Any equipment serving or being used in conjunction with a wireless telecommunications facility or wireless support structure. The term includes utility or transmission equipment, power supplies, generators, batteries, cables, equipment buildings, cabinets and storage sheds, shelters or similar equipment.

A structure the use of which is customarily accessory to and incidental to that of the principle structure and which is located on the same lot.

Property that is contiguous with the boundaries of any side of the subject property.

Any place to which the public is permitted or invited wherein coin-operated, slug-operated, or for any form of consideration, or electronically, electrically, or mechanically controlled still or motion-picture machines, projectors, videos, or other image-producing devices are maintained, not located within viewing booths, to show images to five or fewer persons per machine at any one time, and where the images so displayed are distinguished or characterized by the depicting or describing of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.

A nightclub, bar, restaurant, or other commercial establishment which regularly features:

An enclosed building or structure offering video presentations or other visual media distinguished or characterized by an emphasis or matter depicting, describing, or relating to "sexual activities" or "nudity," as defined herein, for observation by patrons within private viewing booths.

A commercial establishment where, for any form of consideration, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or similar photographic reproductions or visual presentations of any kind are regularly shown which are characterized by the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.

A theater, concert hall, auditorium, or similar commercial establishment which regularly features persons who appear in a state of nudity or semi-nudity, or live performances which are characterized by the exposure of specified anatomical areas or by specified sexual activities.

A use that permits the consumption of alcoholic beverages by five or more unrelated persons between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. and that involves some form of monetary compensation paid by such persons for the alcohol or for the use of the premises.

Activities including, but not limited to, livestock and poultry raising; field, row and tree crops; forest and tree products; sale of products produced on the premises; and other customary farm structures. Not included are farm-oriented commercial or industrial activities or operations, such as food or livestock processing plants, holding pens, slaughterhouses, or similar uses which handle products not produced on the immediate premises.

Any area of land or water, whether of public or private ownership, designed and set aside for the landing and taking off of aircraft, including all contiguous property that is held or used for airport purposes.

The highest point of an airport's useable landing area measured in feet above sea level. The elevation of the Allegheny County Airport is 1,250 feet above mean sea level.

Any structure or object, natural or man-made, or use of land which obstructs the airspace required for flight or aircraft in landing or taking off at an airport or is otherwise hazardous as defined in 14 CFR 77 and 74 Pa.C.S.A. § 5102.

Any area of land or water upon which an airport hazard might be established if not prevented as provided for in this chapter and the Act 164 of 1984 (Pennsylvania Laws Relating to Aviation).[1]

Located in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, located at 40° 21' 15.84" N, 79° 55' 48.6" W; International Air Transport Association airport code ("IATA"): AGC; International Civil Aviation Organization ("ICAO") airport code: KAGC.

A public or private right-of-way which has a width of 15 feet or less and which is designed to provide secondary access to a lot or lots.

As applied to a building or structure, a change or rearrangement in the structural parts or in the exit facilities, or an enlargement, whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height, or the moving from one location to another, or any change in use from that of one zoning district classification to another.

Any change in the supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls, columns, beams, girders, or foundations.

An oval or round structure having tiers of seats rising gradually outward from a central open space or arena.

Any mechanical, electrical or electromechanical device, machine or apparatus whatsoever for the playing of games and amusements, which devices or apparatus are commonly known as "pinball machines," "video games" and "jukeboxes," or upon which games are played, or any device on which music is played after the insertion therein of a coin or other disc, slug or token or for which fees are paid to an attendant.

An establishment existing primarily entertainment purposes and offering rides and exhibitions for a fee.

Any site containing at least one burial, marked or previously marked, dedicated to and used or intended to be used for the permanent burial of animals.

A facility that cares for pet animals for less than 12 consecutive hours in the absence of the pet owner or a facility that cares for pet animals in training with or without the facility owner receiving compensation for such services (see also "kennel").

A place where animals or pets are given medical or surgical treatment and the boarding of animals is limited to short-term care incidental to the hospital use. Animal hospitals are not kennels.

The American National Standards Institute.

An exterior device or apparatus designed for cellular, digital, telephone, radio, pager, commercial mobile radio, television, microwave or any other wireless communications through sending and/or receiving of electromagnetic waves, including, without limitation, omnidirectional or whip antennas and directional or panel antennas. Unless otherwise stated, this term shall not include a standard antenna.

The vertical distance from the base of the antenna support structure at grade to the highest point of the structure, including any antennas attached thereto or forming a part thereof. If the support structure is on a sloped grade, then the average between the highest and lowest grades shall be used in calculating the antenna height.

A device, partially or wholly exterior to a building, that is used for receiving television or radio signals for use on site or for transmitting shortwave or citizens band radio signals. See also "commercial communications antenna."

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.

An imaginary surface longitudinally centered on the extended runway centerline and extending outward and upward from each end of the primary surface. An approach surface is applied to each end of the runway based on the planned approach. The inner edge of the approach surface is the same width as the primary surface and expands uniformly depending on the planned approach. The approach surface zone is derived from the approach surface.

The visible, functional, or ornamental objects accessory to and part of buildings.

An architect registered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

The total horizontal plane area of the building from outside wall to outside wall. This is exclusive of patios and stairways.

The total area of the lot or lots comprising a site.

The Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute.

A structure, or part thereof, devoted to the exhibition of visual works of fine art. Art galleries generally include accessory services, such as sale or purchase of displayed works, custom framing or encasement of art works and services related to art appraisal, display, preservation or restoration.

The American Society for Testing and Materials.

A body politic and corporate created pursuant to the act of May 2, 1945 (P.L.382, No. 164), known as the "Municipality Authorities Act of 1945."[2]

Any building, premises, or land in which or upon which a business or individual performs or renders a service involving the detailing and servicing of an automobile or other motor vehicle. Detailing and servicing shall include any cleaning, buffing, striping, glass replacement, and audio installation or repair. Automobile detail shall not include any service defined as "automobile repair."

Any building, premises, and land in which or upon which a business, service, or industry performs or renders a service involving the maintenance, servicing, repair, or painting of vehicles, not including commercial motor vehicle repair.

A place for preparing, baking and selling baked goods and products prepared on the premises.

That portion of a building which is partly or completely or has a floor below grade.

