A.Â
Words used in the present tense shall include the future.
B.Â
Words used in the singular shall include the plural and the plural
shall include the singular.
C.Â
The word "person" includes a corporation as well as an individual.
D.Â
The word "lot" includes the word "plot" or "parcel."
E.Â
The term "shall" is always mandatory.
F.Â
The word "may" is permissive.
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The word "used" or "occupied" as applied to any land or building
shall be construed to include the words "intended, arranged or designed
to be used or occupied."
H.Â
The word "building" includes the word "structure."
I.Â
The word "erected" shall include the word "constructed." The word
"moved" shall include the word "relocated."
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
A building or structure which houses a use subordinate and
incidental to the principal use located on the same lot or premises.
An establishment that provides day-to-day office administrative
services, such as financial planning; billing and recordkeeping; personnel;
and physical distribution and logistics for others on a contract or
fee basis; or any office of recognized professions, such as lawyers,
architects, engineers, real estate brokers, insurance agents, medical
offices, dental offices and others who, through training, are qualified
to perform services of a professional nature, excluding banks and
veterinary clinics.
An establishment, properly licensed by the Department of
Public Welfare or other applicable agencies of the commonwealth, where
services are provided to assist in meeting the needs of consumers,
including personal care, social, nutritional, health and educational
needs, simultaneously provided for four or more adults who are not
relatives of the operator and who are 60 years of age or older or
who have post-stroke dementia, Parkinsonism or a dementia-related
disease such as Alzheimer's or other organic brain syndrome; where
care is provided for periods less than 24 hours.
A narrow service way providing secondary access to all of
the abutting properties on a particular block.
Any antenna structure employed solely for the purposes of
transmitting amateur radio service communications as defined and protected
by Pennsylvania Act 88 of 2008,[1] an act amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of
the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, restricting municipalities
from regulating amateur radio service communications, including all
support structures and excluding buildings.
A structure and necessary auxiliary components designed for
transmitting and/or receiving radio, television, telephone communications
or any other telecommunications system signal which is operated by
an agency or corporation other than a public utility which is regulated
by the Public Utilities Commission or by other federal commission.
The vertical distance measured from the base of the antenna
support structure at grade to the highest point of the structure.
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 tract or parcel of land that contains the antenna, its
support structure, necessary building(s), and parking and may include
other uses associated with and ancillary to the intended use of the
antenna.
Any pole, telescoping mast, tower, tripod, or any other structure
that supports a device used in the transmitting or receiving of radio,
television, telephone communications, or any other telecommunications
system signal agency, including amateur radio antenna structures.
A room, hall or building used for lectures, meetings and
gatherings, other than churches or other uses expressly defined herein.
Any portion of such an establishment where food and drink are regularly
prepared and served to club members, guests, or the public at large
shall be classified as a restaurant.
Sales and leasing of automobiles that do not require a commercial
driver's license (CDL) under Pennsylvania Law.
An establishment used for the preparation of baked goods
for primarily retail sales and which may have incidental wholesale,
for general distribution or consumption off-site.
An establishment primarily engaged in accepting demand and
other deposits and making commercial, industrial, and consumer loans.
That portion or space of a building, the floor of which lies
upon the footer of the structure, extending from the floor to the
ceiling, housed by the foundation walls of the building such that
50% or more of the cumulative area of the foundation walls lies below
the grade of adjacent ground.
The offering of overnight accommodations and food service
for transient guests, for compensation, within the confines of a detached
single-family dwelling structure when conducted as an ancillary use
in association with a normal single-family residential use.
A sign upon which advertising matter of any character is
printed, posted or lettered, which is erected upon a property bearing
no establishment or principal building.
Any sign for general advertising purposes, including any
display by painting, posting or affixing on any surface a picture,
emblem, words, figures, numbers or lettering, except as otherwise
enumerated in this chapter, which is 300 square feet or more in area.
Property abutting on one side of a street and lying between
the two nearest intersecting or intercepting streets or railroad right-of-way,
waterway, unsubdivided area or other definite barrier.
The required location of any building on a building line
relative to and paralleling the lot line adjoining a specified street
measured in the number of feet of a line perpendicular to the lot
line, and measured from the lot line.
