The highest level of flooding that, on the average, is likely to occur every 100 years, that is, that has a 1% chance of occurring each year.

The outer boundary of an area of land that is likely to be flooded once every 100 years (i.e., that has a 1% chance of being flooded each year). A study by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the United States Department of Agriculture's Soil Conservation Service, the United States Geological Survey, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, or a licensed surveyor or professional engineer, registered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is necessary to define this boundary.

The water surface elevations of the 100-year flood.

An improved surface, other than a street, shared driveway, or driveway, designed and constructed to provide access from a street to any use other than agriculture and other than an individual residential dwelling unit, or to a parking lot.

A use or structure closely incidental or subordinate to the principal use of a building on the same lot and serving a purpose customarily incidental to the use of the principal building or land use.

See MPC.

The net buildable land area of a proposed development site, determined by deducting specific percentages of various categories of constrained land from the gross tract area as described in Chapter 435, Subdivision and Land Development.

One of two methods of determining the maximum number of permitted dwelling units in a conservation subdivision where the adjusted tract area of the site equals the gross tract area minus the constrained land on the site. A worksheet for the methodology is provided in Exhibit A.[2]

The outdoor display of any writing, printing, picture, painting, emblem, drawing, sign or similar device intended to invite or draw the attention of the public to any goods, merchandise, property, business, service, entertainment, amusement or industrial activity or establishment.

Any rigid or semirigid material with or without advertisement displayed thereon, situated upon or attached to or which is part of real property for the purpose of furnishing a background, base surface or support upon which an advertisement may be posted or displayed outdoors.

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

Recreation, entertainment, education, and tourism events and activities that are associated with and provide support for the ongoing conduct of agricultural operations on a farm or farm property.

The tilling of the soil, the raising of crops, forestry, horticulture and gardening, including the keeping or raising of livestock, such as cattle, cows, hogs, horses, sheep, goats, poultry, rabbits, birds, fish, bees, and other similar animals. This definition includes greenhouses for stock to be distributed wholesale, but excludes greenhouses with retail sales and intensive animal operations as defined herein. Agriculture can involve the incidental slaughter for personal consumption of livestock which have been raised on the site. (See also "farm.")

A place use where aircraft are stored, maintained, repaired, and refueled, and where aircraft take off and land. Airports may also include other accessory accommodations for aircraft passengers, cargo, or both.

The traveled way contiguous to parking spaces by which vehicles enter and depart parking spaces within a parking lot.

A minor right-of-way, privately or publicly owned, for secondary access to the rear and/or side of properties.

An action involving any of the following:

An indoor commercial establishment which provides as a principal use amusement devices, games of skill or chance, or both (e.g., pinball machines, video games, electronic or water firing ranges and other similar devices). This definition does not include the use of three or fewer such devices as an accessory use.

Commercially operated park having various devices and events for entertainment purposes (including rides, outdoor paintball, snow tubing, go-carts and similar).

Any establishment offering veterinary services that includes outdoor and overnight boarding of animals.

A living unit in a multiple-dwelling structure.

Creation of two or more living units by conversion of an existing structure.

A landowner or developer or his agent who has filed an application for any permit required by this chapter or an application for site development plan review, use by special exception, conditional use, or a variance as allowed by this chapter, including his heirs, successors and assigns.

A building used for the conduct of public auctions of goods by a licensed auctioneer or apprentice auctioneer. Three types of auction houses are defined:

A building or structure on a lot that is used for the repair or painting of bodies, chassis, wheels, fenders, bumpers and/or accessories of automobiles and other vehicles for conveyance.

A building or lot or part thereof supplying and selling gasoline or other equivalent fuel for motor vehicles at retail direct from pumps and storage tanks.

A building or structure on a lot designed and/or used primarily for mechanical and/or body repairs, storage, or servicing to automobiles, trucks and similar vehicles.

A building or lot or part thereof supplying and selling gasoline or other equivalent fuel for motor vehicles at retail direct from pumps and storage tanks and which may include accessory facilities for rendering services, such as lubrication, washing and minor repairs.

(See "financial institution.)

An establishment which is rented by individuals or groups to accommodate private functions, including, but not limited to, banquets, weddings, anniversaries and other similar celebrations. Such use may or may not include:

An owner-occupied dwelling in which a room or rooms are rented on a nightly basis for periods of not more than 30 days. Meals may or may not be provided.

An agricultural use or an accessory residential use in which bees are raised, kept, or both.

Any structure or part thereof or any device attached to a structure for the painting, posting or otherwise displaying of information for the purpose of bringing to the attention of the public any product, business, service or cause not necessarily located on or related to the premises on which the sign is situated.

The Carroll Township Zoning Hearing Board duly appointed by the Township Board of Supervisors.

The duly elected governing body of the Township of Carroll.

A dwelling or part thereof where lodgings, with or without meals, are provided for compensation for at least two but not more than six persons, not transients, and no public restaurant is maintained.

Any structure, either temporary or permanent, having walls or other elements supporting a roof or other covering, and designed or used for the shelter or enclosure of any person, animal, or property of any kind, including tents, awnings, or vehicles situated on private property and used for purposes stated above.

The horizontal area measured around the outside of the foundation walls plus the floors of roofed porches and roofed terraces, and including the area of accessory buildings if any. In the case of split-level dwellings, the "first floor area" shall be deemed to include floor areas on two nonoverlapping levels, separated by a partial story of height.

