For the purposes of this chapter, the following rules of usage
and interpretation shall apply, unless the context indicates otherwise.
In the interpretation of this chapter, the provisions and rules of
this chapter shall be observed and applied, except when the context
clearly requires otherwise.
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Words in the present tense include the future.
B.Â
Words in the singular include the plural and the plural the singular.
C.Â
The word "shall" is intended to be mandatory.
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The word "lot" shall include the word "plot" or "parcel."
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The word "person" includes a firm, company, corporation, partnership,
trust, organization or association, as well as an individual.
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A building or structure includes any part thereof.
G.Â
The word "and" indicates that all connected items, conditions, provisions
or events shall apply.
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The word "or" indicates that the connected items, conditions, provisions
or events may apply singly or in any combination.
I.Â
The words "either", "or" indicate that the connected items, conditions,
provisions or events may apply singly but not in any combination.
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The word "Borough" means the Borough of Charleroi, Pennsylvania.
K.Â
The word "County" means the County of Washington, Pennsylvania.
L.Â
Any use of the gender specific words (his, hers, him, her) shall
imply both genders.
M.Â
In case of any difference of meaning or implication between the text
of this chapter and any caption, illustration or table, the text shall
control.
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When a word or phrase is not specifically defined in this chapter,
or referenced in another ordinance, then the common meaning of the
word or phrase, or the definition contained in Webster's Dictionary,
most current version, shall apply.
When used in this chapter, the following words, terms and phrases shall have the following meanings, unless expressly stated otherwise or unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. (For definitions related to signs see Article VII).
A structure the use of which is customarily accessory to
and incidental to that of the principle structure and which is located
on the same lot.
Property that is contiguous with the boundaries of any side
of the subject property.
Any place to which the public is permitted or invited wherein
coin-operated, slug-operated, or for any form of consideration, or
electronically, electrically, or mechanically controlled still or
motion-picture machines, projectors, videos, or other image-producing
devices are maintained, not located within viewing booths, to show
images to five or fewer persons per machine at any one time, and where
the images so displayed are distinguished or characterized by the
depicting or describing of specified sexual activities or specified
anatomical areas.
Books, magazines, periodicals or other printed matter, or photographs,
films, motion pictures, video cassettes or video reproductions, slides,
CD-ROM or DVD discs or other computer software, or other visual representations
which are characterized by their depiction or description of specified
sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
Instruments, devices, or paraphernalia which are designed for
use in connection with specified sexual activities.
Any commercial establishment, including, but not limited to,
adult book stores, adult motion picture theaters, adult mini-motion
picture theaters, adult entertainment cabaret, adult arcade or other
adult entertainment establishments, in which is offered for sale as
a substantial or significant portion of its stock in trade video cassettes,
movies, books, magazines, or other periodicals or other media which
are distinguished or characterized by their emphasis on nudity or
sexual conduct or activities which if presented in live presentation
would constitute adult entertainment;
Any commercial establishment that offers for a consideration
physical contact in the form of wrestling or tumbling between persons
of the opposite sex;
Any commercial establishment that offers for a consideration
activities between male and female persons and/or persons of the same
sex when one or more persons are nude or semi-nude; and
Any commercial establishment that offers for a consideration
nude human modeling. An establishment shall include any of the following:
The opening or commencement of any sexually oriented business
as a new business.
The conversion of an existing business, whether or not a sexually
oriented business, to any sexually oriented business.
The addition of any sexually oriented business to any other
existing sexually oriented business or to a nonsexually oriented business.
The relocation of any sexually oriented business.
A nightclub, bar, restaurant, or other commercial establishment
which regularly features:
Persons who appear in a state of nudity or semi-nudity.
Live performances which are characterized by the exposure of
specified anatomical areas or by specified sexual activities.
Films, motion pictures, video cassettes, DVDs, slides, or other
photographic reproductions or visual presentations of any other kind
which are characterized by the depiction or description of specified
sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
An enclosed building or structure offering video presentations
or other visual media distinguished or characterized by an emphasis
or matter depicting, describing, or relating to sexual activities
or nudity, as defined herein, for observation by patrons within private
viewing booths.
A commercial establishment where, for any form of consideration,
films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or similar photographic
reproductions or visual presentations of any kind are regularly shown
which is characterized by the depiction or description of specified
sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
A theater, concert hall, auditorium, or similar commercial
establishment which regularly features persons who appear in a state
of nudity or semi-nudity, or live performances which are characterized
by the exposure of specified anatomical areas or by specified sexual
activities.
A use that permits the consumption of alcoholic beverages
by five or more unrelated persons between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and
6:00 a.m. and that involves some form of monetary compensation paid
by such persons for the alcohol or for the use of the premises.
Activities including, but not limited to, livestock and poultry
raising; field, row and tree crops; forest and tree products; sale
of products produced on the premises; and other customary farm structures.
Not included are farm-oriented commercial or industrial activities
or operations, such as food or livestock processing plants, holding
pens, slaughterhouses, or similar uses which handle products not produced
on the immediate premises.
Any area of land or water, whether of public or private ownership,
designed and set aside for the landing and taking off of aircraft
including all contiguous property that is held or used for airport
purposes.
A tower at an airfield from which air traffic is controlled
by radio and observed physically and by radar.
A building where scheduled or unscheduled maintenance activities
are initiated, including landscaping, mowing, weed control, building
fences, and vehicle maintenance.
A building at an airport where passengers transfer between
ground transportation and the facilities that allow them to board
and disembark from aircraft. Within the terminal, passengers purchase
tickets, transfer their luggage, and go through security.
A public or private right-of-way which has a width of 15
feet or less and which is designed to provide secondary access to
a lot or lots.
As applied to a building or structure, a change or rearrangement
in the structural parts or in the exit facilities, or an enlargement,
whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height, or the
moving from one location to another, or any change in use from that
of one zoning district classification to another.
Any change in the supporting members of a building, such
as bearing walls, columns, beams, girders, or foundations.
An ambulance station is a structure or other area set aside
for storage of ambulance vehicles, medical equipment, personal protective
equipment, and other medical supplies. Most stations are made up of
garage bays or a parking area normally undercover.
An oval or round structure having tiers of seats rising gradually
outward from a central open space or arena.
Any mechanical, electrical or electromechanical device, machine
or apparatus whatsoever for the playing of games and amusements, which
devices or apparatus are commonly known as pinball machines, video
games and jukeboxes, or upon which games are played, or any device
on which music is played after the insertion therein of a coin or
other disc, slug or token or for which fees are paid to an attendant.
An establishment existing primarily for entertainment purposes
and offering rides and exhibitions for a fee.
Any site containing at least one burial, marked or previously
marked, dedicated to and used or intended to be used for the permanent
burial of animals.
A facility that cares for pet animals for less than 12 consecutive
hours in the absence of the pet owner or a facility that cares for
pet animals in training with or without the facility owner receiving
compensation for such services (see also kennel).
The provision of bathing and trimming services for small
animals on a commercial basis. This classification includes boarding
of domestic animals for a maximum period of 48 hours.
A place where animals or pets are given medical or surgical
treatment and the boarding of animals is limited to short-term care
incidental to the hospital use. Animal hospitals are not kennels.
The keeping of animals including feeding, breeding, housing,
slaughtering, processing and marketing of the animals.
The American National Standards Institute.
An exterior device or apparatus designed for cellular, digital,
telephone, radio, pager, commercial mobile radio, television, microwave
or any other wireless communications through sending and/or receiving
of electromagnetic waves, including, without limitation, omnidirectional
or whip antennas and directional or panel antennas. Unless otherwise
stated, this term shall not include a standard antenna.
The vertical distance from the base of the antenna support
structure at grade to the highest point of the structure, including
any antennas attached thereto or forming a part thereof. If the support
structure is on a sloped grade, then the average between the highest
and lowest grades shall be used in calculating the antenna height.
A device, partially or wholly exterior to a building, that
is used for receiving television or radio signals for use on site
or for transmitting shortwave or citizens band radio signals. See
also "commercial communications antenna."
A landowner or developer, as hereinafter defined, who has
filed an application for development including his heirs, successors
and assigns.
Every application, whether preliminary, tentative or final,
required to be filed and approved prior to start of construction or
development including but not limited to an application for a building
permit, for the approval of a subdivision plat or plan or for the
approval of a development plan.
The visible, functional, or ornamental objects accessory
to and part of buildings.
An establishment that maintains a collection of wild animals,
typically in a park, garden or a transparent tank of water for display
to the public.
An architect registered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The total horizontal plane area of the building from outside
wall to outside wall. This is exclusive of patios and stairways.
The total area of the lot or lots comprising a site.
The Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute.
