee, tip or other consideration.
The provision of distribution and collection systems by public
utilities, regulated by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) or any
agency, franchisee or authority of Canonsburg Borough of underground
or overhead gas, electrical, telephone, steam, or water lines, sewers,
fire alarm boxes, traffic signals, hydrants, cable TV (not including
towers) and accessories in connection therewith, reasonably necessary
to furnish adequate services to the general public.
An individual or two or more persons related by blood, marriage,
adoption or foster child care, including domestic servants or gratuitous
guests thereof; or a group of not more than three unrelated persons
living together without supervision in a dwelling unit, or not more
than five persons living together in a group living arrangement with
supervision, provided that the group living arrangement meets all
of the following criteria:
It provides nonrouting support services, including supervision,
personal care, social or counseling services, and transportation,
to persons who need such assistance in order to use and enjoy a dwelling
or to avoid being placed within an institution, because of physical
disability, old age, mental retardation, or other "handicap" or "disability"
as defined by the Fair Housing Amendments Act or the Americans with
Disabilities Act;[3]
It provides for the joint occupancy of a dwelling unit where
the residents maintain a common household and practice, on a permanent
or long-term basis, and a joint economic, social and cultural life;
It does not involve the housing of persons on a transient basis;
It does not involve the housing or treatment of persons accepted
for residence in the group living arrangement on the basis of their
status as criminal offenders, juvenile offenders or delinquents, or
who would otherwise qualify for residence by virtue of having been
found by any governmental tribunal, court or agency to be a danger
to society or are on release or under the jurisdiction of the criminal
justice system, a government bureau of corrections or similar institution.
"Family" shall not include persons living together in a group
care facility, personal care home or transitional dwelling, as defined
herein, or any other supervised group living arrangement for persons
not protected by the Fair Housing Act or for any persons who constitute
a direct threat to others or their physical property.
A facility, licensed or approved by the commonwealth, as
required by the laws of the commonwealth, located within a dwelling
in which the operator resides, for the care on a regular basis during
part of a twenty-four-hour day of not more than six children under
16 years of age who are not relatives of the provider, where such
use shall be secondary to the use of the dwelling for living purposes
and shall meet all applicable requirements for a home occupation.
Periodic outdoor sales activities involving the display and
sale of fresh produce and locally produced food and beverage items,
including baked goods, jams, jellies, and similar food products. The
display and sale of hand-crafted artisan items may be considered as
an accessory activity, provided the principal activity remains the
sale of the food- or produce-related items.
A structure designed for the purpose of enclosing space or
separating parcels of land. The term "fence or wall" shall not include
retaining walls which are designed and approved in accordance with
the Borough Grading Ordinance.[4]
A bank, savings and loan association or similar institution
that lends money or is engaged in a finance-related business.
A relatively flat or low land area adjoining a river, stream
or watercourse that is subject to partial or complete inundation;
an area subject to the unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of
surface waters from any source.
The sum of all the horizontal floor areas of a building,
measured between exterior faces of walls.
The total floor area of a building designed for tenant occupancy
or accessible to the customers, clients or general public, excluding
storage areas, equipment rooms and common areas such as halls, corridors,
stairwells, elevator shafts, restrooms, interior vehicular parking
and loading areas and similar common areas, expressed in square feet
and measured from the center line of joint partitions and exteriors
of outside walls.
See Subsection D of the definition of "dwelling types."
See "building line, front."
See "lot line, front."
A building or part thereof used for human funeral services.
Such building may contain space and facilities for a) embalming and
the performance of other services used in the preparation of the dead
for burial; b) the performance of autopsies and other surgical procedures;
c) the storage of caskets, funeral urns, and other related funeral
supplies; and the storage of funeral vehicles. For purposes of this
chapter, the term "funeral home" shall not include a crematorium.
An accessory building or a portion of the principal building,
not accessible to the general public and designed or used for shelter
or storage of private vehicles and personal property of the occupants
of the principal building.
See Subsection I of the definition of "dwelling types."
A retail establishment that sells flowers, plants, trees
and other natural flora and products which aid their growth and care
and which may include a greenhouse or the growing of plant material
outside on the lot.
See "oil and gas well."
A structure and surrounding land used for the storage and
sale of petroleum fuel, natural gas and/or other types of fuel and
lubricants primarily to motor vehicles, and which may or may not include
a convenience store.
