For the
purposes of this Chapter, the following words, terms and phrases have
the meanings herein indicated:
ACCESSORY USE OR STRUCTURE
A use or building structure subordinate to and located on
the same lot as the principal use or building and serving a purpose
customarily incidental to the use of the principal building.
ALLEY
A public or private way affording only secondary means of
access to abutting property. This is not intended to include utility
alleys, which are easements not open to public traffic and intended
solely for the placement and maintenance of utilities.
BASEMENT
A story partly underground but having at least one-half of
its height above the average level of the adjoining ground. A “basement”
shall be counted as a story for the purpose of height measurement
if the vertical distance between the ceiling and the average level
of the adjoining ground is more than five feet or if used for business
or dwelling purposes, other than a game or recreation room.
BEDROOM
A room not less than 80 square feet which, because of limited
access and separation from the living areas, is intended or may be
used for sleeping.
BOROUGH
Selinsgrove Borough, Snyder County, Pennsylvania.
BUILDING
Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls,
used for the shelter, housing or enclosure of persons, animals or
property.
BUILDING, ACCESSORY
A building subordinate to the principal building on a lot
and used for purposes customarily incidental to those of the principal
building.
BUILDING COVERAGE, MAXIMUM
The maximum ratio obtained by dividing the ground floor area
of all principal and accessory buildings on a lot by the total area
of the lot upon which the buildings are located, including covered
porches, carports and breezeways but excluding open patios.
BUILDING HEIGHT
The vertical distance of a building measured from the mean
level of the ground surrounding the building to the high point of
the roof, but not including chimney, spires, towers, elevator penthouses,
tanks and similar projections.
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL
A building in which is conducted the main or principal use
of the lot on which it is situated.
BUSINESS OFFICE
Office buildings to be used only for the administrative functions
of companies, corporations, social or philanthropic organizations
or societies, and the professional offices of accountants, architects,
brokers, engineers, lawyers, physicians, dentists, optometrists, ministers,
insurance agents, realtors, authors, city planners, and similar professions.
CELLAR
A story partly underground and having more than one-half
of its clear height below the average level of the adjoining ground.
A “cellar” shall not be considered in determining the
permissible number of stories.
COMMERCIAL CONVERSION
Any building which has been altered to accommodate a business
or profession provided that such alteration is confined to the interior
of an already existing structural shell and that such alteration may
not include an extension of the sides or an increase in the height
of an existing structure. Commercial conversion includes a change
from one commercial use to another when either (1) there is a structural
change or (2) the use is adjacent to a residential use, but not otherwise.
COMMISSION
The Planning Commission of the Borough of Selinsgrove.
CONDITIONAL USE
A use which is not appropriate to a particular zoning district
as a whole but which may be suitable in certain localities within
the district only when specific conditions and factors prescribed
for such cases within this Chapter are met. “Conditional uses”
are allowed or denied by the Borough Council after recommendations
by the Planning Commission.
COUNCIL
The Borough Council of the Borough.
COVERAGE, IMPERVIOUS
That portion or percentage of the plot or lot area covered
by buildings, paved areas or other hard-surface areas which do not
normally absorb rainfall.
DECK
A platform or floor, commonly made of wood materials, at
ground level or not more than one foot above ground level, with or
without railing.
DWELLING
Any building or portion thereof designed or used exclusively
as the residence or sleeping place of one or more persons. The term
“dwelling” shall not be deemed to include automobile court,
rooming house, tourist home, hotel, hospital, nursing home, dormitory,
fraternity or sorority house.
A.
APARTMENT
A room or suite of rooms in a multi-family structure which
is arranged, designed, used or intended to be used as a housekeeping
unit for a single family.
B.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY
A detached building, designated for or occupied exclusively
by one family, and containing not more than one dwelling unit and
having two side yards.
C.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY
A detached or semi-detached building where not more than
two individual family or dwelling units are entirely separated by
vertical walls or horizontal floors, unpierced except for access to
the outside or to a common cellar.
