The definition of words included herein are provided to facilitate
the interpretation of this chapter for administrative and enforcement
purposes. Unless expressly stated otherwise, within the context of
this chapter, the following shall apply:
A.
Words used in the present tense shall include the future tense.
B.
The word "person" shall include a profit or nonprofit corporation,
company, partnership, individual or single proprietorship.
C.
The words "used" or "occupied" as applied to any land or building
shall include the words "intended," "arranged," or "designed" to be
used or occupied.
D.
The word "building" shall include "part thereof" and "structure."
E.
The word "lot" shall include "plot" or "parcel."
F.
The word "shall" is always mandatory.
G.
The singular number shall include the plural, and the plural the
singular.
H.
The masculine gender shall include the feminine and neuter.
I.
The word "street" shall include "road," "highway," and "lane."
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
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, subject to completion of the
work within one year from the issuance of a building permit.
Having a common border with, or being separated from such,
a common border by a right-of-way, alley, or easement.
A means of vehicular approach to provide entrance to or exit
from a property.
A structure detached from a principal structure on the same
lot and used for a purpose customarily incidental and subordinate
to the principal structure or use.
A use of land or building or a portion thereof customarily
incidental and subordinate to the principal use of land or structure
and located on the same lot with such principal use.
ADULT BOOKSTOREAn establishment that has as a substantial portion of its stock-in-trade and offers for sale, for any form of consideration, any one or more of the following:
Books, magazines, periodicals, or other printed matter, or photographs,
films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or other visual representations
that are characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or description
of specified sexual activities, as so defined by this chapter, or
specified anatomical areas, as so defined by this chapter; or
Instruments, devices, or paraphernalia that are designed for
use in connection with specified sexual activities, as so defined
by this chapter.
ADULT CLUBA bar, tavern, club (private or public), restaurant, or similar establishment that regularly features live performances that are characterized by the exposure of specified anatomical areas, as so defined by this chapter, or by specified sexual activities, as so defined by this chapter, or films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or other photographic reproductions in which a substantial portion of the total presentation time is devoted to the showing of material that is characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or description of specified sexual activities, as so defined by this chapter, or specified anatomical areas, as so defined by this chapter.
MASSAGE PARLORAn establishment where, for any form of consideration, massage, alcohol rub, fomentation, electric or magnetic treatment, or similar treatment or manipulation of the human body is administered, unless such treatment or manipulation is administered by a medical practitioner, chiropractor, acupuncturist, physical therapist, or similar professional person licensed by the state. This definition does not include an athletic club, health club, school, gymnasium, reducing salon, spa, or similar establishment where massage or similar manipulation of the human body is offered as an incidental or accessory service.
ADULT ARCADEAn establishment where, for any form of consideration, one or more motion picture projectors, slide projectors, or similar machines for viewing by five or fewer persons each are used to show films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or other photographic reproductions that are characterized by an emphasis upon the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
ADULT MOTION PICTURE THEATERAn establishment where films, motion pictures, videocassettes, slides, or similar photographic reproductions are shown, and in which a substantial portion of the total presentation time is devoted to the showing of material characterized by an emphasis on the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
SPECIFIED ANATOMICAL AREASAny of the following:
SPECIFIED SEXUAL ACTIVITIESAny 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 sexual
activity, or in connection with any of the activities set forth as
an "adult use."
Any change or rearrangement in the supporting members of
any existing building or structure, such as walls, columns, beams,
girders, or any enlargement to or diminution of a building or a structure,
whether horizontally or vertically, or the moving of a building or
a structure from one location to another.
A change in the regulations and provisions of this chapter,
including changes to boundaries of Zoning Districts as provided upon
the Lansford Borough Zoning Map.
A building used for medical treatment of small domestic animals
by a veterinarian, with short-term housing or boarding incidental
to the hospital/clinic use.
Any lot, premises, building, or combination thereof on which
five or more dogs or cats, or both, at least six months of age are
kept, boarded, or trained for commercial purposes.
A tower, pole, mast or similar structure which supports equipment
used to transmit and/or receive telecommunication signals, radio signals,
television signals, wireless phone signals or similar signals in association
with a commercial enterprise.
A device used to collect and/or transmit telecommunication
signals, radio signals, television signals, wireless phone signals
or similar signals in association with a commercial enterprise, which
may or may not be regulated by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission).