For all uses other than single-family attached dwellings (townhouses), building height shall be the vertical distance from the finished grade at the building's corners to the highest point of the roof, structure, or building. For single-family attached dwellings (townhouses), building height shall be the vertical distance from the finished grade at each dwelling unit's corners to the highest point of the roof, structure, or building at each dwelling unit's corners.

Any enterprise, occupation, trade or profession engaged in, either continuously or temporarily, for profit. The term business shall include the occupancy or use of a building or premises or any portion thereof for the transaction of business or the rendering or receiving of professional or personal service.

Any one or more of the following, other than a hospital, place of detention, school offering general instructions, or a trailer camp or trailer court:

A principal or accessory use whereby structures equipped with apparatuses for the washing, waxing, vacuuming, or any combination thereof, of vehicles are provided.

Includes licensed bed and/or long-term care bed as defined by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or other regulatory authority.

An unenclosed structure for the storage of one or more vehicles in the same manner as a private garage, which may be covered by a roof supported by columns or posts except that one or more walls are the walls of the main building to which the carport is accessory.

The portion of a street right-of-way intended for vehicular travel and parking.

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

A building, structure, or group of buildings or structures, including accessory uses, designed or intended for public worship. This definition shall include rectories, convents, schools and day-care facilities related to religious institutions, athletic facilities, recreation facilities, or any combination thereof.

Natural wood which has not been painted, varnished or coated with a similar material; has not been pressure treated with preservatives; and does not contain resins or glues as in plywood or other composite wood products.

A planned center designed and located to primarily serve those employed within the immediate vicinity.

Commercial facilities engaged in the use of solar panels to convert energy from the sun into electrical energy (including, without limitation, power inverters and transformers) specifically for the purpose of the sale of electricity to others.

Any activity related to sports, operated on a commercial basis, open to the public for a fee, for the purpose of public recreation, including, but not limited to, sports fields, stadiums, skating rinks, skateboard/stunt bicycle parks or courses, gymnasiums, gymborees, weight and fitness rooms, tennis courts, basketball courts, indoor recreation facilities, swimming pools, miniature golf courses, bowling alleys and other similar uses.

A vehicle, other than a recreational vehicle, that exceeds an actual vehicle weight of 9,000 pounds.

Any area of land or water, or a combination of land and water, within a development site designed and intended for use by all residents of the development or the general public. Land included within the right-of-way lines of streets, required setbacks between buildings and stormwater detention basins shall not be classified as common open space. Common open space shall comply with § 450-354 requirements for open space.

Any exterior transmitting or receiving device mounted on a tower, building or structure and used in communications that radiate or capture electromagnetic waves, digital signals, analog signals, radio frequencies (excluding radar signals), wireless telecommunications signals, or other communications signals. The term "communications antenna" does not include a receiving facility for the sole use of an individual consumer and located on the property in which such individual consumer resides.

Any structure that is designed and constructed primarily for the purpose of supporting one or more antennas for telephone, radio, and similar communications purposes, including self-supporting lattice towers, guyed towers, or monopole towers, common-carrier towers, cellular telephone towers, alternative tower structures, and the like. The terms includes the structure and any support thereto.

The most recently adopted version of the Northern York Region Comprehensive Plan, York County, PA, or any other adopted Comprehensive Plan, including any amendments.

A use which may be appropriate to a particular zoning district, only when specific conditions and criteria prescribed for such uses are satisfied. Conditional uses are reviewed by the Board of Supervisors after recommendations by the Planning Commission, in accordance with this chapter.

A form of property ownership providing for individual ownership of a specific dwelling unit, or other space, together with an undivided interest in the land or other parts of the structure in common with other owners.

A series of improvements on a parcel of land used to provide housing, boarding and health care for persons of retirement status, extending from independent living to skilled nursing accommodations, whether by rental or contract for services.

Offices and shops for tradesmen, such as those contractors engaging in landscaping, hardscaping, plumbing, welding, heating, air conditioning, electrical, roofing, flooring, glass, and swimming pools and hot tubs, and/or other structural components of buildings.

A facility in a completely enclosed building used for civic corporate, trade and professional meetings, seminars training, trade shows and/or exhibition of products and technology and which may include supporting care, dining, lodging, and recreational facilities as accessory uses.

A lot which has an interior angle of less than 135° at the intersection of two street lines. A lot abutting upon a curve street shall be considered a corner lot if the tangents to the curve at the points of the side lot lines with the street line intersect at an interior angle less than 135°.

A land use and growth management plan prepared by the County Planning Commission and adopted by the County Commissioners which establishes broad goals and criteria for municipalities to use in preparation of their Comprehensive Plan and land use regulation.

The offering of care or supervision over minors or special needs adults in lieu of care or supervision by family members. This definition does not include the offering of overnight accommodations.

Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, the construction, reconstruction, renovation, repair, expansion, or alteration of buildings or other structures; the placement of manufactured homes; streets, and other paving; utilities; filling, grading and excavation; mining; dredging; drilling operations; storage of equipment or materials; and the subdivision of land.

A disability of a person which has continued or can be expected to continue indefinitely; a disability which is:

A person with a developmental disability.

A self-propelled vehicle designed for transporting persons or property which is propelled by a compression-ignition-type of internal combustion engine. The definition does not include nonroad diesel vehicles, but does include construction equipment.

A process whereby materials, goods, or products are obtained, stored by one person, and then delivered to another.

A freight movement (logistics) facility that stores finished goods before they are picked and packed to fulfill orders directly to the consumer or retail locations. Materials within a distribution/fulfillment center are usually stored short-term. Office space associated with each distribution/fulfillment center building may be included.

