A vehicular throughway serving a nonresidential use or multifamily use located within a parking lot which directly adjoins parking spaces. An access drive provides the vehicular connection between parking space area and the driveway which directly connects to the public right-of-way. The access drive does not include the vehicular path that connects the parking area to the public way.

A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use or building and located on the same lot with such principal use or building.

A facility, not in a private residence, enrolling four or more adults no less than 18 years of age, where tuition, fees, or other forms of compensation for the instruction and care of the adults are charged. Such facility shall employ licensed personnel and shall be licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

An accessory use to an agricultural operation for the purpose of directly marketing agricultural products produced by the agricultural operation in their natural or manufactured state. The term shall include any on-farm processing, packaging or other activity performed in the course of direct marketing of the farmer's agricultural products.

A principal use accommodating for agricultural related equipment handling and sales, service, distribution and supply in support of local farming operations. Such a use also includes the commercial processing of agricultural products.

An enterprise that is actively engaged in the commercial production and preparation for market of crops, livestock and livestock products and 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.

The Bloomsburg Municipal Airport.

A public or private thoroughfare which affords only secondary means of access to abutting property and not intended for general traffic circulation.

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.

A change in regulations or district boundaries or classifications of property established by this Chapter and according to procedures provided by law and exercised by the Town Council.

One thousand pounds live weight of livestock or poultry animals, regardless of the actual number of individual animals comprising the unit, as defined in 3 Pa.C.S.A. § 503, as amended.

A building used for the treatment, housing or boarding incidental to hospital use of small domestic animals such as dogs, cats, rabbits and birds or fowl by a veterinarian.

Any lot or premises on which 10 or more dogs or cats, or both, at least four months of age are kept, boarded or trained, whether in special buildings or runways or not.

If a nonresidential land use is not specifically assigned to a zoning district herein, it is categorized as "Any Other Nonresidential Land Use Not Assigned Otherwise," and shall comply with the applicable regulations specified within this Chapter.

If a residential land use is not specifically defined, it is categorized as "Any Other Residential Land Use Not Defined Otherwise" in Schedule A and shall comply with the applicable regulations specified within this Chapter.

A landowner or developer, as hereinafter defined, who has filed an application for development including his heirs, successors and assigns.

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

A special combination of housing, supportive services, personalized assistance, and health care designed to respond to the individual needs of those who need help with activities of daily living. A facility with a central or private kitchen, dining, recreational, and other facilities, with separate bedrooms or living quarters, where the emphasis of the facility remains residential.

An open area utilized for the playing of intercollegiate or intramural sporting events with limited seating, lighting and concession requirements. Athletic fields are a less intense use than a stadium.

A self-propelled, free-moving vehicle, primarily for conveyance on a street or roadway.

A building or area, other than a street, used for the outdoor or indoor display, sale, or rental of one or more of the following: motor vehicles, recreation vehicles, boat trailers, farm equipment, motorcycles, trucks, utility trailers, construction vehicles or boats in an operable condition, or transportable mobilehomes in a livable condition. This use may include an auto repair garage as an accessory use provided that all requirements of such use are complied with. This use shall not include a mobilehome park or a junkyard.

A building on a lot, or part thereof, that is used primarily for the retail sale of gasoline, oil, other fuel and which may include facilities used for cleaning or servicing automobiles and other vehicles. However, any such facilities used for cleaning automobiles and other vehicles must be incidental to the primary use. This definition does not include "automobile washing (car wash)" as defined in this section.

A building on a lot, designed and used primarily for the washing and polishing of automobiles and which may provide accessory services as set forth herein for "automobile service stations."

The use of a lot for the repair of automobiles, noncommercial trucks, motorcycles, motorhomes, recreational vehicles, or boats, including the sale, installation, and servicing of equipment and parts. This use includes muffler shops, auto repair garages, tire sales and installation, wheel and brake shops, body and fender shops, and similar repair and service activities, automobile repair services, major (see also "motor vehicle repair and services establishment, major").

An establishment that produces and sells baked goods in an oven, such as, but not limited to, bread, cakes, doughnuts, pies, cookies, and pastries.

An establishment, such as a bank, savings and loan association, credit union, or investment company, where the principal business is the receipt, disbursement, or exchange of funds and currencies.

A story partly or totally underground. A basement shall not be considered in determining the required number of stories.

An owner-occupied operation within a single-family detached dwelling in which a minimum of two and a maximum of 10 rooms, all without cooking facilities, are rented to guests on a daily basis in which breakfast may be served to the guests by the proprietor of the facility.

As defined by Title 47, § 102 of the Pennsylvania Liquor Code, as amended.

A sign, serving as the principal use of a lot, that directs attention to a business, commodity, service, or entertainment conducted, sold or offered at a location other than the premises on which the sign is located.

A portion of an establishment which holds a brewery license as regulated by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, which is open to the public for the sale of brewed and malt beverages for on-site and/or off-site consumption and which also offers food to patrons, as regulated by Title 47, of the Pennsylvania Liquor Code, as amended. "Storage facility" means a portion of a warehouse or a separate structure, owned and maintained by a person or entity which holds a license that permits the temporary storage of brewed or malt beverages and which may also include a brewery pub or tap room, as regulated by Title 47, of the Pennsylvania Liquor Code, as amended.

