A. 
For the purposes of this chapter certain terms and words are used as follows:
(1) 
Words used in the present tense shall include the future.
(2) 
Words used in the singular shall include the plural.
(3) 
The word "person" includes a corporation as well as an individual.
(4) 
The word "lot" includes the words "plot" or "parcel."
(5) 
The term "shall" is always mandatory. The term "may" is always permissive.
(6) 
The words "used" or "occupied" as applied to any land or building shall be construed to include the words "intended, arranged or designed to be used or occupied."
(7) 
The word "building" includes the word "structure."
(8) 
Unless otherwise specified, all distances shall be measured horizontally.
B. 
In the absence of a specific definition in § 190-202, any word used in this chapter shall have its customary dictionary definition as contained in the most recent edition of Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following words shall, for the purpose of this chapter, have the meanings herein indicated:
ABANDONED SIGN
A sign structure that has ceased to be used for six months.
ACCESSORY USE OR STRUCTURE
A use or structure customarily incidental to the principal use of the land or the principal building, located on the same lot with the principal use or principal building. A home office is an example of an accessory use; however, a home-based business is not deemed an accessory use for purposes of this definition. A detached garage or storage shed are examples of accessory structures.
ADULT BOOKSTORE or ADULT VIDEO STORE
A 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:
A. 
Books, magazines, periodicals or other printed matter or photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes 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, whether used to view such materials or for use on or off the premises.
B. 
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 CABARET
A nightclub, bar, restaurant or similar commercial establishment which regularly features: persons who appear in the state of nudity; or live performances which are characterized by the exposure of specified anatomical areas or by specified sexual activities; or films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or other photographic reproductions which are characterized by the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
ADULT ENTERTAINMENT
A. 
An exhibition of any sexually oriented motion pictures, meaning those distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
B. 
A live performance, display or dance of any type which has as a significant or substantial portion of the performance any actual or simulated performance of specified sexual activities or exhibition and viewing of specified anatomical areas, removal of articles of clothing or appearing unclothed, pantomiming, modeling or any other personal services offered customers.
ADULT MOTEL
A hotel, motel or similar commercial establishment which:
A. 
Offers accommodations to the public for any form of consideration; 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
B. 
Offers sleeping rooms for rent four or more times in one calendar day during five or more calendar days in any continuous thirty-day period.
ADULT THEATER
A 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.
ADULT-ORIENTED ESTABLISHMENT
A. 
The term includes, without limitation, the following establishments when operated for profit, whether direct or indirect:
(1) 
Adult bookstores.
(2) 
Adult motion-picture theaters, regardless of seating capacity.
(3) 
Any premises to which the public, patrons or members are invited or admitted and which are so physically arranged as to provide booths, cubicles, rooms, studios, compartments or stalls separate from the common areas of the premises for the purpose of viewing sexually oriented motion pictures or where an entertainer provides adult entertainment to a member of the public, a patron or a member.
(4) 
An adult entertainment studio or any premises that are physically arranged and used as such, whether advertised or represented as an adult entertainment studio, exotic dance studio, encounter studio, sensitivity studio, modeling studio or any other term of like import.
B. 
The term "booths, cubicles, rooms, studios, compartments or stalls" for purposes of defining sexually oriented establishments does not mean enclosures which are private offices used by the owner, manager or persons employed on the premises for attending to the tasks of their employment and which are not held out to the public for the purpose of viewing motion pictures or other entertainment for a fee, and which are not open to any persons other than employees.
AGE-RESTRICTED COMMUNITY
A community consisting of single-family detached dwellings built in accordance with the Housing for Older Persons Act (HOPA) restricting residency to persons 62 years or older, or persons 55 years of age or older, if at least 80% of the occupied units are occupied by at least one person who is 55 years of age or older with private recreational amenities, including but not limited to a private clubhouse. An age-restricted community is not a condominium, as such term is defined in this chapter.
[Added 11-16-2022 by Ord. No. 954]
AGRICULTURAL OPERATION
An enterprise that is actively engaged in the commercial production and preparation for market of crops, 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 an 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 by farmers or are consistent with technological development within the agricultural industry.
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
Includes, but is not limited to, crops (corn, wheat, hay, potatoes); fruit (apples, peaches, grapes, cherries, berries); cider; vegetables (sweet corn, pumpkins, tomatoes); floriculture; herbs; forestry; husbandry; livestock and livestock products (cattle, sheep, hogs, horses, poultry, ostriches, emus, farmed deer, farmed buffalo, milk, eggs, and fur); aquaculture products (fish, fish products, water plants and shellfish); horticultural specialties (nursery stock, ornamental shrubs, flowers and Christmas trees); maple sap.
AGRICULTURAL SUPPLY AND EQUIPMENT SALES
A retail establishment which sells equipment and supplies used in the pursuit of agriculture.
AGRICULTURALLY RELATED PRODUCTS
Items sold at a farm market to attract customers and promote the sale of agricultural products. Such items include, but are not limited to, all agricultural and horticultural products, animal feed, baked goods, ice cream and ice cream-based desserts and beverages, jams, honey, gift items, food stuffs, clothing and other items promoting the farm and agriculture in Pennsylvania and value-added agricultural products and production on site.
AGRICULTURALLY RELATED USES
Those activities that predominantly use agricultural products, buildings or equipment, such as pony rides, corn mazes, pumpkin rolling, barn dances, sleigh/hay rides, and educational events, such as farming and food preserving classes, etc.
AGRITOURISM
The practice of visiting an agribusiness, horticultural, or agricultural operation, including, but not limited to, a farm, orchard, winery, greenhouse, hunting preserve, a companion animal or livestock show, for the purpose of recreation, education, or active involvement in the operation, other than as a contractor or employee of the operation.
AIRCRAFT
Any contrivance, except an unpowered hang glider or parachute, used for manned ascent into or flight through the air. See 74 Pa.C.S.A. § 5102.
AIRPORT
The Pittsburgh-Bouquet Airport and is defined as any of land or any appurtenant areas which are used or intended to be used for airport buildings or air navigation facilities or rights-of-way, together with all facilities thereon. See 74 Pa.C.S.A. § 5102. As used herein, the term "airport" shall not include heliports.
AIRPORT ELEVATION
The highest point of an airport's usable landing area, measured in feet from sea level; here, 1,188 feet above mean sea level.
AIRPORT HAZARD AREA
Any area of land or water upon which a hazard to air navigation (an airport hazard) might be established if not prevented as provided by these regulations and the Act of October 10, 1984, P.L. 837, No. 164.
ALTERATION, STRUCTURAL
See "structural alteration."
AMATEUR RADIO ANTENNA
An antenna used for the transmission or reception of wireless signals by amateur radio operators.
[Added 2-21-2018 by Ord. No. 919]
ANIMAL HOSPITAL
An establishment where animals are examined and treated by veterinarians and which may include kennels in a completely enclosed building for temporary boarding of animals during treatment.
ANIMATED SIGN
A sign employing actual motion or the illusion of motion. Animated signs, which are differentiated from changeable signs as defined and regulated by this chapter, include the following types:
A. 
Electrically activated. Animated signs producing the illusion of movement by means of electronic, electrical or electro-mechanical input and/or illumination capable of simulating movement through employment of the characteristics of one or both of the classifications noted below:
(1) 
Flashing. Animated signs or animated portions of signs whose illumination is characterized by a repetitive cycle in which the period of illumination is either the same as or less than the period of nonillumination. For the purposes of this article, flashing will not be defined as occurring if the cyclical period between on-off phases of illumination exceeds 10 seconds.
(2) 
Patterned illusionary movement. Animated signs or animated portions of signs whose illumination is characterized by simulated movement through alternate or sequential activation of various illuminated elements for the purpose of producing repetitive light patterns designed to appear in some form of constant motion.
(3) 
Environmentally activated. Animated signs or devices motivated by wind, thermal changes or other natural environmental input. Includes spinner, pinwheels, pennant strings, and/or devices or displays that respond to naturally occurring external motivation.
(4) 
Mechanically activated. Animated signs characterized by repetitive motion and/or rotation activated by a mechanical system powered by electric motors or other mechanically induced means.
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 2-21-2018 by Ord. No. 919]
APARTMENT
A dwelling unit in a multifamily building, other than a townhouse.
APPROACH SURFACE
A surface longitudinally centered on the extended runway center line, extending outward and upward from the end of the primary surface and at such slope as the approach surface zone height limitation slope set forth in the airport overlay district provisions. In plan, the perimeter of the approach surface coincides with the perimeter of the Approach Zone.
APPROACH, TRANSITIONAL, HORIZONTAL AND CONICAL ZONES
These zones are shown in the illustration entitled "Isometric View of Airport Zones" set forth in the airport overlay district provisions.
ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTION
Any projection that is not intended for occupancy and that extends beyond the face of an exterior wall of a building, but that does not include signs as defined herein. See also "awning;" "backlit awning;" and "canopy, attached" and "canopy, freestanding."
ARTERIAL ROAD
A public road which serves large volumes of pass-through and long-distance traffic. Roads classified as arterial in the Township include 1-76, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, State Route 66, State Route 130, State Route 993, Harrison City/Export Road, Murrysville Road (State Route 4033), Nike Site Road (State Route 4025), Claridge/Elliott and Claridge/Export Roads (State Route 4037), Pleasant Valley/Sandy Hill Roads, and Mellon Road (State Route 4026).
AUTOMOTIVE CONVENIENCE FACILITY
A retail store selling groceries, household goods and prepackaged and prepared food-related products, for off-site consumption, and which may or may not include the dispensing and sale of gasoline.
AUTOMOTIVE SALES
The sales or rental of new or used motor vehicles or trailers, including outdoor display areas, service areas within a completely enclosed building and a showroom and offices within the building.
AWNING
An architectural projection or shelter projecting from and supported by the exterior wall of a building and composed of a covering of rigid or nonrigid material and/or fabric on a supporting framework that may be either permanent or retractable, including such structures that are internally illuminated by fluorescent or other light sources.
AWNING SIGN
A sign displayed on or attached flat against the surface or surfaces of an awning. See also "wall or fascia sign."
BACKLIT AWNING
An awning with a translucent covering material and a source of illumination contained within its framework.
BAKERY
A retail establishment which sells baked goods to the general public and which may include the on-site preparation of baked goods in quantities adequate to supply the establishment and its retail customers, but not including preparation of products to be supplied to other establishments for sale or to wholesale customers.
BANNER SIGN
A temporary sign painted or printed on a strip of cloth, vinyl, plastic or paper designed to be hung from poles, across the wall of a building or in a window.
BANQUET FACILITY
A location where public and private events such as weddings, catered receptions, rehearsal dinners, business meetings/retreats and similar events are held. A banquet facility can be a principal or accessory use.
BASEMENT
The space enclosed by the foundation or ground-floor walls of a building which is at least 50% above the average level of the adjacent ground and which has a floor-to-ceiling height of at least seven feet.
BED-AND-BREAKFAST
A dwelling in which rooms are rented to guests with no more than one meal served daily, and the entire service, food and lodging are to be included in one stated price. Banquet facilities for persons not staying at the facility are not permitted as part of the bed-and-breakfast.
BILLBOARD
See "off-premises sign" and "outdoor advertising sign."
BLACKSMITH
A business which is either a principal or accessory use in an agricultural area for the purpose of providing services to farm equipment or farm animals.
BOARD
The Zoning Hearing Board of Penn Township, Westmoreland County.
BOARDING STABLE
A lot, with or without a building, where horses and/or ponies owned by someone other than the lot owner are kept, regardless of whether or not compensation is paid to the lot owner for boarding of the horses and/or ponies.
BUFFER AREA
A landscaped area of a certain depth specified by this chapter which shall be planted and maintained in accordance with standards set forth in § 190-630 of this chapter.
BUILDING
Any permanent structure having a roof supported by columns or walls erected permanently and intended for the shelter, housing and/or enclosure of persons, animals or other property.
BUILDING ELEVATION
The entire side of a building, from ground level to the roofline, as viewed perpendicular to the walls on that side of the building.
BUILDING LINE
An imaginary line located a fixed distance from the front lot line and interpreted as being the nearest point that a building may be constructed to the front lot line. The building shall include patios and similar construction features except those permitted projections authorized by Article VI of this chapter.
BUILDING OR STRUCTURE, PRINCIPAL
A building or structure in which is conducted the principal use of the lot on which said building or structure is situated.
BUILDING, HEIGHT OF
The vertical distance from the average finished grade at the front of the building 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 the eaves and the ridge for gable, hip and gambrel roofs.
BUSINESS OFFICES
Offices, other than professional offices, of a corporation, partnership or sole proprietorship, used primarily for the conduct of commerce or trade, including accounting, correspondence, research, editing or other administrative functions of the business, but not including any industrial, processing or storage of machinery or heavy equipment.
BUSINESS SERVICES
Any activity conducted for gain which renders services primarily to other commercial or industrial enterprises or which services and repairs appliances and machines used in homes or businesses, other than heavy equipment, including advertising, public relations, management and consulting services; employment services; building maintenance and security services; equipment servicing, rental, leasing and sales; computer and data processing services; mailing, photocopying, quick-printing and fax services; sale of office supplies; and similar services.
CANOPY (ATTACHED)
A multisided overhead structure or architectural projection supported by attachments to a building on one or more sides and either cantilevered from such building or also supported by columns at additional points. The surface(s) and/or soffit of an attached canopy may be illuminated by means of internal or external sources of light. See also "marquee sign."
CANOPY (FREESTANDING)
A multisided overhead structure supported by columns, but not enclosed by walls. The surface(s) and/or soffit of a freestanding canopy may be illuminated by means of internal or external sources of light.
CANOPY SIGN
A sign affixed to the visible surface(s) of an attached or freestanding canopy. For reference, see Article VII.
CAR WASH
A facility, whether automatic, semiautomatic or manual, for washing vehicles.
CARE FACILITY
A facility, licensed to operate as such by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, including county-operated facilities, for the purpose of providing assisted care, skilled or intermediate nursing care or both levels of care to two or more patients who are unrelated to the facility administrator for a period exceeding 24 hours.
CELLAR
The space enclosed by the foundation or ground-floor walls of a building, which is at least 50% below the average level of the adjacent ground and/or which has a floor-to-ceiling height of less than seven feet.
CEMETERY
Property used for interring of the dead, including mausoleums and columbaria, but not including crematoriums or family plots.
CHANGEABLE SIGN
A sign with the capability of content change by means of manual or remote input, including signs which are:
A. 
Electrically activated. Changeable sign whose message copy or content can be changed by means of remote electrically energized on-off switching combinations of alphabetic or pictographic components arranged on a display surface. Illumination may be integral to the components, such as characterized by lamps or other light-emitting devices; or it may be from an external light source designed to reflect off the changeable component display. See also "electronic message sign or center."
B. 
Manually activated. Changeable sign whose message copy or content can be changed manually.
CHICKEN COOP
A structure for housing chickens made of wood or other similar materials that provides shelter from the elements.
[Added 2-21-2018 by Ord. No. 919]
CLINIC
See "medical clinic."
CLUB, PRIVATE
A building or portion thereof or premises owned or operated by a corporation, association, person or persons for a social, fraternal, educational or recreational purpose, but not primarily for profit or to render a service which is customarily carried on as a business, the use of which is limited to members of that corporation, association, person or persons and their guests.
COLLECTIVE FREE-STANDING SIGN
A freestanding sign identifying a multiple-occupancy development, such as a shopping center or planned industrial park, which is controlled by a single owner or landlord, approved in accordance with Article VII.
COLLECTOR ROAD
A public road which, in addition to giving access to abutting lots, intercepts local streets and provides a route for carrying considerable volumes of local traffic to community facilities and arterial roads. Collector roads, for purposes of administering this chapter, in the Township are Penn Woods Drive (State Route 4027), Blank Road (State Route 4024), Paintertown Road (State Route 4029), Baker School Road (State Route 4031), Raymaley Road (State Route 4043), Ridge Road (State Route 4007), Boxcartown Road (State Route 4047), Long Drive, Seanor Drive, Waugaman Drive, Hyland Road (State Route 4045), Meadowbrook Road, Campbell Road, Sarver Road, School Road South, Watt Road, Main Street, Dutch Hollow Road (State Route 4022).
COLLEGE, TRADE OR COMMERCIAL SCHOOL
An accredited public or private institution of higher learning which offers post-secondary instruction and which offers certificates, associate, bachelor or higher degrees in the several branches of learning required by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
CO-LOCATION
The mounting of one or more WCFs, including antennae, on an existing tower-based WCF, or on any structure that already supports at least one nontower WCF.
[Added 2-21-2018 by Ord. No. 919]
COMBINATION SIGN
A sign that is supported partly by a pole and partly by a building structure.
COMMERCIAL CORRIDOR (CC) ZONING DISTRICT
Zoning district indicated on the Official Zoning Map of Penn Township. The purpose of this district is indicated in § 190-405 of this chapter.
COMMERCIAL RECREATION
See "recreation, commercial."
COMMERCIAL SCHOOL
A privately operated, for-profit establishment providing technical or skilled training, vocational or trade educational courses and programs.
