A.
Certain words used in this chapter shall have the meanings indicated:
(1)
Words used in the present tense shall include the future; words used
in the singular number shall include the plural, and plural shall
include the singular, unless the context clearly indicates the contrary;
(2)
The word "shall" is mandatory and not discretionary; the word "may"
is permissive;
(3)
The word "and" indicates that all connected items, conditions, provisions
or events shall apply;
(4)
The word "or" indicates that the connected items, conditions, provisions
or events may apply singly or in any combination;
(5)
The words "either. . .or" indicate that the connected items, conditions,
provisions or events may apply separately but not in any combination;
and
(6)
Any use of gender-specific words ("his," "hers," "him," "her") shall
imply both genders.
B.
In case of any difference of meaning or implication between the text
of this article and any caption, illustration or table, the text shall
control.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
A flood that, on the average, is likely to occur once every
100 years (i.e., that has 1% chance of occurring each year, although
the flood may occur in any year).
Any real property, including, but not limited to vacant lots,
buildings and structures located in the Municipality, that is subject
to a mortgage and is either 1) in default of a mortgage for which
a mortgagee has obtained a judgment in foreclosure; 2) in default
of a mortgage and subject to an application or proceeds for a tax
deed or pending tax claim bureau or tax assessor sale for unpaid property
taxes; 3) in default of a mortgage and subject to an application or
proceedings for a sheriff sale for unpaid claims, debts or obligations;
or 4) in default of a mortgage and has been transferred to a mortgagee
by deed in lieu of foreclosure, or any similar document. The designation
of real property as "abandoned" shall remain in place until such time
as the property is sold or transferred to a new owner, the foreclosure
action has been dismissed, and any default on the mortgage has been
cured.
The plugging of the well and the restoration of any well
site as required by this chapter.
See "adjoining property owner."
A dwelling unit that is either attached to the principal
permitted building or to a permitted accessory building on a lot.
An area with seats and/or tables and decorative accessories,
located outdoors of a restaurant, coffee shop, tavern, bar, other
food service establishment.
A detached, subordinate structure, the use of which is customarily
incidental, subordinate to that of the principal structure, which
is not used or not intended to be used for living or sleeping by human
occupants and located on the same lot as the principal structure.
A use conducted on the same lot as the principal use of the
structure to which it is related; a use that is clearly incidental
to, and customarily found in connection with, such principal use.
The Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act of 1980 (P.L.
380, No. 97, July 7, 1980).[1]
A plan to create ways for residents to get where they need
and want to go - safely, conveniently, and comfortably - without the
use of a motor vehicle. Adopted by Resolution No. 19-54, September
10, 2019.
A sign or individual lettering numbering that designate the
street number and/or street name for identification purposes, as designated
by the United States Postal Service.
See "adjoining property owner."
Any real property or properties the border of which is (are)
shared in part or in whole with that of the property, or that would
be shared in part or in whole with that of the property but for a
street, road, or other public thoroughfare separating the properties.
Any vehicle and or trailer used as a vehicle to which a sign
is affixed in such a manner that the carrying of the sign is used
for advertisement or is otherwise not incidental to its primary purpose.
Activities including, but not limited to, livestock and poultry
raising; field, row and tree crops; forest and tree products; sale
of products produced on the premises; and other customary farm structures.
Not included are farm-oriented commercial or industrial activities
or operations, such as food or livestock processing plants, holding
pens, slaughterhouses, or similar uses which handle products not produced
on the immediate premises. Does not include cultivation of marijuana
or any use associated with marijuana — see "medical marijuana
grower/processor facility."
Any of the following transported or intended to be transported
in commerce:
Agricultural, aquacultural, horticultural, floricultural, viticultural
or dairy products.
Livestock and the products of livestock.
Ranch-raised fur-bearing animals and the products of ranch-raised
fur-bearing animals.
The products of poultry or bee raising.
Forestry and forestry products.
Any products raised or produced on farms intended for human
consumption and the processed or manufactured products of such products
intended for human consumption.
An enterprise that is actively engaged in the commercial
production and preparation for market of crops, including livestock
and livestock products and in the production, harvesting, and preparation
for market or use of agricultural, agronomic, horticultural, silvicultural,
and aquacultural crops and commodities. The term includes any enterprise
that implements changes in production practices and procedures or
types of crops, livestock, livestock products, or commodities produced
consistent with practices and procedures that are normally engaged
in by farmers or are consistent with technological development within
the agricultural industry. Does not include cultivation of marijuana
or any use associated with marijuana — see "medical marijuana
grower/processor facility."
Any poultry and livestock manure, or residual materials in
liquid or solid form, generated in the production, and marketing of
poultry, livestock, fur-bearing animals and their products, provided
such waste is not a hazardous waste. The term includes the residual
materials generated in producing, harvesting, and marketing of all
agronomic, horticultural, silvicultural and agricultural crops or
commodities grown on what are usually recognized and accepted as farms,
forests, or other agricultural lands.
Any use of land or structures for farming, dairying, pasturage,
agriculture, apiary, horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, or
animal or poultry husbandry. Uses permitted in conjunction with an
agriculture use may include barns, stables, corn cribs, silos, kennels
and any other use or structure that is clearly related to an agricultural
operation. Does not include cultivation of marijuana or any use associated
with marijuana — see "medical marijuana grower/processor facility."
See "agriculture."
See "bed-and-breakfast" and "short-term rental."
Also see "utility terrain vehicle (UTV)." A vehicle with
treads, wheels, or both, designed to traverse varied, uneven terrain
as well as roads.
An arrangement of street trees whereby a canopy effect is
created due to the regular and combined spacing of the trees.
A public or private way permanently reserved as a secondary
means of access to an abutting property. A narrow service access to
the rear of more-urban buildings, providing service areas, parking
access, and utility easements. (Alleys, as they are used by trucks
and must accommodate dumpsters, should be paved from building face
to building face, with drainage by inverted crown at the center.)
The area within the well pad that is approved for wells to
be drilled.
As applied to a building or structure, a change or rearrangement
in the structural parts or in the exit facilities, or an enlargement,
whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height, or the
moving from one location to another, or any change in use from that
of one zoning district classification to another.
Any change in the supporting members of a building, such
as bearing walls, columns, beams, girders, or foundations.
Any mechanical, electrical, or electromechanical device,
machine, or apparatus, whatsoever, for the playing of games and amusements,
which devices or apparatus are commonly known as "pinball machines,"
"video games," and "jukeboxes," or upon which games are played, or
any device on which music is played after the insertion therein of
a coin or other disc, slug or token or for which fees are paid to
an attendant.
An establishment existing primarily for entertainment purposes
and offering rides and exhibitions for a fee.
A theater, stadium, arena, bowling alley, auditorium or related
facility for the presentation of musical, theatrical, or sporting
events where the number of spectators normally is greater than the
number of players.
A restaurant, which is located within a shopping center,
industrial park, office center or apartment complex, having a floor
area of not more than 3,000 square feet, and intended to primarily
serve the employees, patrons or residents of the complex within which
it is located.
The keeping or raising of livestock, horses and poultry.
Changing of a message or background of a sign in a manner
or method of display characterized by motion or pictorial imagery,
which may or may not include text and depicts action or a special
effect to imitate movement, the presentation of pictorials or graphics
displayed in a progression of frames which give the illusion of motion,
including but not limited to the illusion of moving objects, moving
patterns or bands of light, or expanding or contracting shapes. Video
display signs include projected images or messages with these characteristics
onto buildings or other objects.
Any system of wires, rods, discs, panels, flat panels, dishes,
whips, or other similar devices used for the transmission or reception
of wireless signals. An antenna may include an omnidirectional antenna
(rod), directional antenna (panel), parabolic antenna (disc) or any
other wireless antenna. An antenna shall not include commercial communication
towers as defined herein.
A dwelling unit in a multifamily residential structure or
multiuse structure containing three or more dwelling units.
A place where bees are kept; a collection of beehives.
A developer and/or landowner, as hereinafter defined, including
heirs, successors, and assigns, who has filed an application for subdivision
and/or land development.
Every application, whether preliminary or final, required
to be filed and approved prior to the start of construction or development
or use, including, but not limited to, an application for zoning approval,
for the approval of a subdivision or land development or for the approval
of a development plan. Every application for development must include
the form designated by the Municipal Manager and all other plans and
information required by this Code.
An architect registered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
See "registered professional."
Any number of electrically connected photovoltaic (PV) modules
providing a single electrical output.
American Society of Civil Engineers.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Also see "continuing care facility," "group home," "hospice,"
"nursing home," "personal care home facility," and "skilled nursing
facility." Housing for elderly or disabled people, that provides nursing
care, housekeeping, and prepared meals as needed. A system of housing
and limited care that is designed for senior citizens who need some
assistance with daily activities but do not require care in a nursing
home. Including continued care facility, group home, hospice, personal
care home facility, skilled nursing facility. The terms shall not
include hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, or alcohol and drug abuse
rehabilitation centers.
A room or building where people go to play sports or exercise,
including a day spa, fitness center, gymnasium, membership club, recreational
facility, and sports facility.
A sign, with or without characters, letters or illustrations,
applied to cloth, paper, fabric or other non-rigid material. A banner
is considered a temporary sign.
A room or building for the purpose of hosting a party, banquet,
wedding or other reception, or other social event.
A premises used primarily for the sale or dispensing of liquor
by the drink for on-site consumption and where food may be available
for consumption on the premises as accessory to the principal use.
A farm building used for storing grain, hay, or straw or
for housing livestock and/or farming equipment.
The transitional point between the valley floor and the hillside
where a steep slope of 25% or greater interfaces with less steeply
sloped land below and beyond the SSO (Steep Slope Overlay) boundary.
A flood which has 1% chance of being equaled or exceeded
in any given year (also called the "100-year flood" or "1% annual
chance flood").
The volume of water resulting from a base flood as it passes
a given location within a given time, usually expressed in cubic feet
per second (cfs).
The elevation shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM)
for Zones AE, AH, A1-30 that indicates the water surface elevation
resulting from a flood that has a 1% or greater chance of being equaled
or exceeded in any given year.
A story partly below ground and having 40% or more of its
height below the grade of the adjoining ground.
A reference plane representing the average of the finished
ground level adjoining a structure at all its exterior walls.
(Also see "Airbnb" and "short-term rental.") An owner-occupied
single-family dwelling that contains not more than three guest bedrooms,
in which lodging and meals are provided for compensation. Guests are
not accommodated for no longer than seven consecutive days.
The Zoning Hearing Board of the Municipality of Monroeville.
Any condition which provides the accessory environment for
the birth or hatching of vectors.
A limited-production brewery, typically producing specialty
beer and often selling its products locally.
The area of land immediately adjacent to any wetland, lake,
pond, vernal pond, or stream, measured perpendicular to and horizontally
from the delineated edge of the wetland, lake, pond, or vernal pond,
or the top-of-bank on both sides of a stream.
For landfill applications, the area within a landfill property
or site, generally adjacent to and parallel with the applicant's
property line, for a width of 300 feet, either consisting of natural
existing vegetation or created by the use of trees, shrubs, fences,
and/or other berms, designed to limit the view of and/or sound from
the site to adjacent sites or properties.
A portion of the site intended to provide a visual barrier
or other protection between adjacent parcels of land.
That portion of a zoning lot bounded by the required front,
side, and rear yards.
A combination of materials to form a permanent structure
having walls and a roof, including all manufactured homes and trailers
used for human habitation.
That portion of any exterior elevation on the building extending
from finished grade to top of the parapet, wall, or eaves and the
entire width of the building elevation.
The ground floor area of any building, excluding residential
garages and accessory sheds, measured from the outside of the exterior
walls.
The vertical distance measured from the average elevation
of the proposed finished grade at the front of the building to the
highest point of the roof for flat roofs, to the deckline of mansard
roofs and to the mean height between eaves and ridge for gable, hip,
and gambrel roofs or the maximum height of any part of the structure,
including signage.
Written permission issued by the proper municipal authority
for the construction, repair, alteration, addition, change in occupancy,
install or alter equipment by the Municipality's Building Code.[2]
The required minimum horizontal distance between the front
yard line and the front edge of a principal structure.
A solar photovoltaic system that is constructed as an integral
part of a principal or accessory building or structure and where the
building-integrated system features maintain a uniform profile or
surface of vertical walls, window openings, and roofing. Such a system
is used in lieu of a separate mechanical device, replacing or substituting
for an architectural or structural component of the building or structure
that appends or interrupts the uniform surfaces of walls, window openings
and roofing. A building-integrated system may occur within vertical
facades, replacing view glass, spandrel glass or other facade material;
into semitransparent skylight systems; into roofing systems, replacing
traditional roofing materials; or other building or structure envelope
systems.
A solar photovoltaic system attached to any part or type
of roof on a building or structure that has an occupancy permit on
file with the Municipality and that is either the principal structure
or an accessory structure on a recorded parcel. This system also includes
any solar-based architectural elements.
All large items of solid waste including but not limited
to appliances, furniture, carpeting, and small amounts of lumber,
trees, branches or stumps which may require special handling due to
their size, shape, or weight.
A service shop or office providing services and sales of
office supplies and equipment where the repair and maintenance of
equipment is limited and does not include manufacturing or industrial
operations.
A diameter measurement taken six inches above the ground
for trees up to and including four-inch caliper size and 12 inches
above the ground for larger sizes. Caliper of trees is a standard
measurement used in the grading of nursery stock.
A freestanding rigid multisided structure covered with fabric,
metal or other material and supported by columns or posts embedded
in the ground.
A rooster that has been castrated before reaching sexual
maturity.
See "vehicle leasing."
A shelter for a car consisting of a roof supported on posts,
built beside a house. A carport is considered a permanent structure.
See "vehicle wash."
A public room or building where gambling games are played.
The smallest basic solar electric device which generates
electricity when exposed to light.
A portion of a building having 1/2 or more of its height
below the average grade of the adjoining ground.
Land used or intended to be used for the interment of human
remains and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including crematories,
mausoleums, and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with and within
the boundary of such cemetery.
A common domestic fowl (Gallus domesticus) or its young.
An enclosed area in which chickens are allowed to walk and
run about.
Any place, home, or institution which cares for four or more
children under the age of 16 years apart from their parents, guardians,
or custodians for regular periods of time for compensation; provided,
however, that the term "child care center" shall not include or apply
to bona fide schools, custody fixed by a court, children raised by
blood or marriage within the third degree of the custodial person,
or churches and other religious or public institutions caring for
children within an institutional building. A "child care center" is
not a "no-impact home-based business."
A commercial establishment which, as one of its principal
business purposes, serves and/or sells children and their family's
food, apparels, goods, services, play and/or entertainment.
A building used for public Christian worship; also see "place
of worship."
An establishment designated for smoking cigars, other tobacco
products or accessories purchased on the premises or elsewhere
Uncontaminated, non-water-soluble, nondecomposable inert
solid material. The term includes soil, rock, stone, dredged material,
used asphalt (except milled asphalt), and brick, block or concrete
from construction and demolition activities that is separate from
other waste and recognizable as such.
Driveways shall be located and constructed so that a clear
sight triangle, as depicted below, is provided. No object, including,
without limitation, fences, hedges, trees and other plantings, buildings,
structures, walls, signs and motor vehicles, exceeding a height of
three feet as measured from the lowest elevation of the center line
of any abutting street, shall be temporarily or permanently placed,
erected, installed or parked within the clear sight triangle required
at the intersection of two streets or the intersection of a driveway
with a public street.
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See "medical clinic."
A system utilized while drilling so that various types of
pits are not used, and instead steel bins or closed containers are
used to collect all drilling waste.
The date on which a municipal waste processing or disposal
facility permanently ceases to accept waste, and access is limited
to activities necessary for post-closure care, maintenance and monitoring.
An organization comprised mainly of the residents of the
neighborhood in which it is located, the primary purpose of which
is the advancement of its members or of the community in education,
cultural or civic pursuits and activities. A group of people organized
for a common purpose to pursue common goals, interests or activities
and usually characterized by certain membership qualifications, payment
of fees and dues, regular meetings and a constitution and bylaws.
A development design technique used in planned residential
development that concentrates buildings on a part of the site to allow
the remaining land to be used for recreation, common open space, and
preservation of environmentally sensitive areas.
The mounting of one or more WCFs, including antennas, on
an existing commercial communication tower, or on any structure that
already supports at least one commercial communication antenna.
Those contained in ditches, pools, ponds, streams, excavations,
holes, depressions, open cesspools, privy vaults, fountains, cisterns,
tanks, shallow wells, barrels, troughs, urns, cans, boxes, bottles,
tubs, buckets, roof gutters, tanks of flush closets, reservoirs, vessels,
receptacles of any kind or other containers or devices which may hold
water.
An activity involving the sales of goods or services carried
out for profit.
