Carroll Valley City Zoning Code
PART 2
DEFINITIONS
§ 27-201 Interpretation.
[Ord. No. 1-2022, 5/10/2022]
As used in this chapter, words expressed in their singular include their plural meanings, and words expressed in plural include their singular meanings. The word "person" includes a corporation, unincorporated association, partnership, or other legal entity, as well as an individual. The words "building" and "street" are used generally and shall be construed as if followed by the phrase "or part thereof." The word "may" is permissive; the words "shall" and "will" are mandatory. Words used in the present tense include the future tense. The words "used" or "occupied" as applied to any land or building shall be construed to include the words "intended, arranged or designed to be used or occupied."
§ 27-202 Definitions.
[Ord. No. 1-2022, 5/10/2022; Ord. No. 3-2023, 7/11/2023; Ord. No. 2-2024, 7/9/2024]
1. ACCESSORY BUILDING ACCESSORY STRUCTURE ACCESSORY USE AGRICULTURAL OPERATION AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT AGRICULTURAL TOURISM AGRICULTURALLY RELATED PRODUCT ANIMAL HOSPITAL APARTMENT BUILDING ARTICULATION BANDED WINDOWS BAY WINDOW BED-AND-BREAKFAST BELT COURSE BOAT BUILD-TO LINE BUILDING BUILDING HEIGHT BUILDING LINE BUSINESS OFFICE CANDELA CAR WASH CEMETERY CHILD-CARE FACILITY CLUSTER RESIDENTIAL LOT CO-LOCATION COMMERCIAL RECREATION, INDOOR COMMERCIAL RECREATION, OUTDOOR COMMUNITY CENTER CONFERENCE CENTER CONVERSION HOUSING DENSITY DETERMINATION DISTRIBUTION CENTER DIVIDER STRIP DRIVE-THROUGH DWELLING DWELLING, MULTIFAMILY DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY ATTACHED DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY SEMIDETACHED DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION ELECTRONIC MESSAGE CENTER EMERGENCY SERVICE ENFORCEMENT NOTICE EVERGREEN TREE FAMILY CHILD CARE FARM FARM EQUIPMENT SALES FACILITY FARM MARKET FARM STAND FARM WORKER HOUSING FARM-RELATED BUSINESS FENCE FINANCIAL INSTITUTION FLOODPLAIN FLOODPLAIN OR FLOOD HAZARD ORDINANCE FLOOR AREA RATIO FORESTED LANDS FORESTRY FUNERAL HOME GOLF COURSE GOVERNING BODY GOVERNMENTAL USE GROUP CHILD CARE GROUP HOME HARD SURFACE HEAVY INDUSTRY HOME OCCUPATION HOMESTAY HORTICULTURE HOST PROPERTY HOTEL INFILL HOUSING KENNEL, COMMERCIAL LAND DEVELOPMENTA. (1) (2) B. C. (1) (2) (3) LANDSCAPING COMPLIANCE TABLE LANDSCAPING PLAN LIGHT INDUSTRY LIVABLE FLOOR AREA LOADING SPACE LOTA. B. C. LOT AREA LOT COVERAGE LOT WIDTH LOT, CORNER LOT, DOUBLE FRONTAGE MAJOR DECIDUOUS TREE MANUFACTURED HOME MASSING MID-ROW ISLAND MINOR DECIDUOUS TREE MIXED-USE PROPERTY MOBILE HOME MOBILE HOME LOT MOBILE HOME PARK MOTEL MUNICIPALITIES PLANNING CODE NITS NO-IMPACT HOME-BASED BUSINESS NONCONFORMING STRUCTURE NONCONFORMING USE OPEN SPACE OUTDOOR WOOD-FIRED BOILER PARENT TRACT PARKING ACCESS DRIVE PARKING AISLE DRIVE PARKING CIRCULATION DRIVE PARKING GARAGE PARKING LOT PARKING SPACE PARKING SPACE ROW PERIMETER BUFFER PERSONAL SERVICE SHOP PLACE OF WORSHIP PLANNING COMMISSION PLANTING UNIT PLINTH PORCH PORTICO PRIMARY STREET PRIME FARMLAND PRINCIPAL BUILDING PRINCIPAL USE PRODUCE STAND PROFESSIONAL OFFICE PUBLIC NOTICE RECREATIONAL VEHICLE RECYCLING FACILITY RENTAL STORAGE RESORT RESTAURANT RETAIL STORE RIGHT-OF-WAY RIPARIAN BUFFER SCHOOL SETBACK SHADOW FLICKER SHOPPING PLAZA SHORT-TERM RENTAL SHRUB SIGN SIGN, ANIMATED SIGN, AREA OF SIGN, BILLBOARD SIGN, CHANGEABLE COPY SIGN, COMMUNITY WELCOME SIGN, FEATHER SIGN, FREESTANDING SIGN, HEIGHT OF SIGN, OFF-PREMISES