A structure, or part thereof, devoted to the exhibition of
visual works of fine art. Art galleries generally include accessory
services, such as sale or purchase of displayed works, custom framing
or encasement of art works and services related to art appraisal,
display, preservation or restoration.
A use involving the creation, display and sale of arts and
crafts, such as paintings, sculpture and fabric crafts. The creation
of arts and crafts may also be permitted within a home occupation,
provided the requirements for such use are met.
A plant where asphalt or concrete is mixed for distribution,
typically for use off-site.
Any premises in which food, shelter, assisted living services,
assistance or supervision and supplemental health care services are
provided for a period exceeding 24 hours for four or more adults who
are not relatives of the operator, who require assistance or supervision
in matters such as dressing, bathing, diet, financial management,
evacuation from the residence in the event of an emergency or medication
prescribed for self-administration.
The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM).
A large building or hall used for public gatherings, typically
speeches or stage performances.
A body politic and corporate created pursuant to the act
of May 2, 1945 (P.L. 382, No. 164), known as the "Municipality Authorities
Act of 1945."
Any building, premises, and land in which or upon which a
business, service, or industry performs or renders a service involving
the maintenance, servicing, repair, or painting of vehicles, not including
commercial motor vehicle repair.
Any building, premises, or land in which or upon which a
business or individual performs or renders a service involving the
detailing and servicing of an automobile or other motor vehicle. Detailing
and servicing shall include any cleaning, buffing, striping, glass
replacement, and audio installation or repair. Automobile detail shall
not include any service defined as "automobile repair."
An establishment or place of business which is maintained,
used, or operated for storing, keeping, buying, or selling wrecked,
scrapped, ruined, or dismantled motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts.
Ten or more such vehicles will constitute an automobile graveyard.
A place for preparing, baking and selling baked goods and
products prepared on the premises.
That portion of a building which is partly or completely,
or having a floor below grade.
An owner-occupied dwelling that contains not more than four
guests rooms/sleeping rooms in which lodging, long- or short-term,
is provided for compensation and in which meals for lodgers may also
be provided. This use shall not include group homes.
A distributor is any person who engages in the sale of beverages
in beverage containers, including any manufacturer who engages in
these sales.
Any body granted jurisdiction under a land use ordinance
or by the MPC to render final adjudications.
A building other than a hotel or motel where lodging is provided
for compensation.
A retail establishment devoted primarily to selling or renting
any of the following: newspaper, magazines, books, and other printed
material and video recordings.
The Borough of Charleroi, Washington County Pennsylvania.
A freestanding support structure, attached antenna, and related
equipment intended for transmitting, receiving or retransmitting commercial
television, radio, telephone, cellular or other telecommunication
services.
A landscaped area of a certain depth specified by this chapter
which shall be planted and maintained in trees, ground cover, shrubs,
bushes or other natural landscaping material or an existing natural
or constructed natural barrier which duplicates the effect of the
required buffer area.
A structure used for sheltering any use or occupancy.
The Charleroi Borough Uniform Construction Code Ordinance.
That portion of any exterior elevation on the building extending
from finished grade to top of the parapet, wall, or eaves and the
entire width of the building elevation.
The wall of the building where the principal entrance is
located, usually fronting on a public street.
A permit for activities regulated by the Uniform Construction
Code as adopted by Charleroi Borough, including construction, alteration,
repair, demolition or an addition to a structure.
The building or buildings on a lot in which the principal
use or uses are conducted.
A building or set of buildings that are designed for the
maintenance of buses and heavy duty trucks. This excludes commercial
motor vehicle repair. All vehicles that are being worked on, or waiting
to be worked on, or have already been worked on shall be kept inside
an entirely closed building.
A terminal that serves bus passengers.
A shelter for a car that has open sides and that is usually
attached to the side of a building.
An agency that offers cars and trucks for rent.
A structure where chains, conveyors, blowers, steam cleaners,
or other mechanical devices are used for the purpose of washing motor
vehicles and where the operation is generally performed by an attendant.
A structure where washing, drying, and polishing of vehicles
is generally on a self-service basis without the use of chain conveyors,
blowers, steam cleaning, or other mechanical devices.
That portion of a street or alley intended for vehicular
use.
A location that prepares food for delivery and consumption
at a remote site. Catering operations, when authorized, may sometimes
be located in conjunction with an events venue.
Any site containing at least one burial, marked or previously
marked, dedicated to and used or intended to be used for the permanent
interment of the human dead, including perpetual care and nonperpetual
care cemeteries.
The premises in which care is provided, pursuant to approval
of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, for children under
the age of 16 and which comply with all applicable provisions and
requirements of the most recent editions of the Building Code, Residential
Code and Fire Code, as adopted by the Borough of Charleroi, and the
rules and regulations of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare
relating to child day-care centers, and any other applicable law,
ordinance or regulation.
A building or buildings, other than a dwelling, used primarily
as a place of worship on a regular basis by a religious denomination
that may also include, as accessory uses, rooms for religious education,
social and recreational activities and administrative offices, an
emergency shelter, rectories, parsonages, convents, preschool programs
and elderly or child day-care centers.
Natural wood that has been seasoned to reduce its water content
and provide more efficient combustion. The term clean wood does not
include wood: coated with paint, stain, oil, resin or any other preservative,
fire retardant or decorative materials; impregnated with preservatives
or fire retardants; exposed to salt water; nor manufactured with the
use of adhesives, polymers or resins, such as strand, particle and
veneer lumber and recycled lumber.
A triangular area of unobstructed vision as defined by Penn.DOT
Publication # 70M: Guidelines for the Design of Local Roads and Streets.
An establishment where animals are examined and treated by
veterinarians and which may include kennels for temporary boarding
of animals during treatment.
A mechanism for heat exchange which consists of the following
basic elements: underground loops of piping; heat transfer fluid;
a heat pump; an air distribution system. An opening is made in the
earth. A series of pipes are installed into the opening and connected
to a heat exchange system in the building. The pipes form a closed
loop and are filled with a heat transfer fluid. The fluid is circulated
through the piping from the opening into the heat exchanger and back.
The system functions in the same manner as the open loop system except
there is no pumping of groundwater. A horizontal closed loop system
shall be no more than 20 feet deep.
A borehole that extends beneath the surface. Pipes are installed
with u-bends at the bottom of the borehole. The pipes are connected
to the heat exchanger and heat transfer fluid is circulated through
the pipes.
Buildings and related facilities owned and operated by an
individual or a group of individuals established for fraternal, social,
educational, recreational or civic benefits of members, and not primarily
for profit. Access to facilities is typically restricted to members
and their guests.
A development design technique used in planned residential
development that concentrates buildings on a part of the site to allow
the remaining land to be used for recreation, common open space, and
preservation of environmentally sensitive areas.
The placement and arrangement of multiple antenna and equipment
on a single support structure and equipment pad area.
An institute of higher learning that may offer two- or four-year
programs and/or post-graduate programs.
A structure, partially or wholly exterior to a building,
used for transmitting or retransmitting electronic signals through
the air and that does not meet the definition of a "standard antenna."
Commercial communications antennas shall include, but are not limited
to, antennas used for transmitting commercial radio or television
signals, or to receive such signals for a cable system, or to retransmit
wireless telecommunications. A commercial communications tower shall
be a structure over 30 feet in height that is primarily intended to
support one or more antenna. See standards in § 295-55.
This term shall not include a standard antenna.
Any building, premises, and land in which or upon which a
business, service, or industry performs or renders a service involving
the maintenance, servicing, repair, or painting of a commercial motor
vehicle. Commercial motor vehicles are those vehicles that have a
gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) in excess of 16,001 pounds.
An establishment operated by a profit-making corporation,
partnership or other business entity for the pursuit of sports, amusement
and recreational activities, available to the general public for a
fee, where the principal use is conducted entirely within a completely
enclosed building, including, but not limited to such principal uses
as health or racquet and/or swim clubs, fitness centers, roller or
ice rinks, karate schools, gymnasiums, arenas, sports courts or playing
fields, bowling alleys, amusement arcades, virtual reality and simulation
gaming parlors, billiard parlors, shooting ranges, dance halls, live
or motion-picture theaters, but not including any adult business.
An establishment operated by a profit-making corporation,
partnership or other business entity for the pursuit of sports, amusement
and recreational activities, available to the general public for a
fee, where the principal use is outdoors, but which may include accessory
uses that are indoors, including, but not limited to such principal
uses as miniature golf courses, golf or batting practice facilities,
ice rinks, roller blade parks, swimming pools, sports playing fields,
ball parks, stadiums, amphitheaters, drive-in theaters, amusement
parks, racetracks and similar facilities.
A parcel or parcels of land or an area of water, or a combination
of land and water within a development site and designed and intended
for the use or enjoyment of residents of a development, not including
streets, off-street parking areas, and areas set aside for public
facilities.
