Next to or adjacent to, and includes the words "directly across from streets, natural features, and rights-of-way."

A privately owned, constructed, and maintained vehicular access from a public or private street to four or more off-street parking spaces or to at least one loading space.

A building or structure which is subordinate and accessory to a principal building or use on the same lot and which is used for purposes clearly incidental to those of the principal building or use. Any portion of a principal building or structure devoted or intended to be devoted to an accessory use is not an accessory building.

Any equipment serving or being used in conjunction with a wireless communications facility or wireless support structure. The term "accessory equipment" includes, but is not limited to, utility or transmission equipment, power supplies, generators, batteries, cables, equipment buildings, cabinets and storage sheds, shelters or similar structures.

43,560 square feet.

A state of being side by side, next to, adjoining or abutting one to another.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "adult business."

A public or private way permanently reserved as a secondary means of access for vehicles to the side or rear of abutting properties.

As applied to a building or structure, a change or rearrangement in the structural parts, or an enlargement or diminution, whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height, or the moving from one location or position to another; or, any change in use from one use to another.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "animal hospital."

An apparatus designed for the purpose of emitting radiofrequency (RF) radiation, to be operated or operating from a fixed location pursuant to Federal Communications Commission authorization, for the provision of wireless service and any commingled information services.

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.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "arcade, accessory."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "amusement halls and arcade."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "auto service station."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "auto repair garage-major repairs," "auto repair garage-minor repairs" and "auto service station."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "auto service station."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "junkyard (salvage yard)."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "auto/boat/RV sales."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "bank."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "bed and breakfast."

Property bounded on one side by a street and on the other three sides by a street, railroad right-of-way, public park, waterway, Borough line or any combination thereof.

That portion of a block which abuts a single street.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "boarding house."

A strip of required yard space adjacent to the boundary of a property or district of a width not less than that designated by this chapter, and on which is placed shrubbery, hedges, evergreens, or other suitable plantings of sufficient height and density to meet the requirements of Borough ordinances and to constitute an effective screen and give maximum protection and immediate screening to an abutting property or district.

A line parallel to the street right-of-way that establishes the maximum distance that a building or principal structure may be set back from the street right-of-way.

A structure having a roof supported by columns or walls, used for the shelter, housing, or enclosure of persons, animals, or property. "Building" is interpreted as including "or part thereof."

The aggregate of the maximum horizontal cross-section areas of all buildings on a lot, taken at their greatest outside dimensions on the ground floor, including all attached and detached structures, except steps, terraces, patios, cornices, eaves and gutters, but including roofed porches, roofed breezeways and roofed carports.

The ratio obtained by dividing the maximum horizontal cross-section of all principal and accessory buildings on a lot (including balconies and decks, roofed porches, roofed carports and roofed breeze-ways, but excluding patios) by the total area of the lot upon which the buildings are located.

The portion of a lot on which the principal building or structure can be placed and which excludes all front, side, and rear yard areas as well as all rights-of-way, easements, areas with environmental protection restrictions, and any other areas protected by the terms of this chapter.

The vertical distance of a building measured from the point which is the mean level of the highest and lowest portion of the site covered by the building to the highest portion of the roof.

The relationship between the mass of a building and its surroundings, including the width of street, open space, and mass of surrounding buildings. Mass is determined by the three-dimensional bulk of a structure: height, width and depth.

The minimum distance between buildings measured from the outermost wall or projection to the nearest point on another building.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "bus shelter."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "car wash."

A building open on two or more sides and used in conjunction with a dwelling for the storage of private motor vehicles.

The paved portion of a street or highway designed for vehicular traffic.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "cemetery."

The mounting of one or more WCFs, including antennas, on a preexisting structure. or modifying a structure for the purpose of mounting or installing a WCF on that structure.

A motor vehicle licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in a class other than Class 1 or Class 2. For purposes of this chapter a recreational vehicle shall not be considered a commercial motor vehicle.

The document entitled "Comprehensive Plan for the Borough of Bristol," or any part thereof, adopted by Borough Council.

A use permitted by the Borough Council pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and Article VI of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act 247 of 1968, 53 P.S. § 10601 et seq., as amended.

A building or group of buildings, in which units are owned individually, and the lot, common areas, and facilities are owned by all the owners in a proportional, undivided basis.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "conference center."

Includes the placing of construction materials in permanent position and fastening in a temporary or permanent position; includes the demolition of a preexisting building, provided that further construction be diligently carried on.

To change or adapt land, structures or buildings to a different use, occupancy or purpose.

