A. 
Unless a contrary intention appears clear, the following words and phrases shall have, for the purpose of this chapter, the meanings given in the following clauses. Any word or phrase not defined specifically herein is intended to be used with its meaning in standard usage.
B. 
For the purpose of this chapter, words and phrases used herein shall be interpreted as follows:
(1) 
Words used in the present tense include the future.
(2) 
The term "shall" is mandatory.
(3) 
Words used in the singular number shall include the plural, and the plural the singular, unless the context indicates clearly to the contrary.
C. 
In case of conflict, the definitions contained in the MPC,[1] as the same is amended from time to time, shall prevail.
[1]
Editor's Note: See the Municipalities Planning Code, 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
ACCESSORY
A. 
ACCESSORY BUILDINGSee "building, accessory."[1]
B. 
ACCESSORY USESee "use, accessory."[2]
C. 
ACCESSORY STRUCTURESee "structure, accessory."[3]
ACCESSORY EQUIPMENT
Any equipment serving or being used in conjunction with a wireless communications facility or wireless support structure. The term "accessory equipment" includes but is not limited to utility or transmission equipment, power supplies, generators, batteries, cables, equipment buildings, cabinets and storage sheds, shelters or similar structures.
[Added 9-19-2018 by Ord. No. 645-2018]
ACRE
Forty three thousand five hundred sixty (43,560) square feet.
ACTIVE RECREATION AREA
Improved areas intended for active recreational activities, such as swimming, playgrounds, skating, baseball, soccer, tennis or other active sports.
ADULT BOOKSTORE/VIDEO STORE
Any commercial establishment in which more than 5% of the inventory offered for sale or rental to the public consists of books, publications, film or other media which depict nudity or sexual conduct, as defined herein, or any establishment which advertises, whether by way of signage or other advertising methods, the sale or rental of said media.
ADULT CARE FACILITY
A facility that provides accommodations for less than 24 hours for more than five unrelated adults and provides supervision and personal care services.
ADULT LIVE THEATER
Any commercial establishment which features on a regular basis live shows for public viewing in which all or some of the performers are displaying nudity or engaging in sexual conduct, as defined herein.
ADULT THEATER OR MOVIE HOUSE
Any movie theater, including mini theater, which on a regular continuing basis shows films rated "X" by the Motion Picture Coding Association of America, or any movie theater, including mini theater, which presents for public viewing on a regular continuing basis adult films depicting sexual conduct as defined herein.
ALLEY
A right-of-way which provides secondary service access for vehicles to the side or rear of abutting properties and is not intended for general traffic circulation.
ALTERATIONS
As applied to a building or structure, a change or rearrangement in the structural parts or in the exit facilities or an enlargement or diminution, whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height, or the moving from one location or position to another.
AMUSEMENT FACILITY
An indoor or outdoor facility designed for rides, arcades or similar entertainment uses.
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
The keeping or raising of livestock, horses and poultry for noncommercial purposes.
ANTENNA
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 tower-based wireless communications facilities as defined below.
[Added 9-19-2018 by Ord. No. 645-2018]
APARTMENT BUILDING
A building containing three or more dwelling units.
APARTMENT UNIT
One or more rooms with private bath and kitchen facilities comprising an independent, self-contained dwelling unit in a building containing three or more dwelling units, with a common access to and from the outside.
APEX TREE
Any tree with a caliper of three inches or greater that has been approved by the Borough.
ARTERIAL STREET
A major street serving as a principal or heavy-traffic street of considerable continuity and used primarily as a traffic artery for intercommunications between large areas. This definition specifically includes but shall not be limited to Big Sewickley Creek Road, Ingomar Heights Road, Rochester Road, Brandt School Road, Reis Run Road, Nicholson Road and Bayne-Wexford Road/Wexford-Bayne Road.
[Amended 11-20-2013 by Ord. No. 606-2013]
ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY
A residential facility in a retirement community for the elderly, as defined herein, containing apartment units for independently mobile residents, which are designed with safety and emergency call features monitored by staff and which provides laundry and housekeeping services and a minimum of one meal each day in a common dining facility and which provides staff supervision and assistance in such matters as bathing, dressing, diet and medications prescribed for self-administration.
AUTOMOBILE SALES
Storage and display for sales purposes of more than two motor vehicles or any type of trailer, provided that the trailer is unoccupied, and where repair or body work is incidental to the operation of the new or used vehicle sales. "Motor vehicle sales" includes motor vehicle retail or wholesale sales.
AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE STATION
A structure and surrounding land used predominantly for the storage and sale of petroleum and other fuels and lubricants primarily to motor vehicles and can include the allocation of space for the sale of items such as snack food, drinks and tobacco products.
BASEMENT
The space enclosed by the foundation or ground-floor wall of a building partly below the average level of the adjacent ground. A basement shall not be counted as a story for the purposes of height measurement unless 1/2 or more of its volume is above the average level of the adjacent ground.
BED-AND-BREAKFAST
An owner-occupied dwelling unit that contains no more than five guest rooms, where lodging, with or without meals, is provided for compensation and where said lodging shall not exceed 14 days.
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
Best management practices (BMPs) are state-of-the-art mitigation measures applied to oil and gas developments, oil and gas development facilities and oil and gas production to help ensure that energy development is conducted in a safe and environmentally responsible manner that protects air and water quality, landscapes and natural resources and public health.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
BIG-BOX RETAIL STRUCTURE
A building that houses a retail establishment or establishments that has a footprint of 75,000 square feet or greater.
BOARDER
One who pays a stipulated sum in return for regular meals or for meals and lodging.
BOARDINGHOUSE
Any dwelling with fewer than 20 sleeping rooms in which more than three persons, either individually or as families, are commercially housed or lodged, with or without meals. A rooming house or a furnished rooming house shall be deemed a boardinghouse.
BOARD or ZONING HEARING BOARD
The Franklin Park Borough Zoning Hearing Board.
BUILDING
A structure under a roof used for the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals or property. The word "building" shall include any part thereof.
A. 
BUILDING, ACCESSORYA subordinate building located on the same lot as a principal building and clearly incidental and subordinate to the principal building. Any portion of a principal building devoted to an accessory use is not an accessory building.
B. 
BUILDING, PRINCIPALA building in which is conducted, or is intended to be conducted, the principal use of the lot on which it is located.
BUILDING CODE OFFICIAL
The Franklin Park Borough Building Inspector/Zoning Officer,
BUILDING HEIGHT
A vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the proposed finished grade around and at the structure to the highest point of the roof for flat roofs, to the decklines of mansard roofs, and to the mean height between the eaves and ridge for gable, hip and gambrel roofs.
BUILDING SETBACK LINE
A line formed by the lot's minimum front yard, as herein designated for each district.
CATEGORICAL EXCLUSION
Categorical exclusions (CEs) are categories of actions that have been determined not to have a significant effect on the human environment either individually or cumulatively. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has defined categories of actions that do not involve significant environmental impacts. These actions are defined in 23 CFR 771.117.
CEMETERY
Land used or dedicated to the burial of the dead, including crematoriums, mausoleums, necessary sales, and maintenance facilities. Mortuaries shall be included when operated within the boundary of such cemetery.
COLLECTOR STREET
A street which carries traffic from minor streets to arterial or major streets, including the principal entrance streets of a residential development and the streets for circulation within such a development. This definition specifically includes, but shall not be limited to, Cole Road, Wexford Run Road, McAleer Road, Pine Creek Road, McDevitt Road, Magee Road Extension, West Ingomar Road and Locust Road.
COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY AND SATELLITES
Any institution providing postsecondary education or instruction at any of its campuses, including technical and trade schools.