D.
MULTI-FAMILY DWELLING
A building designed for occupancy by three or more families
living independently of each other, and containing three or more dwelling
units. Such buildings shall consist of the following types:
(1)
GARDEN APARTMENTS
A group of not more than 16 dwelling units within each structure
where living within each unit is limited to one floor, height does
not exceed three stories and 40 feet.
(2)
TOWNHOUSE
A group of not more than eight single-family attached dwelling
units where living within each unit is on two floors, units are separated
from each other by common walls, height does not exceed 2 1/2 stories
and 40 feet, and each unit contains a separate access from the outside.
(3)
ELEVATOR APARTMENT
A group of dwelling units serviced by at least one elevator
where living within each unit is limited to one floor, height does
not exceed six stories and 60 feet, and all units share common entranceways.
DWELLING UNIT
One or more rooms, including a kitchen or kitchenette and
sanitary facilities, in a dwelling structure, designed as a unit for
occupancy by not more than one family for living and sleeping purposes.
EFFICIENCY UNIT
An apartment dwelling unit which features a combination of
certain uses in order to lessen total living area required. An “efficiency
unit” shall not include any apartment dwelling unit of three
or more rooms.
ESSENTIAL SERVICES
The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance, by
public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies, of underground
or overhead gas, electrical, communication, steam or water transmission
or distribution systems, including poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers,
pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic
signals, hydrants and other similar equipment and accessories in connection
therewith reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service
by such public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies
or for the public health or safety or general welfare but not including
buildings except telephone central office buildings and telephone
booths which shall also be considered as essential service facilities
hereunder.
FAMILY
Either an individual or two or more persons related by blood
or marriage or adoption or a group of not more than three unrelated
persons, excluding servants, living together as a household in a dwelling
unit.
FLOODWAY
The channel of a river or other water course and the adjacent
land areas required to carry and discharge a flood of the 100-year
magnitude.
FLOOR AREA, HABITABLE
The aggregate of the horizontal areas of all rooms used for
habitation, such as living room, dining room, kitchen and bedroom,
but not including hallway, stairway, cellar, unfinished attics, service
rooms or utility rooms, unheated areas, such as enclosed porches,
nor rooms without at least one window or skylight opening onto an
outside yard or court except vented bathrooms. At least one-half of
the floor area of every habitable room shall have a ceiling height
of not less than seven feet, and the floor area of that part of any
room where the ceiling height is less than five feet shall not be
considered as part of the “habitable floor area.”
FOOD PROCESSING
Any orderly or established series of steps or operations
toward or for the preparation and sale of food or food products for
human consumption, including, but not limited to, cooking, cutting,
mixing, packaging, storing, preserving and distributing vegetables,
fruits, bakery goods, dairy products, seafood, poultry and meats.
However, food processing shall not include the housing or slaughtering
of animals or the processing of animal carcasses.
FREESTANDING SIGN
A sign which is not attached or connected to any building
and is supported by a single post made of wood or wood products.
GARAGE, PRIVATE PARKING
A building or portion thereof used only for the storage of
automobiles by the families resident upon the premises or by individuals
residing in the immediate vicinity of such storage facilities.
GARAGE, PUBLIC PARKING
A structure or portion thereof, other than a private garage,
used for the storage, sale, hire, care, repair or refinishing of automobiles.
GARAGE, STORAGE
A building, not a private or public garage, one story in
height, used solely for the storage of motor vehicles (other than
trucks), but not for the service or repair thereof nor for the sale
of fuel, accessories or supplies.
GASOLINE FILLING STATION
Any area of land, including structures thereon, or any building
or part thereof that is used for the sale of gasoline or other motor
vehicle fuel or for lubricating, washing or otherwise servicing, motor
vehicles, but which shall not include painting or body and fender
repairs.
GOVERNING BODY
The Borough Council, Borough of Selinsgrove, County of Snyder,
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
HABITABLE ROOM
A room or enclosed floor space arranged for living, eating
or sleeping purposes, not including laundries, pantries, foyers or
communicating corridors or unfinished attics.