The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors
of a building measured between exterior faces of walls.
See Subsection J of the definition of "dwelling types."
A facility, licensed or approved by the commonwealth, as
required by the laws of the commonwealth, located within a dwelling
in which the operator resides, for the care on a regular basis during
part of a twenty-four-hour day of between seven and 12 children at
one time who are not relatives of the primary caregiver, under 16
years of age, where such use shall be secondary to the use of the
dwelling for living purposes and shall meet all applicable requirements
for a home occupation.
A commercial recreational enterprise or private club which
has as a principal use a gymnasium, swimming pool or other sports
facility and which may offer massages, whirlpool baths, steam rooms,
saunas and/or medical facilities as accessory uses to the principal
use.
The mechanical or chemical transformation of raw materials
or substances into new products or other raw materials, including
refineries for oil, gas or similar products, or any manufacturing
process not included in the definition of "light manufacturing."
See "building height."
The vertical distance measured from the average elevation
of the finished grade around the structure to the highest point on
the structure.
A helicopter landing pad, licensed by the Pennsylvania Department
of Transportation, Bureau of Aviation, and regulated by the Federal
Aviation Administration, that is owned by a private entity and restricted
to use by helicopters owned by such entity, including hospitals and
medical facilities whether public or privately owned.
See Subsection H of the definition of "dwelling types."
An accessory use of a service character, conducted entirely
within a dwelling, which use is clearly secondary to the use of the
dwelling for living purposes and does not, in any way, change the
character of the dwelling.
An establishment licensed by the Commonwealth for the care
of human patients suffering from physical or mental illnesses, and
which may or may not include facilities for major surgery and which
may be publicly or privately operated.
See "animal hospital."
See "motel or hotel."
Surfaces with a coefficient of runoff greater than 0.85,
including all buildings, roofed areas, parking areas, driveways, streets,
sidewalks and areas paved in concrete and asphalt and any other areas
determined by the Borough Engineer to be impervious within the meaning
of this definition.
The percentage of the total lot area covered by impervious
surfaces, as defined herein.
See "development."
An establishment operated by a profit-making corporation,
partnership or other business entity located within a completely enclosed
building, as defined by this chapter, for the pursuit of cultural
performances and entertainment activities, including, but not limited
to theaters (live and motion picture), arenas, bowling alleys, pool
halls, virtual reality and simulation gaming parlors, video arcades,
dance halls and similar facilities, but excluding any adult-oriented
establishment, as defined herein.
Any premises devoted wholly or in part to the storage, buying
or selling, salvaging, recycling or otherwise handling or dealing
in scrap metals, building materials, scrapped or used appliances or
other household goods, fixtures, vehicles and vehicle parts, machinery
and machinery parts or other forms of discarded materials.
A facility for the boarding and/or breeding of domesticated
animals, such as such as dogs and cats, where they are kept overnight.
The improvement of one lot or two or more contiguous lots,
tracts or parcels for any purpose involving:
A group of two or more residential or nonresidential buildings,
whether proposed initially or cumulatively; or
A single nonresidential building on a lot or lots regardless
of the number of occupants or tenure; or
The division or allocation of land or space, whether initially
or cumulatively, between or among two or more existing or prospective
occupants by means of, or for the purpose of streets, common areas,
leaseholds, condominiums building groups or other features;
A subdivision of land for the purpose of developing the property.
A plan prepared in accordance with the application requirements of Chapter 151, Subdivision and Land Development, for approval of a land development, as defined herein.
Any site licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Protection (PA DEP) for the disposal of solid waste, other than hazardous
waste, as defined and regulated by federal statute.
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 if he is
authorized under the lease to exercise the rights of the landowner,
or other person having a proprietary interest in land.
A plan prepared by a person knowledgeable in the characteristics
of plant materials and the proper techniques for installing and maintaining
them, including a registered architect or landscape architect or a
member of the American Nurserymen's Association, identifying
each tree and shrub by size, type and scientific name; the location
of each, including a planting diagram; and such other diagrams or
reports as are necessary to show the method of planting, staking and
mulching, grass seeding specifications and mixtures and existing trees
to be preserved, if any.
Areas of moderate to high susceptibility to landslides produced
by the influence of natural and/or man-made activity.