The County of Bucks, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

A proposed zoning amendment made to Borough Council by any landowner who desires to challenge on substantive grounds the validity of an ordinance which prohibits or restricts the use or development of land in which he has an interest.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "day care center."

Final adjudication of any board or other body granted jurisdiction under any land use ordinance or the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq., to do so, either by reason of the grant of exclusive jurisdiction or by reason of appeals from determinations. All decisions shall be appealable to the court of common pleas of the county and judicial district wherein the Borough lies.

The towpath berm and intended waterway of the Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal, and including all adjacent lands, aqueducts, and drainage channels owned by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of the Delaware Canal State Park.

The number of dwelling units per acre calculated by dividing the number of dwelling units by the base site area.

A state of being surrounded on all sides by yards.

Final action by an officer, body or agency charged with the administration of any land use ordinance or applications thereunder, except the following:

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.

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 development plan" when used in this chapter shall mean the written and graphic materials referred to in this definition.

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

A portion of the territory of the Borough within which certain uniform regulations and requirements or various combinations thereof apply under the provisions of this chapter.

A private strip of land intended as a means of vehicular access to a lot.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "junkyard (salvage yard)."

A building designed and occupied for residential purposes containing one or more dwelling units. The term "dwelling" shall not be deemed to include automobile court, boarding house, rooming house, tourist home, hotel, motel, inn, hospital, nursing home, personal care facility, life care facility, dormitory, fraternity, sorority house or other group residence. See § 27-320, "Use Regulations," in Part 3 of this chapter for definitions of specific dwelling types.

One or more rooms intended to be occupied by one family as separate living quarters, containing sanitary facilities, kitchen facilities and having outside access directly from the dwelling unit or through a common hall.

A right-of-way granted for limited use of land or a restriction placed on land for specific purposes.

The lowest horizontal line of a sloping (i.e., gable, hip, gambrel) roof.

A condition that constitutes a clear and immediate danger to the health, welfare, or safety of the public or has caused or is likely to cause facilities in the rights-of-way to be unusable and result in loss of the services provided.

An employee, assistant or associate, agent, contractor, or representative who acts in interest or profits from a business, industry, home office or occupation, or other enterprise.

An area surrounding or adjacent to a wireless support structure within which base stations, power supplies, or accessory equipment is located.

An addition to the floor area of an existing building, an increase in size of any other structure, or an increase in that portion of a tract of land occupied by an existing use.

The exterior wall, face or plane of a building.

A group of individuals not necessarily related by blood, marriage, adoption, or guardianship living together in a dwelling unit as a single housekeeping unit under a common housekeeping management plan based on an intentionally structured relationship providing organization and stability. These uses shall be distinguished from a group occupying a boarding house, club, fraternity or hotel.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "family day care center."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "farmers market."

Federal Communications Commission.

A man-made barrier placed or arranged to enclose or screen areas of land. The term "fence" shall be deemed to include a wall if the wall is used as a fence.

Any combustible or explosive composition or any substance or combination of substances or, except as hereinafter provided, any article prepared for the purpose of producing a visible or an audible effect by combustion, explosion, deflagration or detonation, and shall include blank cartridges and toy cannons in which explosives are used, the type of balloons which require fire underneath to propel the same, firecrackers, torpedoes, skyrockets, Roman candles, aerial fireworks, or other fireworks of like construction and any fireworks containing any explosive or flammable compound or any other device containing an explosive substance.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "flea market."

The total area of all floors of the building or structure used for human occupancy or required for the conduct of the business or use, but excluding cellars, crawl spaces, garages, carports, attics without floors, open porches, balconies, and terraces. Such area shall be measured from the outside face of the walls or from the center lines of party walls separating two buildings.

The ratio of the floor area to the lot area, as determined by dividing the floor area by the lot area.

A building or part thereof used for the storage or parking of one or more vehicles.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "general merchandise store."

The elevation of finished ground or paving.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for descriptions of "group home for handicapped individuals" and "group home for non-handicapped individuals."

Those wastes where a significant potential exists for causing adverse public health or environmental impacts if the waste is handled, stored, transported, treated, or disposed of in a manner customarily accepted for ordinary solid wastes and subject to special state or federal licensing.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "health club."

The vertical distance measured from the ground level, including any base pad, to the highest point on a tower-based WCF, including antennas mounted on the tower and any other appurtenances.

The official board empowered by Act 167, 53 P.S. § 8001 et seq., and Borough Council to review and make recommendations regarding changes with the Historic District.

The official Historic District established by the Borough under the authority of Act 167, 53 P.S. § 8001 et seq.

