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LACKAWAXEN TOWNSHIP
PIKE COUNTY ZONING ORDINANCE TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I - GENERAL
PROVISIONS
100
Repealer.............................................................................
1
101
Title................................................................................
1
102
Short
Title.........................................................................
1
103
Purpose..............................................................................
1
104
Interpretation
..................................................................... 2
ARTICLE II -
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES
201 Community Development
Objectives.................................................... 3
ARTICLE III -
DEFINITIONS.................................................................
4
ARTICLE IV -
ESTABLISHMENT OF DISTRICTS
401
General Districts
................................................................. 23
402
Official Zoning
Map................................................................ 23
403
District Boundaries
............................................................... 23
404
District Intents
.................................................................. 24
405
Zoning District Regulations
....................................................... 25
406
Use
Regulations....................................................................
25
Schedule of Uses
.................................................................. 26
407 Development
Standards ............................................................. 32
Schedule of
Development Standards ................................................. 32
ARTICLE V -
SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS
500
Introduction.......................................................................
34
501
Permitted Deviations From
Required Sizes .......................................... 34
502
Unique Lots and Building
Locations................................................. 34
503
Accessory Structures and
Uses...................................................... 35
504
Signs..............................................................................
38
505
Off-street Parking and Loading
.................................................... 43
506
Natural Resource Uses and Open
Excavations ........................................ 48
507
Non-conforming Uses and
Structures................................................. 51
508
Buffer for Waterbodies and
Wetlands................................................ 54
509
Conditional Uses and Special
Exceptions............................................ 55
510
Residential Cluster Development
................................................... 58
511
Multi-Family Dwellings
............................................................ 61
512
Two-Family Dwelling
............................................................... 6
5
513
Conversion of
Dwellings............................................................ 66
514
Performance Standards
Applicable to All Uses
In All
Districts..................................................................
66
515
Junkyards
............................................... •........................
71
516
Water and
Sewer.................................................................... 74
LACKAWAXEN TOWNSHIP
PIKE COUNTY ZONING ORDINANCE TABLE OF CONTENTS
517
Minimum Residential Standards
..................................................... 75
518
Mobile Homes on Individual Lots
................................................... 75
519
Shopping Centers, Malls, and
Reatil/Service
Commercial
Buildings .............................................................. 75
520
Flood Plain Management
............................................................ 77
521
Major Impact
Developments.......................................................... 82
522
Environmental Impact Statement
.................................................... 86
523
Manufactured Housing, Vehicle
and Trailer, Sales Operations ....................... 90
524
Hotels, Motels, and Lodging
Facilities ............................................ 90
525
Stables, Kennels, and Keeping
of Animals .......................................... 91
526
Development on Steep Slopes
....................................................... 94
527
Yard Sales
........................................................................ 95
528
Adult Stores
...................................................................... 96
529
Solid
Waste.......................................................................
96
530
Time Shared
Ownership............................................................. 97
531
Mobile Home
Parks................................................................. 97
532
Recreational Vehicle Parks and
Campgrounds (RSLD) ................................ 99
533
Recycling Facilities
............................................................ 102
534
Contracting Businesses and
Trades in the
RU - Rural
District.............................................................. 104
535 Public and Commercial Access on the
Lackawaxen and
Delaware Rivers
................................................................. 106
536
Upper Delaware Overlay District
................................................. 107
537
Temporary Commercial
Uses........................................................ Ill
538
Residential Subdivision
Facilities and Amenities ................................ Ill
ARTICLE VI -
PLANNED RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS
600
Authorization....................................................................
112
601
Purposes.........................................................................
112
602
Interpretation...................................................................
112
603
Scope............................................................................
113
604
Plan Submission and Review
Requirements ......................................... 113
605
Standards for Planned
Residential Development ................................... 121
ARTICLE VII -
ADMINISTRATION
701
Authority........................................................................
128
702
Permits..........................................................................
128
703
Fees.............................................................................
129
704
Inspection.......................................................................