The processing and fabrication of certain materials and products
where no process involved will produce noise, vibration, water pollution,
fire hazard or noxious emissions which will disturb or endanger neighboring
properties. Light manufacturing includes, but is not limited to, the
production of the following goods: home appliances, electrical instruments,
office machines, precision instruments, electronic devices, timepieces,
jewelry, optical goods, musical instruments, novelties, wood products,
printed material, lithographic plates, type composition, machine tools,
dies and gauges, ceramics, apparel, lightweight nonferrous metal castings,
film processing, light sheet metal products, plastic goods, pharmaceutical
goods, food products, not including animal slaughtering, curing or
rendering of fats, and similar activities.
An area within a principal building or on the same lot with
the principal building designed in accordance with the requirements
of this chapter and used for the standing, loading or unloading of
tractor-trailer trucks.
Any street in the Borough not defined by this chapter as
an arterial street or a collector street.
A designated parcel, tract or area of land established by
a plat or otherwise as permitted by law to be used, developed or built
upon as a unit.
The total area within the lot lines, excluding the area within
any street right-of-way.
The minimum straight-line distance between the points where
each side lot line intersects the front lot line. If the front lot
line is curved, frontage shall be measured as the minimum linear distance
of the arc that connects the points where the side lot lines intersect
the front lot line. In the case of multiple-family dwellings, lot
frontage shall be measured for the entire length of the lot containing
the dwelling and not for each individual dwelling unit within the
multifamily dwelling.
A line of record bounding a lot which divides one lot from
another lot or from a public or private street or other public space.
That lot line which is contiguous with the street center
line or the street right-of-way line. In the case of a lot which has
no frontage on a street, the front lot line shall be the lot line
through which vehicular access is provided, regardless of which way
the dwelling faces.
That lot line which is generally opposite the front lot line.
Any lot line which is not a front lot line or rear lot line.
Any lot which, individually, or as part of a subdivision,
has been recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Washington
County.
The straight-line distance between the point of intersection
of the front building line with the side lot lines.
See "corner lot."
A notice given by a municipality by first-class mail of the
time and place of a public hearing and the particular nature of the
matter to be considered at the hearing.
A single-family dwelling, transportable in one or more sections,
which is built on a permanent chassis and is designed for use with
or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities.
A manufactured home shall not be considered to be any other type of
dwelling use or structure under this chapter. For floodplain management
purposes, this term also includes park trailers and other similar
vehicles placed on a site for greater than 180 consecutive days.
A lot under single ownership which includes two or more manufactured
homes for residential use. The individual manufactured homes may be
individually owned. A development of manufactured homes that is subdivided
into individual lots shall be regulated in the same manner as a subdivision
of site-built homes, and shall not be considered to be a manufactured
home park.
The mechanical or chemical transformation of raw materials
or substances into new products or other raw materials, including
the assembling of component parts, the manufacturing of products and
the blending of materials into finished or semifinished products.
See "heavy manufacturing."
See "light manufacturing."
A voluntary negotiating process in which parties to a dispute
mutually select a neutral mediator to assist them in jointly exploring
and settling their differences, culminating in a written agreement
which the parties themselves create and consider acceptable.
A person, including a natural person, corporation, partnership,
association, trust, or other entity, or any combination thereof, which
holds a current and valid permit issued by the Department of Health
(DOH) of the commonwealth to dispense medical marijuana pursuant to
the provisions of the Act.[5]
Any building or structure used to grow and/or process medical
marijuana by a licensed grower/processor that has a current and valid
license from the DOH pursuant to the Act.[6]
One or more administrative offices of individual doctors,
dentists, chiropractors or other medical practitioners and their supporting
staffs, where human patients receive diagnosis, treatment and counseling.
A business establishment where ales, beers, meads and/or
similar alcoholic beverages are brewed or spirts distilled, typically
in conjunction with a bar, tavern, or restaurant use. The maximum
brewing/distilling capacity shall not exceed 15,000 barrels per year.
The establishment may offer food for consumption on the premises as
an accessory use.
The removal from the surface or beneath the surface of the
land of bulk mineral resources using significant machinery. This use
also includes accessory stockpiling and processing of mineral resources.
"Mineral extraction" includes but is not limited to the extraction
of sand, gravel, topsoil, limestone, sandstone, oil, coal, clay, shale,
and iron ore. The routine movement of and replacement of topsoil during
construction shall not by itself be considered to be mineral extraction.