An area which may be part of the required yard, intended to lessen the impact of the use of the lot or building upon adjacent lot or building when such use is considered by these regulations to adversely affect the adjoining use.

Any structure on a lot having a roof supported and enclosed by columns and walls and intended for the shelter, housing enclosure or storage of persons, animals or chattels.

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

A line parallel to the front, side or rear lot line so as to provide the required yard.

An establishment where lumber and other building materials such as brick, tile, cement, insulation, roofing materials, and the like are stored and sold at retail. The sale of items, such as heating and plumbing supplies, electrical supplies, paint, glass, hardware, and wallpaper may also be permitted.

A subordinate building or a portion of the main building on a lot, the use of which is customarily incidental to that of the main or principal building.

A building in which is conducted the principal use of the lot in which it is located.

Bulky, durable goods such as household appliances, furniture, automobiles and farm construction equipment, which all require extensive floor area for display.

Food is selected by a customer while going through a serving line and taken to a table for consumption.

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 line for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of lease, rent, sale or transfer of ownership, for the purpose of providing a site for travel trailers, truck campers, camper trailers, motor homes and tents, for temporary occupancy. Campgrounds, recreational vehicle parks, primitive camping facilities and other similar facilities shall fall under this definition.

An accessory building open on one or more sides which is primarily designed or used for parking automobiles.

An area of land or buildings used for the burial of deceased humans, but not animals. The interment or scattering or remains of properly cremated humans is not regulated by this Chapter.

A line equidistant from and parallel to the existing rights-of-way lines on each side of the street.

Defined by 55 Pa. Code, Chapter 3270, as amended, a "child care center" is a facility in which seven or more children unrelated to the operator receive child care services. A child day care center must have a certificate of compliance (license) from DHS in order to operate.

A child care center, as defined herein, which is accessory to any institutional or commercial land use permitted in the same zoning district.

Defined by 55 Pa. Code, Chapter 3290, as amended.

Defined by 55 Pa. Code, Chapter 3280, as amended.

A facility for examining and treating patients with medical problems on an outpatient basis, including ambulatory care or similar medical services that generally require a stay of less than 24 hours.

A membership organization that holds regular meetings and that may, subject to other regulations controlling such uses, maintain dining facilities, serve alcohol, or engage professional entertainment for the enjoyment of dues paying members and their guests. There are no sleeping facilities. This definition shall not include fraternities or sororities.

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

See definitions for "Commercial Communications Antenna" and "Commercial Communications Tower."

A structure, other than a building, such as a monopole, self-supporting or guyed tower, designed to support commercial communications antennas.

A type of commercial recreation facility that: a) does not meet the definition of an outdoor commercial recreation facility; and b) is used principally for active or passive recreation, such as a bowling alley, roller skating, ice skating, commercial batting cages, and similar uses. This term shall not include any use defined herein.

A establishment owned by a private-sector entity where the principal enterprise or activity involves the provision of outdoor recreational, amusement, and leisure activities, such as, but not limited to: tennis courts, sand volleyball courts, miniature golf courses, driving ranges, outdoor riflery or archery, outdoor batting cages, playing fields, outdoor swimming pools, beaches, and bumper car tracks, but not to include "golf courses."

The Planning Commission of the Town of Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Pennsylvania.

A parcel or parcels of land or an area of water, or a combination of land and water within a development site and designed and intended for the use or enjoyment of residents of a development, not including streets, off-street parking areas, and areas set aside for public facilities.

Land managed by a public or not-for profit organization or association and used to grow plants or ornamental crops for household use, sale, or donation.

A Comprehensive Plan consisting of maps, charts and textual matter and indicating the recommendations of the Planning Commission for the continuing development of the Town. The Comprehensive Plan includes, but is not limited to, the following related basic elements:

A concentrated animal operation (CAO) with greater than 300 AEUs, any agricultural operation with greater than 1,000 AEUs, or any agricultural operation defined as a large CAFO under 40 CFR 122.23(b)(4), as amended.

An agricultural operation with eight or more animal equivalent units (AEUs) where the animal density exceeds two AEUs per acre on an annualized basis.

A use permitted in a particular zoning district pursuant to the provisions in Article VI of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

Communities which offer multiple levels of care (independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing care) housed in different areas of the same community or campus and which give residents the opportunity to remain in the same community if their needs change. They provide residential services (meals, housekeeping, laundry), social and recreational services, health care services, personal care, and nursing care. This type of community may require payment of a monthly fee and possibly a large lump-sum entrance fee.

Storage yards operated by, or on behalf of, a contractor for storage of large equipment, vehicles, or other materials commonly used in the individual contractor's type of business; storage of scrap materials used for repair and maintenance of contractor's own equipment; and buildings or structures for uses such as offices and repair facilities.

A retail establishment that sells groceries and related products for the home and person and which sells gasoline or other automotive products, but which is not a "commercial automobile garage" or an "automobile or gasoline service station" or a "grocery store," as defined in this section.

