Sec. 2000. The regulations in this Ordinance shall be subject to the following interpretations and exceptions:

Sec. 2001. Essential services serving the Township of Bedford shall be permitted as authorized and regulated by law and other ordinances of the Township. Overhead or underground lines and necessary poles and towers to be erected to service primarily those areas beyond the Township shall receive the review and approval, after a public hearing, of the Board of Appeals. Such review of the Board of Appeals shall consider abutting property and uses as they relate to easements, rights-of-way, overhead lines, poles and towers and further, shall consider injurious effects on property abutting or adjacent thereto and on the orderly appearance of the Township.

Sec. 2002. The provisions of this Ordinance shall not be so construed as to interfere with the temporary use of any property as a voting place in connection with a municipal or other public election.

Sec. 2003. Repealed by Ord. No. 44A-189.

Sec. 2004. In calculating the area of a lot that adjoins an alley for the purpose of applying lot area and setback requirements of this Ordinance, one-half the width of such alley abutting the lot shall be considered as part of such lot.

Sec. 2005. When yard regulations cannot reasonably be complied with, or where their application cannot be determined on lots of peculiar shape, topography or due to architectural or site arrangement, such regulations may be modified or determined by the Board of Appeals.

Sec. 2006. An open, unenclosed, and uncovered porch or paved terrace may project into a front yard for a distance not exceeding ten feet, but this shall not be interpreted to include or permit fixed canopies.

Sec. 2007. Architectural features, not including vertical projections, may extend or project into a required side yard not more than two inches for each one foot of width of such side yard; and may extend or project into a required front yard or rear yard not more than three feet.

Sec. 2008. For the purpose of this Ordinance, access drives may be placed in the required front or side yards so as to provide access to rear yards or accessory or attached structures. These drives shall not be considered as structural violations in front and side yards. Further, any walk, terrace or other pavement servicing a like function, and not in excess of nine inches above the grade upon which placed, shall for the purpose of the Ordinance not be considered to be a structure, and shall be permitted in any required yard.

Sec. 2009. The height limits of this Ordinance shall not apply to penthouses or roof structures for the housing of elevators, stairways, tanks, ventilating fans, or similar equipment required to operate and maintain the building, fire or parapet walls, skylights, towers, steeples and similar architectural elements of religious buildings, stage lofts and screens, flagpoles, chimneys, smokestacks, individual domestic radio, television aerials and wireless masts, water tanks, or similar structures, provided however, that no such structure may be erected to exceed by more than 15 feet the height limits of the district in which it is located; nor shall such structure have a total area greater than 25 percent of the roof area of the building; nor shall such structure be used for any residential purpose or any commercial or industrial purpose other than a use incidental to the main use of the building. Notwithstanding anything stated above in this Section 2009 to the contrary, a federally-licensed amateur radio station operator may attach to the side of his home or garage an antenna that does not exceed 70 feet in height.

(Ord. No. 44A-172, § 2, 6-16-98; Ord. No. 44A-284, § 13, 5-14-13)