DIRECTIONAL SIGN, PORTABLE SIGN, ROOF SIGN, WALL SITE AREA SITE-SPECIFIC FACILITY SKI SLOPES SOLAR ENERGY PRODUCTION FACILITY SOLAR PANEL SPECIAL EXCEPTION STRUCTURE STUDIO SWIMMING POOL TERMINAL ISLAND THEATER TRAILER TRAVEL TRAILER TRELLIS VACATION RENTAL VARIANCE VEGETATIVE COVERAGE VEHICLE SALES WIND ENERGY FACILITY WIND TURBINE WIND TURBINE HEIGHT WIND TURBINE TOWER HEIGHT WIRELESS COMMUNICATION FACILITY YARD YARD, FRONT YARD, INTERIOR YARD, REAR YARD, SIDE ZONING HEARING BOARD ZONING MAP ZONING OFFICER ZONING ORDINANCE ZONING PERMIT
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
A building on the same lot with and used for purposes that are customarily incidental to the principal use of the property.
A structure on the same lot with and used for purposes that are customarily incidental to the principal use of the property.
A use on the same lot with and customarily incidental to any of the permitted uses.
An enterprise that is actively engaged in the commercial production and preparation for market of crops, livestock, and livestock products and/or 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.
Any of the range of crop and livestock commodities grown or produced as a result of the conduct of an agricultural operation or farm.
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.
Items sold at a farm market to attract customers and promote the sale of agricultural products. Such products are associated with agricultural products either produced on the farm where the farm market is located or on other farms within Adams County and surrounding counties.
Any building or portion of a building designed or used for the medical or surgical care and treatment of domestic animals. This use may exist on the same premises with a commercial kennel use, as defined in this chapter.
A residential building consisting of three or more apartments where each apartment is accessed from a common internal hallway or an external walkway and where at least one apartment is located above another apartment.
A method of emphasizing the joints in the formal elements of architectural design. In the context of this chapter, architectural details used to join two or more separate areas of massing of a building.
One of a horizontal series of three windows or more, separated only by mullions, that form a horizontal band across the facade of a building.
A window structure projecting beyond the main wall plane.
A short-term rental within a dwelling, concurrently being occupied by the owner, where overnight lodging and meals, limited to patrons, are provided for compensation to tourist or recreational guests.
A molding or projecting course running horizontally along the face of a building.
Any water vessel designed to carry persons and/or property upon water, propelled by engine, oars or sail.
A line, running parallel to and measured from the front property line, at which construction of the front building facade is to occur on a lot.
A combination of materials to form a permanent structure having walls and a roof, including, but not limited to, all mobile homes and trailers.
The vertical distance between the average elevation of the proposed finished grade along the entire front of the building, and the highest point of the roof for flat roofs, and the deck lines for mansard roofs, and the mean height between eaves and ridges for gable, hip and gambrel roofs, but not including chimneys, towers, spires, elevator penthouses, tanks, railings and similar projections.