Any device used for the transmission or reception of radio,
television, wireless telephone, pager, commercial mobile radio service
or any other wireless communications signals, including without limitation
omnidirectional or whip antennas and directional or panel antennas,
owned or operated by any person or entity required to be licensed
by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to operate such device.
This definition shall not include private residence mounted satellite
dishes or television antennas or amateur radio equipment.
A building or other place in which members of a community
may gather for social, educational, or cultural activities.
A charitable organization that solicits and warehouses donated
food and other products. This food is then distributed to a variety
of community agencies which serve people in need.
The Comprehensive Plan of the Borough which guides the physical
development of the Borough and which consists of maps, charts and
textual matter in accordance with the provisions of the Pennsylvania
MPC.
An authorized use which may be granted only by the Borough
Council pursuant to express standards and criteria prescribed in this
chapter, after review and recommendation by the Borough Planning Commission
and hearing by the Borough Council.
Specialized hotel (usually in a less busy but easily accessible
location) designed and built almost exclusively to host conferences,
exhibitions, large meetings, seminars, training sessions, etc. A conference
center often also provides office facilities, and a range of leisure
activities.
Includes construction businesses such as carpentry, electrical,
plumbing, HVAC, etc.
A small market that carries a limited selection of goods
and is open long hours. Convenience stores may sometimes located in
conjunction with a gas station use, but only when the gas station
use is also allowable in the zoning district.
A public building used for the confinement of people convicted
of serious crimes. These people may or may not receive support to
restore their character or name.
The Council members of Charleroi Borough, Washington County,
Pennsylvania.
Washington County, Pennsylvania.
The production of a text, picture, etc., by applying specialized
inked types, plates, blocks, or the like, to paper or other material
either by direct pressure or indirectly by offsetting an image onto
an intermediate roller.
A facility, licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
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.
A unit of measurement of the intensity (loudness) of sound.
Sound level meters which are employed to measure the intensity of
sound are calibrated in decibels.
A freestanding or attached accessory structure to a dwelling
which is constructed of natural or synthetic wood, either on or above
the ground, without a roof or awning, and with flooring that is not
completely impervious and which may include steps or railings.
The number of dwelling units per acre.
Any landowner, agent of such landowner, or tenant with the
permission of such land-owner, who makes or causes to be made a subdivision
of land or a land development.
Any man-made change to an improved or unimproved land or
water area, including, but not limited to: construction of buildings
or structures or additions thereto, mining, dredging, filling, grading,
paving, excavation or drilling operations.
Any land development that, because of its character, magnitude,
or location will have substantial effect upon the health, safety,
or welfare of citizens in more than one municipality.
The provisions for development, including a planned residential
development, a plat of subdivision, all covenants relating to use,
location and bulk of buildings and other structures, designated growth
area where residential, commercial industrial and institutional uses
and development are permitted or planned at varying densities and
public infrastructure services may or may not be provided, but future
development at greater densities is planned to accompany the orderly
extension an provision of public infrastructure services.
An establishment for distilling, especially for distilling
alcoholic liquors.
Buildings at a school or institution, containing a number
of private or semiprivate rooms for residents, along with common bathroom
facilities and recreation areas.
The area of surface operations surrounding the surface location
of a well or wells.
A restaurant with or without a drive-through, where the food
is primarily brought to and consumed within a patron's vehicle.
An outdoor seating area may be provided.
A structure consisting of a large outdoor screen, a projection
booth and a large parking area for automobiles. Within this enclosed
area, customers can view movies from the privacy and comfort of their
cars.
Drive-through facilities shall be considered principal uses
which are attached to another authorized principal use which involves
a window, service lane, bay, or other facility where customers are
provided services either inside or outside their vehicles and where
cars may or may not wait in line to access these services, including,
but not limited to: drive-in or drive-through windows at fast-food
restaurants, banks, drug stores or other businesses, exterior automated
teller machines (ATMs), quick oil-change facilities, car washes and
similar automotive services and other such facilities.
A private area which provides vehicular access to a parking
space, garage, dwelling or other structure.
A retail store where prescription medicines and miscellaneous
articles are sold.
A cleaning process for clothing and textiles using water
and/or a chemical solvent other than water.
A building that contains dwelling units, intended or designed
to be used, rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied for living
purposes.
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ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT — A dwelling unit that is either
attached to the principal permitted building or to a permitted accessory
building on a lot that serves as a mother-in-law. Accessory dwellings
are only permitted in conjunction with owner occupied properties.
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APARTMENT — A multifamily residential building comprised
of dwelling units. Individual apartments may also appear on the second
floor (above retail) and above in the Central Business District.
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CONVERSION DWELLING — A dwelling unit or units created
from a larger existing residential dwelling, whether entirely from
the existing structure or by building additions or combinations thereof.
Conversion dwellings involve the creation of additional dwelling units
in a structure from existing dwellings, not initially intended or
designed when the dwelling was initially constructed. Conversion dwellings
are primarily intended to serve as rental units and are defined separately
from accessory dwellings units or mother-in-law suites, which are
primarily intended to house family members.
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DUPLEX — A detached house designed for and occupied exclusively
as not more than two units, each living as an independent housekeeping
unit and with no internal connectivity between units.
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MULTIFAMILY — A residential building designed exclusively
for occupancy by three or more families living independently of each
other and containing three or more separate dwelling units but not
including single-family, duplex, townhouse or quadruplex dwellings.
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QUADRUPLEX — A residential building, other than a townhouse
or garden apartment, containing only four dwelling units in one structure,
each of which has two walls exposed to the outside and each unit shares
two common walls with adjoining units which are placed at right angles
to one another, rather than in a row, and which units have no other
units above or below which share common floors/ceilings.
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ROW HOUSE — See "townhouse."
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SINGLE FAMILY — A detached residential building that is
the only principal structure on the lot, designed exclusively for
occupancy by one family, as defined herein, and containing one dwelling
unit.
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TOWNHOUSE — A single-family dwelling unit constructed
in a group of not less than three but not more than six attached units
in which each unit share no more than one common wall that extends
from the foundation to the roof.
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A single unit providing complete, independent living facilities
for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living,
sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation.
A structure, part of a structure, or structures designed
and used for training and teaching of children, youths or adults,
including laboratories appurtenant thereto.
A facility that generates electricity by means of geothermal
power, burning of coal, oil, or gas, or by hydropower. Accessory generators
for hospitals, schools, and other similar uses shall not be considered
a power generation facility.
A centralized location to support multi-agency and/or multijurisdiction
disaster response coordination and communication.
A facility, including rescue missions, for persons seeking
temporary voluntary shelter for a duration not to exceed 60 days.
A notice as provided in § 616.1 of the MPC, 53
P.S. § 10616.1, sent by the Borough to the owner or occupant
of record of a parcel on which a violation of this chapter has occurred,
to any person who has filed a written request to receive enforcement
notices regarding that parcel, and to any other person requested in
writing by the owner or occupant of record, the purpose of which is
to initiate enforcement proceedings.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency or any
agency successor thereto.
A person who, for consideration, agrees, or offers to act
as a companion, guide, or date for another person, or who agrees or
offers to privately model lingerie or to privately perform a striptease
for another person.
A person or business association who furnishes, offers to
furnish, or advertises to furnish escorts as one of its primary businesses
for a fee, tip, or other consideration.
The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance of
underground or overhead gas, electrical, steam or water transmission
or distribution systems, including poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers,
pipes, conduit cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic
signals, hydrants, street signs, cable television or other telecommunications
transmission lines provided by public or private entities, and other
similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith, reasonably
necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by such public utilities
or municipal or other governmental agencies or for the public health
or safety or general welfare.
A facility that provides a location for a planned occasion
or activity such as a wedding, reunion, graduation, or other social
gathering. Event halls, when authorized, may sometimes include a catering
use.
A hotel or motel with accommodations for sleeping along with
in-unit full kitchen and bathroom facilities. Occupancy of any extended
stay unit shall be allowed for more than 30 days as long as the units
comply with all residential building and fire codes.
An individual; two or more persons related by blood, marriage
or adoption; or not more than three unrelated persons living as a
single housekeeping unit. A family may also include domestic servants
and gratuitous guests. The foregoing restrictions do not apply to
persons with disabilities as defined in the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C.
§ 3601 et seq.
The premises in which care is provided pursuant to approval
of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, for children under
the age of 16 who are unrelated by blood or marriage to all owners
of the premises and to all owners and operators of the family child
day-care home operation being conducted on the premises. Provided,
further, that the premises wherein the family child day-care home
operation or business is located must be the full-time bona fide residence
of the owner of said operation or business and said premises must
be in compliance with all applicable provisions and requirements of
the most recent editions of the Building Code, Residential Code and
Fire Code, as adopted by the Borough of Charleroi, and the rules and
regulations of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare relating
to family child day-care homes, and any other applicable law, ordinance
or regulation.