A device, including but not limited to panels, microwave
dishes and single pole/whip, which is used to collect or transmit
television, radio, telephone communications or other wireless signals,
situated on a nonresidential site either as a principal structure,
external to or attached to the exterior of any other structure. All
nontower wireless communications facilities, including but not limited
to, antennas and related equipment. Commercial communication antennas
shall not include support structures for antennas or any related equipment
that is mounted to the ground or at ground level.
A structure situated on a nonresidential site that is intended
for transmitting or receiving television, radio, telephone communications
and any related building and equipment. Any structure that is used
for the purpose of supporting one or more antennas, including, but
not limited to self-supporting lattice towers, guy towers and monopoles,
utility poles and light poles. Distributed antenna system (DAS) hub
facilities are considered to be commercial communication towers.
An off-street parking lot designed and intended to provide
for the storage, for limited periods of time, of operable passenger
vehicles, and available for compensation, or as an accommodation to
commuters.
An establishment engaged in nonmanufacturing or nonprocessing
business, including, but not limited to, stores, markets, office buildings,
restaurants, shopping centers and theaters.
A motor vehicle or combination of motor vehicles used in
commerce to transport passengers or property if the motor vehicle:
Has a gross combination weight rating of 18,000 or more pounds
inclusive of a towed unit with a gross vehicle weight rating of more
than 10,000 pounds.
Has a gross vehicle weight rating of 18,000 or more pounds.
Is designed to transport 16 or more passengers, including the
driver.
Is of any size and is used in the transportation of materials
found to be hazardous for the purposes of the Hazardous Materials
Transportation Act, 49 U.S.C. § 5101 et seq. and which requires
the motor vehicle to be placarded under the hazardous materials regulations
49 CFR Chapter 173.
That area in a subdivision or planned residential development,
including common open space, owned or leased and maintained by an
association or other combination of persons for the benefit of the
residents of the planned residential development and, if owned under
the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act, 68 Pa.C.S.A. § 3101
et seq., including all common elements designated for the use of all
dwelling unit owners.
A parcel of land integral to a planned residential development
and subject to provisions which assure the continued availability
and maintenance of such open space for the use and benefit of the
residents of the planned development.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
A building or structure and related facilities operated by
a governmental agency, the primary function of which is available
to the public for civic, educational, philanthropic, recreational
or social purposes.
A school, playground or related recreation facility, public
building or public maintenance facility.
A trip from home to work or work to home.
One that travels regularly from one place to another.
A space which will remain totally dry during base flooding;
the structure is designed and constructed to prevent the passage of
water and water vapor.
The date within 60 days of the completion of the drilling,
redrilling or reworking of the well site.
A controlled process of degrading organic matter by microorganisms,
including but not limited to the following methods: 1) mechanical;
2) ventilated cell; and 3) windrow. The process may be anaerobic or
aerobic.
A document consisting of maps, charts and text, prepared
in accordance with the Municipalities Planning Code[3] and adopted by the Municipality as a guide for future
development.
A specific exception to the standard regulations of this
chapter which requires approval by the governing body under terms
and procedures and with conditions prescribed herein.
A space defined by walls, floors and ceilings purchased and
equipped as a dwelling unit, and including, as part of the purchase,
joint ownership with the other condominium owners on the lot of the
facilities used in common together with responsibility for maintenance
of these common areas.
The construction, reconstruction, renovation, repair, extension,
alteration, or relocation of a building or structure, including the
placement of mobile homes.
(Also see "dumpster.") A unit designed for the deposit of
rubbish at sites related to the cleanout, building, construction,
repair, renovation, or demolition of commercial or residential structures.
The unit is usually located, on a temporary basis, on property, a
driveway, or street abutting the site and is transportable to and
from the site for purposes of disposal of its contents by means of
a transport vehicle. A construction waste dumpster exceeds 96 gallons
in size and shall not exceed 40 cubic yards in size. A construction
waste dumpster includes waste disposal bags ("Bagsters®"), regardless of size.
Solid waste resulting from the construction or demolition
of buildings and other structures, including, but not limited to,
wood, plaster, metals, asphalt substances, bricks, block, and integrated
concrete. The term also includes dredging waste. The term does not
include the following if they are separate from other waste and are
used as clean fill:
Also see "assisted living facility," "group home," "hospice,"
"nursing home facility," "personal care home facility," and "skilled
nursing facility." As defined in current state licensure requirements,
a residential facility or planned residential development designed,
operated and maintained for retired adults, which may also include
skilled nursing, intermediate care or personal care facilities as
defined herein. The terms shall not include hospitals, psychiatric
hospitals, or alcohol and drug abuse rehabilitation centers.
Also see "assisted living facility," "hospice," "nursing
home facility," "personal care home facility," and "skilled nursing
facility." Continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs), or multilevel
care facilities, provide residents with a lifetime continuum of care.
They assure the care recipient independent living as long as possible
and provide for nursing assistance if or when it is needed.
An establishment storing or offering for sale building supplies,
steel supplies, coal, lumber, heavy equipment, feed and grain, and
similar goods, but not including the wrecking, salvaging, dismantling
or storage of automobiles and similar vehicles.
Also see "methadone treatment facility" and "substance abuse
treatment facility." Any public or private facility that sells, dispenses,
distributes, provides and/or administers any controlled substance,
as that term is defined in the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C.
§ 802 et seq., as the same may be amended from time to time,
including, but not limited to, methadone or suboxone or similar antiopioids,
to any person known or believed by such facility or to any employee,
agent or individual otherwise connected to such facility, to be physically
or psychologically dependent on the use of such controlled substances,
for the detoxification treatment or maintenance treatment of such
dependency, unless said controlled substance is sold, dispensed, distributed,
provided and/or administered for the cure or treatment of an illness,
malady or disease other than controlled substance dependency. Such
facilities include but are not limited to any facility licensed by
the Pennsylvania Department of Health for such operations.
A store with extended opening hours and in a convenient location,
stocking a limited range of household goods and groceries. A small
market that carries a limited selection of goods and is open long
hours. Convenience stores may sometimes be located in conjunction
with a gas station use but only when the gas station use is also allowable
in the zoning district.
A building or portion thereof designated to accommodate 300
or more people in assembly.
A conventional gas well, also known as a "traditional well,"
is a well that produces oil or gas from a conventional geological
formation. Conventional geological formations are variable in age,
occurring both above and below the Elk Sandstone. While a limited
number of such gas wells are capable of producing sufficient quantities
of gas without stimulation by hydraulic fracturing, most conventional
wells require this stimulation technique due to the reservoir characteristics
in Pennsylvania. Stimulation of conventional wells, however, does
not typically require the volume of fluids typically required for
unconventional wells.
A small building for housing poultry.
Publicly or privately operated facilities housing persons
awaiting trial or persons serving a sentence after being found guilty
of a criminal offense, halfway houses, homes licensed for juvenile
offenders or other facilities where individuals are incarcerated or
otherwise required to reside pursuant to court order under the supervision
of paid staff and personnel.
The Council of the Municipality of Monroeville.
The County of Allegheny, Pennsylvania.
The designated planning agency of the County of Allegheny,
Pennsylvania.
That percentage of the lot area covered by the building area.
A building fitted with proper appliances for the purpose
of the cremation of human and/or animal (pets) remains, and includes
everything incidental or ancillary thereto. The heating process that
reduces human or animal remains to bone fragments, followed by the
processing that reduces bone fragments to unidentifiable dimensions.
A crematorium shall only be permitted as an accessory use to a funeral
home.
PRIVATE CREMATIONA cremation procedure during which only one animal's body is present in the cremation unit during the cremation process.
COMMUNAL CREMATIONA cremation procedure where multiple animals are cremated together without any form of separation. The commingled remains are not returned to the owners.
PARTITIONED/INDIVIDUAL/SEPARATED CREMATIONA cremation procedure during which more than one pet's body is present in the cremation chamber and the cremated remains of specific pets are to be returned. Due to a number of factors and by virtue of multiple pets being cremated within the same unit at the same time, active commingling of cremated remains will occur.
COMMINGLINGMixing of cremated animal remains.
A street with no outlet, particularly one with a circle for
turning around at the end.
Flood-related damages sustained by a structure on two separate
occasions during a ten-year period for which the cost of repairs at
the time of each such flood event, on average, equals or exceeds 25%
of the market value of the structure before the damages occurred.
A process, which allows landowners to challenge a municipality's
zoning ordinance, on the basis that it does not provide for all uses
or for a reasonable share or mix of a specific use or uses and suggest
a "cure" as an amendment to the zoning ordinance. Refer to Section
609.1, Procedure for Landowner Curative Amendments, in the Pennsylvania
Municipalities Planning Code.[4]
A data center or data centre is a building, a dedicated space
within a building, or a group of buildings used to house computer
systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and
storage systems.
See "child care facility"; a facility, licensed by the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, located within a building which is not used as a
dwelling unit, for the care of children under the age of 16 for a
portion of a twenty-four-hour day.
A commercial establishment without accommodations, that offers
facilities for health and fitness. A resort with invigorating baths,
or a place with therapeutic services such as massages, saunas, baths
and manicures. Also see "athletic facility," "fitness center," "gymnasium,"
"membership club," "recreational facility," and "sports facility."
Calendar days.
A unit for measuring the intensity of a sound/noise and is
equal to 10 times the logarithm to the base 10 of the ratio of the
measured sound pressure squared to a reference pressure which is 20
micro pascals.
An outdoor wooden platform enclosed by a low railing; typically,
such a platform adjoining a house.
Those activities when the drilling has ceased, and the rig
equipment and related pad site equipment is dismantled for the purpose
of moving off the drill pad site.
The number of dwelling units per acre of site area.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania agency responsible for overseeing
and administering environmental laws and regulation within the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
An accessory dwelling unit attached to a principal one-family
house, installed and intended solely for the use of elderly parents,
or other dependent, close relatives ("granny flat").
Any portable framework, tower, mast and/or structure which
is required or used in connection with drilling or reworking a well
for the production of gas.
An aboveground stormwater facility that collects and temporarily
stores surface runoff and releases it at a controlled rate.
Detention storage located in underground tanks or vaults
designed to provide water quantity control through detention of stormwater
runoff.
Any present or prospective landowner or agent of such landowner
who makes or causes to be made a development plan and an application
for a planned development.
Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate,
including but not limited to the construction, reconstruction, renovation,
repair, expansion, or alteration of buildings or other structures;
the placement of manufactured homes; streets and other paving; utilities;
filling, grading and excavation; mining; dredging; drilling operations;
storage of equipment or materials; and the subdivision of land.
The provisions of development of a planned residential development,
a planned nonresidential development, a plat of subdivision or land
development, including all covenants and provisions relating to use,
location and bulk of buildings and other structures, intensity of
use or density of development, streets, ways and parking facilities,
common open space and public facilities. The phrase "provisions of
the development plan" when used in this chapter shall mean the written
and graphic materials referred to in this definition.
Tree DBH is outside bark diameter at breast height. "Breast
height" is defined as 4.5 feet above the forest floor on the uphill
side of the tree. For the purposes of determining breast height, the
forest floor includes the leaf-litter layer that may be present but
does not include unincorporated woody debris that may rise above the
ground line.
Fallen into partial ruin or decay.
Includes the storage, collection, disposal or handling of
refuse. The incineration, deposition, injection, dumping, spilling,
leaking, or placing of solid waste into or on the land or water in
a manner that the solid waste or a constituent of the solid waste
enters the environment, is emitted into the air or is discharged to
the waters of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The part of the site where disposal is occurring or will
occur.
A nonproducing gas well used for the storage of wastewater
and other fluids.
A network of spatially separated antenna sites connected
to a common source that provides wireless service within a geographic
area or structure. Also see "commercial communication antenna" and
"wireless communication facility."
An establishment engaged in the receipt, storage, and distribution
of goods, products, cargo, and materials, including trans-shipment
by boat, rail, air, or motor vehicle.
NATURAL GAS COMPRESSOR STATIONA facility designed and constructed to compress natural gas that originates from an oil and gas well of collection of such wells operating as a midstream facility for the delivery of oil and gas to a transmission pipeline, distribution pipeline, natural gas processing plant or underground storage field, including one or more natural gas compressors, associated buildings, pipes, valves, tanks and other equipment.
NATURAL GAS PROCESSING PLANTA facility designed and constructed to remove materials such as ethane, propane, butane and other constituents or similar substances from natural gas to allow the natural gas to be of such quality as is required or appropriate for transmission or distribution to commercial markets, but not including facilities or equipment that are/is designed and constructed primarily to remove water, water vapor, oil or naturally occurring liquids from natural gas.
GATHERING SYSTEM FACILITYA facility associated with a gathering system or water collection line such as a drip station, vent station, pigging facility, chemical injection station or transfer pump station.
PRODUCTION FACILITYA facility related to the production of gas which utilizes motors and/or engines.
Area of the site where vegetation is removed, structures
or paving is removed, or excavation occurs.
Any animal that has been bred and/or raised to live in human
habitation. Including but not limited to dogs and cats.
Solid waste comprised of garbage and rubbish, which normally
originates in the residential private household or apartment house.
Any digging or boring activity of a new well or reworking
of an existing well to explore, develop or produce oil, gas or other
hydrocarbons, or to inject gas, water or any other fluids or substances
into the earth.
The derrick, together with all parts of and appurtenances
to such structure, every piece of apparatus, machinery or equipment
used or erected or maintained for use in connection with drilling.
An area directly located under the outer circumference of
the tree branches. The outermost edge of a roof including eaves, overhangs
and gutters.
A fast-food restaurant characterized by a limited menu primarily
catering to drive-in traffic, and where the food is primarily brought
to and consumed within a patron's vehicle. An outdoor seating
area may be provided.
A form of cinema structure consisting of a large outdoor
movie screen, a projection booth, a concession stand, and a large
parking area for automobiles. Within this enclosed area, customers
can view movies from the privacy and comfort of their cars.
Establishment which offers in-car service or take-out service
including, but not limited to, financial institutions, food stores,
pharmacies, and restaurants, but not drive-in theaters.
A fast-food restaurant characterized by a limited menu and
catering to drive-through traffic, and where the food is primarily
brought to and consumed within a patron's vehicle. An outdoor
seating area may be provided.
A private area used exclusively for circulation and ingress
and egress to a street by the landowner or visitors of the lot. Every
entrance or exit used by vehicular traffic to or from properties abutting
or connecting to a private or public right-of-way.
A public or private area operated for the purpose of developing
golfing techniques, including miniature golf courses, but excluding
golf courses.
The cleansing of fabrics with substantially nonaqueous organic/inorganic
solvents.
A unit designed for the deposit of rubbish at sites related
to the cleanout, building, construction, repair, renovation or demolition
of commercial or residential structures. The unit is usually located,
on a temporary basis, on property, a driveway, or street abutting
the site and is transportable to and from the site for purposes of
disposal of its contents by means of a transport vehicle. A construction
waste dumpster exceeds 96 gallons in size and shall not exceed 40
cubic yards in size. A construction waste dumpster includes waste
disposal bags ("Bagsters®"), regardless of size.
See "two-family house."
One or more living or sleeping rooms with cooking and sanitary
facilities for one person or a single family.
Authorization by a property owner for the use by another,
and for a specified purpose, of any designated part of his property.
The edge of the disturbed surface area associated with drilling
operations.
Also see "school" and "vocational school." A college or university,
authorized by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as such to award associate,
baccalaureate or higher degrees, including, principal uses for classrooms,
libraries, auditoriums, gymnasiums, stadiums, administrative offices,
dormitories and dining facilities, maintenance and operating facilities
as well as ancillary uses, such as research facilities, retail services
and businesses that support student, faculty and staff needs.
A condition that 1) constitutes a clear and immediate danger
to the health, welfare, or safety of the public, or 2) has caused
or is likely to cause facilities in the rights-of-way to be unusable
and result in loss of the services provided.
A professional engineer registered by the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania. See "registered professional."
An assessment of the impact of a use on the 1) natural environment,
i.e., geology, topography, soils, hydrology, vegetation, wildlife,
wetlands, and air quality; and 2) the cultural environment, i.e.,
lot use, utilities, traffic, population, economics, services, historic
assets, and general character of the neighborhood.
The detachment and movement of soil or rock fragments, or
the wearing away of the surface of the land by wind, water, ice, or
gravity.
A person who, for consideration, agrees or offers to act
as a companion, guide, or date for another person, or who agrees or
offers to privately model lingerie or to privately perform a striptease
for another person.
A space which will remain dry during flooding, except for
the passage of some water vapor or minor seepage; the structure is
substantially impermeable to the passage of water.
A manufactured home park or subdivision for which the construction
of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes
are to be affixed (including, at a minimum, the installation of utilities,
the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the
pouring of concrete pads) is completed before the effective date of
the floodplain management regulations adopted by a community.
The preparation of additional sites by the construction of
facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes
are to be affixed (including the installation of utilities, the construction
of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete
pads).
Temporary geologic or geophysical activities such as drilling,
in context with the definition set forth in this chapter, including
seismic surveys related to the search for natural gas or other sub-surface
hydrocarbons.