An owner-occupied, single-family dwelling in which not more than six guest rooms are utilized to provide, for compensation, sleeping accommodations for transient occupants for periods of up to 30 consecutive days.

Any body granted jurisdiction under a land use ordinance or by the MPC to render final adjudications.

Any building other than a hotel, motel, bed-and-breakfast establishment, or group home in which a room or group of rooms intended to be used for sleeping purposes are individually offered for short-term or long-term lease.

A retail establishment devoted primarily to selling or renting any of the following: newspaper, magazines, books, and other printed material and video recordings.

The Borough of Brentwood, Allegheny County, PA.[3]

A landscaped area of a certain depth specified by this chapter which shall be planted and maintained in trees, ground cover, shrubs, bushes or other natural landscaping material or an existing natural or constructed natural barrier which duplicates the effect of the required buffer area.

A structure used for sheltering any use or occupancy.

The Brentwood Borough Uniform Construction Code Ordinance.[4]

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

The wall of the building where the principal entrance is located, usually fronting on or facing a public street.

A permit for activities regulated by the Uniform Construction Code as adopted by Brentwood Borough, including construction, alteration, repair, demolition or an addition to a structure.

The building or buildings on a lot in which the principal use or uses are conducted.

That portion of a street or alley intended for vehicular use.

A structure where chairs, conveyors, blowers, steam cleaners, or other mechanical devices are used for the purpose of washing motor vehicles and where the operation is generally performed by an attendant.

A structure where washing, drying, and polishing of vehicles is generally on a self-service basis without the use of chain conveyors, blowers, steam cleaning, or other mechanical devices.

Any site containing at least one burial, marked or previously marked, dedicated to and used or intended to be used for the permanent interment of the human dead, including perpetual care and non-perpetual care cemeteries.

A building or buildings, other than a dwelling, used primarily as a place of worship on a regular basis by a religious denomination that may also include, as accessory uses, rooms for religious education, social and recreational activities and administrative offices, rectories, parsonages, convents, preschool programs and elderly or child day-care centers.

A public or private not-for-profit use, such as a meeting hall, fire station, mail facility, post office, school, church, library, museum or other like type place that is a community facility.

Natural wood that has been seasoned to reduce its water content and provide more efficient combustion. The term "clean wood" does not include wood coated with paint, stain, oil, resin or any other preservative, fire retardant or decorative materials; impregnated with preservatives or fire retardants; exposed to salt water; nor manufactured with the use of adhesives, polymers or resins, such as strand, particle and veneer lumber and recycled lumber.

A triangular area of unobstructed vision as defined by PennDOT Publication 70M, Guidelines for the Design of Local Roads and Streets.

Any establishment where human patients are examined and are treated by or under the care and supervision of doctors, dentists or other medical practitioners, but where patients are not hospitalized overnight.

An establishment where animals are examined and treated by veterinarians and which may include kennels for temporary boarding of animals during treatment.

A mechanism for heat exchange which consists of the following basic elements: underground loops of piping; heat transfer fluid; a heat pump; an air distribution system. An opening is made in the Earth. A series of pipes are installed into the opening and connected to a heat exchange system in the building. The pipes form a closed loop and are filled with a heat transfer fluid. The fluid is circulated through the piping from the opening into the heat exchanger and back. The system functions in the same manner as the open loop system except there is no pumping of groundwater. A horizontal closed loop system shall be no more than 20 feet deep.

A borehole that extends beneath the surface. Pipes are installed with U-bends at the bottom of the borehole. The pipes are connected to the heat exchanger and heat transfer fluid is circulated through the pipes.

A development design technique used in planned residential development that concentrates buildings on a part of the site to allow the remaining land to be used for recreation, common open space, and preservation of environmentally sensitive areas.

The placement and arrangement of multiple antenna and equipment on a single support structure and equipment pad area.

A structure, partially or wholly exterior to a building, used for transmitting or retransmitting electronic signals through the air and that does not meet the definition of a "standard antenna." Commercial communications antennae shall include, but are not limited to, antennae used for transmitting commercial radio or television signals, or to receive such signals for a cable system, or to retransmit wireless telecommunications. A commercial communications tower shall be a structure over 30 feet in height that is primarily intended to support one or more antenna. This term shall not include a "standard antenna."

Any building, premises, and land in which or upon which a business, service, or industry performs or renders a service involving the maintenance, servicing, repair, or painting of a commercial motor vehicle. Commercial motor vehicles are those vehicles that have a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) in excess of 16,001 pounds.

An establishment operated by a profit-making corporation, partnership or other business entity for the pursuit of sports, amusement and recreational activities, available to the general public for a fee, where the principal use is conducted entirely within a completely enclosed building, including, but not limited to, such principal uses as health or racquet and/or swim clubs, fitness centers, roller or ice rinks, karate schools, gymnasiums, arenas, sports courts or playing fields, bowling alleys, amusement arcades, virtual reality and simulation gaming parlors, billiard parlors, shooting ranges, dance halls, live or motion-picture theaters, but not including any adult business.

An establishment operated by a profit-making corporation, partnership or other business entity for the pursuit of sports, amusement and recreational activities, available to the general public for a fee, where the principal use is outdoors, but which may include accessory uses that are indoors, including, but not limited to, such principal uses as miniature golf courses, golf or batting practice facilities, ice rinks, roller blade parks, swimming pools, sports playing fields, ball parks, stadiums, amphitheaters, drive-in theaters, amusement parks, racetracks and similar facilities.

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.[5]

The Comprehensive Plan of the Borough which guides the physical development of the Borough and which consists of maps, charts and textual matter in accordance with the provisions of the Pennsylvania MPC.

An authorized use which may be granted only by the Borough Council pursuant to express standards and criteria prescribed in this chapter, after review and recommendation by the Borough Planning Commission and hearing by the Borough Council.

An imaginary surface extending outward and upward from the periphery of the horizontal surface at a slope of 20 feet horizontally to one foot vertically for a horizontal distance of 4,000 feet. The conical surface zone is based on the conical surface.

The Councilmembers of Brentwood Borough, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

A facility, licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, located within a building which is not used as a dwelling unit, for the care during part of a twenty-four-hour day of children under the age of 16 or handicapped or elderly persons.