A retail establishment at which fruits, vegetables, breads,
eggs, milk, cheese, meat, flowers, and the like are sold by persons
who typically grow, harvest, or process such items from their farm
or agricultural operation.
Banks, savings and loan associations and similar institutions
that lend money or are engaged in a finance-related business.
A building in which firefighting apparatus and usually fire
department personnel are housed.
A business that sells used merchandise, other than automobiles,
logging equipment, or other agricultural equipment, and stores or
displays the merchandise outdoors.
Areas adjoining any rivers, streams, ponds or lakes subject
to the one-hundred-year-recurrence-interval flood as delineated by
the United States Army Corps of Engineers or subject to erosion caused
by a one-hundred-year-recurrence interval flood, as well as any areas
identified in the future by anyone else expert and experienced in
the preparation of hydrological studies and the determination of flood
lines subject to the review and approval of a professional engineer
selected by the Borough.
The sum of all the horizontal floor areas of a building,
measured between exterior faces of walls.
The total floor area of a building designed for tenant occupancy,
or areas accessible to the customers, clients or general public, but
excluding storage areas, equipment rooms, food preparation areas in
a restaurant and common areas such as halls, corridors, stairwells,
elevator shafts, rest rooms, interior vehicular parking and loading
areas and similar common areas, expressed in square feet and measured
from the center line of joint partitions and exteriors of outside
walls.
The process of establishing, managing forests, including
the process, work or business of cutting down trees, and transporting
logs to sawmills.
A building used for the embalming of deceased human beings
for burial and for the display of the deceased and ceremonies connected
therewith before burial or cremation and which may include a crematorium
as an accessory use.
An accessory building or a portion of the principal building,
not accessible to the general public and designed or used for shelter
or storage of private vehicles and personal property of the occupants
of the principal building and that may include the shelter or storage
of no more than one private vehicle owned and used by others.
A building or structure available to the general public in
which motor vehicles are temporarily stored but which is not used
for the repair or maintenance thereof.
A building, site or structure used for the sale of flowers,
plants, shrubs, trees and other natural flora and associated products.
A building(s), premises or portions thereof which are used,
arranged, designed, or intended to be used for the retail sale of
gasoline or other fuel for motor vehicles. Gas stations may include
the operation of a convenience food store in conjunction with the
retail sale of petroleum products. Gas stations may sometimes also
be located with an automobile repair and service use, but only when
the automobile repair and service use is also allowable in the zoning
district.
A freestanding roofed structure usually open on the sides.
A hole drilled or bored into the earth into which piping
is inserted for use in a closed vertical loop geothermal system.
An energy generating system that uses the earth's thermal
properties in conjunction with electricity to provide greater efficiency
in the heating and cooling of buildings.
Any golf course, publicly or privately owned, on which the
game of golf is played, including accessory uses and buildings customary
thereto, but excluding golf driving ranges as defined herein.
A limited area on which golf players do not walk, but onto
which they drive golf balls from a central driving tee.
A structure for storing bulk materials such as grain or fermented
feed known as silage. Other items often used for bulk storage include
coal, green feeds and woodchips.
A retail business that sells flowers, plants, shrubs, trees
and other natural flora and products that aid their growth and care
and that may include a greenhouse and/or the growing of plant material
outside on the lot.
The sum of all gross horizontal areas of several floors of
a building or buildings, measured from the exterior faces of exterior
walls or from the center line of common walls separating buildings.
This includes stairwells, restrooms, lobby areas, floor space for
mechanical equipment and all other common areas and basements.
A facility which provides room and board and specialized services
for:
More than eight residents who are mentally or physically handicapped;
Any number of permanent residents who are dependent and/or delinquent
children under the age of 18 adjudicated by the court system;
Mentally disturbed persons of any age; or
Persons assigned by a court of law or public or semipublic agency
on a short-term basis for supervision, care and counseling for a specified
period of time, including alcoholic recovery, shelters for battered
persons and their children, community reentry services following incarceration
and other such transitional and/or supervised short-term assignments.
Staff shall be qualified by the sponsoring agency, who may or
may not reside at the facility, 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.
A dwelling unit where room and board is provided to not more
than eight permanent residents who are mentally or physically handicapped
persons of any age, who are in need of supervision and specialized
services, and no more than two caretakers 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 service 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.
A group home does not include persons assigned by a court of law or
public or semipublic agency on a short-term basis for supervision,
care and counseling for a specified period of time, including alcoholic
recovery, shelters for battered persons and their children, community
re-entry services following incarceration and other such transitional
and/or supervised short-term assignments.
A place where hatching of fish or poultry eggs is artificially
controlled for commercial purposes.
A structure where hazardous waste is collected for recycling
purposes.
An administrative proceeding conducted by a board pursuant
to Section 909.1 of the MPC.
For structures other than buildings, or signs, the vertical
distance measured from the average elevation of the finished grade
around the structure to the highest point on the structure.
The vertical distance measured from the average elevation
of the proposed finished grade of the building to the eaves. For the
purpose of determining maximum permitted height for principal buildings,
such measurement shall be made from the average finished grade at
the front setback. For the purpose of side or rear yard determination,
such measurement shall be made from the average finished grade of
the wall extending along such side yard or rear yard.
Any area of land, water or structure which is used or intended
to be used for the landing and takeoff of helicopters and any appurtenant
areas which are used for heliport buildings or helicopter facilities
or rights-of-way, together with all heliport buildings and facilities
thereon.
Any structure that is:
Listed individually in the National Register of Historic Places
or preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the Interior as meeting
the requirements for individual listing on the National Registry;
Certified or preliminary determined by the Secretary of the
Interior as contributing to the historical significance of a registered
Historic District or a district preliminarily determined by the Secretary
to quality as a registered Historic District;
Individually listed on a state inventory of historic places
in states with historic preservation programs that have been approved
by the Secretary of the Interior; or
Individually listed on a local inventory of historic places
in communities with historic preservation programs that have been
certified either:
The entire twenty-four-hour period of the days of New Year's
Day (January 1), Good Friday, Election Day (both primary and general
elections), Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and
Christmas Day.
Any use customarily carried on entirely within a dwelling,
by the occupant thereof, which use is clearly incidental and subordinate
to the use of the dwelling. Examples include, but are not limited
to, professional services such as legal, financial, accounting or
engineering, barber and beauty shops, music and tutoring instruction.
Home occupations are limited to two students, customers or clients
at a time and shall not have more than one employee that does not
reside in the home. Home occupation businesses are different than
no-impact home-based businesses. (See definition of "no-impact home-based
business").
An institution providing acute medical or surgical care and
treatment for sick or injured humans, as defined in current state
licensure requirements.
A building containing rooms intended or designed to be used
or that are used, rented, or hired out to be occupied or that are
occupied for sleeping purposes by guests. Hotels have a common reception
area on premises which is staffed 24 hours a day where clients check
in to obtain access to a room.
The process of injecting water, customized fluids, sand,
steam, or gas into a gas well under pressure to improve gas recovery.
The International Ground Source Heat Pump Association.
Any material which prevents the absorption of stormwater
into the ground.
A device used to burn waste substances and in which all the
combustion factors, temperature, retention time, turbulence, and combustion
air can be controlled.
Any premises devoted wholly or in part to the storage, buying
or selling, sorting, exchanging, salvaging, recycling or otherwise
handling or dealing in junk, including automotive wreckage.
A use of land and structures in combination wherein four
or more domestic animals or pets six months or older are bred, trained,
and/or boarded for compensation for more than 12 consecutive hours.
Animal day cares and animal groomers where pets are not on site for
more than 12 consecutive hours shall not be considered a kennel.
A building or part of a building devoted to the testing and
analysis of any product or animal. No manufacturing is conducted on
the premises except for experimental or testing purposes.
Includes any of the following activities:
The improvement of one lot or two or more contiguous lots, tracts
or parcels of land for any purpose involving:
A group of two or more residential or nonresidential buildings,
whether proposed initially or cumulatively, or a single nonresidential
building on a lot or lots regardless of the number of occupants or
tenure; or
The division or allocation of land or space, whether initially
or cumulatively, between or among two or more existing or prospective
occupants by means of, or for the purpose of streets, common areas,
leaseholds, condominiums, building groups or other features.
A subdivision of land.
A disposed site in which refuse and earth, or other suitable
cover material are deposited and compacted in alternative layers as
required by the federal and/or state agency having jurisdiction.