HOME OCCUPATION
A lawful occupation as listed herein, conducted as an incidental
or accessory use in a dwelling unit when authorized under the process
of a special exception use before the Zoning Hearing Board, provided
that such “home occupation” shall be conducted only by
residents of the dwelling unit, who may employ not more than one additional
nonresident person, and that the only external evidence of the “home
occupation” shall be a sign not exceeding 1½ square feet
in area. Such “home occupation” shall be restricted to
professional offices, the training or tutoring of up to four adults
in small classes, nursery school classes limited to no more than 10
children, custom dressmaking, millinery or tailoring, women’s
beauty salons, men’s barbershops and the rooming or boarding
of not more than two persons. The “home occupation” shall
occupy an area of not more than 50% of the first floor area of the
principal and adjoining buildings; and no goods, materials or equipment
shall be publicly displayed or stored on the premises; and adequate
off-street parking shall be provided.
HOSPITAL
Unless otherwise specified, includes sanatorium, preventorium,
clinic, rest home, nursing home, convalescent home and any other place
for the diagnosis, treatment or other care of ailments, and is limited
to places for the diagnosis, treatment or other care of human ailments.
HOUSING, ELDERLY
A multi-family housing project designed specifically for
elderly and handicapped persons. The deed or other recorded indenture
must contain a covenant running with the land for at least 20 years
limiting the use of the dwelling units to persons 62 years of age
or older and handicapped persons as defined by the Department of Housing
and Urban Development, from time to time. This covenant shall be enforceable
by the Borough of Selinsgrove, and this covenant may be waived by
action of the Borough Council if parking requirements for multi-family
housing are met, along with any other conditions which the Council
may impose.
JUNK
Includes scrap iron, scrap tin, scrap brass, scrap copper,
scrap lead or scrap zinc and all other scrap metals and their alloys
and bones, rags, used cloth, used rubber, used rope, used tinfoil,
used bottles, old or used machinery, used tools, used appliances,
used fixtures, used utensils, used lumber, used boxes or crates, used
pipe or pipe fittings, used tires and other manufactured goods that
are so worn, deteriorated or obsolete as to make them unusable in
their existing condition but are subject to being dismantled. Automobiles
in operable condition or bearing a current inspection sticker are
not included as “junk.”
JUNKYARDS
Buildings, structures or premises where junk, waste or discarded
or salvage materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed,
disassembled or handled, including automobile wrecking yards, house
wrecking and structural steel materials and equipment yards, but not
including the purchase or storage of used furniture and household
equipment or used cars in operable condition or bearing a current
inspection sticker.
LOT
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.
A.
LOT, CORNER
A lot situated at and abutting the intersection of two streets
having an interior angle of intersection not greater than 135°.
B.
LOT DEPTH
The mean horizontal distance between the front and the rear
lot lines.
C.
LOT LINES
The property lines bounding a lot.
(3)
LOT LINE, SIDE
Any lot line other than a front or rear lot line. A “side
lot line” separating a lot from a street is called a “side
street lot line.”
D.
LOT WIDTH
The width of a lot between side lot lines at the front building
line as prescribed by the front yard regulations.
E.
LOT AREA
The computed area contained within the lot lines.
MEDIATION
A voluntary negotiating process in which parties in 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.
MOBILE HOME
A transportable single-family dwelling intended for permanent
occupancy, contained in one unit or in two or more units designed
to be joined into one integral unit capable of again being separated
for repeated towing, which arrives at a site complete and ready for
occupancy, except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembly
operations, and constructed so that it may be used without a permanent
foundation.
MOBILE HOME LOT
A parcel of land in a mobile home park, improved with the
necessary utility connections and other appurtenances necessary for
the erection thereon of a single mobile home.
MOBILE HOME PARK
A parcel or contiguous parcels of land which have been so
designated and improved to contain two or more mobile home lots.