A wood-fired boiler, stove, furnace, chimney, patio warmer,
or other portable wood-burning device used for outdoor recreation
and/or heating.
The control and elimination of vectors by eliminating their
harborage places, by removing or making inaccessible materials that
may serve as their food, by poisoning, spraying, fumigating, fogging,
larviciding, trapping or by any other recognized and legal vector-control
elimination methods approved by the local or state authority having
such administrative authority.
Any use consisting of the mining and extraction of coal or
other minerals.
Federal Aviation Administration of the United States Department
of Transportation.
Land, structures and other appurtenances or improvements
where municipal waste disposal or processing is permitted or takes
place. The primary building(s), support structure(s) and associated
appurtenances designed, constructed, and maintained to operate a natural
gas well pad, compressor station or processing plant.
Any person or entity partnership, company, corporation and
its subcontractors and agents who has a desire to install and/or operate
a natural gas compressor station.
The construction of, alteration, improvement, upgrade or
expansion to a natural gas compressor station or processing plant
that results in an increase in the gross floor area of the primary
building and the paved area of the pad area which, in combination,
totals 2,000 square feet or more. The term "facility work" shall include
the initial construction of the facility but shall not include typical
maintenance to or operation of an existing facility. Any construction
of, alteration, improvement, upgrade or expansion to a facility that
results in a less than square foot addition shall not be considered
facility work.
Either an individual, or two or more persons related by blood
or marriage or adoption, or a group of not more than five persons
not so related (not counting servants) occupying a premises and living
as a single housekeeping unit distinguished from a group occupying
a boardinghouse, lodging home, club, fraternity, or hotel.
Any lot or group of contiguous lots under single ownership
used for agriculture, as defined by this chapter.
Also see "livestock" Any animal that has been bred and/or
raised to live in human habitation, not necessarily as an asset, is
dependent on people for food and shelter, and is over 200 pounds,
including, but not limited to, cows, miniature cows, pigs, potbelly
pigs, goats, Shetland ponies, ostriches, and emus.
A retail establishment at which fruits, vegetables, breads,
eggs, milk, cheese, meat, flowers, and the like are sold by persons
who typically grow, harvest, or process such items from their farm
or agricultural operation.
Federal Communications Commission.
Federal Emergency Management Agency.
A barrier, railing, or other upright structure, typically
of wood or wire, enclosing an area of ground to mark a boundary, control
access, or prevent escape.
Earth, gravel, sand or other materials of any composition
whatsoever placed or deposited by humans.
The date after which no further treatment, maintenance or
other action is or will be necessary at a municipal waste processing
or disposal facility to ensure compliance with this chapter.
Establishments such as banks and savings and loans, credit
agencies, investment companies, brokers and dealers of securities
and commodities, security and commodity exchanges, insurance agents,
lesser, lessees, buyers, sellers, agents and developers of real estate.
(Refer to SALDO[5] for "guarantee of improvements.") Surety, in a form acceptable
to the Municipal Solicitor, in the form of a certified check or irrevocable
letter of credit and restrictive or escrow account or set-aside agreement
from a federal or commonwealth-chartered lending institution, or a
corporate performance bond or a labor-and-material payment bond from
a surety company authorized to conduct business in the commonwealth,
which may be classified as the following:
IMPROVEMENT SECURITYA financial security which guarantees the satisfactory completion of improvements required by this chapter.
MAINTENANCE SECURITYA financial security which guarantees the structural functioning and integrity of improvements required by this chapter for a specified period after their completion and acceptance by the Municipality.
See "gun range."
A health, recreational, and social facility geared towards
exercise, sports, and other physical activities. A fitness center
may also accommodate outdoor activities with features such as a running
track, swimming pool and sport playing fields. Also see "athletic
facility," "day spa," "gymnasium," "membership club," "recreational
facility," and "sports facility."
Any fabric containing distinctive colors, patterns, or symbols,
used as a symbol of the United States of America, the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, the local Municipality or nonprofit organizations
or any other organization. A flag is not a sign.
A parcel of land shaped like a flag, with a narrow strip
providing access to a public street or waterway and the bulk of the
property containing no frontage. When planned, it is a way to maximize
property density without having to install additional streets. Front
and side yard requirements do not pertain to the portion of property
that connects to the right of way. Front, side and rear yard requirements
pertain to the buildable area of the property that does not connect
to the right of way. The minimum width of flag is 25 feet. SEE DIAGRAM:
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A temporary inundation of normally dry land areas.
That area of the 100-year floodplain not included in the
Floodway District. The basis for the outermost boundary of this district
shall be the 100-year flood elevations contained in the flood profiles
of the Flood Insurance Study.
The official map on which the Federal Emergency Management
Agency has delineated both the areas of special flood hazards and
the risk premium zones applicable to the community.
A study prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency
for the National Flood Insurance Program, which includes Flood Insurance
Rate Maps.
The official report provided by the Federal Emergency Management
Agency that includes flood profiles, the Flood Insurance Rate Map,
the Flood Boundary and Floodway Map, and the water surface elevation
of the base flood.
A relatively flat or low land area which is subject to partial
or complete inundation from an adjoining or nearby stream, river or
watercourse; and/or any area subject to the unusual and rapid accumulation
of surface waters from any source.
Floodplain areas for which no detailed flood profiles or
elevations are provided, but where a 100-year floodplain boundary
has been approximated. Such areas are shown on the Flood Boundary
and Floodway Map of the Flood Insurance Study.
Any combination of structural and nonstructural additions,
changes, or adjustments to structures which reduce or eliminate flood
damage to real estate or improved real property, water and sanitary
facilities, structures, and their contents.
The channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent
land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood
without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than
one foot.
That portion of a floodplain delineated for regulation by
this chapter which must be reserved to discharge the waters of the
100-year flood without causing more than a one foot rise in flood
heights. The areas included in this district are specifically defined
on Table 1 through Table 6 of the Flood Insurance Study.
The number of square feet of the total floor area bounded by
the exterior faces of the building ("gross floor area");
In a dwelling, the sum of the horizontal areas of all rooms
used for habitation, but not including cellars, attics, unheated rooms,
or rooms without either a skylight or window; or
In a store, shop, restaurant, club or funeral home, the sum
of the horizontal areas of all space to which the customer has access
and excluding storage, office, other preparation, or administrative
spaces ("net floor area").
The ratio obtained when the gross floor area minus unoccupied
basement area is divided by the total lot area.
The process of flowing a completed/fractured gas well for
the purpose of recovering water and residual sand, or other fluids
or substances from the gas stream prior to sending the gas to an outside
source.
An establishment in which food is processed or otherwise
prepared for eventual human consumption but not consumed on the premises.
An area with seats and/or tables in which prepared food is
served for human consumption.
A mobile kitchen that serves food beverages from an enclosed,
self-contained, motorized vehicle or is towed by an operable motorized
vehicle.
A person employed as a forester by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's
Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Forestry, or a person
listed on said Bureau of Forestry's Register of Consulting Foresters
as being a graduate of a forestry school accredited by the Society
of American Foresters and employed full-time as a private forestry
consultant.
The management of forests and timberlands when practiced
in accordance with accepted silvicultural principles, through developing,
cultivating, harvesting, transporting and selling trees for purposes
which does not involve any land development.
The management, cultivating, maintaining, and harvesting
of timber from a site. Forestry activities do not include the production
or processing of lumber mills or similar activities/uses of timber,
whether grown on-site or off-site.
The process of injecting water, customized fluids, sand,
steam, gas or other agents into a gas well under pressure to improve
gas recovery of a rock formation.
A terminal with the capability of handling a large variety
of goods involving various forms of transportation and providing multimodal
shipping capabilities, such as rail to truck and truck to air.
Any water obtained from a potable water source, such as a
hydrant, stream, lake, water well, spring or other source that has
not been treated or utilized in commercial or industrial operations.
Freshwater does not include exploration and production fluids such
as produced water, flowback fluids or reuse water.
A pit used for the collection and storage of fresh water
for the purpose of fracture stimulation of gas wells.
See "yard, front."
The prescribed minimum open space extending across the entire
width of the lot between the front line of building and street right
of way.
The front yard line bounds the front yard and is parallel
to the front lot line or structure.
The distance between the intersection of the side lot lines
and the front lot line as measured along the front lot line.
A building or structure and one or more pump islands/charging
stations, each consisting of one or more motor vehicle fuel pumps
or charging stations, which may include the sale of food and personal
items, oil, antifreeze, gasoline additives, propane, natural gas,
small accessory items required for the operation of motor vehicles,
including car washing facilities. However, the fuel service and/or
charging station shall not include the installation, repair or provision
of exhaust systems, electrical systems, transmissions, brakes, radiators,
tires, rustproofing, motor vehicle diagnostics, lubrication, major
and minor mechanical and/or body repairs or similar services, towing
service or motor vehicle rental/leasing.
A building used for the preparation of the deceased for burial
and the display of the deceased and rituals connected therewith before
burial or cremation.
A game in which the outcome is determined by chance rather
than by the skill of its players, such as roulette.
Any game, contest, or amusement of any description in which
the designating element of the outcome is the judgment, skill, or
deftness of the participant in the contest and not chance. In a game
of skill, outcome is determined mainly by mental or physical skill,
rather than by pure chance.
Solid waste derived from animal, grain, fruit, or vegetable
matter that is capable of being decomposed by microorganisms with
sufficient rapidity to cause such nuisances as odors, gases, or vectors.
Putrescible animal or vegetable waste.
A multiple family residential structure containing three
or more dwelling units having a height no greater than three stories.
Any fluid, either combustible or noncombustible, which is
produced in a natural state from the earth, and which maintains a
gaseous or rarefied state.
A premises providing fuel and minor accessories and services
to automobiles, but not including major overhaul, spray painting,
recapping of tires, or auto wrecking.
Any well drilled, to be drilled or used for the intended
or actual production of natural gas.
A recreational facility, public or private, whose primary
purpose is the sport of golf and may include associated accessory
uses, including but not limited to driving ranges, putting courses,
clubhouse, pro shop, swimming pools, tennis court, and restaurant.
The Council, Municipality of Monroeville and Allegheny County,
Pennsylvania.
The average level of the finished surface of the ground adjacent
to the exterior walls of the building, structure, accessory structure
or sign.
GRADE, EXISTINGThe vertical elevation of the ground prior to excavation or filling.
GRADE, FINISHEDThe final grade of the site that conforms to the approved plan.
A part of a house or accessory structure made into self-contained
accommodations suitable for an elderly relative.
Any display of fabric which moves with the movement of wind,
and which may or may not advertise a product, service or entertainment.
Buildings designed in accordance with the green plans as
established by the Pennsylvania Governors Green Government Council
established March 25, 1998, and any recommendations, regulations or
requirements promulgated hereafter.
A building whose roof and or sides are made largely of glass
or other transparent or translucent material and in which the temperature
and humidity can be regulated for the cultivation of plants for their
subsequent sale.
See "floor area."
The total building area for tenant occupancy and exclusive
use, including any basements, mezzanines, or upper floors, expressed
in square feet and measured from the center line of joint partitions
and from outside wall faces. Gross leasable area is that area of a
building for which a tenant pays rent.
See "floor area."
In reference to signs, the entire area within a single continuous
perimeter enclosing the extreme limits of writing, representation,
emblem or figure or similar character, together with any frame or
other material or color forming an integral part of the display or
used to differentiate sign from the background against which it is
placed; excluding necessary supports or uprights upon which such sign
is placed. For signs utilizing individual letters or figures or characters
mounted directly on the wall or face of a structure, the gross surface
area shall be the entire area within a single continuous perimeter
enclosing the extreme limits of the writing, representation, or other
communication material.
A solar photovoltaic system mounted on a structure, pole
or series of poles constructed specifically to support the photovoltaic
system and not attached to any other structure.
Water in that portion of the generally recognized hydrologic
cycle which occupies the pore spaces and fractures of saturated subsurface
materials. Groundwater often supplies wells and springs and is often
withdrawn for domestic, agricultural, municipal, industrial, and other
beneficial uses.
Also see "assisted living facility," "hospice," "nursing
home facility," "personal care home facility," and "skilled nursing
facility." A home where up to eight unrelated people in need of care,
support, or supervision can live together, such as those who are elderly
or require special needs. The terms shall not include hospitals, psychiatric
hospitals, or alcohol and drug abuse rehabilitation centers.
To clear out underbrush, roots and stumps by digging.
An indoor and/or outdoor facility used for shooting and/or
firing of guns, rifles and other similar weapons on a range(s) to
an intended target of any type. An indoor/outdoor facility that may
or may not include a clubhouse, but which includes facilities for
one or more of the following activities: archers, target shooting,
skeet or trap shooting, marksmanship and similar activities.
A building containing space and equipment for various indoor
sports activities and usually including spectator accommodations,
locker and shower rooms, offices, classrooms, and a swimming pool.
Also see "athletic facility," "day spa," "fitness center," "membership
club," "recreational facility," and "sports facility."
Also known as "amateur radio," is the use of radio frequency
spectrum for purposes of noncommercial exchange of messages, wireless
experimentation, self-training, private recreation, radio-sport, contesting,
and emergency communication.
Any place where vectors can live, nest or seek shelter.
The location on the site where timber harvesting occurs.
Any person, firm, copartnership, association or corporation
who has been licensed by the Municipality or its designated representative
to collect, transport, and dispose of refuse for a fee as herein prescribed.
Materials or substances as listed by The U.S. EPA having
corrosiveness, reactivity and toxicity or other injurious properties,
including any of the following materials or substances: acetone, ammonia,
benzene, calcium carbide, carbon disulfide, celluloid, chlorine, hydrochloric
acid, hydrocyanic acid, magnesium, nitric acid, nitric oxides, petroleum
products, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, sulfur, sulfur products,
pesticides, insecticides, fungicides, and all poisons, flammable gasses
and radioactive substances.
Any of the following materials or substances: acetone, ammonia,
benzene, calcium carbide, carbon disulfide, celluloid, chlorine, hydrochloric
acid, hydrocyanic acid, magnesium, nitric acid, nitric oxides, petroleum
products, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, sulfur, sulfur products,
pesticides, insecticides, fungicides, and all poisons, flammable gasses
and radioactive substances.
Garbage, refuse or sludge from an industrial or other wastewater
treatment plant; sludge from a water supply treatment plant or air
pollution control facility; and other discarded material, including
solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material resulting from
municipal, commercial, industrial, institutional, mining or agricultural
operations, and from community activities; or combination of the above.
The term does not include the Coal Refuse Disposal Control Act (52
P.S. §§ 30.51 through 30.101). The term does not include
treatment of sludge from coal mine drainage treatment plants, disposal
of which is being carried on under and in compliance with a valid
permit issued under the Clean Streams Law (35 P.S. §§ 691.1
through 691.1001). The term does not include solid or dissolved material
in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point
sources subject to permits under Section 402 of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C.A. § 1341), or source, special
nuclear or by-product material as defined by the Atomic Energy Act
of 1954, (42 U.S.C. §§ 2011 through 2284), which, because
of its quantity, concentration or physical, chemical or infectious
characteristics, may do one of the following:
Also see "athletic facility," "day spa," "fitness center,"
"gymnasium," "membership club," "recreational facility," and "sports
facility." A commercial recreation and entertainment facility or private
club which has as a principal use a gymnasium, swimming pool or other
sports facility and which may offer massages, whirlpool baths, steam
rooms, saunas or medical facilities as accessory uses to the principal
use.
Self-propelled, self-powered or pull-type equipment and machinery,
including engines, weighing 5,000 pounds or more, primarily employed
for construction, industrial, maritime, mining and forestry uses,
as such terms are commonly used and understood as a usage of trade.
The term "heavy equipment" shall not include motor vehicles requiring
registration and certificates of title, or farm machinery, equipment
and implements sold or leased pursuant to dealer agreements with suppliers.
Heavy-duty vehicles specially designed for executing construction
tasks, most frequently, ones involving earthwork operations. They
are also known as "construction equipment," "construction plant,"
"earth movers," "engineering vehicles," or simply "equipment." They
usually comprise five equipment systems: implement, traction, structure,
power train, control, and information.
Also see "building height."
The vertical distance from grade at the front wall of a structure
to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof or to the deckline
of a mansard roof, or to the mean height level between eaves and ridge
for gable, hip or gambrel roofs.
For the purpose of determining the height limits in the Airport
Hazard Overlay Zone set forth in this chapter and shown on the zoning
map, the datum shall be mean sea level elevation unless otherwise
specified.
The vertical distance measured from the ground level, including
any base pad, to the highest point on a commercial communication tower,
including antennas mounted on the tower and any other appurtenances.
A place for helicopters to land and take off.
An area, either at ground level or elevated on a structure,
licensed by the federal government or an appropriate state agency,
approved for the loading, landing, and takeoff of helicopters and
including auxiliary facilities, such as parking, waiting room, fueling,
defueling and maintenance equipment.