COLLOCATION
The placement or installation of new wireless communications facilities on previously approved and constructed wireless support structures, including self-supporting or guyed monopoles and towers, electrical transmission towers, water towers or any other structure not classified as a wireless support structure that can support the placement or installation of wireless communications facilities if approved by the municipality. The term includes the placement, replacement or modification of accessory equipment within a previously approved equipment compound.
[Added 9-19-2018 by Ord. No. 645-2018]
COMMERCIALLY LETTERED VEHICLE
Any vehicle to which lettering, symbols or decals are attached, to any part of the vehicle, which identify a business, organization or any other entity.
COMMERCIALLY LICENSED VEHICLE
Any vehicle identified as a Class 5 or greater by the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code.[4]
[5]COMMISSION or PLANNING COMMISSION
The Franklin Park Borough Planning Commission.
COMMUNITY CENTER
A building used for recreational, social, educational and cultural activities, open to the public or a designated part of the public, usually owned and operated by a public or nonprofit group or agency.
COMPLETION OF THE WELL
The date 60 days after the end date of drilling, redrilling or reworking of the well site in which the well is properly equipped for the production of oil or gas.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
The Comprehensive Plan for Franklin Park Borough, Allegheny County, adopted January 17, 2007, by Franklin Park Borough under the applicable provisions of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act 247, as amended.[6]
COMPRESSOR
A device used alone or in series to raise the pressure of natural gas and/or by-products to create a pressure differential to move or compress a liquid, vapor or gas.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
COMPRESSOR STATION
An oil and gas facility designed and constructed to compress natural gas, through the use of motors, that originates from an oil and gas well or collection of such wells and which operates as an upstream or midstream facility for delivery of oil and gas to a transmission pipeline, distribution pipeline, natural gas processing and/or treatment facility or underground storage field.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
CONDITIONAL USE
An authorized use which may be granted only by Borough Council, pursuant to express standards and criteria prescribed in this chapter, after review and recommendation by the Planning Commission and a public hearing by Borough Council.
CONTRACTING
A business that provides landscaping, construction, remodeling, home improvement, excavation, paving, land development and related services on a contractual basis and which may include contractor's offices and/or a contractor's storage yard.
CONTRACTOR'S STORAGE YARD
An unenclosed portion of the lot or parcel upon which a construction contractor maintains its principal office or a permanent business office. Designation of the lot or parcel as a contractor's storage yard would allow this area to be used to store and maintain construction equipment and other materials customarily used in the trade carried on by the construction contractor.
CONVENIENCE STORE
Any retail establishment offering for sale a limited line of groceries and household items intended for the convenience of the neighborhood.
CONVERSION
Transition of a single-family dwelling structure to a multifamily dwelling.
COUNTRY CLUB
A land area and buildings containing recreational facilities, clubhouse and usual accessory uses, owned by the members and open only to members and their guests for a membership fee.
CRAFT
An occupation or trade requiring manual dexterity, artistic skill and knowledge to perform, such as but not limited to carpentry, pottery, sewing, cabinetmaking and other like occupations.
CROP FARMING
The raising, storage and sale of field and tree crops and the shipping thereof.
DAY CARE
A public, private, nonprofit or for-profit facility regulated and licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (DPW), providing care or supervision to children, excluding: a) care provided by the operator to his or her relatives (child, stepchild, grandchild or foster child); and b) care furnished in places of worship during religious services. The following are the categories of day care:
A. 
DAY-CARE HOMEA facility, licensed as such by DPW, providing out-of-home care at any one time for part of a twenty-four-hour day to four, five or six children who are not related to the operator and who are 15 years of age or younger.
B. 
DAY-CARE CENTERA facility, licensed as such by DPW, providing out-of-home care at any one time for part of a twenty-four-hour day to seven or more children who are not related to the operator and who are 15 years of age or younger.
C. 
GROUP CHILD DAY-CARE HOMEA facility, licensed as such by DPW, providing out-of-home care at any one time for part of a twenty-four-hour day to more than six but fewer than 16 older school-age children or more than six but fewer than 13 children of any other age level, including: a) care provided at the parent's work site when the parent is not present in the child-care space; or b) care provided before or after the hours of instruction in nonpublic schools and in private nursery schools and kindergartens. This definition does not include care provided: a) in a facility where the parent is present at all times when child care is being provided; or b) during the hours of instruction in nonpublic schools and in private nursery schools and kindergartens.
DECIDUOUS TREE OR SHRUB
Any tree or shrub that will lose its leaves during winter months and during periods of extreme drought.
DENSITY
See "gross density."
DEVELOPMENT PLAN
See "land development plan."
DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEMS (DAS)
Network of spatially separated antenna sites connected to a common source that provides wireless service within a geographic area or structure.
[Added 9-19-2018 by Ord. No. 645-2018]
DRILLING
Any vertical or horizontal digging or boring of a new well or reworking of an existing well with the intention to explore, develop or produce oil, gas or other hydrocarbons or to inject gas, water or any other fluids or substances into the earth.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
DRILLING AND STIMULATION EQUIPMENT
Every piece of apparatus, machinery or equipment used, erected or maintained in connection with oil and gas drilling, as well as the completion and stimulation/workover equipment utilized to complete the well, and all parts and appurtenances to such apparatus, machinery or equipment.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
DRIVE-THROUGH FACILITY
Any portion of a building or structure from which business is transacted or is capable of being transacted directly with customers located in a motor vehicle during such business transactions.
DRIVEWAY
A minor vehicular way providing access between a street and a parking area or garage within a lot or property.
DUPLEX
A single-family attached dwelling structure having only one wall in common with another dwelling unit.
DWELLING
A building containing one or more dwelling units. Types of dwellings include:
A. 
Single-family.
B. 
Duplex.
C. 
Townhouse.
D. 
Apartment building.
DWELLING UNIT
Any room or group of rooms located within a residential building and forming a single habitable unit with facilities used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking and eating by one family.
EASEMENT
A grant of the specified use of a parcel of land to the public, a corporation, a government political body or a person. Any utility-related structure within an easement shall conform to the zoning district requirements in which it is located.
EATING PLACE
An establishment which offers food and beverages for sale on the premises as a principal use and may serve alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises, as permitted by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board.
EMERGENCY
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.
[Added 9-19-2018 by Ord. No. 645-2018]
EMERGENCY SERVICE AND MUNICIPAL FACILITIES
A building, structure or use on a lot from which police, fire, ambulance, park, public works or other public services are provided for the general public.
ENTERTAINMENT
Any activity, commercial or noncommercial, whether or not conducted for gain, which is generally related to the entertainment field, such as motion-picture theaters, bowling alleys, roller-skating rinks, miniature golf, golf driving ranges, commercial swimming pools, carnivals, festivals, parks, ball fields and other similar activities.
ENTERTAINMENT FACILITY
A structure or area for the presentation of the performing arts, including indoor motion-picture theaters, theaters for live performances, and indoor and outdoor concert halls. "Entertainment facility" includes eating places as an accessory use. "Entertainment facility" does not include adult- or sexually-oriented businesses.
EQUIPMENT COMPOUND
An area surrounding or adjacent to a wireless support structure within which base stations, power supplies, or accessory equipment are located.
[Added 9-19-2018 by Ord. No. 645-2018]
EQUIPMENT REPAIR SHOP (MINOR)
A business establishment that repairs consumer electronics, appliances and tools that can be carried into the establishment by the customer and where all repairs are conducted inside the establishment and remain indoors. Equipment repaired at this type of establishment includes personal computers, cameras, small appliances, televisions, power tools, lawn mowers and similar devices.
EROSION
The removal of surface materials by the action of natural elements.