One or more rooms with private bath and kitchen facilities
comprising an independent self-contained dwelling unit in a building
containing one or more dwelling units.
The quantity of land projected on a horizontal plane enclosed
by boundaries of a defined lot, parcel or tract of land.
The dismantling or wrecking of used motor vehicles or trailers,
or the storage, sale, or dumping of dismantled or wrecked vehicles
or their parts. The presence on any lot or parcel of land of two or
more motor vehicles, which for a period exceeding 30 days have not
been capable of operating under their own power and from which parts
have been or are to be removed for reuse or sale, shall constitute
prima-facie evidence of an automobile wrecking yard.
The use of any building, structure or land, other than a
street, for the display and sale or rental of motor vehicles which
are in operable condition. The owner/operator of this business must
have a valid state license for the sale or rental of such motor vehicles.
Any related repair shall be conducted within an enclosed building
and shall be an accessory use and shall be subject to the person operating
such business having a valid state license for the sale or rental
of such motor vehicles.
That portion of a building that is partly or completely below
grade. A basement shall be counted as a story if the vertical distance
from the average adjoining grade to the ceiling is five feet or greater.
A structure or portion thereof which contains rooming units
which are rented or leased, with the occupants of said units being
nontransient and utilizing said location as a legal place of residence.
The term "boardinghouse or rooming house" shall specifically exclude
the following:
Borough of Lansford, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.
The Borough Council of Lansford Borough, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.
A method of improvements designed to separate and substantially
obstruct the view of two adjacent land uses or properties from one
another. For the purpose of this chapter, when a buffer area is required
it shall be deemed to represent a fence or stone wall with cork fitting,
eight feet in height, with two staggered rows of evergreen trees planted
in front of the fence, with the spacing distance between trees not
less than eight feet or greater than 10 feet. Said trees shall be
not less than eight feet in height at the time of planting.
Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls
and intended for shelter, housing or enclosure of persons, animals,
or property.
BUILDING, ACCESSORYA subordinate structure on the same lot as the principal or main building or use occupied or devoted to a use incidental to the principal use.
BUILDING COVERAGEThe horizontal area measured within the outside of the exterior walls of the ground floor of all principal and accessory buildings on a lot.
BUILDING, PRINCIPALA building in which is conducted the principal use of the lot on which it is located.
BUILDING HEIGHTThe vertical distance of a building measure from the average elevation of the proposed finished grade within 20 feet of the structure to the highest point of the roof for flat roofs; to the deck line of mansard roofs and to the average height between eaves and the ridge for gable, hip and gambrel roofs.
A roofed structure open on two or more sides and used for
the storage of private motor vehicles. It may be constructed as a
separate accessory structure or part of the principal structure.
The portion of any building which is located partly underground,
but having 1/2 or more of its height, measured from finished floor
grade to finished ceiling, below the average grade of the adjoining
land. A cellar shall not be counted as a story for the purposes of
administering height regulations of this chapter.
Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the dead
and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including crematories, mausoleums,
and mortuaries, when operated in conjunction with and within the boundaries
of such cemetery.
The certificate issued by the Zoning Officer after he has
inspected any structure, building, sign and/or land or portion thereof
for which a zoning permit was issued in order to determine compliance
with the terms of the permit and this chapter before the structure,
building, sign, and/or land or portion thereof can be lawfully used
and/or occupied.
Any use which differs from the previous use of a building,
structure or land.
CHILD CARE SERVICESThe provision of out-of-home care for children for part of a twenty-four-hour day, excluding the care provided by relatives.
GROUP CHILD CARE HOMEA residential structure in which child care services are provided for more than six but less than 12 children, at any one time, where the child care areas are also used as a portion of a family residence.
FAMILY CHILD-CARE CENTERA structure in which child care services are provided for seven or more children at any one time, where the child care areas within the structure are not jointly used as a portion of a family residence.
(See PLACE OF WORSHIP).
An area of unobstructed vision at street intersections defined
by lines of sight between points at a given distance from the "corner"
so as not to interfere with traffic visibility across the corner.