The same as "heliport" except that no fueling, defueling,
maintenance, repairs or storage of helicopters is permitted.
The highest natural elevation of the ground surface prior
to construction next to the proposed walls of a structure.
Any structure that is:
Listed individually in the National Register of Historic Places
(a listing maintained by the Department of the Interior) or preliminarily
determined by the Secretary of the Interior as meeting the requirements
for individual listing on the National Register;
Certified or preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the
Interior as contributing to the historical significance of a registered
historic district or a district preliminarily determined by the Secretary
to qualify as a registered historic district;
Individually listed on a state inventory of historic places
in states with historic preservation programs which have been approved
by the Secretary of the Interior; or
Individually listed on a local inventory of historic places
in communities with historic preservation programs that have been
certified either:
A partial list of historic structures in Monroeville include:
Old Stone Church, McGinley House, McCully Log House, McGregor Stone
Bridge.
A marker, plaque, tablet, or sign that memorializes an event,
person, building or structure of historical importance.
A farm, as defined herein, located on a tract, which has
less than the 10 acres required by this chapter for a farm, but which
meets the five-acre minimum acreage requirements for a hobby farm,
which is accessory to a single-family dwelling, and which is for the
personal use and enjoyment of the residents and does not constitute
the principal economic activity of the residents.
Any occupation or business use, full-time or part-time, conducted
within a dwelling or an accessory structure, or both, by a resident
of the property.
An establishment where patrons may share shisha (flavored
tobacco) from a communal hookah. Also see "cigar bar/lounge."
Also see "assisted living facility," "continuing care facility,"
"group home," "nursing home facility," "personal care home facility,"
and "skilled nursing facility." A building or portion thereof, in
which terminally ill persons live in order to receive appropriate
hospice services, as defined in current Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
licensure requirements. The terms shall not include hospitals, psychiatric
hospitals, or alcohol and drug abuse rehabilitation centers.
An institution providing primary health services and medical
and or surgical care to persons, primarily inpatients, suffering from
illness, disease, injury, deformity and other abnormal physical or
mental conditions and including, as an integral part of the institution,
related facilities such as laboratories, outpatient facilities, training
facilities, medical offices and staff residences, as defined in current
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania licensure requirements.
A structure or structures designed for occupancy primarily
as the temporary abiding place of individuals who are lodged with
or without meals, including auto courts, motels, motor hotels, motor
lodges, tourist courts and the like, in which structure or a group
or structures:
There are more than six living or sleeping room units;
All of the first-floor area devoted to residential use is in
living or sleeping units, each with a private bathroom and none with
cooking facilities, except for quarters for the resident manager or
proprietor;
The major portion of the floor area is devoted to living quarters,
but incidental business may be conducted; or
There may be meeting rooms, common dining facilities, swimming
pools, tennis courts, and similarly ancillary recreational uses, as
accessory uses or structures incidental to the hotel operation.
Also see "senior housing." A multiple-family apartment structure
designed for and operated for occupancy by elderly families and individuals,
60 years of age or older, and conforming to all requirements of federal,
state or local laws and regulations pertaining to housing for the
elderly.
Equipment used to heat, cool, or ventilate a structure.
A fuel-burning device that is located outside of the main
structure which it is intended to heat and may be equipped with a
heat storage unit, and is designed to burn wood to heat water or a
water/antifreeze mixture and distribute the heated fluid via piping
to the main structure. Also known as an "outdoor wood furnace," "outdoor
wood-fired boiler" or "outdoor wood-fired hydronic heater."
International Building Code.
This term is an umbrella term that includes all of the areas within which the community has selected to enforce floodplain regulations. It will always include the area identified as the Special Flood Hazard Area on the Flood Insurance Rate Maps and Flood Insurance Study, but may include additional areas identified by the community. See § 359-39 for the specifics on what areas the community has included in the Identified Floodplain Area.
International Existing Building Code.
International Fire Code.
International Fuel Gas Code.
International Mechanical Code.
Those surfaces which do not absorb water. They consist of
all buildings, parking lots, streets, sidewalks, and any areas of
concrete or asphalt or nonabsorbent material. In the case of lumberyards,
areas of stored lumber constitute impervious surfaces. A surface area,
which has been compacted or covered with a layer of material so that
it is resistant to infiltration by water. It includes semipervious
surfaces such as compacted clayey soils, as well as most conventionally
surfaced streets, roofs, sidewalks, parking lots, and other similar
surfaces. The Municipal Engineer shall have the final determination
as to what constitutes an impervious surface. Net increase of impervious
surface refers to the difference between the existing impervious coverage
and the total impervious surface proposed.
A "Multi-Municipal Planning Playbook" between Churchill Borough,
Municipality of Monroeville and Wilkins Township. Adopted by Resolution
No. 18-16 on March 23, 2018.
A device used to burn waste substances and in which all the
combustion factors, temperature, retention time, turbulence, and combustion
air can be controlled.
An area of land occupied by a group of three or more industrial
uses arranged and constructed in accordance with a plan, each use
contained on a separate lot having direct access to a public road.
Any structure designed primarily for residential occupancy
which is wholly or in substantial part made, fabricated, formed or
assembled in manufacturing facilities for installation, or assembly
and installation, on the building site; however, for the purposes
of this act, that category of housing units defined as mobile homes
is excluded from this definition. [Act of May. 11, 1972, P.L. 286,
No. 70]
A well-used to place fluid underground into porous geologic
formations. These underground formations may range from deep sandstone
or limestone to a shallow soil layer. Injected fluids may include
water, wastewater, brine (salt water), or water mixed with chemicals.
Also see "oil and gas."
An establishment engaged in service, including but not limited
to hospitals, nursing home facilities, orphanages, schools and universities.
The technical and practical link between the solar generator
and the grid providing electricity to the greater community.
A facility that provides nursing care and related medical
or other personal health services to human patients on a planned program
of care and administrative management, supervised on a continuous
twenty-four-hour basis in an institutional setting, as defined in
current state licensure requirements.
Plants/animals which aggressively spread and displace beneficial
vegetation.
International Plumbing Code.
International Property Maintenance Code.
International Residential Code.
International Zoning Code.
See "Implementable Comprehensive Plan."
Any scrap, waste, reclaimable material or debris, whether
or not stored, for sale or in the process of being dismantled, destroyed,
processed, salvaged, stored, baled, disposed, or other use or disposition,
including, but not limited to, unregistered, inoperable vehicles;
tires; vehicle parts; equipment; paper; rugs; metal; glass; household
appliances; machinery; and building materials.
See "salvage yard."
An establishment where four or more domestic pets that are
six months or older are kept, bred, trained or boarded at any one
time, whether for profit or not. A kennel is Not a no-impact home-based
business and is not an accessory use to a residential dwelling unless
specifically permitted by this chapter.
A unit of electrical power equal to 1,000 Watts, which constitutes
the basic unit of electrical demand. A watt is a metric measurement
of power (not energy) and is the rate (not the duration) at which
electricity is used. One thousand kW is equal to one megawatt (MW).
Any of the following activities:
The improvement of one lot or two or more contiguous lots, tracts,
or parcels of land for any purpose involving:
A group of two or more residential or nonresidential buildings,
whether proposed initially or cumulatively, or a single nonresidential
building on a lot or lots regardless of the number of occupants or
tenure; or
The division or allocation of land or space, whether initially
or cumulatively, between or among two or more existing or prospective
occupants by means of, or for the purpose of streets, common areas,
leaseholds, condominiums, building groups or other features; or
A subdivision of land;
"Land development" shall not include:
The conversion of an existing single-family detached dwelling
or single-family semidetached dwelling into not more than three residential
units, unless such units are intended to be a condominium;
The addition or conversion of buildings or rides within the
confines of an enterprise which would be considered an amusement park.
For purposes of this subsection, "amusement park" is defined as a
tract or area used principally as a location for permanent amusement.
This exclusion shall not apply to newly acquired acreage by an amusement
park until initial plans for the expanded area have been approved;
and
The construction of public infrastructure on behalf of a public
entity.
See "municipal waste landfill."
A designated location on land where the harvested timber,
including logs, pulpwood, or firewood, is assembled for transportation
off site to processing facilities.
The legal or beneficial owner or owners of land, including
the holder of an option or contract to purchase (whether or not such
option or contract is subject to any condition), a lessee if he is
authorized under the lease to exercise the right of the landowner,
or other person having a proprietary interest in land.
A landscape architect registered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
See "registered professional."
A landscape plan prepared by a landscape architect identifying
each tree and shrub by size, type and scientific name, ball and burlap
or bare root, and location, together with a planting diagram and such
other diagrams or reports necessary to show method of planting, staking
and mulching, grass seeding specifications and mixtures and existing
trees over six inches in diameter at breast height.
An establishment providing washing, drying, or dry-cleaning
machines on the premises for rental use to the general public.
Light-emitting diode.
A device that raises the pressure of a compressible fluid
(gas) in order to lift gas from the well.
The processing and fabrication of certain materials and products
where no process involved will produce noise, vibration, air pollution,
fire hazard, or noxious emission which will disturb or endanger neighboring
properties. Light manufacturing includes, but not limited to, the
production of the following goods: home appliances; electrical instruments;
office machines; precision instruments; electronic devices; timepieces;
jewelry; optical goods; musical instruments; novelties; wood products;
printed material; lithographic plates; type composition; machine tools;
dies and gauges; ceramics; apparel; lightweight nonferrous metal castings;
film processing; light sheet metal products; plastic goods; pharmaceutical
goods; and food products; but not animal slaughtering, curing, or
rendering of fats.
Offices located within a structure having a floor area of
less than 4,000 square feet.
A device that raises the pressure of a compressible fluid
(gas) in order for the gas to be transported through a pipeline.
A commercial use, such as a shop, studio, office, cafe, deli,
personal service establishment or other place of business, in combination
with a dwelling unit or units located above such place of business.
A person or persons other than the proprietor of the business may
occupy a live-work unit. The dwelling should have the appearance of
a townhouse.
Farm animals regarded as an asset.
An off-street loading berth, on the same lot with a building,
or contiguous to a group of buildings, for the temporary parking of
a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials.
A restaurant other than a drive-in restaurant having a floor
area not greater than 3,000 square feet.
Retail stores and personal service shops which cater to the
day to day needs of nearby residents and which can be located in close
proximity to residential neighborhoods without an adverse impact from
undue vehicular congestion, excessive noise or other objectionable
influences. Such shops and stores include drugstores, beauty salons,
barbershops, dry-cleaning and laundry pickup facilities having a gross
floor area of less than 3,000 square feet, and grocery stores of less
than 8,000 square feet of gross floor area.
A designed parcel, tract or area of land established by a
plat or otherwise permitted by law and to be used, developed or built
upon as a unit.
The area contained within the lot lines of the individual
parcels of land as shown on a subdivision or land development plan,
excluding the area within the street right-of-way or easement for
overhead utility lines but including any easements, expressed in terms
of acres or square feet.
A mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot
lines.
The horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured
along the front lot line.
A line bounding a lot which divides one lot from another
or from a street or any other public or private space.
A lot line or lines which separates a lot from a public street
or streets.
The lot line which is parallel to and most distant from the
front lot line.
Any lot line other than a front or rear lot line.
Any lot which individually, or as a part of a subdivision,
has been recorded in the Department of Real Estate of Allegheny County
or its successor agency.
A lot at the junction of two or more intersecting streets
and having frontage on two or more such streets. Lots that abut on
more than one street shall provide the required front yard along every
public or private street. The remaining yards shall be considered
side yards. SEE DIAGRAM:
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A lot other than a corner lot or through lot. SEE DIAGRAM:
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A lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel
streets and which is not a corner lot. SEE DIAGRAM:
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The distance between the side lines of the zoning lot measured
at the shortest distance at or between the front and rear building
lines as determined by the prescribed front and rear yard requirements.
A parcel of land, fronting on a street, which is or may be
occupied by a main structure or a unit group of buildings with accessory
uses and structures and the open spaces required under this chapter,
including easement areas if any, but not including any public or private
street or alley.
The lowest floor of the lowest fully enclosed area (including
basement). An unfinished, flood-resistant partially enclosed area,
used solely for parking of vehicles, building access, and incidental
storage, in an area other than a basement area is not considered the
lowest floor of a building, provided that such space is not designed
and built so that the structure is in violation of the applicable
nonelevation design requirements of this chapter.
Any grading, filling or other operation (other than in connection
with a foundation for a structure) involving:
Strip or other mining of coal or other minerals, excavating
of sand or rock and the crushing of rock, drilling for gas or oil,
recovery of metal or natural resources and similar operations;
Material alteration of the ground surface so as to affect streets
and recreation sites and other public facilities, or physically affect
private property within 1,000 feet of the operation;
A volume of earth movement exceeding 10,000 cubic yards; or
A change in ground elevation exceeding 15 feet.
A public street which serves large volumes of high-speed
and long-distance traffic; e.g., parkway, turnpike.
A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which
is built on a permanent chassis, and is designed for use with or without
a permanent foundation when attached to the required utilities. The
term includes park trailers, travel trailers, recreational and other
similar vehicles, which are placed on a site for more than 180 consecutive
days.
A parcel of land which has been planned and improved for
the placement of two or more manufactured homes for nontransient use.
A parcel (or contiguous parcels) of land divided into two
or more manufactured home lots for rent or sale.
Housing which bears a label, as required by and referred
to in the act of November 17, 1982 (P.L. 676, No. 192), known as the
"Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Authorization
Act,"[6] certifying that it conforms to federal construction and
safety standards adopted under the Housing and Community Development
Act of 1974 (Public Law 92-383, 88 Stat. 139). Factory-built, single-family
structures that meet the National Manufactured Home Construction and
Safety Standards Act (42 U.S.C. § 5401), commonly known
as the "HUD (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development) Code."
The processing and fabrication of any article, substance
or commodity.
Manufacturing, including the production, processing, cleaning,
testing and distribution of materials, goods, foodstuffs, and products,
which, by the nature of the materials, equipment and process utilized,
is to a considerable measure clean, quiet, and free of any objectionable
or hazardous element.
See "medical marijuana."
See "therapeutic massage facility."
The height level between eaves and ridge for gable, hip or
gambrel roofs.
Any establishment where human patients are examined and treated
on an outpatient basis by doctors or others who are duly licensed
to perform medical healing arts. Not a substance abuse treatment facility.
Marijuana for certified medical use as set forth in Pennsylvania
Act 16 of 2016.[7]
Use of the premises by a natural person, corporation, partnership,
association, trust, or other entity, or any combination thereof, holding
a permit from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Health,
to dispense medical marijuana.
The use of the premises by a person, including a natural
person, corporation, partnership, association, trust, or other entity,
or any combination thereof, holding a permit from the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania Department of Health, to grow and/or process Medical
Marijuana, with all growing and processing activity to be conducted
indoors.
See "office."
A chartered, nonprofit organization, the primary purpose
of which is the advancement of its members or the community in education,
fraternal, cultural, or civic pursuits and activities (maximum of
5,000 square feet). Also see "athletic facility," "day spa," "fitness
center," "gymnasium," "recreational facility," and "sports facility."
A facility licensed by the Department of Health to use the
drug methadone in the treatment, maintenance, or detoxification of
persons (Section 621 of the MPC).[8] Also see "substance abuse treatment facility."
Any aggregate or mass of mineral matter, whether or not coherent.
The term includes, 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.
Any extraction of any mineral for sale or commercial purpose
that involves removal of the surface of the earth, or exposure of
the mineral or sub-surface of the earth to wind, rain, sun or other
elements of nature. The term "mineral" as used in this definition
includes, but not by way of limitation, anthracite and bituminous
coal, lignite, including mining activities carried out beneath the
surface of the earth by means of shafts, tunnels, other underground
mine openings, limestone and dolomite, sand, gravel, rock, stone,
earth, slag, ore, vermiculite, clay and other mineral resources. Also
see "quarry."
See "self-storage." A building consisting of individual self-contained,
self-service storage spaces, where each unit is not greater than 500
square feet, and the units are rented for the storage of business
and household goods.
A function classification, established by the American Association
of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), for the grouping
or categorizing of roadways according to the character of services
they provide as part of an overall highway system. Minor arterials
connect with and augment the principle arterial system; more emphasis
is placed on land access; they are important to intracommunity continuity;
and lower traffic volumes than principal arterials and include Center
Road, Haymaker Road, James Street, Monroeville Boulevard, Monroeville
Road, Northern Pike, Old William Penn Highway, Pitcairn Road, Stroschein
Road, Thompson Run Road and Wilmerding Monroeville Road.
The replacement of existing work with equivalent materials
for the purpose of its routine maintenance and upkeep, but not including
the cutting away of any wall, partition or portion thereof, the removal
or cutting of any structural beam or bearing support, or the removal
or change of any required means of egress, or rearrangement of parts
of a structure affecting the exitway requirements; nor shall minor
repairs include addition to, alteration of, replacement or relocation
of any standpipe, water supply, sewer, drainage, drain leader, gas,
soil, waste, vent or similar piping, electrical wiring or mechanical
or other work affecting public health or general safety.