ESSENTIAL/COMMERCIAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS TOWER
Any structure designed for transmitting or receiving radio, television, telephone or other communications, which is owned or operated by any agency, franchisee or authority of the Franklin Park Borough, Allegheny County, or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or any police, fire, emergency medical or emergency management agency and which is also operated by any agency or corporation or public utility regulated by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) or Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
ESSENTIAL SERVICES
The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance, by public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies, of underground or overhead gas, electrical, steam or water transmission or distribution systems or collection, communications, supply or disposal systems, including pools, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduit cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants and other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith, reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service for the public health or safety in general.
ESSENTIAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS TOWER
Any structure designed for transmitting or receiving radio, television or telephone communications, which is owned or operated by any agency, franchisee or authority of the Franklin Park Borough, Allegheny County, or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or any police, fire, emergency medical or emergency management agency.
EVERGREEN TREE OR SHRUB
A plant that has leaves or needles in all seasons. This contrasts with deciduous plants, which completely lose their foliage during the winter or dry season.
FACADE
The exterior walls of a building exposed to public view or any wall viewed by persons not within the building.
FAMILY
One or more persons related by blood, foster relationship, marriage or adoption and, in addition, any domestic servants or gratuitous guests thereof; or a group of not more than five persons who need not be so related and, in addition, domestic servants or gratuitous guests thereof, who are living together in a single, nonprofit dwelling unit and maintaining a common household with single cooking facilities. A roomer, boarder or lodger shall not be considered a member of the family.
FARM
A tract or parcel of land containing not less than five acres, upon which are maintained, grown and produced for sale or use domestic livestock, fur-bearing animals, dairy products, poultry, eggs, fruit and vegetables and other such crops and animals.
FARM STAND
A temporary structure used for the display and sale of agricultural commodities directly to the consumer on property owned and operated by a landowner who produces not less than 50% of the commodities sold.
[Amended 5-18-2022 by Ord. No. 666-2022]
FARMERS' MARKET
An outdoor retail market open to the public, established to provide: i) the sale of produce, plants or herbs, eggs, meats, dairy, honey and other similar agricultural commodities locally grown, harvested, or produced and sold directly by the grower, harvester or producer of the commodity; ii) the sale of certain prepared foods, goods, or beverages, including wine, cider, or beer, that are produced and sold directly by the producer of said foods, goods, or beverages; and iii) certain entertainment activities, such as musical presentations provided by local businesses, artists, or musicians.
[Added 5-18-2022 by Ord. No. 666-2022]
FCC
Federal Communications Commission.
[Added 9-19-2018 by Ord. No. 645-2018]
FENCE
A vertical enclosure, solid or partially open, to prevent straying from within or intrusion from without.
FENESTRATION
Elements that create openings in a building's exterior, such as windows, doors, skylights, curtain walls, etc., designed to permit the passage of air, light, vehicles or people.
FINANCIAL ESTABLISHMENT
Any building wherein the primary occupation is concerned with such federal- or state-regulated businesses as banking, savings and loans, loan companies, and investment companies.
FLOODPLAIN
Any streams, ponds or lakes subject to a one-hundred-year-recurrence-interval flood, as delineated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), or subject to erosion caused by a one-hundred-year-recurrence-interval flood. In addition, any areas identified in the future by anyone else expert and experienced in the preparation of hydrological studies and the determination of floodlines, subject to the review and approval of a professional engineer selected by the municipality.
FLOODWAY
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 a designated height.
FLOOR AREA
See "gross floor area."
FLOOR AREA RATIO
The amount of floor area permitted on a lot in relation to the size of the lot.
FLOWBACK WATER
The murky, salty water from fracking natural gas wells consisting of fracturing fluid which returns to the surface as well as produced water.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
FORESTRY
The management of forests and timberlands when practiced in accordance with accepted silvicultural principles, through developing, cultivating, harvesting, transporting and selling trees for commercial purposes, which does not involve any land development.
FRACTURE or FRACKING
The process of injecting water, customized fracking fluid, steam, or gas into a gas well under pressure to improve gas recovery.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
FRANKLIN PARK BOROUGH or BOROUGH
The Franklin Park Borough located in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
FREESTANDING SIGN
A self-supporting sign resting on or supported by means of poles or standards on the ground.
FRESH GROUNDWATER
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.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
FRESH WATER
Water obtained from a public or private potable water source of the Commonwealth such as a hydrant, stream, lake, water well, spring, water line or other source that has not been treated or utilized in commercial or industrial operations.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
FUNERAL HOME
A place or premises devoted to or used in the care and preparation for the funeral and burial of dead human bodies and maintained for the convenience of the bereaved for viewing or other services in connection with dead human bodies and as an office or place for carrying on the profession of funeral directing but not cremation.
GARAGE, PRIVATE
A building or portion thereof designed or used privately for the storage of motor vehicles and used by the occupants of the principal building to which it is an accessory. Not more than one of the housed vehicles shall be a commercial vehicle of more than two tons' capacity.
GAS WELL
Any well drilled for the intent of extracting gas or other hydrocarbons from beneath the surface of the earth.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
GLAZING
Furnishing or fitting with glass.
GOLF COURSE
A land area and buildings containing recreational facilities for the purpose of playing golf.
GOVERNING BODY or BOROUGH COUNCIL
The Franklin Park Borough Council.
GREENHOUSE
The indoor raising of plants, shrubs and trees for sale and transplantation.
GROSS DENSITY
That ratio of the total number of dwelling units to the total acreage comprising a given parcel.
GROSS FLOOR AREA
The sum of the areas of the several floors of the building or structure, as measured from the exterior faces of the walls. It does not include basements, unenclosed porches, attics not usable for human occupancy, nor any floor space in an accessory building nor in the principal building intended or designed for the parking of motor vehicles, nor any such floor space intended and designed for accessory heating and ventilating equipment.
GROSS LAND AREA
The total land and water surface area contained within the boundaries of a lot, parcel or tract.
GROUND STORY
The first floor or main entry level of a building that is fully above grade and fully above the floor or basement level.
HALFWAY HOUSE
A group residence for those who have completed treatment at a rehabilitation facility, whether criminal in nature or not, but who are not yet ready to return to independent living in the community and where residents participate in structured programs designated to ease successful reintegration into society.
HEIGHT OF A TOWER-BASED WCF
The vertical distance measured from the ground level, including any base pad, to the highest point on a tower-based WCF, including antennae mounted on the tower and any other appurtenances.
[Added 9-19-2018 by Ord. No. 645-2018]
HOME OCCUPATION
The accessory use of a residence involving the conduct of an art or profession, the offering of a service, the conduct of a business or the production of handicrafts on a residential site. The use is incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for residential purposes and shall not change the character of the residential use or adversely affect the uses permitted in the residential district of which it is a part.
HOSPITAL
An institution providing primary health services and medical 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 or training facilities.
IMPERVIOUS SURFACE
Any hard-surfaced, man-made area that does not readily absorb or retain water, including but not limited to building roofs, parking and driveway areas, graveled areas, sidewalks and paved recreation areas.
IMPOUNDMENT, FRESH WATER
A depression, excavation or facility situated in or upon the ground, whether natural or artificial and whether lined or unlined, used to store fresh water.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
IMPOUNDMENT, WASTEWATER
A lined depression excavation pit or facility situated in or upon the ground, whether natural or artificial, used to store waste water fluid including but not limited to brine, fracturing fluid, produced water, recycled water, impaired water, flowbackwater, or any other fluid that does not satisfy the definition of "fresh water."
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
IMPROVEMENT
Construction of any building or structure or any addition or enlargement thereof, any street, driveway, paved area, stormwater management facility, sanitary sewers, public waterlines, clearing or grading.
INDEPENDENT LIVING FACILITY
A residential facility in a retirement community for the elderly, as defined herein, which provides on-site supervision available to independently mobile residents on an as-needed basis and which offers at least one meal a day in common dining facilities.