The legal or beneficial owner or owners of land including
the holder of an option or contract to purchase (whether or not such
option or contract is subject to any condition), a lessee if he is
authorized under the lease to exercise the rights of the landowner,
or other person having a proprietary interest in land.
A plan prepared by a design professional identifying each
tree and shrub by size, type and scientific name; the location of
each, including a planting diagram; and such other diagrams or reports
as are necessary to show the method of planting, staking and mulching,
grass seeding specification and mixtures and existing trees to be
preserved, if any.
A center for a set of products is a warehouse or other specialized
building, often with refrigeration or air conditioning, which is stocked
with products (goods) to be redistributed to retailers, to wholesalers,
or directly to consumers. A distribution center is a principal part,
the order processing element, of the entire order fulfillment process.
An establishment with coin-operated washing machines and
dryers for public use.
Refers to uses and structures which were begun or constructed
when the law allowed for them but have since become non-compliant
due to a change in legislation.
A building or room containing collections of books, periodicals,
and sometimes films and recorded music for people to read, borrow,
or refer to.
A corporation or association or other business entity that,
in exchange for the payment of entrance and monthly fees, provides:
Residential accommodations meeting the minimum standards for
residents set forth by law and ordinances and providing a design to
meet the physical, social and psychological needs of older people;
Medical and nursing care covering, under ordinary circumstances,
the balance of a resident's life;
Prepaid medical consultation opportunities through independent
professionals selected by the organization or through some equivalent
arrangement; or
Financial self-sufficiency, not dependent on outside support
to any significant degree, with entrance and monthly fees adjusting
to meet changing costs.
A commercial use, such as a shop, studio, office, cafe, deli,
personal service establishment or other place of business, in combination
with a dwelling unit located above such place of business. A person
or persons other than the proprietor of the business may occupy a
live-work unit.
A place where cattle or hogs are housed.
A space within the main building or on the same lot therewith
providing for the standing, loading, or unloading of vehicles.
A designated parcel, tract or area of land established by
a plat or otherwise as permitted by law and to be used, developed
or built upon as a unit.
The total area of the lot or lots comprising a site, excluding
any areas contained in a public right-of-way.
That percentage of the lot area covered by all principal
structures, accessory structures and impervious surfaces.
A line of record bounding a lot that divides one lot from
another lot or from a public or private street right-of-way or other
public space.
A lot line or lines which separates a lot from a public street
or streets.
That lot line that is generally opposite the front lot line.
Any lot line that is not a front lot line or rear lot line.
A lot at an intersection of two or more streets.
A lot other than a corner lot or through lot.
A lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel
streets and which is not a corner lot.
The line distance between the point of intersection of the
minimum required building setback line with the side lot lines as
measured along the front setback line.
A place that sells lumber and other building materials, usually
outdoors.
A court having limited jurisdiction over civil and criminal
matters, and matters of contracts not exceeding a particular threshold.
A public street which serves large volumes of high speed
and long distance traffic.
The sale of a structure, transportable in one or more sections,
and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent
foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes
the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning and electrical systems contained
therein. For mobile homes built prior to June 15, 1976, a label certifying
compliance to the Standard for Mobile Homes, NFPA 501, in effect at
the time of manufacture is required. For the purpose of these provisions,
a mobile home shall be considered a manufactured home.
The location where materials are processed and where the
process of making wares by hand, by machinery or by other agency,
often with the provision of labor and the use of machinery takes place.
Manufacturing, including the production, processing, cleaning
testing and distribution of materials, goods, foodstuffs and products,
for which, due to the nature of the materials, equipment or process
utilized, the manufacturing operation is considered to be unclean,
noisy, hazardous or is associated with other objectionable elements.
Manufacturing, including the production, processing, cleaning,
testing and distribution of materials, goods, foodstuffs and products,
which, by the nature of the materials, equipment and process utilized,
is to a considerable measure clean, quiet, and free of any objectionable
or hazardous elements.
Any establishment or business which provides the services
of massage and body manipulation, including exercises, heat and light
treatments of the body, and all forms of physiotherapy, unless operated
by a medical practitioner, chiropractor, or professional physical
therapist licensed by the State of Pennsylvania. This definition does
not include an athletic club, school, gymnasium, reducing salon, spa,
or similar establishment where massage or similar manipulation of
the human body is offered as an identical or accessory service. A
massage establishment may not include any aspects of adult entertainment
or an adult-oriented establishment, as either are elsewhere defined
and regulated in this chapter.
A voluntary negotiating process in which parties in a dispute
mutually select a neutral mediator to assist them in jointly exploring
and settling their differences, culminating in a written agreement
which the parties themselves create and consider acceptable.
A place where medical or dental diagnosis, evaluation, and
treatment is prescribed or provided.
Is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological
materials from the earth from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, or reef,
which forms the mineralized package of economic interest to the miner.
A facility licensed by the Department of Health to use the
drug methadone in the treatment, maintenance, or detoxification of
persons.
A small, usually independent brewery that produces limited
quantities of specialized beers. A microbrewery provides for the retail
sales of the beer at the location where it is produced. A microbrewery
may also include tasting a room and restaurant in conjunction with
the use.
A small, often boutique-style distillery established to produce
beverage grade spirit alcohol in relatively small quantities, usually
done in single or small batches. A microdistillery provides for the
retail sales of the distilled beverage at the location where beverages
are distilled. A microdistillery may also include a tasting room and
restaurant in conjunction with the use.
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.
A storage enterprise dealing with the reception of goods
of residential or commercial orientation that lie dormant over extended
periods of time. Separate storage units are rented to individual customers
who are entitled to exclusive and independent access to their respective
units.
The conduct of two or more principal uses within one principal
building, or one lot or site.
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.
A parcel of land in a mobile home park, improved with the
necessary utility connections and other appurtenances necessary for
the erections thereon of a single mobile home.
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.
A building or group of detached, semidetached, or attached
buildings on a lot containing guest dwellings, each of which has a
separate outside entrance leading directly to rooms, with a garage
or parking space conveniently located with each unit, and which is
designed, used, or intended to be used primarily for the accommodation
of automobile transients. Boardinghouses shall not be considered a
motel.
A venue, usually a building, for viewing motion pictures
("movies" or "films").
A body politic and corporate created pursuant to the act
of May 2, 1945 (P.L. 382, No. 164), known as the "Municipality Authorities
Act of 1945."
A building occupied by the principal offices and departments
of Charleroi Borough.
Act of 1968, P.L. 805, No. 247, as reenacted and amended
(53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.).
A compressor engine facility designed and constructed to
compress natural gas that originates from an oil and gas well or collection
of such wells for continued delivery of oil and gas to a transmission
pipeline, distribution pipeline, processing facility, or storage facility
or field.
A facility designed and constructed to remove materials such
as ethane, propane, butane, and other constituents or similar substances
from natural gas to allow such 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 is designed
and constructed primarily to remove water, water vapor, oil or naturally
occurring liquids from the natural gas.
An establishment primarily for evening, late-night to early
morning entertainment, that typically serves food and/or alcoholic
beverages, and may provide either live or prerecorded music or video,
comedy acts, floor shows, with or without the opportunity for dancing.
A nightclub may not include any aspects of adult entertainment or
an adult-oriented establishment, as either are elsewhere defined and
regulated in this chapter.
A business or commercial activity administered or conducted
as an accessory use which is clearly secondary to the use as a residential
dwelling and which involves no customer, client or patient traffic,
whether vehicular or pedestrian, pickup, delivery or removal functions
to or from the premises, in excess of those normally associated with
residential use. The business or commercial activity must satisfy
the following requirements:
The business activity shall be compatible with the residential
use of the property and surrounding residential uses.
The business shall employ no employees other than family members
residing in the dwelling.
There shall be no display or sale of retail goods and no stockpiling
or inventory of a substantial nature.
There shall be no outside appearance of a business use, including,
but not limited to, parking, signs or lights.
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.
The business activity may not generate any solid waste or sewage
discharge, in volume or type, which is not normally associated with
residential use in the neighborhood.
The business activity shall be conducted only within the dwelling
and may not occupy more than 25% of the habitable floor area.
The business may not involve any illegal activity.
No-impact home-based businesses are different than home occupation
businesses (See definition of "home occupation business").
Any lot which does not comply with the applicable area and
bulk provisions of this chapter or an amendment thereafter enacted,
which lawfully existed prior to the enactment of this chapter or any
subsequent amendment.
A structure or part of a structure that does not comply with
the applicable area and bulk provisions of this chapter or amendment
heretofore or hereafter enacted, where such structure lawfully existed
prior to the enactment of this chapter or an amendment thereto, or
prior to the application of this chapter or amendment to its location
by reason of annexation. Nonconforming signs are included in this
definition.