129
705
Certificate of
Use............................................................... 130
706
Violations
...................................................................... 130
707
Penalties and Remedies
.......................................................... 131
708
Zoning Hearing Board
............................................................ 131
709
Appeals to Court and other
Administrative Proceedings ........................... 134
710
Amendments
...................................................................... 134
711
Severability.....................................................................
134
ARTICLE VIII -
ENACTMENT.............................................................. 135
LACKAWAXEN TOWNSHIP
PIKE COUNTY ZONING ORDINANCE
ORDAINING CLAUSE
BE IT HEREBY
ORDAINED AND ENACTED by the Board of Township Supervisors of the Township of
Lackawaxen, Pike County, by authority of and pursuant to the provisions of
Articles VI through X of Act No. 247 of the General Assembly of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, approved July 31, 1968, known and cited as the
"Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code," and any amendments and
supplements thereto, as fol1ows:
ARTICLE I - GENERAL
PROVISIONS
100 Repealer.
This Zoning
Ordinance, as adopted herein and as may be duly amended by the Township
Board of Supervisors, shall repeal and replace in total the Lackawaxen
Township Zoning Ordinance of October
27, 1978, as amended.
101 Title
AN ORDINANCE
PERMITTING, PROHIBITING, REGULATING, RESTRICTING, AND DETERMINING THE USES
OF LAND, WATERCOURSES, AND OTHER BODIES OF WATER; THE SIZE, HEIGHT, BULK,
LOCATION, ERECTION, CONSTRUCTION, REPAIR, MAINTENANCE, ALTERATION, RAZING,
REMOVAL AND USE OF STRUCTURES; THE AREAS AND DIMENSIONS OF LAND AND BODIES
OF WATER TO BE OCCUPIED BY USES AND STRUCTURES AS WELL AS COURTS, YARDS, AND
OTHER OPEN SPACES AND DISTANCES TO BE LEFT UNOCCUPIED BY USES AND
STRUCTURES: THE DENSITY OF POPULATION AND INTENSITY OF USE; CREATING ZONING
DISTRICTS AND ESTABLISHING THE BOUNDARIES THEREOF; AUTHORIZING THE
APPOINTMENT OF A ZONING OFFICER; CREATING A ZONING HEARING BOARD; AND
PROVIDING FOR THE ADMINISTRATION, AMENDMENT, AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE
ORDINANCE, INCLUDING THE IMPOSITION OF PENALTIES.
102 Short Title
This Ordinance
shall be known and may be cited as the "Lackawaxen Township Zoning
Ordinance."
103 Purpose
This Ordinance is
adopted in accordance with an overall land use control program and with
consideration for the character of the municipality, its various parts and
the suitability of the various parts for particular uses and structures.
This Ordinance is
enacted for the following purposes:
A. To promote,
protect and facilitate one or more of the following: the public health,
safety, morals, general welfare; coordinated and practical community
development; density of population; civil defense and disaster evacuation,
airports, and national defense facilities; the provisions of adequate light
and air; police protection; vehicle parking and loading space;
transportation; natural resources, agricultural land and uses; reliable,
safe and adequate water supplies; safe and adequate sewage disposal,
schools, public grounds and other public requirements and other purposes set
forth in the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.
B. To prevent one
or more of the following: overcrowding of land, blight, danger and
congestion in travel and transportation, loss of health, life or property
from fire, flood, panic or other dangers.
In interpretation
and application, the provisions of this Ordinance shall be held to be the
minimum requirements for the promotion of health, safety, morals, and the
general welfare of the Township and its citizens. This ordinance is not
intended to interfere with or abrogate or annul any rules or regulations
previously adopted or permits previously issued by the Township which are
not in conflict with any provisions of this Ordinance, nor is this Ordinance
intended to interfere with or abrogate or annul any easements, covenants,
building restrictions, or other agreements between parties; provided,
however, that where this Ordinance imposes a greater restriction upon the
use of the buildings or premises or upon the height of the building, or
requires a larger open space than is imposed or required by such ordinance,
rules, regulations or permits, or by easements, covenants, building
restrictions or agreements, the provisions of this Ordinance shall control.
