Sustainable forestry principles and implementation guidelines published by the American Forest and Paper Association, October 14, 1994.

A paved surface, other than a street, which provides vehicular access for the public from a street or private road to a lot.

A structure detached from, subordinate to, and on the same lot with the principle structure, and used for purposes customarily incidental thereto. Accessory structures shall include car ports, private garages, gazebos, pet houses, utility or storage buildings, and swimming pools, as defined herein.

A use on the same lot with and customarily incidental to any of the permitted uses.

Any property that directly adjoins, is contiguous to or is located across a public or private street from another property.

Any business function in which there is no regular contact with the general public and no materials, products, goods, or prepared foods are stored except for office consumption.

An establishment having, as a primary stock or trade, movies, shows, books, magazines, and other periodicals, which are distinguished or characterized by their emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to sexual activities or specific anatomical areas.

Any person who; acting for a developer, landowner, or lessee submits plans to the Zoning Officer, the Office of Planning and Development, Zoning Hearing Board, or the Borough Council for the purpose of obtaining a permit of any kind.

An enterprise that is actively engaged in the commercial production and preparation for market of crops, livestock, and livestock products and/or in the production, harvesting, and preparation for market or use of agricultural, agronomic, horticultural, silvicultural, and aquacultural crops and commodities. The term includes an enterprise that implements changes in production practices and procedures or types of crops, livestock, livestock products, or commodities produced consistent with practices and procedures that are normally engaged by farmers or are consistent with technological development within the agricultural industry.

Any of the range of crop and livestock commodities grown or produced as a result of the conduct of an agricultural operation or farm.

Items sold at a farm market to attract customers and promote the sale of agricultural products. Such products are associated with agricultural products either produced on the farm where the farm market is located or on other farms within Adams or York counties.

The use of a tract of land for the purpose(s) of active cultivation or animal husbandry.

A structure or group of structures such as a wind turbine or solar collecting array designed and intended to produce energy from natural forces such as wind or sunlight.

A revision to the text or Zoning Map of the Abbottstown Borough Zoning Ordinance, adopted in accordance with the provisions of the Municipalities Planning Code.[1]

A facility used to house or contain stray, homeless, abandoned, or unwanted animals and that is owned, operated, or maintained by a municipality or nonprofit organization devoted to the welfare, protection, and humane treatment of animals.

Telecommunications equipment that transmits and receives electromagnetic radio signals used in the provision of all types of wireless telecommunications services.

A residential building consisting of three or more apartments where each apartment is accessed from a common internal hallway or an external walkway and where at least one apartment is located above another apartment.

Any of the following:

A communications service provider that submits an application.

A request submitted by an applicant to a municipality:

Every application, whether preliminary or final, required to be filed and approved prior to the start of construction or development including, but not limited to, the approval of a subdivision plat or a land development plan.

An area contiguous to a street or plaza that is open and unobstructed to a height of not less than 12 feet and that is accessible to the public at all times. The term "arcade" shall not include off-street loading areas, driveways, or off-street parking areas.

The total area taken on a horizontal plane at the main grade level of the principal building and all accessory buildings, exclusive of uncovered porches, terraces and steps.

The sum of the gross area of all floors of a building or buildings measured from the face of exterior walls or from centerlines of walls separating two buildings. Floor area includes, but is not limited to, the following:

A window structure projecting beyond the main wall plane.

An owner-occupied and operated dwelling originally designed as a residential structure where limited overnight lodging and a breakfast is provided for compensation to tourist or recreational guests.

An area bounded by three or more streets.

The Borough Council of the Borough of Abbottstown, Adams County.

A combination of materials to form a permanent structure having walls and a roof, including, but not limited to, all mobile homes and trailers.

The vertical distance between the average elevation of the proposed finished grade along the entire front of the building, and the highest point of the roof for flat roofs, and the deck lines for mansard roofs, and the mean height between eaves and ridges for gable, hip and gambrel roofs, but not including chimneys, towers, spires, elevator penthouses, tanks, railings and similar projections.

A line, drawn parallel to a front, side, or rear property line that depicts the closest distance of an existing building to said front, side, or rear property line.