The fulfillment of a statutorily imposed duty in an unlawful
or improper manner.
A development or redevelopment that blends mutually supportive
uses, including, but not limited to, some combination of residential,
commercial, cultural, institutional, recreational, medical and public
uses.
The capacity of moving freely or easily, but not necessarily
in continuous motion.
A transportable building intended for permanent occupancy,
contained in one or more sections, built on a permanent chassis, which
arrives at a site completed and ready for occupancy except for minor
and incidental unpacking and assembly operations, and constructed
so that it may be used with or without a permanent foundation. The
term includes park trailers, travel trailers, recreational and other
similar vehicles which are placed on a site for more than 180 consecutive
days.
A prefabricated dwelling unit designed for transportation
on streets and highways on its own wheels or on a flat bed or other
trailers and arriving at the site where it is intended to be occupied
as a dwelling complete and ready for occupancy except for connection
to utilities and minor or incidental unpacking and assembly operations
and constructed so that it may be used with or without a permanent
foundation.
A residential development which is to be occupied by two
or more mobile homes.
Those activities when the drilling rig and related equipment
and personnel arrive at the well site and are conducting activities
to rig up or position the rig equipment at the well and prepare for
drilling. This includes all activities and services prior to the drill
bit being lowered below the rotary table and entering the conductor
pipe in an attempt to make hole ("spud in") for the first time at
a pad site.
See "industrialized housing" and "manufactured housing."
A module is the smallest protected assembly of interconnected
PV cells.
A WCF or site which consists of a single-pole structure,
designed and erected on the ground or on top of a structure, to support
communications antennas and connecting appurtenances.
A Muslim place of worship. Also see "place of worship."
A structure in which lodging is provided for the accommodation
of guests, offered to the public for compensation, which contains
an office supervised by a person in charge at all hours with a majority
of all rooms having direct access to the outside. "Motel" does not
include boardinghouse, lodging house, rooming house or personal-care
home, or group home.
The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act 247 of
1968, 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq., and as it may be amended.
Employee(s) of the Municipality of Monroeville, certified
by the Department of Environmental Protection, to act as a host municipal
inspector of municipal waste landfills and resource recovery facilities
with the following authority, including enter onto the property; inspect
any records required by the Department of Environmental Protection;
collect samples; and conduct inspections in accordance with Department
of Environmental Protection regulations.
Any garbage, refuse, industrial lunchroom or office waste
and any other material including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained
gaseous material resulting from operation of residential, municipal,
commercial or institutional establishments and from community activities
and any sludge not meeting the definition of residual or hazardous
waste hereunder from a municipal, commercial or institutional water
supply treatment plant, waste water treatment plant, or air pollution
control facility.
A waste facility using land for disposing or processing of
municipal waste. The facility includes land affected during the lifetime
of operations, including, but not limited to, areas where disposal
or processing activities actually occur, support facilities, borrow
areas, offices, equipment sheds, air and water pollution control and
treatment systems, access roads, associated on-site or contiguous
collection, transportation and storage facilities, closure and post-closure
care and maintenance activities and other activities in which the
natural land surface has been disturbed as a result of or incidental
to operation of the facility.
A facility using land for disposing of municipal waste. The
facility includes land affected during the lifetime of operations,
including but not limited to areas where disposal or processing activities
actually occur, support facilities, borrow areas, offices, equipment
sheds, air and water pollution control and treatment systems, access
roads, associated on-site or contiguous collection, transportation
and storage facilities, closure and post closure care and maintenance
activities and other activities in which the natural land surface
has been disturbed as a result of or incidental to operation of the
facility. The term does not include a construction/demolition waste
landfill or a facility for the land application of sewage sludge,
as more specifically defined in Title 25, Chapter 271.1 of the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Protection, or successor agency.
The area where municipal waste processing or disposal facilities
are operated. If the operator has a permit to conduct the activities,
and is operating within the boundaries of the permit, the site is
equivalent to the permit area.
The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, 53 P.S. § 10101
et seq.
The Municipality of Monroeville, a Home Rule Charter Municipality,
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
Artwork applied to the wall of a building, which covers all
or most of the wall that depicts a scene or event of natural, social,
cultural or historical significance.
Species of plants that exist in this area prior to European
settlement; plants within their pre-European settlement range or zone
of potential dispersal.
A facility designed and constructed to compress natural gas
that originates from an oil and gas well of collection of such wells
operating as a midstream facility for the delivery of oil and gas
to a transmission pipeline, distribution pipeline, natural gas processing
plant or underground storage field, including one or more natural
gas compressors, associated buildings, pipes, valves, tanks and other
equipment. Also see "oil and gas."
A facility designed and constructed to remove materials such
as ethane, propane, butane and other constituents or similar substances
from natural gas to allow the natural gas to be of such quality as
is required or appropriate for transmission or distribution to commercial
markets, but not including facilities or equipment that are/is designed
and constructed primarily to remove water, water vapor, oil or naturally
occurring liquids from natural gas. Also see "oil and gas."
An elevation, present in or produced by nature, undisturbed
by man.
(Rain garden.) A facility for the temporary storage of stormwater
runoff that is landscaped with grasses and native plants and is designed,
constructed, and maintained in accordance with recognized best management
practice techniques as recommended by the Pennsylvania Department
of Environmental Protection.
Areas in which human activities are very limited and where
the natural environment is protected from man-made changes.
An agreement with a local electric utility that allows customers
to receive a credit for surplus electricity generated by certain renewable
energy systems.
Structures for which the start of construction commenced
on or after the effective start date of this floodplain management
ordinance and includes any subsequent improvements to such structures.
Any construction started after August 1, 1979, and before the effective
start date of this floodplain management ordinance is subject to the
ordinance in effect at the time the permit was issued, provided the
start of construction was within 180 days of permit issuance.
A manufactured home park or subdivision for which the construction
of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes
are to be affixed (including at a minimum, the installation of utilities,
the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the
pouring of concrete pads) is completed on or after the effective date
of floodplain management regulations adopted by a community.
National Fire Protection Association.
A place of assembly, other than a dwelling unit, including
private clubs which may offer food, drink, and entertainment, either
live or recorded, and characterized by low light levels and closely
packed tables, whether or not the consumption of alcoholic beverages
is permitted or allowed on the premises. A nightclub may also operate
as a restaurant during all or part of its hours of operation. An adult
cabaret shall not be considered a nightclub but shall be considered
a sexually oriented business.
A unit of measure used for lighting expressed as candelas
per meter squared.
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 the premises, in excess of those normally associated with
residential use. The business or commercial activity must satisfy
the following requirements:
The business activity shall be compatible with the residential
use of the property and surrounding residential uses;
The business shall employ no employees other than family members
residing in the dwelling;
There shall be no display or sale of retail goods and no stockpiling
or inventory of a substantial nature;
There shall be no outside appearance of a business use, including,
but not limited to, parking or lights;
The business activity may not use any equipment or process,
which creates noise, vibration, glare, fumes, odors or electrical
or electrical interference, including interference with radio or television
reception, which is detectable in the neighborhood;
The business activity may not generate any solid waste or sewage
discharge, in volume or type, which is not normally associated with
residential use in the neighborhood;
The business activity shall be conducted only within the dwelling
and may not occupy more than 25% of the habitable floor area;
The business may not involve any illegal activity; and
The business activity must be conducted within the principal
structure.
Any landowner except those on whose property all or a portion
of a wind energy facility is located. Any landowner that has not signed
a lease agreement with the project owner or developer of a wind energy
facility.
When used with reference to a building, structure or use,
shall mean designated, intended or used for purposes other than those
of a dwelling.
All nontower wireless communications facilities, including,
but not limited to, antennas and accessory equipment. Nontower WCFs
shall not include support structures for antennas or any accessory
equipment that is mounted to the ground or at ground level.
A lot area or dimension of which was lawful prior to the
adoption or amendment of this chapter, but which fails to conform
to the requirements of the zoning district in which it is located
by reasons of such adoption or amendment.
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 this chapter or amendment
or prior to the application of this chapter or amendment to its location
by reason of annexation. Such nonconforming structures include, but
are not limited to, nonconforming signs.
A use that lawfully occupied a structure, land or object
of natural growth, which is inconsistent with the provisions of this
chapter or an amendment thereto.
The appearance of a human bare buttock, anus, male genitals,
female genitals, or female breast.
A school designed to provide daytime care or instruction
for two or more children of preschool age. See "child care center."
Also see "assisted living facility," "continuing care facility,"
"group home," "hospice," "personal care home facility," and "skilled
nursing facility." A place of residence for people who suffer from
physical or mental disabilities, and who require constant nursing
care to perform their daily living activities such as taking a bath,
getting dressed and going to the bathroom. An institution for the
care of persons who are residents by virtue of requiring specialized
care and supervision relating to health, social and/or rehabilitative
services. The facility shall be licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
as a skilled or intermediate care facility. The terms shall not include
hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, or alcohol and drug abuse rehabilitation
centers. Nursing homes are licensed medical facilities that are inspected
and licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health. They must meet
both state and federal regulations. There is third-party reimbursement
(Medicare and Medicaid) for those who qualify based on income.
Any wall, dam, wharf, embankment, levee, dike, pile abutment,
projection, excavation, channel, rectification, culvert, building,
fence, stockpile, refuse, fill, structure, or matter in, along, across,
or projecting into any channel, watercourse, or flood-prone area,
which may impede, retard, or change the direction of the flow of water
either in itself or by catching or collecting debris carried by such
water, or which is placed where the flow of the water might carry
the same downstream to cause the damage of life and property.
Any structure, growth, or other object, including a mobile object,
which exceeds a limiting height set forth by this chapter.
Any person over one year of age living, sleeping, cooking,
or eating in or actually having possession of a dwelling unit or a
rooming unit, except that in dwelling units a guest will not be considered
an "occupant."
A dwelling, school, hospital, place of worship, public library
or other building used for public or private gathering that is occupied
or in use.
Any matter or material that produces a response in the normal
human nose.
The entrails and internal organs of an animal used as food.
A room or group of rooms used for conducting the affairs of
a business, profession, service, industry or government and generally
furnished with desks, tables, files and communication equipment.
A building used primarily for conducting the affairs of a business,
profession, service, industry or government, or like activity, and
may include ancillary services for office workers, such as a restaurant,
coffee shop, newspaper or candy stand and child care facilities.
Crude oil, natural gas, methane gas, coal bed methane gas,
propane, butane and/or any other liquid hydrocarbons, constituents
or similar substances that are produced by drilling and oil or gas
well.
The well site preparation, well site construction, drilling,
hydraulic fracturing and/or site restoration associated with and oil
and/or gas well of any depth; water and other fluid storage, impoundment
located on the same parcel as a well site; and the installation and
use of all associated equipment, including tanks, meters and other
equipment and structures, whether temporary or permanent. The definition
also includes site preparation, construction, installation, maintenance
and repair of other activities and equipment associated with the exploration
for and production of oil and gas. The definition does not include
oil and gas pipelines, compressor stations and natural gas processing
plants, impoundments not located on the well site or facilities performing
the equivalent functions that operate as midstream facilities that
are only authorized as specified by this chapter.
All parts of those physical facilities regulated by the federal,
state or local agencies, such as PHMSA, DEP and/or the Federal Regulatory
Commission through which oil and/or natural gas moves in transportation,
including pipes, valves, other appurtenances attached to pipes, compressor
units, metering stations, regulator stations, delivery stations, holders,
launcher/receiver stations and fabricated assemblies.
See "single-family residential."
To construct a municipal waste management facility in anticipation
of receiving solid waste for the purpose of processing or disposal;
to receive, process or dispose of solid waste; to carry on an activity
at the facility that is related to the receipt, processing or disposal
of waste or otherwise affects land at the facility; to conduct closure
and post-closure activities at a facility.
Deciduous trees with characteristic flower or foliage color
of ornamental/aesthetic value. Ornamental trees are generally smaller,
20 feet to 40 feet at mature height, than canopy/shade trees.
See "billboard and/or outdoor advertising sign."
Use of an adjacent, outside area by a food or beverage establishment
for the same eating and drinking activities that occur within the
establishment.
See "outdoor dining."
A zoning overlay district superimposes an additional set
of regulations over an existing zoning district, or multiple zoning
districts. Zoning overlays, or overlay zoning, are zoning districts
applied to specific geographies based on unique, defined criteria,
which are in addition to the standards outlined for the underlying
base zoning district. Where an overlay regulation conflicts with a
base district regulation, the requirements of an overlay district
shall supersede those of the base district.
Occurring during the night or lasting throughout the night.
Any person, agent, firm or corporation having legal or equitable
interest in the property. Any person who alone or jointly or severally
with others:
Shall have legal title to any premises, dwelling or dwelling
unit, with or without accompanying actual possession thereof; or
Shall have charge, care or control of any premises, dwelling
or dwelling unit as owner or agent of the owner or an executor, administrator,
trustee or guardian of the estate of the owner. Any such person thus
representing the actual owner shall be bound to comply with the provisions
of this chapter and of the rules and regulations adopted pursuant
thereto to the same extent as if he/she were the owner.
Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code.
A parcel of ground intended primarily for beautification
and aesthetic improvement of the Municipality in general or for active
and passive recreational purposes or both.
The parking module consisting of one or two rows of parking
spaces and the aisle from which motor vehicles enter and leave spaces.
The amount of parking that would be used at a particular
time, place and price, calculated by a qualified engineer. It is a
critical factor in evaluating parking problems and solutions.
A building that is used exclusively for the parking or storage
of currently licensed vehicles, whether the building is a principal
or accessory use.
Any land area used or intended to be used as an off-street,
ground-level open area, usually improved, for the temporary parking
of three or more licensed motor vehicles.
A space for the temporary parking of a motor vehicle within
a public or private parking area.
A facility operated by a public agency, nonprofit agency,
or homeowners' association to provide open space and recreational
facilities serving the neighborhood, the community, or the general
public.
A landowner who has signed a lease agreement with the project
owner or developer of a wind energy facility.
An area of land used for informal leisure time activities
such as picnicking, nature study, bird watching, and nature photography.
A paved outside area off of a house or a building that is
used as a seating or living space.
A house in a suburban setting, part of a unit of several
houses attached to each other, typically with shared walls between
units, and with exterior maintenance and landscaping provided through
an association fee.
The Department of Transportation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
and authorized representatives.
An official document or certificate issued by any federal,
state, county or municipal authority having jurisdiction that authorizes
performance of a specified activity.
The area of land and water within the boundaries of the permit,
which is designated on the permit application maps as approved by
the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. The area
includes the areas which are or will be affected by the municipal
waste processing or disposal facility.
A use by right which is specifically authorized in a particular
zoning district.
The person to whom a permit is issued a person in whose name
a permit and/or license to operate a sexually oriented business has
been issued, as well as the individual listed as an application the
application for a permit and/or license.
An individual, partnership, public or private association
or corporation, firm, trust, estate, municipality, governmental unit,
public utility or any other legal entity whatsoever, which is recognized
by law as the subject of rights and duties.
Also see "assisted living facility," "continuing care facility,"
group home," "hospice," "nursing home facility," and "skilled nursing
facility." A residential premises for ambulatory, persons in which
food, shelter, and personal assistance or supervision are provided
for a period exceeding 24 consecutive hours for more than four persons
who are not relatives of the operator and who require assistance or
supervision in such matters as dressing, bathing, diet, or medication
prescribed for self-administration but do not require hospitalization
or care in a skilled nursing home or intermediate care facility as
defined in current Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Licensure requirements.
Personal care homes are residential facilities that offer personal
care services, assistance and supervision to four or more persons.
They are inspected and licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of
Human Services. Sometimes they are advertised as "assisted care,"
"retirement homes" or "boarding homes." A personal care home must
have a license in order to operate in Pennsylvania. There are state
licensing regulations that apply to personal care homes. These regulations
are aimed at protecting the health, safety and well-being of the residents.
There are no federal regulations for personal care homes. There is
no third-party reimbursement for personal care homes, but many personal
care homes accept residents of low income who receive Supplemental
Security Income (SSI). The terms shall not include hospitals, psychiatric
hospitals, or alcohol and drug abuse rehabilitation centers.
Any sign that expresses an opinion, interest or position,
not including political signs.
A commercial establishment providing personal services, such
as barbershops, beauty shops, day spas, dry cleaning, health clubs,
laundering, nail salons, shoe repair and tailor shops and tanning
salons. Personal services do not include tattoo parlors.
See "crematorium."
A retail store which primarily sells prescription drugs,
patent medicines, and surgical and sickroom supplies.
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
of the United States Department of Transportation.
A semiconductor-based device that converts light directly
into electricity.