The noncommercial keeping of no more than six adult animals that are locally available for purchase as pets as an accessory use to a dwelling unit. Domestic pets shall not include farm animals, horses, or any animal or bird for which a permit is required under the Pennsylvania Game and Wildlife Code, 34 Pa.C.S.A. § 101 et seq., or the regulations of the Pennsylvania Game Commission.

A lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel streets.

An improved surface, other than a street, access drive, or shared driveway, designed and constructed to provide vehicular access from a street to an individual residential dwelling unit or an agricultural use. A driveway may also be used to provide access from an access drive to an individual semidetached or semiattached residential dwelling unit.

Any building or portion thereof designed and used exclusively for residential occupancy, including those listed below, but not including hospitals, hotels, boardinghouses, rooming and lodging houses, dormitories, institutional houses, tourists courts, tourist homes and the like, offering transient occupancy or accommodations for guests or patients. In addition, all dwellings shall be properly connected to approved and permanently designed public or on-lot sewer, public or on-lot water, electrical and other utility systems.

Any construction or other activity which disturbs the surface of the land including, but not limited to, excavations, embankments, land development, subdivision development, mineral extraction, and the moving, depositing or storing of soil, rock or earth, excluding the tilling of the soil.

A grant of one or more property rights by the property owner to and/or for the use by the public, a corporation or another person or entity; and within which the owner of the property shall not erect any permanent structures, but shall have the right to make any other use of the land which is not inconsistent with the rights of the grantee.

The erection, construction, alteration, or maintenance by public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies providing gas, electric, telephone, water transmission or distribution, sanitary sewer service, including buildings, enclosures, wells, standpipes and towers, pumping stations, poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic light signals and hydrants reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by such public utilities or municipal or other agencies for the public health, safety or general welfare, excluding power generation facilities.

An individual or individuals related by blood, marriage, or adoption (including persons receiving foster care) that maintain one common household and live within one dwelling unit and those individuals residing in a group home.

A burial plot or family cemetery accessory to a single-family detached dwelling for the burial of deceased individuals who are related by blood, marriage or adoption.

A parcel or parcels of land which are used for a principal agricultural use, including, but not limited to, one single-family detached dwelling and other necessary farm structures, and the use, repair, maintenance, and storage of equipment associated with the principal agricultural use.

Material placed or deposited so as to form an embankment or raise the surface elevation of the land, including, but not limited to, levees, bulkheads, dikes, jetties, embankments, and causeways.

A bank, savings-and-loan association, credit union, finance or loan company, etc.

The process of converting logs into cut and split firewood. This process pertains to logs that do not originate on the subject property and are imported, processed and then exported for sale or distribution.

An area of land adjacent to the channel of a watercourse which has been or is likely to be flooded, or any area subject to the unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source.

The sum of the floor areas of a dwelling unit as measured to the outside surfaces of exterior walls and including all rooms used for habitation, such as living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, closets, hallways, stairways, but not including unfinished basements or attics, or service rooms or areas such as utility rooms, nor unheated areas such as enclosed porches.

The management of forests and timberlands when practiced in accordance with accepted silvicultural principles, through developing, cultivating, harvesting, transporting, and selling trees for commercial purposes, which does not involve any land development.

An area establishing the required location for all, or a portion of a building's front facade, as measured from the street right-of-way line.

The continuous linear distance taken along a property's common boundary with an adjoining street right-of-way.

Storage of combustible fuels whether aboveground or below-ground, including, but not limited to, propane, gasoline, natural gas, kerosene, diesel, and heating oil. Excluded from this definition are fuels stored in quantities for normal residential use.

A principal use for the preparation and viewing of the dead prior to burial or cremation. Funeral homes shall not include cemeteries, columbariums, mausoleums, nor entombments, but do include mortuaries and crematoriums.

A geothermal heat pump (GHP) or ground source heat pump (GSHP) is a central heating and/or cooling system that transfers heat to or from the ground.

A golf course with a minimum of 2,800 yards of play in nine holes.

A single-family dwelling operated with a program to provide a supportive long-term living arrangement for individuals where special care is needed by the individual served due to age, emotional, mental, or physical handicap.

A substance or combination of substances that, because of the quantity, concentration, physical, chemical or infectious characteristics, if not properly treated, stored, transported, used, or disposed of, or otherwise managed, would create a potential threat to public health through direct or indirect introduction into groundwater resources and the subsurface environment which includes the soil and all subsequent materials located below. Such hazardous substances include substances regulated under DEP regulations. Also included are floatable materials with the potential to cause physical or chemical damage, such as storage tanks, logs, and the like.

Any substance defined as a "hazardous waste" under the Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act, 35 P.S. § 6018.101 et seq., the Pennsylvania Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and Waste Reduction Act, 53 P.S. § 4000.101 et seq., the Pennsylvania Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act, 35 P.S. § 6020.101 et seq., the Clean Streams Law, 35 P.S. § 691.1 et seq., the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq., and the regulations of the PA DEP and the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Any structure, group of structures, aboveground or underground storage tanks, or any other area or buildings used for the purpose of permanently housing or temporarily holding hazardous waste for the storage or treatment for any time span other than the normal transportation time through the Township.

A commercial business that offers active recreational activities, fitness activities, or both. Such activities are provided only to club members and their guests. Such facilities do not include golf courses.

Machinery, vehicles and other devices that are not normally used for domestic purposes upon a residential dwelling lot. Examples include, but are not limited to, farm machinery, excavation equipment, commercial trucks and trailers, yachts, industrial machinery, etc.