A line, parallel to the street right-of-way line for front yards, and parallel to the lot lines for side and rear yards, designating the minimum distance from the right-of-way and/or lot lines that a building may be erected under the various land requirements of this chapter.

A term describing the size of buildings or other structures and their relationship to each other, to open areas such as yards and to lot lines and includes: the size, height, and floor area of buildings or other structures, the relationship of the number of dwelling units in a residential building to the area of the lot (usually called density); and all open areas in yard space relating to buildings and other structures.

A planned development with a unified design of business uses located in pedestrian scale structures arranged in a campus-like setting of usable open space providing such passive recreational amenities as hiking and bicycle paths, nature trails, picnic areas, wooded areas, and ponds.

Buildings, other structures and equipment used by the owner or operator of a cable television system to provide service. As used in this definition, the term "cable system" shall have the meaning given to it in Section 602(6) of the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 [Public Law 98-549, 47 U.S.C. § 522(7)].

The diameter of a tree measured at 12 inches above the ground surface.

A permanently roofed shelter projecting over a sidewalk, driveway, entry, window or other similar area, which shelter may be wholly supported by a building or may be wholly or partially supported by columns, pole, or braces extending from the ground. Any roof overhang extending more than two feet from the face of the building shall be considered a canopy.

A roofed structure for which the sole purpose is protection of motor vehicles. Such structures may be attached to the principal structure on no more than two sides but shall not be enclosed on any other dimension.

The portion of a road intended for vehicular use.

Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the deceased, including columbariums, crematories, mausoleums, and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with the cemetery and within the boundaries.

A certificate issued and enforced by the Zoning Officer, Building Permit Office, or their designee, upon completion of the construction of a new building or upon a change or conversion of the structure or use of a building, which certified that all requirements and regulations as provided herein, as well as all other applicable requirements, have been satisfied.

An institutional use of land and/or a building within which is housed an organization that caters exclusively to members and their guests. They shall include premises or buildings for social, recreation, and administrative purposes that are not conducted for profit, provided there are no vending stands, merchandising or commercial activities, except as required for the membership of such club. Clubs shall include but not be limited to, fraternal, political, religious, and service organizations, labor unions, Granges, and social and athletic clubs.

To install, mount, maintain, modify or replace small wireless facilities on an existing utility pole or other wireless support structure.

Any commercial use whose main purpose is to provide the general public with an amusing or entertaining activity, and where tickets are sold or fees are collected for the activity:

A set of equipment and network components, including wires and cables and associated facilities, used by a communications service provider to provide a communications service.

Any of the following:

A use permitted in a particular zoning district pursuant to the provisions set forth in Article XIV of this chapter.

Real estate, portions of which are designed for separate ownership and the remainder of which is designated for common use solely by the owners of those portions. Real estate is not a condominium unless the undivided interests in the common elements are vested in the unit owners.

A residential community designed to provide independent and assisted living arrangements for person(s) aged 55 years and older as part of a planned community, where said planned community may also include nursing services, medical services, and other health and lifestyle related services.

An apartment located within a former single-family detached dwelling that has been renovated to provide individual and independent dwellings for three or more families without substantially altering the exterior of the building.

An occupation or trade conducted entirely within a detached residential accessory structure which is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the lot and dwelling for residential purposes.

A facility with recreational amenities for members, their families and invited guests. This may also include food service to members and to the general public, as well as rental facilities for weddings, receptions and other large gatherings.

The County of Adams, Pennsylvania.

A gable set perpendicularly to the primary gable of a building.

A crosswalk shall be defined as:

Any dwelling, building, or portion thereof which child or adult day-care services other than babysitting are provided, including any on-site outdoor play areas.

A woody, perennial tree which loses its foliage at the end of each growing season.

A municipal pole that is specially designed and placed for aesthetic purposes.

The number of dwelling units per acre of land.

Any landowner, agent of such landowner, or tenant with the permission of such landowner, or one authorized and empowered by a landowner, who makes or causes to be made a subdivision of land or a land development or a resubdivision.

Any indoor or outdoor place or premises where trucks, tractors and/or trailers park or are assigned, stationed, fueled, stored, loaded or unloaded, except when accessory to a manufacturing or commercial use where said vehicles are used solely for the delivery of supplies and/or for the transport of items or commercial goods manufactured solely on the premises.

