Definitions. For the purpose of this chapter, certain
terms and words are hereby defined as follows:
ACCESSORY BUILDING
A building or structure subordinate to and located on the
same lot with the main building and designed, intended or used as
an accessory use.
ACCESSORY USE
Use of a building, lot or portion thereof, which use is customarily
incidental and subordinate to the principal use of the main building
or lot.
ALLEY
Any roadway or public way dedicated or open to public use
or shown on the Borough Map and not opened, 20 feet or less in width.
ALTERATION
Any change in the supporting members of a building, except
such change as may be required for its safety; any addition to a building;
or removal of a building from one location to another .
APARTMENT
A building or series of buildings under single ownership,
with common yards and open spaces, containing two or more suites of
rooms equipped for separate housekeeping.
BUILDING
A structure designed, built or occupied as a shelter or roofed
enclosure for persons, animals or property, including tents, lunch
wagons, dining cars, camp cars, trailers and other roofed structures
on wheels or other supports used for residential, business, mercantile,
storage, industrial, institutional, educational, assembly or recreational
purposes.
CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY
A statement signed by the Construction Code Official, setting
forth that a building or structure does comply with this chapter or
that a building, structure or parcel of land may lawfully be used
for specified uses.
[Amended 4-21-1986 by Ord. No. 7-86]
CURB LEVEL
The elevation of the top of the curb or the established curb
grade opposite the center of the building or portion thereof under
consideration. Where the building does not adjoin the street, the
average elevation of the proposed grade line of the ground immediately
adjacent to the building as shown on the building plans shall be considered
as the “curb level.”
CURBLINE
The line of the curb as presently existing or as may hereafter
be established by the governing body of the borough.
DEPTH OF LOT
The mean horizontal distance between the front lot line and
rear lot line.
DEVELOPER
The legal or beneficial owner or owners of a lot or of any
land, including the holder of an option or contract of purchase or
other person having an enforceable proprietary interest in such land.
FAMILY
An individual or two or more persons related by blood or
marriage or a group of individuals of not more than four persons not
related by blood living together as a single housekeeping unit. In
each instance the “family” shall be understood to include
necessary servants and may be understood to include lodgers or roomers
taken for hire.
FENCE
An enclosing barrier about a lot or portion thereof.
FRONT YARD
A yard across the full width of the lot extending from the
front line of the building to the from of the lot except as otherwise
provided herein.
GAS STATION
Any establishment which stores, sells dispenses fuel for
motor vehicles.
HALF STORY
A story under a gabled, hipped or gambrel roof, the wall
plates of which on at least two opposite exterior walls are not more
than two feet nor less than one foot above the finished floor of such
story .
HEIGHT LIMIT
A vertical distance fixed in each district and measured from
the curb level.
HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS
The vertical distance measured from the curb level to the
highest point of the roof adjacent to the street wall for flat roofs,
to the deck line of mansard roofs and to the mean height between eaves
and ridge for gabled, hipped and gambrel roofs.
INTERIOR LOT
A lot the side lines of which do not abut on a street.
JUNKYARD
Any place or structure used for the collection, storage,
purchase or sale of junk, rags, bones, old rope, old iron, old automobiles,
brass, copper, tin or other metals, old bottles of any and every nature
and description whatsoever.
LOT
A parcel of land which is or may be occupied by a building
and accessory buildings, including the open spaces required under
this chapter .
MAJOR REPAIRS
Any change in the supporting members of a building or structure,
such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders, joists or rafters
or enclosure walls.
NONCONFORMING USE
A use of a building or lands that does not conform to the
regulations of the district in which it is situated.
OFF-STREET PARKING FACILITY
A parking area, as hereinafter defined, for the parking of
passenger vehicles of the occupants, employees, visitors and patrons
of specified types of buildings.
ONE-FAMILY DETACHED DWELLING
A building designed for and occupied exclusively as a residence
for only one family and having no party wall in common with an adjacent
building.
PARKING AREA
An open, off-street land area, including parking spaces and
access and egress drives or aisles, used or required by this chapter
for parking of automobiles or other vehicles exclusively and in which
no gasoline or automobile accessories are sold and no other business
is conducted.
PORCH
A roofed, open structure projecting from the front, side
or rear wall of a building and having no enclosed features of glass,
wood or other material more than 30 inches above the floor thereof
except the necessary columns to support the roof.
PRIVATE GARAGE
A garage in which no business, service or industry is carried
on and which is designed to contain not more than three noncommercial
motor vehicles.
PUBLIC GARAGE
Any garage not included within the definition of a private
garage.
REAR YARD
A yard across the full width of the lot, extending from the
rear line of the building to the rear line of the lot.
REDEVELOPMENT
Clearance, replanning, development and redevelopment; the
conservation and rehabilitation of any structure or improvement; the
construction and provision for construction of residential, commercial,
industrial, public or other structures; and the grant or dedication
of spaces as may be appropriate or necessary in the interest of the
general welfare for streets, parks, playgrounds or other public purposes,
including recreational and other facilities, incidental or appurtenant
thereto, in accordance with a redevelopment plan.
[Added 5-16-2005 by Ord. No. 9-05]
SEMIDETACHED DWELLING
A building designed for and occupied exclusively as a residence
for only one family, applied to one of two houses which are detached
from other buildings and joined together by a single party wall.
SIDE YARD
A yard between the side line of the building and the adjacent
side line of the lot, extending from the front yard to the rear yard.
If there is no front yard, the “side yard” shall be considered
as extending to the front line of the lot, and if there is no rear
yard, the “side yard” shall be considered as extending
to the rear line of the lot.
SIGN
Any outdoor or indoor device, structure or display of any
writing, picture, painting, emblem, drawing or similar device intended
to invite or draw the attention of the public to any goods, services,
activity or location, separate, attached to or part of a structure.
STORY
That portion of a building included between the surface of
any floor and the floor above it, or if there is no floor above it,
then the space between such floor and the ceiling next above it.
STREET
Any roadway or public way dedicated or open to public use
or shown on the Borough Map, except an alley.
STREET LINES
The lines upon which the width of the abutting streets is
established, i.e., the property line and not the curbline.
STRUCTURE
Anything constructed or erected, permanent or portable, or
anything attached to something having a permanent location on the
land.
THROUGH LOT
An interior lot having frontage on two streets or one street
and an alley.
YARD
An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a building,
unobstructed from the ground to the sky except as otherwise provided
herein.