INDUSTRIAL PARK
A planned, coordinated development of a tract of land with two or more separate industrial buildings. Such development is planned, designed, constructed and managed on an integrated and coordinated basis with special attention given to on-site vehicular circulation, parking, utility needs, building design, orientation and open space.
INTERMEDIATE NURSING CARE
Health-related care and services above the level of room and board, provided on a regular basis to resident individuals who do not require hospital or skilled nursing care but who, because of mental or physical condition, require services under a plan of care supervised by licensed and qualified personnel.
INTERSTATE HIGHWAY
Any section of a highway that is part of the national system of interstate and defense highways, including interchange access roads.
[Added 3-16-2022 by Ord. No. 665-2022]
KENNEL
A facility located on a lot of five or more acres on which four or more animals, including but not limited to dogs and cats, are kept, bred, trained and/or boarded at any one time, whether for profit or not.
LAND DEVELOPMENT
A. 
The improvement, as defined herein, of one lot or two or more contiguous lots, tracts or parcels of land for any purpose involving:
(1) 
A group of two or more residential or nonresidential buildings, whether proposed initially or cumulatively;
(2) 
A single nonresidential building on a lot or lots, regardless of the number of occupants or tenants, including any structural alteration to an existing building which results in additional lot coverage; or
(3) 
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 developing streets, common areas, leaseholds, condominiums, building groups or other features.
B. 
Subdivision as defined herein.
C. 
Development in accordance with Section 503(1.1) of the Municipalities Planning Code.[7]
D. 
The following shall not be considered land development:
(1) 
The subdivision by lease of land for agricultural purposes into parcels of more than 10 acres, not involving any new street or easement of access or any residential dwelling.
(2) 
Accessory uses and/or structures as defined in this chapter.
(3) 
The conversion of an existing single-family dwelling or two-family dwelling into not more than three dwelling units, unless such units are intended to be a condominium.
(4) 
The addition of an accessory building, including farm buildings less than 600 square feet, on a lot or lots subordinate to an existing principal building.
(5) 
An addition to an existing nonresidential structure that totals less than 10% of the total gross floor area of the existing nonresidential structure on the site.
(6) 
The addition or conversion of buildings or rides within the confines of an amusement park, except the expansion of an amusement park onto newly acquired acreage.
LAND DEVELOPMENT PLAN
A plan prepared in accordance with the application requirements of Chapter 184, Subdivision and Land Development, for approval of a land development, as defined herein.
LANDOWNER
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 rights of the landowner, or other person having a proprietary interest in land.
LARGE RETAIL BUSINESSES
Any retail business whose size exceeds 10,000 square feet.
LAUNDRY AND DRY-CLEANING ESTABLISHMENT
An establishment that is primarily engaged in washing, dry cleaning, dying, pressing and otherwise reconditioning clothing, curtains, drapes, linens, rugs and other articles.
LIBRARY
A public facility for the use, but not sale, of literary, musical, artistic or reference materials.
LIGHT INDUSTRIAL
Uses that include fabrication, manufacturing, assembly or processing of materials that are in refined form and that do not in their transformation create smoke, gas, odor, dust, noise, vibration of earth, soot or lighting to a degree that is offensive when measured at the property line of subject property.
[Added 11-20-2013 by Ord. No. 606-2013]
LODGER
See "boarder."
LOT
A designated parcel, tract or area of land established by a plat or otherwise as permitted by law and to be used, developed or built upon as a unit.
A. 
LOT AREAThe area contained within the property lines of the individual parcels of land shown on a subdivision plan required by this chapter, excluding any area within an existing or designated future street right-of-way.
B. 
LOT SIZESee "lot area."
C. 
CORNER LOTA lot which has an interior angle of less than 135° at the intersection of two street lines.
D. 
DEPTH OF LOTThe distance from the street line of the lot to its opposite rear line, measured in the general direction of each side line of the lot.
E. 
LOT OF RECORDAny lot which individually or as part of a subdivision has been recorded in the Department of Real Estate of Allegheny County.
F. 
LOT WIDTHThe width dimension of a lot at the right-of-way line measured at near right angles to the depth or along the curve in the event that the right-of-way line is curved. On lots fronting on a cul-de-sac, lot width shall be measured at the building setback line.
G. 
THROUGH LOTAn interior lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel streets.
LOT COVERAGE
That portion of the lot which is covered by the footprint of all principal and accessory structures, expressed as a percentage of the lot area.
LOT LINES
Any boundary line of a lot.
A. 
LOT LINE, REARAny lot line which is parallel to or within 45° of being parallel to a street line, except for a lot line that is itself a street line and except that, in the case of a corner lot, the owner shall have the option of choosing which of the two lot lines that are not street lines is to be considered a rear lot line. In the case of a lot having no street frontage or a lot of an odd shape, only the one lot line furthest from any street shall be considered a rear lot line.
B. 
LOT LINE, FRONTSee "street line."
C. 
LOT LINE, SIDEAny lot line which is not a street line or a rear lot line.
LUMBERYARD
An area used for the storage, distribution and sale of finished or rough-cut lumber and lumber products, but not including the manufacture or fabrication of lumber, lumber products, or firewood.
MANUFACTURING
The mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substances into new products, including the assembling of component parts, the creation of products, and the blending of material, including but not limited to oils, plastics, resins, etc.
MATURE WOODLANDS
An area of mature deciduous and/or evergreen trees covering a lot or a portion of a lot and consisting of 30% or more of a largely deciduous canopy of trees having a ten-inch or greater caliper, or any grove of deciduous trees consisting of eight or more trees having an eighteen-inch or greater caliper.
MEASUREMENT OF YARD DEPTHS AND WIDTHS ON VARIOUS SHAPED LOTS
Front and rear yard depths and side yard widths are the respective distances from the lot line to the nearest point of the building. Front yard depth and side yard width shall be measured at right angles from the building to the nearest location of the lot line. Rear yard depth shall be measured at a right angle from the rear of the building to the nearest location of the lot line.
A. 
The rear lot line is that lot line most nearly parallel to the front lot line. In the case of triangular lots, the intersection of the side lot lines shall be treated as the midpoint of the rear lot line.
B. 
For the purpose of identifying the various yards, a house on a corner lot shall be considered as fronting on the street from which it derives its house number.
MEDICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC LAB: OUTPATIENT
An establishment providing routine or advanced testing by physicians, lab technicians and other practitioners to aid in the detection and prevention of diseases, provided that patients are not kept overnight except under emergency conditions.
MEDICAL OFFICE/CLINIC
A building used exclusively by physicians, dentists or other medical personnel for the treatment and examination of patients solely on an outpatient basis, provided that no overnight patients shall be kept on the premises.
MINOR STREET
A street predominantly serving as an access street to a particular lot or serving another minor function.
MOBILE HOME
A transportable single-family dwelling intended for permanent occupancy, contained in one unit or in two or more units designed to be joined into one integral unit capable of again being separated for repeated towing, which arrives at a site complete and ready for occupancy except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembly operations, and constructed so that it may be used without a permanent foundation.
MOBILE HOME LOT
A parcel of land in a mobile home park, improved with the necessary utility connections and other appurtenances necessary for the erection thereon of a single mobile home.
MOBILE HOME PARK
A parcel, or contiguous parcels, of land, which has been so designated and improved that it contains two or more mobile home lots for the placement thereon of mobile homes.
MODERATELY STEEP SLOPES
Areas of existing topography where the slope equals or exceeds 15% but does not equal or exceed 25% from the top to bottom of the break in grade.
MODIFICATION or MODIFY
The improvement, upgrade or expansion of existing wireless communications facilities or base stations on an existing wireless support structure or the improvement, upgrade, or expansion of the wireless communications facilities located within an existing equipment compound, if the improvement, upgrade, expansion or replacement does not substantially change the physical dimensions of the wireless support structure.