A structure having a roof supported by columns or walls,
for housing, shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels or
commercial activities.
The vertical distance measured from the average elevation
of the finish grade at the front of the building to the highest point
of the roof for flat roofs, to the deck line of mansard roofs and
to the mean height between eaves and ridge on hip and gable roofs.
The line of that face of the building nearest or most parallel
to the front line of the lot, or a line parallel to the front line
of lot at the location equal to the depth of the respective front
yard required by this chapter, whichever is greater. This face includes
porches, whether enclosed or not, patios and similar construction,
but excludes steps and sidewalks.
A building designed and constructed so that all exterior
walls shall be solid from the ground to the roof line, containing
no openings except for windows and doors which are designed so that
they may be closed and any other small openings required for the ventilation
system.
A facility, whether automatic, semiautomatic or manual, for
washing and polishing vehicles.
Property used for interring of dead persons or domestic pets,
including mausoleums and columbarium, but not including a crematorium.
A building, together with its accessory buildings and uses,
that is primarily used as a place where persons regularly assemble
for religious worship activities or similar regular exercise of religion.
This term includes similar uses such as synagogue, temple, or mosque.
An area of unobstructed vision at a street intersection defined
by lines of sight between points at a given distance from the intersection
of two street right-of-way lines adjoining a subject parcel.
Engaging in a business, enterprise, activity or other undertaking
related to or connected with trade and traffic or commerce in general.
Any vehicle used in or for, designed for or adapted to use
in a business or trade activity of any kind or any construction, excavating,
earthmoving or similar equipment or any of the following specifically
designated vehicles or motor vehicles as defined in the Pennsylvania
Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 101 et seq.: truck, truck tractor,
trailer, special mobile equipment, bus and school bus; excepting those
vehicles utilized for approved on-site construction or earthmoving
activities.
A use of land to be permitted or denied by the Borough Council,
following study and recommendations by the Planning Commission, pursuant
to express standards and criteria set forth in this chapter.
An establishment containing properly installed and certified
apparatus intended for use in the act of cremation.
A facility in which child day-care services are provided
for seven or more school age, preschool or infant children in an institutional
related structure suitable to such functions.
Any family residence other than a child's relative, operated
for profit or not for profit, in which child day-care is provided
at any one time to four, five or six school-aged children (the date
the child initially enters the first grade of a public or private
school system to 12 years of age), preschoolers (approximately three
years of age to initial school entry at the first grade level of a
public or private school system) or to infants and toddlers (from
birth to approximately three years of age) who are not relatives of
the caregiver.
A building or portion thereof providing complete housekeeping
facilities for one family:
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILYA detached building designed for, or occupied exclusively as, a residence for one family.
DWELLING, DUPLEXA detached building containing two dwelling units that constitute the sole principal uses of the building and which are arranged such that each unit possesses separate exterior entrances and where the stories occupied are arranged adjacent to and not above or below the other dwelling unit.
DWELLING, ROWHOUSE OR TOWNHOUSEA dwelling within a group of units, consisting of a minimum of three, but no more than six, independent single dwelling units, that are attached side by side by common unpierced party walls. This definition shall include those arrangements commonly cited as quads and carriage homes that are arranged as aforesaid.
DWELLING, MULTI OR MULTIPLE-FAMILY, APARTMENTA structure, other than a duplex, rowhouse or townhouse, containing separate dwelling units for families living independently of each other, but which may provide joint services, common access and circulation ways and similar facilities.
Any activity conducted for private gain that is generally
related to the entertainment or recreation field and limited to the
following uses: motion-picture theaters, bowling alleys, roller-skating
rinks, theaters, playhouses, commercial swimming pools, gyms, indoor
miniature golf and playgrounds, indoor courts, fields, or practice
facilities for baseball, basketball, soccer, tennis, and similar sports,
and fitness centers.
The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance by
public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies or authorities,
of underground or overhead gas, electrical, communication, steam or
water transmission, distribution, collection, supply or disposal systems,
including poles, wires, mains, drains, sewer pipes, conduits, cables,
fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants, and
other similar equipment, or structures accessory to the consistent
and efficient delivery of the aforementioned transmissions, fuels,
resources, and products between residential and nonresidential units
and source of production, refinement, or treatment of said items excepting
communications towers and buildings.