A line, drawn parallel to a front, side, or rear property line that depicts the closest distance of an existing building to said front, side, or rear property line.
A place of business where management, clerical, and related elements of said business are conducted.
The standard unit of luminous intensity in the International System of Units, and roughly equivalent to the luminous intensity of a single wax candle.
A site designed and intended for washing and cleaning of motor vehicles as a commercial use.
Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the deceased, and which may include columbariums and mausoleums.
A facility, developed either as a principal use or as an accessory use to another principal nonresidential use, where care is provided at any one time for seven or more children unrelated to the operator.
Designated parcels of land, smaller than otherwise permitted in the district in which the parcels are located, established by the subdivision of a tract of land greater than 10 acres, which may be developed as a grouping of single-family residences located to minimize adverse impacts on surrounding environmental features and to provide access to and views of surrounding open land.
The placement or installation of new wireless telecommunications facilities on previously approved and constructed wireless communication towers, water towers, utility poles, or any other building or structure not classified as a wireless communication tower that can support the placement or installation of wireless telecommunications facilities.
A business establishment designed and equipped for the conduct of sports and leisure-time activities in an enclosed space.
A business establishment designed and equipped for the conduct of sports and leisure-time activities in an unenclosed space.
A building owned by the Borough, nonprofit or other community service organization and used as a place of meeting, recreation, or social activity and not operated for profit.
A facility used for conferences and seminars, and which may include accommodations for sleeping, food preparation and eating, recreation, entertainment, resource facilities, meeting rooms, fitness and health center, and retail stores and services for conference center guests.
Housing created through the renovation of a single-family detached dwelling into two or more individual and independent dwellings without substantially altering the exterior of the building.
A measure of the total number of dwelling units per acre of land.
Final action by an officer, body or agency charged with the administration of this chapter, and which has that authority as stated in various parts of this chapter.
A facility used for receipt, temporary storage, and redistribution of goods as they are received.
A strip of land that separates two adjacent rows of off-street parking in a parking lot, that helps define vehicle circulation patterns within a parking lot, and which may contain parking lot landscaping and accommodations for pedestrians.
An accessory facility to a business use that allows customers to receive service from outside the building housing the business and while remaining inside their vehicle.
Any building, which is designed for human living quarters, but not including hotels, boarding houses, tourist cabins, motels and other accommodations used for transient occupancy.
Any building that includes three or more dwelling units. Includes single-family attached dwellings and apartment buildings.
A building used by one family and having at least one party wall in common with other buildings, and where at least three dwelling units are so connected. Includes row house or townhouse.
A building containing one dwelling unit, and having no party wall in common with an adjacent building.
A building containing one dwelling unit, and having a party wall in common with an adjacent building that contains a single dwelling unit.
A building containing two dwelling units with one dwelling unit being wholly or partly above the other which has no party wall in common with an adjacent building and which may or may not have a common entrance.
Any institution, other than schools as defined herein, that provides full- or part-time instruction to students. Such use may include administrative and faculty offices, classroom, laboratories, chapels, lecture halls, dormitories, recreation and athletic facilities, dining facilities, and other facilities accessory to the institution. Such use includes, but is not limited to, colleges, universities, trade schools, business schools, and similar institutions.
Any sign or portion of a sign that uses changing illumination to form a message wherein the message and the rate of change of such message is electronically programmed and can be modified by electronic processes. Illumination sources include, but are not limited to, light emitting diodes (LEDs), fiber optics, light bulbs, liquid crystal display (LCD), or other similar forms of illumination.
Organizations whose purpose is to ensure public safety by responding to emergencies when they occur. Includes, but is not necessarily limited to, police, fire, and ambulance services.
A notice provided by the Zoning Officer to a property owner or other person with either fee simple or equitable interest in property in accordance with applicable provisions of this chapter indicating that a violation of one or more of the provisions of this chapter exist or have been permitted to exist on said property and identifying the measures that must be taken to remedy said violation(s).