A building or buildings where dwellings are located on the
floor(s) above the street or ground floor of a building and where
one or more nonresidential uses are located on the first floor. The
nonresidential uses may only include retail, restaurants, and office
space. The street or ground floor may not contain any residential
use; however, the nonresidential uses may be incorporated on other
floors.
Constructed before 1977, a transportable single-family detached
dwelling intended for permanent occupancy that is contained in one
unit or 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 so that it can
be used without a permanent perimeter foundation.
A type of single-family detached dwelling which is produced
in sections off-site and then is assembled and completed on the site.
This shall not include any dwelling that meets the definition of "mobile/manufactured
home," nor shall it include any dwelling that does not rest on a permanent
foundation, nor any dwelling intended to be able to be moved to a
different site once assembled, nor any dwelling that would not fully
comply with any and all applicable building codes.
An establishment which offers transient overnight lodging
accommodations, including extended stays, to the general public and
which also may provide additional supporting services, such as restaurants,
meeting rooms, recreation, facilities and living quarters for a resident
manager or proprietor.
Any combination of several multifamily dwellings and/or business
establishments in one or more buildings under single ownership or
management with common parking facilities, including but not limited
to a shopping mall, an office building, apartment complex or townhouse
development with more than one tenant.
See Subsection F of the definition of "dwelling types."
Act of 1968, P.L. 805, No. 247, as reenacted and amended,
regulating municipal land use control in Pennsylvania.[7]
A facility designed and constructed to compress natural gas
that originates from an oil or gas well or collection of such wells
operating as a midstream facility for delivery of oil and gas to a
transmission pipeline, distribution pipeline, natural gas processing
plant, or underground storage field, including one or more natural
gas compressors, associated buildings, pipes, valves, tanks and other
equipment.
A facility used to remove materials, such as ethane, butane,
and other constituents or similar substances, from natural gas to
allow such natural gas to be of such quality as is required or appropriate
for transmission or distribution to commercial markets, but not including
facilities or equipment used primarily to remove water, water vapor,
oil or naturally occurring liquids from natural gas.
See "floor area, net."
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, or pickup, delivery or removal functions
to or from the premises in excess of those normally associated with
residential use. The business or commercial activity must satisfy
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.
Any lot, the area or dimension of which was lawful prior
to the adoption or amendment of this chapter, but which fails to conform
to the requirements of the zoning district in which it is located
by reasons of such adoption or amendment.
Any sign which was lawfully erected and maintained prior
to the adoption or amendment of this chapter, which fails to conform
to all applicable regulations and restrictions of this article.
A structure or part of a structure which does not comply
with the applicable area and bulk provisions of this chapter or amendment
heretofore or hereafter enacted, where such structure lawfully existed
prior to the enactment of this chapter or an amendment thereto, or
prior to the application of this chapter or amendment to its location
by reason of annexation. Nonconforming signs are included in this
definition.
A use, whether of land or of a structure, which does not
comply with the applicable use provisions in this chapter or amendment
heretofore or hereafter enacted, where such use was lawfully in existence
prior to the enactment of this chapter or an amendment thereto, or
prior to the application of this chapter or amendment to its location
by reason of annexation.
An institution licensed by the commonwealth for the care
of human patients requiring skilled nursing or intermediate nursing
care, but not including facilities for major surgery or care and treatment
of drug or alcohol addiction.
A site under single ownership and control, which is developed
as a unit for two or more buildings containing professional or business
offices and/or research and development establishments in a campus
environment utilizing common means of access, parking and loading
facilities and uniform signage and may include other shared features.
See "business or professional office."
See "medical office."
The drilling and operation of oil or gas wells. The oil and
gas well use shall be deemed to be located at the well site. For the
purposes of this chapter, a well site shall consist of the graded
pad and appurtenant area occupied by the facilities, structures and
equipment necessary for or incidental to the drilling, production
or operation of an oil or gas well at the site, including well site
preparation, well site construction, drilling, hydraulic fracturing,
site restoration, water and other fluid storage, impoundment and transportation
located at the site and used for such activities and installation
of associated equipment, the site preparation, construction and installation,
maintenance and repair of oil and gas pipelines and associated equipment
and other equipment and activities at the site associated with drilling
for and production and transportation of oil and gas, but excluding
any structure, facility or use constituting a natural gas compressor
station or a natural gas processing plant or any other facility used
primarily to refine or process gas or oil.