A facility that is constructed for and devoted to accommodating meetings by providing meeting space.

Columbia County, Pennsylvania.

An unoccupied open space, other than a yard, on the same lot with a building, which is bounded on two or more sides by the walls of such building.

A court which does not extend to a street, alley, yard or other outer court.

A measure of the number of dwelling units which occupy, or may occupy, an area of land.

Any landowner, agent of such landowner or tenant with the permission of such landowner, who makes or causes to be made a subdivision of land or land development. [See also Subdivision and Land Development, Chapter 22.]

The provisions for development, including a planned residential development, a plat of subdivision, all covenants relating to use, location and bulk of buildings and other structures, intensity of use or density of development, streets, ways and parking facilities, common open space and public facilities. The phrase "provisions of the development plan," when used in this Chapter, shall mean the written and graphic materials referred to in this definition.

An enclosed facility used for the storage of merchandise or commodities for a short period, not to exceed 30 days, with additional operations such as cross-docking, order fulfillment, returned goods processing, packaging, repackaging, and labeling. This use may include the use of automated storage and retrieval systems.

A portion of the area of the Town of Bloomsburg, as shown on the Zoning Map, containing a uniform class of uses of structures or land and to which regulations described in this Chapter text apply.

The use of a zoning lot for occupancy by groups of people who are not defined as a family and who are registered students at a college, university or other institution of higher learning, on a weekly basis or longer, and is managed by the institution at which the students are registered.

An accessory use in which any part of a building or structure that, by design of physical facilities or by services or pods provided, encourages or permits customers to transact business, receive a service or obtain a product in a motor vehicle on the premises.

A vehicular connection from a lot to the public right-of-way. A driveway terminates at the right-of-way line and/or the access drive.

An establishment or business maintained for the pick up and delivery of dry cleaning and/or laundry without the maintenance or operation of any laundry or dry-cleaning equipment or machinery on the premises.

A building, portion of a building, or premises used or intended to be used for cleaning fabrics, textiles, wearing apparel, or articles of any sort by immersion and agitation, or by immersions only, in volatile solvents, including, but not by way of limitation, solvents of the petroleum distillate type, and/or the chlorinated hydrocarbon type, and the processes incidental thereto.

A building, structure, or part thereof, permanently affixed to the ground by a foundation and includes no more than one family. A dwelling does not include a hotel, motel or tourist court, group residential, or any other accommodations used for transient occupancy.

The quantity equal to one dwelling. See also "Dwelling."

A public or privately-owned facility for the dispatch, storage, and maintenance of ambulance and similar emergency service vehicles and related equipment. Includes offices, training facilities and bunking facilities for emergency service vehicle personnel.

Municipal or utility facilities that do not require enclosure in a building which are necessary for the public health and safety and which are routine, customary and appropriate to the character of the area in which proposed, including such facilities as poles, towers, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarms, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants, and other similar equipment. Building, sewage treatment plants, solid waste disposal facilities, commercial communication towers, utility company offices, storage of trucks or equipment and bulk storage, and any commercial commutations devices and/or facilities not specifically regulated by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission shall not be considered essential services or essential services requiring enclose in building. (See "Public Utility Facility.")

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.

Those portions of a facade which face and are most closely parallel to the front lot line.

An area of land use, including, but not limited to, agricultural related office buildings, animal shows and judging, carnivals, circuses, community meeting or recreational buildings and uses, concerts, food booths and stands, games, rides, rodeos, sales and auctions, storage, and theaters.

An individual, or two or more persons related by blood, marriage, adoption or foster childcare, including domestic servants or gratuitous guests thereof; or a group of not more than three unrelated persons living together without supervision in a dwelling unit, or not more than 12 persons living together in a group living arrangement with supervision, provided that the group living arrangement meets all of the following criteria:

Any parcel (or parcels under single ownership) of land which is used for gain in the raising of agricultural products, livestock, poultry or dairy products, including necessary farm structures within the prescribed limits and the storage of equipment customarily incidental to the primary use. For the purposes of this Chapter, a farm shall not include the raising of fur-bearing animals, riding academies or boarding stables or kennels.

The sum of the gross horizontal areas of several floors of a principal building on the same lot, excluding basement floor areas not devoted to the principal use. All dimensions shall be measured between exterior faces of walls.

Unit of light density incident on a plane (assumed to be horizontal unless otherwise specified), and measurable with an illuminance meter, also known as a light meter.

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 local or national organization of college or university students, organized for the purpose of sharing social, cultural, scholarly, or religious interests, where involvement requires regular meetings and formal written membership requirements.

An area specifically utilized for entertainment derived from coin-operated machines such as video games, pinball machines and billiards.

An accessory structure for storing vehicles or household items by the occupants of the dwelling unit(s) on the lot.

A tract of land and associated private recreation facilities for playing golf, improved with trees, greens, fairways, hazards, and which may include clubhouses and shag ranges, but does not include miniature golf course or golf driving ranges.

The completed surfaces of the lawns, walks and roads brought to grades as shown on official plans or designs relating thereto.

The first floor of a building other than a cellar or basement.