ARTICLE II -
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES
201 Community
Development Objectives
This Zoning
Ordinance has been adopted in part to assist in implementing the Lackawaxen
Township Comprehensive Plan. The Community Development Objectives supplement
the Goals and Objectives in the Comprehensive Plan and include, but are not
limited to the following:
A. To insure that
the land uses of the community are logically situated in
relation to one
another.
B. To provide
adequate space for each type of development in the community so as
to avoid
overcrowding of land.
C. To provide for
the control of development density in each neighborhood so that
the populace can be
serviced adequately by such facilities as streets, schools, recreation, and
utilities systems.
D. To protect
existing property by requiring that development afford adequate
light, air, and
privacy for persons living and working within the municipality.
E. To facilitate
the efficient movement of traffic.
F. To secure the
preservation and prudent use of natural resources.
G. To strive for a
variety in housing types.
H. To provide for
equal opportunities in all facets of community living.
I. To strive for
coordination between policies, plans, and programs in the
community through
cooperation among governing officials, community interest groups, and the
general populace.
J. To spur economic
advances and provide an economic climate which would provide an opportunity
for all men and women who are capable of working.
ARTICLE III -
DEFINITIONS
For the purpose of
this Ordinance, the following words, terms and phrases have the meaning
herein indicated:
Access Area: A
property used as an area of entry to a stream or other body of water for the
purpose of launching or landing of watercraft. The access area may also
include ancillary services or facilities such as base operations for
watercraft rentals and may be operated as a private business.
Accessory Use or
Structure: A use of land or of a building or portion thereof customarily
incidental and subordinate to the principal use of the land or building and
located on the same lot with such principal use.
Adult Stores: A use
of a building or land for a business which has obscene materials as a
significant portion of its stock-in-trade or involves the sale, lease,
trade, gift or display of drug paraphernalia. Obscene materials include any
literature, book, magazine, pamphlet, newspaper, paper, comic book, drawing,
photograph, figure, image, motion picture, sound recording, article,
instrument or any other written or recorded matter which depicts or
describes, sexual conduct and which, taken as a whole, does not have serious
literary, artistic, political or scientific value. Drug paraphernalia
includes any objects, devices, instruments, apparatus or contrivances, whose
primary and traditionally exclusive use is involved with the illegal use of
any and all controlled substances under the Pennsylvania statutes.
Agricultural Use:
The use of any parcel of land containing ten (10) or more acres for economic
gain in the raising of agricultural products, livestock, poultry and/or
dairy products. It includes necessary structures within the limits of the
parcel and the storage of equipment necessary for production. It excludes
the raising of fur bearing animals, riding academies, livery or boarding
stables and dog kennels; and excluding the disposal or use of sludge,
septage or similar waste products.
Agriculture
Products Processing: An industry that involves the processing of raw
agricultural products; and transforming those products into a more refined,
prepared or marketable state. Includes, but is not limited to, such uses as
sawmills, dairies and food canning and freezing operations.
Agriculture Service
Establishment: Establishments primarily engaged in supplying soil
preparation services, crop services, landscaping, horticultural services,
veterinary and other animal services and farm labor and management services,
and farm machinery dealers.
Alterations: As
applied to a building or structure, means a change or rearrangement in the
structural parts or in the existing facilities, or an enlargement, whether
by extending on a side or by increasing in height, or the moving from one
location or position to another.
Amusement Park: A
commercially operated park or facility with various devices for
entertainment including but not limited to rides, games, electronic games
and similar devices, food stands and other associated facilities.
Animal Hospital: 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 Husbandry:
The keeping of any livestock including dairy animals, swine or sheep. The
keeping of more than one saddle horse or the keeping of any other animals
for the purposes of obtaining eggs, fur, meat or milk shall also be
considered animal husbandry.