Any structure or site listed on, or eligible to be listed on, the National Register of Historic Places or the Commonwealth Inventory of Historic Places, or which has been designated to be of historic or architectural significance by the Borough Council as part of an officially adopted list.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "home occupation."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "hospital."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "hotel, motel and inn."

Surface that does not absorb water, including all buildings, parking areas, driveways, roads, sidewalks, and any areas of concrete, asphalt, and packed stone, and any other areas determined to be impervious by the Borough Engineer. Uncovered plank decks and pervious paver systems (designed to allow infiltration of stormwater consistent with stormwater best management practices) shall be calculated as one-half of the actual area when calculating the impervious surface ratio for the lot. The total area of uncovered plank decks and pervious paver systems shall not exceed more than 10% of the maximum allowable impervious surface coverage within the zoning district.

The total of all areas having impervious cover within a lot divided by the lot area.

Those physical additions, installations and changes required by ordinance or the Borough Council, or proposed by an applicant or property owner, such as streets, driveways, parking areas, curbs, sidewalks, water mains, sewers, drainage facilities, public utilities, and any other appropriate items required to render land suitable for the use proposed.

Any discarded material or articles (including scrap metallic or nonmetallic items, abandoned vehicles and equipment, paper, glass, containers and structures.) It shall not include refuse or garbage kept in a proper container for the purpose of disposal within 72 hours.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "junkyard (salvage yard)."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "kennel."

Shall consist of all the following: sink with piped water, a cooking range with oven and a refrigerator.

Any of the following activities:

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

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. A lot shall not be divided by a street and shall not include any land within the right-of-way of a public or private street upon which said lot abuts, even if the title to such right-of-way is in the owner of the lot. A lot, for the purposes of this chapter, must coincide with a lot of record or must satisfy criteria within this chapter to meet minimum area and dimensional standards.

The area contained within the lot lines, excluding space within all existing and future road rights-of-way and any easement which would interfere with the proposed use.

The mean distance from the street line of the lot to its opposite rear line, measured in the general direction of the side lines of the lot.

Any boundary line of a lot.

The distance measured between the side lot lines at the required building setback line or build-to line where a build-to line is required, and the street line; or, where there is only one side lot line, the distance between the side lot line and the opposite rear lot line or street line.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "marina."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "massage therapy."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "light manufacturing" which includes "medical laboratories."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "medical office."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "membership club."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "microwave or satellite dish."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "auto repair garage-minor repairs."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "mobile home."

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

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "mobile home park."

The improvement, upgrade or expansion of existing wireless communications facilities or base stations on an existing wireless support structure or the improvement, upgrade, or expansion of the wireless communications facilities located within an existing equipment compound, if the improvement, upgrade, expansion or replacement does not substantially change the physical dimensions of the wireless support structure.

A WCF or site which consists of a single pole structure, designed and erected on the ground or on top of a structure, to support communications antennas and connecting appurtenances.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "hotel, motel or inn."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "motor freight terminal."

A body politic and corporate created pursuant to the Act of May 2, 1945, P.L. 382, No. 164, known as the "Municipalities Authority Act of 1945," 53 P.S. § 301 et seq.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "museum."

Wireless communications facilities located on existing structures, such as, but not limited to, buildings, water towers, electrical transmission towers, utility poles, light poles, traffic signal poles, flagpoles and other similar structures that do not require the installation of a new tower. This term includes the replacement of an existing structure with a similar structure that is required to support the weight of the proposed WCF.

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

A structure or part of a structure that does not comply with the applicable area, setback, yard, building height, location, size, or impervious surface provisions of this chapter or amendment heretofore or hereafter enacted, where such structure lawfully existed prior to the enactment of this chapter or amendment or prior to the application of this chapter or amendment to its location by reason of annexation. Such nonconforming structures include, but are not limited to, nonconforming signs.

A use, whether of land or of structure, which does not comply with the applicable 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 amendment, or prior to the application of this chapter or amendment to its location by reason of annexation.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "day care center."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "nursery/greenhouse."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "nursing home."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "office."

The map as adopted or amended by Borough Council classifying the streets of the Borough into functional categories.

The map as adopted or amended by Borough Council which designates the location and boundaries of zoning districts.

That area of land and/or water to be restricted from future development for the purpose of protecting natural features, providing buffers, or for recreational purposes. Open space does not include land occupied by streets, street rights-of-way, off-street parking areas, driveways, land reserved for future parking areas, stormwater management facilities and easements or areas used to handle stormwater runoff, minimum separation distances between buildings, areas set aside for public facilities, and, any portion of the minimum lot area as required by this chapter.

The total amount of open space within the site divided by the base site area.