A principal use where one or more helicopters may land/take off and be stored. Such use may also include support services such as fueling and maintenance equipment, passenger terminals and storage hangars.

Any structure that is:

A business or commercial activity, other than a no-impact home-based business, that is conducted as an accessory use to and within a principal single-family detached dwelling.

An institution, licensed in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a hospital, which renders inpatient and outpatient medical care on a twenty-four-hours-per-day basis; and provides primary health services and medical/surgical care to persons suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity and other abnormal physical or mental conditions. A hospital use can also include attached and detached accessory uses provided that all accessory uses are contained upon the hospital property.

The operation of an engine in the operating mode where the engine is not engaged in gear, where the engine operates at a speed at the revolutions per minute specified by the engine manufacturer, or when the accelerator is fully released and there is no load on the engine.

A surface made of materials which prevent the percolation of water into the ground. These materials include semi-impervious materials, such as gravel, stone and block.

An agricultural use involving more than 75 livestock or more than 200 birds, such as, but not limited to, chickens and turkeys.

An improved cartway designed and constructed to provide for vehicular access between a street or access drive and two or more dwelling units, or their respective lots.

Used materials, discarded materials, or both, including, but not limited to, wastepaper, rags, metal, building materials, house furnishings, machinery, vehicles, or parts thereof, which are being stored awaiting potential reuse, recycling or ultimate disposal.

An area of land with or without buildings, used for the storage, outside of a completely enclosed building, of used or discarded materials, including, but not limited to, wastepaper, rags, metal, building materials, house furnishings, machinery, vehicles, part thereof, with or without the dismantling, processing, salvage, sale, or other uses or disposition of the same. The deposit or storage on a lot of one or more unlicensed, wrecked, or disabled vehicles, or the major part thereof, shall be deemed to constitute a "junkyard." For the purpose of this definition, a "disabled vehicle" is:

Any lot on which six or more animals that are older than six months (except relating to a farm) are kept either for the day or overnight, boarded, raised, bred, treated, or trained, for a fee, or for sale, including, but not limited to, a dog or cat kennel, also including the use of land, building, enclosed area, and/or structure having six or more animals.

The spraying or spreading of sewage sludge onto the land surface; the injection of sewage sludge below land surface or the incorporation of sewage sludge into the soil.

A strip of land outside of a street right-of-way, and usually along the perimeter of the lot, designed, constructed, and maintained to separate uses or activities on a lot from other uses or activities through the use of trees, shrubs, hedges, perennials and ground cover.

A strip of land outside of a street right-of-way, and usually along the perimeter of the lot, designed, constructed, and maintained to form a visual separation from one side to the other side through the combined use of low-level and high-level planting elements (such as deciduous and coniferous trees, shrubs, hedges, perennials and ground cover).

A facility where patrons wash, dry, or dry clean clothing or other fabrics in machines operated by the patron.

Manufactured products that use moderate amounts of partially processed materials to produce items of relatively high value per unit weight. Product production requires only small amounts of power and raw materials.

A first floor professional office, retail sales, or restaurant use of no more than 2,000 square feet within the same structure as a residential dwelling.

An off-street paved space suitable for the loading or unloading of goods and having direct usable access to a street or alley.

Any parcel, plot, or tract of land intended as a single unit for purposes of ownership, transfer of ownership, use, rent, improvement, or development. A "lot" herein defined must coincide with a single lot of record. A "lot" not otherwise specified is defined as having frontage along a:

Any portion of a lot occupied by an impervious surface.

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

A line of record which divides one lot from another lot, or from a public or private road or any other public space. Where a lot abuts a public right-of-way, the lot line for regulatory purposes shall be the right-of-way line.

A lot identified on a subdivision plan or on a deed or other instrument of conveyance recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds in and for York County, Pennsylvania.

The horizontal distance measured between side property lines. On corner lots, lot width shall be measured between the street right-of-way line for the nonaddress street and the directly opposite property line. Unless otherwise noted, lot width shall be measured at the required minimum building setback line.

The lowest floor of the lowest fully enclosed area (including basement). An unfinished, flood-resistant, partially enclosed area, used solely for parking of vehicles, building access, and incidental storage, in an area other than a basement area, is not considered the lowest floor of a building, provided that such space is not designed and built so that the structure is in violation of the applicable nonelevation design requirements of this chapter.

A function involving either the processing, changing of shape, conversion or production of materials, goods, or products.

The fecal and urinary excrement of livestock and poultry, often containing some spilled feed, bedding or litter.

A detached structure or other improvement built to store manure, produced only on the premises, for future use, or disposal. Types of storage facilities are as follows: underground storage, in-ground storage, earthen bank, stacking area, and aboveground storage. The construction and subsequent operation of the waste storage facility shall be in accordance with all applicable state and federal regulations.

A location (whether business or nonprofit) where patients or consumers can access cannabis in accordance with Pennsylvania law and regulations.

A facility where cannabis growing and/or preparation of marijuana or its by-products for commercial retail and/or wholesale in accordance with Pennsylvania law and regulations, including, but not limited to, drying, cleaning, curing, trimming, packaging, testing, and extraction of active ingredients to create marijuana-related products and concentrates.

Any building or group of buildings occupied by licensed medical practitioners and related services for the purpose of providing health services to people on an outpatient basis.

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.

One or more buildings divided into separate storage units for personal property, property associated with some business or other organization, or both. These units shall be used solely for dead storage and no processing, manufacturing, sales, research and development testing, service and repair, or other nonstorage activities shall be permitted.