Any building that serves as the location for storage, distribution,
maintenance and/or repair of facilities and/or equipment associated
with the operation of an essential service, including pump stations.
A place that comprises an economic unit, generally at a single
physical location, where business is conducted or services or industrial
operations performed.
An individual or two or more persons related by blood, marriage,
adoption or foster child care, including domestic servants or gratuitous
guests thereof; or a group of not more than four unrelated persons
living together without supervision in a dwelling unit; or up to four
persons living together in a group living arrangement with supervision,
provided the group living arrangement meets all of the following criteria:
It provides support services, including supervision, personal
care, social and counseling services and transportation to persons
who need such assistance in order to use and enjoy a dwelling or to
avoid being placed in an institution because of physical disability,
old age, mental retardation or other "handicap" or "disability" as
defined by the Fair Housing Amendments Act or the Americans with Disabilities
Act.[2]
It provides for the joint occupancy of a dwelling where the
residents maintain a common household and practice, on a permanent
or long-term basis, a joint economic, social and cultural life.
It does not involve the housing of persons on a transient basis.
It does not involve the housing or treatment of persons accepted
for residence in the group living arrangement on the basis of their
status as criminal offenders, juvenile offenders or delinquents, who
would otherwise qualify for residence by virtue of having been found
by any governmental tribunal, court or agency to be a danger to society
or are on release or under the jurisdiction of the criminal justice
system, a government bureau of corrections or similar institution.
A structure, partition, wall or other objects other than
living vegetation, intended or utilized to circumscribe, designate,
delineate, define or in some manner enclose an area or some feature
or element thereon.
The management of forests and timberlands when practiced
in accordance with accepted silvicultural principles, through developing,
cultivating, harvesting, transporting and selling trees for commercial
purposes, which does not involve any land development.
An establishment devoted to or used in the care and preparation
for the funeral and burial of dead human bodies and maintained for
the convenience of the bereaved for viewing or other services in connection
with dead human bodies and as an office or place for carrying on the
profession of funeral directing, excepting crematoriums as a principal
or accessory use.
An accessory building, with area for housing motor driven
vehicles, the property of and for the use of the occupants on the
premises on which the private garage is located.
Any establishment, not otherwise defined in this chapter,
by which goods are sold directly to the consumer and where such sales
represent the principal use of the establishment and where any assembly
or creation of goods is customarily incidental to the retail sales
activity on the site and created for the sole purpose of onsite sales
directly to the consumer.
Excessive brightness in the field of view that causes loss
in visual performance or annoyance, so as to jeopardize health, safety
or welfare.
An establishment that provides room and board, for any period
of time, to persons who receive supervised specialized service which
are limited to health, social, rehabilitative or housing services
that are provided under the jurisdiction of a government agency, their
licensed or certified agents or other responsible nonprofit social
service organizations. Such group facilities shall be limited to child
and adult care and supervision that provides services for individuals
not in need of hospitalization or incarceration, but who because of
age, convalescence, infirmity, disability or related circumstance
require such services, shelters for battered persons and their children,
and maternity homes.
A story that is entirely housed within a hip, gable, mansard,
or similar type of roof structure.
Landscaping that consists of trees of a deciduous nature
with a minimum height of six feet at planting and a caliper of 1Â 1/2
inches at planting and trees of an evergreen nature with a minimum
height of six feet at planting. All measurements and plant quality
shall be consistent with the American Standards for Nursery Stock
published by the American Association of Nurserymen, Inc., Washington,
D.C., which will bear an ultimate height exceeding 25 feet.
A use of a service character customarily conducted within
a dwelling unit by the residents thereof, that is clearly secondary
to the use of the dwelling for living purposes, and does not change
the character thereof or have exterior evidence of such secondary
use other than a small name plate, and in connection therewith there
is not involved the exterior keeping of, or exhibition of, stock in
trade. Off-street parking shall be provided in accordance with applicable
regulations of this chapter and all operations shall be conducted
indoors and be free of any procedures that could be construed as adversely
influencing surrounding residential uses because of noise, vibration,
smoke, odor or similar conditions. No persons other than members of
the family residing on the premises shall be engaged in such occupation.