A facility comprised of professional offices, for the examination
and treatment of persons as outpatients by physicians, dentists or
other licensed medical specialists, in which said medical practitioners
work in cooperative association. Said clinics may provide medical
services customarily available at hospitals, excluding overnight care
of patients and twenty-four-hour emergency service. A methadone clinic,
as so defined in this chapter, shall be excluded within the scope
of this definition.
A facility licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health
to use the drug methadone in the treatment, maintenance or detoxification
of persons.
A use permitted in a particular zoning district only upon
verification that such use in a specified location will comply with
the conditions and standards for the location or operation of such
use as specified in this chapter and where authorization can only
be granted by the Borough Council, preceded by a review and recommendation
of the Borough Planning Commission and a public hearing.
A lot, building, or part thereof, used to store materials
used by a contractor in construction of a road, highway, structure
or building, landscaping or utilities.
Any retail establishment offering for sale prepackaged food
products, household items, and other goods commonly associated with
the same.
Any retail establishment offering for sale prepackaged food
products, household items, and other goods commonly associated with
the same, along with the retail sales of gasoline and related fuel
products.
The Carbon County Planning Commission.
The total number of dwelling units per acre, computed by
dividing the total number of dwelling units proposed by the total
number of acres to be developed.
Any man-made improvements to improved or unimproved real
estate. The construction, reconstruction, conversion, structural alteration,
relocation, or enlargement of any building or structure, any mining,
dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation, drilling, land disturbance
and any use or extension of the use of land shall be deemed to constitute
a development.
A private roadway providing access for vehicles to a parking
space, parking lot, garage, dwelling or other structure.
One or more rooms, designed, occupied or intended for occupancy
as separate living quarters, with cooking, sleeping and sanitary facilities
provided within the dwelling unit for the exclusive use of a single
family maintaining a household.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILYA detached building arranged or used for occupancy by one family.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILYA detached or semidetached building containing not more two individual dwelling units entirely separated by vertical walls or horizontal floors, unpierced except by access to the outside or to a common cellar.
DWELLING, MULTIPLEA building containing three or more dwelling units entirely separated by vertical walls or horizontal floors, unpierced except by access to the outside or to a common cellar.
One or more rooms physically arranged so as to create an
independent housekeeping establishment for occupancy by one family
with separate bathroom, toilet and sanitary facilities and facilities
for cooking and sleeping for exclusive use by the family residing
therein.
A grant of one or more of the property rights by the property
owner to and/or for the use by the public, a corporation or another
person or entity.
Establishments engaged in providing entertainment for a fee
or admission charge, such as indoor motion-picture theaters, bowling
alleys, roller skating facilities, billiard halls, arcades and other
similar uses.
Removal or recovery by any means whatsoever of mineral, as
defined in this chapter, from water or land on or beneath the surface
thereof, or beneath the land surface, whether exposed or submerged.
The use of a lot or structure at the time of the enactment
of this chapter.
One or more persons occupying a dwelling unit and living
together as a single nonprofit housekeeping unit. Foster children
placed into the care and custody of a family shall be deemed to be
a member of the family. A group in excess of four individuals who
are not related by blood, marriage or legal adoption shall not be
deemed to constitute a family.
A tract of land used for "agricultural operations" in accordance
with the definition of said term as provided in this chapter.
A relatively flat or lowland area adjoining a river, stream,
creek or watercourse, which is subject to partial or complete inundation.
The limits of a floodplain shall be based upon Flood Insurance Rate
Maps as published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a
component of the National Flood Insurance Program.
A flood which has the probability to occur once every 100
years and has a 1% probability of occurring each year.
Any combination of structural and nonstructural additions,
changes, or adjustments to properties and structures which reduce
or eliminate flood damage to property, structures, and contents of
buildings.
A portion of the 100-year floodplain which is subject to
inundation and designed to carry and discharge the waters of a 100-year
flood without increasing the water surface of such a flood by more
than one foot at any given point.
The sum of the total horizontal areas of the several floors
of all buildings on a lot, measured from the interior faces of exterior
walls.
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, which does not involve any land development.
A building or part thereof used or intended to be used for
the parking or storage of motor vehicles.
A noncommercial building for the private use of the owner
or occupant of a principal building situated on the same lot of the
principal building for the storage of motor vehicles with no facilities
for mechanical service or repair of a commercial or public nature.
