A.
For the purpose of this chapter, the City of Monessen
is hereby divided into the following zoning districts:
S
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Conservancy District
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R1
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One-Family Residence District
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R2
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Two-Family Residence District
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R3
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Multiple-Family Residence District
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C1
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Neighborhood Shopping District
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C2
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Business District
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M1
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Planned Light Industrial District
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M2
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Heavy Industrial District
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A.
The regulations set by this chapter shall apply uniformly
to each class or kind of structure or land, except as provided for
in this chapter.
B.
No structure or land shall hereafter be erected, used,
constructed, reconstructed or structurally altered and no structure
or part thereof shall hereafter be used or occupied unless it is in
conformity with the regulations herein specified for the use and district
in which it is located.
C.
No yard or lot existing at the time of passage of
this chapter shall be reduced in dimension or area below the minimum
requirements set forth herein. Yards or lots created after the effective
date of this chapter shall meet at least the minimum requirements
established by this chapter.
A.
A map entitled "City of Monessen Zoning Map" accompanies
this chapter and is declared a part of this chapter.[1] At least one copy of an Official Zoning Map which should
bear the adoption date of this chapter and the words "Official Zoning
Map" shall be retained in the City Hall.
[1]
Editor's Note: Said map is on file in the
City offices.
B.
Map changes. Changes to the boundaries and districts
of the Zoning Map shall only be made in conformity with the amendment
procedures specified in the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.
All changes should be noted by date with a brief description of the
nature of the change, either on the map or within an appendix to this
chapter.
The following rules shall apply where uncertainty
exists as to boundaries of any district as shown on the Zoning Map.
A.
District boundary lines are intended to follow or
be parallel to the center line of street rights-of-way, waterways
and railroads and lot lines as they existed on a recorded deed or
plan of record in the County Recorder of Deeds office at the time
of the adoption of this chapter, unless such district boundary lines
are fixed by dimensions or other specific notations as shown on the
Official Zoning Map.
B.
Where a district boundary is not fixed by dimensions
and where it approximately follows lot lines, such boundary shall
be construed to follow such lot lines unless specifically shown otherwise.
C.
The location of a district boundary on unsubdivided
land or where a district boundary divides a lot shall be determined
by the use of the scale appearing on the maps unless the same is indicated
by dimensions.
D.
Where a municipal boundary divides a lot, the minimum
lot area and lot width shall be regulated by the regulations of the
municipality in which the principal use is located, unless otherwise
provided by applicable case law.
A.
Intent. To seek compatible land use patterns across
municipal boundaries.
B.
Where this chapter requires additional setbacks and
the provision of buffer yards when certain uses abut an existing dwelling
or a residential district, the same additional setback and buffer
yard provisions shall be required when these certain uses are proposed
with the City of Monessen if they would abut such an existing dwelling
or primarily residential zoning district that is located in an abutting
municipality.
A.
For the purposes of this § 375-27, the following abbreviations shall have the following meanings:
B.
Unless otherwise provided by law or specifically stated in this chapter, including § 375-6B, any land or structure shall only be used or occupied for a use specifically listed in this chapter as permitted in the zoning district where the land or structure is located.
C.
In the C1 District, no structure shall exceed a gross floor area of 10,000 square feet, except as provided for in § 375-30 of this chapter.
D.
Permitted accessory uses in all districts. An accessory use of a dwelling is only permitted if such use is customarily incidental to the residential use. The following are permitted by right as accessory uses to a lawful principal use in all districts, within the requirements of § 375-31 and all other requirements of this chapter:
E.
Permitted accessory uses to business and institutional
uses. The following are permitted-by-right accessory uses only to
a lawful principal business or institutional uses, provided that all
requirements of this chapter are met:
(1)
Amusement machines, coin or token operated as accessory
uses.
(2)
Food, beverage and toy machines, coin operated.
(3)
Newspaper sales machines, coin operated.
(4)
The following accessory uses, provided that the use
is clearly limited to employees, patients, residents and families
of employees of the use and their occasional invited guests:
F.
Permitted essential services. The following are essential
services that are permitted by right as a principal or as an accessory
use in all districts:
(1)
Essential services exempt from lot area and setback
requirements. The following essential services are not required to
meet the accessory or principal structure setback, lot area or other
lot requirements of this chapter, except that any newly created lots
shall meet the applicable lot requirements if future building or subdivision
of the lot would reasonably be possible for a different use.
(a)
Oil pipelines and natural gas transmission and
distribution lines and accessory compressing stations.
(b)
Electrical transformers as an accessory use
to dwellings.
(c)
Electrical, telephone and streetlight poles.
(d)
Electrical transmission and distribution lines
and meters.
(e)
Shelters and benches for buses that transport
school children or that are owned, operated or financed by a public
transit authority and that do not include off-premises signs.
(f)
Engineered retaining walls that are clearly
necessary to hold back slopes.
(g)
Ramps primarily intended for handicapped access.
(j)
Construction. Temporary storage of vehicles
and materials and construction office trailers that are clearly needed
and being actively used for current construction on the same or an
adjacent lot or within the same subdivision, provided that such items
are removed from the site within 30 days of completion of the portion
of the construction that they relate to. These vehicles and materials
shall only be stored on a lot while the related City construction
permit is actively still in effect.
(2)
Essential services required to comply with lot area and setback requirements. The following are permitted essential services that are required (except within § 375-7) to meet all of the applicable requirements of this chapter:
(a)
Electrical substations and bulk industrial or commercial transformers that are not an accessory use to dwellings. Electric substations involving outdoor structures at least 10 feet in height shall be required to provide evergreen screening within the requirements of § 375-64 on sides that are within 150 feet of a dwelling, undeveloped residentially zoned land or an expressway or an arterial street.[2]
[2]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection F(2)(b), (c) and (d), which
listed certain permitted essential services, was repealed 8-15-2012
by Ord. No. 5-2012.
[1]
Editor's Note: Said table is included at the end of this chapter.
A.
For the purposes of this § 375-28, the following abbreviations shall have the following meanings:
B.
The following requirements shall apply for each respective district, unless a more restrictive requirement is listed for a particular use in §§ 375-30 and 375-31 or elsewhere in this chapter. See also the steep slope regulations of § 375-36 which describe when larger lots are required in areas of 15% or greater slope.
C.
Exemptions to the side yard requirements for building
additions to single-family structures extending into required side
yards in all residential zoning districts. In all residential zoning
districts, an addition to an existing single family residential structure
that has a nonconforming side yard may also extend into the required
side yard, provided that all of the following criteria are met:
[Added 10-15-2003 by Ord. No. 12-2003]
(1)
The addition does not exceed one story in height.
(2)
The addition continues the facade setback line of
the existing structure.
(3)
The addition does not exceed 15 feet in length, measured
parallel to the side property line.
(4)
The total square footage of the addition shall not
exceed 250 square feet in gross area.
(5)
All other yard and setback requirements are met.
[1]
Editor's Note: Said table is included at the end of this chapter.