Antique Auto: A
motor vehicle, but not a reproduction thereof, manufactured more than 25
years prior to the current year, which has been maintained in or restored to
a condition which is substantially in conformance with manufacturer
specifications and which is currently licensed by a State Department of
Transportation.
Antique Shop: A
retail establishment contained entirely within a building where works of
art, furniture, decorative and collectable objects, relics and other objects
made at an earlier period than the present (at least thirty [30] years prior
to the sale of the item) are sold to the general public. The sales display
area of an antique shop shall not exceed nine-hundred (900) square feet in
floor area, and any such shop which exceeds said area shall be considered a
retail business for the purposes of this Ordinance. An antique shop shall
not include any establishment where new or used consumer products of recent
origin are sold, any establishment which includes the stripping or
refinishing of any item, any wholesale sales, flea markets where more than
one vendor displays objects for sale, any outdoor sales, or any
establishment where a public auction is conducted.
Applicant: See
"Person"
Average Gross
Residential Density: The number of dwelling units per acre in a planned
residential community, computed by dividing the number of dwelling units
which the applicant proposes to construct by the total acreage of the
development excluding land occupied by rights-of-way. Other lands set aside
for public use, shall be included in the computation. Bodies of water over
five (5) acres in size shall not be included.
Bed and Breakfast:
Any dwelling in which more than three persons either individually or as
families are housed or lodged for hire with meals normally included as a
part of the services rendered.
Bluffline: The
point at which the plane which constitutes the side of the Delaware River
valley intersects with the plane of the plateau adjacent to the River
valley, often resulting in a broad precipice or cliff face overlooking the
River.
Boarding or Lodging
House: Any dwelling in which more than three persons either individually or
as families are housed or lodged for hire with meals normally but not
necessarily included as a part of the services rendered.
Building: Any
structure having a roof supported by columns or walls and intended for the
shelter, housing or enclosure of any individual, animal, process, equipment,
services, goods or materials of any kind or nature.
Building Height:
The vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the finished
grade at the building or structure to the highest part of the building or
structure, excluding chimneys.
Building,
Principal: A building in which is conducted the main or principal use of the
lot on which said building is situated.
Bus Terminal: An
area and/or building where buses are stored or parked on a regular basis
with or without bus maintenance and repair facilities.
Campground or
Recreational Vehicle (RV) Park: See Recreational Subdivision or Land
Development.
Canoe Livery: A
business or facility for the leasing or renting of any type of watercraft or
waterborne vessel for outdoor water based recreation.
Car Wash: Any
building or premises or portions thereof used for washing automobiles for
commercial purposes.
Child Care Center:
Any establishment enrolling four or more children five (5) years of age or
younger and where tuition, fees, or other forms of compensation for the care
of the children is charged.
Church: A
building used for public worship.
Clearcutting: The
removal from a forested tract of land of substantially all trees, for other
than agricultural, approved wildlife management practices or other use
approved in accord with this Ordinance.
Clear Sight
Triangle: An area of unobstructed vision at a street intersection(s),
defined by lines of sight between points at a given distance from the
intersecting street right-of-way lines.
Club/Lodge,
Private: An establishment operated for social, athletic, recreational or
educational purposes but open only to members and not generally open to the
general public.
Cluster
Development: A form of development for single-family residential development
that permits a reduction in lot area and certain development standards,
provided unit densities permitted under a conventional subdivision are
maintained and the resultant land area is devoted to common open space.
Commission: The
Planning Commission of Lackawaxen Township
Comprehensive Plan:
The Lackawaxen Township Comprehensive Plan including all maps, charts and
textual matter.
Conditional Use: A
use which is not appropriate to a particular zoning district as a whole, but
which may be suitable in certain localities within the district only when
specific conditions and factors prescribed for such cases within this
Ordinance are present. Conditional uses are allowed or denied by the
Township Board of Supervisors after recommendations by the Planning
Commission.