A commercial building designed and used for the storage,
care, repair, or refinishing of motor vehicles, including both minor
and major mechanical overhauling, paint, and bodywork.
A structure, building or area of land or any portion thereof
that is used for the retail sale of gasoline or any other motor vehicle
fuel which may or may not include as an accessory use the sale and
installation of lubricants, tires, batteries and similar accessories
and other minor servicing of motor vehicles excluding the repair of
automotive radiators and painting and/or bodywork of any type of vehicle.
Any use considered to be inconsistent with the public comfort,
convenience, health, safety, and general welfare, including the following:
fire and explosion hazards; electrical and radioactive disturbances;
noise and vibration; dust, dirt and fly ash; glare; smoke and odors;
and other forms of air pollution.
The Borough Council of Lansford Borough, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.
A dwelling unit which is shared under congregate living arrangements
by more than four persons, who are residents of the dwelling unit
by virtue of their need to receive supervised services limited to
health, social and/or rehabilitative services provided by a person
or persons or their licensed or certified agents, a governmental agency
or their licensed or certified agents, a responsible corporation or
their licensed or certified agents, a partnership or limited partnership
or their licensed or certified agents or any other legal entity. Such
services shall be provided on a continuous basis in a family-like
environment to persons who are in need of supervision and/or specialized
services in a residential setting.
The following shall not be deemed to constitute a group residence:
A boarding home and/or a personal care boarding home.
A facility providing shelter and/or rehabilitative care or treatment
of persons for alcoholism and/or an addiction to a controlled substance.
A facility for persons released from or under the jurisdiction
of a governmental bureau of corrections or similar institution.
Any material that, by reason of its quantity, concentration,
or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics, may:
Cause, or significantly contribute to, an increase in mortality
or an increase in a serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible
illness.
Pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health
or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed
of or otherwise managed.
This definition shall be deemed to include radioactive material
and medical waste.
The vertical distance of a structure measured from the average
elevation of the finished grade within 20 feet of the structure to
the highest point of the structure.
The vertical distance measured from the base of the antenna
structure to the highest point of the structure. If the support structure
is located on a sloped grade, then the average between the highest
and lowest grades of the base of the antenna structure shall be used
in calculating the antenna height.
A permit, issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation,
the Carbon County or Lansford Borough, which authorizes access from
a parcel of land onto a highway, road or street which is under the
respective jurisdiction of the above entities.
(Also see NO-IMPACT HOME BASED BUSINESS.) A business, profession
or trade conducted in a single-family dwelling unit or a building
accessory to the dwelling unit operated by the inhabitant thereof
and being clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling
and lot for residential purposes. There shall be no exterior evidence
of the home occupation except the display of permitted signage as
provided in this chapter.
A study and/or report, which may be required at the discretion
of the governing body prior to approval of a conditional use or by
the Zoning Hearing Board prior to approval of a special exception
use, to determine the potential impact of the proposed use on activities,
utilities, traffic generation and circulation, surrounding land uses,
community facilities, environmental features, critical areas, the
public health, safety and welfare and other factors directly, indirectly
or potentially affected. The applicant shall be responsible for all
costs related to any and all reports and/or studies required by the
governing body or Zoning Hearing Board under or within the context
of the term "impact analysis."
Man-made physical additions, alterations and/or changes which
become part of, placed upon, or affixed to real estate.
A use engaged in the basic processing and manufacturing of
materials or products predominately from extracted or raw materials,
or a use engaged in storage of, or manufacturing processes using flammable
or explosive materials, or storage or manufacturing processes that
potentially involve hazardous or commonly recognized offensive conditions.
A use engaged in the manufacture, predominantly from previously
prepared materials, of finished products or parts, including processing,
fabrication, assembly, treatment, packaging, incidental storage, sales,
and distribution of such products, but excluding basic industrial
processing.
A structure or facility which provides medical, health, educational,
social and/or rehabilitative services to more than eight persons on
a continuous and/or regular basis, excluding a facility for persons
released from or under the jurisdiction of a governmental bureau of
corrections or similar institution.
Junk shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
scrap metals and alloys, rags, cloth, rubber, rope, metal foil, bottles,
machinery, tools, appliances, fixtures, lumber, boxes, crates, pipe
or pipe fittings, vehicles, tires and any manufactured goods that
are so worn, deteriorated or obsolete as to make them unusable in
their existing condition or subject to being dismantled. The term
"junk" shall be construed to include abandoned and/or unlicensed vehicles.
