Borough of Churchill, PA Terminology

NATURAL GAS COMPRESSOR STATIONA facility designed and constructed to compress natural gas that originates from an oil and gas well or collection of such wells operating as a midstream facility for delivery of oil and gas to a transmission pipeline, distribution pipeline, natural gas processing plant or underground field, including one or more natural gas compressors, associated buildings, pipes, valves, tanks and other equipment.

NATURAL GAS PROCESSING PLANTA facility designed and constructed to remove materials such as ethane, propane, butane, and other constituents or similar substances from natural gas to allow the natural gas to be of such quality as is required or appropriate for transmission or distribution to commercial markets, but not including facilities or equipment that are/is designed and constructed primarily to remove water, water vapor oil or naturally occurring liquids from natural gas.

OIL AND GAS DRILLING SUBSURFACE FACILITIES

GATHERING SYSTEM FACILITYA facility associated with a gathering system or water collection line, such as a drip station, vent station, pigging facility, chemical injection station or transfer pump station.

(4)

PRODUCTION FACILITYA facility related to the production of gas which utilizes motors and/or engines.

Activities performed under the surface of the ground that are part of the operation of oil and gas drilling, as defined herein, whether or not located on properties within the unit for a particular well site, but that are not included in the well site, including, but not limited to, horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing zones, underground gathering and transmission pipelines established in accordance with Public Utility Commission guidelines, water distribution lines and similar underground facilities incidental to oil and gas drilling.

[Added 8-1-2016 by Ord. No. 731]

OIL or PETROLEUM

Hydrocarbons in liquid form at standard temperature of 60° Fahrenheit and pressure of 14.7 PSIA.[6]

[Added 3-13-2007 by Ord. No. 699]

ON-LOT DIRECTIONAL SIGN

A sign which conveys instructions or directions with respect to the use of the lot or building on which the sign is located, including but not limited to signs which indicate street addresses and the availability of parking, telephones, rest rooms and other conveniences for the general public.

[Added 5-8-2017 by Ord. No. 736]

OUTDOOR ADVERTISING SIGN

See "billboard."

[Added 5-8-2017 by Ord. No. 736]

PARK

An area maintained in its natural state as a public property for recreation.

[Added 3-13-2007 by Ord. No. 699]

PERSONAL SERVICES

Establishments primarily engaged in providing individual services generally related to personal needs, such as beauty shops and barbershops, dry cleaning pickup, laundromats, tanning salons and tattoo parlors.

[Added 9-11-2023 by Ord. No. 771]

PERSONS

Individuals, corporations, companies, associations, joint stock companies, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies, corporations and other entities established pursuant to statutes of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; provided that "person" does not include or apply to the municipality or to any department or agency of the municipality.

[Added 4-10-2023 by Ord. No. 769]

PLACE OF WORSHIP

A building used for nonprofit purposes by a recognized and legally established sect solely for the purpose of worship.

[Added 9-11-2023 by Ord. No. 771]

PLANNING COMMISSION

Churchill Borough Planning Commission.

POLE or POLES

Any freestanding structure located within the public rights-of-way, including, but not limited to, utility poles, streetlights, traffic lights and signage that may support, hold, or house wireless communications facilities, wireless accessory equipment, or related equipment.

[Added 4-10-2023 by Ord. No. 769]

PRIOR APPROVED DESIGN

A design for a small wireless communications facility that has been reviewed and deemed to be in accordance with the design requirements herein and approved for construction by the municipality.

[Added 4-10-2023 by Ord. No. 769]

PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER (P.E.)

An active, registered professional engineer (P.E.), in the fields of civil, structural, or electrical engineering, licensed as such by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, who is regularly involved in the development, construction, operation, inspection, maintenance, and removal of wireless communications facilities.

[Added 4-10-2023 by Ord. No. 769]

PROJECTING SIGN

Any sign supported by a building wall and/or roof attached along one edge by a bracket, perpendicular to the wall surface or hung from a support attached to a building wall, projecting no more than six feet.

[Added 5-8-2017 by Ord. No. 736]

PROTECTED STRUCTURE

Any occupied structure. The term shall not include any structure whose owner has signed a waiver relieving the operator from implementation of the measures established herein or other applicable provisions of the Code of the Borough of Churchill. In the waiver, the owner must acknowledge that the operator is explicitly relieved from complying with the regulations applicable to a protected structure. The waiver must be notarized.

[Added 8-1-2016 by Ord. No. 731]

PUBLIC NUISANCE

Any act, operation, business or conduct done, performed or carried on which may be offensive by reason of emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, vibration or noise, glaring light or interference with radio or television reception in the dwellings throughout the Borough or which shall constitute a public nuisance under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or which shall be incompatible with the primary use of property in the Borough as an essentially residential community; or any condition which by its visibility adversely affects the character of surrounding properties.