A tree with a mature height of at least 10 feet and that maintains its foliage throughout the year.
A facility, accessory to and located within a single-family detached residence, in which child day care is provided at any one time for four, five, or six children unrelated to the operator.
A parcel, which may include a residence, farm-related buildings, and surrounding land, and which is devoted to the production of agricultural products.
The distribution, sale, and/or servicing of new and used equipment and machinery commonly used for agricultural purposes, not including the sale or service of automobiles.
An establishment located on a farm or other property where agricultural operations are conducted and providing for the sale of horticultural and agricultural products or agriculturally related products that are either produced on the farm or are directly related to agricultural products produced within Adams County.
A booth or stall on a farm and from which agricultural products produced on said farm are sold to the general public.
A dwelling unit or dwelling units located on a farm and occupied by persons who are employed on said farm or occupied by families with at least one family member who is employed on said farm.
A business located on a farm, and which is incidental to, and supportive of, the use of the property as a farm.
An enclosure or barrier, such as wooden posts, wire, iron, etc., used as a boundary, means of protection, privacy screening or confinement, but not including hedges, shrubs, trees, or other natural growth.
A business establishment in which money is kept for saving or commercial purposes, or is invested, supplied for loans, or exchanged. Includes, but is not necessarily limited to, bank, credit union, and savings and loan businesses.
Any land area susceptible to inundation by water from any natural source or delineated by applicable FEMA maps and studies as being a special flood hazard area.
Chapter 8, Floodplains, of the Borough of Carroll Valley Code of Ordinances, as may be amended.
The ratio of gross floor area of all buildings on a lot to total lot area.
Properties with 50% or more tree canopy cover as interpreted by staff of the Adams County Office of Planning and Development through an analysis dated September 5, 2017.
The management of forests and timberlands when practiced in accordance with accepted silvicultural principles, through developing, cultivating, harvesting, transporting, and selling trees for commercial purposes, which does not involve any land development.
A building designed for the purpose of the preparation and viewing of the deceased prior to burial or cremation, and which may include crematories and mortuaries.
A parcel of land laid out with at least nine holes for playing a game of golf and improved with tees, greens, fairways, and hazards. A golf course may include a club house and shelters as accessory uses but does not include a miniature golf course.
The Carroll Valley Borough Council.
Any use proposed by or conducted by a governmental entity, including local, county, state, or federal levels of government.
A facility, accessory to and located in a single-family detached residence, in which child care is provided at one time for more than six but fewer than 16 school-age children, or more than six but fewer than 13 children of another age level, who are unrelated to the operator.
A dwelling inhabited by disabled persons functioning as a common household unit and provided with non-routine support services and oversight to persons who need such assistance to avoid being placed within an institution because of physical disability, old age, mental retardation or development disability.
Asphalt, concrete, or compacted crushed stone or gravel, granular material or aggregate with an asphaltic or cement binder having a minimum overall depth of six inches, or any other permanent type of surfacing which prevents the raising of dust or loose particles, or the infiltration of contaminants into the groundwater.
A use engaged in the basic processing and manufacturing of materials or products predominantly from extracted or raw materials.
A business conducted within a dwelling or a single building accessory to the dwelling by the inhabitants thereof and which is clearly incidental and subordinate to the primary residential use of the property.
A short-term rental within any dwelling or accessory building to an owner-occupied dwelling, where such dwelling is concurrently being occupied by the owner, where a maximum of one short-term lodging room is provided for compensation.
An operation involving the growing of plants that are used by people for food, for medicinal purposes, and for aesthetic gratification.
A property upon which is located, or is proposed to be located, a wind energy facility, and where such property is either owned by the operator of the wind energy facility or leased by the property owner to the operator of the wind energy facility.
A building consisting of lodging rooms designed or occupied primarily as the temporary place of abode of individuals who are lodged for compensation (with or without meals) in which provisions for cooking are generally not made in individual rooms or suites, and where individual rooms or suites are accessed from hallways internal to the building.