COMMISSIONERS, BOARD OF
The Board of Township Commissioners of Penn Township, Westmoreland County.[1]
COMMUNITY CENTER
A facility operated by a government agency, a nonprofit organization or a homeowners' association which provides civic, educational, recreational or social services and programs for the residents of the Township.
CONDITIONAL USE
A use permitted in a particular zoning district pursuant to the provisions in Article VI of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code[2] and pursuant to express standards and criteria set forth in this chapter.
CONDOMINIUM
Real estate, portions of which are designated for separate ownership and the remainder of which is designated for common ownership solely by the owners of those portions. Real estate is not a condominium unless the undivided interests in the portions of real estate designated for common ownership are vested in the unit owners.
CONICAL SURFACE
A surface extending outward and upward from the periphery of the horizontal surface at a slope of 20 to one for a horizontal distance of 4,000 feet.
CONSTRUCTION TRAILER
A temporary structure used to provide temporary offices for land sales or construction supervision on the site of an approved subdivision or land development only during that time that valid grading or building permits are in effect.
CONTRACTOR'S YARD
A lot or parcel used for the permanent storage of construction equipment and supplies, not including the sale of supplies or the repair or sale of heavy equipment.
CONVENTIONAL DRILLING
A bore hole drilled or being drilled for the purpose of or to be used for construction of a well regulated under 58 PA.C.S.A. §§ 3201-3274 (relating to development) that is not an unconventional well, irrespective of technology or design.
A. 
The term includes, but is not limited to:
(1) 
Wells drilled to produce oil.
(2) 
Wells drilled to produce natural gas from formations other than shale formations.
(3) 
Wells drilled to produce natural gas from shale formations located above the base of the Elk Group or its stratigraphic equivalent.
(4) 
Wells drilled to produce natural gas from shale formations located below the base of the Elk Group where natural gas can be produced at economic flow rates or in economic volumes without the use of vertical or nonvertical well bores stimulated by hydraulic fracture treatments or multilateral well bores or other techniques to expose more of the formation to the well bore.
(5) 
Irrespective of formation, wells drilled for collateral purposes, such as monitoring, geologic logging, secondary and tertiary recovery or disposal injection.
CONVERSION APARTMENT
A dwelling unit created within an existing single-family dwelling in accordance with all applicable requirements of this chapter.
COPY
Those letters, numerals, figures, symbols, logos and graphic elements comprising the content or message of a sign, excluding numerals identifying a street address only.
CORNER LOT
A lot bounded on at least two sides by streets and which shall provide two front yards along the street frontages and two side yards but which shall not be required to have a rear yard.
CREMATORIUM
A location containing properly installed and certified apparatus intended for use in the act of cremation.
DAY-CARE CENTER
A facility, licensed by the commonwealth, located within a building which is not used as a dwelling unit, for the care during part of a twenty-four-hour day of children under the age of 16 or handicapped or elderly persons.
DAY-CARE HOME
A facility, licensed by the commonwealth, located within a dwelling, for the care on a regular basis during part of a twenty-four-hour day of not more than six children under 16 years of age, excluding care provided to children who are relatives of the provider, or not more than six elderly or handicapped persons of any age who are not in need of specialized nursing care. Such use shall be secondary to the use of the dwelling for living purposes, and persons who do not reside in the dwelling shall not be employed therein.
dBA
A unit of weighted sound level; the weighted sound-pressure level by the use of the A-metering characteristic and weighting specified in ANSI Specifications for Sound Level Meters.
DEVELOPMENT INFILL OVERLAY (DIO) ZONING DISTRICT
An overlay zoning district indicated on the Official Zoning Map of Penn Township. The purpose of this district is indicated in § 190-408 of this chapter.
DEVELOPMENT MODEL
A prototype for development containing parameters governing character and design, site layout, lot types, mix of lot types, and roads and streets.
DIRECTIONAL SIGN
Any sign that is designed and erected for the purpose of providing direction and/or orientation for pedestrian or vehicular traffic.
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 2-21-2018 by Ord. No. 919]
DISTRICT, ZONING
An administrative tract designating the use to which land can legally be utilized.
DOUBLE-FACED SIGN
A sign with two faces, back to back.
DRINKING ESTABLISHMENT
A business which sells alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises as the principal use and offers food for consumption on the premises as an accessory use.
DRIVE-THROUGH FACILITIES
Any retail commercial use, catering primarily to vehicular trade, where services are provided to occupied vehicles, such as drive-through restaurants, drive-through banks, drive-through windows or automated teller machines (ATMs) as accessory uses, and similar uses.
DWELLING
Any building or portion thereof which is designed for or used for permanent residential occupancy, including single-family dwellings, two-family dwellings and multifamily dwellings but not including hotels or boardinghouses, as defined by this chapter.
DWELLING UNIT
One or more rooms which are used as living quarters for one family and which contain separate sleeping, cooking and sanitary facilities.
DWELLING, DUPLEX
A building or structure containing two independent dwelling units, each having a separate entrance, and which is the only principal building on the lot, including duplexes and double houses.
DWELLING, MULTIFAMILY
A building containing three or more dwelling units, including conversion apartments, garden apartments and townhouses.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED
A building designed for or occupied exclusively by one family. Manufactured, modular or mobile homes which are anchored and securely tied into a permanent, enclosed foundation and which are connected to available public utilities or permitted well and on-site sewage disposal systems shall be regarded as a single-family detached dwelling.
ELECTRIC SIGN
Any sign activated or illuminated by means of electrical energy.
ELECTRONIC MESSAGE SIGN OR CENTER
A sign capable of displaying words, symbols, images or video that can be electronically or mechanically changed by remote or automatic means.
EMERGENCY
A condition that constitutes a clear and immediate danger to the health, welfare, or safety of the public, or 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 2-21-2018 by Ord. No. 919]
EMPLOYEE
Any and all persons, including independent contractors, who work in or at or render any service directly related to the operation of a sexually oriented establishment.
ENTERTAINER
A person who provides entertainment within a sexually oriented establishment, whether or not a fee is charged or accepted for entertainment and whether or not entertainment is provided as an employee or an independent contractor.
ENTERTAINMENT FACILITY AND INDOOR RECREATION
A facility within an enclosed building which provides amusement or entertainment activities usually for a fee or admission charge, including such establishments as indoor theaters, concert halls, dance halls, skating rinks, bowling alleys, billiard and pool halls, video and game arcades and similar establishments not otherwise defined and regulated under the provisions of § 190-503A of this chapter, regarding adult business.
ESCORT
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.
ESCORT AGENCY
A person or business association who or which furnishes, offers to furnish or advertises to furnish escorts as one of its primary business purposes for a fee, tip or other consideration.
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, communication, supply or disposal systems, including poles, 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 which are reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by such public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies or for the public health or safety or general welfare, but not including buildings.
EXTERIOR SIGN
Any sign placed outside a building.
FAA
The Federal Aviation Administration of the United States Department of Transportation.
FADE
A mode of message transition on an electronic message center or changeable sign accomplished by varying light intensity, where the first message gradually reduces intensity to the point of not being legible and the subsequent message gradually increases intensity to the point of legibility.
FALL ZONE
The potential fall area for the small wind energy system. It is measured by using 110% of the total height as the radius around the center point of the base of the tower.
FAMILY
One or more persons related by blood, marriage, adoption or foster care, or a group of not more than five unrelated individuals living together and maintaining a common household.
FARM MARKET
A retail establishment operated by the owner of an active farm, located within the Township for the sale of products raised or produced on that farm and which may include, as an accessory use, the sale of related products produced elsewhere.
FARM MARKET/ON-FARM MARKET/ROADSIDE STAND
The sale of agricultural products or value-added agricultural products, directly to the consumer from a site on a working farm or any agricultural, horticultural or agribusiness operation or agricultural land.
FASCIA SIGN
See "wall or fascia sign."
FCC
Federal Communications Commission.
[Added 2-21-2018 by Ord. No. 919]
FINANCIAL INSTITUTION
Banks, savings and loan associations and similar institutions that lend money or are engaged in a finance-related business.
FIRE STATION
A public or private, nonprofit establishment which houses firefighting equipment to serve the Township and which may or may not include a social hall, meeting rooms, kitchen facilities and other support facilities approved by the firefighters which do not conflict with Township zoning regulations.
FLASHING SIGN
See "animated sign, electrically activated."
FLOOR AREA, GROSS
The sum of the gross horizontal area of the several floors of a building, measured between the exterior faces of walls.
FLOOR AREA, HABITABLE
The total floor area of a dwelling devoted to living purposes, excluding storage spaces, garage and basement recreation areas.
FLOOR AREA, NET LEASABLE
See "net leasable floor area."