Any supervised long-term group living arrangement licensed by the Commonwealth for any of the following:

The use of any lawful dwelling unit which meets all of the following criteria:

A living arrangement including groups of people not defined as a family, on a weekly or longer basis that occupy use(s) that include dormitories, fraternity or sorority houses, residence halls, and convents/monasteries.

A building used for athletic instruction, games and major events, including tiers of seats for spectators.

A facility, representing transitional housing, to provide residence to a person who would otherwise be incarcerated in a prison. For the purpose of this Chapter, a convicted person shall include a person who has been released from a prison on parole or a person granted probation by a court of jurisdiction.

An establishment where the principal enterprise conducted involves the provision of indoor wellness activities such as fitness training, saunas, athletic courts, and indoor swimming pools.

The vertical distance measured from the main level of the ground surrounding the building to the highest point of the roof.

An area used for take-off and landing for helicopters, together with any related support facilities such as for maintenance, refueling and storage. This Chapter is not intended to regulate the nonroutine emergency landing and take-off of aircraft to pick up seriously injured or ill persons.

A place of business where retail and wholesale products and produce are sold to the consumer. These centers, which may include a nursery and/or greenhouses, import most of the items sold, and may include plants, nursery products and stock, potting soil, hardware, power equipment and machinery, hoes, rakes, shovels, and other garden and farm variety tools and utensils.

A facility engaged in the retail sale of various basic hardware lines, such as tools, builders' hardware, paint and glass, housewares and household appliances, garden supplies, and cutlery.

An activity, intended to be financially gainful, conducted within a dwelling unit, the conduct of which is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling unit, and, whereas there shall be a maximum of two said accessory uses within any one dwelling unit.

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 HUD-approved database application used to confidentially aggregate data on homeless population served in the United States, which is typically a software application that homeless assistance providers use to coordinate care, manage their operations, and better serve their clients.

An individual who, or family which, lacks a fixed, regular and/or adequate nighttime residence.

A building, or portion thereof, providing, without charge or any form of compensation, emergency housing with sleeping accommodation, and may include kitchen facilities, dining facilities, laundry facilities, bathing facilities and restroom facilities, for homeless persons and/or homeless families that is intended for occupancy of 90 days or less in a given year as transitional housing by a homeless person and/or homeless family.

A place for diagnosis, treatment or other care of humans on an around the clock basis, having facilities used primarily for inpatient medical and surgical care and for the treatment of sick and disabled persons.

A building that is owned and/or operated by a hospital whose primary purpose is to prove living accommodations for individuals associated with the hospital.

Any uses or buildings customarily incidental to or within a hospital, inclusive of eating establishments, hospital dormitories, minor banking and ATM services, and service establishments. Also including educational and conference facilities for in-house health care training. Also including parking lots and parking garages affiliated with hospital.

Automobile parking lots and parking garages affiliated with hospital.

A building used for overnight accommodation by transient guests for compensation, and which may provide such services as maid, telephone and postal services. (See also "Motel, Motor, or Tourist Court.")

A temporary occupant of a short-term rental living quarter and/or meeting room(s) within a dwelling unit.

A source of any artificial or reflected light, either directly from a source of light incorporated in, or indirectly from an artificial source.

Artificial light, located away from the sign, which lights the sign, the source of which may or may not be visible to persons viewing the sign from any street, sidewalk, or adjacent property.

A light source that is concealed or contained within the sign and becomes visible in darkness through a translucent surface. Message center signs, digital displays, and signs incorporating neon lighting shall not be considered internal illumination for the purposes of this Chapter.

Ground area covered by any material which does not allow the absorption of rainwater into the soil.

Any building or part thereof which is designed, constructed or used for education in any branch of knowledge.

Any discarded, scrap or abandoned man-made or man-processed material or articles, such as the following types: metal, furniture, appliances, motor vehicles, aircraft, glass, industrial waste, machinery, equipment, containers, structures and other used building materials. Junk shall not include organic solid waste, grass clippings, leaves, tree limbs or household items intended to be recycled. Outdoor storage and outdoor processing of junk shall only be permitted within an approved junkyard or solid waste disposal area. Junk shall not include solid waste customarily stored in a completely enclosed and sanitary container that is routinely awaiting collection.

Any lot land or structure, or part thereof, used for the collection, storage and/or sale of wastepaper, rags, scrap metal or discarded material or for the collecting, dismantling, storage and salvaging of machinery or vehicles not in running condition, and/or for the sale of parts thereof.

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 having a remaining term of not less than 40 years or other person having a proprietary interest in land, shall be deemed to be a landowner for the purposes of this Chapter.

A building, portion of a building, or premises used or intended to be used for cleaning fabrics, textiles, wearing apparel, or articles of any sort by immersion and agitation, or by immersions only, in volatile solvents, including, but not by way of limitation, solvents of the petroleum distillate type, and/or the chlorinated hydrocarbon type, and the processes incidental thereto.

A public facility for the use, but not sale, of literary, musical, artistic, or reference materials.

A type of mixed-use land use where the owner and operator of a business other than a home-based business or home occupation resides within the same building as the nonresidential use.