A landscaped island separating and running the length of two rows of contiguous parking spaces within a parking lot, and which provides opportunities for landscaping and traffic circulation control.

A roofed structure housing a vertical window that projects from a pitched roof.

A service made available by any establishment which, by design, physical facilities, service, or by packaging procedures encourages or permits customers to receive services, obtain goods, or be entertained while remaining in their motor vehicles.

The vehicular entrance and exit for land use.

See Dwelling, Single-Family Semidetached.

Any building which is designed for human living quarters, but not including hotels, boarding houses, tourist cabins, motels and other accommodations used for transient occupancy.

An independent housekeeping unit consisting of living quarters of one or more rooms arranged for use by one or more individuals with cooking, living, sleeping and sanitary facilities.

A building containing three or more dwelling units, designed for rental or condominium ownership of the individual dwelling units, and where access to individual dwelling units are provided in common interior hallways.

A building designed for two or more dwelling units attached by common or party walls, commonly identified as twin homes when two units are attached or townhouses or row houses when three or more units are attached together in a structure.

A building containing one dwelling unit, and having no party wall in common with adjacent property.

A building containing one dwelling unit, and having one vertical party wall in common with an adjacent property, aka "Duplex."

A building containing two dwelling units, arranged either in a side-by-side fashion sharing one common party wall or with one unit arranged over the other.

The right of a person, governmental agency, or public entity to use public or private land owned by another for a specific purpose.

The projecting overhang at the lower edge of a roof.

Facilities and structures, including fire, ambulance, and police services.

A professional engineer registered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

The removal of surface materials by the action of natural elements.

A woody, perennial tree which retains its foliage for more than one growing season, and which has a mature height exceeding 15 feet.

That portion of any exterior elevation on the building extending from grade to top of the parapet, wall, or eaves and the entire width of the building elevation.

The facade parallel or nearly parallel to the public or private street upon which the building has its primary frontage. The front facade contains the primary entrance to the building.

The facade parallel or nearly parallel to the side property line of the building.

A parcel, which may include a residence, farm-related buildings, and surrounding land, and which is devoted to the production of agricultural products.

An establishment located on a farm or other property where agricultural operations are conducted and providing for the sale of horticultural and agricultural products or agriculturally related products that are either produced on the farm or are directly related to agricultural products produced within Adams or York counties.

The Federal Communications Commission.

A bank, savings and loan association, credit union, finance or loan company, or similar establishment.

A facility providing fitness, health and dietary instruction and training by certified professionals. Aerobic, cardiovascular and weight training instruction and equipment may be available as well as martial arts instruction, aquatic activities, and massage and other physical therapy.

A measure of light falling on a surface. One footcandle is equal to the amount of light generated by one candle shining on one square foot surface located one foot away.

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.

A light fixture that, by design of the housing, does not allow any light dispersion or direct glare to shine above a 90° angle measured horizontally from the base of the housing.

A building designed for the purpose of the preparation and viewing of the deceased prior to burial or cremation. Funeral homes shall not include cemeteries, columbariums, mausoleums, or entombments, but may include mortuaries and crematoriums.

A permanent structure, either attached to or separate from a principal building, used primarily for storage of automobiles or other large motorized vehicles.

Any parcel, and associated structure thereon, used for:

A freestanding, roofed temporary or permanent structure, usually open-sided, providing a shady resting or gathering place.

A tract of land laid out with at least nine holes for playing a game of golf and improved with tees, greens, fairways, and hazards. A golf course may include a club house and shelters as accessory uses but does not include a miniature golf course.

The Borough Council of Abbottstown.

Any local, county, state or federal government building, office or facility designed and intended to be occupied by the government or designed and intended for public use sponsored by such governments or its designee, including but not limited to administration uses, post offices, community centers, libraries, offices for public utilities and other similar uses.

A facility providing shelter, counseling, and other rehabilitative services in a family-like environment for no more than 10 residents and such supervisory personnel as required by the licensing agency. Such facilities may provide supervisory and rehabilitative services, but medical care or nursing supervision shall not be provided.