[Added 9-19-2018 by Ord. No. 645-2018]
MONOPOLE
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 antennae and connecting appurtenances.
[Added 9-19-2018 by Ord. No. 645-2018]
MOTEL or HOTEL
A building or group of buildings in which lodging is provided to transient guests, offered to the public for compensation.
MULTIFAMILY DWELLING
A building containing more than one dwelling unit.
MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES
Any land, building, facility or infrastructure owned or operated by Franklin Park Borough.
MUNICIPAL or MUNICIPALITY
Franklin Park Borough.
MUNICIPALITIES PLANNING CODE (MPC)
The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act No. 247 of 1968, P.L. 805, as amended.[8]
MUNICIPAL SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM AND/OR MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY
A municipal sewage disposal system shall be one which is owned and operated by the municipality and which has been approved by the appropriate county and state officials, agencies having jurisdiction over such matters and/or a municipal authority.
MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM AND/OR MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY
A municipal water supply system shall be one which is owned and operated by the municipality and which has been approved by the appropriate county and state officials or agencies having jurisdiction over such matters and/or a municipal authority.
MUSEUM
An institution, building, room or specified indoor or outdoor area for preserving, exhibiting, demonstrating or interpreting art, history, culture or nature or scientific objects or ideas.
NO-IMPACT HOME-BASED BUSINESS
A business or commercial activity administered or conducted as an accessory use which is clearly secondary to the use as a residential dwelling and which involves 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 requirements of § 212-1907B of this chapter.
NONCONFORMING LOT
A lot the 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.
NONCONFORMING STRUCTURE
A structure or part of a structure manifestly not designed to comply with the applicable use or extent of use provisions in this chapter or amendment heretofore or hereafter enacted, where such structure lawfully existed prior to the enactment of such ordinance or amendment or prior to the application of such ordinance or amendment to its location by reason of annexation. Such nonconforming structures include, but are not limited to, nonconforming signs.
NONCONFORMING USE
A use, whether of land or of structure, which does not comply with the applicable use provisions in this chapter or any amendment heretofore or hereafter enacted, where such use was lawfully in existence prior to the enactment of such ordinance or amendment or prior to the application of such ordinance or amendment to its location by reason of annexation.
NONCONTRIBUTORY PLANTS
Any small tree or shrub below the size specified in Table 20-1,[9] which may add to a building's aesthetic but has no point value in meeting the requirements in § 212-2003.
NON-TOWER WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY (NON-TOWER WCF)
Wireless communications facilities located on existing structures, such as, but not limited to, buildings, water towers, electrical transmission towers, utility poles, light poles, traffic signal poles, flagpoles and other similar structures that do not require the installation of a new tower. This term includes the replacement of an existing structure with a similar structure that is required to support the weight of the proposed WCF.
[Added 9-19-2018 by Ord. No. 645-2018]
NUDITY
The showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic area or buttocks with less than a fully opaque covering, or the showing of the female breast with less than a fully opaque covering of any portion thereof below the top of the nipple, or the depiction of covered male genitals in a discernible turgid state.
NURSERY
The outdoor raising of plants, shrubs and trees for sale and transplantation.
NURSING HOME
A facility licensed to operate as such by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the purpose of providing skilled nursing care or intermediate nursing care, or both levels of care, to two or more patients who are unrelated to the nursing home administrator for a period exceeding 24 hours.
OFFICE (PROFESSIONAL)
The office of a member of a recognized profession maintained for the conduct of business in any of the following related categories: architectural, engineering, planning, law, interior design, accounting, insurance, real estate, medical, dental, optical, or any similar type of profession.
OIL and GAS
Crude oil, natural gas, methane gas, coal bed methane gas, propane, butane and/or any other constituents or similar substances that are produced by drilling a well of any depth into, through, and below the surface of the earth and defined as follows: Gas is a fluid, combustible or noncombustible, which is produced in a natural state from the earth and maintains a gaseous or rarified state at standard temperature of 60° F. and pressure 14.7 PSIA or any manufactured gas, by-product gas or mixture of gases or natural gas liquids. Oil is defined as hydrocarbons in liquid form at standard temperature of 60° F. and pressure 14.7 PSIA, also referred to as petroleum.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT FACILITY or FACILITY
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
A. 
NATURAL GAS COMPRESSOR STATIONA facility designed and constructed to compress natural gas that originates from an oil and gas well or collection of such wells operating as a midstream facility for 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.
B. 
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.
OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT or DEVELOPMENT
A land development which includes well site preparation, well site construction, drilling, fracturing, and/or site restoration associated with an oil and gas well of any depth and related activities such as water and other fluid storage; gas reservoirs; impoundment and transportation used for such activities; the installation and use of all associated equipment, including tanks, meters, and other equipment and structures, whether permanent or temporary; the site preparation, construction, installation, maintenance and repair of oil and gas pipelines, not regulated by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission or United States Department of Transportation, Office of Pipeline Safety, and associated equipment; and all other equipment and activities associated with the exploration for, production and recovery of and transportation of oil and gas, including structures defined as other support facilities or structures performing similar functions that operate as midstream facilities, but excluding natural gas compressor stations and natural gas processing plants.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
OIL AND GAS PROPERTY
Any surface property for which the underlying oil and gas rights are leased for development and/or under the control of the operator.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
OPEN SPACE
A lot, parcel or parcels of land or a body of water, portions thereof or a combination thereof in any given development, the amount of which has been determined for each zoning district, that is to remain generally free of buildings or other structures.
OPERATOR
The person designated as operator on the permit application and, if a separate entity from the operator, the owner of the oil and gas development or facility which is the subject of the application.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
OUTDOOR STORAGE OR DISPLAY, COMMERCIAL
The keeping, in an unroofed area, of any goods, junk, material, merchandise or vehicles in the same place for more than 24 hours.
OUTPATIENT
A patient receiving medical services at a hospital, clinic or any other medical facility that does not include an overnight stay.
OVERLAY
An area where certain additional requirements are superimposed upon a base zoning district or underlying district and where the requirements of the base or underlying district may or may not be altered.
PARK
A noncommercial, not-for-profit facility designed to serve the recreation needs of the community.
PARKING AREA
A. 
PARKING AREA, PRIVATEAn open, off-street area, other than a private street or way (with adequate means of access), used exclusively for the parking of automobiles of occupants of the premises.
B. 
PARKING AREA, PUBLICAn open, off-street area, other than a private street or way (with adequate means of access), available to the general public for the parking of motor vehicles.
PARKING GARAGE
A structure designed to accommodate vehicular parking spaces that are fully or partially enclosed or located on the deck surface of the building. This definition includes parking garages, deck parking, and underground or under-building parking areas.
PARKING LOT
An open area, excluding a street or other public way, used for the parking of motor vehicles, whether for free or for compensation.
PASSENGER AUTOMOBILE/PASSENGER VEHICLE
A car or a truck used to transport passengers, excluding buses and trains.
PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION (PUC)
The PUC is the state agency charged with ensuring that Pennsylvania residents are provided with safe and reliable utility service. The PUC is charged with overseeing all aspects of utility operations and reviews and approves proposed utility rate hikes.
PERENNIAL STREAM
A stream that has continuous flow in parts of its stream bed all year round during years of normal rainfall.
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PERMANENT FACILITY AREA
Shall consist of the area designated by the applicant on the approved plat detailing the outer boundary of the area where the wellhead and permanent above-ground equipment and structures associated with the production and operation of oil and gas wells and/or post-hydraulic fracturing are permitted.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
PERSON
Individuals, corporations, companies, associations, joint stock companies, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies, corporations and other entities established pursuant to statutes of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, provided that "person" does not include or apply to the Borough, or to any department or agency of the Borough.