The Zoning Ordinance for the Borough of Bristol (this chapter), including the Official Zoning Map, Official Street Classification Map, and any amendments enacted by Borough Council.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "outdoor storage" and "outdoor storage or display."

Any area which is predominantly open space and is used principally for active or passive recreation.

Outdoor areas or specially designed buildings or garages used for the storage of vehicles.

A space available for the parking of one motor vehicle. A parking space may include either covered garage space or uncovered parking lot space located off the street right-of-way.

An area or courtyard which is not covered by a roof or permanent awning, and is designed for outdoor living purposes as an accessory use to a structure. A patio with footers, for purposes of this chapter, shall be considered a structure which complies with all applicable yard requirements in this chapter.

A document issued by the proper Borough authority authorizing the applicant to undertake certain activities.

Individuals, corporations, companies, associations, joint-stock companies, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies, corporations and other entities established pursuant to statutes of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, provided that "person" does not include or apply to the Borough or to any department or agency of the Borough.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "personal services."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "retail establishments."

A roofed or unroofed structure projecting from the front, side or rear wall of a building.

The building in which the principal use of a lot is conducted.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of private recreation facility.

Includes:

A formal meeting held pursuant to public notice by the Borough Council or the Planning Commission, 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).

Notice published once each week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Borough. 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.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "public park/recreation facility."

Any structure used for the transmission or retransmission of a commercial radio or TV broadcasting signal.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "public park/recreation facility" and "private recreation facility."

A vehicle (regardless of size) which is designed as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation uses (regardless of whether it is self-propelled or is designed to be towed or carried by another vehicle). "Recreation vehicle" includes campers, pickup coaches, travel trailers or motor homes.

One or more rooms intended to be occupied by one family as separate living quarters, but does not contain one or more of the following: sanitary facilities and kitchen facilities.

The replacement of existing wireless communications facilities on an existing wireless support structure or within an existing equipment compound due to maintenance, repair or technological advancement with equipment composed of the same wind loading and structural loading that is substantially similar in size, weight and height as the wireless communications facilities initially installed and that does not substantially change the physical dimensions of the existing wireless support structure.

Letter, review, memorandum, compilation or similar writing made by any body, board, officer or consultant other than a solicitor to any other body, board, officer or consultant for the purpose of assisting the recipient of such report in the rendering of any decision or determination. All reports shall be deemed recommendatory and advisory only and shall not be binding upon the recipient, board, officer, body or agency, nor shall any appeal lie therefrom. Any report used, received or considered by the body, board, officer or agency rendering a determination or decision shall be made available for inspection to the applicant and all other parties to any proceeding upon request, and copies thereof shall be provided at cost of reproduction.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "light manufacturing" which includes "research, engineering or testing laboratories."

Property with environmental resources including floodplain, floodplain soils, wetlands, streams, waters of the Commonwealth, waters of the U.S., watercourses, steep slopes, woodlands and trees, and riparian buffers, to the extent protected by this chapter.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for descriptions of "fast food restaurant," "food take-out restaurant," and "standard restaurant."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "retail center."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "retail store."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "boarding house."

All of the following: sink with piped water, a toilet, and a bathtub or shower with piped water which is connected to a sewage disposal system.

A system designed to collect, treat, and dispose of sewage from users in compliance with regulations of the appropriate state agency and of the Borough.

A visual display or image which is affixed to, painted, or represented directly or indirectly upon a building, structure, land, or any surface and which directs attention to an object, product, service, place, activity, person, institution, organization, or business, regardless of whether such display or image is permanent or temporary, but excluding displays or images which are decorative only. Customary displays of merchandise or objects and material without lettering placed behind a store window are not signs or parts of signs. See Part 6, "Signs," for definitions of specific sign types.

Includes regrading the existing topography, filling lakes, ponds, marshes or floodplains, clearing vegetation or altering watercourses.

All area within a site or tract as determined by a site survey.

A wireless communications facility that meets the following criteria:

The capability of receiving direct sunlight between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. (solar time) on areas of a lot within required yard areas.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "solar energy system."

A use permitted in a particular zoning district pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and Articles VI and IX of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, 53 P.S. §§ 10601 et seq., 10901 et seq.

Camouflaging methods applied to wireless communications facilities and accessory equipment which render them more visually appealing or blend the proposed facility into the existing structure or visual backdrop in such a manner as to render it minimally visible to the casual observer. Such methods include, but are not limited to, architecturally screened roof-mounted antennas, building-mounted antennas painted to match the existing structure, and facilities constructed to resemble trees, shrubs, and light poles.