The vertical distance measured from ground level to the highest point on the sign, or its supporting structure.

A building that is or a group of buildings, properties or sites that are:

Any use customarily conducted entirely within a dwelling or in a building accessory thereto and carried on by the inhabitants residing therein, provided that the use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for residential purposes.

A use conducted entirely within a dwelling and carried on by the inhabitants residing therein, provided that the use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for residential purposes, and that the use generates no customer or delivery traffic.

An institution, licensed in the commonwealth as a hospital, which renders inpatient and outpatient medical care for a twenty-four-hour-per-day basis; and provides primary health services and medical/surgical care to persons suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity and other abnormal physical or mental conditions. A hospital use can also include attached and detached accessory uses, provided that all uses are contained upon the hospital property. This definition does not include an animal hospital.

A building containing individual sleeping units or rooms and used primarily for transient travelers, together with off-street parking facilities, and where access to individual units is from hallways internal to the building.

The area of any lot covered by impervious materials. This shall include pervious surfaces such as porous concrete or pavers in the impervious lot coverage calculation.

A material that prevents the infiltration of water into the ground. Impervious materials, surfaces and areas include but are not limited to roofs, additional indoor living spaces, patios and decks, garages, storage sheds and similar structures, streets, driveways, access drives, parking areas, and sidewalks. Any areas designed to be covered by loose surfacing materials such as gravel, stone and/or crushed stone, and intended for storage of and/or travel by vehicles, or pedestrians shall be considered impervious. Any material not specifically listed in this definition shall be considered pervious.

Old, dilapidated, scrap or abandoned metal, paper, building material and equipment, bottles, glass, appliances, furniture, beds and bedding, rags, rubber, unlicensed motor vehicles, and parts thereof.

Any lot, land, structure or part thereof which is used primarily for the collection, storage or sale of waste paper, rags, scrap metal or discarded material, or for the collection, dismantling, storage, salvaging or sale of machinery, vehicles or parts thereof not in running condition.

The boarding, breeding, raising, grooming, or training of two or more dogs, cats, or other household pets of any age, primarily for commercial gain.

Any of the following activities:

The legal or beneficial owner or owners of land including the holder of an option or contract to purchase (whether or not such option or contract is subject to any condition), a lessee if he is authorized under the lease to exercise the rights of the landowner, or other person having proprietary interest in land.

A professional landscape architect registered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

A plan prepared to demonstrate the additions of trees, plants, and other natural and decorative features to the land, as may be required by this chapter.

The area within the boundaries of a given lot that consists of planting materials, including, but not limited to, trees, shrubs, ground covers, grass, flowers, decorative rock, bark, mulch, and other similar materials. At least 50% of the landscaping area must be covered by live plant material at the time of plant maturity.

Light from an artificial light source that intrudes into an area where it is not wanted or does not belong.

Any musical act, theatrical act, comedy act, play, revue, scene, dance act, or any combination thereof, performed by one or more persons, whether or not they are compensated for the performance, in a privately owned premises that is open to the public, whether or not admission is charged. Live entertainment does not include adult entertainment uses, as defined herein.

The total floor area within a dwelling unit devoted to occupiable space. In calculating the living area for a dwelling unit, the floor area devoted to closets or other storage areas, internal or external stairwells, and utility rooms shall not be included in the calculations.

A designated parcel, tract, or area of land established by plat or otherwise as permitted by law, to be used, developed or built upon as a unit.

The area contained within the property lines of a lot, excluding any street right-of-way or driveway easement providing access to an adjoining property, or officially designated floodplain located on the lot.

That lot line that is described as the front property line in the deed of said property unless otherwise specified in this chapter. In the absence of a deed described front property line, said line shall be the centerline of the street right-of-way.

That lot line which is parallel to and most distant from the front lot line of the lot. In the case of an irregular-, triangular- or gore-shaped lot, a line 10 feet in length, entirely within the lot, parallel to, and at the maximum distance from, the front lot line shall be considered the "rear lot line."

Any lot line other than a front or rear lot line.

The lines bounding a lot.

A lot abutting on, and at the intersection of, two or more streets.