[Amended 9-19-2018 by Ord. No. 645-2018]
PERSONAL CARE BOARDING HOME
A facility licensed to operate as such by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, where a sleeping room and board is provided to more than three permanent residents who are not relatives of the operator and who are mobile or semimobile but who require specialized services in such matters as bathing, dressing, diet and medication prescribed for self-administration for a period exceeding 24 hours, but who are not in need of hospitalization and/or skilled nursing care and/or intermediate nursing care.
PERSONAL SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT
An establishment primarily engaged in providing services involving the care of a person or his or her personal goods or apparel, including but not limited to barbershops and beauty shops, dog grooming, tailor, dressmaker, shoe repair, photographer, laundry and dry-cleaning pickup and the like.
PLACE OF WORSHIP
A building or structure, or group of buildings or structures, that by design and construction are primarily intended for conducting organized religious services.
PLAT
A map, drawing or print, which shall be stamped by a professional engineer or registered surveyor, accurately drawn to scale showing the proposed or existing location of a well or wells, well pad and permanent facility area. The plat must show protected structure setbacks.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
PRIME AGRICULTURAL SOIL
Soils determined to be such by the United States Department of Agriculture.
PRINCIPAL BUILDING
See "building."
PRINCIPAL USE
See "use."
PRINTING
A business establishment primarily engaged in serving consumers and other businesses in the reproduction of documents through digital technology or machines.
PRIVATE CLUB OR LODGE
A building and related facilities owned or operated by a corporation, association or group of individuals established for the fraternal, social, educational, recreational or cultural enrichment of its members and not primarily for profit and whose members meet certain prescribed qualifications for membership and pay dues.
PRIVATE RECREATIONAL FACILITY
Recreation facilities and supporting buildings owned by the members and open only to members and their guests for a membership fee. These facilities are primarily supporting sports and recreational activities in which the participants are actively engaged. Included are swimming, tennis, health and exercise and similar uses.
PRIVATE STREET
A private way, used or intended to be used for passage by motor vehicles, owned and maintained privately and not maintained by the Borough.
PRIVATE WATER SUPPLY
Any water supply which is not provided by a water company and not delivered through water mains. The sources of the supply may be a well, borehole, spring, stream, river, lake or pond. The supply may serve just one property or several properties through a network of pipes.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
PROFESSIONAL CONSULTANTS
Persons who provide expert or professional advice, including, but not limited to, architects, attorneys, certified public accounts, engineers, geologists, land surveyors, landscape architects or planners.
PROJECTION
An architectural feature, including bays, balconies, chimneys, stairways, canopies as used in vehicular drive-in facilities and similar structures. Roof overhangs, eaves, cornices, terraces and unenclosed, uncovered porches less than three feet above grade are not considered projections.
PROTECTED STRUCTURE
A. 
Any leased or owner-occupied residence, leased or owner-occupied commercial business, school, religious institution or other public building that may be impacted by noise or other external impacts generated from activity associated with an oil and gas development and/or a natural gas compressor station or natural gas processing plant. This term shall not include:
(1) 
Any structure on which construction commenced after an operator filed an application for a conditional use pursuant to Article 1400;
(2) 
Any structure located on a property where the surface owner of the property has signed a waiver relieving the operator(s) from implementation of the requirements established in Article 1400 for the owner's benefit; and
(3) 
Any structure located on a property where the owner has signed an agreement granting surface rights to drill a well and/or to erect and maintain a natural gas compressor station or processing plant.
B. 
In any waiver under Subsection A(2) above, the surface owner must acknowledge that s/he has notified all residents on the property and that the operator is explicitly relieved from complying with the regulations applicable to the protected structure. The waiver must be notarized and approved by the municipal solicitor.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
PUBLIC HEARING
A formal meeting held pursuant to public notice by the governing body or planning agency, intended to inform and obtain public comment, prior to taking action in accordance with this chapter.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Notice published once each week for two successive 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 be not more than 30 days and the second publication shall not be less than seven days from the date of the hearing. In case of conflict, the definition of "public notice" contained in the MPC,[10] as the same may be amended from time to time, shall prevail.
PUBLIC RECREATION AREA
An area of land owned and maintained by the municipality, the North Allegheny School District, the Allegheny Land Trust, a nonpublic or private academic institution licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or a homeowners' association or similar neighborhood association and used for active parks, playgrounds, athletic facilities, athletic fields, swimming pools, trails for walking, biking, hiking and similar recreational uses.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
PUBLIC UTILITY BUILDING AND STORAGE YARD
A building or structure used or intended to be used by any public utility, including but not limited to treatment plant reservoir, tank or other storage facility, water treatment plant, well, reservoir, tank or other storage facility, electric-generating plant, distribution or transmission substation, telephone switching or other communications plant, any storage yard for public utility equipment or vehicles, and any parking lot for parking vehicles or automobiles to serve a public utility.
PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION (PUC)
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.
RECREATIONAL FACILITY
A place designed and equipped for the conduct of sports and leisure activities.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE
A vehicle or attachment to a vehicle which is designed for human habitation only under transient circumstances, such as camping, traveling or other leisure-time activities, or any other recreational equipment such as a boat and its trailer.
REDRILL
Deepening or sidetrack/horizontal drilling of an existing well bore extending more than 150 feet from said well bore.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
REPAIR SHOP
A place dedicated to the fixing and restoration of consumer goods, other than automobiles.
REPLACEMENT
The replacement of existing wireless communications facilities on an existing wireless support structure or within an existing equipment compound due to maintenance, repair or technological advancement with equipment composed of the same wind loading and structural loading that is substantially similar in size, weight and height as the wireless communications facilities initially installed and that does not substantially change the physical dimensions of the existing wireless support structure.
[Added 9-19-2018 by Ord. No. 645-2018]
REQUIRED YARD
Minimum yard areas mandated by this chapter.
RESEARCH, TESTING AND DEVELOPMENT FACILITY
A production facility which carries on investigation in the natural, physical or social sciences or engineering and development as an extension of such investigation with the objective of creating end products and which may include the initial manufacturing of developed products as an accessory use.
RETAIL SHOPS AND STORES
A business establishment located entirely within an enclosed building which sells goods, services or merchandise to the general public for personal, household or office consumption and which shall not include wholesaling, manufacturing or processing of the goods offered for sale.
RETIREMENT COMMUNITY FOR THE ELDERLY
A residential development designed primarily or exclusively for occupancy by elderly or retired persons and which includes one or more of the following special features or services associated with the needs of elderly or retired persons, including, but not limited to, transportation, common dining facilities, laundry service, housekeeping service, recreation programs, dispensaries, personal services, florist and/or gift shop, branch bank, postal station, personal care boarding home, nursing home, assisted living facilities, independent living facilities and similar services for facilities.
REWORK
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.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
RIGHT-OF-WAY
Land set aside for use as a street, alley or other means of travel. With respect to use by utilities, see "easement."
A. 
EXISTING RIGHT-OF-WAYThe legal right-of-way as established by the commonwealth or other appropriate governing authority and currently in existence.
B. 
FUTURE RIGHT-OF-WAYThe right-of-way deemed necessary as appropriate to provide adequate width for future street improvements.
RIPARIAN BUFFER
A vegetated buffer strip along a watercourse that filters stormwater and provides wildlife habitat.
ROOMER
See "boarder."
SCHOOL
Any public or private institution offering instruction for students up to and through the secondary level.
SELF-STORAGE FACILITY
A building or group of buildings in a controlled-access and fenced compound that contains various sizes of individual, compartmentalized and controlled-access stalls and/or lockers leased by the general public for a specified period of time for the dead storage of personal property.