FLYWAY BARRIER
A solid wall, fence, dense vegetation or combination thereof that forces bees to fly at a higher elevation above ground level over the property lines in the vicinity of the apiary.
[Added 2-21-2018 by Ord. No. 919]
FOOD PROCESSING
The preparation of food products for retail sale on the premises.
FREESTANDING SIGN
A sign principally supported by a structure affixed to the ground and not supported by a building, including signs supported by one or more columns, poles or braces placed in or upon the ground.
FRONT YARD
See "yard, front."
FRONTAGE (BUILDING)
The length of an exterior building wall or structure of a single premises with the primary entrance orientated to the public right-of-way or other properties that it faces.
FRONTAGE
All the property on one side of a street between two intersecting streets (crossing or terminating), measured along the line of the street, or if the street is dead-ended, then all the property abutting on one side between an intersecting street and the dead end of the street.
FUNERAL HOME
A building used for the embalming of deceased human beings for burial, but not including cremation, and/or for the display of the deceased and ceremonies connected therewith before burial or cremation.
GARAGE, PRIVATE
An accessory building designed or used for the storage of motor-driven vehicles and personal property owned and used by the occupants of the building to which it is accessory. Not more than one of the vehicles may be a commercial vehicle or of more than two tons' capacity.
GARDEN APARTMENT
A multifamily residential building no more than three stories in height, containing three or more dwelling units which share a common entrance to the outside, usually through a common corridor, and which dwelling units may have other dwelling units either above or below them
GOLF COURSE
An area devoted to playing miniature, par-three or regulation golf, improved with tees, greens, fairways and hazards, and which may include a clubhouse and shelters.
GOVERNMENT FACILITIES
Any use or structure operated by an agency of the Township, county, an authority, commonwealth or federal government for a public purpose.
GREEN AREA
See "open space."
GREENHOUSE or NURSERY
A glass-enclosed building or area of land devoted to the cultivation and sale of plant materials and the products which aid their growth and care.
GROUP HOME
A dwelling where room and board is provided to not more than six permanent residents (excluding those adjudicated by the Juvenile Court system), developmentally challenged or physically handicapped persons of any age or elderly persons, 62 or more years of age, who are in need of supervision and specialized services, plus no more than two supervisory staff on any shift who may or may not reside in the dwelling and who provide health, social and/or rehabilitative services to the residents. The services shall be provided only by a governmental agency, its licensed or certified agents or any other responsible nonprofit social services corporation, and the facility shall meet all minimum requirements of the sponsoring agency.
HABITABLE FLOOR AREA
See "floor area, habitable."
HAMLET
A development which incorporates residential, small-scale commercial and personal service or institutional uses in single- or mixed-use structures, in a compact site design with pedestrian circulation, open space and recreation opportunities.
HAZARD TO AIR NAVIGATION
Any object, natural or man-made, or use of land which obstructs the airspace required for flight or aircraft in landing or taking off at an airport or is otherwise hazardous as defined by "airport hazard" in 74 Pa.C.S.A. § 5102.
HEALTH CLUB
A commercial recreational enterprise 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 and/or medical facilities as accessory uses to the principal use.
HEAVY EQUIPMENT REPAIR AND SALES
The sale, repair, rebuilding or reconditioning of motor vehicles in excess of 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight (GVW) and/or other heavy equipment, whether or not the equipment is classified as a motor vehicle.
HEIGHT
For the purpose of determining the height limits in all zones set forth in this article and shown on the Zoning Map, the datum shall mean sea level elevation unless otherwise specified.
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 2-21-2018 by Ord. No. 919]
HIGHWAY
A highway within this commonwealth designated by the Secretary of Transportation, a highway designated as a public road duly adopted by the Commissioners of Penn Township or a private road within the corporate limits of Penn Township.
HOBBY FARM
A lot, with a minimum area of at least three acres but less than 10 acres, where agricultural activities are conducted by the residents thereof but where such activities are not the principal source of employment or income.
HOME GARDENING
The raising of flowers, fruits and vegetables for personal use and enjoyment on a residential lot, not involving any sale or other profit-making activity.
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 following requirements:
A. 
The business activity shall be compatible with the residential use of the property and surrounding residential uses.
B. 
The business shall employ no employees other than family members residing in the dwelling.
C. 
There shall be no display or sale of retail goods and no stockpiling or inventory of a substantial nature.
D. 
There shall be no outside appearance of a business use, including, but not limited to, parking, signs or lights.
E. 
The business activity may not use any equipment or process which creates noise, vibration, glare, fumes, odors or electrical or electronic interference, including interference with radio or television reception, which is detectable in the neighborhood.
F. 
The business activity may not generate any solid waste or sewage discharge, in volume or type, which is not normally associated with residential use in the neighborhood.
G. 
The business activity shall be conducted only within the dwelling and may not occupy more than 25% of the habitable floor area.
H. 
The business may not involve any illegal activity.
HONEYBEE APIARY
A place where honey bee colonies and/or hives, and other beekeeping equipment, are kept.
[Added 2-21-2018 by Ord. No. 919]
HORIZONTAL SURFACE
A horizontal plane 150 feet above the established airport elevation, the perimeter of which, in plan, coincides with the perimeter of the Horizontal Zone.
HOSPITAL
An establishment which has an organized medical staff and which provides equipment and services primarily for inpatient care to persons who require definitive diagnosis or treatment or both for an injury, illness, pregnancy or other disability, but not including a narcotics addiction or for those found to be criminally insane.
HOTEL
A building in which lodging or boarding is provided and offered to the public for compensation and in which ingress and egress to and from all rooms is made through an inside lobby or office supervised by a person in charge at all hours, not including a boardinghouse, a tourist home or an apartment, which are herein separately defined.
ILLUMINATED SIGN
A sign characterized by the use of artificial light, either projecting through its surface(s) (internally illuminated); or reflecting off its surface(s) (externally illuminated).
INDUSTRIAL
Any process, other than light industrial, involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substances into new products, including the assembling of component parts and the blending of raw materials.
INDUSTRIAL COMMERCE (IC) ZONING DISTRICT
Zoning district indicated on the Official Zoning Map of Penn Township. The purpose of this district is indicated in § 190-406 of this chapter.
INDUSTRIAL, LIGHT
The processing and fabrication of certain materials and products where no process involved will produce noise, vibration, water pollution, fire hazard or noxious emissions which will disturb or endanger neighboring properties. Light industrial includes, but is 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, food products, not including animal slaughtering, curing or rendering of fats, and similar activities.
INJECTION WELL
A device which helps in placing fluids underground in porous rock formations like limestone and sandstone, or below in the shallow soil layer. For the purposes of this definition, an injection well is limited to a Class II Oil and Gas Related Injection Well as defined by the Environmental Protection Agency's Underground Injection Control program. The fluids could be wastewater, brine, water, or water mixed with chemicals.
[Added 5-16-2018 by Ord. No. 920]
INSPECTOR
An employee of Penn Township authorized and designated by the Board of Commissioners of Penn Township, an employee of the Penn Township Police Department authorized by the commanding officer of the Police Department or other persons designated by Penn Township to inspect premises regulated under this article, to cooperate in taking required actions authorized by this article where violations are found on the premises and to request correction of the unsatisfactory conditions found on a premises and not permitted under this article.
INTERIOR SIGN
Any sign placed within a building, but not including "window signs" as defined by this article. Interior signs, with the exception of window signs as defined, are not regulated by this chapter.
JUNK
Scrap, copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, iron, steel and other old or scrap ferrous or other nonferrous materials, including wrecked, scrapped, ruined, dismantled or junked motor vehicles or parts thereof, including motors, bodies of motor vehicles and vehicles which are inoperable and do not have a current and valid inspection sticker as required by the Motor Vehicle Code of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, but not including garbage or other organic waste or farm machinery, provided that said farm machinery is used in connection with a bona fide farming operation.
JUNK YARD
Any outdoor establishment or place of business which is maintained, used or operated for storing, keeping, buying or selling junk, and the term shall include garbage dumps, sanitary landfills, recycling facilities, resource-recovery facilities, transfer stations and scrap metal reprocessing facilities and automotive dismantlers and reprocessors.
KENNEL, COMMERCIAL
An establishment, including any dwelling, where five or more dogs and/or seven or more cats or any combination of cats and dogs totaling six animals who are six months old or older are kept, bred, trained or boarded at any one time, whether for profit or not.
LOADING SPACE
A space within the principal building or on the same lot therewith, providing for the standing, loading or unloading of trucks.
LOT
A portion of a subdivision or other parcel of land intended as a unit of transfer of ownership or for development which has frontage on a public or private street.
LOT AREA
See "lot, minimum area of."