The replacement of existing work with equivalent materials for the purpose of its routine maintenance and upkeep, but not including the cutting away of any wall, partition or portion thereof, the structural modification of any nonconforming sign, the addition of any sign, the removal or cutting of any structural beam or bearing support, or the removal or change of any required means of egress, or rearrangement of parts of a structure affecting the exit way requirements; nor shall minor repairs include addition to, alteration of, replacement or relocation of any standpipe, water supply, sewer, drainage, drain leader, gas, oil, waste, vent, or similar piping, electric wiring, or mechanical or other work affecting public health or general safety.

A movable retail food facility, such as a stand, vehicle, cart, basket, box or similar structure, from which food is stored, prepared, processed, distributed or sold, and the facility:

Any structure intended for or capable of permanent human habitation, with or without wheels, and capable of being transported or towed from one place to the next, in one or more pieces, by whatsoever name or title it is colloquially or commercially known, but excluding transport trucks or vans equipped with sleeping space for a driver or drivers and travel trailers. Manufactured homes placed on individual lots shall be considered "dwellings," and be bound by the requirements there-imposed. For the purposes of this chapter, the term "manufactured home" shall mean a structure, transportable in one or more sections, which is built on a permanent chassis, and is designed for use with or without a permanent foundation when attached to the required utilities. The term includes park trailers, recreational vehicles and other similar vehicles which are placed on a site for more than 180 consecutive days. For the purposes of this chapter, all manufactured homes, except those contained within manufactured home parks, shall be governed by all regulations applicable to single-family detached dwellings of this chapter.

A parcel of land in a manufactured home park, improved with the necessary utility connections and other appurtenances necessary for the erection thereon of a single manufactured home, which is leased by the park owner to the occupants of the manufactured home erected on the lot.

A parcel of land under single ownership, which has been planned and improved for the placement of two or more manufactured homes for nontransient use.

A building or group of buildings on the same lot used for the purpose of parking, storage, and incidental repairs and maintenance of primarily tractor-trailers and/or commercial vehicles. A motor freight terminal may include as accessory uses, if they are closely related to the principal use: repair, washing, refueling, and maintenance facilities for vehicles using the terminal, and administrative uses for the terminal. A motor freight terminal that exceeds 25,000 square feet in gross floor area shall be required to satisfy the requirements of § 450-385 (Warehouse and/or distribution/fulfillment centers).

All vehicles propelled other than by muscular power, except such vehicles that run only on rail or tracks.

Any building or land utilized for the retail sales or leasing of vehicles, including accessory service and repair facilities if conducted within a wholly enclosed building.

The retail repair, servicing, maintenance and reconstruction of vehicles, but not including "car washes" as defined herein.

The retail servicing of motor vehicles within a wholly enclosed building where the customer driving the vehicle does not leave the vehicle while waiting for or obtaining service. This type of service facility would specialize in one aspect of vehicle service such as changing/replacing motor vehicle lubricants and fluids.

The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act of July 31, 1968, P.L. 805, No. 247, as amended and reenacted by the Act of December 21, 1988, P.L. 1329, No. 170, and as amended, 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.

A freestanding building containing three or more dwelling units, arranged such that one or more dwelling unit is above another dwelling or dwellings. Commonly referred to as an "apartment building."

Any use customarily incidental to the entities of Carroll Township or Dillsburg Area Authority.

Any building used for on-site consumption of alcoholic or nonalcoholic beverages where live entertainment is offered. For the purposes of this definition, "live entertainment" is meant to include the use of disc jockeys for the purposes of supplying musical entertainment, but excluding adult-related uses. Nightclubs may also provide for on-site consumption of food. Additionally, nightclubs can offer the retail sale of carryout beer and wine as an accessory use. This is also meant to include an under 21 club which features entertainment.

A business or commercial activity administered or conducted as an accessory use which is clearly secondary to the use as a residential dwelling and which involves no customer, client or patient traffic, whether vehicular or pedestrian, pickup, delivery or removal functions to or from the premises, in excess of those normally associated with the residential use. The business or commercial activity must satisfy all of the following requirements:

An accessory use to a principal detached single-family dwelling, that is not contained upon a farm, whereupon livestock are kept exclusively by the residents of the site.

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

A structure or part of a structure manifestly not designed to comply with the applicable use or extent of use provisions in the Zoning Ordinance or amendment heretofore or hereafter enacted, where such structure lawfully existed prior to the enactment of such ordinance or amendment or prior to the application of such ordinance or amendment to its location by reason of annexation. Such nonconforming structures include, but are not limited to, nonconforming signs. Nonconformities are regulated by Article 5 of this chapter.

A use, whether of land or of structure, which does not comply with the applicable use provisions in the Zoning Ordinance or amendment heretofore or hereafter enacted where such use was lawfully in existence prior to the enactment of such ordinance, or amendment, or prior to the application of such ordinance or amendment to its location by reason of annexation.

Any aspect of a land use that does not comply with any size, height, bulk, setback, distance, landscaping, coverage, screening, or any other design or performance standard specified by this chapter, where such dimensional nonconformity lawfully existed prior to the adoption of this chapter or amendment thereto. Nonconformities are regulated by Article 5 of this chapter.

Facilities designed for the housing, boarding, and dining associated with some level of nursing care.

A commercial use at which persons can visit to wager upon, and observe by remote display, the outcomes of events that are taking place elsewhere.

The disposal of sewage generated by one principal use with the use of safe and healthful means within the confines of the lot on which the use is located, or within an approved sewage effluent easement, as approved by the PA DEP.