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

The total area within the lot lines.

The percentage of the lot area covered by the area of all buildings thereon as viewed from the site plan and/or roof line and shall include all appurtenances, such as decks, balconies, stairs, stoops, etc.

A lot's front lot line immediately adjacent to the street right-of-way.

The lines bounding a lot as defined under the definition of "lot."

Any lot which individually, or as part of a subdivision, has been recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Columbia County, Pennsylvania.

The total distance measured along a lot's frontage. See definition for "Lot Frontage (Frontage)."

Notice given by a municipality by first class mail of the time and place of a public hearing and the particular nature of the matter to be considered at the hearing.

Establishment 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, liquors, other basic industrial processes, and any facility involving process resulting in the storage of hazardous materials or the generation of hazardous waste products, or the environmentally regulated process.

Facilities involving 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.

The manipulation techniques of soft tissues in the body commonly applied with hands, fingers, elbows, knees, forearms, feet, or a device generally for the treatment of body stress or pain.

A type of treatment in which manipulates the soft tissues of your body; muscle, connective tissue, tendons, ligaments and skin, using varying degrees of pressure and movement.

An office of licensed physicians, dentists and other health practitioners.

Any aggregate or mass of mineral matter, whether or not coherent. The term includes, but is not limited to, limestone and dolomite, sand and gravel, rock and stone, earth, fill, slag, iron ore, zinc ore, vermiculite and clay, anthracite and bituminous coal, coal refuse, peat and crude oil and natural gas.

A building containing separate uses located above the ground floor of an institutional, civic, office, commercial, or retail use.

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 parcel of land in a mobilehome park, improved with the necessary utility connections and other appurtenances necessary for the erections thereon of a single mobilehome.

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

An establishment providing services such as preparing the human dead for burial and arranging and managing funerals and may include limited caretaker facilities. This classification excludes cemeteries, crematoriums, and columbariums.

One or more buildings for the accommodation of transient guests, chiefly motorists, containing guest rooms for rent, each of which has a separate outside entrance. This use shall not include a hotel, short-term rental, or any other use specifically defined herein.

Any buildings or facilities owned and/or operated by the municipality, which do not meet the definition of "Public Utility Facility" or "Essential Services."

The Town of Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Pennsylvania.

A building having public significance by reason of its architecture or former use or occupancy or a building serving as a repository for a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities or objects of interest, or works of art, and arranged, intended, and designed to be used by members of the public for viewing, with or without an admission charge, and which may include as an accessory use the sale of goods to the public as gifts or for their own use.

The removal from the surface or beneath the surface of the land of bulk mineral resources using significant machinery. "Natural resource production" includes but is not limited to, the extraction of sand, gravel, topsoil, limestone, clay, coal, shale, or iron ore. The routine movement of and replacement of topsoil during construction shall not be itself considered mineral extraction. The reclamation of waste piles from mining activities conducted prior to the adoption of this Chapter shall be permitted by right in all districts and shall not be considered mineral extraction.

Material sources of wealth that occur in a natural state, including forests, minerals, including petroleum, gas, sand, gravel, clay, topsoil, shale, limestone, et., and water.

A unit of measure of the luminance or brightness of the light emitted or reflected from a surface.

A lot the area or dimension of which was lawful prior to the adoption or amendment of a 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 a part of a structure manifestly not designed to comply with the applicable use provisions in this Chapter or amendment hereto or hereafter enacted, where such structure lawfully existed prior to the enactment of such ordinance or amendment. Nonconforming signs are not nonconforming structures. For the purposes of the airport zoning provisions of this Chapter a "nonconforming structure" shall include an object of natural growth, such as a tree.

A use, whether of land or of a structure, which does not comply with the applicable use provisions in this Chapter or amendments hereto or hereafter enacted, where such use was lawfully in existence prior to the enactment of such ordinance or amendment.

A long-term health care facility, licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health, that offers twenty-four-hour room and board and health care services, including basic and skilled nursing care.

The residence in a building or other shelter.

A use that involves administrative, clerical, financial, governmental or professional operations and operations of a similar character. This use shall not include neither retail nor industrial uses, but may include business offices, medical or dental offices, clinics or laboratories, photographic studios and/or television or radio broadcasting studios.

Establishments primarily engaged in furnishing medical, surgical or other services to individuals, including the offices or physicians, dentists and other health care practitioners, medical and dental laboratories, outpatient care facilities, blood banks and oxygen and miscellaneous types of medical supplies and services.

The unoccupied space open to the sky and unoccupied by any building or structure.

A freestanding facility, program, or provider, including, but not limited to, physicians' offices, clinical laboratories, radiology centers, and mobile diagnostic programs.

A zoning district that encompasses one or more underlying zoning districts and that imposes additional requirements above those required by the underlying zone.

A land surface or facility providing vehicular parking spaces off of a street together with drives and maneuvering lanes so as to provide access for entrance and exit for the parking of motor vehicles.

An off-street, surfaced, ground level open area, for the temporary storage of motor vehicles.

The space within a building or on a lot or parking lot designed for the parking of one vehicle.