A use, whether of land or of a structure, that does not comply
with the applicable use provisions in this chapter or amendment heretofore
or hereafter enacted, where such use was lawfully in existence prior
to the enactment of this chapter or an amendment thereto, or prior
to the application of this chapter or amendment to its location by
reason of annexation.
Is the extraction of stone, sand, rock or similar materials
from natural deposits.
A runway having an existing instrument approach procedure
utilizing air navigation facilities with only horizontal guidance,
or area type navigation equipment, for which a straight-in non-precision
instrument approach procedure has been approved or planned.
Any place where a person who appears seminude, in a state
of nudity, or who displays specified anatomical areas and is provided
to be observed, sketched, drawn, painted, sculptured, photographed,
or similarly depicted by other persons who pay money or any form of
consideration. Nude model studio shall not include a proprietant school
licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or a college, junior
college, or university supported entirely or in part by public taxation;
a private college or university which maintains and operates educational
programs in which credits are transferable to a college, junior college,
or university supported entirely or partly by taxation; or in a structure:
That has no sign visible from the exterior of the structure
and no other advertising that indicated a nude or seminude person
is available for viewing.
Where in order to participate in a class a student must enroll
at least three days in advance of the class.
Where no more than one nude or seminude model is on the premises
at any one time.
Completely without clothing; or the showing of the human
male or female genitals, pubic areas, or buttocks with less than a
fully opaque covering, or the showing of the female breasts with less
than a fully opaque covering of any portion of the nipple, or the
depiction of covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state.
A school designed to provide daytime care or instruction
for two or more children of preschool age.
An institution licensed by the commonwealth for the care
of human patients requiring either skilled nursing or intermediate
nursing care or both levels of care for a period exceeding 24 hours.
The physical possession upon, on or within any lot or structure
for a use.
A permit for the occupancy of a building, structure or lot
indicating compliance with all provisions of this chapter.
Any office of recognized professions, other than medical,
such as lawyers, architects, engineers, real estate brokers, insurance
agents and others who, through training, are qualified to perform
services of a professional nature and other offices used primarily
for accounting, corresponding, research, editing or other administrative
functions, but not including banks or other financial institutions.
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 an oil or gas well.
The well site preparation, construction, drilling, redrilling,
hydraulic fracturing, and/or site restoration associated with an oil
or gas well of any depth; water and other fluid storage, impoundment
and transportation used for such activities; and the installation
and use of all associated equipment, including tanks, meters, and
other equipment and structures whether permanent or temporary; and
the site preparation, construction, installation, maintenance and
repair of oil and gas pipelines and associated equipment and other
equipment and activities associated with the exploration for, production
and transportation of oil and gas. The definition does not include
natural gas compressor stations and natural gas processing plants
or facilities performing the equivalent functions.
A pierced or bored hole drilled or being drilled in the ground
for the purpose of, or to be used for, producing, extracting or injecting
gas, oil, petroleum or another liquid related to oil or gas production
or storage, including brine disposal.
The location where facilities, structures, materials and
equipment whether temporary or permanent, necessary for or incidental
to the preparation, construction, drilling, production or operation
of an oil or gas well.
The drilling site authorized by a permit from the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for the extraction of
oil or gas resources or the drilling site for the production of potable
water supply.
Water is pumped from a water well or other water source into
a heat exchanger located in a surface building. The water drawn from
the earth is then pumped back into the ground through a different
well or in some cases the same well, also known as "re-injection."
Alternatively, the groundwater could be discharged to a surface water
body also known as a "pump and dump." In the heating mode, cooler
water is returned to the earth, and in the cooling mode, warmer water
is returned to the surface water body or well.
A dining area with seats and/or table located outdoors of
a restaurant, cafe, or other food service establishment, and which
is either: located entirely outside the walls of the subject building,
or enclosed on two sides or less by the walls of the building with
or without a solid roof.
A fuel-burning device, also known as an "outdoor wood-fired
boiler," "outdoor wood-fired furnace," and "outdoor wood-burning appliance,"
designed:
To burn clean wood or other fuels specifically tested and listed
for use by the manufacturer;
By the manufacturer specifically for outdoor installation or
installation in structures not normally intended for habitation by
humans or domestic animals (e.g., garages); and
To heat building space and/or water via distribution, typically
through pipes, of a fluid heated in the device, typically water or
a water/antifreeze mixture.
The person or persons having the right of legal title to,
beneficial interest in, or a contractual right to purchase a lot or
parcel.
The drilling of multiple wells from a single location.
A parcel of land integrated within a subdivision or land
development that is dedicated, either publicly or privately, specifically
for use as a park, open space and/or active recreation area.
A facility designed for patrons to park their private vehicle
and transfer to other private or public transportation.
An area used for the parking of motor vehicles.
Any lot, parcel, or yard used in whole or in part for the
storage or parking of two or more vehicles where such usage is not
incidental to or in conjunction with a single-family or two-family
dwelling.
An area or structure area used exclusively for the temporary
storage of motor vehicles.
A structure accessory to a dwelling constructed on the ground
from impervious material such as concrete, stones, bricks, blocks
or other paving material and which may or may not have a roof or awning.
A pawnbroker's shop, especially one where unredeemed
items are sold to the public.
A dwelling or institution licensed by the commonwealth where
room and board is provided to more than three permanent residents
who are not relatives of the operator, and who are mobile or semi-mobile
and require specialized services for a period exceeding 24 consecutive
hours in such matters as bathing, dressing, diet and medication prescribed
for self-administration, but who are not in need of hospitalization
or skilled nursing or intermediate nursing care.
Any enterprise providing services pertaining to the person,
their apparel or personal effects commonly carried on or about the
person, including, but not limited to, shoe repair, tailoring, clothes
cleaning, watch repairing, barbershops, beauty parlors and related
activities.
An outdoor hydronic heater that has been certified or qualified
by the EPA as meeting a particulate matter emission limit of 0.32
pounds per million British Thermal Units (BTU) output and is labeled
accordingly, with a white hang tag.
A semipublic use, including any of the following: church,
manse, rectory, convent, synagogue, parish, school or similar building
incidental to the particular use; but this term does not include business
offices, except administrative offices incidental to the operation
of the particular use, rescue missions or the occasional use for religious
purposes of properties not regularly so used.
An area of land controlled by a landowner to be developed
as a single entity for a number of dwelling units, or combination
of residential and nonresidential uses, the development plan for which
does not correspond in lot size, bulk, type of dwelling, or use, density,
or intensity, lot coverage and required open space to the regulations
established in any one district created, from one time to time, under
the provisions of a municipal zoning ordinance.
The Planning Commission of Charleroi Borough.
The map or plan of a subdivision or land development, whether
preliminary or final.
Any antenna used for the transmission or reception of any
radio wave or radio signal, which is to be mounted upon a preexisting
steel or metal electrical transmission tower owned or operated by
a public utility.
The office or headquarters of a local police force.
A roofed or uncovered accessory structure without enclosing
walls that is attached to or part of the principal building and which
has direct access to and from the principal building.
A building or room where postage stamps are sold and other
postal business is conducted.
Large industrial areas where metals or chemicals are processed
for various reasons.
A licensed professional engineer registered by the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
Uses operated by the public or semipublic body such as schools,
public libraries, public safety buildings, museums, public meeting
halls and community centers. This definition shall not include hospitals
and continuing care facilities.
A formal meeting held pursuant to public notice by the governing
body or planning agency, intended to inform and obtain public comment,
prior to taking action in accordance with this act.
All roads, streets, walkways, sidewalks, gutters, curbs,
sewers, waterlines, stormwater management facilities, landscaping,
street lighting, traffic control devices and other facilities to be
dedicated to or maintained by the Borough.
A forum held pursuant to notice under 65 Pa. C.S. CH. 7 (Relating
to open meetings).
A notice published once each week for two successive weeks
in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality. Such notice
shall state the time and place of the hearing and the particular nature
of the matter to be considered at the hearing. The first publication
shall not be more than 30 days and the second publication shall not
be less than seven days from the date of the hearing.
The removal and/or the cutting of stone from a quarry.
A piece of equipment that relays radio or television signals.
A series of buildings, with or without an open yard, with
a permanent road laid with rails, commonly in one or more pairs of
continuous lines forming a track or tracks, on which locomotives and
cars are kept for maintenance and/or storage.
An environment to allow for the capture, manipulation and
mastering of an auditory product.
A single-axle or multiple-axle structure 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 automotive 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, snow mobiles, jet skis, wave runners, motorcycles and all-terrain
vehicles.
A business that is:
Primarily engaged in converting ferrous or nonferrous metals
or other materials into raw material products having prepared grades
and having an existing or potential economic value; or
Using raw material products of that kind in the production of
new products; or obtaining or storing ferrous or nonferrous metals.