The provision of a safe, adequate and healthful supply of water to a single principal use from a private well.

Any parcel or area of land or water essentially unimproved, open to the percolation of rainwater.

A wood-fired boiler, stove or furnace that is not located within a building or structure intended for habitation by humans or domestic animals.

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

When used in determining the permissible number of driveways, each individual York County Tax Map parcel in existence on August 18, 2003, shall be considered a parent tract.

An accessory use in which required, and possibly additional parking spaces and aisles are provided.

A delineated off-street space with an improved surface available for the parking of one motor vehicle and having usable access to a street.

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

An individual, partnership, public or private association or corporation, firm, trust, estate, municipality, governmental unit, public utility, or any other legal entity whatsoever, which is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties.

Coordinated and centrally managed rental housing, including self-contained units designed to provide a supportive environment to accommodate a relatively independent lifestyle. Such a development may contain a limited number of supportive services, such as meals, transportation, housekeeping, linen, and organized social activities for residents and their invited guests. Such a use shall primarily serve persons 55 years of age and older and may serve persons with memory and physical handicaps and/or the developmentally disabled. A personal care facility does not include a nursing home, halfway house, drug and alcohol abuse treatment or similar facilities but may also include an assisted-living facility as defined by the State of Pennsylvania. Personal care facilities shall be licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

A facility in which food, shelter, and personal assistance or supervision are provided for a period exceeding 24 hours, for up to two adults who are not relatives of the operator, who do not require the services in or of a nursing home, but who do require assistance or supervision in "activities of daily living" or "instrumental activities of daily living" as those terms are defined in 55 Pa. Code § 2600.4. A Personal care home may include a component for memory, physical handicap and/or developmentally disabled services. A personal care home does not include a nursing home, retirement community, halfway house, drug and alcohol abuse treatment or similar facilities. Personal care homes shall be licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

A group of uses planned and designed as an integrated unit with controlled ingress and egress and shared off-street parking provided on the property as an integral part of the unit. Such centers also may include a planned center signs as regulated herein.

The Planning Commission of Carroll Township.

A structure, detached from the primary structure, which may include walls, a roof, or a platform elevated off of the ground, designed or used for occasional occupation.

The property upon which the activity is conducted as determined by physical facts rather than property lines. It is the land occupied by the buildings or other physical uses that are necessary or customarily incident to the activity, including such open spaces as are arranged and designed to be used in connection with such buildings or uses. The following are not considered to be a part of the premises on which the activity is conducted, and any signs located on such land are to be considered off-premise advertising:

An organization catering exclusively to members and their guests, or premises or buildings for social, recreational, and administrative purposes which are not conducted for profit, provided there are not conducted any vending stands, merchandising, or commercial activities, except as required for the membership of such club. Clubs shall include, but not be limited to, service and political organizations, labor unions, as well as social and athletic clubs. Private clubs shall not include adult-related facilities, offtrack betting parlors, golf courses, shooting ranges, nightclubs, campgrounds, or airports, unless the respective requirements of this chapter are satisfied.

A function which involves only the cleaning, sorting, sizing, packaging, or any combination thereof, of products and materials.

Offices where services are provided that require specialized training or professional certification, including, but not limited to, accountant, appraiser, attorney, architect, landscape architect, engineer, surveyor, stockbroker, physician, dentist, chiropractor, massage therapist, psychologist, and optometrist. No goods or merchandise are sold or exchanged.

Owned, operated, or both, by the Township, a Township-supported fire company, Township-supported ambulance association, or library or public library association.

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. Public notice for rezoning, special exception, and variance, or any combination thereof, requests shall also include the posting of a sign(s) at a conspicuous location(s) upon the site to notify potentially interested citizens; this sign(s) shall be posted at least one week prior to the hearing and will exhibit the nature, date, time and location of the hearing.

An area owned or operated by a governmental unit or public utility maintained principally for active or passive outdoor recreation which is open to the public. A park may include amenities such as ball fields, tennis courts, trails, restrooms, picnic tables, cooking grills, and similar facilities. A park shall not include improvements for or permit motorized recreation, such as go-carts, or arcade games, carnival rides, or similar activities.

A municipal or municipal authority's sanitary sewer system.

A building, structure, or area designed and used for and used by persons utilizing and/or changing public transportation modes.

Use or extension thereof which is operated, owned, or maintained by a municipality or municipal authority or which is privately owned and approved by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission for the purpose of providing public sewage disposal, treatment, or both; or public water supply, storage, treatment, or any combination thereof.

A municipal, municipal authority's, or public utility's water supply system.

Any natural or artificially produced substance which emits radiation spontaneously.

A portable structure, primarily designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreation, camping, or travel purposes.

A public fishing ground meeting all requirements of the Pennsylvania Fish Commission Law.

A public hunting ground meeting all requirements of the Pennsylvania Game Commission.

A procedure by which services or personal property are temporarily transferred to another person for a specific time period for compensation.

A function involved in correcting deficiencies of products that affect their performance, appearance, or both.

The AC, RA, RS-1, RS-2, RS-3, and MU-1 and MU-2 Zones.

An establishment that serves prepared food primarily on nondisposable tableware, but can provide for incidental carryout service so long as the area used for carryout service does not exceed 5% of the total patron seating area or 120 square feet (whichever is less). Included in this definition is the production and sale of food and beverage as an accessory use. Caterers shall be included in this definition.