The horizontal distance measured between the street right-of-way line and the closest rear property line measured perpendicular along straight street rights-of-way and measured radially along curved street rights-of-way. On corner and reverse frontage lots, the depth shall be measured from the street right-of-way of the street of address to the directly opposite property line.

The length of the front lot line measured at the street right-of-way line.

Any lot which is not a corner lot.

An interior lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel streets. The lot shall not be considered a through lot if the street the lot fronts on is an alley/service street, as defined in this chapter.

The horizontal distance between side lines of a lot measured at right angles to its depth along a straight line parallel to the front lot line at the minimum required building setback line. On corner lots, lot width shall be measured between the right-of-way line for the nonaddress street and the directly opposite property line along the minimum building setback line, and at the street right-of-way line along the street of address.

A complete lighting unit, often referred to as a "light fixture." A luminaire consists of the light source, optical reflector and housing, and electrical components for safely starting and operating the source.

A deciduous tree with a mature height exceeding 35 feet.

The manufacture or compounding process of raw materials. These activities or processes would necessitate the storage of large volumes of highly flammable, toxic matter or explosive materials needed for the manufacturing process. These activities may involve outdoor operations as part of their manufacturing process.

The manufacture, predominately from previously prepared materials, of finished products or parts, including processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment and packaging of such products, and incidental storage, sales and distribution of such products, but excluding basic industrial processing and custom manufacturing.

The processing and manufacturing of materials or products predominately from extracted or raw materials. These activities may include outdoor assembly and storage of products. Outdoor manufacturing of raw materials into compost, primarily for commercial resale, is a medium manufacturing activity. These activities do not necessitate the storage of large volumes of highly flammable, toxic matter or explosive materials needed for the manufacturing process.

A voluntary negotiating process in which parties in a dispute mutually select a neutral mediator to assist them in jointly exploring and settling their differences, culminating in a written agreement which the parties themselves create and consider acceptable.

A place, building, or portion of a building used exclusively by physicians, optometrists, chiropractors, dentists, physical therapists, massage therapists, or other drugless practitioners involving non-surgical treatment, care, examination and diagnosis, and preventive health services, including inoculation and educational services to outpatients. This definition includes medical laboratories used in the taking, analyzing and testing of physical samples and specimens for the diagnosis and treatment of patients.

A small wireless facility that:

A deciduous tree with a mature height of between 15 feet and 35 feet.

A transportable, single-family dwelling intended for permanent occupancy, contained in one unit, or in two or more units designed to be joined into one integral unit capable of again being separated for repeated towing, which arrives at a site complete and ready for occupancy except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembly operations, and constructed so that it may be used without a permanent foundation. A recreation vehicle that can be moved under its own power and without assistance from another vehicle shall not qualify as a mobile home.

A parcel of land in a mobile home park, improved with the necessary utility connections and other appurtenances necessary for the erection thereon of a single mobile home.

A parcel or contiguous parcels of land which has been designated and improved that it contains two or more mobile home lots for the placement thereon of mobile homes.

The improvement, upgrade or replacement of a small wireless facility or an existing utility pole that does not substantially change, as defined in 47 CFR 1.6100(b)(7) (relating to wireless facility modifications), the physical dimension of the small wireless facility or utility pole.

A dwelling unit assembled or partially assembled away from the site on which it will be located and produced as a standardized unit.

See Hotel.

A utility pole owned, managed, or operated by or on behalf of a municipality.

The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act of 1968, P.L. 805, No. 247 as reenacted and amended.

The Borough of Abbottstown, Adams County, Pennsylvania.

An establishment operated as a place of entertainment, characterized by any or all of the following as a principal use:

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.

A lot, the area or dimension of which was lawful prior to the adoption or amendment of the Zoning Ordinance, but which fails to conform to the requirements of the zoning district in which it is located by reasons of such adoption or amendment.

A structure or part of a structure manifestly not designed to comply with the applicable use or extent of use provisions in this chapter, or an amendment thereto, where such structure lawfully existed prior to the enactment of this chapter, or an amendment thereto. Such nonconforming structures include, but are not limited to, nonconforming signs.