An establishment, properly licensed by appropriate state
and federal agencies, having an organized medical staff and providing
equipment and services for inpatient care for individuals who require
definitive diagnosis and/or treatment for illness, injury or other
disability, or during or after pregnancy, and which also makes available
clinical laboratory services, diagnostic x-ray services and clinical
treatment services. The term shall include establishments providing
either diagnosis or treatment, or both, for specific illnesses or
conditions, but shall not include outpatient treatment clinics as
defined herein.
The percentage of a lot covered by impervious surfaces, defined
as surfaces with a coefficient of runoff greater than 0.85, including
all buildings, roofed areas, parking areas, driveways, streets, sidewalks
and areas paved in concrete and asphalt and any other areas determined
by the Municipal Engineer to be impervious within the meaning of this
definition.
Establishment primarily engaged in manufacturing, wholesale,
warehousing, and bus transportation, as well as retail or service
uses of a similar scale and impact including but not limited to NAICS
Code 532120 Truck, Utility Trailer, and RV (Recreational Vehicle)
Rental and Leasing; NAICS Code 8113 Commercial and Industrial Machinery
and Equipment; Heavy Equipment and Truck Driver Training Schools as
included in NAICS Code 611519; NAICS Code 4853, Taxi and Limousine
Service; NAICS Code 45431, Fuel Dealers; and the sale of aircraft
fuels.
A lot, or land, or part thereof, where waste, used or secondhand
materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, collected, baled, packaged,
disassembled or handled; including but not limited to scrap iron,
other metals, paper, rags, rubber tires, and further includes an auto
wrecking yard, machinery or vehicle salvage and sale of parts thereof.
The collection and/or storage of two or more vehicles or heavy machinery
units, not in legal running condition, constitute a "junk yard" for
purposes of this chapter.
A facility for the boarding of animals, the breeding of small
animals such as dogs and/or cats, or the boarding, grooming, sale
or training of small animals such as dogs and/or cats for which a
fee is charged.
Building structures and land owned and occupied by the Borough
of Zelienople, the Seneca Valley School District or any of either's
agencies to provide services to the residents of the Borough or school
district. Such municipal or school district facilities may include
but not be limited to schools, administrative offices, public works
buildings, storage yards, libraries, fire company building and grounds,
ambulance service buildings and grounds, senior centers, recreation
facilities and fields, and parks and buildings. Bus garages shall
not be included within this definition.
A parcel, tract, or area of land separately described in
a recorded deed or plot recorded subdivision in a manner that permits
the legal transfer of said parcel, tract, or area without further
subdivision approval and subsequent plan recording.
A lot at the junction of and having frontage on two or more
intersecting streets, excepting double frontage lots.
The portion of a lot covered by buildings.
The length of one front lot line measured in feet.
A lot bearing one lot line adjoining a street which is not
otherwise defined as a double frontage lot or a corner lot.
In the case of a corner lot, a line separating the narrowest
frontage of the lots from an adjacent street; and in the case of an
interior lot, a line separating the lot from the street or place;
and in the case of a double frontage lot, the lines separating each
frontage comprising the double frontage lot from the respective adjacent
streets.
A lot line most directly opposite of the front lot line that
borders adjacent lot lines or an alley on an interior lot or a street
in the case of a corner lot.
Those lot lines other than side and rear lot lines as defined
in this part.
The dimensions of a lot, measured between side lot lines
on the building line.
A lot that bears two or more sets of opposite or nonintersecting
lines that each adjoin streets, excepting alleys, where the lot does
not lie at the intersection of such streets; or where said lines intersect
at an interior angle of 135° or greater, and when abutting a curved
street possess tangents to the curve at its points of beginning within
the lot or at the point of intersection of the remaining lot lines
with the street line where the intersection at an interior angle is
135° or greater.
Landscaping that consists of shrubs and any other plant species
that is greater than two feet in height at planting and less than
six feet in height at planting. All measurements and plant quality
shall be consistent with the American Standards for Nursery Stock
published by the American Association of Nurserymen, Inc., Washington,
D.C.