MUNICIPAL ENGINEER
A professional engineer licensed as such in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, duly appointed as the engineer for a municipality,
planning agency or joint planning commission.
MUNICIPALITY
The municipal corporation known as the “Borough of
Selinsgrove, Snyder County, Pennsylvania.”
NO IMPACT HOME-BASED BUSINESS
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 limited customer, client or patient traffic,
whether vehicular or pedestrian, pickup, delivery or removal functions
to or from the premises, in excess of those normally associated with
residential use. The business or commercial activity must satisfy
the following requirements:
A.
The business activity shall be compatible with the residential
use of the property and surrounding residential uses;
B.
The business shall employ no employees other than family members
residing in the dwelling;
C.
There shall be no display or sale of retail goods and no stockpiling
or inventory of a substantial nature;
D.
There shall be no outside appearance of a business use, including,
but not limited to, parking, signs, except for small signs as permitted
under the Selinsgrove Borough Sign Ordinance, or light;
E.
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;
F.
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;
G.
The business activity shall be conducted only within the dwelling
and may not occupy more than 25% of the habitable floor space; and
H.
The business may not involve any illegal activity.
NONCONFORMING LOT
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 after such adoption or amendment.
NONCONFORMING STRUCTURE
A structure or part of a structure manifestly not designed
to comply with the applicable use or extent of use provisions in a
zoning ordinance or amendment heretofore or hereafter enacted, where
such structure lawfully existed prior to the enactment of such ordinance
or amendment or prior to the application of such ordinance or amendment
to its location by reason of annexation. Such nonconforming structures
include, but are not limited to, nonconforming signs.
NONCONFORMING USE
A use, whether of land or of structure, which does not comply
with the applicable use provisions in a zoning ordinance or amendment
theretofore or hereafter enacted, where such use lawfully existed
prior to the enactment of such ordinance or amendment or prior to
the application of such ordinance or amendment to its location by
reason of annexation.
NURSING HOME
Any premises containing sleeping rooms used by persons who
are lodged and furnished with meals and nursing care.
PARKING AREA, PUBLIC
An open area, other than a street or other public way, used
for the parking of automobiles and available to the public, whether
for a fee, free or as an accommodation for clients or customers.
PATIO
A courtyard, paved or improved area adjacent to or near a
dwelling, but not a part of the dwelling structure, and intended to
be used as an area for seating, dining or recreation outdoors.
PERMANENT SIGN
A sign intended to exist or function for a long, indefinite
period of time without regard to unforeseeable conditions.
PERMITTED USE
Any use which does not require special action by the Zoning
Hearing Board or by the Planning Commission before a zoning permit
is granted by the Zoning Officer.
PERSON
Any natural individual, partnership, association, corporation
or other group or entity. Whenever used in any clause prescribing
or imposing a penalty, “person,” when applied to firms,
partnerships or associations, shall mean the partners or members thereof
and when applied to corporations, the officers thereof.
PORCH
A roofed entrance to a building, projecting out from the
wall or walls of the main structure, and which is neither heated nor
air conditioned.
PORTABLE SIGN
A sign that is designed to be transported, including, but
not limited to, signs containing any outdoor advertising or business
display that is designed to be transported. The criteria used to determine
whether a sign is designed to be transported shall include, but not
be limited to, the following: the sign has readily removable and installable
wheels; the sign has a chassis on wheels or is supported by a trailer
on wheels; the sign is readily convertible to an A-frame or T-frame
or is mounted on a vehicle for advertising purposes, which, when parked,
is visible from the public right-of-way or sidewalk, excepting those
signs identifying the related business when the vehicle is being used
in the normal day-to-day operation of that business for purposes in
addition to advertising.
PROFESSIONAL OFFICE
Includes the office of a physician, dentist, optometrist,
minister, architect, landscape architect, city planner, engineer,
insurance agent, realtor, accountant, lawyer or author.
PUBLIC HEARING
A formal meeting held pursuant to public notice by the governing
body or Planning Commission intended to inform and obtain public comment
prior to taking action in accordance with this Chapter.