LOT COVERAGE
The ratio of enclosed ground floor area of the principal and accessory buildings to the horizontally projected total area of the lot, expressed as a percentage.
LOT LINE, FRONT
That line which bounds the lot contiguously with the street right-of-way line.
LOT LINE, REAR
That line which is generally opposite to the front lot line.
LOT LINE, SIDE
Any lot line which is not a front lot line nor a rear lot line.
LOT OF RECORD
Any lot which individually or as a part of a subdivision has been recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Westmoreland County prior to July 20, 1964, and all subsequent lots given final approval by the Township Board of Commissioners and duly recorded.
LOT WIDTH
The mean horizontal distance across the lot between the side lot lines, measured along the building line at right angles to the depth. At least 60% of the required width must be located on a public right-of-way boundary. On corner lots, lot width shall be measured between one side lot line and the street right-of-way line which is opposite to that side lot line.
LOT, MINIMUM AREA OF
The area of a lot exclusive of any portion of a right-of-way of any public or private street.
MANSARD
An inclined decorative roof-like projection that is attached to an exterior building facade.
MARQUEE SIGN
An alternate designation of a "canopy sign."
MEDIATION
A voluntary negotiating process in which parties to a dispute mutually select a neutral mediator to assist them in jointly exploring and settling their differences, culminating in a written agreement which the parties themselves create and consider acceptable.
MEDICAL CLINIC
An establishment where patients who are not lodged overnight are admitted for examination and treatment on an outpatient basis by a group of physicians, dentists, psychologists, medical personnel or social workers.
MENU BOARD
A freestanding sign oriented to the drive-through lane for a restaurant that advertises the menu items available from the drive-through window, and which has no more than 20% of the total area for such a sign utilized for business identification.
METEOROLOGICAL TOWER (MET TOWER)
Includes the tower, base plate, anchors, guy wires and hardware, anemometers (wind speed indicators), wind direction vanes, booms to hold equipment for anemometers and vanes, data loggers, instrument wiring, and any telemetry devices that are used to monitor or transmit wind speed and wind flow characteristics over a period of time for either instantaneous wind information or to characterize the wind resource at a given location.
MINE VENTILATING SHAFT
An accessory structure to deep mining operations necessary to the proper ventilation of the underground mineral removal areas.
MINERAL EXTRACTION OVERLAY (MEO) ZONING DISTRICT
An overlay zoning district indicated on the Official Zoning Map of Penn Township. The purpose of this district is indicated in § 190-407 of this chapter.
MINERALS
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.
MINI WAREHOUSE OR SELF-STORAGE BUILDING
A building or group of buildings in a controlled-access and fenced compound that contains various sizes of individualized, compartmentalized and controlled access stalls and/or lockers leased by the general public for a specified period of time for the storage of personal property.
MIXED DENSITY RESIDENTIAL (MDR) ZONING DISTRICT
Zoning district indicated on the Official Zoning Map of Penn Township. The purpose of this district is indicated in § 190-403 of this chapter.
MIXED-USE STRUCTURE
The occupancy within the same building of two differing uses, one on the grade or first floor of commercial or service use, and the second of office or residential use on floors above.
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 in accordance with the requirements of the American National Installation of Mobile Homes Requirements (NFPA No. 501-AI 974, ANSI AI 19.3-1975), as amended, and which is connected to all available utilities and shall be regarded as a single-family detached dwelling.
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.
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 2-21-2018 by Ord. No. 919]
MONUMENT SIGN
A freestanding sign supported primarily by an internal structural framework or integrated into landscaping or other solid structural features other than support poles.
MOTEL
An establishment, other than a hotel, which provides transient lodging accommodations to the general public and which may provide such additional supporting services as restaurants, meeting rooms, recreation facilities and living quarters for a resident, manager or proprietor.
MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIR GARAGE
Any establishment for the repair, rebuilding or reconditioning of motor vehicles, excluding those in excess of 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight (GVW) or parts thereof, including engine overhaul, collision service, painting, steam-cleaning of vehicles and recapping or retreading of tires.
MULTIPLE-FACED SIGN
A sign containing three or more faces.
NATURAL GAS COMPRESSOR STATION
A 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.
NATURAL GAS PROCESSING PLANT
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.
NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL (NC) ZONING DISTRICT
Zoning district indicated on the Official Zoning Map of Penn Township. The purpose of this district is indicated in § 190-404 of this chapter.
NEIGHBORHOOD RETAIL BUSINESS
Business establishments located entirely within an enclosed building, containing one or more of the permitted uses listed in this chapter, which have a total floor area of 10,000 square feet or less and which are designed to serve the needs of the surrounding residential neighborhoods.
NET LEASABLE FLOOR AREA
The total floor area of a building designed for tenant occupancy, excluding halls, corridors, stairwells, elevator shafts, equipment rooms, interior vehicular parking and loading areas and other areas used in common by tenants of the building, expressed in square feet and measured from the center line of joint partitions and exteriors of outside walls.
NET METERING
The difference between the electricity supplied over the electric distribution system and the electricity generated by the small wind energy system which is fed back into the electric distribution system over a billing period.
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 following requirements:
A. 
The business activity shall be compatible with the residential use of the property and surrounding residential uses.
B. 
The business shall employ no employees other than family members residing in the dwelling.
C. 
There shall be no display or sale of retail goods and no stockpiling or inventory of a substantial nature.
D. 
There shall be no outside appearance of a business use, including, but not limited to, parking, signs or lights.
E. 
No on-site parking of commercially identified vehicles shall be permitted.
F. 
The business activity may not use any equipment or process which creates noise, vibration, glare, fumes, odors, or electrical or electronic interference, including interference with radio or television reception, which is detectable in the neighborhood.
G. 
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.
H. 
The business activity shall be conducted only within the dwelling and may not occupy more than 25% of the habitable floor area.
I. 
The business may not involve any illegal activity.
NONAGRICULTURALLY RELATED PRODUCTS
Those items not connected to farming or the farm operation, such as novelty t-shirts or other clothing, crafts and knick-knacks imported from other states or countries, etc.
NONAGRICULTURALLY RELATED USES
Activities that are part of an agritourism operation's total offerings but not tied to farming or the farm's buildings, equipment, fields, etc. Such nonagriculturally related uses include amusement rides, concerts, etc., and are subject to special use permit.
NONCOMMERCIAL SIGN
A sign expressing a political point of view
NONCONFORMING LOT
Any lot which does not comply with the applicable area and bulk provisions of this chapter or an amendment hereafter enacted and which lawfully existed prior to the enactment of this chapter or any subsequent amendment.
NONCONFORMING STRUCTURE
Any lawful structure or building existing at the effective date of adoption or amendment of this chapter and which does not conform to the area and bulk regulations of the district in which it is situated.
NONCONFORMING USE
A use, whether of land or of structure, which does not comply with the applicable use provisions in this chapter or an amendment heretofore or hereafter enacted, where such use was lawfully in existence prior to the enactment of such Chapter or amendment or prior to the application of such Chapter or amendment to its location by reason of annexation.
NONTOWER WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY (NONTOWER WCF)
All nontower wireless communications facilities, including, but not limited to, antennae and related equipment. Nontower WCF shall not include support structures for antennae or any related equipment that is mounted to the ground or at ground level.
[Added 2-21-2018 by Ord. No. 919]
NUDE MODEL STUDIO
Any 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.
NUDITY or STATE OF NUDITY
The appearance of a human bare buttock, human anus, human male genitals, human female genitals or human female breast.
NURSERY SCHOOL
A school designed to provide daytime care or instruction for two or more children of preschool age.
OCCUPIED STRUCTURE
A structure with walls and a roof within which individuals live, customarily work and such other "vulnerable structures" which include schools, hospitals, clinics, daycare centers and intermediate care facilities.
OFF-PREMISES SIGN
See "outdoor advertising sign."
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.
OIL AND GAS OPERATIONS
The term includes the following:
A. 
Well location assessment, including seismic operations, well site preparation, construction drilling, hydraulic fracturing and site restoration associated with an oil or gas well of any depth;
B. 
Natural gas processing plants or facilities performing equivalent functions;
C. 
Water and other fluid storage or impoundment areas used exclusively for oil and gas operations;
D. 
Construction, installation, use, maintenance and repair of:
(1) 
Oil and gas pipelines;
(2) 
Natural gas compressor stations; and
(3) 
Natural gas processing plants or facilities performing equivalent functions;
E. 
Construction, installation, use, maintenance and repair of all equipment directly associated with activities specified in Subsection A, B, and C, to the extent that:
(1) 
The equipment is necessarily located at or immediately adjacent to a well site, impoundment area, oil and gas pipeline, natural gas compressor stations or natural gas processing plan; and
(2) 
The activities are authorized and permitted under the authority of a federal or commonwealth agency.