Small or automotive engine repair or reconditioning, collision
and body repair, including straightening and repainting, replacement
of parts and incidental services; and repair of appliances of a scale
customarily utilized by individuals for noncommercial purposes and
by retail or administrative uses.
See "trailers."
A building or grouping of buildings in which lodging and
related ancillary services are offered to the general public for compensation.
A facility operated by a nonprofit organization, or a homeowner's
or condominium association designed to primarily serve residents of
the surrounding neighborhood as defined by subdivision plan or a residential
area generally within four blocks of said park or center which may
include and shall be limited to the following, unless otherwise authorized
by this chapter: children's playground equipment, sport courts and
fields, picnic areas, buildings housing accessory food service, banquet
and kitchen facilities, meeting facilities, gymnasiums and fitness
centers available solely to residents of a defined residential neighborhood
in which building is located and their guests.
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, where the business or commercial activity satisfies
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; and
The business may not involve any illegal activity.
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 amendment, or prior to the application
of the ordinance or amendment to its location by reason of annexation.
A social service, charitable or educational entity that holds
current tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service, derives
more than 50% of its operating funds from charitable donations or
public donations and can demonstrate that such funds are used to achieve
the objects and purposes of the organization as stated in its articles
of incorporation as a tax-exempt organization.
The customary and generally accepted activities, practices
and procedures that farmers adopt, use or engage in year after year
in the production and preparation and processing for market of any
and all plant and animal products and for market of poultry, livestock
and their products and in the production and harvesting of agricultural,
agronomic, horticultural, silvicultural and aquicultural crops and
commodities, which for purposes of this chapter shall include NAICS
Sector 115210, Support Activities for Animal Production, and for purposes
of this chapter shall include the boarding of horses.
An outdoor establishment operated by a corporation, partnership
or other business entity for the pursuit of sports and recreational
activities through the following types of establishments: miniature
golf, golf or batting practice facilities, playing fields and courts,
racquet clubs, swimming pools, amusement parks, and amphitheaters.
Any clinic, primarily intended for the treatment of those
who typically do not reside within the establishment including the
following:
Mental health partial hospitalization center; drug and alcohol
partial hospitalization center; drug and alcohol outpatient center;
drug and alcohol intensive outpatient center as defined and licensed
by the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Department of Public Welfare,
or other applicable agencies of the commonwealth.
Methadone Clinic or Methadone Treatment Facility: A facility
licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health to use the drug
methadone in the treatment, maintenance or detoxification of persons.
Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic: A premises or part thereof in
which mental health evaluation or treatment, including psychiatric,
psychological, and other related services, are provided under medical
supervision, which is designed for children/adolescents with emotional
disturbance and adults with mental illness on a planned and regularly
scheduled basis, licensed as such by the Pennsylvania Department of
Health.
An off-street space available for parking of one motor vehicle, in a manner and with the standards and specifications required by Article VIII of this chapter.
An establishment that principally provides the following
services: laundry, grooming and related cosmetic treatments, repair
of small-scale personal property such as watches, shoes, and similar
apparel; repair of small electronic equipment such as televisions,
radios, and computer hardware; photography; and weight loss centers.
Any variety of domesticated or tamed creature such as a bird,
cat or dog which is commonly kept within the confines of the home
and yard area.[3]
A parcel or group of adjacent parcels that bear an establishment
and all uses accessory thereto.
A use or building or structure housing a use that comprises
the key or essential functions necessary or central to the form of
business conducted by an establishment on a particular premises.
An establishment that offers food and beverages for sale
directly to the end consumer for consumption either on and or off
of the premises, including banquet facilities.
A privately operated, for-profit establishment providing
technical or skilled training, vocational or trade educational courses
and programs, excepting truck driving and similar schools with onsite
training facilities.
A nonprofit establishment licensed by the State Department
of Education to provide education as an elementary or secondary school,
vocational, or post-secondary education offering a degree, excepting
truck driving and similar schools with onsite training facilities.