See "common open space."
The applicant for a conditional use approval for mineral
removal and also any well operator or operator as defined in the Oil
and Gas Act.[8]
A fuel-burning device that is located outside of the main
structure which it is intended to heat and may be equipped with a
heat storage unit, and is designed to burn wood to heat water or a
water/antifreeze mixture and distribute the heated fluid via piping
to the main structure. Also known as an "outdoor wood furnace," "outdoor
wood-fired boiler" or "outdoor wood-fired hydronic heater."
See "landowner."
A portion of a lot designated for the parking of motor vehicles
in accordance with the requirements of this chapter.
A portion of a garage or parking area designated for the
parking of one motor vehicle in accordance with the requirements of
this chapter.
An establishment primarily engaged in the business of lending
money on the deposit or pledge of any article or jewelry, or purchasing
any article or jewelry with an expressed or implied agreement or understanding
to sell it back at a subsequent time at a stipulated price, and which
is licensed as a pawnbroker by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
An individual, proprietorship, partnership, corporation,
association or other legal entity.
See Subsection K of the definition of "dwelling types."
Any enterprise providing services to a person, their apparel
or personal effects commonly carried on or about their person, including,
but not limited to, shoe repair, tailoring, clothes cleaning, watch
repair, beauty shops, barber shops, massage and spa services and the
like.
A business establishment that sells pet food and other pet
care products to the general public and that may offer pet grooming
as accessory uses; or a business establishment that offers services
for the bathing and conditioning of domestic pets or the care during
part of a twenty-four-hour-day of domestic pets as a principal use
and which may sell food or other pet care products as an accessory
use; provided the uses shall not include an animal hospital or kennel,
as otherwise regulated by this chapter.
Synagogues, churches, mosques, temples and similar buildings
used primarily for religious worship on a regular basis and that are
operated for nonprofit and noncommercial purposes.
The Planning Commission of Canonsburg Borough, Washington
County, Pennsylvania.
A roofed or uncovered accessory structure without enclosing
walls with an area of more than 24 square feet that is attached to
or part of the principal building and which has direct access to and
from the principal building.
An establishment which offers private educational services
to children who are under the minimum age for education in public
schools.
The building or structure in which the principal use is conducted.
The primary or predominant use to which the property is or
may be devoted, and to which all other uses on the premises are accessory.
An establishment providing printing, blueprinting, photocopying,
engraving, binding, or related services.
Owned, operated or controlled by an individual, group of
individuals, association or corporation, not for profit, and restricted
to members and their guests.
Any establishment operated by a private organization for
social, recreational, educational, fraternal or sororal purposes,
which is open only to members and their guests and not to the general
public.
See "garage, private."
See "recreation, private."
A street, including the entire private right-of-way, which
is privately owned and maintained and which is intended for private,
rather than public, use.
See "business or professional offices."
Owned, operated or controlled by a government agency, federal,
state, county or local.
See "garage, public."
A formal meeting held pursuant to public notice by the governing
body or planning agency, intended to inform and obtain public comment
prior to taking action in accordance with this chapter.
A forum held pursuant to notice under 65 Pa.C.S.A. Chapter
7 (relating to open meetings).
Notice published once each week for two successive weeks
in a newspaper of general circulation in the Borough. Such notice
shall state the time and place of the hearing and the particular nature
of the matter to be considered at the hearing. The first publication
shall not be more than 30 days and the second publication shall not
be less than seven days from the date of the hearing.
A parking area which is located in a parking structure or
parking garage, which is the principal use on the lot and which may
be operated by either a public agency or private entity, whether for
profit or not, and which is available for use by the general public,
usually for a fee.
A parking area on the surface of the ground, which is the
principal use on the lot, which may be operated by either a public
agency or private entity, whether for profit or not, and which is
available for use by the general public, usually for a fee.
See "recreation, public."
A paved surface area parking lot constituting a principal
use on a lot intended for use by transit patrons to park vehicles
while using public mass transit.
Any administrative building, maintenance building, garage
or other structure intended for human occupancy or storage of movable
equipment or any part of the essential public utility installation,
as defined herein, other than the general transmission distribution
system provided by public utilities, regulated by the Public Utilities
Commission (PUC) or any agency, franchisee or authority of Canonsburg
Borough which is reasonably necessary to furnish adequate services
to the general public both within Canonsburg Borough and outside the
Borough, including, but not limited to, long-distance transmission
facilities, such as electrical power lines or high pressure natural
gas or petroleum lines, switching facilities, substations, treatment
plants, reservoirs, water towers, transmission towers and similar
facilities.