Construction: The
construction, reconstruction, renovation, repair, extension, expansion,
alteration, or relocation of a building or structure, including the
placement of manufactured homes.
Convenience Store:
A one-story, retail store designed and stocked to sell primarily food,
beverages, and other household supplies to customers who purchase only a
relatively few items (in contrast to a "supermarket"), it may also include
the sale of gasoline but shall not include the repair or service of
vehicles.
Corral: An
enclosure for confining livestock and which is typically attached to or
situated in close proximity to a stable or barn; as contrasted to a pasture.
Country Club: A
recreational property owned and managed by membership organization and
including recreational facilities, restaurant and meeting rooms.
Deck: An elevated
(more than 6 inches) attached accessory structure constructed of wood with
no walls or roof. As an attached accessory structure, it must meet the
required setbacks for the principle building.
Developer: Any
landowner, agent of such owner, or tenant with the permission of such
landowner, who makes or causes to be made a subdivision of land or a land
development.
Development: Any
man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not
limited to buildings or other structures, the placement of manufactured
homes, streets, and other paving, utilities, filling, grading, excavation,
mining, dredging, or drilling operations and the subdivision of land.
Development Plan: A
proposal for a planned residential development, prepared in accordance with
this Ordinance and the Township Subdivision Ordinance, including a plat of
the subdivision, locations of various uses, and all covenants relating to
uses, locations and sizes of buildings and other structures, intensity of
use or density of development, streets, ways, and parking facilities, common
open spaces and public facilities.
Dwelling: A
structure or portion thereof which is used exclusively for human habitation.
Dwelling Unit: One
(1) or more rooms in a dwelling structure, including a kitchen, sleeping
facilities, bath and toilet, designed as a household unit for extended
periods of occupancy for living and sleeping purposes by not more than one
(1) family at a time.
Dwelling,
Multi-family: A building or buildings designed for occupancy by three (3) or
more families living independently of each other in separate dwelling units.
The term "multi-family dwelling" shall include condominium as well as
non-condominium housing units including the following construction types:
A. Residential
Conversion to Apartments - Conversion of an existing single-family detached
dwelling into three (3) to five (5) dwelling units and not exceeding two and
one-half (2 1/2) stories in height.
B.Garden Apartment.
Multi-family dwellings originally designed as such; containing three or more
dwelling units and not exceeding two and one-half (2 1/2) stories in height,
not including townhouses.
C.Townhouse.
Multi-family dwelling of three (3) or more dwelling units of no more than
two and one-half (2 1/2) stories in height in which each unit has its own
front and rear accesses to the outside, no unit is located over another unit
and each unit is separated from any other unit by one or more common fire
resistant walls.
D. Apartment
Building. Multi-family dwellings of more than two and one half (2 1/2)
stories but not exceeding the height limitations (in feet) of this
Ordinance.
Dwelling,
Single-Family: A dwelling unit detached from any other dwelling unit
accommodating a single family and having two (2) side yards.
Dwelling,
Two-Family: Dwelling accommodating two families either with units which
are attached side
by side through the use of a party wall, and having
one side yard
adjacent to each dwelling unit; or upstairs/downstairs units.
Essential Services:
Public utility facilities that do not require enclosure in a building,
including the construction or maintenance, of gas, electrical, steam,
telephone, sewage treatment plants and collection systems, or water
distribution systems; including equipment such as poles, towers, wires,
mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police
call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants, and other similar equipment.
Family: Either an
individual, or two or more persons related by blood or marriage or adoption
or up to five (5) unrelated persons living together as a household in a
dwelling unit.
Farm Residence: A
single family dwelling associated and on the same parcel with an
agricultural use, the occupants of which are members of the immediate family
(mother/father, sister/brother, daughter/son) owning the agricultural use or
are fully employed by the agricultural use; and such dwelling is not rented
or otherwise used for non-agricultural, income producing purposes.
Farm Stand: A booth
or stall on a farm and from which produce and farm products are sold to the
general public and operated by the owner of the property.