ON-PREMISES SIGN
A sign erected, maintained or used in the outdoor environment for the purpose of the display of messages appurtenant to the use of, products sold on, or the sale or lease of, the property on which it is displayed.
OPEN SPACE
A lot or parcel or portion thereof or body of water or combination thereof within a development site, which is dedicated or reserved for the use of the general public or the owners or tenants of the development.
OPERATOR
A person, partnership or corporation operating, conducting or maintaining an adult-oriented establishment, or any commercial or service enterprise doing business in Penn Township.
OUTDOOR ADVERTISING SIGN
A permanent sign erected, maintained or used in the outdoor environment for the purpose of the display of commercial or noncommercial messages not appurtenant to the use of, products sold on, or the sale or lease of, the property on which it is displayed.
OUTDOOR RECREATION, COMMERCIAL
An enterprise, not otherwise defined herein, operated by an individual, group of individuals or nonprofit association or corporation, other than a public entity, for the pursuit of sports and recreational activities, which may be advertised to the general public.
OVERLAY ZONE
Zoning districts that extend on top of one or more underlying base zoning districts and are intended to protect certain critical features and resources or to achieve a narrow planning objective.
PARAPET
The extension of a building facade above the line of the structural roof.
PARKING AREA
An off-street area including two or more parking spaces, aisles and driveways, either within a structure or in the open, which is accessory to the principal use of the lot.
PERMITTEE and/or LICENSEE
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 applicant on the application for a permit and/or license.
PERSON
An individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint-stock association or governmental entity, including a trustee, a receiver, an assignee or a similar representative of any of the above.
PERSONAL SERVICES
Any enterprise conducted for gain which primarily offers services to the general public, such as shoe repair, tailoring, clothes cleaning, valet service, watch repairing, barbershop, beauty parlors and activities related to individuals, their apparel and their personal effects.
PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM
An active solar energy system that converts solar energy directly into electricity.
PLACES OF WORSHIP
A building, other than a dwelling, used by a nonprofit group or organization, which is created and exists for the sole purpose of regularly conducting worship services without pecuniary benefit to any officer, member or shareholder, except as reasonable compensation for actual services rendered to the organization, and which may also include, as accessory uses, religious education, social and recreational activities and administrative offices.
PLANNED INDUSTRIAL PARK
An industrial development which may include support uses which is under single ownership and control at the time of an application for development and which is planned and developed as a single unit wherein several buildings or lots utilize a common means of access and may share other common facilities, such as parking and signs.
PLANNED MIXED-USE COMMERCE PARK
An area of land, 10 acres minimum in size, planned, developed, operated and maintained as a single entity, and containing two or more structures designed to accommodate office, service, retail or commercial uses, or a combination of such uses and appurtenant common exterior open space areas and accessory uses incidental to the permitted principal uses.
PLANNING COMMISSION
The Planning Commission of Penn Township, Westmoreland County.
POLE SIGN
See "freestanding sign."
POLITICAL SIGN
Any sign which advocates a candidate for public office, or which supports a particular political party, or a position on an issue to be determined by an election. Political signs are not to be classified as temporary or permanent. A legally permitted outdoor advertising sign shall not be considered to be a political sign.
PORTABLE SIGN
Any sign not permanently attached to the ground, affixed to a mounting structure or to a building or building surface.
PRIMARY SURFACE
A surface longitudinally centered on a runway. When the runway has a specially prepared hard surface, the primary surface extends 200 feet beyond each end of that runway for military runways or, when the runway has no specially prepared hard surface or planned hard surface, the primary surface is set forth in the airport overlay district provisions. The elevation of any point on the primary surface is the same as the elevation of the nearest point on the runway center line.
PRIVATE
Owned, operated or controlled by any person, partnership, corporation, association or entity other than a federal, commonwealth, county or local government agency.
PRIVATE AIRPORT
An airport which is privately owned and which is not open or intended to be open to the public, as defined in 74 Pa.C.S.A. § 5102.
PROFESSIONAL OFFICES
Any offices of recognized professions, such as doctors, lawyers, architects, engineers, real estate brokers, insurance agents and others who, through training, are qualified to perform services of a professional nature.
PROJECTING SIGN
A sign other than a wall sign that is attached to or projects more than 18 inches (457 mm) from a building face or wall or from a structure whose primary purpose is other than the support of a sign. For visual reference, see Figure 1003.[3]
PROTECTED STRUCTURE
Any occupied structure measured horizontally on the ground, within 600 feet of the vertical wellbore of an unconventional oil natural gas well, or in the case of a natural gas processing facility, within 1,200 feet thereof, also measured horizontally on the ground. The term shall not include any structure occupied by individuals, and such facilities as for the storage for construction material or equipment. The term shall not include any structure whose owner has signed a waiver relieving the operator from implementation of the measures established herein or other applicable provisions of any current Penn Township ordinance. In addition, a waiver shall not be required from the owners of any protected structure which may be situate within the setback area of those situations where such owner has a valid and sustaining oil and gas lease with the party proposing the oil and/or gas well.
PUBLIC
Owned, operated or controlled by a government agency, federal, commonwealth, county or local.
PUBLIC AIRPORT
An airport which is either publicly or privately owned and which is open to the public, as defined in 74 Pa.C.S.A. § 5102.
PUBLIC HEARING
A formal meeting held pursuant to public notice by the Board of Commissioners or the Planning Commission and Zoning Hearing Board to inform and obtain public comment prior to taking action in accordance with this chapter.
PUBLIC MEETING
A forum held pursuant to notice under 65 Pa.C.S.A. Ch. 7, the Act of July 3, 1986, P.L. 729, No. 93.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Notice published once each week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Township. Such notice shall state the time and place of the hearing and the particular nature of the matter to be considered at the hearing. The first publication shall not be more than 30 days and the second publication shall not be less than seven days from the date of the hearing.
PUBLIC PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS
An enterprise operated by a public entity, available to the general public, whether or not an admission fee is charged, which provides outdoor facilities for the pursuit of sports, recreation or leisure activities, including but not limited to play equipment, playing fields, golf courses, golf or batting practice facilities, pavilions, ice rinks, tennis courts, swimming pools, street hockey, basketball courts and similar facilities.
PUBLIC UTILITY/UTILITIES
Any business activity regulated by a government agency in which the business is required by law to register as a public utility.
REAL ESTATE SIGN
A temporary sign advertising the sale, lease or rental of the property or premises upon which it is located.
RECREATION, COMMERCIAL
An activity conducted for gain and which is generally related to the entertainment field, such as motion-picture theaters, bowling alleys, roller-skating rinks, golf courses as defined herein, commercial swimming pools and related uses.
RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, MEMBERSHIP
Country clubs, fitness clubs, golf courses and other private recreation areas and facilities not available to the general public, including private community swimming pools but excluding sportsmen's clubs, as defined by this chapter.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE
A single-axle or multiple-axle vehicle mounted on wheels or otherwise capable of being made mobile, either with its own motive power or designed to be mounted on or drawn by an automobile vehicle, for the purpose of travel, camping, vacation and recreational use, including but not limited to travel trailers, mobile homes, motor homes, tent trailers, boats, boat trailers, pickup campers, horse trailers, snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles. A recreational vehicle as defined herein must have a current and valid inspection and registration.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE CAMPGROUND
A seasonal recreational facility, operated for profit, which offers spaces for rent for overnight occupancy by campers utilizing trailers or recreational vehicles and which includes sanitary facilities and recreational facilities for the use of the campers.
RELATED EQUIPMENT
Any piece of equipment related to, incidental to, or necessary for the operation of a tower-based WCF or nontower WCF. By way of illustration, not limitation, related equipment includes generators and base stations.
[Added 2-21-2018 by Ord. No. 919]
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FACILITY
Any establishment 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 pilot manufacturing as an accessory use where concepts are tested prior to full-scale production.
RESTAURANT
An establishment whose principal use is the sale of food and beverages for consumption on the premises and/or takeout and/or delivery and which may or may not include the sale of alcoholic beverages as an accessory use.
RETAIL
Any establishment not otherwise specifically defined in this article that sells commodities and/or services on the premises directly to consumers, but not including the on-site industrial activity or processing of any product or any wholesale sales.
REVOLVING SIGN
A sign that revolves 360° (6.28 rad) about an axis. See also "animated sign, mechanically activated."
ROOF LINE
The top edge of a peaked roof or, in the case of an extended facade or parapet, the uppermost point of said facade or parapet.