All parts of those physical facilities through which gas,
hazardous liquids, fresh water, salt water or chemicals move in transportation,
including, but not by way of limitation, pipes, valves and other appurtenances
attached to the pipes, whether or not laid in a public or private
easement or public or private right-of-way within the Municipality,
including, but not by way of limitation, gathering lines, production
lines and transmission lines.
The initiation of any excavation or other disturbance of
property for the purpose of installation, construction, maintenance,
repair, replacement, modification or removal of a pipeline.
Any person owning, operating or responsible for operating
a pipeline.
A permit for the movement of oil, gas, water, or other products
through pipelines issued by the federal, state or local government
or other applicable authority.
A church, synagogue, temple, mosque, or other building used
exclusively for public religious worship, including: customary, incidental,
educational and social activities in conjunction therewith.
CHURCHA building used for public Christian worship.
MOSQUEA Muslim place of worship.
SYNAGOGUEThe building where a Jewish assembly or congregation meets for religious worship and instruction.
TEMPLEA building devoted to the worship, or regarded as the dwelling place, of a god or gods or other objects of religious reverence.
See "planned nonresidential development."
A zoning lot on which the development of more than one principal
structure, built in accordance with a unified site development plan,
which may provide for industrial, recreation, open space, and/or commercial
uses, and which is reviewed and approved in accordance with the provisions
of this chapter.
At least five acres of land, controlled by one landowner,
to be developed as a single entity for a number of dwelling units,
the development plan for which does not correspond in lot size, bulk
or type of buildings, density, lot coverage and required open space
to the regulations established in any one residential district of
this chapter.
The planning commission, planning department, or a planning
committee, appointed by Council of the Municipality of Monroeville,
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
A sign, which is detached from a building and supported by
no more than two poles or other structural supports, which are architecturally
dissimilar to the design of the sign.
A temporary sign relating to the election of a person to
a public office or a political party or a matter to be voted upon
at an election by the public.
The dry or pulpy residue of material (such as fruit, seeds,
or fish) from which a liquid (such as juice or oil) has been pressed
or extracted.
An unenclosed extension of a building, adjoining an entrance
to a building and usually having a separate roof.
Portable containers, not affixed to the land, for the purpose
of temporarily storing, loading or unloading furniture, clothing,
or other personal or household belongings as part of the process of
renovation or moving, the relocation of belongings to an off-site
commercial storage location, or on-site storage in the aftermath of
the property being affected by fire or natural disaster.
Activities after closure which are necessary to ensure compliance
with Title 25 Environmental Protection of the Pennsylvania Department
of Environmental Protection regulations, including application of
final cover, grading, re-vegetation; groundwater, surface water and
gas monitoring; erosion control and gas control; leachate treatment;
and abatement of pollution or degradation to land, water, air or other
natural resources.
A structure for which construction or substantial improvement
occurred after December 31, 1974, or on or after the community's
initial Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) dated August 1, 1979, whichever
is later, and, as such, would be required to be compliant with the
regulations of the National Flood Insurance Program.
An alternative that is available and capable of being done
after taking into consideration cost, existing technology and logistics
in light of overall project purposes.
A structure for which construction or substantial improvement
occurred on or before December 31, 1974, or before the community's
initial Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) dated August 1, 1979, whichever
is later, and, as such, would not be required to be compliant with
the regulations of the National Flood Insurance Program.
A function classification, established by the American Association
of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), for the grouping
and categorizing of roadways according to the character of service
they provide as part of an overall highway system. Principal Arterial
Highways have high traffic volumes, carry the majority of trips between
regional activity centers and communities and provide some access
to property.
A building and or structure in which the main or principal
use of the lot on which said building is situated is conducted.
The principle, permissible purpose for which land, buildings
or structures may be used.
The technology used for the purpose of reducing the volume
or bulk of municipal or residual waste or any technology used to convert
part of all of such waste materials for off-site reuse, processing
facilities include, but are not limited to, transfer facilities, composting
facilities, and resource recovery facilities.
A sign attached directly to the primary structure that shall
not extend more than three feet from the wall and shall clear the
grade by at least 10 feet, or 14 feet six inches above a vehicular
accessible area.
The person, firm, company, corporation, or individuals who
are the owners in fee simple of property, whose name(s) appear last
in the Recorder of Allegheny County Tax Assessor's office. For
the purpose of this chapter, the "property owner" may also include
any individual who is a legal agent of the owner.
Any full-time occupied residence, commercial business, school,
religious institution or other public building that may be impacted
by noise generated from activity associated with oil and gas well
development and/or natural gas compressor station or processing plant.
This term shall not include any structure:
Owned by a grantor or lessor who has signed an agreement granting
surface rights to drill a well and/or erect and maintain a natural
gas compressor station or processing plant; or
Whose owner (or occupants) has (have) signed a waiver relieving
the operator(s) from implementation of the measures established in
this chapter for the owner's (occupant's) benefit.
A structure owned or leased and operated by a governmental
agency.
A document of public interest issued or published by a political
body or otherwise connected with public business.
A formal hearing held pursuant to public notice by the governing
body, board or planning agency, intended to inform and obtain public
comment, prior to taking action, in accordance with the Municipalities
Planning Code.
All roads, streets, walkways, sidewalks, gutters, curbs,
sewers, waterlines, stormwater management facilities, landscaping,
street lighting, traffic control devices and other facilities to be
dedicated to or maintained by the Municipality for which plans and
specifications must comply with applicable municipal codes.
A sign on private or public property that displays information
pertinent to the safety or legal responsibilities of the public, for
example, "warning" and "no trespassing" signs.
A forum held pursuant to the notice under 65 Pa.C.S.A Ch.
7, relating to open meetings, known as the "Pennsylvania Sunshine
Act."
A notice published once each week for two consecutive weeks
in a newspaper of general circulation in the Municipality. Such notice
shall state the time and place of the hearing and the particular nature
of the matter to be considered at the hearing. The first publication
shall not be more than 30 days and the second publication shall not
be less than seven days from the date of the hearing.
A record that a governmental unit is required by law to keep,
such as land deeds kept at a county courthouse. Public records are
generally open to view by the public.
A lot, building, structure or any combination thereof owned
and exclusively occupied by a federal, state or local governmental
agency.
Any administrative building, maintenance building, garage
or other structure intended for human occupancy or storage of movable
equipment or any part of essential public utility installation, as
defined herein, other than the general transmission distribution system
provided by public utilities, regulated by the Public Utilities Commission
(PUC) or any agency, franchisee or authority of the Municipality of
Monroeville which is reasonably necessary to furnish adequate service
to the general public both inside and outside of the Municipality,
including but not limited to long-distance transmission facilities,
such as electrical power lines or high-pressure natural gas or petroleum
lines, switching facilities, substations, treatment plants, reservoirs,
water towers, transmission towers and similar facilities.
Building, structures and facilities, including generating
and switching stations, poles, lines, pipes, pumping stations, repeaters,
antennas, transmitters and receivers, valves, and all buildings and
structures relating to the furnishing of utility services, such as
electric, gas, telephone, water, sewer and public transit to the public
(utility substation). Excluded from this definition are commercial
operations, i.e., commercial communication antenna and commercial
communication tower, etc.
See "pole sign."
Multifamily housing units that are divided into four separate
spaces. From the outside, they may just look like one big house.
A place where rock, ore, stone and similar materials are
excavated or crushed for sale or for off-tract use. Quarries shall
not include gas wells or oil wells. Also see "mineral removal."
Deepening or sidetrack/horizontal drilling of the existing
well bore extending more than 150 feet from such well bore.
Reentry of an existing well within the existing bore hole
or by deepening or sidetrack/horizontal operations (which do not extend
more than 150 feet horizontally from the existing well bore) or replacement
of well liners or casings.
A temporary sign indicating the sale, rental or lease of
the premises on which the sign is placed.
See "yard, rear."
A noncommercial facility operated by and for its members
and providing recreational facilities for the use of members and their
guests.
An area used or intended to be used for sports, or other
recreational pursuits, including playing field(s), court(s), playground(s)
and spectator area(s). Also see "athletic facility," "day spa," "fitness
center," "gymnasium," "membership club," and "sports facility."
A vehicle which is:
Built on a single chassis;
Not more than 400 square feet, measured at the largest horizontal
projections;
Designed to be self-propelled or permanently towable by a vehicle;
and
Not designed for use as a permanent dwelling but as temporary
living quarters for recreational, camping, travel or seasonal use.
Center for the acceptance of recyclable material from the
public by donation, redemption, or purchase. A collection facility
may include reverse vending machines, a small recycling collection
facility, and a large recycling collection facility.
All solid waste materials which are discarded as useless.
All solid wastes except body wastes shall include garbage, ashes and
rubbish.
An individual, licensed in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
to perform services or activities required by provisions of this chapter
and qualified by training and experience to perform the specific services
and/or activities with technical competence.
The base flood elevation (BFE) or estimated flood height
as determined using simplified methods plus a freeboard safety factor
of 1 1/2 feet.
See "substance abuse treatment facility."
Any piece of equipment related to, incidental to, or necessary
for, the operation of a Commercial Communication Tower or Commercial
Communication Antenna. By way of illustration, not limitation, "related
equipment" includes generators and base stations.
See "place of worship."
Something given in exchange for goods or services rendered.
Flood related damages sustained by a structure on two separate
occasions during a ten-year period for which the cost of repairs at
the time of each such flood event, on average, equals or exceeds 25%
of the market value of the structure before the damages occurred.
See "yard" definitions.
Any establishment, including laboratories, which carries
on investigation in the natural, physical or social sciences, and
engineering and development as an extension of such investigation,
with the possible objective of creating end product, which may include
supporting storage and transportation facilities and pilot manufacturing.
A facility for applied research conducted within an enclosed
structure where no good are produced in quantity.
Any sign used to identify the name of a residential development
containing no commercial message and located at the principal entrances
of such development.
Garbage, refuse, other discarded materials or other waste,
including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous materials
resulting from industrial, mining and agricultural operations; and
sludge from an industrial, mining or agricultural water treatment
facility, wastewater treatment or air pollution control facility,
if it is not hazardous. The term does not include the Coal Refuse
Disposal Control Act (52 P.S. §§ 30.51 through 30.101).
The term does not include treatment sludge from coal mine drainage
treatment plants, disposal of which is being carried on under and
in compliance with a valid permit issued under the Clean Streams Law
(35 P.S. §§ 691.1 through 691.1001).
An establishment where food and drink are prepared, served
and consumed primarily within the principal building. Also see "retail
food restaurant."
A fixed small retail facility in which food or drink is offered
or prepared primarily for retail sale where no consumption takes place
inside the establishment. Such facilities may include take-out pizza
shops, delicatessen, and ice cream stands. Also see "restaurant."
Establishment engaged in selling goods or merchandise to
the public for personal or household consumption and rendering services
incidental to the sale of such goods.
The display and sale of products and services primarily outside
of a building or structure, including vehicles, garden supplies, nursery,
food and beverages, boats and aircraft, farm equipment, motor homes,
burial monuments, building and landscape materials and lumberyards.
A structure that holds or retains soil behind it, and is
usually under four feet in height.
A basin that has a permanent pool of water throughout the
year. A wet pond also may be called a "wet basin."
A sign which revolves in a circular motion rather than remaining
stationary on its supporting structure.
The portion of a hillside that forms the horizon where a
steep slope of 25% or greater interfaces with less steeply sloped
land above and beyond the SSO, Steep Slope Overlay boundary.
See "gun range"
Land reserved or dedicated for use as a street, pedestrianway,
or other means of public or private transportation; or for an electric
transmission line, oil or gas pipeline, water main, sanitary or storm
sewer, or other special use. A right-of-way includes the entire area
reserved or dedicated for the use.
Any sign erected and constructed wholly on the roof of a
building, supported by the roof structure.
All nonputrescible municipal waste except garbage and other
decomposable matter. This category includes but it is not limited
to ashes, bedding, cardboard, cans, crockery, glass, paper, metal,
plant growth and wood and yard cleanings.
The dismantling or wrecking of used motor vehicles, trucks,
trailers, farm equipment or mobile homes, or the storage, sale or
dumping of dismantled or partially dismantled, obsolete or wrecked
vehicles or their parts, or any other salvageable materials.
A movable sign consisting of two faces connected and hinged
at the top.
The unauthorized and uncontrolled removal of material placed
for collection or from a solid waste processing or disposal facility.
Also see "educational institution" and "vocational school."
A public or private establishment approved by the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania to provide formal academic and/or vocational education
at the kindergarten, elementary and secondary levels.
Screening relative to this chapter shall mean a fence, evergreen
hedge or wall at least six feet high, provided in such a way that
it will block a line of sight. The screening may consist of either
one or several rows of bushes or trees or of a constructed fence or
wall.
A fixed seat in a theater, auditorium or meeting room, or
24 linear inches of an installed bench or pew, or in the absence of
these, six square feet of floor space in the seating area.
Level of illumination in prescribed areas of 0.5 footcandles.
Also see "mini warehouse." A building consisting of individual
self-contained, self-service storage spaces, where each unit is not
greater than 500 square feet, and the units are rented for the storage
of business and household goods.
See "laundromat."
A state of dress in which clothing covers no more than the
genitals, pubic region, and areola of the female breast, as well as
portions of the body covered by supporting straps or devices.
Also see "housing for the elderly." Housing that is suitable
for the needs of an aging population. It ranges from independent living
to twenty-four-hour care. In senior housing there is an emphasis on
safety, accessibility, adaptability, and longevity that many conventional
housing options may lack.
The required minimum horizontal distance between a property
line and the edge of a principal structure, as per this chapter.
Any coarse screenings, grit and dewatered or air-dried sludge
from sewage treatment plants and pumping from septic tanks or seepage
which are a municipal solid waste and require proper disposal under
Act 97.
A business that is part of the sex industry, such as an adult
bookstore, adult video store, adult cabaret, adult motel, adult motion-picture
theater, adult theater, escort agency, nude model studio, or sexual
encounter center.
ADULT ARCADEAny place to which the public is permitted or invited wherein coin-operated or slug-operated or electronically, electrically, or mechanically controlled still or motion-picture machines, projectors, or other image-producing devices are maintained to show images to five or fewer persons per machine at any one time, and where the images so displayed are distinguished or characterized by the depicting or describing of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
ADULT BOOKSTORE or ADULT VIDEO STOREA commercial establishment which, as one of its principal business purposes, offers for sale or rental for any form of consideration any one or more of the following:
Books, magazines, periodicals or other printed matter, or photographs,
films, motion pictures, videocassettes or video reproductions, slides,
or other visual representations which depict or describe specified
sexual activities or specified anatomical areas; or
Instruments, devices, or paraphernalia, which are designed for
use in connection with specified sexual activities.
A commercial establishment may have other principal business
purposes that do not involve the offering for sale or rental of material
depicting or describing specified sexual activities or specified anatomical
areas and still be categorized as adult bookstore or adult video store.
Such other business purposes will not serve to exempt such commercial
establishment from being categorized as an adult bookstore or adult
video store so long as one of its principal business purposes is the
offering for sale or rental for consideration the specified materials
which depict or describe specified sexual activities or specified
anatomical areas.
ADULT CABARETA nightclub, bar, restaurant, or similar commercial establishment, which regularly features:
ADULT MOTELA hotel, motel, or similar commercial establishment which:
Offers accommodations to the public for any form of consideration
and provides patrons with closed-circuit television transmissions,
films, motion pictures, videocassettes, slides, or other photographic
reproductions which are characterized by the depiction or description
of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas; and
has a sign visible from the public right-of-way which advertises the
availability of this adult type of photographic reproductions; or
Offers any single sleeping room for rent, four or more times
in one calendar day during five or more calendar days in any continuous
thirty-day time period.
ADULT MOTION-PICTURE THEATERA commercial establishment where, for any form of consideration, films, motion pictures, videocassettes, slides, or similar photographic reproductions are regularly shown which are characterized by the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
ADULT THEATERA theater, concert hall, auditorium, or similar commercial establishment which regularly features persons who appear in a state of nudity or live performances which are characterized by the exposure of specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activities.
ESCORT AGENCYA person or business association who furnishes, offers to furnish, or advertises to furnish escorts as one of its primary business purposes for a fee, tip, or other consideration.
NUDE MODEL STUDIOAny place where a person who appears in a state of nudity or displays specified anatomical areas is provided to be observed, sketched, drawn, painted, sculptured, photographed, or similarly depicted by other persons who pay money or any form of consideration.
SEXUAL ENCOUNTER CENTERA business or commercial enterprise that, as one of its primary business purposes, offers for any form of consideration:
Off-street parking that two or more landowners or tenants
share.
See "portable storage unit."
A group of commercial establishments, which is planned, developed,
owned, and managed as a unit, related in its location, size and type
of shops to the trade area that the unit serves.
Also see "bed-and-breakfast," and "air bed-and-breakfast."
A residential dwelling unit that is rented wholly or partially for
a fee for a period of less than 30 continuous days and does not include
a hotel or a bed-and-breakfast establishment or a bed-and-breakfast
homestay.