A unit of measurement of the intensity (loudness) of sound. Sound level meters which are employed to measure the intensity of sound are calibrated in decibels.

A business that demolishes structures, including houses and other buildings, in order to salvage building materials, and that stores those materials before disposing of them.

The number of dwelling units per acre.

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 a land development.

Any man-made change to an improved or unimproved land or water area, including, but not limited to, construction of buildings or structures or additions thereto, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations.

Any land development that, because of its character, magnitude, or location, will have substantial effect upon the health, safety, or welfare of citizens in more than one municipality.

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, designated growth area where residential, commercial industrial and institutional uses and development are permitted or planned at varying densities and public infrastructure services may or may not be provided, but future development at greater densities is planned to accompany the orderly extension and provision of public infrastructure services.

A network of spatially separated antenna sites connected to a common source that provides wireless service within a geographic area or structure.

The area of surface operations surrounding the surface location of a well or wells.

A restaurant with or without a drive-through, where the food is primarily brought to and consumed within a patron's vehicle. An outdoor seating area may be provided.

A structure consisting of a large outdoor screen, a projection booth and a large parking area for automobiles. Within this enclosed area, customers can view movies from the privacy and comfort of their cars.

"Drive-through facilities" shall be considered principal uses which are attached to another authorized principal use which involves a window, service lane, bay, or other facility where customers are provided services either inside or outside their vehicles and where cars may or may not wait in line to access these services, including, but not limited to: drive-in or drive-through windows at fast-food restaurants, banks, drug stores or other businesses, exterior automated teller machines (ATMs), quick oil-change facilities, car washes and similar automotive services and other such facilities.

A fast-food restaurant characterized by a limited menu and catering to drive-through traffic.

A private area which provides vehicular access to a parking space, garage, dwelling or other structure.

A building that contains dwelling units, intended or designed to be used, rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied for living purposes.

A single unit providing complete, independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation.

A structure, part of a structure, or structures designed and used for training and teaching of children, youths or adults, including laboratories appurtenant thereto.

A notice as provided in § 616.1 of the MPC, 53 P.S. § 10616.1, sent by the Borough to the owner or occupant of record of a parcel on which a violation of this chapter has occurred, to any person who has filed a written request to receive enforcement notices regarding that parcel, and to any other person requested in writing by the owner or occupant of record, the purpose of which is to initiate enforcement proceedings.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency or any agency successor thereto.

A person who, for consideration, agrees, or offers to act as a companion, guide, or date for another person, or who agrees or offers to privately model lingerie or to privately perform a striptease for another person.

A person or business association who furnishes, offers to furnish, or advertises to furnish escorts as one of its primary businesses for a fee, tip, or other consideration.

Utility or municipal uses that are necessary for the preservation of the public health and safety and that are routine, customary and appropriate to the character of the area in which they are to be located. Essential services shall include the following and closely similar facilities: sanitary sewage lines, water lines, electric distribution lines, stormwater management facilities, cable television lines, natural gas distribution lines, fire hydrants, streetlights and traffic signals. Essential services shall not include a central sewage treatment plant, a solid waste disposal area or facility, commercial communications towers, a power-generating station, septic or sludge disposal, offices, storage of trucks or equipment or bulk storage of materials.

Not covered by PUC.

Any hotel or motel in which rooms are rented for a minimum period of one week and/or in which rooms may be rented for periods in excess of 30 consecutive days. All rooms shall contain sleeping, bathing, living, and cooking facilities. An extended stay hotel or motel shall comply with the terms of Chapter 163 of the Brentwood Borough Code of Ordinances.

The United States Federal Aviation Administration or any agency successor thereto.

An individual; two or more persons related by blood, marriage or adoption; or not more than three unrelated persons living as a single housekeeping unit. A family may also include domestic servants and gratuitous guests. The foregoing restrictions do not apply to persons with disabilities as defined in the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. § 3601 et seq.

A retail establishment at which fruits, vegetables, breads, eggs, milk, cheese, meat, flowers, and the like are sold by persons who typically grow, harvest, or process such items from their farm or agricultural operation.

Banks, savings and loan associations and similar institutions that lend money or are engaged in a finance-related business.

Areas adjoining any rivers, streams, ponds or lakes subject to the one-hundred-year-recurrence-interval flood as delineated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers or subject to erosion caused by a one-hundred-year-recurrence-interval flood, as well as any areas identified in the future by anyone else expert and experienced in the preparation of hydrological studies and the determination of flood lines subject to the review and approval of a professional engineer selected by the Borough.

The sum of all the horizontal floor areas of a building, measured between exterior faces of walls.

The total floor area of a building designed for tenant occupancy, or areas accessible to the customers, clients or general public, but excluding storage areas, equipment rooms, food preparation areas in a restaurant and common areas such as halls, corridors, stairwells, elevator shafts, rest rooms, interior vehicular parking and loading areas and similar common areas, expressed in square feet and measured from the center line of joint partitions and exteriors of outside walls.

A post-mounted enclosure of not more than 24 inches in width, 24 inches in height, and 15 inches in depth designed to hold used books that may be borrowed, acquired free of charge, or exchanged by members of the public.

A building used for the embalming of deceased human beings for burial and for the display of the deceased and ceremonies connected therewith before burial or cremation and which may include a crematorium as an accessory use.

An accessory building or a portion of the principal building, not accessible to the general public and designed or used for shelter or storage of private vehicles and personal property of the occupants of the principal building and which may include the shelter or storage of no more than one private vehicle owned and used by others.

A building or structure available to the general public in which motor vehicles are temporarily stored but which is not used for the repair or maintenance thereof.

A building(s), premises or portions thereof which are used, arranged, designed, or intended to be used for the retail sale of gasoline or other fuel for motor vehicles. Gas stations may include the operation of a convenience food store in conjunction with the retail sale of petroleum products.

A hole drilled or bored into the earth into which piping is inserted for use in a closed vertical loop geothermal system.

An energy generating system that uses the Earth's thermal properties in conjunction with electricity to provide greater efficiency in the heating and cooling of buildings.

Any golf course, publicly or privately owned, on which the game of golf is played, including accessory uses and buildings customary thereto, but excluding golf driving ranges as defined herein.