An indoor establishment operated by a profit-making corporation,
partnership or other business entity, that provides recreation within
an enclose facility, including but not limited to dance halls, gymnastic
facilities, ice or roller rinks, racquet clubs, swimming pools, and
similar facilities.
An enterprise owned and operated by a public entity, available
to the general public, whether or not an admission fee is charged,
with outdoor facilities for the pursuit of sports, recreation or leisure
activities, including, but not limited to, parks, playgrounds, playing
fields, golf courses, golf or batting practice facilities, ice rinks,
tennis courts, swimming pools and similar facilities.
An enterprise operated by an individual or nonprofit association
or corporation, other than a public entity, for the pursuit of sports
and recreational activities, which may be advertised to the general
public, but the use of which is limited to members and their guests,
including, but not limited to, such establishments as country clubs,
golf courses, sportsmen's club, golf practice facilities, playing
fields, tennis or racquet clubs, swimming pools and similar facilities.
A single-axle or multiple-axle structure mounted on wheels
or otherwise capable of being made mobile, either with its own motive
power or designed to be mounted on or drawn by an automotive vehicle,
for the purpose of travel, camping, vacation and recreational use,
including, but not limited to travel trailers, mobile homes, motor
homes, tent trailers, boats, boat trailers, pickup campers, horse
trailers, snowmobiles, Jet Skis®, WaveRunners®, motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles.
An energy system which makes use of recurring natural resources
or by-products to produce energy without consuming nonrenewable resources
nor causing significant disturbance to natural systems. Renewable
energy systems include, but are not limited to, solar and wind energy
systems, as well as outdoor hydronic heaters. Such systems are usually
independent of the primary utility supplied energy system but may
be connected thereto.
Any establishment, including laboratories, which carries
on investigation in the natural, physical or social sciences or engineering
and development as an extension of such investigation with the objective
of creating end products and which may include supporting storage
and transportation facilities.
A business establishment which offers food and beverages
for sale and consumption primarily on-site, but may offer takeout
service, as the principal use and may serve alcoholic beverages for
consumption on the premises as an accessory use.
A business establishment that offers quick food service for
consumption on or off the premises which is accomplished through a
limited menu of items already prepared and held for service or prepared,
fired or grilled quickly or heated in a device, such as a microwave
oven. Orders are not generally taken at the customer's table,
and food is generally served in disposable wrapping or containers.
Any establishment not otherwise specifically defined in this
article that sells on the premises commodities and/or services directly
to consumers, but not including the manufacturing or processing of
any products.
A residential development designed primarily or exclusively
for occupancy by elderly or retired persons and which features one
or more of the following special services associated with the needs
of elderly or retired persons, such as transportation, limited nursing
facilities, dispensaries, common dining facilities, minimum maintenance,
laundry service, recreation programs, personal services (such as beauty
shops and barbershops, or cleaner's valet service), florist and/or
gift shop, doctors' offices, branch bank, postal service and similar
services or facilities.
Land set aside for use as a street, alley or other means
of travel, including existing and future rights-of-way, as defined
below.
A temporary use for the purpose of marketing the dwelling
units in a residential development or the leasable space or other
occupancy in a nonresidential development.
A privately operated, for-profit establishment providing
technical or skilled training, vocational or trade educational courses
and programs.
An accredited institution of learning which offers elementary
and secondary level instruction or which offers associate's, bachelor's
or higher degrees in the several branches of learning required by
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
A building or group of buildings in a controlled-access and
fenced compound that contains various sizes of individual, compartmentalized
and controlled-access stalls and/or lockers leased to the general
public for a specified period of time for the dead storage of personal
property, where the stalls and/or lockers are accessed directly from
outside the building, or any facility where outside storage area is
proposed for the storage of recreational vehicles as defined herein.
A site under single ownership and control which is developed
as a unit for two or more retail businesses in one or more buildings
and designed with shared parking, loading and access facilities and
uniform signage.
Any structure or device used to attract attention by word
or graphic display.
See definitions for various types of signs in Article 9, Signs.
