As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
ALL OTHER NONRESIDENTIAL USES
Any land use nonresidential in nature other than defined
by this chapter or the Zoning Ordinances of the Boroughs of Millvale
and/or Etna.
AMUSEMENT ARCADE
Any business establishment where amusement devices are located.
AUTO WRECKING/VEHICLE SALVAGE YARD
A lot used for the storage of any scrap material or junk,
including without limitation appliances, fixtures, nonworking automobiles,
automobile parts, machines or machinery parts, equipment, containers
and building materials.
BOARDINGHOUSE
A building arranged or used for overnight lodging by three
or more persons, but not exceeding 10 persons, with or without meals,
for compensation by transient residents arriving upon their own accord
and not for the purposes as a sexually oriented business. Overnight
loading occurs in individual sleeping rooms with no cooking facilities.
A boardinghouse may include common areas, restroom facilities, and
a common kitchen available for use by residents.
CLINIC, LARGE-SCALE
An establishment, whether public or private, principally
engaged in providing services for health maintenance, diagnosis or
treatment of human diseases, pain, injury, or physical condition that
include diagnostic treatment center, rehabilitation center, extended
care center, nursing home, inter-mediate care facility, life care
facility, outpatient laboratory, or central services facility serving
one or more such institutions. Establishment includes tuberculosis
facilities, psychiatric facilities, rehabilitation facilities, skilled
nursing facilities, kidney disease treatment centers, intermediate
care facilities, ambulatory surgical facilities and any facility for
methadone treatment, other narcotic or similar treatment programs
approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Health and may be both
for profit and nonprofit, and including those operated by an agency
of the state or local government.
GROUP CARE FACILITY
A premises providing shelter, counseling, and other rehabilitative
services in a family-like environment for more than nine but fewer
than 15 residents, plus such minimum supervisory personnel as may
be required to meet standards of the licensing agency. A group care
facility may provide common areas and a common kitchen. Residents
may not be legally related to the facility operators or supervisors
and, by reason of mental or physical disability, chemical or alcohol
dependency, family or school adjustment problems, or past correctional
offenses require a minimal level of supervision but do not require
medical or nursing care or general supervision. A group care facility
must be licensed and/or approved by the Pennsylvania Department of
Human Services.
HOSPITAL
Building(s) used for the short-term care of patients suffering
from physical or mental illnesses, but not including narcotics addiction
or those found to be criminally insane, and which may or may not be
publicly or privately operated.
MOBILE HOME PARK
A parcel of land under single ownership containing two or
more mobile home lots improved with the necessary facilities and services
for the placement of mobile homes for nontransient use.
PERSONAL CARE BOARDINGHOME
Any premises in which food, shelter and personal assistance
or home 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 residence in
the event of an emergency or medication prescribed for self-administration.
A personal care boardinghome may include common area, a common kitchen
with common dining area available for use by residents.
PLANNED MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT
An area of land, controlled by a landowner, to be developed
as a single entity for a 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.
PRINTING, PUBLICATIONS AND ENGRAVING PLANTS
A business establishment that provides duplicating services
using blueprinting, engraving or offset printing processes on paper,
fabric or other materials and includes the collating and binding of
books, booklets, reports and pamphlets, but does not provide self-serve
facilities or accommodate walk-in trade. Duplicating services provided
by photocopying or like technological processes are not included and
are considered personal and professional services.
SCRAPYARD
A lot used for the storage of any scrap material or junk,
including without limitation appliances, fixtures, nonworking automobiles,
automobile parts, machines or machinery parts, equipment, containers
and building materials.
SEWAGE TREATMENT FACILITY
Any designed for the collection, removal, treatment and disposal
of waterborne sewerage generated within a given service area.
SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESS
An establishment, club, tap room, restaurant, theater or
hall which features products for sale or entertainment that is distinguished
or characterized by an emphasis on sexual conduct or sexually explicit
nudity such as an adult book and video store or adult entertainment
nightclub.