A limited area on which golf players do not walk, but onto which they drive golf balls from a central driving tee.

A retail business that sells flowers, plants, shrubs, trees and other natural flora and products that aid their growth and care and which may include a greenhouse and/or the growing of plant material outside on the lot.

A dwelling unit where room and board is provided to not more than eight permanent residents who are mentally or physically handicapped persons of any age, who are in need of supervision and specialized services, and no more than two caretakers on any shift, who may or may not reside in the dwelling and who provide health, social and/or rehabilitative services to the residents. The service shall be provided only by a governmental agency, its licensed or certified agents or any other responsible nonprofit social services corporation, and the facility shall meet all minimum requirements of the sponsoring agency. A group home does not include persons assigned by a court of law or public or semipublic agency on a short-term basis for supervision, care and counseling for a specified period of time, including alcoholic recovery, shelters for battered persons and their children, community re-entry services following incarceration and other such transitional and/or supervised short-term assignments.

A commercial recreation and entertainment facility or private club which has as a principal use a gymnasium, swimming pool or other sports facility and which may offer massages, whirlpool baths, steam rooms, saunas or medical facilities as accessory uses to the principal use. A health spa may not include any aspects of adult entertainment or an adult-oriented establishment, as either are elsewhere defined and regulated in this chapter.

An administrative proceeding conducted by a board pursuant to Section 909.1 of the MPC.[6]

The vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the proposed finished grade at the building front to the following points:

For structures other than buildings or signs, the vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the finished grade around the structure to the highest point on the structure.

Any area of land, water or structure which is used or intended to be used for the landing and takeoff of helicopters and any appurtenant areas which are used for heliport buildings or helicopter facilities or rights-of-way, together with all heliport buildings and facilities thereon.

Any structure that is:

The entire twenty-four-hour period of the days of New Year's Day (January 1), Good Friday, Election Day (both primary and general elections), Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.

Any use customarily carried on entirely within a dwelling, by the occupant thereof, which use is clearly incidental and subordinate to the use of the dwelling. Examples include, but are not limited to, professional services such as legal, financial, accounting or engineering, barber and beauty shops, music and tutoring instruction. Home occupations are limited to one student, customer or client at a time. Home occupation businesses are different than no-impact home-based businesses (see definition of "no-impact home-based business").

An imaginary plane 150 feet above the established airport elevation that is constructed by swinging arcs of various radii from the center of the end of the primary surface and then connecting the adjacent arc by tangent lines. The radius of each arc is based on the planned approach. The horizontal surface zone (reference figure in § 210-25) is derived from the horizontal surface.

An institution providing acute medical or surgical care and treatment for sick or injured humans, as defined in current state licensure requirements.

A building containing no less than eight rooms that are offered for rent by the night to provide temporary sleeping accommodations to persons who have residences elsewhere for a period of up to 30 consecutive days. A hotel has a common reception area that is staffed 24 hours per day in which clients must check in to obtain initial access to a room. Each room shall be accessible only from interior corridors.

The process of injecting water, customized fluids, sand, steam, or gas into a gas well under pressure to improve gas recovery.

The International Ground Source Heat Pump Association.

Any material which prevents the absorption of stormwater into the ground.

A device used to burn waste substances and in which all the combustion factors, temperature, retention time, turbulence, and combustion air can be controlled.

An area of land occupied by a group of three or more industrial uses arranged and constructed in accordance with a plan, each use contained on a separate lot having direct access to a public road.

A facility that provides nursing care and related medical or other personal health services to human patients on a planned program of care and administrative management, supervised on a continuous twenty-four-hour basis in an institutional setting, as defined in current state licensure requirements.

Any premises devoted wholly or in part to the storage, buying or selling, sorting, exchanging, salvaging, recycling or otherwise handling or dealing in junk.

A use of land and structures in combination wherein four or more domestic animals or pets six months or older are bred, trained, and/or boarded for compensation for more than 12 consecutive hours. Animal day-cares and animal groomers where pets are not on site for more than 12 consecutive hours shall not be considered a kennel.

A building or part of a building devoted to the testing and analysis of any product or animal. No manufacturing is conducted on the premises except for experimental or testing purposes.

Includes any of the following activities:

A disposed site in which refuse and earth, or other suitable cover material are deposited and compacted in alternative layers as required by the federal and/or state agency having jurisdiction.

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 a proprietary interest in land.

A plan prepared by a design professional identifying each tree and shrub by size, type and scientific name; the location of each, including a planting diagram; and such other diagrams or reports as are necessary to show the method of planting, staking and mulching, grass seeding specification and mixtures and existing trees to be preserved, if any.

A runway that is constructed for and intended to be used by propeller-driven aircraft of greater than 12,500 pounds maximum gross weight and jet powered aircraft.

A corporation or association or other business entity that, in exchange for the payment of entrance and monthly fees, provides:

A space within the main building or on the same lot therewith providing for the standing, loading, or unloading of vehicles.

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 of the lot or lots comprising a site, excluding any areas contained in a public right-of-way.

A lot at an intersection of two or more streets.

That percentage of the lot area covered by all principal structures, accessory structures and impervious surfaces.

A lot other than a corner lot or through lot.

A line of record bounding a lot that divides one lot from another lot or from a public or private street right-of-way or other public space.

A lot line or lines which separates a lot from a public street or streets.

That lot line that is generally opposite the front lot line.

Any lot line that is not a front lot line or rear lot line.

A lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel streets and which is not a corner lot.

The line distance between the point of intersection of the minimum required building setback line with the side lot lines as measured along the front setback line.

A public street which serves large volumes of high speed and long distance traffic, including and limited to Route 51.

A structure, transportable in one or more sections, and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning and electrical systems contained therein. For mobile homes built prior to June 15, 1976, a label certifying compliance to the Standard for Mobile Homes, NFPA 501, in effect at the time of manufacture is required. For the purpose of these provisions, a mobile home shall be considered a manufactured home.

The process of making wares by hand, by machinery or by other agency, often with the provision of labor and the use of machinery.

Manufacturing including the production, processing, cleaning, testing and distribution of materials, goods, foodstuffs and products which, due to the nature of the materials, equipment or process utilized, the manufacturing operation is considered to be unclean, noisy, hazardous or is associated with other objectionable elements.