An establishment that primarily serves foods, confections or beverages to the customer in a ready-to-consume state, and whose method of operation includes a drive-up window so that foods or beverages are served directly to motorist customers or by means which eliminate the need for the customer to exit the motor vehicle.

An establishment that primarily serves rapidly prepared foods, confections, or beverages to the customer in a ready-to-consume state, and whose method of operation is such that customers normally order the product at a central location separate from the tables or counters used for consumption. Cafeteria service establishments in which a customer serves himself while passing along a food-service line are also considered fast-food restaurants.

Those businesses whose primary activities involve the display and sales of goods and products to the general public. This term shall not include adult-related uses as defined herein.

An establishment that provides a service oriented to personal needs of the general public and which does not involve primarily retail, wholesale, or services to businesses; a business that offers retail services and does not offer/sell any tangible products and or merchandise. These businesses do not include adult-related uses.

A principal use whereby equestrian instruction is offered and/or horses are kept, bred, trained, exercised, or any combination thereof, upon land not occupied by the owner of the horse(s).

A corridor of publicly owned or leased land for purposes of maintaining primary vehicular and pedestrian access to abutting properties, including, but not limited to, roads, streets, highways and sidewalks. Abutting property owners are prohibited from encroaching across the right-of-way line.

The latest version of the Township's Code Chapter 435, Subdivision and Land Development, as may be amended.

A device incorporating a reflective surface which is solid, open mesh or bar configured and is in the shape of a shallow dish, cone, horn, or cornucopia. Such device shall be used to transmit, receive, or both, radio or electromagnetic waves between terrestrially based uses, orbitally based uses, or both. This definition is meant to include, but not be limited to, what are commonly referred to as "satellite earth stations," "TVROs," and "satellite microwave antennas."

A principal use consisting of a building, structure, or area where timber is cut, sawed, or planed, either to finished lumber, or as an intermediary step, and may include facilities for the kiln drying of lumber and may include the distribution of such products on a wholesale or retail basis. The processing of timber may be from the property on which it is located, from adjoining property, or from other properties removed from the sawmill.

A postsecondary school that may offer a wide range of educational or instructional activities that may, or may not, be operated as a gainful business by some person or organization other than the public school district.

A school that offers elementary, secondary, or any combination thereof, education that may, or may not, be operated as a gainful business.

A school licensed by the Department of Education for the purpose of providing elementary, secondary, and adult education, and operated by the Northern York School District.

A dwelling, cabin, lodge or summer house which is intended for occupancy less than 180 days of the year.

A surface, such as stone, rock, or other material, which prevents some percolation of water into a ground.

A coordinated development of residential, medical, commercial, service, civic, and recreation uses that are blended to create a comprehensive living environment offering housing primarily for persons 55 years of age and older and/or persons with physical or mental disabilities, and offering various levels of supportive care to the residents.

Process of converting septage into stable useable material for soil amendment.

The required horizontal distance between a setback line and a property or street right-of-way line.

A line within a property and parallel to a property or street right-of-way line which delineates the required minimum or maximum distance between some particular use of property and that property or street right-of-way line.

Slopes in excess of 15%, soils with severe limitations for development as described by the SCS Soil Survey for York County, floodplain, wetlands, rock outcrops, streams, watercourses, or drainageways.

An improved surface other than a street, access drive, or driveway, designed and constructed to traverse one or more properties via an easement or right-of-way which is limited in nature (as opposed to the broad nature of a street right-of-way) to provide access to a different residential property or agricultural use.

A completely enclosed building where firearms and other projectile-type weapon (e.g., guns, rifles, shotguns, pistols, air guns, archery crossbows, etc.) can be shot for recreation competition, skill development, training, or any combination thereof. Nothing within this definition shall be construed to include hunting when conducted in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

The use of land outside of a completely enclosed building where firearms and other projectile-type weapons (e.g. guns, rifles, shotguns, pistols, air guns, archery crossbows, etc.) can be shot for recreation competition, skill development, training, or any combination thereof. Nothing within this definition shall be construed to include hunting when conducted in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

One store, or a planned center of stores, or stores and offices containing more than 40,000 square feet of gross floor area designed for the site on which it is built, functioning as a unit, with shared off-street parking provided on the property as an integral part of the unit.

The ownership of a lot by one or more persons which ownership is separate and distinct from that of any abutting or adjoining lot.

Solid, semisolid, or liquid residue generated during the treatment of domestic sewage in a treatment facility or water treatment facility. Sludge includes, but is not limited to, domestic septage; scum or solids removed in primary, secondary, or advanced wastewater treatment processes; and material derived from sewage sludge. Sludge does not include ash generated during the firing of sewage sludge in a sewage sludge incinerator or grit and screenings generated during preliminary treatment of domestic sewage in a treatment works.

An area of land used for the application of sludge.

The latest published version of the United States Department of Agriculture's Soil Survey for York County, Pennsylvania.

A use that is generally compatible with a particular zone once specified criteria have been met. Special exception uses are listed by zone and approved by the Zoning Hearing Board in accordance with Article 6 of this chapter.

Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus, female breasts below a point immediately above the top of areolae, human male genitals in a discernible turgid state, or any combination thereof, even if completely and opaquely covered. (See "adult entertainment facility.")

For the purposes of this chapter, this term shall include any of the following (see "adult entertainment facility"):

A use whereby livestock are kept temporarily until slaughtered or shipped elsewhere.

A function involving the deposition of materials, goods, products, or any combination thereof, for safekeeping.

The wall of a unit of occupancy which faces the front yard within a planned commercial center, as defined herein.