PUBLIC MEETING
A forum held pursuant to notice under the Sunshine Act, 65
Pa.C.S.A. §701 et seq.
PUBLIC NOTICE
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.
PUBLIC USE
Includes governmental-owned uses, such as schools, parks,
civic centers, historical restorations, fire stations, municipal buildings,
essential public utilities that require enclosure within a building,
airports and easements for alleys, streets and public utility rights-of-way.
RESIDENTIAL CONVERSION
Any building which has been altered to accommodate one or more dwelling units provided that such alteration is confined to the interior of any already existing structural shell and that such alteration may not include an extension of sides or an increase in the height of an existing structure. A conversion of any type of residential dwelling to another type of residential dwelling is a residential conversion. For types of residential dwellings, see the definition of “dwelling.” See §
27-1317.
RIGHT-OF-WAY
Land reserved for use as a street, alley, interior walk or
other public purpose.
SANATORIUM
An institution for the care and treatment of invalids and
convalescents.
SETBACK LINE
A line established by this Chapter generally parallel with
and measured from the lot line, defining the limits of a yard in which
no building or structure may be located above ground, except as may
be provided in this Chapter.
SIGN
Any object, display, or structure, or part thereof, 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 term “sign” does not include the flag of the
United States of America or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, works
of art which in no way identify a product or business; or scoreboards
located on athletic fields.
SIGN, ABANDONED
A sign erected on, or related to, the use of a property which
becomes vacant and unoccupied or any sign which relates to a time,
event, or purpose which is past.
SIGN, ADVERTISING
A sign which directs attention to a business or profession
conducted or to a commodity, service or entertainment sold or offered
elsewhere than upon the premises where such sign is located or to
which it is affixed.
SIGN, AWNING
A sign attached to, painted, or printed onto an awning, of
the hinged, roll, or folding type.
SIGN, BANNER
A sign intended to be hung either with or without a frame,
possessing characters, letters, illustrations, or ornamentations applied
to plastic or fabric of any kind.
SIGN, BILLBOARD
A sign used to direct attention to a business, commodity,
service or entertainment not conducted, sold or offered upon the premises
where such a sign is located.
SIGN BOARD
That portion of a sign upon which the letters, drawing, pictures
or symbols are inscribed, mounted or painted.
SIGN, BUSINESS
A sign which directs attention to a business or profession
conducted or to a commodity, service or entertainment sold or offered
upon the premises where such sign is located or to which it is affixed.
SIGN, CANOPY
A sign attached to, painted, or printed onto a canopy. For
the purposes of this Chapter, the permitted size of a canopy sign
will be calculated on the basis of the size of the building wall parallel,
or substantially parallel, to a street. It will, for measuring purposes,
be considered a wall sign.
SIGN, CONSTRUCTION
A sign placed at a construction site identifying or announcing
the project or name of the architect, engineer, contractor, financier,
or others involved in the development of the project.
SIGN, DIRECTIONAL
A sign which identifies a public or semi-public use located
within the Borough and provides direction thereto through written
description, address, and/or graphic or pictorial illustration.
SIGN, DIRECTORY
A sign on which the names and locations of occupants or the
use of a building or property is identified.
SIGN, ELECTRONIC
A sign that displays images, pictures, video and/or copy
by means of light emitting diodes (LEDs), fiber optics, light bulbs
or other illumination devices within the display area. Electronic
signs include computer programmable, microprocessor controlled, electronic
or digital displays.
SIGN, FLASHING
A sign that uses an intermittent or flashing light source
or windblown and/or mechanical moving reflective material to attract
someone.
SIGN, FOOTCANDLE
A unit of measurement of light, where one footcandle equals
approximately the amount of light produced by a candle at a distance
of one foot. It is equivalent to one lumen per square foot. A footcandle
is measurable with an illuminance meter, also known as a light meter.
SIGN, FREESTANDING
A sign which is not attached or connected to any building
and is supported by a single post made of wood or wood products.