Manufacturing including the production, processing, cleaning, testing and distribution of materials, goods, foodstuffs and products which by the nature of the materials, equipment and process utilized is to a considerable measure clean, quiet, and free of any objectionable or hazardous element.

Any establishment or business which provides the services of massage and body manipulation, including exercises, heat and light treatments of the body, and all forms of physiotherapy, unless operated by a medical practitioner, chiropractor, or professional physical therapist licensed by the State of Pennsylvania. This definition does not include an athletic club, school, gymnasium, reducing salon, spa, or similar establishment where massage or similar manipulation of the human body is offered as an identical or accessory service. A massage establishment may not include any aspects of adult entertainment or an adult-oriented establishment, as either are elsewhere defined and regulated in this chapter.

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 facility licensed by the Department of Health to use the drug methadone in the treatment, maintenance, or detoxification of persons.

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 storage enterprise dealing with the reception of goods of residential or commercial orientation that lie dormant over extended periods of time. Separate storage units are rented to individual customers who are entitled to exclusive and independent access to their respective units.

The conduct of two or more principal uses within one principal building, or one lot or site.

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 mobile home park, improved with the necessary utility connections and other appurtenances necessary for the erections thereon of a single mobile home.

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

A building which is operated by a duly licensed mortician and which is exclusively used for the preparation of dead bodies for burial or cremation.

A building or group of permanent detached, semidetached, or attached buildings on a lot containing no less than eight rooms that are offered for rent by the night to provide temporary sleeping accommodations to persons who have residences elsewhere for a period of up to 30 consecutive days. A motel has a common reception area that is staffed 24 hours per day in which clients must check in to obtain initial access to a room. Each room shall have a separate entrance leading directly to the exterior of the building.

A small apartment attached to or carved out of a nominally single-family house, ostensibly intended for occupancy by a mother-in-law or other relative, and which normally has its own entrance, kitchen, bathroom and living area.

A venue, usually a building, for viewing motion pictures ("movies" or "films").

A body politic and corporate created pursuant to the act of May 2, 1945 (P.L.382, No. 164), known as the "Municipality Authorities Act of 1945."[7]

Act of 1968, P.L. 805, No. 247, as reenacted and amended (53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.).

A compressor engine facility designed and constructed to compress natural gas that originates from an oil and gas well or collection of such wells for continued delivery of oil and gas to a transmission pipeline, distribution pipeline, processing facility, or storage facility or field.

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

An establishment primarily for evening, late-night to early morning entertainment, that typically serves food and/or alcoholic beverages, and may provide either live or prerecorded music or video, comedy acts, floor shows, with or without the opportunity for dancing. A nightclub may not include any aspects of adult entertainment or an adult-oriented establishment, as either are elsewhere defined and regulated in this chapter.

Any lot which does not comply with the applicable area and bulk provisions of this chapter or an amendment thereafter enacted, which lawfully existed prior to the enactment of this chapter or any subsequent amendment.

A structure or part of a structure that does not comply with the applicable area and bulk provisions of this chapter or amendment heretofore or hereafter enacted, where such structure lawfully existed prior to the enactment of this chapter or an amendment thereto, or prior to the application of this chapter or amendment to its location by reason of annexation. Nonconforming signs are included in this definition.

A use, whether of land or of a structure, that does not comply with the applicable use provisions in this chapter or amendment heretofore or hereafter enacted, where such use was lawfully in existence prior to the enactment of this chapter or an amendment thereto, or prior to the application of this chapter or amendment to its location by reason of annexation.

A runway having an existing instrument approach procedure utilizing air navigation facilities with only horizontal guidance, or area type navigation equipment, for which a straight-in non-precision instrument approach procedure has been approved or planned.

Any wireless communication facility other than a tower-based wireless communication facility. A nontower wireless communications facility shall not include ground-mounted accessory equipment that supports a tower-based wireless communications facility.

Any place where a person who appears seminude, in a state of nudity, or who displays specified anatomical areas and is provided to be observed, sketched, drawn, painted, sculptured, photographed, or similarly depicted by other persons who pay money or any form of consideration. Nude model studio shall not include a proprietant school licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or a college, junior college, or university supported entirely or in part by public taxation; a private college or university which maintains and operates educational programs in which credits are transferable to a college, junior college, or university supported entirely or partly by taxation; or in a structure:

Completely without clothing; or the showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic areas, or buttocks with less than a fully opaque covering, or the showing of the female breasts with less than a fully opaque covering of any portion of the nipple, or the depiction of covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state.

An institution licensed by the commonwealth for the care of human patients requiring either skilled nursing or intermediate nursing care or both levels of care for a period exceeding 24 hours.

A school designed to provide daytime care or instruction for two or more children of preschool age.

Any structure, growth, or other object, including a mobile object, which exceeds a limiting height set forth by § 210-25, AHD-Overlay District.

The physical possession upon, on or within any lot or structure for a use.

A permit for the occupancy of a building, structure or lot indicating compliance with all provisions of this chapter.

Any office of recognized professions, other than medical, such as lawyers, architects, engineers, real estate brokers, insurance agents and others who, through training, are qualified to perform services of a professional nature and other offices used primarily for accounting, corresponding, research, editing or other administrative functions, but not including banks or other financial institutions.

Crude oil, natural gas, methane gas, coal bed methane gas, propane, butane and/or any other constituents or similar substances that are produced by drilling an oil or gas well.

The well site preparation, construction, drilling, redrilling, hydraulic fracturing, and/or site restoration associated with an oil or gas well of any depth; water and other fluid storage, impoundment and transportation used for such activities; and the installation and use of all associated equipment, including tanks, meters, and other equipment and structures whether permanent or temporary; and the site preparation, construction, installation, maintenance and repair of oil and gas pipelines and associated equipment and other equipment and activities associated with the exploration for, production and transportation of oil and gas. The definition does not include natural gas compressor stations and natural gas processing plants or facilities performing the equivalent functions.

The drilling site authorized by a permit from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for the extraction of oil or gas resources or the drilling site for the production of potable water supply.

A pierced or bored hole drilled or being drilled in the ground for the purpose of, or to be used for, producing, extracting or injecting gas, oil, petroleum or another liquid related to oil or gas production or storage, including brine disposal.