The area enclosed by one continuous line connecting the extreme
points or edges of an advertising panel containing letters; or the
sum of the areas of each letter, in the case of freestanding letters
which are mounted on a building wall, rather than painted on or affixed
to an advertising panel. In the case of freestanding pole or ground
signs, this area shall not include the main supporting sign structure,
but shall include all other ornamental attachments and connecting
features which are not part of the main supports of the sign. In the
case of letters which are painted on or affixed to an awning or canopy,
rather than mounted on a wall or affixed to an advertising panel,
the area of the sign shall be the area of the geometric shape formed
by outlining the height and width of all of the letters, including
the space between the individual letters. For two-sided signs, only
one face is counted in computing the surface area.
See Subsection A of the definition of "dwelling types."
A tract of land or one or more contiguous lots proposed for
development.
The total area within the boundary lines of a site proposed
for development, expressed in acres or square feet.
The degree of rise or descent of the land surface, calculated
by dividing the number of feet of vertical rise/descent in elevation
by the number of feet of horizontal distance, expressed as a percentage.
The access of a solar energy system to direct sunlight.
A legal agreement that protects access to sunlight on a property.
An energy conversion system, including appurtenances, which
converts solar energy to a usable form of energy to meet all or part
of the energy or heating requirements of the on-site user, or which
is to be sold to a utility company to be used by others, or sold directly
to other users. A solar energy system may be ground-mounted (i.e.,
placed on top of the ground surface) or roof-mounted (i.e., placed
on or as an integral part of a building).
SMALL SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMSolar energy systems installed for personal use in residences, commercial properties and institutions.
LARGE SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMSolar energy systems installed on large parcels of land for the purpose of generating revenue or utility-scale systems installed to benefit the community or an entire institution.
See "use by special exception."
A surfaced outdoor area accessory to a dwelling or dwellings,
used for playing sports, including, but not limited to, tennis, handball,
basketball and similar sports.
A land area wherein the inclination of the land surface from
the horizontal is 15% or greater.
A covered or uncovered porch located at a front, side or
rear door to a dwelling unit not exceeding 24 square feet in area.
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 any floor and the ceiling
next above it, excluding cellars.
A public or private recorded right-of-way which affords primary
means of vehicular access to abutting property, but not including
alleys.
The legal right-of-way line which forms the dividing line
between the street and the lot.
A public right-of-way dedicated and open for public use which
has been adopted by the Borough, county, commonwealth or governmental
body.
A change or rearrangement of the structural parts or in the
exit facilities, or an enlargement or diminution of the structure,
whether by extending on the side or increasing the height or depth,
or the moving from one location or position to another.
Any man-made object having an ascertainable stationary location
on or in land or water whether or not affixed to the land.
See "height of structure."
The division of a lot, tract or parcel of land by any means
into two or more lots, tracts or parcels or other division of land,
including any changes in existing lot lines, including removal of
lines, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of lease, partition
by the court for distribution to heirs or devisees, transfer of ownership
or building or lot development; provided, however, that the subdivision
by lease of land for agricultural purposes into parcels of more than
10 acres, not involving any new street or easement of access or any
residential dwelling shall be exempted.
Any body of water or receptacle for water having a depth
at any point greater than two feet and a surface area greater than
100 square feet, used or intended to be used for swimming or bathing
and constructed, installed or maintained outside any building.
An indelible mark, figure or decorative design introduced
by insertions of dyes or pigments into or under the subcutaneous portion
of the skin or by the production of scars upon the body of a live
human being.
An establishment which is engaged in any extent in providing
tattoos to customers.
See "bar or tavern."
See "construction trailer, temporary."
Any use or structure that is intended to be used either on
a seasonal basis, during the time of construction and completion of
an approved development or for any other period of time that is six
months or less.
See Subsection E of the definition of "dwelling types."
A study prepared by a qualified traffic engineer, in accordance with the technical requirements specified in Chapter 151, Subdivision and Land Development, analyzing the expected trip generation from a proposed development using the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) current standards and the impact of the traffic generated by the proposed development on the capacities and levels of service of all streets and intersections in the vicinity of the site.
See Subsection K of the definition of "dwelling types."
See Subsection C of the definition of "dwelling types."
An establishment engaged in the rental, sale and/or service
of vehicles in excess of 26,000 pounds GVW and/or any other heavy
equipment, including but not limited to construction or farm equipment,
whether or not the equipment is classified as a motor vehicle.