PUBLIC RIGHTS-OF-WAY (ROW)

The surface of and space above and below any real property in the municipality in which the municipality has a regulatory interest, or interest as a trustee for the public, as such interests now or hereafter exist, including, but not limited to: the total extent of land reserved or dedicated as a street/way/alley/lane for public or private purpose; all streets, highways, avenues, roads, alleys, sidewalks, tunnels, viaducts, bridges, skyways, or any other public place, area or property under the control of the municipality; any unrestricted public or utility easements established, dedicated, platted, improved or devoted for utility purposes, but excluding lands other than streets that are owned by the municipality. The phrase "in the right(s)-of-way" means in, on, over, along, above and/or under the right(s)-of-way.

[Added 4-10-2023 by Ord. No. 769]

PUBLIC USE

Of or pertaining to buildings, structures, uses or activities belonging to or affecting any duly authorized governmental body.

[Added 9-11-2023 by Ord. No. 771]

RECREATION FACILITY

A building, structure or area designed and equipped for the conduct of sports and/or leisure activities that attract a large number of users. Activities and improvements associated with a recreation facility include amphitheaters/outdoor theaters, indoor/outdoor swimming pools, indoor/outdoor skating rinks, and any other public recreation facilities. Gaming enterprises and/or racetracks shall not be considered recreation facilities.

[Added 9-11-2023 by Ord. No. 771]

REDRILL

Deepening or sidetrack/horizontal drilling of the existing well bore extending more than 150 feet from said well bore.

[Added 8-1-2016 by Ord. No. 731]

RELATED EQUIPMENT

Any piece of equipment related to, incidental to, or necessary for the operation of a wireless communications facility. By way of illustration, not limitation, "related equipment" includes generators and base stations.

[Added 4-10-2023 by Ord. No. 769]

RESEARCH LABORATORIES

A building or group of jointly used structures in which pure and applied research is conducted by the owner subject to the following conditions and limitations.

(Reserved)[7]

No research operations or experiments will be conducted that will be obnoxious, offensive or hazardous either by reason of emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, vibration or noise or by radiation of nuclear energy (whether from source material, special nuclear material or by-product material).

RESTAURANT - CONVENIENCE/FAST FOOD

No research operations or experiments will be conducted which interfere with radio or television reception in the dwellings throughout the Borough, or which constitute a public nuisance under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or which are incompatible with the primary use of property in this Borough as an essentially residential community.

Any dining establishment whose design or principal method of operation includes the ordering of food from a menu board and service through a building opening, including windows, doors or mechanical devices.

[Added 9-11-2023 by Ord. No. 771]

RESTAURANT - COUNTER SERVICE

A retail use which serves foods and/or drinks to customers for consumption on or off the premises that may or may not have seating. It may include accessory wholesaling, manufacturing, or processing of foods, goods, or commodities on the premises. Aside from traditional food service, this includes coffee stores, juice bars, bakeries, delicatessens, and confectioneries and made-to-order facilities.

[Added 9-11-2023 by Ord. No. 771]

RESTAURANT - TABLE SERVICE

A dining establishment in which the principal use is the preparation and sale of food and beverages, where food sales constitute more than 80% of the gross sales receipts for food and beverages. Primary food service is via tableside ordering and/or consumption. Take-out service is permitted, but drive-through service is not permitted.

[Added 9-11-2023 by Ord. No. 771]

RETAIL STORE, COMMUNITY

Any establishment not otherwise specifically defined in § 304-8 that sells on the premises commodities and/or services directly to consumers, but not including the manufacturing or processing of any products, having between 8,001 and 120,000 square feet in floor area.

[Added 9-11-2023 by Ord. No. 771]

RETAIL STORE, NEIGHBORHOOD

[Amended 9-11-2023 by Ord. No. 771]

REWORK

Reentry of an existing well within the existing bore hole or by deepening or sidetrack/horizontal operations (which do not extend more than 150 feet horizontally from the existing well bore) or replacement of well liners or casings.

[Added 8-1-2016 by Ord. No. 731]

SCHOOL

A place or institution for teaching, an establishment for learning, the structures and classrooms and laboratories constituting the same, together with the ground annexed thereto, including offices for school administration and related accessory uses and structures, but excluding accessory structures and uses which are incompatible with a residential neighborhood such as stadium lights, wherein and whereon are conducted regular sessions with regularly employed instructors or weekly sessions, for those subjects that are fundamental and essential in general education and/or a trade or vocation and/or religious instruction, operated not-for-private-profit and under the supervision of a lawfully constituted ecclesiastical governing body or under the supervision of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

SELF-SERVICE STORAGE FACILITY

A structure containing separate storage spaces of varying sizes leased or rented on an individual basis for the purpose of dead storage (i.e., goods not in use and not associated with office, retail, or other business use on the premises).