A use, whether of land or of structure, which does not comply with the applicable provisions of this chapter, or an amendment thereto, where such use was lawfully in existence prior to the enactment of this chapter, or an amendment thereto.

A residential community designed to provided assisted living arrangements including nursing services, medical services and other health and continuing care services for person(s) aged 55 years and older.

A building, or portion of a building, in which administrative, clerical, financial, governmental or professional operations and services are performed by one or more members of a profession.

Any parcel or area of land or water, or a combination of land and water, within a development site that is free of nonrecreation-related improvements and impervious surfaces. Open space may or may not be designed or intended for the use and enjoyment of, and direct access by, residents of the development and shall not include areas devoted to buildings, structures, driveways, access drives, parking lots, street rights-of-way, and areas set aside for public facilities. Open space may include both active and passive recreation activities.

That portion of a wall which extends above the roof line.

See Lot.

A tract of land existing, as of the effective date of this chapter, within a specific setting or location, which could be subjected to future subdivision or land development proposals and approvals.

A facility designed to serve the recreational needs of the residents of the community.

The space within a building or on a lot or parking lot for the parking or storage of one motor vehicle off the right-of-way of a public street or road.

A buffer area surrounding a parking lot on all sides and within which required landscaping can be installed.

An individual, partnership, corporation, or other legally recognized entity.

The Planning Commission of the Borough of Abbottstown, Adams County, Pennsylvania.

A unit of measure used to determine the quantity of plantings required in a residential, commercial, industrial, or other development project. For the purposes of this chapter, one planting unit (PU) shall equal:

A colonnade or covered ambulatory often found at the entrance of a building.

The main or primary use of land or structures, as distinguished from an accessory use, as herein defined.

Any procedure, activity, or use limited to members of an organization or to persons specifically invited where no advertisement or inducement has been made to the general public.

A continuous molding between adjoining plane surfaces.

Any procedure, activity, or use in which the general public is or may be involved.

Public grounds shall include:

A formal meeting held pursuant to public notice by the governing body or planning agency, intended to inform and obtain public comment, prior to taking action in accordance with this chapter.

A forum held pursuant to notice under 65 Pa. C.S. CH. 7 (relating to open meetings).

Notice published once each week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality. Such notice shall state the time and place of the hearing and the particular nature of the matter to be considered at the hearing. The first publication shall not be more than 30 days and the second publication shall not be less than seven days from the date of the hearing.

Transportation service for the general public provided by a common carrier of passengers on a regular route basis.

A use which is operated, owned or maintained by a public utility corporation and regulated by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission in accordance with the requirements of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Code, 66 Pa. C.S. 101 et seq., or which is operated, owned or maintained by a municipality or a municipal authority organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to provide public water service, public sewer service, or similar services. A "public utility" shall not include cellular telephone transmission or receiving facilities and similar facilities of entities which are not governmentally owned and operated or are not regulated by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.

Units of stone or brick used to accentuate the corners of buildings.

A building, structure, or group of buildings or structures, designed, intended, and used for the assembly of individuals engaging in religious practices. This definition shall include, but is not limited to, churches, temples, chapels, cathedrals, synagogues, and mosques. This definition does not include educational or day-care facilities, but may include a rectory for one family.

An establishment, including a cafe, where food is prepared and available to the general public for a determined compensation.

A commercial enterprise that provides goods directly to the consumer, where such goods are available for immediate purchase and removal from the premises by the purchaser.

A continuous groove between adjoining plane surfaces.

The area on, below or above a public roadway, highway, street, sidewalk, alley, utility easement or similar property. The term does not include a federal interstate highway.

Any building or group of buildings, the use of which meets state requirements for primary, secondary, or higher education and which does not secure the major part of its funding from any governmental agency.

Any building or group of buildings, the use of which meets state requirements for primary, secondary, or higher education and which secures the major part of its funding from a governmental agency.

A building or group of buildings in a controlled access and fenced compound, and that contains individual, compartmentalized, and controlled access stalls or lockers for the storage of customer's goods or wares.

Activities including any of the following:

A grouping of four or more retail business and/or service uses planned and designed to function as a unit, and having off-street parking and a landscaping plan as an integral part of the unit.