Housing created through the development of two or more dwelling units either on vacant land or as the redevelopment of previously developed land (or a combination thereof) within a setting that is otherwise developed.
The boarding, breeding, raising, grooming, or training of two or more dogs, cats, or other household pets of any age, primarily for commercial gain.
Any of the following activities:
The improvement of one lot or two or more contiguous lots, tracts or parcels of land for any purpose involving:
A group of two or more residential or nonresidential buildings, whether proposed initially or cumulatively, or a single nonresidential building on a lot or lots regardless of the number of occupants or tenure.
The division or allocation of land or space, whether initially or cumulatively, between or among two or more existing or prospective occupants by means of, or for the purpose of streets, common areas, leaseholds, condominiums, building groups or other features.
A subdivision of land.
Land development does not include development which involves:
The conversion of an existing single-family detached dwelling or single-family semidetached dwelling into not more than three residential units, unless such units are intended to be a condominium.
The addition of an accessory building, including farm building, on a lot or lots subordinate to an existing principal building.
The addition or conversion of buildings or rides within the confines of an enterprise which would be considered an amusement park. For the purposes of this subsection, an amusement park is defined as a tract or area used principally as a location for permanent amusement structures or rides. This exclusion shall not apply to newly acquired acreage by an amusement park until initial plans for the expanded area have been approved by the proper authorities.
A table to be include on zoning applications, land development plan applications, and other applications that demonstrates that the application meets the requirements of this chapter with regard to the plantings proposed to be installed on a development site.
A site plan that depicts the special placement of the plantings required by this chapter on a development site.
A use engaged in the manufacture, predominately from previously prepared materials, of finished products or parts, including processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment, packaging, incidental storage, sales and distribution of such products, but excluding basic industrial processing.
The portion of a dwelling unit used for living purposes, usually having access to heat, plumbing, and electricity, and including foyers, hallways, rest rooms, closets, storage, and other common areas within a building.
A designated area where delivery vehicles are parked when delivering products to and from a place of business or similar use.
A designated parcel, tract or area of land established by a plan or otherwise as permitted by law and to be used, developed or built upon as a unit. For the purposes of this chapter, the term shall be further interpreted as follows:
Any property recorded and consolidated under one deed as a single tract of land with a single set of meets and bounds shall be considered one lot.
Any property comprised of separate tracts of land with separate meets and bounds descriptions already in existence and recorded in a single deed shall be considered separate lots.
Any property comprised of separate tracts of land with separate meets and bounds descriptions, but which was assembled from lots created from the Charnita development and joined through the Borough's lot consolidation process, shall be considered one lot.
The area contained within the property lines of a lot, excluding any street right-of-way or driveway easement providing access to an adjoining property, or officially designated floodplain located on the lot.
The area of any lot covered by buildings, driveways and parking lots (whether paved or provided with crushed stone, pavers, or similar surface), sidewalks, swimming pools, or other similar structural features.
The horizontal distance between side lot lines measured at the required front yard setback line.
A lot located at the intersection of two or more streets.
A lot with front and rear street frontage.
A canopy tree with a mature height exceeding 25 feet and a minimum caliper at the time of planting in excess of two inches.
A dwelling unit assembled or partially assembled away from the site on which it will be located and produced as a standardized unit.
The primary three-dimensional form, or primary element, of a building or portion of a building and excluding details such as ornamentation.
A piece of land, typically connected to a divider strip, that separates groups of parking spaces within a row of parking within a parking lot, and which may contain parking lot landscaping and help define parking lot circulation.
A tree with a mature height of between 10 and 25 feet and a minimum caliper at the time of planting of between one and two inches.
A property that includes, or is proposed to include, two or more principal uses.
A transportable, single-family dwelling intended for permanent occupancy, contained in one unit, or in two or more units designed to be joined into one integral unit capable of again being separated for repeated towing, which arrives at a site complete and ready for occupancy except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembly operations, and constructed so that it may be used without a permanent foundation.