The location where facilities, structures, materials and equipment, whether temporary or permanent, necessary for or incidental to the preparation, construction, drilling, production or operation of an oil or gas well.

Water is pumped from a water well or other water source into a heat exchanger located in a surface building. The water drawn from the Earth is then pumped back into the ground through a different well or in some cases the same well, also known as "re-injection." Alternatively, the groundwater could be discharged to a surface water body, also known as a "pump and dump." In the heating mode, cooler water is returned to the Earth, and in the cooling mode, warmer water is returned to the surface water body or well.

An outdoor area with seats or tables designed for the consumption of food or beverages at a restaurant, bakery, or microbrewery.

A fuel-burning device, also known as an "outdoor wood-fired boiler," "outdoor wood-fired furnace," and "outdoor wood-burning appliance," designed:

The person or persons having the right of legal title to, beneficial interest in, or a contractual right to purchase a lot or parcel.

The drilling of multiple wells from a single location.

A facility designed for patrons to park their private vehicle and transfer to other private or public transportation.

A principal use the purpose of which is the storage of motor vehicles, including a public garage.

Any lot, parcel, or yard used in whole or in part for the storage or parking of two or more vehicles where such usage is not incidental to or in conjunction with a single-family or two-family dwelling.

An area or structure area used exclusively for the temporary storage of motor vehicles.

A parcel of land integrated within a subdivision or land development that is dedicated, either publicly or privately, specifically for use as a park, open space and/or active recreation area.

A single-family dwelling, which includes a master bedroom suite on the first (ground) floor, along with the cooking, eating, and living areas. Patio homes shall have an attached garage of sufficient size for two vehicles.

A dwelling or institution licensed by the commonwealth where room and board is provided to more than three permanent residents who are not relatives of the operator, and who are mobile or semi-mobile and require specialized services for a period exceeding 24 consecutive hours in such matters as bathing, dressing, diet and medication prescribed for self-administration, but who are not in need of hospitalization or skilled nursing or intermediate nursing care.

Any enterprise providing services pertaining to the person, their apparel or personal effects commonly carried on or about the person, including but not limited to shoe repair, tailoring, clothes cleaning, watch repairing, barbershops, beauty parlors and related activities.

A retail or wholesale establishment that earns 25% or more of its gross annual revenues from the sale of tobacco, electronic cigarette liquids, electronic cigarette aerosols, cigars, cigarettes, hookahs, pipes, or any similar device designed to facilitate the consumption of tobacco, regardless of whether said tobacco is intended to be consumed on site or off premises.

Any structure that exceeds 10 feet in height and is built for the primary purpose of receipt or transmission of the broadcast of telecommunications and that supports antennas and their associated facilities, including structures that are constructed for private, public, and public safety wireless communication systems, as well as unlicensed wireless services and fixed wireless services. A distributed antenna system shall be classified as a tower-based wireless communication facility. A personal wireless communication facility shall not be classified as a tower-based wireless communication facility.

A retail store which primarily sells prescription drugs, patent medicines, and surgical and sickroom supplies.

An outdoor hydronic heater that has been certified or qualified by the EPA as meeting a particulate matter emission limit of 0.32 pounds per million British Thermal Units (BTU) output and is labeled accordingly, with a white "hang" tag.

A semipublic use, including any of the following: church, manse, rectory, convent, synagogue, parish, school or similar building incidental to the particular use; but this term does not include business offices, except administrative offices incidental to the operation of the particular use, rescue missions or the occasional use for religious purposes of properties not regularly so used.

The Planning Commission of Brentwood Borough.

The map or plan of a subdivision or land development, whether preliminary or final.[8]

A roofed or uncovered accessory structure without enclosing walls that is attached to or part of the principal building and which has direct access to and from the principal building.

A runway having an existing instrument approach procedure utilizing an Instrument Landing System (ILS) or a Precisions Approach Radar (PAR). It also means a runway for which a precision approach system is planned and is so indicated on an approved airport layout plan or any other planning document.

An imaginary surface longitudinally centered on the runway, extending 200 feet beyond the end of paved runways or ending at each end of turf runways. The elevation of any point on the primary surface is the same as the elevation of the nearest point on the runway centerline. The primary surface zone is derived from the primary surface.

A licensed professional engineer registered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Uses operated by the public or semipublic body such as schools, public libraries, public safety buildings, museums, public meeting halls and community centers. This definition shall not include hospitals and continuing care facilities.

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 act.

All roads, streets, walkways, sidewalks, gutters, curbs, sewers, waterlines, stormwater management facilities, landscaping, street lighting, traffic control devices and other facilities to be dedicated to or maintained by the Borough.

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

A 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.

Facilities including pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another. They are used for a variety of infrastructure systems, such as the supply of water to, and the removal of sewage to processing sites.

A single-axle or multiple-axle structure mounted on wheels or otherwise capable of being made mobile, either with its own motive power or designed to be mounted on or drawn by an automotive vehicle, for the purpose of travel, camping, vacation and recreational use, including but not limited to: travel trailers, mobile homes, motor homes, tent trailers, boats, boat trailers, pickup campers, horse trailers, snow mobiles, jet skis, wave runners, motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles.

Land and structures which are privately or commonly owned and which are devoted to outdoor recreational or athletic purposes, including active recreation areas within developments, country clubs and golf courses, none of which use artificial lighting to extend play of golf or other recreational activity after daylight hours. Recreational facilities also include riding stables and other private noncommercial outdoor recreation areas and facilities or recreation centers, including but not limited to community or club swimming pools, tennis courts and ballparks, but excluding entertainment facilities as hereinbefore defined.

An enterprise operated by an individual, group of individuals or nonprofit association or corporation, other than a public entity, for the pursuit of sports and recreational activities, which may be advertised to the general public, but the use of which is limited to members and their guests including, but not limited to, such establishments as country clubs, golf courses, sportsmen's club, golf practice facilities, playing fields, tennis or racquet clubs, swimming pools and similar facilities.

An enterprise owned and operated by a public entity, available to the general public, whether or not an admission fee is charged, including either indoor or outdoor facilities for the pursuit of sports, recreation or leisure activities, including, but not limited to: parks, playgrounds, playing fields, golf courses, golf or batting practice facilities, ice rinks, tennis courts, swimming pools and similar facilities.

