1.
The Borough of
Homestead is hereby divided into the following zoning districts:
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R-1
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Single-Family Residential District
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R-2
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Medium-Density Residential District
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R-3
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Multifamily Residential District
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C-1
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Central Business District
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C-2
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Neighborhood Mixed Use Commercial District
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C-3
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Planned Commercial District
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WDD
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Waterfront Development District
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POSP
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Parks Open Space Public District
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2.
Purpose of each
district. In addition to purpose stated in the Comprehensive Plan,
the purposes of each zoning district are summarized below.
A.
An R-1 District
is intended to provide suitable locations principally for single-family
homes. Certain residentially related uses are also allowed as conditional
uses.
B.
An R-2 District
provides for single-family dwellings, two-family dwellings, triplexes
and quadruplexes at moderate densities and townhouses under special
circumstances, along with certain residentially related conditional
uses.
C.
An R-3 District
includes a mix of single-family and two-family dwellings with garden
apartments and townhouses, along with certain residentially related
conditional uses.
D.
The C-1 District
encompasses the Borough's central commercial core and provides for
a wide variety of retail and service commercial uses along with business,
professional and medical offices and related business uses. The orientation
of this district is toward the pedestrian rather than the automobile.
The preservation of historic resources and compatible reuses are encouraged
in this District.
E.
The intent of
the C-2 District is to provide guidance and flexibility for the development
of a compact, mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly neighborhood commercial
district. The purpose of this District is to provide convenience goods
and services to the residents of the adjacent neighborhood. The District
is ancillary and complementary to the Eighth Avenue Business District
and the waterfront. The purposes of the District will be achieved
through the development of a mixture of complementary land uses that
include small-scale convenience retail, commercial services, civic
uses and upper floor office space and residential uses in an environment
that is safe, comfortable and attractive to pedestrians and encourages
economic and social vitality and the linking of trips. The District
shall be designed in such a way that adjacent land uses are well integrated
with uses within comfortable walking distance and are connected to
each other with direct, convenient and attractive sidewalks.
F.
The C-3 District
provides an area of transition between the Central Business District
and the Planned Economic Reuse District where certain heavier commercial
uses which are not appropriate in the Central Business District are
permitted and where the adaptive reuse of existing buildings and assembly
of property for planned commercial developments are encouraged.
G.
The WDD is intended
to facilitate the development of large, under-utilized or vacant former
industrial sites along the Monongahela River which may be suitable
for a variety of retail, office, recreational and/or residential uses,
provided that the arrangement and design are carefully planned and
implemented. It is the intent of these provisions to allow considerable
flexibility within the WDD in the specific types of uses, their arrangement
and their intensity while assuring that:
(1)
Uses within
the WDD are either compatible in scale, intensity, visual and operational
characteristics, or, if different, are so arranged that adverse impacts
on adjacent properties are minimized.
(2)
All necessary utilities, facilities and site improvements are provided in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 22, Subdivision and Land Development.
(3)
Negative
impacts on the natural environment are avoided.
(4)
Provision
is made for the safe movement of people, goods and vehicles without
increasing congestion and/or creating hazards within the WDD or within
the area of impact in the larger community.
(5)
Each building
site has adequate off-street parking, safe pedestrian circulation,
loading and unloading, light and air, access for emergency vehicles
and landscaped areas and open spaces as may be required.
(6)
The improvement
of land and land uses within the WDD do not adversely affect existing
development in adjacent areas.
H.
The POSP District
is intended to provide areas for public uses, including public open
spaces and public recreational uses that enhance the quality of life
in the community.
1.
Boundaries Established. The boundaries of the various zoning districts
are hereby established on the map known as the "Official Zoning District
Map of the Borough of Homestead," as amended in December 2018 (hereinafter
referred to as "the Official Zoning Map"), on file in the office of
the Zoning Officer/Building Inspector. The Official Zoning Map with
all explanatory matter thereon is hereby made part of this chapter.
The Official Zoning Map shall be dated and shall carry the Borough
Seal and the signature of the President of Borough Council and the
Borough Secretary certifying that it is the true map adopted by the
Borough Council. All amendments shall be identified on the map and
similarly certified. The boundaries between districts are, unless
otherwise indicated, either the center line of streets or such lines
extended, or parallel lines thereto, or property lines or other physical
boundaries or features. Where streets, property lines or other physical
boundaries or features are not applicable, boundaries shall be determined
by the scale shown on the Official Zoning Map.
[Amended 2-14-2019 by Ord. No. 2018-10]
2.
Interpretation.
Where physical boundaries or features existing on the ground are at
variance with those shown on the Official Zoning Map or in other circumstances
not specifically covered above, the Zoning Hearing Board shall interpret
the district boundaries.
3.
Future street
vacation. In the event that a street, alley or other way shown on
the Zoning District Map is vacated, the property formerly in said
street right-of-way shall be included within the zoning district of
the adjoining property on either side of said vacated street or way.