A space in a garage or parking area not less than 13 feet wide and 19 feet long clear dimension, reserved exclusively for an automobile registered with the state with handicapped license plates or displaying an official state-issued handicapped placard.

A structure or portion thereof composed of one or more levels or floors used exclusively for the parking or storage of motor vehicles. A parking structure may be totally below grade (as in an underground parking garage) or either partially or totally above grade, with those levels being either opened or enclosed.

A hardened, paved or graveled land area used for the parking of automobiles and in accordance with the construction standards of the Town of Bloomsburg Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance.[4]

Parks, swimming pools, playgrounds, tennis courts, and other recreational facilities owned and operated by the Town, county, school district, state, or federal government.

A judicial decision which allows a person convicted of crimes to serve the remainder of his/her sentence outside the confines of the prison subject to preset conditions by the court.

A premises in which food, shelter and personal assistance or supervision are provided for a period exceeding 24 hours, for four or more adults who are not relatives of the operator, who do not require the services in or of a licensed long-term care facility, but who do require assistance or supervision in activities of daily living or instrumental activities of daily living. This land use is also referred to as an assisted living facility. This use shall not meet the definition of "Treatment Center."

An establishment providing services to individuals for the care of a person or his or her personal goods or apparel. "Personal service" shall not include establishments or facilities providing any medical services, to include substance abuse treatment, halfway houses or shelters for parole, probation or related use.

A retail sales establishment primarily involved in the sale of domestic animals, such as dogs, cats, fish, birds, and reptiles, excluding exotic animals and farm animals such as horses, goats, sheep, and poultry.

An establishment engaged in the retail sale of prescription drugs, nonprescription medicine, cosmetics and related supplies.

A system, structure, or device accessory to a principal use which is used to collect, store, and distribute energy derived from the sun for the purpose of heating or cooling the interior spaces of buildings or for heating domestic hot water. Small solar energy systems may include, but are not limited to: solar collectors, solar reflectors, heat storage tanks, south facing double glazed window walls, attached south facing greenhouses utilizing double glazing, and architectural overhangs for blocking sunlight on south facing windows.

An area of land or other area used for a solar collection system principally used to capture solar energy, convert it to electrical energy or thermal power and supply electrical or thermal power primarily for off-site use. Commercial solar energy systems consist of one or more freestanding ground- or roof-mounted solar collector devices, solar-related equipment and other accessory structures and buildings including light reflectors, concentrators and heat exchangers; substations; electrical infrastructure; transmission lines and other appurtenant structures.

A land use where people congregate for religious or cultural activities, entertainment, or meetings.

A building, together with its accessory buildings and use, where persons regularly assemble for religious purposes and related social events and which building, together with its accessory buildings and uses, is maintained and controlled by a religious body organized to sustain religious ceremonies and purposes.

An area of land, controlled by a landowner, to be developed as a single entity for a number of dwelling units, or combination of residential and nonresidential uses, the development plan for which does not correspond in lot size, bulk, type of dwelling, or use, density, or intensity, lot coverage and required open space to the regulations established in any one district created, from time to time, under the provisions of a municipal zoning ordinance.

Any lot, parcel or tract of land and any building constructed thereon.

Something owned, operated and supported by private individuals or a corporation, rather than by government.

A right-of-way, other than a public street, which provides vehicular access to two or more lots.

A building for on- and off-loading passengers on private passenger modes of travel.

A judicial decision which allows a person convicted of crimes to remain outside the confines of a prison without a predetermined sentence or with a temporarily suspended sentence for an established period of time subject to preset conditions by the court.

A business which provides the services of massage and massage therapy, including exercises, and all forms and methods of physiotherapy, administered by a state licensed medical practitioner including a physician, occupational or physical therapist, chiropractor, osteopath or a professional massage therapist licensed by the Commonwealth State Board of Massage Therapy.

Owned, operated or controlled by a government agency (federal, state, or local), including a corporation created by law for the performance of certain specialized governmental functions.

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.A. Ch. 7 (relating to open meetings).

Except for notices of hearings of the Zoning Hearing Board, which shall be established by rules of the Board, "public notice" shall mean notice published once each week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town. 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 be not more than 30 days or less than 14 days from the date of the hearing.

A building for on- and off-loading passengers on public passenger modes of travel.

A structure, building or appurtenant facility for the purpose of operating and maintaining public utilities. "Public utility facilities" include electric substations, water towers/tanks/reservoirs, water pumping stations and/or treatment, sewage disposal pumping plants and/or treatment and power generation facilities, as well as facilities that support the emergency and/or supplemental distribution of public utilities.

A way designed for and used by equestrians, pedestrians, and cyclists using nonmotorized bicycles.

A use for collection and temporary storage of more than 500 pounds of common household materials for recycling, but that does not involve processing or recycling other than routine sorting, baling and weighing of materials. This term shall not include the indoor storage of less than 500 pounds of household recyclables and their customary collection, which is a permitted by right accessory use in all zoning districts, without additional regulations. A recycling collection center is also a permitted by right accessory use to a public or private primary or secondary school, a place of worship, a municipal-owned use or an emergency services station.