SERVICE BUSINESS
Any enterprise conducted for gain which primarily offers services to the general populace, such as shoe repair, valet service, watch repair, barbershop, beauty parlor, and similar services and activities related to the personal needs of people, but not including massage or similar services.
SETBACK
The minimum horizontal distance between the lot or property line and the nearest front, side or rear line of the building (as the case may be), including terraces, patios, decks or any covered projection thereof, excluding steps.
SEWER (SANITARY)
A. 
PUBLIC SEWER SYSTEMAny municipal system in which sewage is collected from more than one lot and piped to an approved sewage disposal plant. It shall also be referred to as an "off-lot sewer" or "off-site sewer." This shall include capped sewers when installed to Borough specifications.
B. 
PRIVATE SEWER SYSTEMAny privately owned and maintained system in which sewage is collected from more than one lot and piped to an approved sewage disposal plant or central septic tank disposal system. It shall also be referred to as an "off-lot sewer" or "off-site sewer."
C. 
PRIVATE SEWAGE DISPOSALAn on-lot disposal system providing for the disposal of effluent for one building and its accessory buildings on a single lot, subject to the approval of the Allegheny County Health Department.
SEXUAL CONDUCT
Patently offensive representations or descriptions of intimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, and patently offensive representations, descriptions or acts of masturbation, excretory functions, sadomasochistic abuse, sodomy, sexual intercourse or physical contact with a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks or, if such person be female, breast.
SHOPPING CENTER
A group of commercial establishments planned, constructed and managed as a total entity, with customer and employee parking provided on site, and provision for goods' delivery separated from customer access.
SHOPPING PLAZA
See "shopping center."
SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING
A detached residential building which contains one dwelling unit and which is the only principal building on the lot.
SITE
A parcel or parcels of land intended to have one or more buildings or intended to be subdivided into one or more lots.
SITE AREA
All land area within the site as defined in the deed. The actual area shall be from the actual site survey rather than the deed description.
SKILLED NURSING CARE
Professionally supervised nursing care and related medical or other health services provided for a period exceeding 24 hours to an individual who is not in need of hospitalization but whose needs are such that they can only be met in a nursing home on an inpatient basis and who needs care because of age, illness, disease, injury, convalescence or physical or mental infirmity, including the provision of daily inpatient services that are needed on a daily basis by the patient, ordered by a physician, which require the skills of and are furnished directly by or under the supervision of technical or professional personnel, including but not limited to registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists or audiologists.
SLOPES
Areas where the average slope exceeds 8%, which are subject because of the slope to high rates of stormwater runoff and, therefore, erosion.
SOLICITOR
The Solicitor of the Borough of Franklin Park.
SOLID WASTE FACILITY
Any land used for the disposal or storage of solid waste material, including garbage, sewage, trash, rubble, construction debris, and all other kinds of organic or inorganic refuse by abandonment, discarding, dumping, reduction, burial, incineration, or any other similar means.
SOUTHWESTERN PLANNING COMMISSION (SPC)
The regional planning body for the Southwestern Pennsylvania Region consisting of a ten-county area.
SPECIALTY RETAIL
An establishment devoted exclusively to the sale of distinctive, high-quality merchandise, including one or more of the following: art and photography galleries or studios; antiques; books; boutique items; candles; candy; cards and stationary; cut and dried flowers; gifts; handicrafts; homemade and gourmet food and baked items; interior decorator items; leather goods; men's, ladies' and children's apparel; pipes and tobacco; and shops of a similar nature, but not including adult uses.
SPORTS FACILITY
Land or buildings for the pursuit of athletic activities and similar leisure-time activities such as golf courses, swimming pools, tennis courts, or ball fields, which are operated by a governmental or nonprofit organization.
STABLE (COMMERCIAL)
Any lot on which horses are kept, boarded, trained and/or rented for profit.
STEALTH TECHNOLOGY
Camouflaging methods applied to wireless communications facilities and accessory equipment 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 antennae, building-mounted antennae painted to match the existing structure and facilities constructed to resemble trees, shrubs, and light poles.
[Added 9-19-2018 by Ord. No. 645-2018]
STEEP SLOPES
Areas of existing topography where in over a one-hundred-foot horizontal distance the difference in elevation is over 20 feet or where the slope equals or exceeds 25% from the top to bottom of the break in grade.
STIMULATION
Any action taken with respect to a well that is intended to stimulate or enhance the flow of oil and gas production.
[Added 9-18-2019 by Ord. No. 648-2018]
STORY
That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it or, if there is not a floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it. A basement shall not be counted as a story for the purpose of height measurement unless 1/2 or more of its volume is above the average level of the adjacent ground.
STREET LINE
The dividing line between the street and the lot. The street line shall be the same as the legal right-of-way, provided that, where a future right-of-way width for a street or streets has been established, then that width shall determine the location of the street line.
STRUCTURE
Any man-made object having an ascertainable stationary location on or in land or water, whether or not affixed to the land. Structures include, but are not limited to, buildings, garages, sheds, walls, fences and signs.
STRUCTURE, ACCESSORY
Any structure or building that is subordinate to and contributing to the use of the main structure.
SUBDIVISION
The division or redivision of a lot, tract or parcel of land, by any means, into two or more lots, tracts, parcels or other divisions of land, including changes in existing lot lines for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of lease, partition by the court for distribution to heirs or devisees, transfer of ownership or building or lot development; provided, however, that the subdivision by lease of land for agricultural purposes into parcels of more than 10 acres, not involving any new street or easement of access or residential dwellings shall be exempted.
SUBSTANTIALLY CHANGE or SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE
Any increase in the height of a wireless support structure 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, except that the mounting of the proposed wireless communications facility may exceed the size limits set forth herein if necessary to avoid interference with existing antennae; or any further increase in the height of a wireless support structure which has already been extended by more than 10% of its originally approved height or by the height of one additional antenna array.
[Added 9-19-2018 by Ord. No. 645-2018]
SUPERMARKET
A retail store the primary function of which is the sale of staple goods and other basic life necessities.
SWIMMING POOL, INSTITUTIONAL AND RECREATIONAL
Any body of water, but not including farm ponds, used for public bathing, swimming or wading that is regulated by the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code and the Public Bathing Law (35 P.S. § 672 et seq.).
SWIMMING POOL, PRIVATE
Any private pool, open tank or other container that is 24 inches or deeper, but not including farm ponds, designed, installed or used for swimming, wading or recreational bathing.
TAVERN
An establishment used primarily for the serving of alcoholic beverages by the drink to the general public and where food or packaged alcoholic beverages may be served or sold only as accessory to the primary use.
TEMPORARY STRUCTURE
A structure or use necessary during construction or other special circumstances of a nonrecurring nature.
TOT LOT
A young children's playground containing equipment and facilities that primarily meets the recreational needs of children eight years of age or younger.
TOWER-BASED WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY (TOWER-BASED WCF)
Any structure that is used for the primary purpose of supporting one or more antennae, including, but not limited to, self-supporting lattice towers, guy towers and monopoles.
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TOWNHOUSE
A residential building containing at least three, but no more than six, dwelling units, each of which is separated from the adjoining unit or units by a continuous, unpierced vertical wall extending from basement to roof, each unit having independent access directly to the outside and having no other units above or below.
TRACT
An area, parcel, site, piece of land or property which is the subject of a development application.
TRUCK SALES
See "automobile sales."
TRUCK TERMINAL
Any premises used by a motor freight company as a carrier of goods, which is the origin or destination point of goods being transported, for the purpose of storing, transferring; loading and unloading goods.