A business that is:

Center for the acceptance of recyclable material from the public by donation, redemption, or purchase. A collection facility may include reverse vending machines, a small recycling collection facility, and a large recycling collection facility.

A recycling collection facility which occupies an area of more than 500 square feet and may include permanent structures.

A recycling collection facility occupying an area of not more than 500 square feet, and which may include:

A planning agency that is comprised of representatives of more than one county. Regional planning responsibilities shall include providing technical assistance to counties and municipalities, mediating conflicts across county lines and reviewing county comprehensive plans for consistency with one another.

Any method, process or substance whose supply is rejuvenated through natural processes and, subject to those natural processes, remains relatively constant, including, but not limited to, biomass conversion, geothermal energy, solar and wind energy and hydroelectric energy and excluding those sources of energy used in the fission and fusion processes.

Any establishment which carries on investigation in the natural, physical or social sciences or engineering and development as an extension of such investigation with the objective of creating end products and which may include pilot manufacturing as an accessory use where concepts are tested prior to full-scale production.

An establishment designed and operated for the express purpose of providing food and beverage service within the confines of a structure and generally excluding any encouragement, orientation or accommodation of services or products to the patrons' automobiles, on or within the premises.

A fixed small retail facility in which food or drink is offered or prepared primarily for retail sale where no consumption takes place inside the establishment. Such facilities may include takeout pizza shops, delicatessen, and ice cream stands.

An automated mechanical device for the redemption of recyclable beverage containers which accepts empty recyclable beverage containers and may issue credit. Reverse vending machines include machines that sort and process containers mechanically, provided that the entire process is enclosed within the machine.

Any establishment not otherwise specifically defined in this article that sells commodities and/or services on the premises directly to consumers, but not including the on-site manufacturing or processing of any product or any wholesale sales.

Land reserved or dedicated for use as a street, crosswalk or other means of travel, or other public or private purposes, including existing and future rights-of-way.

See "boarding house."

A defined area in an airport prepared for landing and taking off of aircraft along its length. Includes planned, future paved runways and extensions of runways as shown on the official airport layout plan and on the Airport Hazard Zoning Maps of these regulations.

A structure, part of a structure, or structures designed and used for training and teaching of children, youths or adults, whether public or private.

The state of dress in which clothing partially or non-opaquely covers specified anatomical areas.

Any outdoor device designed for the automated provision of a specialized service, including, but not limited to, washing, drying, changing currency, or collecting packages A receptacle designed for the collection of letters or packages by the United States Postal Service shall not be considered a service machine.

A facility designed to receive the wastewater from domestic sources and to remove materials that damage water quality and threaten public health and safety when discharged into receiving streams or bodies of water.

A business or commercial enterprise that, as one of its principal business purposes, offers for any form of consideration:

An adult arcade, adult bookstore, adult novelty store, adult video store, adult cabaret, adult motion-picture theater, adult theater, escort agency, nude model studio, or sexual encounter center.

Includes any of the following:

A use devoted primarily to the sale of a service or a product or products.

One or more retail store(s) and other authorized uses in the zoning district in which it is an authorized use, developed as a single entity on a site, whether developed at one time or in phases or by different owners.

A furnished dwelling unit in a single-family home or duplex that is offered for lease in its entirety by the day, by the week, or for period of up to 30 consecutive days.

The original tract of land which exists prior to any subdivision or land development activity and which is the subject of a preliminary or final application for development.

A solar photovoltaic cell, panel, or array, or solar hot air or water collector device, which relies upon solar radiation as an energy source for collection, inversion, storage, and distribution of solar energy for electricity generation or transfer of stored heat.

An electric generating facility, with the purpose of electricity supply, consisting of one or more solar panels and other ancillary associated buildings and structures, including substations, meteorological towers, electrical infrastructure, transmission lines, and other appurtenant structures and facilities.

An area of land or other area used for a solar collection system principally used to capture solar energy and convert it to electrical energy. Large solar energy production facilities 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 and facilities. A facility is considered a large solar energy production facility if it supplies electrical or thermal power solely for off-site use.

A solar collection system consisting of one or more roof- and/or ground-mounted solar collector devices and solar-related equipment, and is intended to primarily reduce on-site consumption of utility power. A system is considered a small solar energy system only if it supplies electrical or thermal power solely for on-site use, except that when a property upon which the facility is installed also receives electrical power supplied by a utility company, excess electrical power generated and not presently needed for on-site use may be used by the utility company.

Items including a solar photovoltaic cell, panel, or array, or solar hot air or water collector device panels, lines, pumps, batteries, mounting brackets, framing and possibly foundations used for or intended to be used for collection of solar energy.

All continuous land and structures, other appurtenances, and improvements on the land, used for processing, storing, or disposing of solid waste, or used for the purpose of processing, extracting, converting, or recovering energy or materials from solid waste. A facility may be publicly or privately owned and may consist of several processing, storage, or disposal operational units.

The intensity of sound, measured in decibels, produced by the operation of a permitted use.

An instrument standardized by the American Standards Association for measurement of intensity of sound.

Human genitals, pubic region, anus, buttocks, female breast(s) below a point immediately above the top of the areola, or human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely covered.

Any of the following offenses:

Includes any of the following:

The keeping of horses and/or ponies for personal use and enjoyment of the residents of the lot, not involving any profit-making activity.

Any vertical structure enclosing a flue(s) that carry off smoke or exhaust from a furnace or other fuel-burning device, especially that part of a structure extending above a roof.

Land area where the inclination of the land's surface from the horizontal plane is 15% or greater. Man-made slopes shall not be considered steep slopes.

A well used for and in connection with the underground storage of natural gas, including injection into or withdrawal from an underground storage reservoir for monitoring or observation of reservoir pressure.

That portion of a building between the surface of any finished floor and the surface of the finished floor next above it or, if there shall be no floor above it, then the space between any floor and the ceiling next above it. In determining the number of stories for purposes of height measurement, a basement shall be counted as a story if the ceiling is more than five feet above the average adjoining ground level at the front setback, and a mezzanine shall be counted as a story if it covers 50% or more of the area of the story underneath such mezzanine. An attic or a cellar shall not be counted as a story.