A planning agency that is comprised of representatives of
more than one county. Regional planning responsibilities shall include
providing technical assistance to counties and municipalities, mediating
conflicts across county lines and reviewing county comprehensive plans
for consistency with one another.
Any method, process or substance whose supply is rejuvenated
through natural processes and, subject to those natural processes,
remains relatively constant, including, but not limited to, biomass
conversion, geothermal energy, solar and wind energy and hydroelectric
energy and excluding those sources of energy used in the fission and
fusion processes.
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.
An establishment designed and operated for the express purpose
of providing food and beverage service within the confines of a structure
and generally excluding any encouragement, orientation or accommodation
of services or products to the patrons' automobiles, on or within
the premises.
A fast-food restaurant characterized by a limited menu and
catering to drive-through traffic.
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 manufacturing or processing
of any product or any wholesale sales.
A multi-residence housing facility intended for senior citizens.
Typically each person or couple in the home has an apartment-style
room or suite of rooms.
An automated mechanical device for the redemption of recyclable
beverage containers which accepts empty recyclable beverage containers
and may issue credit. Reverse vending machines include machines that
sort and process containers mechanically, provided that the entire
process is enclosed within the machine.
Land reserved or dedicated for use as a street, crosswalk
or other means of travel, or other public or private purposes, including
existing and future rights-of-way.
See boarding house.
A structure used to house salt used to treat public and/or
private roadways.
Any public, private or parochial place of instruction, not
including institutions of higher learning, having regular sessions,
with regularly employed instructors, which teaches those academic
subjects that are fundamental and essential in general education and
which provide pre-primary and/or kindergarten through 12th grade,
or a vocational school, all meeting the requirements of the Department
of Education of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, but excluding any
privately operated school of trades, vocations, avocations or business.
The state of dress in which clothing partially or non-opaquely
covers specified anatomical areas.
A facility designed to receive the wastewater from domestic
sources and to remove materials that damage water quality and threaten
public health and safety when discharged into receiving streams or
bodies of water.
Shall be defined as: acts of masturbation, homosexuality,
sexual intercourse, or physical contact with a person's clothed
or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or if such person is
female, breast; the condition of human or female genitals when in
a state of sexual stimulation or arousal; and/or flagellation or torture
by or upon a person in undergarments, a mask or bizarre costume, or
the condition of being fettered, bound, or otherwise physically restrained
on the part of one so clothed.
A business or commercial enterprise that, as one of its principal
business purposes, offers for any form of consideration:
An adult arcade, adult bookstore, adult novelty store, adult
video store, adult cabaret, adult motion-picture theater, adult theater,
escort agency, nude model studio, or sexual encounter center.
A simple roofed structure, typically made of wood or metal,
used as a storage space.
One or more retail store(s) and other authorized uses in
the zoning district in which it is an authorized use, developed as
a single entity on a site, whether developed at one time or in phases
or by different owners.
A location other than a hotel or motel where lodging is provided
for compensation generally for less than 30 days. Rentals are generally
facilitated by an online tool that allows for peer-to-peer lodging
options where the lodging facilities are generally owned by private
individuals. This use include rentals commonly called by industry
names including but not limited to Airbnb, HomeAway, Flip Key, VRBO,
WorldEscape, Uproost, etc.
The original tract of land which exists prior to any subdivision
or land development activity and which is the subject of a preliminary
or final application for development.
An inpatient healthcare facility with the staff and equipment
to provide skilled care, rehabilitation and other related health services
to patients who need nursing care, but do not require hospitalization.
A solar photovoltaic cell, panel, or array, or solar hot
air or water collector device, which relies upon solar radiation as
an energy source for collection, inversion, storage, and distribution
of solar energy for electricity generation or transfer of stored heat.
An area of land or other area used for a solar collection
system principally used to capture solar energy and convert it to
electrical energy. Large solar energy production facilities consist
of one or more free-standing ground, or roof-mounted solar collector
devices, solar-related equipment and other accessory structures and
buildings including light reflectors, concentrators, and heat exchangers,
substations, electrical infrastructure, transmission lines and other
appurtenant structures and facilities. A facility is considered a
large solar energy production facility if it supplies electrical or
thermal power solely for off-site use.
A solar collection system consisting of one or more roof
and/or ground mounted solar collector devices and solar related equipment,
and is intended to primarily reduce on-site consumption of utility
power. A system is considered a small solar energy system only if
it supplies electrical or thermal power solely for on-site use, except
that when a property upon which the facility is installed also receives
electrical power supplied by a utility company, excess electrical
power generated and not presently needed for on-site use may be used
by the utility company.
Items including a solar photovoltaic cell, panel, or array,
or solar hot air or water collector device panels, lines, pumps, batteries,
mounting brackets, framing and possibly foundations used for or intended
to be used for collection of solar energy.
A solid waste facility for the controlled burning of large
quantities of solid waste at high temperatures under carefully regulated
conditions.
All continuous land and structures, other appurtenances,
and improvements on the land, used for processing, storing, or disposing
of solid waste, or used for the purpose of processing, extracting,
converting, or recovering energy or materials from solid waste. A
facility may be publicly or privately owned and may consist of several
processing, storage, or disposal operational units.
A disposed site in which refuse and earth, or other suitable
cover material are deposited and compacted in alternative layers as
required by the federal and/or state agency having jurisdiction.
Land or structures where solid waste is received and temporarily
stored at a location other than the site where it was generated and
which facilitates the bulk transfer of accumulated solid waste to
a facility for further processing or disposal. Such facility may or
may not involve the separation of recyclables from solid waste. Such
facility shall not include a junkyard, leaf composting, clean fill,
sewage, or sludge application.
The intensity of sound, measured in decibels, produced by
the operation of a permitted use.
An instrument standardized by the American Standards Association
for measurement of intensity of sound.
Any fixed equipment or facility which is used in connection
with, or as part of any process or system for industry.
Human genitals, pubic region, anus, buttocks, female breast(s)
below a point immediately above the top of the areola, or human male
genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely covered.
Any of the following offenses:
Prostitution or promotion of prostitution; dissemination of
obscenity; sale, distribution or display of harmful material to a
minor; sexual performance by a child; possession or distribution of
child pornography; public lewdness; indecent exposure; indecency with
a child; engaging in organized criminal activity; sexual assault;
molestation of a child; gambling; or distribution of a controlled
substance; or any similar offenses to those described above under
the criminal or penal code of other states or countries.
For which:
Less than two years have elapsed since the date of conviction
or the date of release from confinement imposed for the conviction,
whichever is the later date, if the conviction is of a misdemeanor
offense.
Less than five years have elapsed since the date of conviction
or the date of release from confinement for the conviction, whichever
is the later date, if the conviction is of a felony offense.
Less than five years have elapsed since the date of the last
conviction or the date of release from confinement for the last conviction,
whichever is the later date, if the convictions are of two or more
misdemeanor offenses or combination of misdemeanor offenses occurring
within any twenty-four-month period.
The fact that a conviction is being appealed shall have no effect
on the disqualification of the applicant or a person residing with
the applicant.
Includes any of the following:
The keeping of horses and/or ponies for personal use and
enjoyment of the residents of the lot, not involving any profit-making
activity.
Any vertical structure enclosing a flue(s) that carry off
smoke or exhaust from a furnace or other fuel-burning device, especially
that part of a structure extending above a roof.
Land area where the inclination of the land's surface
from the horizontal plane is 15% or greater. Man-made slopes shall
not be considered steep slopes.
A space for storing goods.
Refers to the provision of surge volume to attenuate the
run-off peak prior to discharge to some off-site point.
Refers to the collection of stormwater, with no discharge
point. Water is collected and then is allowed to percolate into the
ground or evaporate.
That portion of a building between the surface of any finished
floor and the surface of the finished floor next above it or, if there
shall be no floor above it, then the space between any floor and the
ceiling next above it. In determining the number of stories for purposes
of height measurement, a basement shall be counted as a story if the
ceiling is more than five feet above the average adjoining ground
level at the front setback, and a mezzanine shall be counted as a
story if it covers 50% or more of the area of the story underneath
such mezzanine. An attic or a cellar shall not be counted as a story.
Any public or private recorded right-of-way used or intended
to be used by vehicular traffic and pedestrians, including avenue,
boulevard, road, highway, freeway, parkway, lane, alley, thoroughfare
or viaduct.
A public street that serves large volumes of high-speed and
long-distance traffic.
A public street that, 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 streets.
Any public street not defined herein as an arterial or a
collector street.
A street, including the entire private right-of-way, that
is privately owned and maintained and that is intended for private,
rather than public, use.
A public right-of-way dedicated and open for public use that
has been adopted by the Borough, county, commonwealth or other governmental
body.