Fast Food/Drive
Through Restaurant: An establishment whose principal business is the sale of
pre-prepared or rapidly prepared food directly to the customer in a
ready-to-consume state for consumption either within the restaurant building
or off-premises and which may include facilities that enable customers to
obtain food while remaining in their vehicles.
Flood: A temporary
inundation of normally dry land areas.
Floodplain area: A
relatively flat or low land area which is subject to partial or complete
inundation from an adjoining or nearby stream, river or watercourse; and/or
any area subject to the unusual and rapid accumulation of surface waters
from any source.
Floodproofing: Any
combination of structural and nonstructural additions, changes, or
adjustments to structures which reduce or eliminate flood damage to real
estate or improved real property, water and sanitary facilities, structures
and their contents.
Floodway: The
designated area of a floodplain required to
carry
and
discharge flood waters of a given magnitude. For the purposes of this
Ordinance, the floodway shall be capable of accommodating a flood of the one
hundred (100) year magnitude.
Forestry
Enterprises: Establishments primarily engaged in the operation of timber
tracts, tree farms, forest nurseries, the gathering of forest products, or
in performing forest services including the operation of a sawmill but
excluding other wood manufacturing businesses.
Garage, Private
Parking: A building or portion thereof used only for the storage of
automobiles by the families resident upon the premises or by individuals
residing in the immediate vicinity of such storage facilities.
Garage, Public
Parking: A structure or portion thereof, other than a private garage, used
for the storage, sale, hire, care, repair or refinishing of vehicles.
Garden Center,
Retail: A retail establishment engaged in the sale of ornamental trees,
shrubs and plants and supplies for gardening and landscaping.
Gasoline Service
Station: A structure, building, or area of land or any portion thereof that
is used for the sale of gasoline and oil or any other motor vehicle fuel
and/or other lubricating substance, which may or may not include facilities
for lubricating, washing, sale of accessories, and otherwise servicing motor
vehicles, but not including the painting and/or body work thereof. Any
business or industry dispensing gasoline and servicing vehicles only for its
own use will not be deemed to be a gasoline service station.
Golf Course: A
tract of land for playing golf, improved with trees, greens, fairways,
hazards, and which may include clubhouses; but does not include miniature
golf courses or golf ball driving ranges.
Cross Floor Area:
The sum of the total horizontal areas of the several floors of a building
measured from the exterior face of exterior walls, or from the centerline of
a wall separating two buildings, but not including interior parking spaces,
loading space for vehicles, or any space where the floor-to-ceiling height
is less than six feet.
Group Care
Facility: A facility or dwelling unit housing persons unrelated by blood or
marriage and operating as a group family household. Any facility housing six
or more individuals, including staff, shall be considered a health facility.
Group Family
Household: A group of not more than six individuals including staff, not
related by blood, marriage, adoption or guardianship living together in a
dwelling unit as a single housekeeping unit under a common housekeeping
management plan based on an intentionally structured relationship providing
organization and stability.
Health Facilities:
Establishments primarily engaged in providing services for human health
maintenance including hospital facilities, nursing and adult homes, personal
care facilities and medical clinics and offices whether publicly or
privately operated.
Home
Occupation: Any use customarily conducted entirely within a dwelling and
carried on by the inhabitants residing in the dwelling, providing that the
use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for
dwelling purposes, the exterior appearance of the structure or premises is
constructed and maintained as a residential dwelling, and no goods are
publicly displayed on the premises other than a sign as regulated by this
Ordinance; and may include professional practice of medicine, dentistry,
architecture, law and engineering, artists, beauticians, barbers, and
veterinarians, and similar types of uses, excluding stables, kennels or
motor vehicle or small engine repair shops. (See also Section 503.2 and
536.8).
Horse: Any animal
of the horse family or resembling a horse including horses, mules and
donkeys.
Hospital: An
institution providing primary health services and medical or surgical care
to persons, primarily inpatients, suffering from illness, disease, injury,
deformity and other abnormal physical or mental conditions, and including,
as an integral part of the institution, related facilities such as
laboratories, outpatient facilities or training facilities.