A building, buildings, premises or portions thereof that
are used or arranged, designed, or intended to be used for the retail
sale of gasoline or other motor vehicle, or motor boat fuels, as well
as limited minor repairs. No outside storage of new, used or discarded
parts or materials shall be permitted.
For purposes of this chapter, a "sign" shall be considered
as any writing (including letter, word or numeral); pictorial representation
(including illustration or decoration); emblem (including device,
symbol, trademark, banner or pennant); or any other figure of similar
character, that:
The area of the smallest geometric figure, or the sum of
the combination of regular geometric figures, which comprise the sign
face. The area of any doublesided or V-shaped sign shall be the area
of the largest single face only.
Those letters, numerals, figures, symbols, logos and graphic
elements comprising the content or message of a sign, exclusive of
numerals identifying a street address only.
The surface upon, against or through which the sign copy
is displayed or illustrated, not including structural supports, architectural
features of a building or sign structure, nonstructural or decorative
trim, or any areas that are separated from the background surface
upon which the sign copy is displayed by a distinct delineation, such
as a reveal or border.
In the case of panel- or cabinet-type signs, the sign face shall
include the entire area of the sign panel, cabinet or face substrate
upon which the sign copy is displayed or illustrated, but not open
space between separate panels or cabinets.
In the case of sign structures with routed areas of sign copy,
the sign face shall include the entire area of the surface that is
routed, except where interrupted by a reveal, border, or a contrasting
surface or color.
In the case of signs painted on a building, or individual letters
or graphic elements affixed to a building or structure, the sign face
shall comprise the sum of the geometric figures or combination of
regular geometric figures drawn closest to the edge of the letters
or separate graphic elements comprising the sign copy, but not the
open space between separate groupings of sign copy on the same building
or structure.
In the case of sign copy enclosed within a painted or illuminated
border, or displayed on a background contrasting in color with the
color of the building or structure, the sign face shall comprise the
area within the contrasting background or within the painted or illuminated
border.
A sign on which amber-colored copy changes automatically
on a lampbank or through mechanical means with a black background/face,
including electrical or electronic time-and-temperature units.
A sign with removable panels or letters which may be changed,
removed and replaced from time to time without altering or reconstructing
the sign structure itself, including a sign on which message copy
is changed through the use of electronic switching of lamps or other
illuminated devices.
Signage attached to windows, doors, building walls, free-standing/ground-mounted
informational signage that is used to indicate when a business is
open/closed, hours of operation, or similar information.
A freestanding sign constructed of wood or high-density urethane
foam panels supported by two wooden posts where all wood is painted
or stained with a weather-resistant finish, masonry columns or other
approved material.
A sign with its support planted firmly into the ground, excluding
changeable copy signs unless expressly authorized as part thereof,
and excluding billboards.
A sign panel that is attached to a building facade and oriented
perpendicular to the building facade, or a sign panel that is suspended
from the bottom of a canopy or portico.
A freestanding sign orientated to the drive-through lane
for a restaurant that advertises the menu items available from the
drive-through window, and which has no more than 20% of the total
area for such a sign utilized for business identification.
A sign attached to a brick, stone or masonry wall or structure
that forms a supporting base for the sign display, and which may also
provide for the vertical support on which a sign face is mounted.
A temporary sign intended to advance a political statement,
cause or candidate for office.
A sign mounted on and supported by the main roof portion
of a building or above the uppermost edge of a parapet wall of a building
and which is wholly or partially supported by such a building. Signs
mounted on mansard facades, pent eaves and architectural projections
such as canopies or marquees shall not be considered to be roof signs.
Any sign, banner, pennant, valance or advertising display
constructed of cloth, canvas, light fabric, cardboard, wallboard or
other light material, with or without frame, which is thereby customarily
intended to function on a temporary basis and which requires no building
permit under the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code, including
mobile or movable signage which is not permanently affixed to the
ground.
A sign or signs displayed on the inside surface of a window
for the purpose of advertising a sale, grand opening, new products
or services.
A sign placed against and attached to, made a part of or
painted directly on an exterior surface of a building, excluding changeable
copy signs, marquee signs, and roof signs and projecting no further
than 18 inches from the wall to which the sign is attached.