A facility to accommodate the fueling, routine maintenance
and storage of trucks and other motorized equipment and trailers and
which may provide warehousing and transfer facilities as accessory
uses.
See Subsection B of the definition of "dwelling types."
The cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers or vegetables,
including the cultivation and tillage of soil and the production,
cultivation, growing and harvesting of any agricultural, floricultural
or horticultural commodity.
The purpose, business or activity for which any land or structure
is utilized.
A use authorized by this chapter which may be granted only
by the Zoning Hearing Board following a public hearing subject to
express standards and criteria contained in this chapter.
A departure from the specific regulations of this chapter
which may be granted by the Zoning Hearing Board in accordance with
the criteria established by the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning
Code (Act 247, as amended)[9] for a particular piece of property which, because of special
circumstances applicable to it, cannot be developed in compliance
with the literal terms of this chapter without undue physical hardship.
A facility devoted to the medical care and treatment of small
animals, including household pets, but does not allow for overnight
stay of animals and pets unless deemed necessary by a licensed veterinarian
in an emergency situation.
A building used for the storage and handling of freight or
merchandise, but not including the maintenance or fueling of commercial
buses. Warehousing which is incidental to retail sales and which does
not constitute in excess of 30% of the total floor area of the retail
establishment shall be excluded from this definition.
An establishment engaged in selling merchandise to retailers,
institutional, commercial or professional business customers or other
wholesalers, rather than to the general public, or acting as a broker
for such merchandise sales.
Any electric generation facility, whose main purpose is to
convert and store wind energy into usable forms of energy and that
includes the wind turbine(s), structural supports, electrical infrastructure,
and other appurtenant structures and facilities.
SMALL WIND ENERGY SYSTEMA small wind energy system consists of a maximum of one wind turbine, installed for personal use in residences, commercial properties and institutions.
LARGE WIND ENERGY SYSTEMWind energy systems installed on large parcels of land for the purpose of generating revenue or utility-scale systems installed to benefit the community or an entire institution.
A business establishment where wine is produced and may include
growing grapes, tasting room, retail store, tours and on-site events.
A winery must not produce more than 200,000 gallons of wine per year.
The establishment may offer food for consumption on the premises as
an accessory use.
A required open space located on a lot, which is unobstructed
by any portion of a principal structure other than certain projections
expressly permitted by this chapter.
A yard extending between side lot lines across the full lot
width from the street right-of-way line to a line parallel to the
front lot line known as the "front building line," the minimum horizontal
distance required by this chapter.
A yard extending across the rear of the lot between the required
side yard lines parallel to the rear lot line, the minimum horizontal
distance required by this chapter.
A yard extending from the required front building line to
the rear lot line parallel to the side lot line, the minimum horizontal
distance required by this chapter.
A change to the text of this chapter or to the Zoning District
Map proposed for adoption by the Borough Council pursuant to the procedures
specified in this chapter.
An area accurately defined as to boundaries and location
on the Zoning District Map and within which area only certain types
of land uses are permitted and within which other types of land uses
are excluded, as set forth in this chapter.
The Official Map delineating the Zoning Districts of Canonsburg
Borough, Washington County, Pennsylvania, together with all amendments
subsequently adopted which is incorporated in and made a part of this
chapter by reference thereto.
The Zoning Hearing Board of Canonsburg Borough, Washington
County, Pennsylvania.
That person appointed by the Borough Council and charged
with the responsibility of administering and enforcing this chapter.
A document issued by the Zoning Officer indicating that approval
of a conditional use has been granted by the Borough Council, or approval
of a use by special exception has been granted by the Zoning Hearing
Board or approval has been granted by the Zoning Officer for a permitted
use by right, pursuant to the procedures of this chapter indicating
compliance with all applicable requirements of this chapter, which
approval is prerequisite to the issuance of a building permit and/or
certificate of occupancy.
[1]
Editor's Note: Appendix A is included as an attachment to this chapter.
[2]
Editor's Note: So in original.
[3]
Editor's Note: See 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq.
[5]
Editor's Note: See 35 P.S. § 10231.101 et seq.
[6]
Editor's Note: See 35 P.S. § 10231.101 et seq.
[7]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.
[8]
Editor's Note: The Oil and Gas Act was repealed 2-14-2012
by P.L. 87, No. 13. See now 58 Pa.C.S.A. § 3201 et seq.
[9]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.