A woody plant, usually with multiple stems, each of which
has a diameter at breast height (dbh) of less than three inches. Shrubs
are generally less than 20 feet tall at maturity.
See "yard, side."
A walk for pedestrians (often alongside a road) constructed
to the standards set forth in this chapter. Reference the Subdivision
and Land Development Ordinance (SALDO)[9] for specific standards and details.
The standards and specifications for the construction, reconstruction
or repair of sidewalks contained in and hereby made a part of this
chapter. Reference the Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance
(SALDO)[10] for specific standards and details.
Any device, fixture, placard, or structure that uses any
color, form of graphic, illumination, logos, symbol, or writing to
identify and communicate, announce the purpose of, or identify the
purpose of a person or entity, or to communicate information of any
kind to the public.
ADDRESS SIGNA sign or individual lettering numbering that designate the street number and/or street name for identification purposes, as designated by the United States Postal Service.
ADVERTISING VEHICLEAny vehicle and or trailer used as a vehicle to which a sign is affixed in such a manner that the carrying of the sign is used for advertisement or is otherwise not incidental to its primary purpose.
AWNING SIGNAny sign painted on or applied to a structure made of cloth, canvas, metal or similar material, which is affixed to a building and projects from it.
BANNERA temporary sign with or without characters, letters or illustrations applied to cloth, paper, fabric or other nonrigid material.
BILLBOARD AND/OR OUTDOOR ADVERTISING SIGNA sign displaying changeable advertising copy, which pertains to a business, organization, event, person, place, service or product not principally located or sold on the premises upon which said sign is located.
CANOPYA freestanding, rigid multisided structure covered with fabric, metal or other material and supported by columns or posts embedded in the ground.
CIVIC EVENT SIGN, OFF-PREMISESA noncommercial temporary sign posted off-premises to promote and advertise an activity sponsored by the Municipality, school district, church, public agency, civic or charitable association or other similar noncommercial organization.
CIVIC EVENT SIGN, ON-PREMISESA noncommercial temporary sign, posted to promote and advertise an activity sponsored by the Municipality, school district, church, public agency, civic or charitable association or other similar noncommercial organization on the premises where the event is to be held.
COPYThose letters, numerals, figures, symbols, logos and graphic elements comprising the content or message of a sign, excluding numerals identifying a street address only.
DEVELOPMENT SIGNA temporary sign indicating that the premises is in the process of subdivision or development which provides the name or names of principal contractors, architects, lending institutions, artisans or parties responsible for the development of the site where the sign is placed.
DIRECTIONAL SIGN, OFF-PREMISESA sign that directs or instructs vehicular or pedestrian traffic off the premises relative to the parking area, entrances and exits. Such sign shall contain no advertising other than the business name or logo.
DIRECTIONAL SIGN, ON-PREMISESAn on-premises sign designed to guide vehicular and/or pedestrian traffic by using such words as "entrance," "exit," "parking," "one-way," or similar direction or instruction, but not including any advertising message.
DIRECTORY SIGNA sign which identifies multiple uses in a planned nonresidential development, shopping center or multitenant development on a single sign; may be used for shopping centers, industrial park or business campuses, and similar large complexes which have a variety of tenants and/or uses.
DOUBLE-FACED SIGNA sign with two faces of equal sign area, which are back-to-back.
ELECTRONIC MESSAGE CENTERA secondary sign, with a black background or face that includes provisions for changeable copy, PENNDOT-approved color and footcandle illumination, advertising an on-site product, service, activity, a public service message and/or time and temperature.
FREE STANDING SIGNA sign principally supported by a structure affixed to the ground, and not supported by a building, including signs supported by one or more, awnings, columns, poles or braces placed in or upon the ground.
GROUND SIGNA freestanding sign with no visible support. See "monument sign."
HISTORICAL MARKER/PLAQUE/TABLET/SIGNA marker, plaque, tablet, or sign that memorializes an event, person, building or structure of historical importance.
ILLUMINATED SIGNA nonflashing or nontwinkling sign which has letters, figures, designs or outlines illuminated by an internal or external lighting source as part of the sign.
MANUAL MESSAGE CENTERA type of sign where a person must manually change the message in the message center.
MEMORIAL SIGNA memorial plaque or tablet, to include grave markers or other remembrances of persons or events, which is not for commercial or advertising purposes.
MONUMENT SIGNA freestanding sign supported primarily by an internal structural framework or integral structural framework or integrated into landscaping or other solid structural features other than support poles.
MOVABLE SIGNAny temporary sign not permanently attached to the ground or other permanent structure, or a sign designed to be transported, including, but not limited to, signs designed to be transported by means of wheels and signs converted to A- or T-frames. This definition does not include sandwich board signs.
MURALArtwork applied to the wall of a building, which covers all or most of the wall that depicts a scene or event of natural, social, cultural, or historical significance.
NAMEPLATE SIGNA sign not internally illuminated which identifies the name and/or address of the occupant of the premises or a name of the building.
NEON SIGNAny sign composed of glass tubing containing a large proportion of neon gas. A neon sign may be a wall sign, a projecting sign or a window sign.
NONCONFORMING SIGNAny sign that does not conform to the requirements of this chapter and was legally erected prior to adoption of this chapter.
PENNANTAny lightweight plastic, fabric or other material, whether or not containing a message of any kind, suspended from a rope, wire or string, usually in a series and designed to move in the wind. A pennant is considered a temporary sign.
PERSONAL EXPRESSION SIGNAny sign that expresses an opinion, interest or position, not including political signs.
POLE/PYLON SIGNA sign, which is detached from a building and supported by no more than two poles or other structural supports, which are architecturally dissimilar to the design of the sign.
POLITICAL SIGNA temporary sign relating to the election of a person to a public office or a political party or a matter to be voted upon at an election by the public.
PROJECTING SIGNA sign attached directly to the primary structure that shall not extend more than three feet from the wall and shall clear the grade by at least 10 feet or 14 feet six inches above a vehicular accessible area.
PUBLIC INTEREST SIGNA sign on private or public property that displays information pertinent to the safety or legal responsibilities of the public; for example, "warning" and "no trespassing" signs.
PYLON SIGNSee "pole sign."
REAL ESTATE SIGNA temporary sign indicating the sale, rental or lease of the premises on which the sign is placed.
RESIDENTIAL PLAN IDENTIFICATION SIGNAny sign used to identify the name of a residential development containing no commercial message and located at the principal entrances of such development.
REVOLVING SIGNA sign which revolves in a circular motion rather than remaining stationary on its supporting structure.
ROOF SIGNAny sign erected and constructed wholly on the roof of a building, supported by the roof structure.
SANDWICH BOARDA temporary movable sign consisting of two faces connected and hinged at the top.
TEMPORARY EVENT DISPLAYA temporary movable display such as an inflatable balloon, character, tent or vehicle.
TEMPORARY SIGNA sign, which advertises community or civic projects, construction projects, real estate for sale or lease or other special events on a temporary basis. To include, but not be limited to banners, pennants, sandwich boards, pole spinners, yard sale signs, etc. A temporary sign is any sign not permanently attached to the ground, wall or building, that is intended to be displayed for a short and limited period of time. Temporary signs are typically constructed from pliable, nonrigid material (paper, cardboard, canvass, vinyl, etc.), but can also be fabricated from plywood or plastic.
THREE-DIMENSIONAL SIGNA sign having length, width and depth and including spheres. A rectangular or square sign with a thickness of less than 12 inches is not considered a three-dimensional sign.
WALL SIGNA sign attached to and erected parallel to the face of an outside wall of a building, projecting outward not more than 12 inches from the wall of the building, including a marquee.
WINDOW SIGNAny sign, logo, picture, symbol or combination thereof, designed to communicate information about an activity, business, commodity, event, sale or service that is placed inside a window or upon the windowpanes or glass and is visible from the exterior of the window.
YARD SALE SIGNA temporary sign advertising a yard or garage sale.
Those letters, numerals, figures, symbols, logos and graphic
elements comprising the content or message of a sign, excluding numerals
identifying a street address only.
The entire area on which graphic or written materials or
information is placed for viewing in a single direction, not including
structural supports, architectural features of a building, or sign
structure, nonstructural or decorative trim.
The distance from the highest portion of the sign, including
all structural elements, to grade.
A supporting structure erected and used for the purpose of
a sign, situated on any premises where a sign may be located. This
definition shall not include a building, fence, wall or earthen berm.
An aggregation of trees occupying a specific area and sufficiently
uniform in species composition, size, age, arrangement, and condition
as to be distinguished from the forest or other growth on adjoining
areas.
A detached structure having accommodations for and occupied
by not more than one family.
Any plot or parcel of land. The area where municipal waste
processing or disposal facilities are operated. If the operator has
a permit to conduct the activities, and is operating within the boundaries
of the permit, the site is equivalent to the permit area.
A plan prepared by a surveyor, engineer, landscape architect
or architect for a zoning approval which includes all requirements
set forth in this chapter.
The trail, path, temporary roadway, or any other unencumbered
route, utilized by the timber harvesting operator to move felled trees
form the harvest area to the landing area.
The process of dragging trees on the ground, by any means
necessary, from the harvest area to the landing area.
Also see "assisted living facility," "continuing care facility,"
"group home," "hospice," "nursing home facility," and "personal care
home facility." A facility which provides nursing care and related
medical or other health services for a period of 24 hours or more
for two or more individuals not in need of hospitalization but who,
because of age, illness, or other infirmity, require high-intensity
comprehensive planned nursing care, as defined in current state licensure
requirements. The terms shall not include hospitals, psychiatric hospitals,
or alcohol and drug abuse rehabilitation centers.
The woody debris left on the land after timber harvesting,
including logs, chunks, bark, branches, uprooted stumps, and broken
or uprooted trees or shrubs.
Inclination of land expressed as a percentage and derived
by dividing the vertical elevation change by the horizontal distance.
An electric generating facility, with the purpose of electricity
supply, consisting of one or more solar panels and other ancillary
associated buildings and structures, including substations, meteorological
towers, electrical infrastructure, transmission lines, and other appurtenant
structures and facilities.
Items including a solar photovoltaic cell, panel or array,
lines, mounting brackets, framing and foundations used for or intended
to be used for collection of solar energy.
A solar collection system consisting of one or more building
and or ground mounted systems, solar photovoltaic cells, panels or
arrays and solar related equipment that rely upon solar radiation
as an energy source for the collection, inversion, storage and distribution
of solar energy generation. A solar PV system is a generation system
with a name plate capacity of not greater than 50 kilowatts if installed
at a residential service, or not larger than 3,000 kilowatts at other
customer service locations, and do not produce excess on-site energy
greater than currently permitted by the Pennsylvania Public Utility
Commission guidelines.
Structural/architectural element that provides protection
from weather that includes awnings, canopies, porches or sunshades
and that is constructed with the primary covering consisting of solar
PV modules and may or may not include additional solar PV related
equipment.
Waste, including, but not limited to, municipal, residual
or hazardous wastes, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained
gaseous materials.
An instrument standardized by the American Standards Association
for measurement of intensity of sound.
A use permitted in a particular zoning district pursuant to the provisions of § 359-142.
An area in the floodplain subject to a 1% or greater chance
of flooding in any given year. It is shown on the FIRM as Zone A,
AO, A1-A30, AE, A99, or, AH.
The male genitals in a state of sexual arousal and/or the
vulva or more intimate parts of the female genitals.
Includes any of the following:
Enclosed areas of sports pavilions, stadiums, gymnasiums,
health spas, boxing arenas, swimming pools, roller and ice rinks,
billiard halls, bowling alleys, and other similar places where members
of the general public assemble to engage in physical exercise, participate
in athletic competition, or witness sporting events. Also see "athletic
facility," "day spa," "fitness center," "gymnasium," "membership club,"
and "recreational facility."
Any accessory building in which horses are kept for riding,
driving, stabling for private use and not for hire or sale.
For floodplain management purposes, "start of construction"
includes substantial improvement and other proposed new development
and means the date the permit was issued, provided the actual start
of construction, repair, reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition,
placement, or other improvement was within 180 days after the date
of the permit and shall be completed within 12 months after the date
of issuance of the permit unless a time extension is granted in writing
by the Floodplain Administrator. The actual start means either the
first placement of permanent construction of a structure on a site,
such as the pouring of slab or footings, the installation of piles,
the construction of columns, or any work beyond the stage of excavation;
or the placement of a manufactured home on a foundation. Permanent
construction does not include land preparation, such as clearing,
grading, and filling; nor does it include the installation of streets
and walkways; nor does it include excavation for a basement, footings;
piers, or foundations or the erection of temporary forms; nor does
it include the installation on the property of accessory buildings,
such as garages or sheds not occupied as dwelling units or not part
of the main structure. For a substantial improvement, the actual start
of construction means the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor,
or other structural part of a building, whether or not that alteration
affects the external dimensions of the building.
Camouflaging methods applied to wireless communications towers,
antennas, and other facilities, not necessarily related to wireless
communications facilities, which render them more visually appealing
or blend the proposed facility into the existing structure or visual
backdrop in such a manner as to render it minimally visible to the
casual observer. Such methods include, but are not limited to, architecturally
screened roof-mounted antennas, building-mounted antennas painted
to match the existing structure and facilities constructed to resemble
trees, shrubs, and light poles.
Land area where the inclination of the land's surface
from the horizontal plane is 15% or greater. Man-made slopes shall
not be considered steep slopes.
A flat area at the front door of a house, often with steps
below.
See "portable storage unit."
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.
That portion of a building included between the upper surface
of a floor and the lower surface of the floor or roof next above.
See "watercourse."
A right-of-way intended primarily for vehicular traffic and
usually providing for utilities and pedestrian travel. A street may
be designated by other appropriate names such as "highway," "thoroughfare,"
"boulevard," "parkway," "road," "avenue," "drive," "lane," or "place."
Streets which are used primarily for through, fast traffic
at high volumes.
MINOR ARTERIALSInterconnects with and augments principal arterials; accommodates trips of moderate length; distributes travel to areas smaller than identified with higher systems; places emphasis on land access and offers lower traffic mobility; and spacing is normally not more than one mile (e.g., Center Road, Haymaker Road, James Street, Monroeville Boulevard, Monroeville Road, Northern Pike, Old William Penn Highway, Pitcairn Road, Stroschein Road, Thompson Run Road, Wilmerding-Monroeville Road).
PRINCIPAL ARTERIALSServes major centers of activity and carries high proportion of area travel even though it constitutes a relatively small percentage of the total roadway network; integrates both internally and between major rural connections; carries most trips entering and leaving the area and serves intra-area travel; provides continuity for rural arterials; and spacing is related to trip-end density characteristics (e.g., Broadway Boulevard/Route 130, Golden Mile Highway/Route 286, Mosside Boulevard/Route 48, William Penn Highway/Route 22).
A street that provides both land access services and traffic
circulation; distributes trips from arterials through residential
neighborhoods to ultimate destination; and collects traffic from local
streets and channels it to arterials.
A street primarily for providing access to residential, commercial
or other abutting property.
A street that has never been built shown on an approved plan,
subdivision plat, tax map or official map.
The space formed by buildings located close to the street,
which is embellished with such features as sidewalks, street trees,
streetlights, curbs, on-street parking, benches, and waste receptacles
and cartways.
A plan adopted by the Municipality of Monroeville by Resolution
No. 03-63 on July 8, 2003, for the beautification of the Route 22
Business Corridor.
Any man-made assembly, including mobile objects, having an
ascertainable stationary location on or in land or water, whether
or not affixed to the land, including buildings, billboards, carports,
cranes, earth formation, overhead transmission lines, porches, patios,
smokestacks and other building features, but not including sidewalks
and driveways. A walled and roofed building, including a gas or liquid
storage tank that is principally above ground, as well as a manufactured
home.
A one-bedroom efficiency dwelling used as a single housekeeping
unit, containing complete kitchen, bathroom and toilet facilities.
The division or redivision of a lot, tract, or parcel of
land by any means into two or more lots, tracts, parcels, or other
division 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 or 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, easement or access or any residential
dwelling shall be exempted.
The Municipality of Monroeville Subdivision and Land Development
Ordinance; Ordinance No. 2525, adopted November 9, 2011.[11]
Also see "methadone treatment facility." An establishment
where medical or psychotherapeutic treatment for dependency on psychoactive
substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and street drugs such
as cannabis, cocaine, heroin or amphetamines occurs.
Damage from any cause sustained by a structure, whereby the
cost of restoring the structure to its before-damaged conditions would
equal or exceeds 50% or more of the market value of the structure
before the damage occurred.
The increase in floor areas occupied by the business by more
than 25%, as the floor areas exist on the date of enactment of this
chapter.
Any reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition, or other improvement
of a structure, of which the cost equals or exceeds 50% of the market
value of the structure before the start of construction of the improvement.