Where said street forms a zoning district boundary, the new district
boundary shall be the new property line created by the former center
line of said vacated street.
1.
District regulations
governing the uses and area and dimensional standards for each zoning
district shall be as set forth in the regulations that follow.
2.
In the event of any conflict between the regulations contained in an article related to a specific zoning district and any other provisions of Part 16, the regulations set forth in the section related to the specific zoning district shall prevail.
3.
Notwithstanding
any other provision of this chapter or any other ordinance, a building
owned by the Borough of Homestead and which is also a public building
or use shall be a permitted use in any district, and such building
shall be exempt from area, dimensional and similar standards of this
of this chapter and any other ordinance if the Zoning Officer determines
that exemption is not contrary to the public interest or public safety.
4.
Notwithstanding
any other provision of this chapter or any other ordinance, a building
owned by the Borough of Homestead and which is also a public building
or use shall be exempt from area, buffer, bulk, density, dimensional,
distance, height, lot, parking, setback, space, yard and similar standards
of this chapter and any other ordinance if the Zoning Officer determines
that the exemption is not contrary to the public interest or public
safety.
The Table of Permitted Uses is attached to this chapter.
1.
The Table of Permitted Accessory Uses is attached to this chapter.
2.
Permitted accessory uses in all districts. An accessory use of a dwelling is only permitted if such use is customarily incidental to the residential use. The following are permitted by right as accessory uses to a lawful principal use in all districts, within the requirements of § 27-503 and all other requirements of this Zoning Chapter:
A.
Antennas, standard
(see definition in Part 2)* and antennas for emergency services.
B.
Day-care center
as an accessory use, within the limits on number of children in § 27-503*.
C.
Fence or wall*.
D.
Garage sale*.
E.
Home gardening
nurseries, greenhouses*.
F.
Indoor storage
that is customarily accessory to a permitted use.
G.
Keeping of pets*.
H.
Recreational
facilities, noncommercial, limited to use by employees of a lot or
a development or residents of a development and their occasional invited
guests.
I.
Residential
accessory structure (see definition in Part 2).
J.
Satellite antennas*.
K.
Signs, as permitted
by Part 9.
L.
Swimming pool*.
3.
Permitted accessory
uses to commercial and institutional uses. The following are permitted
by right accessory uses only to a lawful principal business or institutional
uses, provided that all requirements of this Zoning Ordinance are
met:
A.
Amusement machines,
coin- or token-operated as accessory uses.
B.
Food and beverage
machines, coin-operated.
C.
Newspaper sales
machines, coin-operated.
D.
The following
accessory uses, provided that the use is clearly limited to employees,
patients, residents and families of employees of the use and their
occasional invited guests:
4.
Permitted essential
services. The following are essential services that are permitted
by right as a principal or as an accessory use in all districts:
A.
Essential services
exempt from lot area and setback requirements. The following essential
services are not required to meet the accessory or principal structure
setback, lot area or other lot requirements of this Zoning Chapter
(unless specifically noted otherwise), except that any newly created
lot shall meet the applicable lot requirements if future building
or subdivision of the lot would reasonably be possible for a different
use:
(1)
Oil pipelines
and natural gas transmission and distribution lines and accessory
compressing stations.
(2)
Electrical
transformers as an accessory use to dwellings.
(3)
Electrical,
telephone and streetlight poles.
(4)
Electrical
transmission and distribution lines and meters.
(5)
Shelters
and benches for buses that transport school children or that are owned,
operated or financed by a public transit authority and that do not
include off-premise signs.
(6)
Engineered
retaining walls that are clearly necessary to hold back slopes. Such
walls must be a minimum of five feet from the property line.
(7)
Ramps primarily
intended for handicapped access.
(8)
Ground
level porches. See § 27-402.6.
(9)
Construction.
Temporary storage of vehicles and materials and construction office
trailers that are clearly needed and being actively used for current
construction on the same or an adjacent lot or within the same subdivision,
provided such items are removed from the site within 30 days of completion
of the portion of the construction that they relate to. These vehicles
and materials shall only be stored on a lot while the related Borough
construction permit is actively still in effect.
B.
Essential services
required to comply with lot area and setback requirements. The following
are permitted essential services that are required to meet all of
the applicable requirements of this Zoning Chapter:
(1)
Electrical substations and bulk industrial or commercial transformers that are not an accessory use to dwellings. Electric substations involving outdoor structures at least 10 feet in height shall be required to provide buffer yards within the requirements of § 27-1102 on sides that are within 150 feet of a dwelling, undeveloped residentially zoned land or an expressway or an arterial street.
(2)
Water towers
(see height exemption in § 27-402.8), water filtration plants
and pressure stations.
(3)
Solid waste
bulk dumpsters and bulk compactors.
(4)
Central
sewage treatment facility meeting all Pennsylvania DEP and Borough
regulations.