SIGN, GOVERNMENT
Any temporary or permanent sign erected and maintained for
any government purposes other than signs placed on the premises of
a publicly owned building, structure or other land use, designed to
identify the public and land use. Examples of government signs include
speed limit signs, city limit signs, street name signs, and traffic
signs. Conversely a sign placed on a public building such as library,
school or public safety building, which identifies said building,
shall not be considered a government sign.
SIGN, GROSS SURFACE AREA OF
The entire area within a single continuous perimeter enclosing
the extreme limits of such a sign and in no case passing through or
between any adjacent elements of the same. However, such a perimeter
shall not include any structural or framing elements lying outside
the limits of such sign and not forming an integral part of the display.
SIGN, GROUND MOUNTED
Any sign which extends from the ground or which has supports
which places the bottom thereof less than two feet from the ground
directly beneath the sign (also known as a monument sign).
SIGN, IDENTIFICATION
A sign which displays only the name, address, and/or crest,
or insignia, trademark, occupation or profession of an occupant or
the name of any building on the premises.
SIGN, INCIDENTAL
A sign used in conjunction with equipment or other functional
elements for a use or operation. These shall include, but not be limited
to, drive through window menu boards, and signs on automatic teller
machines, gas pumps, vending machines, or newspaper delivery boxes.
SIGN, INSTRUCTIONAL
An on-premises sign designed to guide vehicular and/or pedestrian
traffic by using such words as “Entrance,” “Exit,”
“Parking,” “One-Way,” or similar directional
instructions, indicate the availability of restrooms, telephone, or
similar public convenience, but not including any advertising message.
The name or logo of the business or use to which the sign is giving
direction may also be included on the sign.
SIGN, LOGO
A sign used by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
on limited access highways to direct motorists to nearby businesses
and services.
SIGN, LUMINOUS
A sign illuminated through the use of phosphorescent or luminescent
paint or materials.
SIGN, MARQUEE
Any sign attached to a marquee for the purpose of identifying
a movie theater or similar place of entertainment.
SIGN, MULTI-TENANT CENTER
Signs intended for shopping, professional office or other
type of commercial center. One sign identifies the name of the center
with one wall sign per occupant.
SIGN, OFF-PREMISES
A sign that draws attention to, provides direction, or communicates
information about a business, service or commodity, that exists or
is conducted, sold, offered, maintained or provided at a location
other than the premises where the sign is located.
SIGN, ON-PREMISES
A sign that draws attention to or communicates information
about a business, service, commodity, accommodation, attraction, or
other enterprise or activity that exists or is conducted, sold, offered,
maintained or provided on the premises where the sign is located.
SIGN, PERMANENT
A sign intended to exist or function for a long, indefinite
period of time without regard to unforeseeable conditions.
SIGN, POLITICAL
Any temporary sign pertaining to political views, an individual
seeking election or appointment to a public office, or a forthcoming
public election or referendum.
SIGN, PORTABLE
A sign that is designed to be transported, including but
not limited to signs containing any outdoor advertising or business
display that is designed to be transported. The criteria used to determine
whether a sign is designed to be transported shall include, but not
be limited to, the following: the sign has readily removable and installable
wheels; the sign has a chassis on wheels or is supported by a trailer
on wheels; the sign is readily convertible to an A-frame or T-frame
or is mounted on a vehicle for advertising purposes, which, when parked,
is visible from the public right-of-way or sidewalk, excepting those
signs identifying the related business when the vehicle is being used
in the normal day-to-day operation of that business for purposes in
addition to advertising.
SIGN, PROJECTING
Any sign other than a wall, awning, canopy, or marquee sign,
which is affixed to a building and is supported only by the wall on
which the sign is mounted.
SIGN, PUBLIC INTEREST
A sign on private property that displays information pertinent
to the safety or legal responsibilities of the general public such
as “Warning” and “No Trespassing” signs.
SIGN, REAL ESTATE
A sign that is used to offer for sale, lease, or rent the
premises upon which the sign is placed.