A web- or non-web-based application or similar platform, including real estate agent(s), that mediates the short-term rental of living quarters and/or meeting rooms within a dwelling unit for a set or negotiated price.

A building containing at least one dwelling unit or living quarter.

An establishment where food and drink are prepared, served and consumed primarily within the principal building.

An informal restaurant primarily offering coffee, tea, and other beverages, and where light refreshments and limited menu meals may also be sold.

An establishment that sells ready-to-consume food or drink, that routinely involves the consumption of at least a portion of such food on the premises and that does not meet the definition of a "standard restaurant.

A use in which merchandise is sold or rented to the general public, but not including the following: sales of motor vehicles or boats, adult movie theater, adult bookstore, manufacturing, tavern, car wash, auto service station, auto repair garage, convenience store or any restaurant.

An establishment where horses are kept for riding or driving or are stabled for compensation or incidental to the operation of any club, association, ranch or similar establishment.

An accredited or licensed educational institution recognized by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, having regular sessions with employed instructors, and providing general education above the level of the secondary school.

A building designed and operated to provide regular instruction and daytime care for two or more children under primary grades.

A public or private academic institution offering instruction at the elementary, junior, and/or senior high school levels in the branches of learning and study required by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

A school established to provide for the teaching of industrial, clerical, managerial, or artistic skills. This definition applies to schools that are owned and operated privately for profit and that do not offer a complete educational curriculum (e.g., beauty school, modeling school).

A building and/or series of buildings divided into separate storage units for personal property and/or property associated with some business or other organization. These units shall be used solely for dead storage and no processing, manufacturing, sales, research and development testing, service and repair, or other non-storage activities shall be permitted.

Something owned, operated and supported by private individuals or a corporation, on a nonprofit basis, for the use or benefit of the general public or for some part of the general public.

Sexually oriented retail establishments, sexually oriented entertainment, sexually oriented motion picture theater, sexually oriented arcade.

A group of stores planned and designed to function as a unit for the lot on which it is located with off-street parking provided as an integral part of the unit.

The act of offering temporary living quarters and/or meeting rooms within a dwelling unit by the owner or lessee for a negotiated price to a house guest with or without the mediating use of a rental housing exchange agency.

A triangular shaped portion of land established at street intersections in which nothing is erected, placed, planted, or allowed to grow in such a manner as to limit or obstruct the sight of motorists entering or leaving the intersection.

Any device, structure, fixture, painting, emblem, or visual that uses words, graphics, colors, illumination, symbols, numbers, or letters for the purpose of communicating a message. Sign includes the sign faces as well as any sign supporting structure.

a use permitted in a particular zoning district pursuant to the provisions of Articles VI and IX of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[5]

As used herein, "specified anatomical areas" means and includes any of the following: less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus, or breasts.

As used herein, "specified sexual activities" means and includes any of the following: the fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus, or female breasts; sex acts, actual or simulated, including intercourse, oral copulation, or sodomy; masturbation, actual or simulated; or excretory functions as part of or in connection with any of the activities set forth as a sexually oriented use.

A large open or enclosed place used for major events and partly or completely surrounded by tiers of seats for spectators with special lighting and secondary concession uses.

That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, if there be no floor above it, then the space between any floor and the ceiling immediately above it.

Includes street, avenue, boulevard, road, highway, freeway, parkway, lane, alley, viaduct and any other ways used or intended to be used by vehicular traffic or pedestrians whether public or private.

The officially established grade of the street upon which a lot fronts or in its absence the established grade of other streets upon which the lot abuts, at the midway of the frontage of the lot thereon. If there be no officially established grade, the existing grade of the street at such midpoint shall be taken as the street grade.

The dividing line between the street right-of-way and the lot.

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

An awning is a nonstructural covering projecting from a wall, usually for the purpose of shielding a doorway or window.

A canopy is a structure that is affixed to a building and carried by a frame that is supported by columns or posts affixed to the ground.

A permanent structure, other than a roof or canopy, attached to, supported by, and projecting from a building and providing protection from the elements.

A structure located on a lot which houses the primary use of the property. All other structures, such as garages, sheds, accessory apartments, and the like, shall be accessory to the principal structure.

A person who is registered to be enrolled or who is enrolled and matriculating at Bloomsburg University as an undergraduate student or who is on a semester or summer break from studies at a college or university.

A building which contains a dwelling unit occupied by two or more students who are not related to each other by adoption or marriage or are not the great-grandparent, great-grandchild, grandparent, grandchild, parent, child, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, great uncle, great aunt, great nephew, or great niece of each other.

See "Group Residential."

A commercial establishment not accredited by the Pennsylvania Department of Education and/or not defined as a "secondary trade school," where arts such as dance, martial arts, music and visual arts are taught, studied or produced, or where movies, radio, television or music recording is produced.

See "Developer."

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 or devisees, transfer of ownership or 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 exempted. (See also Subdivision and Land Development, Chapter 22.)

Shall refer to a process approved and regulated by the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs provided at a substance abuse treatment facility with the intended purpose of the cessation of a person's use of addictive substances, such as drugs or alcohol.