A lot, land or structure or part thereof used for the collection,
storage, dismantling, salvage or sale of used and discarded materials,
including but not limited to wastepaper, rags, scrap metal or other
scrap, salvage, or discarded materials, vehicles or machinery The
deposit or storage of two or more unregistered and/or unlicensed vehicles
that are inoperable or disabled shall be deemed to constitute a junkyard.
A designated parcel, tract or area of land established by
a plat or otherwise as permitted by law and to be used, developed
or built upon as a unit for principal and accessory buildings or structures.
The total area of land within the lot lines of a parcel of
land, excluding any street rights-of-way.
The portion or percentage of a lot area covered by all buildings
and/or structures located on the lot.
The length of the front lot line measured at a legally accessible
street right-of-way line.
A line of record bounding one lot from another lot or from
a public or private street or any other public space.
A lot which exists as shown or described upon a plat or deed
and duly recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Carbon
County, Pennsylvania, on the effective date of the adoption of this
chapter.
A lot abutting upon two or more streets or upon two parts
of the same street forming an interior angle of less than 135°.
The mean distance between the front and rear lot line.
A lot other than a corner lot, the sides of which do not
abut a street.
A lot which fronts upon two parallel streets or which fronts
upon two streets which do not intersect at the boundaries of the lot.
The horizontal distance between the side lines of a lot measured
at right angles to its depth along a straight line parallel to the
front lot line at the minimum required building setback line.
A transportable structure, intended for permanent occupancy
as a single-family dwelling, office, or place of assembly, contained
in one unit or in more than one unit designed to be joined into one
integral unit capable of being separated for repeated towing, which
arrives at a site complete and ready for occupancy except for minor
and incidental unpacking and assembly operations, and constructed
so that it may be utilized with or without placement on a permanent
foundation.
A parcel, or contiguous parcels of land, which has been planned,
designed and improved for the placement of two or more manufactured
homes for nontransient use.
Any aggregate or mass of mineral matter, whether or not coherent.
The term shall include, but is not limited to, limestone and dolomite,
sand and gravel, rock and stone, earth, fill, slag, iron ore, zinc
ore, vermiculite and clay, anthracite and bituminous coal, coal refuse,
peat and crude oil and natural gas.
A structure to be occupied as a dwelling, designed, built
to current manufactured housing standards and transported to a site
and thereupon placed on a permanent, frost-free foundation with all
sections permanently joined and connected to all required utilities.
A building or group of buildings containing individual rooms
or apartments, accommodations primarily for transients, each of which
is provided with a separate exterior entrance and a parking space,
and offered principally for rental and use by motor vehicle travelers.
Lansford Borough, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.
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 premises, in excess of those normally associated with residential use. The business or commercial activity must also comply with the supplemental requirements contained within Article VIII of this chapter.
A lot the area or dimension of which was lawful prior to
the adoption or amendment of a zoning ordinance, but which fails to
conform to the requirements of the zoning district in which it is
located by reasons of such adoption or amendment.
A structure or part of a structure manifestly not designed
to comply with the applicable use or extent of use provisions in this
chapter or amendment heretofore or hereafter enacted, where such structure
lawfully existed prior to the enactment of such chapter or amendment
or prior to the application of such chapter 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 this chapter or amendment heretofore
or hereafter enacted, where such use was lawfully in existence prior
to the enactment of such chapter or amendment to its location by reason
of annexation.
Land or greenhouse used to raise flowers, shrubs and plants
for sale.
A dwelling used for the continuous care of patients requiring
and utilizing skilled nursing, medical or rehabilitative care and
licensed and permitted by and complying with all state and federal
rules and regulations and in compliance with all local codes.
PROFESSIONAL OFFICEAn office (other than a service office) for the practice of professions, such as the offices of physicians, dentists, attorneys-at-law, architects, veterinarians, engineers, artists, musicians, teachers, and others who, through training, are qualified to perform services of a professional nature.
SERVICE OFFICEAn office in which are offered services by real estate agents, travel agents, insurance agents, accountants, public stenographers, brokers, or others who, through training, are duly qualified to perform services of an executive nature as distinguished from a professional office.