SIGN, ROOF
A sign erected or maintained in whole or in part upon or
over the roof parapet of a building.
SIGN, TEMPORARY
A sign intended to exist or function for a definite period
of time with regard to the occurrence of a specified event or foreseeable
condition.
SIGN, VEHICULAR
Signs on parked vehicles visible from any street where the
sign on the vehicle is to advertise a product or to direct people
to a business or activity located on the same or other property. Vehicular
signs shall not include business logos, identification or advertising
on vehicles primarily used for other transportation purposes.
SIGN, WALL
Any sign directly attached to an exterior wall of a building
or dependent upon a building for its support with its exposed face
parallel or approximately parallel to the plane of the building or
structure on which it is placed. Signs directly painted on walls shall
be considered wall signs.
SIGN, WINDOW
A temporary or permanent sign, which is oriented to the public
right-of way and is located on the inside or outside of a window.
For the purposes of this definition, “window” means any
translucent and/or transparent surface in a building or structure.
SPECIAL EXCEPTION
A use that is permitted in a particular zoning district pursuant
to the provisions of this Chapter. “Special exceptions”
are administered by the Zoning Hearing Board.
STORY
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 the floor and the ceiling
next above it.
A.
STORY, HALF
A partial story under a gable, hip or gambrel roof, the wall
plates of which on at least two opposite exterior walls are not more
than four feet above the floor of such story.
B.
STORY, FIRST
The lowest story or the ground story of any building, the
floor of which is not more than 12 inches below the average contact
ground level at the exterior walls of the building.
STREET
A public or private thoroughfare which affords the principal
means of access to abutting property, including avenue, place, way,
drive, lane, boulevard, highway, road and any other thoroughfare except
an alley.
STRUCTURAL ALTERATION
Any change in the structural members of a building, such
as walls, columns, beams or girders, or any addition to any structure.
STRUCTURE
Anything constructed, the use of which requires permanent
location on the ground or attachment to something having a permanent
location on the ground, including stationary and portable carports.
TEMPORARY SIGN
A sign intended to exist or function for a definite period
of time with regard to the occurrence of a specific event or foreseeable
condition.
TRAVEL TRAILER
A vehicle less than 30 feet in length and used for temporary
living or sleeping purposes and standing on wheels.
UNIVERSITY HOUSING
A.
DORMITORY
A building or part thereof which is owned, leased or operated
by a university or educational institution and designed for and used
primarily as sleeping quarters for university or educational institution
residents.
B.
FRATERNITY OR SORORITY HOUSE
Any building or part thereof which is designed, intended
and/or used primarily for activities of any club or association whose
members are university students, whose activities are university-oriented
and whose charter is university approved.
C.
CONVERSION TO UNIVERSITY HOUSING
Any building or part thereof owned by a university which is a conversion from a residential dwelling and designed, intended and/or used primarily as a residence of any group of university students whose activities are primarily university and/or community oriented. (See §
27-705.5, “Density Regulations.”)
VARIANCE
Relief granted pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter
when the provisions of this Chapter inflict an unnecessary hardship.
YARD
An open space, as may be required by this Chapter, on the
same lot with a building or a group of buildings, which open space
lies between the principal building or group of buildings and the
nearest lot line and is unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground
upward except as herein permitted.
A.
YARD, FRONT
An open space extending the full width of the lot line, unoccupied
and unobstructed from the ground upward except as specified elsewhere
in this Chapter. The “front yard” is measured from the
right-of-way line.
B.
YARD, REAR
An open space extending the full width of the lot between
a building and the rear lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from
the ground upward except as specified elsewhere in this Chapter.
C.
YARD, SIDE
An open space extending from the front yard to the rear yard
between a building and the nearest side lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed
from the ground upward except as specified elsewhere in this Chapter.
ZONING MAP
The official Zoning Map of Selinsgrove Borough.
ZONING OFFICER
The administrative officer charged with the duty of enforcing
the provisions of this Chapter.