[Added 9-11-2023 by Ord. No. 771]

SHORT-TERM RENTAL

The use of a dwelling, including but not limited to a single-family dwelling, two-family dwelling, and multiple dwelling, in which the owner rents any area of the dwelling to one or more individuals for compensation or fee, including offer of exchange in kind, of any type, whether or not involving overnight accommodations or separate sleeping quarters, for less than 30 consecutive days.

[Added 4-10-2023 by Ord. No. 768]

SHOT CLOCK TIME FRAMES

Federal regulation 47 CFR 1.6003 defines the "[r]easonable periods of time to act on siting applications" as the "shot clock" time frames. At regulation, "[t]he shot clock date for a siting application is determined by counting forward, beginning on the day after the date when the application was submitted." 47 CFR 1.6003(e).

[Added 4-10-2023 by Ord. No. 769]

SIGN

A structure that is arranged, intended, designed or used to advertise, announce or direct; or any device, illustration, description or identification posted, painted, or placed in some fashion on a building, structure or any surface for such a purpose. For the purpose of removal, signs shall also include all sign structures.

[Amended 5-8-2017 by Ord. No. 736]

SIGN AREA

The area defined by the frame or edge of a sign, excluding the necessary supports or uprights on which the sign may be placed. Where there is no frame or edge to the sign, the area shall be defined by a projected, enclosed, four-sided (straight sides) geometric shape which most closely outlines the copy of letters of the said sign. If the sign consists of more than one section or module, all areas shall be totaled.

[Added 5-8-2017 by Ord. No. 736]

SIGN, TEMPORARY

A banner, pennant, poster, sign or advertising display constructed of paper, cloth, canvas, plastic sheet, cardboard, wallboard, plywood or other like materials which is displayed for a limited period of time.

[Added 5-8-2017 by Ord. No. 736]

SITE PLAN

A graphic and written presentation of a proposed development.

SMALL COMMUNITY RESIDENTIAL FACILITY

A residential facility which is licensed, regulated or supervised by a county, state or federal agency housing at least one and not more than three persons who live together as a family unit and who require assistance from a trained caregiver.

SMALL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY (SMALL WCF)

A wireless communications facility that meets the following criteria:

[Added 4-10-2023 by Ord. No. 769]

The structure on which antenna facilities are mounted:

(a)

Is 50 feet or less in height; or

(b)

Is no more than 10% taller than other adjacent structures; or

(c)

Is not extended to a height of more than 50 feet or by more than 10% above its preexisting height as a result of the co-location of new antenna facilities; and

Each antenna associated with the deployment (excluding the associated equipment) is no more than three cubic feet in volume;

SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE or SUBSTANTIALLY CHANGE

All antenna equipment associated with the facility (excluding antennas) are cumulatively no more than 28 cubic feet in volume;

(4)

The facilities do not require antenna structure registration under 47 CFR Part 17;

(5)

The facilities are not located on tribal lands, as defined under 36 CFR 800.16(x); and

(6)

The facilities do not result in human exposure to radio frequency radiation in excess of the applicable safety standards specified in 47 CFR 1.1307(b).

SOILS ENGINEER

A person registered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a professional engineer and who has training and experience in soils engineering.

SOIL SURVEY

The unpublished and operational soil survey for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and the accompanying text Soil Survey Maps and Interpretations for Developing Areas in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, as prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service.

STEALTH TECHNOLOGY

Camouflaging methods applied to wireless communications facilities and accessory equipment which render them more visually appealing or blend the proposed facility into the existing structure or visual backdrop in such a manner as to render it minimally visible to the casual observer. Such methods include, but are not limited to, architecturally screened roof-mounted antennas, building-mounted antennas painted to match the existing structure and facilities constructed to resemble trees, shrubs, and light poles.

[Added 4-10-2023 by Ord. No. 769]

STRUCTURE

Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires a fixed location on the ground or an attachment to something having a fixed location on the ground, including an addition to structures, billboards, carports, porches and other building features, but not including sidewalks, drives, fences and patios.

A modification to an existing wireless communications facility substantially changes the physical dimensions of a tower or wireless support structure if it meets any of the following criteria:

[Added 4-10-2023 by Ord. No. 769]

For wireless communications facilities outside the public rights-of-way, it increases the height of the facility by more than 10%, or by the height of one additional antenna array with separation from the nearest existing antenna, not to exceed 20 feet, whichever is greater; for wireless communications facilities in the rights-of-way, it increases the height of the facility by more than 10% or 10 feet, whichever is greater;

For communications towers outside the public rights-of-way, it protrudes from the edge of the tower by more than 20 feet, or more than the width of the tower structures at the level of the appurtenance, whichever is greater; for those wireless communications facilities in the public rights-of-way, it protrudes from the edge of the structure by more than six feet;