That portion of a building, included between the surface of any floor and the ceiling next above it, having a vertical distance of not less than seven feet shall be considered a full story. Any such portion of a building having a vertical distance of less than seven feet shall be considered a half-story.

Any story having its finished floor surface entirely above grade, except that a basement shall be considered as a story above grade where the finished surface of the floor above the basement is:

A public or private way used or intended to be used for passage or travel by vehicles and pedestrians and which furnishes access to abutting properties. The term street includes avenue, boulevard, road, highway, freeway, parkway, lane, alley, and viaduct.

The dividing line between the street and the lot. The street line shall be the same as the legal right-of-way line or, where established by ordinance or other means, the future right-of-way line. See definition of "front lot line."

Any man-made object having an ascertainable stationary location on or in land or water, whether or not affixed to the land, but not including poles with basketball backboards and hoops, children's play equipment such as swings, slides and so forth, poles with clotheslines (including umbrella types), poles with bird feeders, flagpoles, awnings with pole supports, mail box posts, and public art sponsored by the Borough or nonprofits recognized by the Borough.

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.

Any reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition, or other improvement of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds 50% of the market value of the structure before the "start of construction" of the improvement. This term includes structures which have incurred "substantial damage" regardless of the actual repair work performed. The term does not, however, include either of the following:

A building covered by land on at least 50% of the total surface of its walls and roof.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "commercial swimming pool."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "commercial swimming pool," "noncommercial swimming pool," and "non-household swimming pool."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "tavern."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "temporary structure."

Any structure that is used for the primary purpose of supporting one or more antennas, including, but not limited to, self-supporting lattice towers, guy towers and monopoles.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "transit station."

Any activity, occupation, business or operation carried on or intended to be carried on in a structure or on a lot.

A use located on the same lot with a principal use, and clearly incidental or subordinate to, and customarily in connection with the principal use.

A use allowed subject to the provisions of this chapter, exclusive of any nonconforming or illegal use.

The main use on a lot, which represents the primary activity, occupation or business operation carried on, or intended to be carried on, in a building or other structure or on a tract of land.

Relief granted pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and Articles VI and IX of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, 53 P.S. §§ 10601 et seq., 10901 et seq.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "animal hospital".

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "visitors' center."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "warehouse."

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "mini-warehouse."

Any sanitary sewer, sewage system, sewage treatment or parts thereof designed, intended, or constructed for the collection, treatment, and satisfactory disposal of wastewater.

A system designed to transmit water from a source to users, in compliance with the requirements of the appropriate state agencies and the Borough.

An inventory of the source, quantity, yield and use of groundwater and surface-water resources within the Borough.

Any intermittent or perennial, natural or man-made channel, canal, millrace, creek, stream, ditch, dry run, spring, river, swale, or any other natural or man-made feature conveying water.

Any and all rivers, streams, creeks, rivulets, impoundments, ditches, water courses, storm sewers, lakes, dammed water, ponds, springs and all other bodies or channels of conveyance of surface and underground water, or parts thereof, whether natural or artificial, within or on the boundaries of this Commonwealth.

Pennsylvania Wireless Broadband Collocation Act (53 P.S. § 11702.1 et seq.).

Those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface water or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and under normal conditions do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soils conditions; or those areas of lands defined as wetlands in either: (1) the United States Army Corps of Engineers Wetlands Delineation Manual; or (2) the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, "Wetlands Identification and Delineation," 25 Pa. Code, Chapter 105, "Dam Safety and Waterways Management," rules and regulations.

See Part 3, "Zoning Districts and Use Regulations," for description of "windmill."

Transmissions through the airwaves, including, but not limited to, infrared line-of-sight, cellular, PCS, microwave, satellite, or radio signals.

The antennas, nodes, control boxes, towers, poles, conduits, ducts, pedestals, electronics and other equipment used for the purpose of transmitting, receiving, distributing, providing, or accommodating wireless communications services.

Any person that applies for a wireless communication facility building permit, zoning approval and/or permission to use the public right-of-way (ROW) or other Borough-owned land or property.

A freestanding structure, such as a tower-based wireless communications facility, or any other support structure that could support the placement or installation of a wireless communications facility if approved by the Borough.

Areas, groves or stands of trees covering an area of 1/4 acre or greater.

An open space on the same lot with a structure (or a group of structures) which lies between the structure (or group of structures) and a lot line and which is unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward except as herein permitted. The size of a required yard shall be measured as the shortest distance between the structure and a lot line or street line. No portion of a structure, building or use may obstruct a yard area, unless otherwise specifically permitted by this chapter.

See "district."

The administrative officer charged with the duty of enforcing the provisions of this chapter.