The keeping, in an unroofed area, of any goods, material,
merchandise, equipment or vehicles which are related to the operation
of a commercial business, excluding the storage of solid waste, hazardous
substances, refuse, junk, junked vehicles discarded and/or any inoperative
durable items.
An off-street surfaced area designed solely for the parking
of motor vehicles.
An off-street parking space available for the parking of
one motor vehicle and having dimensions of not less than nine feet
in width and 20 feet in depth, exclusive of passageways, driveways
or other means of circulation or access.
A support for a building or structure, including but not
limited to manufactured home, mobile homes and modular homes, reaching
below the frost line and consisting of either poured concrete, concrete
blocks, cinder blocks, brick, pressurized wood or stone to form a
horizontal pad, columns or vertical wall on which the building or
structure is anchored and is intended to remain indefinitely.
A use allowed by right in a particular zoning district, but
subject to the restrictions and provisions applicable to that zoning
district.
Establishments primarily engaged in providing services involving
the care of a person or his or her apparel, such as shoe repair, beauty
shops, barbershops, watch repair, dry cleaners, coin-operated laundries,
health clubs, photographic studios and related uses.
A building used for religious services, including churches,
synagogues and similar edifices.
An area of land to be developed as a single entity for a
number of dwelling units, and nonresidential uses, with a development
plan which does not correspond in lot size, bulk, type of dwelling,
density, lot coverage and required open space to the regulations established
in any one residential zoning district created from time to time under
the provisions of this chapter.
The Planning Commission of Lansford Borough, Carbon County,
Pennsylvania.
The primary or predominant use of any lot or structure.
A formal meeting held pursuant to public notice by the governing
body, Planning Commission or Zoning Hearing Board, which is intended
to inform and obtain public comment prior to taking action on a particular
subject matter or development.
A forum held pursuant to notice under the Act of July 3,
1986 (P.L. 388, No. 84), known as the "Sunshine Act."[1]
Notice published once each week for two successive weeks
in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality. Said notice
shall state the time, date and place of the public hearing and the
particular nature of the subject matter to be considered at said hearing.
The first notice shall be published not more than 30 days and the
second notice shall be published not less than seven days from the
date of the hearing.
The operation and ownership of a building, structure or land
by a governmental agency for a public purpose of an administrative
or service nature.
A private corporation or municipal authority with an exclusive
franchise for providing a public service which operates under regulations
of federal, state or local government.
Telephone, electric and cable television lines, poles, equipment
and structures; water or gas pipes, mains, valves or structures, pumping
stations; telephone exchanges and all other facilities, equipment
and structures necessary for conducting a service by a public utility
under the jurisdiction of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission,
in accordance with Section 619 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities
Planning Code, Act 247, as amended.
A recreational facility operated as a business and opened
to the public for a fee.
A recreational facility operated as a nonprofit organization
and opened only to members and guests of such organization.
A recreational facility operated as a nonprofit enterprise
by a governmental agency and opened to the general public.
A strip of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a
street, crosswalk, railroad, electric transmission line, oil or gas
pipeline, water main, sanitary or storm sewer line, or other special
use.
The actual seating capacity of an area based upon the number
of seats or one seat per 18 inches of bench or pew length. For other
areas where seats are not fixed, the seating capacity shall be determined
as indicated by the Uniform Construction Code.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
A building or group of buildings in a controlled access and
fenced compound that contains varying sizes of individual compartmentalized,
and controlled access stalls or lockers which are leased to individuals
for the storage of the individual's property, possessions or wares.
The required minimum horizontal distance between the building
line and the related front, side or rear property line.
A sanitary sewage collection system, approved by the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Protection, in which sewage is carried
from individual lots by a system of pipes to a central treatment and
disposal facility.
A sanitary sewage collection system, approved by the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Protection, in which sewage is carried
from individual lots by a system of pipes to a central treatment and
disposal facility.
Any facility designed to biochemically treat sewage within
the boundaries of an individual lot in accordance with the governing
rules and regulations of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Protection.
A group of commercial establishments, planned, designed and
constructed as an integrated unit with off-street parking provided
on site for customers and employees.