A low, multistemmed woody plant, whether evergreen or deciduous, with a mature height of no more than 15 feet.

Any device, fixture, placard, or structure that uses any color, form, graphic, illustration, symbol, or writing to advertise, announce, the purpose of, or to communicate information of any kind to the public.

Any sign that is painted on, applied to or attached to a structure made of cloth, canvas, or similar material which is affixed to and projects from a building on or near the front entryway of a business. A marquee shall not be considered a canopy.

Any sign that communicates a commercial or noncommercial message related to an activity conducted, a service rendered, or a commodity sold at a location other than where the sign is located. Such signs shall not include off-premises directional signs, as defined herein.

A sign affixed to the visible vertical surface of an attached or freestanding canopy.

A sign, or a portion thereof, where the message copy includes characters, letters or illustrations that can be changed or rearranged electronically from a remote location without touching or physically altering the primary surface of the sign.

A sign located for the purpose of providing directions towards or indication of use not readily visible.

A type of freestanding or wall sign designed to identify the name and location of multiple occupants on the same lot, commercial or industrial in character, with or without an accompanying map, in order to aid in the internal pedestrian circulation within the lot.

A permanently installed sign affixed to a pole, post, or column, or to a wall of a principal building or accessory structure, consisting of a list of products and/or services offered for sale and/or pictorial displays of product offered for sale which may include the price of products and/or services, which list and/or pictorial display is posted on the premises of a business near the point of ordering.

A sign attached to, placed upon, or hung from any structure projecting from and supported by a building and which extends beyond the facade of the building (such as a canopy, an awning, etc.).

Any sign supported by structures or supports that are placed on, or anchored in, the ground and that are independent from any building or other structure.

A sign, not including billboard signs as defined herein, located for the purpose of providing directions to a use not readily visible and not located on the lot where the sign is erected.

Any lightweight object made of plastic, fabric or other material, whether or not containing a message of any kind, designed to move in the wind. This definition shall not be construed to include government flags or insignias.

Any sign affixed to a building or wall in such a manner that its leading edge extends more than six inches beyond the surface of such building or wall.

A freestanding sign affixed to the ground by a base that extends, at a minimum, the full width of the sign face.

An A-frame sign that is not permanently attached to the ground or other permanent structure.

A sign which placed on a lot and used only for a limited period of time, and including real estate signs advertising the sale or rental of the premises, contractor signs, yard or garage sale signs, and political signs.

Any sign attached parallel to, but within six inches of, a wall painted on the wall surface of, or erected and confined within the limits of an outside wall of any building or structure, which is supported by such wall or building, and which displays only one sign surface. Such signs shall not include roof signs as defined herein.

Any sign, picture, symbol, or combination thereof, designed to communicate information about an activity, business, commodity, event, sale, or service, that is placed inside a window or upon the window panes or glass and is visible from the exterior of the window.

The equipment and network components, including antennas, transmitters, and receivers, used by a wireless provider that meet the following qualifications:

A use permitted in a particular zoning district pursuant to the provisions of Article XIV of the Zoning Ordinance of the Borough of Abbottstown.

Areas including any of the following:

See Utility Building.

That portion of a building, other than the basement (as defined), including between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it.

An existing or platted way dedicated for the use of the general public, graded and paved or to be graded and paved, in order that the general public has the right to pass and to use it at all times, for the purposes of travel, transportation or parking to which it is adopted, devoted, and not otherwise restricted. Streets are further defined and classified as follows:

A line defining the edge of a street right-of-way and separating the street from abutting property or lots, commonly known as the "right-of-way line."

Any man-made object having an ascertainable stationary location on or in land or water, whether or not affixed to the land.

The division or redivision of a lot, tract or parcel of land by any means into two or more lots, tracts, parcels or other divisions of land including changes in existing lot lines for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of lease partition by the court for distribution to heirs of devisees, transfer of ownership, or of building or lot development; provided however, that the subdivision by lease of land for agricultural purposes into parcels of more than 10 acres, not involving any new street or easement of access, or any residential dwelling, shall be exempt.

Any permanent or temporary structure which is constructed, used, or maintained to provide recreational facilities for swimming, bathing, or wading, and including all buildings, equipment, and appurtenances thereto.