Hotel: A facility
offering temporary (generally for periods of two weeks or less) lodging
accommodations to the general public, typically on the basis of daily or
weekly rentals, and providing additional services such as restaurants,
meeting rooms and recreational facilities.
Hotel, Small: A
building, in which (a) lodging or boarding are provided and offered to the
public for compensation, (b) ingress and egress to and from all rooms are
made through an inside lobby, (c) includes, but is not limited to, country
inns and youth hostels, and (d) meets the following conditions: (1) does not
exceed twelve rental units in size, and (2) is compatible with the natural
and scenic characteristics for which the Delaware River Corridor (DRC)
District was designated.
Housekeeping
Cottages: Small detached dwelling units rented out for occasional use on a
daily, weekly or monthly basis.
Industrial Park: A
tract of land that has been planned, developed and operated as an integrated
facility for a number of individual industrial uses, with special attention
to circulation, parking, utility needs, aesthetics and compatibility.
Institutional Use:
Any land use, generally serving no less than twenty-five (25) persons at one
time, for the following public or private purposes: educational facilities,
including universities, colleges, elementary, secondary and vocational
schools, kindergartens and nurseries, cultural facilities such as libraries,
galleries, museums, concert halls, theaters and the like; hospitals,
including such educational, clinical, research and convalescent facilities
as are integral to the operation of the hospital; medical and health service
facilities, including nursing homes, supervised residential institutions,
rehabilitation therapy centers and public health facilities; military
facilities; law enforcement facilities; and other similar facilities.
Junk: Any scrap,
waste, reclaimable material or debris, vehicles or parts thereof, whether or
not stored or used in conjunction with dismantling, processing, salvage,
storage, baling, disposal, or other use or disposition.
Junk Yard: An area
of land, with or without buildings, used for the storage, outside a
completely enclosed building, of used and discarded materials, including but
not limited to, waste paper, rags, metal, building materials, house
furnishings, machines, vehicles, or parts thereof, with or without the
dismantling, processing, salvage, sale, or other use or disposition of the
same. The outside storage or deposit on a lot of two (2) or more vehicles
which do not have current licenses and/or two (2) or more inoperable
vehicles shall be considered a junk yard. Agricultural vehicles such as
tractors, mowers, etc., which are utilized as part of an active on-going
farming operation and contractors construction equipment actively used for
part of the operation shall be exempt from this provision. Automobile sales
lots managed by licensed automobile dealers and storage areas for antique
autos shall be also exempt from this provision.
Kennel: The keeping
of four (4) or more dogs or other animal, domestic or otheriwse, that are
more than six (6) months of age, but not including agriculture.
Land Development:
Any of the following activities:
A. The improvement
of one lot or two or more contiguous lots, tracts or parcels
of land for any
purpose involving:
1. 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
2. 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.
B. A subdivision of
land.
C. Development
in accord with Section 503 (1.1) of the Pennsylvania
Municipalities
Planning Code.
Landowner: The
legal or beneficial 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 a landowner, or other persons having a proprietary interest in
land, shall be deemed to be landowners for the purpose of this Ordinance.
Living Space: The
sum of the areas of the several floors of a dwelling unit used for human
occupancy and including finished basements and attics as measured from the
interior faces of the walls. It dopes not include cellars, crawl spaces,
unenclosed porches, attics not used for human occupancy, nor any floor space
in an accessory building or in the main building intended or designed for
the parking of motor vehicles in order to meet the parking requirements of
this Ordinance.
Lot: Land occupied
or to be occupied by a building and its accessory buildings, or by a
dwelling group and its accessory buildings, together with such open spaces
as are required under the provisions of this Ordinance, having not less than
the minimum area and width required by this Ordinance, and
having its principal frontage on a street or on such other means of
access as may be determined in accordance with the provisions of law to be
adequate as a condition of the issuance of a zoning permit for a building on
such land.