ROOF SIGN
A sign mounted on, and supported by, the main roof portion of a building, or above the uppermost edge of a parapet wall of a building and which is wholly or partially supported by such a building. Signs mounted on mansard facades, pent eaves and architectural projections such as canopies or marquees shall not be considered to be "roof signs."
RUNWAY
A defined area on an airport prepared for landing and takeoff of aircraft along its length.
RUNWAY, LARGER THAN UTILITY
A runway that is constructed for and intended to be used by propeller-driven aircraft of greater than 12,500 pounds maximum gross weight and jet-powered aircraft.
RUNWAY, NONPRECISION INSTRUMENT
A runway having an existing instrument approach procedure utilizing air navigation facilities with only horizontal guidance or area-type navigation equipment and for which a straight-in nonprecision instrument approach procedure has been approved or planned.
RUNWAY, PRECISION INSTRUMENT
A runway having an existing instrument approach procedure utilizing an instrument landing system (ILS) or a precision approach radar (PAR). It also means a runway for which a precision approach system is planned and is so indicated on an approved airport layout plan or any other planning document.
RUNWAY, UTILITY
A runway that is constructed for and intended to be used by propeller-driven aircraft of 12,500 pounds maximum gross weight and less.
RUNWAY, VISUAL
A runway intended solely for the operation of aircraft using visual approach procedures.
RURAL RESOURCE DISTRICT
A zoning district indicated on the Official Zoning Map of Penn Township. The purpose of this district in indicated in § 190-402 of this chapter.
SANITARY LANDFILL
Any site licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for the disposal of municipal solid waste, other than hazardous waste, as defined and regulated by federal statute.
SCHOOL, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
An accredited institution of learning which offers elementary and secondary-level instruction or which offers associate, bachelor or higher degrees in the several branches of learning required by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
SCREENING
A method of visually shielding or obscuring one abutting or nearby structure or use from another by fencing, walls, berms or densely planted vegetation. (See § 190-630 of this chapter and Article V of the Penn Township Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance, Chapter 156.)
SCROLLING
On an electronic message center, changeable or animated sign, a form of animation whereby elements of copy are sequentially displayed so as to give the appearance of movement on or across the sign, whether vertically or horizontally.
SEASONAL
A recurrent period characterized by certain occurrences, festivities, or crops; harvest, when crops are ready; not all year round.
SEASONAL SIGN
A sign erected for a limited period of time during the year when retailing activities for a particular farm product is available to the public.
SEMIPUBLIC USES
Land uses including but not limited to churches, Sunday schools, parochial schools, colleges, hospitals and other institutions of an educational, religious, charitable or philanthropic nature.
SERVICE STATION
Any building, structure or land used for the dispensing, sale or offering for sale at retail of any automobile fuels, oils or accessories, including lubrication of automobiles and replacement or installation of minor parts and accessories, but not including major repair work, such as engine overhaul, motor replacement, body and fender repair or spray-painting or recapping or retreading of tires.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM, OFF-SITE
An approved system, whether privately or publicly operated, for the collection and disposal of sewage that serves two or more dwelling units but which does not include septic tanks.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM, ON-SITE
A system including but not limited to a septic tank or sand mound on an individual lot, which utilizes an aerobic bacteriological process for the elimination of solid wastes and provides for the proper and safe disposal of the effluent, subject to the approval of health and sanitation officials having jurisdiction.
SEXUAL ENCOUNTER CENTER
A business or commercial enterprise that, as one of its primary business purposes, offers for any form of consideration:
A. 
Physical contact in the form of wrestling or fondling between persons of the opposite sex; or
B. 
Activities between male and female persons and/or persons of the same sex when one or more of the persons is in a state of nudity or semi-nudity.
SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESS
An adult arcade, adult bookstore or adult video store, adult cabaret, adult motel, adult motion-picture theater, adult-oriented business, adult theater, escort agency, nude model studio or sexual encounter center.
SIDE YARD
See "yard, side."
SIGN
Any device visible from a public place that displays either commercial or noncommercial messages by means of graphic presentation of alphabetic or pictorial symbols or representations. Noncommercial flags or any flags displayed from flagpoles or staffs will not be considered to be signs.
SIGN AREA
The area of the smallest geometric figure, or the sum of the combination of regular geometric figures, which comprise the sign face. The area of any double-sided or "V" shaped sign shall be the area of the largest single face only. The area of a sphere shall be computed as the area of a circle. The area of all other multiple-sided signs shall be computed as 50% of the sum of the area of all faces of the sign.
SIGN COPY
Those letters, numerals, figures, symbols, logos and graphic elements comprising the content or message of a sign, exclusive of numerals identifying a street address only.
SIGN FACE
The surface upon, against or through which the sign copy is displayed or illustrated, not including structural supports, architectural features of a building or sign structure, nonstructural or decorative trim, or any areas that are separated from the background surface upon which the sign copy is displayed by a distinct delineation, such as a reveal or border.
A. 
In the case of panel or cabinet-type signs, the sign face shall include the entire area of the sign panel, cabinet or face substrate upon which the sign copy is displayed or illustrated, but not open space between separate panels or cabinets.
B. 
In the case of sign structures with routed areas of sign copy, the sign face shall include the entire area of the surface that is routed, except where interrupted by a reveal, border, or a contrasting surface or color.
C. 
In the case of signs painted on a building, or individual letters or graphic elements affixed to a building or structure, the sign face shall comprise the sum of the geometric figures or combination of regular geometric figures drawn closest to the edge of the letters or separate graphic elements comprising the sign copy, but not the open space between separate groupings of sign copy on the same building or structure.
D. 
In the case of sign copy enclosed within a painted or illuminated border, or displayed on a background contrasting in color with the color of the building or structure, the sign face shall comprise the area within the contrasting background, or within the painted or illuminated border.
SIGN STRUCTURE
Any structure supporting a sign.
SOLAR COLLECTOR
A device, structure or a part of a device or structure (array, panel or similar device) installed for the sole purpose of the collection, inversion, storage, and distribution of solar energy. This device may be roof-mounted or ground-mounted as an accessory use.
SOLAR ENERGY
Radiant energy received from the sun that can be collected in the form of heat or light.
SOLAR FARM
A use where a series of solar collectors are placed in an area for the purpose of generating photovoltaic power for an area greater than the principal use on the site or as the principal use on the site for off-site energy consumption. The use of solar collectors for personal or business consumption that occurs on-site is not considered a "solar farm."
SPECIAL EXCEPTION
A use which is subject to approval by the Zoning Hearing Board when there is a specific provision for such special exception made in this chapter.
SPECIFIED ANATOMICAL AREAS
A. 
Less than completely and opaquely covered:
(1) 
Human genitals or pubic region;
(2) 
Buttocks; or
(3) 
Female breasts below a point immediately above the top of the areola.
B. 
Human male genitals in a discernible turgid state, even if completely opaquely covered.
SPECIFIED SEXUAL ACTIVITIES
Includes any of the following:
A. 
The fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus or female breasts;
B. 
Sex acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including intercourse, oral copulation or sodomy;
C. 
Masturbation, actual or simulated; or
D. 
Excretory functions as part of or in connection with any of the activities set forth in Subsections A through C herein.
SPORTSMEN'S CLUB
A private recreational facility which may or may not include a clubhouse with kitchen and/or toilet facilities, and which may include but is not limited to the following activities: archery, target shooting, skeet or trap shooting, and fishing.
STABLE
A lot, with a minimum area of three acres, where horses and/or ponies are kept for the personal use of the residents of the lot, not including any profit-making activities.
STEALTH TECHNOLOGY
Camouflaging methods applied to wireless communications towers, antennae and other 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 antennae, building-mounted antennae painted to match the existing structure and facilities constructed to resemble trees, shrubs, and light poles.
[Added 2-21-2018 by Ord. No. 919]
STORY
That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it or, if there is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it. A basement shall be counted as a story if it is used for living quarters or if 2/3 of its volume is above the average level of the adjacent ground.
STREET
Includes street, avenue, boulevard, road, highway, freeway, parkway, lane, alley, viaduct and any other ways used or intended to be used by vehicular traffic or pedestrians, whether public or private.
STREET RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE
A recorded dividing line between a lot, tract or parcel of land and a contiguous street.
STRUCTURAL ALTERATION
Any change in a supporting member of a structure, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
STRUCTURE
Any man-made object having an ascertainable stationary location on or in land or water, whether or not affixed to the land.
SUBSTANTIALLY CHANGE or SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE
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:
A. 
For tower-based WCF 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 tower-based WCF in the rights-of-way, it increases the height of the facility by more than 10% or 10 feet, whichever is greater;
B. 
For tower-based WCF 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-based structures at the level of the appurtenance, whichever is greater; for those tower-based WCF in the public rights-of-way, it protrudes from the edge of the structure by more than six feet;
C. 