An establishment used primarily for the dispensing or sale of alcoholic beverages by the drink for on-site consumption.

By virtue of engineering or spectrum usage, the proposed placement for a small wireless facility or its design or site location can be implemented without a material reduction in the functionality of the small wireless facility.

A landscaped area constructed at the end of a row, or adjoining rows, or parking spaces within a parking lot.

A series of three or more single-family dwelling units attached by one or more vertical common walls.

A residential development containing a group of townhouses developed on a single parcel of land and sharing common parking, recreation, and landscaping areas.

See Dwelling, Single-Family Semidetached.

A ratio indicating how evenly light is distributed across a surface.

Any purpose for which a building or other structure or a tract of land may be designed, arranged, intended, maintained, or occupied, or any activity, occupation, business, or operation carried on in a building or other structure on a tract of land.

A temporary or permanent structure used primarily for storage or personal workshop and which shall not be used for storage of automobiles or other large motorized vehicles.

Buildings, other structures and equipment owned or operated by a public utility, as defined in 66 Pa.C.S.A. § 102 (relating to definitions), to provide service.

A pole or similar structure that is or may be used, in whole or in part, by or for telecommunications, electric distribution, lighting, traffic control, signage or a similar function or for co-location. The term includes the vertical support structure for traffic lights but does not include wireless support structures or horizontal structures to which signal lights or other traffic control devices are attached.

Relief granted pursuant to the provisions of Article XIV of this chapter, as amended.

Any building or portion of a building designed or used for the medical or surgical care and treatment of domestic animals. This use may exist on the same premises with a commercial kennel use, as defined in this chapter.

A building, or portion thereof, or buildings used or intended to be used primarily for the receipt, temporary storage, and redistribution of goods and/or materials that are to be sold retail or wholesale from other premises, or wholesale from the same premises; however, nothing in this definition is meant to exclude purely incidental retail sales in warehouses.

A stream of water, river, brook, creek; a channel or ditch for water whether natural or man-made.

A formed concrete or synthetic material block shaped in the form of a street curb, permanently affixed to the parking lot surface, and placed to prevent the movement of vehicles beyond the delineated parking space area.

Any device used for the transmission or reception of radio, television, wireless telephone, pager, commercial mobile radio service, or any other wireless communication signals, including without limitation omnidirectional or whip antennas and directional or panel antennas, owned and operated by any person or entity licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to operate such devices. This definition does not include private-residence-mounted satellite dishes or television antennas or amateur radio equipment including without limitation ham or citizen band radio antennas.

A structure, other than a building, but including monopole towers, self-supporting towers, or guyed towers, designed to be used to support wireless communications antennas.

As follows:

A person authorized by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to provide telecommunications service in this commonwealth that builds or installs wireless communication transmission equipment, wireless facilities or wireless support structures but is not a wireless services provider.

A wireless infrastructure provider or a wireless services provider.

Services, whether at a fixed location or mobile, using a licensed or unlicensed spectrum, provided to the public using wireless facilities.

A person who provides wireless services.

The term shall have the same meaning given to it in the Act of October 24, 2012 (P.L. 1501, No. 191), known as the "Wireless Broadband Collocation Act."[4]

A space which is open to the sky and unoccupied by any building, structure or merchandise for display or sale, and which is located on the same lot with a building or structure.

A line drawn parallel to the corresponding lot lines at a distance specified for the required depth of yard in each respective case.

A yard on the same lot with a main building extending the full width of the lot, and situated between the lot line and the front building setback line.

A yard on the same lot with a main building, extending the full width of the lot and situated between the rear lot line and the required rear building line.

A yard on the same lot with a main building, situated between a side line and the corresponding building line, and located between the front yard and the rear yard.

The map establishing the boundaries of the zoning districts of the Abbottstown Borough Zoning Ordinance, which map shall be and is a part of this chapter.

The municipal official duly appointed by the Borough Council of the Borough of Abbottstown to administer and enforce the Zoning Ordinance of the Borough of Abbottstown.

The Zoning Ordinance of Abbottstown Borough, as amended.

A permit required by this chapter in a specific circumstance.