Any man-made object having an ascertainable stationary location
on or in land or water, whether or not affixed to the land.
The division or redivision of a lot, tract or parcel of land
by any means into two or more lots, tracts, parcels or other divisions
of land including changes in existing lot lines for the purpose, whether
immediate or future, of lease, partition by the court for distribution
to heirs or devisees, transfer of ownership or building or lot development;
provided, however, that the subdivision by lease of land for agricultural
purposes into parcels of more than 10 acres, not involving any new
street or easement of access or any residential dwelling, shall be
exempted.
An ordinance whose purpose is to regulate all subdivision,
consolidation and development activities in the borough by providing
for a uniform method for the submission of preliminary and final plats
to ensure the proper layout or arrangement of land; the proper design
of streets to accommodate projected traffic and to facilitate fire
protection; the provision of adequate easements or rights-of-way,
gutters, storm and sanitary drainage facilities, walkways, stormwater
management and other required facilities; and the proper design of
land developments in accordance with the requirements of this chapter.
All references to the Charleroi Borough Subdivision and Land Development
Ordinance are actually references to the Washington County Subdivision
and Land Development Ordinance, which was adopted by Charleroi Borough.
A man-made enclosure, designed to impound water for the purpose
of creating depth of water suitable for swimming, or other types of
water recreation or therapy, including, but not limited to, water
slides, lap pools, whirlpools, soaking tubs, or hot tubs.
An area used exclusively for storing petroleum in large tanks.
An establishment in which tattooing is carried out professionally.
Any use in which the primary purpose is the sale of alcoholic
beverages for on-premises consumption, which may or may not include
dancing. Taverns may include prepared food sales but such prepared
foods are typically accessory or incidental to the primary purpose
as a tavern.
A fee-based service regulated by the Public Utility Commission
(PUC) that provides a vehicle and a driver from one point to another.
Includes every person that directly or indirectly owns, controls,
operates or manages, plant, equipment or property within the Borough,
used or to be used for the purpose of offering or providing telecommunications
services.
Any person providing fiber optics communications system service,
telecommunications service, or open video system service in the Borough.
The plant, equipment and property, including, but not limited
to, cables wires, conduits, ducts, pedestals, antennas, towers, electronics,
and other appurtenances used or to be used to transmit, receive, distribute,
provide or offer fiber optics communication system service, telecommunications
services, or open video system service.
Includes every person who provides telecommunications service
over, through, and by means of telecommunications facilities without
having any ownership, management or control of the facilities.
Any transmission of interactive switched and non-switched
signs signals, writing, images, sounds, messages, data or other information
of any nature by wire, radio light wave, or any other electromagnetic
means (including access services), which originate or terminate in
the Borough and are offered to or for the public, or some portion
thereof for compensation.
A structure, including any guy wires principally intended
to support facilities for receipt or transmission of broadcast for
commercial or public VHF and UHF television, FM radio, two-way radio,
common carriers, cellular telephone, fixed point microwave, low power
television, or AM radio, including accessory equipment related to
telecommunications. Not included are antennas and supportive structures
for private, noncommercial, and amateur purposes, including, but not
limited to, ham radios and citizen band radios.
Any use or structure which may be a principal use on a lot
or accessory to an existing principal use on a lot intended to be
used for less than six consecutive months. Structures intended to
be used for more than six months shall be considered permanent and
shall meet the use and structure requirements for permanent structures.
A personal service engaged in the business of offering the
services of a vehicle wrecker or towing service, whereby disabled
motor vehicles are towed or otherwise removed from the place they
are disabled by use of a wrecker so designed for that purpose by a
truck, automobile or other vehicle so adapted for that purpose.
Includes any of the following:
The sale, lease, or sublease of the business.
The transfer of securities which constitute a controlling interest
in the business, whether by sale, exchange, or similar means.
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.
The attaching of development rights to specified lands which
are desired by a municipality to be kept undeveloped, but permitting
those rights to be transferred from those lands so that the development
potential which they represent may occur on other lands where more
intensive development is deemed to be appropriate.
An intermediate location between a "from" warehouse and a
"to" warehouse for warehouse transfers. Items in a transit warehouse
are in the process of being transferred to a different warehouse (transfer
order) and therefore cannot be picked for other orders during transportation.
The distance measured from the highest point of the wind
turbine rotor plane to the ground level.
Small-scale agricultural activities conducted on a lot or
site in conjunction with an authorized principal use.
Agricultural activities intended primarily for the growing
of crops and in which no livestock, poultry or other farm animals
are kept or raised. Limited agricultural uses are intended to allow
for the growing of agricultural products on vacant lots or properties
as a permissible principal use.
Any purpose for which a building or other structure or a
tract of land may be designed, arranged, intended, maintained or occupied,
or any activity, occupation, business or operation carried on in a
building or other structure or on a tract of land.
A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal
use and located on the same lot as the principal use.
The primary or predominant use to which the property is or
may be devoted, and to which all other uses on the premises are accessory.
A departure from the strict letter of the Zoning chapter
as it applies to specific properties, as authorized by the Zoning
Hearing Board in accordance with the terms of this chapter and the
MPC.
The sale of motor vehicles, boats, and the various equipment
needed to operate and maintain them.
An establishment where animals are examined and treated by
veterinarians and typically stay overnight.
Booths, stalls, partitioned portions of a room, rooms or
other enclosures which are available for viewing:
Films, movies, videos, or visual reproductions of any kind depicting
or describing specified sexual activities or specified anatomical
areas.
Persons who appear in a state of nudity or semi-nudity or who
offer performances or presentations characterized by the exposure
of specified anatomical areas or by specified sexual activities.
A structure primarily used for the storage of goods and materials
which also includes refrigeration and cold storage services.
A structure with machinery for pumping large amounts of water.
A large container or structure for storing large quantities
of water.
The area used for development and production of oil and gas
including buildings and structures and all activities associated with
an oil and gas well after drilling activities are complete.
A wind-driven direct-current generator used for charging
storage batteries.
A device such as a wind charger, wind turbine or windmill
and/or other electric generation facility whose main purpose is to
convert wind power into another form of energy such as electricity
or heat, consisting of one or more wind turbine and other structures
and buildings, including substations, meteorological towers, electrical
infrastructure, transmission lines and other appurtenant structures
and facilities.
An area of land or other area used for a wind energy conversion
system principally used to capture wind energy and convert it to electrical
energy. Large wind energy production facilities consist of one or
more wind turbines, tower, and associated control or conversion electronics
and other accessory structures and buildings including substations,
electrical infrastructure, transmission lines and other appurtenant
structures and facilities. A facility is considered a large wind energy
production facility if it supplies electrical power solely for off-site
use.
A wind energy conversion system consisting of a wind turbine,
tower, and associated control or conversion electronics, and is intended
to primarily reduce on-site consumption of utility power. A system
is considered a small wind energy system only if it supplies electrical
power solely for on-site use, except that when a parcel on which the
system is installed also receives electrical power supplied by a utility
company, excess electrical power generated and not presently needed
for on-site use may be used by the utility company.
A device that converts wind energy into electricity through
the use of a wind turbine generator, and includes the nacelle, rotor,
tower and pad transformer, if any.
A device that runs on the energy generated by a wheel of
adjustable blades or slats rotated by the wind.
The areas extending between a lot line and the face of the
structure of the principal use of the lot. Yards include all areas
between the face of the structure and the lot line.
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YARD, FRONT — A yard extending between side lot lines
across the full lot width from the front lot line to a line parallel
to the front face of the structure of the principal use of the lot
(See Figure 1).
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YARD, REAR — A yard extending between the side lot lines
across the full lot width from the rear lot line to a line parallel
to the rear face of the structure of the principal use of the lot
(See Figure 1).
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YARD, SIDE — A yard extending from the front yard line
to the rear yard line along the side face(s) of the structure of the
principal use of the lot (See Figure 1).
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Figure 1 - Yard Type Illustration
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An area in the Borough in which regulations under this chapter
uniformly apply including overlay districts.
The Zoning Hearing Board of Charleroi Borough, Washington
County, Pennsylvania as defined by and appointed in accordance with
the Pennsylvania MPC, Act 247 of 1968, as amended by Act 170 of 1998
(53 P.S. § 10101 et seq., as may be amended from time to
time).
The Official Map delineating the zoning districts of Charleroi
Borough, Washington County, Pennsylvania, together with all amendments
subsequently adopted.
The designated official or authorized representative appointed
by the Borough Councils whose duty it shall be to administer this
chapter and as identified in Section 614 of the Pennsylvania MPC,
Act 247 of 1968, as amended by Act 170 of 1998 (53 P.S. § 10101
et seq., as may be amended from time to time).