Any facility used to retain or detain stormwater that is part of a stormwater management system, including the berms, embankments, outlet structures, and emergency spillway.

Naturally occurring bodies of surface water, flowing in defined beds or channels. Flow may be either continuous or only during wet periods.

An existing or planned (with Township approval according to law) cartway, which may include the following: shoulders, curb, together with adjacent sidewalk, treelawn and other items appurtenant thereto, and its associated right-of-way. Access drives, shared driveways, and driveways are not streets. The terms and requirements of the right-of-way provided for a street shall allow and not exclude access, the installation of utilities, sidewalk, stormwater drainage facilities, and other appurtenances necessary and proper for the functioning of the street. A street includes avenue, boulevard, road, highway, freeway, parkway, or alley, used or intended to be used by vehicular traffic, cyclists, and pedestrians, stormwater drainage facilities, and utilities whether public or private, including the street right-of-way.

The horizontal line parallel to and bisecting the street right-of-way into two equal widths. In those instances where the street right-of-way cannot be determined, the street center line shall correspond to the center of the cartway.

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

A structure on the same lot with, and of a nature customarily incidental and subordinate to, the principal use or structure.

Damage from any cause sustained by a structure whereby the cost of restoring the structure to its before-damaged condition would equal or exceed 50% or more of the market value of the structure before the damage occurred.

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:

Any pool, not located within a completely enclosed building, and containing, or normally capable of containing, water to a depth at any point greater than two feet. Farm ponds, ornamental ponds, and lakes are not included, provided that swimming was not the primary purpose for their construction.

An establishment which serves primarily alcoholic beverages for mostly on-premises consumption. Taverns may also serve food, offer live entertainment and may offer the retail sale of carryout beer and wine as an accessory use, but excluding adult-related uses. Includes brewery, distillery, winery, etc.

A function involving the examination and assessment of qualities, performances, capabilities, or any combination thereof, of a product, good or material.

A building, room, or outdoor structure for the presentation of live performances or motion pictures.

Carroll Township.

An unpowered vehicle towed by another.

A planned center in which two or more different truck- and transport-related uses are provided on a common site.

The conversion of an existing single-family detached dwelling unit to contain two separate dwelling units.

The specific purpose for which land or a structure is designed, arranged, intended, occupied or maintained.

A modification of any provision of this chapter, Chapter 450, Zoning, granted by the Zoning Hearing Board subject to the requirements of this chapter.

A building used primarily for the treatment, by a veterinarian, of small domestic animals, such as dogs, cats, rabbits, and birds or fowl. No outdoor boarding of animals is permitted.

Machines that are "available to play or operate one or more gambling games, the play of which utilizes a random number generator."

A building or group of buildings primarily used for the long-term indoor storage, transfer, and distribution of materials that have been manufactured, assembled, or harvested, or are being stored for manufacture, assembly, or processing, by the owners of the warehouse. Office space associated with each warehouse building may be included. Materials within a warehouse are usually supplied to manufacturers or wholesalers rather than directly to consumers.

Garbage, refuse, and other discarded materials including, but not limited to, solid, semisolid, contained gaseous and liquid materials resulting from municipal, industrial, institutional, commercial, agricultural, residential, and other activities. Such wastes shall also include biological excrement and hazardous waste materials, as defined in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 40, Chapter 1, Part 261, dated July 1, 1984, or as amended. Waste shall expressly include those materials defined, at any given time, as waste by the PA DEP and the United States Environmental Protection Agency. For the purposes of this chapter, the difference between waste and junk or recyclables is that waste shall include materials that have entered a reasonably continuous process by which their ultimate disposal is imminent; whereas, junk includes materials that may be stored for longer periods of time awaiting potential reuse or ultimate disposal; and whereas, recyclables include materials that have entered a reasonably continuous process whereby their reuse is imminent.

A principal use whereby waste is brought to the site for storage, processing, treatment, transfer, or disposal.

A permanent or intermittent stream, river, brook, run, creek, channel, swale, pond, lake, or other body of surface water carrying or holding surface water permanently or intermittently, whether natural or artificial.

All the land from which water drains into a particular watercourse.

Any device which converts wind energy to mechanical or electrical energy and shall include blades, hubs to which blades are attached, controls and associated electronics, and any device, such as a tower, used to support the hub, rotary blades, etc., or any combination thereof.

Any device which converts wind energy to mechanical or electrical energy and shall include blades, hubs to which blades are attached, controls and associated electronics, and any device, such as a tower, used to support the hub, rotary blades, etc., or any combination thereof which has a rated capacity of more than 100 KW.

Any device which converts wind energy to mechanical or electrical energy and shall include blades, hubs to which blades are attached, controls and associated electronics, and any device, such as a tower, used to support the hub, rotary blades, etc., or any combination thereof which has a rated capacity of not more than 100 KW and which is intended to primarily reduce on-site consumption of utility power.

Area with the characteristics of wetland, as defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, PA DEP, and the U.S. Soil Conservation Service. Wetland areas are not limited to the locations delineated on wetland maps prepared by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Any distribution procedure involving persons who, in the normal course of business, do not engage in sales to the general public.

An opening to the outside other than a door which provides all or part of the required natural light, natural ventilation or both to an interior space. The glazed portion of a door in an exterior wall may be construed to be a window in regard to provision of natural light.

An area or stand of trees, 1/4 acre or more in extent, having a continuous canopy and located on an individual lot.

An area between permitted structures or a particular use, and the property lines.

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

The duly constituted municipal official designated to administer and enforce this chapter in accordance with its literal terms.