Any object, device, display, or structure or part thereof
situated outdoors or indoors, which is used to advertise, identify,
display, direct or attract attention to an object, person, institution,
organization, business, product, service, event or location by any
means, including words, letters, figures, design symbols, fixtures,
colors, illumination or projected images. The word "sign" shall not
include flag, pennant, or insignia of any nation, state or municipality
nor shall it include public traffic or directional signs.
Any facility whose operations include the following, as defined
and regulated by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection:
landfills, transfer facilities, refuse vehicle staging areas, leaf
composting facilities, resource recovery facilities, waste disposal
and processing facilities and recycling facilities.
Any use considered to have special requirements in certain
zones or districts where conditions have been enumerated in this chapter
and where approval for such uses is solely vested with the Zoning
Hearing Board, who may require certain conditions and safeguards as
a condition of approval.
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, the space between such floor and the ceiling
above it.
A public (dedicated) or private (undedicated) right-of-way,
whether improved or unimproved, intended for use by vehicular traffic
and pedestrian traffic. The word "street" includes avenue, boulevard,
road, highway, freeway, lane, alley, viaduct, or any other ways used
or intended to be used as such.
Any man-made object, the use of which requires an ascertainable
stationary location on land, regardless of whether or not it is affixed
to the land.
The division or redivision of a lot, tract or parcel of land
by any means into two or more lots, tracts, parcels or other divisions
of land, including changes in existing lot lines for the purpose,
whether immediate or future, of lease, partition by the court for
distribution 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.
A water-filled enclosure, permanently constructed or portable,
designed to be used or intended to be used for swimming purposes by
any family or persons residing on the premises or their guests. The
use shall not be operated for financial gain and the use shall be
considered an accessory use to the dwelling on the lot thereon. Portable-type
wading pools, only if having a depth of greater than 2 1/2 feet,
shall be construed as swimming pools.
An attached residential building containing not less than
three single-family dwelling units, but not more than six single-family
dwelling units, having a separate front and rear access to the outside,
with no dwelling located above any other, and with each dwelling unit
separated from another by one or more common wall.
An approval granted by the Zoning Hearing Board to diverge
from the terms and provisions of this chapter in instances where adhering
to such terms and provisions would create an unnecessary hardship
as a result of peculiar or unique conditions or circumstances pertaining
solely to the lot or property in question.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
A use engaged in storage, wholesale and distribution of manufactured
products, supplies and equipment, excluding the bulk storage of materials
that are inflammable, explosive, hazardous or commonly recognized
as offensive.
A public or private system for supplying or distributing
water from a common source to buildings and other structures.
A system for supplying and distributing water to a single
dwelling or other structure from a source located on the same lot.
Those areas that are inundated or saturated by the surface
or ground water at a frequency or duration sufficient to support,
and under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation
typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions, including
swamps, marshes, bogs and similar areas and which are listed in the
State Water Plan, The United States Forest Service Wetlands Inventory
of Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania Coastal Zone Management Plan and
any wetland area designated by a river basin commission.
A tract or parcel of land containing a commercial antenna,
its support structure, accessory building(s) and parking.
An open space that lies between the principal building and
the nearest lot line. Such yard is unoccupied and unobstructed from
the ground up, except for accessory buildings or such projections
which are expressly permitted in this chapter.
A space extending the full width of the lot between the principal
building and the front lot line and measured perpendicular to the
building at the closest point to the front lot line.
A space extending the full width of the lot between the principal
building and the rear lot line and measured perpendicular to the building
at the closest point to the rear lot line.
A space extending from the front yard to the rear yard between
the principal building and the side lot line and measured perpendicular
from the side lot line to the closest point of the principal building.
A portion of the municipality, as illustrated upon the Official
Zoning Map, within which certain uniform regulations and requirements
apply under the provisions of this chapter.
The Zoning Hearing Board of Lansford Borough, Carbon County,
Pennsylvania.
The Official Map which indicates and delineates the Zoning
Districts of Lansford Borough, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.[2]
The administrative officer appointed by the governing body
to administer and enforce this chapter of the Code of Lansford Borough,
Carbon County, Pennsylvania.
The Lansford Borough Zoning Ordinance; this chapter of the
Code
Written authorization issued by the Zoning Officer, as a
condition precedent to the commencement of a use, or the erection,
construction, reconstruction, restoration, alteration, conversion
or installation of a building or structure.