Any wireless communication facility that, whether imbedded or attached, is mounted to an existing aerial communications cable that is strung between utility poles.

Any public or private recorded right-of-way used or intended to be used by vehicular traffic and pedestrians, including avenue, boulevard, road, highway, freeway, parkway, lane, alley, thoroughfare or viaduct.

A public street that serves large volumes of high-speed and long-distance traffic.

A public street that, in addition to giving access to abutting lots, intercepts local streets and provides a route for carrying considerable volumes of local traffic to community facilities and arterial streets.

Any public street not defined herein as an arterial or a collector street.

A street, including the entire private right-of-way, that is privately owned and maintained and that is intended for private, rather than public, use.

A public right-of-way dedicated and open for public use that has been adopted by the Borough, county, commonwealth or other governmental body.

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 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.

A man-made enclosure, designed to impound water for the purpose of creating depth of water suitable for swimming, or other types of water recreation or therapy, including but not limited to water slides, lap pools, whirlpools, soaking tubs, or hot tubs.

Any use in which the primary purpose is the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption, which may or may not include dancing. Taverns may include prepared food sales but such prepared foods are typically accessory or incidental to the primary purpose as a tavern.[9]

Any use or structure which may be a principal use on a lot or accessory to an existing principal use on a lot intended to be used for less than six consecutive months. Structures intended to be used for more than six months shall be considered permanent and shall meet the use and structure requirements for permanent structures.

Any wireless communications facility that solely supports the receipt of television signals for a noncommercial purpose or the transmission of amateur radio signals.

The attaching of development rights to specified lands which are desired by a municipality to be kept undeveloped, but permitting those rights to be transferred from those lands so that the development potential which they represent may occur on other lands where more intensive development is deemed to be appropriate.

Includes any of the following:

An imaginary surface that extends outward and upward from the edge of the primary surface to the horizontal surface at a slope of seven feet horizontally to one foot vertically (7:1). The transitional surface zone is derived from the transitional surface.

An intermediate location between a "from" warehouse and a "to" warehouse for warehouse transfers. Items in a transit warehouse are in the process of being transferred to a different warehouse (transfer order) and therefore cannot be picked for other orders during transportation.

The distance measured from the highest point of the wind turbine rotor plane to the ground level.

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 or on a tract of land.

A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use and located on the same lot as the principal use.

An authorized use in a particular zoning district pursuant to Articles III, IV and X of this chapter which may be granted only by the Zoning Hearing Board in accordance with express standards and criteria.

The primary or predominant use to which the property is or may be devoted, and to which all other uses on the premises are accessory.

A runway that is constructed for and intended to be used by propeller driven aircraft of 12,500 pounds maximum gross weight or less.

A departure from the strict letter of this chapter as it applies to specific properties, as authorized by the Zoning Hearing Board in accordance with the terms of this chapter and the MPC.

The display or sale of automobiles, recreational vehicles, boats, farm equipment, motorcycles, trucks, or trailers, whether new or used, and whether stored indoors or outdoors.

Any outdoor device designed for the automated dispensing of merchandise, including, but not limited to, beverages, foodstuffs, ice, toiletries, tobacco products, newspapers, and sales brochures, whether in exchange for payment or without cost An automated teller machine shall not be considered a vending machine. A free library box shall not be considered a vending machine.

The services supplied by a doctor of veterinary medicine.

Booths, stalls, partitioned portions of a room, rooms or other enclosures which are available for viewing:

A runway intended solely for the operation of aircraft using visual approach procedures.

A structure primarily used for the storage of goods and materials.

The area used for development and production of oil and gas including buildings and structures and all activities associated with an oil and gas well after drilling activities are complete.

A wind-driven direct-current generator used for charging storage batteries.

A device such as a wind charger, wind turbine or windmill and/or other electric generation facility whose main purpose is to convert wind power into another form of energy such as electricity or heat, consisting of one or more wind turbine and other structures and buildings, including substations, meteorological towers, electrical infrastructure, transmission lines and other appurtenant structures and facilities.

An area of land or other area used for a wind energy conversion system principally used to capture wind energy and convert it to electrical energy. Large wind energy production facilities consist of one or more wind turbines, tower, and associated control or conversion electronics and other accessory structures and buildings including substations, electrical infrastructure, transmission lines and other appurtenant structures and facilities. A facility is considered a large wind energy production facility if it supplies electrical power solely for off-site use.

A wind energy conversion system consisting of a wind turbine, tower, and associated control or conversion electronics, and is intended to primarily reduce on-site consumption of utility power. A system is considered a small wind energy system only if it supplies electrical power solely for on-site use, except that when a parcel on which the system is installed also receives electrical power supplied by a utility company, excess electrical power generated and not presently needed for on-site use may be used by the utility company.

A device that runs on the energy generated by a wheel of adjustable blades or slats rotated by the wind.

A device that converts wind energy into electricity through the use of a wind turbine generator, and includes the nacelle, rotor, tower and pad transformer, if any.

The vertical component of a wind energy conversion system that elevates the wind turbine generator and attached blades above the ground.

The set of equipment and network components, including antennas, transmitters, receivers, base stations, cabling, and accessory equipment, used to provide wireless data and telecommunications services.

A yard extending between side lot lines across the full lot width from the front lot line to a line parallel to the front face of the structure of the principal use of the lot (see Figure 1[10]).

A yard extending between the side lot lines across the full lot width from the rear lot line to a line parallel to the rear face of the structure of the principal use of the lot (see Figure 1[11]).

A yard extending from the front yard line to the rear yard line parallel to the side lot line (see Figure 1[12]).

An area in the Borough in which regulations under this chapter uniformly apply including overlay districts.

The Zoning Hearing Board of Brentwood Borough, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, as defined by and appointed in accordance with the Pennsylvania MPC, Act 247 of 1968, as amended by Act 170 of 1998 (53 P.S. § 10101 et seq., as may be amended from time to time).

The Official Map delineating the zoning districts of Brentwood Borough, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, together with all amendments subsequently adopted.

The designated official or authorized representative appointed by the Borough Councils whose duty it shall be to administer this chapter and as identified in Section 614 of the Pennsylvania MPC, Act 247 of 1968, as amended by Act 170 of 1998 (53 P.S. § 10101 et seq., as may be amended from time to time).