Lot Area: The total
number of square feet in the lot less any area included in any rights-of-way
affecting the lot.
Lot, Corner: A lot
situated at and abutting the intersection of two (2) streets having an
interior angle of intersection not greater than one hundred thirty-five
(135) degrees.
Lot Coverage: That
portion or percentage of the lot area which is covered by buildings, roads,
driveways, walkways, parking areas, or impervious surfaces including, but
not limited to, pavement.
Lot Depth: The
average horizontal distance between the front lot line and the rear lot
line.
Lot Line, Front:
The property line separating the lot from a street.
Lot Line, Rear:
The lot line opposite and most distant from the front lot line.
Lot Line, Side: Any
lot line other than a front or rear lot line. A side lot line separating a
lot from a street is called a side street lot line.
Lot Width: The
average of the width of a lot at the building setback line and the rear lot
line.
Manufactured Home:
A transportable, single-family dwelling intended for permanent occupancy,
office or place of assembly, contained in one or more sections, which
arrives at a site complete and ready for installation except for minor and
incidental unpacking and assembly operations, and constructed so that it may
be used with or without a permanent foundation; including, but not limited
to mobile homes and modular homes.
Manufacturing:
Establishments meeting the performance standards of this Ordinance and which
are engaged in assembly from components, fabrication of products, textile
and clothing manufacturing, mechanical or chemical transformation of
materials or substances into new products including the assembling of
component parts, the manufacturing of products, and the blending of
materials such as lubricating oils, plastics, resins or liquors. This
definition includes "light manufacturing" and "heavy manufacturing."
Manufacturing,
Heavy: Establishments meeting the performance standards of this Ordinance,
generally involve extensive buildings, outdoor production or storage, and
ancillary transportation modes, and which are engaged in the basic
mechanical, chemical or other transformation of extracted or raw materials
or substances into new products or materials, including, but not limited to,
the assembly of component parts, the manufacturing or transformation of
products for use by other manufactures, the blending of materials such as
lubricating oils, plastics, resins or liquors, other basic industrial
processes, and any facility involving processes resulting in the storage of
hazardous materials or the generation of large volumes of waste by-products
or hazardous waste products, or involving other environmentally regulated
processes.
Manufacturing,
Light: Facilities meeting the performance standards of this Ordinance and
which are fully enclosed in a building and involve generally unobtrusive
processes not resulting in the storage of hazardous materials or the
generation of hazardous waste products, or other environmentally regulated
processes. Uses producing products predominately from previously prepared
materials, finished products and parts, including, but not limited to,
research, engineering or testing laboratories, assembly from components,
fabrication of products, textile and clothing manufacturing, warehousing,
distribution centers, furniture or other wood products production and the
like, but excluding basic industrial processing.
Medical Clinic: An
establishment where patients are admitted for examination and treatment by
one or more physicians, dentists, psychologists or social workers and where
patients are not usually lodged overnight.
Mini-Warehouse
Facility: A building or buildings containing separated spaces to be leased
or rented to individuals and/or business for the storage of personal
belongings, goods or supplies.
Minor repair: The
replacement of existing work with equivalent materials for the purpose of
its routine maintenance and upkeep. Any repair except the removal and
reconstruction of any exterior portion or part of the structure or any
increase in size of the structure.
Mobile Home: A
transportable, single family dwelling intended for permanent occupancy,
office or place of assembly contained in one unit, or in two 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.
Mobile Home Lot:
Land occupied or to be occupied by a mobile home in a mobile home park,
improved with the necessary utility connections and other appurtenances;
and, said lot being specifically designated by diversion from other lots in
the mobile home park.
Mobile Home Park: A
parcel or contiguous parcels of land under single ownership which has been
planned and improved for the placement of two (2) or more mobile homes.
Model Home: A
residential structure associated with a principal permitted commercial use
and not intended for permanent occupancy; and used solely for demonstration
purposes to inform
potential purchasers of the types of homes available from the seller.