UNCONVENTIONAL WELL
A bore hole drilled or being drilled for the purpose of or to be used for the production of natural gas from a geological shale formation existing below the base of the Elk Sandstone or its geologic equivalent stratigraphic interval where natural gas generally cannot be produced at economic flow rates or in economic volumes except by vertical or horizontal well bores stimulated by fracking or by using multilateral well bores or other techniques to expose more of the formation to the well bore.
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UNIFORM CONSTRUCTION CODE (UCC)
The Pennsylvania Construction Code, Act 45 of 1999,[11] as amended, adopted the 1999 BOCA (Building Officials and Code Administrators International, Inc.) National Building Code, 14th Edition, as the Uniform Construction Code, rather than specifying its own regulations. The BOCA National Building Code includes provisions for electrical, mechanical, plumbing and gas work. The Uniform Construction Code Act applies to all construction, alteration, repair and occupancy in all structures within the state of Pennsylvania.[12]
UPHOLSTERER
A business that repairs and replaces upholstery to household and office furnishings; does not include motor vehicle upholstering or repair.
USE
Any activity, occupation, business or operation carried on or intended to be carried on in a building or other structure or on a tract of land.
A. 
USE, ACCESSORYA use located on the same lot with a principal use and clearly incidental or subordinate to and in connection with the principal use.
B. 
USE, PRINCIPALThe main use on a lot.
USED OR OCCUPIED
As applied to any land or building, includes the words "intended, arranged or designed to be occupied."
UTILITIES
Those services customarily rendered by public utility corporations, municipalities or municipal authorities in the nature of electricity, gas, telephone, water and sewerage, including the appurtenances used in connection with the supplying of such services (buildings, wires, pipes, poles and the like).
VARIANCE
A modification of the literal provisions of this chapter which the Franklin Park Borough Zoning Hearing Board is permitted to grant when strict enforcement of such provisions would cause undue hardship owing to circumstances unique to the individual property concerning which the variance is sought in accordance with the provisions of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act 247, as amended.
VEHICLE REPAIR AND INSPECTION
A business establishment that performs inspections and/or services motor vehicles with all types of repair work, including engine and transmission repairs, body work, painting, car washing, or similar activities.
VEHICLE SALVAGE YARD
Any lot or parcel, or part thereof, including automobile graveyards, where a salvage vehicle, or parts thereof, are located for the purposes of resale as parts or parts as salvage only.
VEHICULAR ACCESSORIES SALES
Sale of new vehicular accessories, parts, tires, batteries and other supplies.
VETERINARY FACILITY
A business establishment owned and operated by a veterinary medical doctor(s), certified in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the medical or surgical treatment of domestic, agricultural or zoological animals but excluding the boarding and grooming of animals not subjected to medical or surgical treatment.
WALL SIGN
A sign attached parallel to but within 12 inches of a wall, painted on the wall surface or erected and confined within the limits of an outside wall of any building or structure, which is supported by such wall or building and which displays only one sign surface.
WAREHOUSE or WAREHOUSING
A building used for the storage of goods and merchandise. An establishment for the storage and handling of freight or merchandise, but not including the maintenance or fueling of commercial vehicles.
WASTEWATER
Water which has been previously used for industrial, municipal, domestic or other purposes including those associated with fracturing, drilling flowback, and other drilling related activities.
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WATERCOURSE
Natural or once naturally flowing (perennially or intermittently) water, including rivers, streams and creeks. Includes natural waterways that have been channelized, but does not include man-made channels, ditches and underground drainage and sewage systems.
WBCA
Pennsylvania Wireless Broadband Collocation Act (53 P.S. § 11702.1 et. seq.).
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WELL
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.
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WELL PAD or WELL SITE
Shall consist of the area designated on the approved plat that includes the area accommodating all structures and equipment associated with or incidental to construction, drilling, fracturing and resource recovery prior to the establishment of the permanent facility area, specifically excluding access roads.
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WELLBORE
The hole or shaft that is bored, drilled or driven to aid in the exploration and recovery of natural resources including oil and gas.
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WELLHEAD
The component at the surface of an oil or gas well that provides the structural and pressure-containing interface for the drilling and production equipment. The wellhead is established after the completion of the hydraulic fracturing and is often referred to as the "christmas tree" within the oil and gas industry.
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WETLANDS
All areas regulated as wetlands by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection or federal agencies.
WHOLESALE
An establishment or place of business primarily engaged in selling or distributing merchandise to industrial, commercial, institutional or professional or to other business users.
WINDOW SIGN
Any business sign which is oriented to the public right-of-way and is attached to the outside or inside of a window.
WIRELESS
Transmissions through the airwaves including, but not limited to, infrared line of sight, cellular, PCS, microwave, satellite, or radio signals.
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WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY (WCF)
The set of equipment and network components, including antennae, transmitters, receivers, base stations, cabling and accessory equipment, used to provide wireless data and telecommunications services. The term shall not include the wireless support structure.
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WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY APPLICANT (WCF APPLICANT)
Any person that applies for a wireless communications facility building permit, zoning approval and/or permission to use the public right-of-way (ROW) or other Borough-owned land or property.
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WIRELESS SUPPORT STRUCTURE
A freestanding structure, such as a guyed or self-supporting monopole or tower, electrical transmission tower, water tower or other structure not classified as a wireless support structure, that could support the placement or installation of wireless communications facilities if approved by the municipality.
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YARD
An open space, unobstructed from the ground up, on the same lot with a structure, extending along a lot line or street line and inward to the structure. The size of a required yard shall be measured as the shortest distance between the structure and a lot line or street line.
A. 
YARD, FRONTA yard between a structure and a street line and extending the entire length of the street line. In the case of a corner lot, the yards extending along all streets are front yards. In the case of a lot other than a corner lot that fronts on more than one street, the yards extending along all streets are front yards.
B. 
YARD, REARA yard between a structure and a rear lot line and extending the entire length of the rear lot line.
C. 
YARD, SIDEA yard between a structure and a side lot line extending from the front yard to the rear yard. In the case of a lot having no street frontage or a lot of odd shape, any yard that is not a front yard or a rear yard shall be considered a side yard.
ZONING DISTRICT
A section of Franklin Park Borough for which uniform regulations governing the use, height, area, density and intensity of use of buildings and land and open space about buildings are herein established.
ZONING LOT
A tract of land occupied or to be occupied by a principal building and its accessory facilities, together with such open spaces and yards as are required under the provisions of this chapter, having not less than the minimum area required by this chapter for a zoning purpose in the district in which such land is situated and having its principal frontage on a public street of standard width and improvement. A zoning lot need not necessarily coincide with the lot of record.
[1]
Editor's Note: The definition of "building, accessory" is located under the definition of "building."
[2]
Editor's Note: The definition of "use, accessory" is located under the definition of "use."
[3]
Editor's Note: The definition of "structure, accessory" is located under the definition of "structure."
[4]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 101 et seq.
[5]
Editor's Note: The former definition of "commercial telecommunications tower," which immediately preceded this definition, was repealed 9-19-2018 by Ord. No. 645-2018.
[6]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.
[7]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10503(1.1).
[8]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.
[9]
Editor's Note: See § 212-2004 for Table 20-1, Landscaping Points and Minimum Plant Sizes.
[10]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10107 for the definition of "public notice."
[11]
Editor's Note: See 35 P.S. § 7210.101 et seq.
[12]
Editor's Note: See 34 Pa. Code § 403.21, Uniform Construction Code, for the current list of international codes adopted by reference as the Uniform Construction Code
A. 
The terms defined in § 212-202 which govern area and bulk regulations are illustrated in Figure 2-1.
Figure 2-1: Illustrated Area and Bulk Regulation Terms
B. 
Additional illustrations for lots of various shapes are provided in the Code of the Borough of Franklin Park, Appendix F, pages FP-5 and FP-6.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Appendix F is on file in the Borough offices.