It involves installation of more than the standard number of new equipment cabinets for the technology involved, but not to exceed four cabinets;
D. 
It entails any excavation of deployment outside the current site of the tower-based WCF; or
E. 
It does not comply with conditions associated with prior approval of construction or modification of the tower-based WCF unless the noncompliance is due to an increase in height, increase in width, or addition of cabinets.
[Added 2-21-2018 by Ord. No. 919]
SUPPLY YARD
A building and/or a lot which is used for the storage and sale of construction materials or similar supplies to individuals and contractors, where no industrial activity is done and no vehicles or equipment are repaired, displayed or sold.
SURFACE MINING
Any extraction of any mineral excluding oil and gas or fill material which involves removal of the surface of the earth or exposure of the mineral or subsurface of the earth to wind, rain, sun or other elements of nature. Mining activities carried out beneath the surface by means of shafts, tunnels or other underground mine openings are not included in this definition.
TEMPORARY SIGN
A sign intended to display either commercial or noncommercial messages of a transitory or temporary nature. Portable signs or any sign not permanently embedded in the ground, or not permanently affixed to a building or sign structure that is permanently embedded in the ground, are considered "temporary signs."
THEATER, INDOOR
An establishment inside a completely enclosed building, devoted to showing motion pictures and/or live dramatic, comedic or musical performances.
TIMBER HARVESTING
The cutting or harvesting of live or dead, standing or fallen trees for cordwood, for timber, for pulp or for any commercial purpose, when practiced in accordance with accepted silviculture principles, excluding the clearing of trees by the landowner for his own use, clearing for the development of building sites as part of an approved subdivision, land development or building permit, clearing for farming operations or selective removal of individual trees which are dead, damaged, diseased or constitute a danger to neighboring properties or the general public.
TOWER-BASED WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY (TOWER-BASED WCF)
Any structure that is used for the purpose of supporting one or more antennae, including, but not limited to, self-supporting lattice towers, guy towers and monopoles, utility poles and light poles. DAS hub facilities are considered to be tower-based WCF.
TOWNHOUSE
A multifamily dwelling which contains at least three but not more than eight dwelling units, each for the exclusive use by one family, where each unit has a separate entrance and is attached to another unit by continuous vertical walls without opening from basement to roof.
TOWNSHIP COMMISSIONERS
The Board of Commissioners of Penn Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.[4]
TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP OR CONTROL OF A SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESS
Includes any of the following:
A. 
The sale, lease or sublease of the business;
B. 
The transfer of securities which constitute a controlling interest in the business, whether by sale, exchange or similar means; or
C. 
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.
TRANSITIONAL SURFACES
These surfaces extend outward at ninety-degree angles to the runway center line and the runway center line extended at a slope of seven feet horizontally for each foot vertically from the sides of the primary and approach surfaces to where they intersect the horizontal and conical surfaces. Transitional surfaces for those portions of the precision approach surfaces which project through and beyond the limits of the conical surface extend a distance of 5,000 feet, measured horizontally from the edge of the approach surface and at ninety-degree angles to the extended runway center line.
TRUCK TERMINAL
A building and adjacent area which may or may not include facilities for maintenance, fueling, repair, storage or dispatching of the vehicles.
UNCONVENTIONAL DRILLING
A bore hole drilled or being drilled in a geological shale formation existing below the base of the Elk sandstone or its geologic equivalent stratigraphic interval where natural gas generally cannot at economic flow or in economic volumes except by vertical or horizontal well bores stimulated by hydraulic fracturing treatment or by using multilateral well bores or other techniques to expose more of the formation to the well bore.
UNDER CANOPY SIGN or UNDER MARQUEE SIGN
A sign attached to the underside of a canopy or marquee.
USE
Any activity, business or purpose for which any lot or structure is utilized.
USE NOT SPECIFICALLY LISTED
Any use which is not listed in a given zoning district but which may be approved as a conditional use by the Board of Commissioners if the Board determines the use is comparable to other uses listed in the district in accordance with express standards and criteria in this chapter.
V SIGN
Signs containing two faces of approximately equal size erected upon common or separate structures, positioned in a "V" shape with an interior angle between faces of not more than 90° (1.57 rad).
VARIANCE
A relaxation of requirements where such variance will not be contrary to the public interest and where, owing to conditions peculiar to the property and not the result of actions of the applicant, a literal enforcement of this chapter would result in unnecessary and undue hardship. A variance is administrated by the Zoning Hearing Board.
WALL OR FASCIA SIGN
A sign that is in any manner affixed to any exterior wall of a building or structure and that projects not more than 18 inches (457 mm) from the building or structure wall, including signs affixed to architectural projections from a building, provided the copy area of such signs remains on a parallel plane to the face of the building facade or to the face or faces of the architectural projection to which it is affixed. For a visual reference and a comparison of differences between wall or fascia signs and roof signs, see Article VII.
WAREHOUSING
The storage and handling of freight or merchandise, but not including the maintenance or fueling of commercial vehicles.
WASTEWATER (UNCONVENTIONAL WELL)
The post-drilling liquids or fluids used in the fracking or extraction process.
WBCA
Pennsylvania Wireless Broadband Collocation Act (53 P.S. § 11702.1 et seq.).
[Added 2-21-2018 by Ord. No. 919]
WHOLESALE BUSINESS
A business primarily engaged in selling merchandise to retailers or institutional, commercial or professional business customers or other wholesalers, rather than to the general public, which includes the warehousing of merchandise and which may include distribution of such merchandise on the site of the principal business.
WIND TURBINE FLICKER
The moving shadow created by the sun shining on the rotating blades of the wind turbine.
WINDMILL
A small wind energy system consisting of a wind turbine, a tower, and associated control and conversion electronics, and will be used primarily for on-site consumption.
WINDOW SIGN
A sign affixed to the surface of a window with its message intended to be visible to and readable from the public way or from adjacent property. Signs painted on the interior or the exterior of the surface of a window shall not be considered window signs.
WIRELESS
Transmissions through the airwaves, including, but not limited to, infrared line of sight, cellular, PCS, microwave, satellite, or radio signals.
[Added 2-21-2018 by Ord. No. 919]
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY (WCF)
The antennae, 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.
[Added 2-21-2018 by Ord. No. 919]
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY APPLICANT (WCF APPLICANT)
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 Township-owned land or property.
[Added 2-21-2018 by Ord. No. 919]
WIRELESS SUPPORT STRUCTURE
A freestanding structure, such as a tower-based wireless communications facility or any other support structure that is constructed primarily to support the placement or installation of a wireless communications facility if approved by the Township.
[Added 2-21-2018 by Ord. No. 919]
YARD
An open space between a building and the adjoining lot lines, unoccupied by any use other than a parking area or driveway, when specifically authorized by this chapter, or by any portion of a structure from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided herein. In measuring a yard for the purpose of determining the width of a side yard, the depth of a front yard or the depth of the rear yard, the minimum horizontal distance between the lot line and the principal building shall be used.
YARD, FRONT
A yard extending across the full front width of a lot between the side lot lines and being the minimum horizontal distance between the street right-of-way line and the principal building or any projection thereof, other than the projections of the usual uncovered steps, uncovered balconies or uncovered porches with a maximum floor area of 25 square feet.
YARD, REAR
A yard extending across the full width of the rear of a lot between the side lot lines and being the required minimum horizontal distance between the rear lot line and the rear of the principal building or any projection thereof, other than the projections of uncovered steps, unenclosed balconies or unenclosed porches.
YARD, SIDE
A yard between the principal building and the side line of the lot and extending from the required front yard to the required rear yard and being the minimum horizontal distance between a side lot and the side of the principal building or any projections thereto.
ZONING DISTRICT
See "district, zoning."
ZONING DISTRICT MAP
The zoning district map or maps of Penn Township, together with all amendments.[5]
ZONING LOT
A lot conforming to all zoning requirements of the district in which it is located, including utilities, area and any special or supplementary requirements, or a legally existing lot of record recorded prior to passage of this chapter and subsequent amendments.
ZONING OFFICER
An administrative official or his authorized representative appointed by the Board of Commissioners to administer and enforce this chapter.
ZONING PERMIT
The document issued by the Zoning Officer, authorizing the use of the land.
[1]
Editor’s Note: The former definition of “communications facilities,” which immediately followed, was repealed 2-21-2018 by Ord. No. 919.
[2]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.
[3]
Editor's Note: Said figure is on file in the Township offices.
[4]
Editor’s Note: The former definition of “traditional neighborhood development,” which immediately followed, was repealed 2-21-2018 by Ord. No. 919.
[5]
Editor's Note: Said maps are on file in the Township offices.