A sign affixed to the surface of a window or the face of
which is placed within 12 inches of the window with its message intended
to be visible to and readable from the public way or from adjacent
property, excluding the display of merchandise sold on the premises.
A manual changeable copy and/or wall sign that is attached
to or incorporated within the face of a marquee.
A building designed for and occupied exclusively as a residence
for only one family.
The permission or approval expressly granted by the Zoning
Hearing Board in situations where provision therefor is made by the
terms of this chapter, after written application is made therefor.
Areas of existing topography where, in over a one-hundred-foot
horizontal distance, or where the difference in elevation is over
20 feet, the slope equals or exceeds 25% from the top to bottom of
the break in grade.
The portion of a building, other than the basement, included
between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next
above it, or if there is no floor above, then the space between any
floor and the ceiling next above it.
A public or private right-of-way which affords means of access
to abutting property. A street may be designated as a highway, thoroughfare,
parkway, boulevard, road, avenue, lane, drive, place, or other appropriate
name, but shall not include alleys.
The line defining the edge of the legal width of a dedicated
or other public street from a contiguous lot, parcel or tract of land.
Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires
location on the ground, or attachment to something having location
on the ground.
An area of land developed in accordance with the principles
authorized and encouraged by Article VII-A of the Municipalities Planning
Code, Act of 1968, P.L.805, No. 247 as reenacted and amended,[4] and with those standards expressed within this chapter.
Transportable or portable that includes:
MOBILE HOME or HOUSE TRAILERA 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.
CAMPING TRAILERA vehicular portable structure built on a chassis used as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation uses.
Any plot of ground upon which area and provision is made
for two or more house trailers, occupied for dwelling or sleeping
purposes. The terms "trailer park," "camp," and "mobile home park"
or similar designations shall be interpreted to have the same meaning
as the term "trailer court."
A dwelling unit or group of dwelling units occupied on a
short-term basis by persons assigned by a court of law, or who are
self-referred, or referred by a public, semipublic or nonprofit agency,
and managed by a public, semipublic or nonprofit agency responsible
for the occupants' care, safety, conduct, counseling and supervision
for a specified period of time, for alcoholic recovery, community
reentry services following incarceration, prison assignment, house
arrest or other court-ordered treatment, and other such short-term
supervised assignments.
The specific purposes for which land or a building is designed,
arranged, intended, or for which it is occupied or may be occupied
or maintained. The term "permitted use" or its equivalent shall not
be deemed to include any nonconforming use. The term "conditional
use" shall be deemed to include only the uses which are specifically
cited in this chapter to be allowed or denied by the Zelienople Borough
Council after recommendation by the Zelienople Planning Commission,
pursuant to express standards and criteria set forth in this chapter.
A modification of the literal provisions of this chapter
which the Zoning Hearing Board is permitted to grant when strict enforcement
of said provisions would cause undue hardship owing to circumstances
unique to the individual property on which the variance is sought.
An establishment, completely housed within a building, intended
for the medical examination and treatment of animals.
A space on the same lot with a principal building, open,
unoccupied and unobstructed by structures, except as otherwise provided
in this chapter.
A yard extending across the full width of the lot, unoccupied
other than by steps, walks, terraces, driveways, lamp posts, and similar
structures or improvements, the depth of which is the least distance
between the front lot line and the building line.
A yard extending across the full width of the lot between
the rear of the principal building and the rear lot line unoccupied
other than by accessory buildings, steps, walks, terraces, driveways,
lamp posts, and similar structures and improvements.
A yard between the principal building and the side lot line,
extending from the front yard, or from the front line where no front
yard is required, to the rear yard. The width of the required side
yard is measured horizontally, at 90° with the side lot line,
from the nearest part of the principal building.
The Zoning Map or maps of the Borough of Zelienople, together
with all amendments subsequently adopted.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10703 et seq.
[2]
Editor's Note: See 42 U.S.C. § 3601 et seq., and
42 U.S.C. § 12132, respectively.
[3]
Editor's Note: The former definition of "planned residential
development," which immediately followed this definition, was repealed
11-25-2019 by Ord. No. 868-19; and 4-26-2021 by Ord. No. 877-21.
[4]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10701-9 et seq.