This term includes structures which have incurred substantial damage
(or repetitive loss when a repetitive loss provision is used) regardless
of the actual repair work performed. The term does not, however, include
any project for improvement of a structure to correct existing violations
of state or local health, sanitary, or safety code specifications
which have been identified by the local code enforcement official
and which are the minimum necessary to assure safe living conditions.
Historic structures undergoing repair or rehabilitation that
would constitute a substantial improvement, as defined in this chapter,
must comply with all ordinance requirements that do not preclude the
structure's continued designation as a historic structure. Documentation
that a specific ordinance requirement will cause removal of the structure
from the National Register of Historic Places or the State Inventory
of Historic places must be obtained from the Secretary of the Interior
or the State Historic Preservation Officer. Any exemption from ordinance
requirements will be the minimum necessary to preserve the historic
character and design of the structure.
A modification to an existing wireless communications facility
substantially changes the physical dimensions of a tower or base station
if it meets any of the following criteria:
For communications tower outside the public rights-of-way, it
increases the height of the facility by more than 10%, or by the height
of one additional antenna array with separation from the nearest existing
antenna, not to exceed 20 feet, whichever is greater; for communications
towers in the rights-of-way, it increases the height of the facility
by more than 10% or 10 feet, whichever is greater;
For communications tower outside the public rights-of-way, it
protrudes from the edge of the WCF by more than 20 feet, or more than
the width of the tower structures are the level off the appurtenance,
whichever is greater; for those communications tower in the public
rights-of-way, it protrudes from the edge of the structure by more
than six feet;
It involves installation of more than the standard number of
new equipment cabinets for the technology involved, but not to exceed
four cabinets;
It entails any excavation of deployment outside the current
site of the communications tower; or
It does not comply with conditions associated with prior approval
of construction or modification of the communications tower unless
the noncompliance is due to an increase in height, increase in width,
or addition of cabinets.
A surveyor registered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
A container of water over 24 inches in depth, which is used,
or intended to be used, for swimming or recreational bathing. This
definition includes in-ground, aboveground, and on-ground swimming
pools, hot tubs and spas. As herein defined the term "swimming pool"
shall be deemed to be a structure.
The building where a Jewish assembly or congregation meets
for religious worship and instruction. Also see "place of worship."
A group of two or more things arranged one behind the other
or used or acting in conjunction.
A commercial establishment that offers facilities for the
browning of skin, when exposed to the sun or some other ultraviolet
light source.
An establishment whose principal business activity, either
in terms of operation or as held out to the public, is the practice
of one or more of the following: placing of designs, letters, figures,
symbols or other marks upon or under the skin of any person, using
ink or other substances that result in the permanent coloration of
the skin by means of the use of needles or other instruments designed
to contact or puncture the skin; and/or the creation of an opening
in the body of a person for the purpose of inserting jewelry or other
decoration.
See "utility pole."
A building devoted to the worship, or regarded as the dwelling
place, of a god or gods or other objects of religious reverence. Also
see "place of worship."
A structure without any foundation or footings that is removed
when the designated time period, activity, or use for which the temporary
structure was created has ceased.
A use established for a limited duration with the intent
to discontinue such use upon the expiration of the time period.
A building or part of a building devoted to showing motion
pictures or for dramatic, dance, musical, or other live performances.
A facility that employs professional massage therapists to
perform professional massage therapy intended to improve the health
and wellness of persons and not including any activity or service
that could be defined as a sexually oriented business. Also see "massage
parlor."
A road or street that leads, at each end, into another street.
The cutting down and removal of trees and logs to be converted
to any forest product or for sale to others or for other purposes.
"Timber harvesting" shall not include the removal of dead or diseased
trees or a homeowner cutting on his own property for his own use.
Any individual, partnership, company, firm, association or
corporation engaged in timber harvesting, including agents, subcontractors,
and employees thereof.
A dwelling unit placed on a property for occupancy as either
a principal or accessory dwelling unit with a habitable floor area
between 150 square feet and 400 square feet constructed with a foundation
or on wheels. Tiny houses are regulated by 2018 International Residential
Code, Appendix Q, "Tiny Houses."
The upper portion of a felled tree that is unmarketable because
of small size, taper, or defect.
The vertical distance between the highest natural topographic
point on the proposed disposal area and the lowest natural topographic
point on the proposed disposal area (i.e., the difference in elevation
of the highest natural point and the lowest natural point).
The upper, outermost layer of soil, usually the top two inches
(5.1 cm) to eight inches (20 cm). It has the highest concentration
of organic matter and microorganisms and is where most of the Earth's
biological soil activity occurs.
Any structure that is used for the purpose of supporting
one or more antennas, including, but not limited to, self-supporting
lattice towers, guy towers and monopoles, utility poles and light
poles, but excluding structures used for co-location of nontower WCFs.
DAS hub facilities are considered to be tower-based WCFs.
A row of three or more attached, one-family dwellings, separated
by vertical party or lot-line walls, and each having private entrances.
A number of photovoltaic modules mounted such that they track
the movement of the sun across the sky to maximize energy production,
either with a single-axis or dual-axis mechanism.
Includes any of the following:
The sale, lease, or sublease of the business;
The transfer of securities which constitute a controlling interest
in the business, whether by sale, exchange, or similar means; or
The establishment of a trust, gift, or other similar legal device
which transfers the ownership or control of the business, except for
transfer by bequest or other operation of law upon the death of the
person possessing the ownership or control.
Any supplemental transportation facility used as an adjunct
to solid waste route collection vehicles.
Not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory.
An area that acts as a buffer between two land uses of different
intensity and capabilities.
A woody perennial plant, typically having a single stem or
trunk growing to a considerable height and bearing lateral branches
at some distance from the ground.
A building that is divided into three living units or residences,
usually having separate entrances.
A vehicle registered gross or combination weight in pounds,
17,001 pounds or more as provided by the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle
Code, 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 101 et seq.
Land and buildings used primarily for the storage and maintenance
of trucks and/or trailers and/or to transfer freight from one truck
and/or trailer to another. The terminal shall not be used for storage
of freight. The terminal may include storage areas for trucks, and
buildings for the repair of trucks associated with the terminal.
A detached structure having accommodations for and occupied
by not more than two families.
A well that is drilled into an unconventional formation,
which is defined as a geological shale formation below the base of
the Elk Sandstone or its geologic equivalent, such as Marcellus, Utica,
Mandata, Huron, Rhinestreet or Upper Devonian, where natural gas generally
cannot be produced except by horizontal or vertical well bores stimulated
by hydraulic fracturing.
The statewide building code adopted by The Pennsylvania General
Assembly in 1999 applicable to new construction in all municipalities
whether administered by the Municipality, a third party or the Department
of Labor and Industry. Applicable to residential and buildings, the
(UCC) adopted the International Residential Code (IRC) and the International
Building Code (IBC), by reference, as the construction standard applicable
with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. For coordination purposes,
references to the above are made specifically to various sections
of the IRC and the IBC.
Area not within a building and not in a defined setback or
yard area.
The purpose, for which land, building or a structure is arranged,
designed or intended, or for which land, building or a structure is
or may be occupied or maintained.
The change within the classified use of a structure or premises.
A use that lawfully occupied a structure, land or object
of natural growth, which is inconsistent with the provisions of this
chapter or an amendment thereto.
A column or post used to support overhead power lines and
various other public utilities, such as electrical cable, fiber optic
cable, and related equipment such as transformers and street lights.
Also see "all terrain vehicle (ATV)." Any motor vehicle,
able to seat passengers side by side, and built with storage space,
commonly used to haul equipment and supplies in locations that make
using a truck impractical or impossible. Any motor vehicle with four
or more low-pressure tires designed for off-highway use having bench
or bucket seating for each occupant and a steering wheel for control.
Any building or structure that is not legally occupied and
is not currently being offered for sale, rent or lease, evidence by
a sign posted on the property, and/or listed on an electronic database
accessible by the Municipality. In lieu of a sign located on the property,
a licensed realtor may submit written confirmation that the subject
property is listed for sale, rent or lease. This definition shall
not apply to properties where owners or occupants are temporarily
absent by reason of extended vacation, part-time seasonal residence,
illness, temporary employment for a period in excess of 90 days, but
intend to return to such property, and have notified the Municipality
of their intentions.
An authorization to vary slightly from the strict interpretation
of the standards of this chapter, which may be granted by the Zoning
Hearing Board in accordance with the law. Also, a grant of relief
by a community from the terms of a floodplain management regulation.
A rodent, arthropod or insect capable of transmitting a disease
or infection. Vectors shall include but not be limited to rats, mosquitoes,
cockroaches, flies, and ticks.
A form of construction to prevent the ingress or egress of
vectors to or from a given space or building or gaining access to
food, water, or harborage. This term shall include but not be limited
to ratproofing, flyproofing and mosquitoproofing.
The leasing, rental and/or sales of automobiles, mobile homes,
trucks, recreational vehicles, farm equipment or similar motor vehicles,
which may also include the servicing and maintenance of such vehicles
when conducted within a fully enclosed structure.
A building or structure where the exclusive services performed
or executed on motor vehicles for compensation shall include the installation,
repair or provision of exhaust systems, electrical systems, transmission,
brakes, radiators, tires, rust proofing, motor vehicle diagnostics,
lubrication, major and minor mechanical and/or body repairs or similar
services, and in conjunction with which there may be a towing service,
a motor vehicle fuel service and/or charging station or a motor vehicle
rental/leasing as an accessory use.
Any building, premises, and land in which or upon which a
business, service, or industry performs or renders a service involving
the maintenance, servicing, repair, or painting of vehicles, not including
commercial motor vehicle repair.
The leasing, rental and/or sales of automobiles, mobile homes,
trucks, recreational vehicles, or farm equipment on a predominately
open lot where no repair work except that which is minor and incidental
to the sale of vehicles is performed.
The leasing, rental and/or sales of automobiles, mobile homes,
trucks, recreational vehicles, or farm equipment within an enclosed
structure, which may also include the servicing and maintenance of
such vehicles when conducted within a fully enclosed structure.
See "vehicle repair service garage."
A structure containing facilities for washing vehicles and
automatic or semiautomatic application of cleaner, brushes, rinse
water and heat for drying.
Any commercial building, premises, or portions thereof used
for washing vehicles.
An isolated, contained basin depression that holds water
for at least two months in the spring and summer, critical to several
amphibian, reptile and invertebrate species. It also provides important
storage for stormwater runoff and spring snowmelt that would otherwise
contribute to downstream flooding. A vernal pond is typically no bigger
than 300 feet long and 120 feet wide, and is often much smaller.
A place where animals are given medical and/or surgical care
and the boarding of animals is limited to short-term care incidental
to the hospital use.
Booths, stalls, partitioned portions of a room, rooms or
other enclosures which are available for viewing:
Films, movies, videos, or visual reproductions of any kind depicting
or describing specified sexual activities or specified anatomical
areas.
Persons who appear in a state of nudity or seminudity or who
offer performances or presentations characterized by the exposure
of specified anatomical areas or by specified sexual activities.
For floodplain management purposes, "violation" means the
failure of a structure or other development to be fully compliant
with the community's floodplain management regulations. A structure
or other development without the elevation certificate, other certifications,
or other evidence of compliance required in 44 CFR § 60.3(b)(5),
(c)(4), (c)(10), (d)(3), (e)(2), (e)(4), or (e)(5) is presumed to
be in violation until such time as that documentation is provided.
The legal notice issued to a property owner by the Zoning
Officer, informing said property owner of any violation of the provisions
of this chapter.
Also see "educational institution" and "school." A secondary
or higher education facility primarily teaching usable skills that
prepare students for jobs in a trade and meeting the state requirements
as a vocational facility.
A building used primarily for the storage of goods and materials
by the owner of the goods or operated for a specific establishment
or group of establishments in a particular industrial or economic
field.
A building used primarily for the storage of goods and materials
and available to the public for a fee.
Any natural or man-made pond, lake or stream. This shall
not include any pond or facility designed and constructed solely to
contain stormwater.
A lined depression excavation pit or facility situated in
or upon the ground, whether natural or artificial, used to store fresh
water.
A lined depression excavation pit or facility situated in
or upon the ground, whether natural or artificial, used to store wastewater
fluid, including but not limited to brine, fracturing fluid, produced
water, recycled water, impaired water, flowback water or any other
fluid that does not satisfy the definition of "fresh water."
Any channel of conveyance of surface water having a defined
bed and banks, whether natural or artificial, with perennial, intermittent
or seasonal flow.
The Pennsylvania Wireless Broadband Collocation Act (53 P.S.
§ 11702.1 et seq.), as amended.
A bore hole drilled or being drilled for the purpose of or
to be used for producing, extracting or injecting any gas, petroleum
or other liquid related to oil or gas production or storage, including
brine disposal, but excluding bore holes drilled to produce potable
water to be used as such.
Any person or entity partnership, company, corporation and
its subcontractors and agents who has an interest in real estate for
the purpose of exploring or drilling for, producing, or transporting
oil or gas. It is also the person or entity designated as the operator
on the applicable permit application or well/facility registration.
The area of surface operations surrounding the surface location
of a well or wells. The site can include facilities, structures, materials,
water containment devices and equipment, whether permanent or temporary,
necessary for or incidental to the preparation, construction, drilling,
production or operation of an oil or gas well, including the access
road.
Those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface water
or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support,
and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation
typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions, including
swamps, marshes, bogs, fens, and similar areas.
An electric generating facility, whose main purpose is to
supply electricity, consisting of one or more windmills and other
accessory structures and buildings, including substations, meteorological
towers, electrical infrastructure, transmission lines and other appurtenant
structures and facilities.
A wind energy conversion system that converts wind energy
into electricity using a wind turbine generator, and includes the
nacelle rotor as well as the tower and pad transformer, if any.
Transmissions through the airwaves, including, but not limited
to, infrared line-of-sight, cellular, PCS, microwave, satellite, or
radio signals.
The antennas, nodes, control boxes, towers, poles, conduits,
ducts, pedestals, electronics and other equipment used for the purpose
of transmitting, receiving, distributing, providing, or accommodating
wireless communications services for the purpose of telecommunications.
A structure and/or equipment intended to support wireless
communication facilities (WCF). Not included are antennas and supportive
structures for private, noncommercial, and amateur purposes, including,
but not limited to, ham radios, citizens band radios, Wi-Fi networks,
and other similar facilities installed by property owners for their
private use.
Any person that applies for a wireless communication facility
building permit, zoning approval and/or permission to use the public
right-of-way (ROW) or other Municipality-owned land or property.
A freestanding structure, such as a tower-based wireless
communications facility or any other support structure that could
support the placement or installation of a wireless communications
facility if approved by the Municipality.
A plant community composed predominantly of healthy trees,
with a caliper measurement of three inches or more, and other woody
vegetation, well-stocked and growing more or less closely together.
An open space on a lot, unoccupied and unobstructed from
the ground to the sky, not occupied by structure or used for parking
or storage, except as otherwise provided, and not including any portion
of a street or alley.
YARD, FRONTA yard across the full width of the lot, extending laterally between the side lot lines and from the front line of the structure at the first-floor level to the front line of the lot. Lots that front on more than one street shall provide the minimum front yard setback from all streets.
YARD, REARA yard across the full width of the lot, measured in depth from the rear property line of the lot to the nearest point of the principal structure of the lot. The rear yard is typically opposite the front yard; however, lots shall only provide one rear yard regardless of the number of front yards. Lots that abut on more than one street shall provide the required front yard along every public or private street. The remaining yards shall be considered side yard.
YARD, SIDEThe prescribed minimum open space between the front yard line and the rear yard line measured perpendicularly from the side lot line. Any lot line, not a rear lot line or a front lot line shall be deemed as a side lot line.
Approval under the provisions of this chapter certifying
that an application for development or application for zoning approval
for occupancy and use has fulfilled the requirements of this chapter.
See "board."
A document issued by the Zoning Officer upon completion of
the construction of a structure, or change in use of structure or
parcel of land, or change of occupancy of structure, that indicates
the use and structure is in compliance with the ordinances of the
municipality having jurisdiction over the location of such use or
structure, that all conditions attached to the granting of the zoning
occupancy certificate have been met, and that the structure and land
may be occupied and used for the purposes set forth in the zoning
permit.
The person appointed in accordance with the Monroeville Home
Rule Charter. The Zoning Officer shall be the Zoning Officer as required
by the Municipalities Planning Code, 53 P.S. § 10101 et
seq. The Zoning Officer shall have all the powers and be subject to
the provisions as set forth in the Municipalities Planning Code, 53
P.S. § 10101 et seq., with respect to Zoning Officers.
A document issued by the Zoning Officer stating that a proposed
use or development will comply with this chapter and authorizing the
applicant to proceed to obtain all required building permits.
Notwithstanding any definition or any other provision of this
chapter, no definition or other provision of this chapter shall be
construed, applied or interpreted in a fashion which violates the
Federal Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. 3601 et seq., and as interpreted
by any court of competent and binding jurisdiction.