A facility, licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs, which specializes in the evaluation and treatment of drug addiction and alcoholism. The services available at such a facility can be residential treatment, partial hospitalization treatment or outpatient treatment. For the purpose of this Chapter, a substance abuse treatment facility shall include the following terms as so defined within this section:

A retail establishment within a building greater than 25,000 square feet of gross floor area, that offers a wide variety of merchandise categories, including, but not limited to: automotive, apparel, garden center, cards and gifts, crafts, groceries, drugs and sundries, jewelry, hardware, household decor, pet supplies, appliances, sporting goods, and similar products.

A place where alcoholic beverages are severed as a primary or substantial portion of the total trade and where the sale of food may occur.

A building or part of a building devoted to the showing of moving pictures or theatrical productions on a commercial basis.

An open lot or part thereof with its appurtenant facilities devoted primarily to the showing of moving pictures or theatrical productions on a commercial basis to patrons seated in automobiles or on outdoor seats.

Establishment that provides for the removal and temporary storage of vehicles but does not include disposal, permanent disassembly, salvage, or accessory storage of inoperable vehicles.

A professional engineer licensed as such in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, duly appointed as the engineer for the Town of Bloomsburg.

An area of land typically developed for a compatible mixture of residential units for various income levels and nonresidential commercial and workplace uses, including some structures that provide for a mix of uses within the same building. Residences, shops, offices, workplaces, public buildings, and parks are interwoven within the neighborhood so that all are within relatively close proximity to each other. Traditional neighborhood development is relatively compact and oriented toward pedestrian activity. It has an identifiable center and a discernible edge. The center of the neighborhood is in the form of a public park, commons, plaza, square or prominent intersection of two or more major streets. Generally, there is a hierarchy of streets laid out with an interconnected network of streets and blocks that provides multiple routes from origins to destinations and are appropriately designed to serve the needs of pedestrians and vehicles equally.

A terminating point where goods are transferred from a truck to a storage area or to other trucks or picked up by other forms of transportation.

A facility located on the university campus designed to enhance the academic program of the university with low intensity, applied research activity.

Any facilities incidental to a university, which may include administrative buildings, instructional facilities, bookstore facilities, food service facilities, recreation, and health and counseling facilities. An incidental university use does not include group residential.

The specific purpose, for which land or a structure or building is designed, arranged, intended or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained. The term permitted use, or its equivalent shall not be deemed to include any nonconforming use.

The permission granted by the Zoning Hearing Board, following a public hearing that has been properly advertised as required by the provisions of this Chapter for an adjustment to the application to a specific piece of property of some regulation which, if strictly adhered to, would result in an unnecessary hardship and where the permission granted would not be contrary to the public interest, and would maintain the spirit and original intent of this Chapter.

An enclosed structure used for the storage of merchandise or commodities for an extended period of time, typically over 30 days and which does not include cross-docking operations or retail sales.

Shops where lathes, presses, grinders, shapers, and other wood- and metal-working machines are used such as blacksmith, tinsmith, welding, and sheet metal shops; plumbing, heating, and electrical repair shops; and overhaul shops.

An establishment or place of business primarily engaged in selling and/or distributing merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional, or professional business users, or to other wholesalers; or acting as agents or brokers and buying merchandise for, or selling merchandise to, such individuals or companies. This is not considered a general commercial use.

An establishment or place of business primarily engaged in selling and/or distributing agricultural products to retailers; or to other wholesalers; or acting as agents or brokers and buying agricultural products for, or selling agricultural products to, such individuals or companies. This is not considered a general commercial use.

A wind energy conversion system that converts wind energy into electricity through the use of a wind turbine generator, and includes, but is not limited to, a nacelle, wind rotor, tower, vertical axis and pad transformer.

An area not covered by buildings and that is on the same lot as the subject structure or use. Regulations of specific districts prohibit principal and accessory structures within specified required minimum yards.

A yard between the front lot line (which usually is the future street (right-of-way line) and the closest portion of the subject structure or use and that extends the full width of the lot and from side lot line to side lot line.

A yard extending the full-width of the lot and situated between the rear line and the closest portion of the subject building and stretching between the side lot lines parallel to the rear lot line. A principal building shall not extend into the required rear yard for a principal building and an accessory structure shall not extend into the required rear yard for an accessory structure.

A yard situated between the closest portion of the subject building and the entire length of the side lot line and extending from the front lot line to the rear lot line. Any lot line that is not determined by the Zoning Officer to be a rear line or a front line shall be deemed a side yard line. A building shall not extend into the specified required side yard.

The designation of specified districts or zones within the Town, reserving them for certain classes of uses together with limitations on lot area and size, heights of structures and other stipulated requirements.

The designated area for a zoning district as authorized by the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, as amended.

The Zoning Hearing Board of the Town of Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Pennsylvania.

The officially adopted Zoning Map of the Town of Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, containing zoning districts, together with all amendments subsequently adopted.

The Zoning Officer or his authorized representative appointed by the Town Council to enforce this Chapter.

The Town of Bloomsburg Zoning Ordinance, as amended.

The written authorization issued by the Zoning Officer for the use of land or buildings or other structures.