A parcel of land in a mobile home park, improved with necessary utility connections and other appurtenances necessary for the erection thereon of a single mobile home.
A parcel or contiguous parcels of land which has been so designated and improved that it contains two or more mobile home lots for the placement thereon of mobile homes.
A building or group of buildings, whether detached or in connected units, containing individual rooms designed and used primarily for transient automobile travelers, together with accessory off-street parking facilities, and where such individual rooms are accessed from sidewalks or walkways on the exterior of the building.
The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act of 1968, P.L. 805, No. 247 as reenacted and amended.
A unit of measurement of luminance equal to one candela per square meter.
A business or commercial activity administered or conducted as an accessory use which is clearly secondary to and within the residential dwelling and which involves:
A structure or part of a structure, including, but not limited to, buildings, which does not comply with the applicable use or extent of use provisions in this chapter, or an amendment thereto, where such structure lawfully existed prior to the enactment of this chapter, or an amendment thereto.
A use, whether of land or of structure, which does not comply with the applicable provisions of this chapter, or an amendment thereto, where such use was lawfully in existence prior to the enactment of this chapter, or an amendment thereto.
Land and water areas retained for use as active or passive recreation areas or for resource protection in an essentially undeveloped state.
Freestanding wood-burning devices that heat liquid for the purposes of providing heat and/or hot water to one or more structures.
A tract of land existing, as of the effective date of this chapter, which could be subjected to future subdivision or land development proposals and approvals.
A driveway providing connectivity between a public street and an off-street parking lot.
A driveway within an off-street parking lot that provides direct access to the individual parking spaces of said off-street parking lot.
For a larger off-street parking lot, a driveway that extends around the perimeter of said parking lot, and that connects the parking access drive to the parking aisle drives.
A multilevel structure, which may be a standalone principal use or an accessory use to another principal use, and which is designed to accommodate vehicular off-street parking spaces.
An area of a lot set aside for and specifically designed to accommodate the parking of motor vehicles.
The space within a building or on a lot or parking lot for the parking or storage of one motor vehicle off the right-of-way of a public street or road.
Within an off-street parking lot, a grouping of adjoining parking spaces where said parking spaces are arranged in a side-by-side fashion.
An open space buffer located along the perimeter of a cluster residential development and providing a separation between all dwelling units, interior roadways (with the exception of the main access road), parking areas and other impervious surfaces within the cluster development from adjacent parcels and existing Borough roadways.
A business that provides a process directly to the customer at the place of business. Includes, but is not necessarily limited to, barbers, hair stylists, tailors, and similar businesses.
A building, structure, or group of buildings or structures, designed, intended, and used for the assembly of individuals engaging in religious practices. This definition shall include, but is not limited to, churches, temples, chapels, cathedrals, synagogues, and mosques. This definition does not include educational or day-care facilities but may include a residence for a religious leader and his/her family.
The Carroll Valley Borough Planning Commission.
A unit of measure used to determine the quantity of plantings required in a residential, commercial, industrial, or other development project. For the purposes of this chapter, one planting unit (PU) equals:
A course of projecting concrete or stone along the base of a wall, column, pedestal, or other similar architectural feature.
A covered platform, usually having a separate roof, at an entrance to a dwelling, or an open or enclosed gallery or room, which is not heated or cooled, that is attached to the outside of a building.
A colonnade or covered ambulatory often found at the entrance of a building.
The street that constitutes the street frontage for a property. For a property with two or more street frontages, the street from which the property is addressed. For a property with no street frontage, the street from which the property is addressed.
Land that contains soils listed by the Soil Survey of Adams County, Pennsylvania, issued 2005, and as may be updated, as having Soil Capability Classes I and II.
A building in which the main or primary use of the property is conducted, including any structure that is physically attached to said building.
The main or primary use of land or structures, as distinguished from an accessory use, as herein defined.
A booth or stall from which produce grown on the property is sold to the general public.
The office of a member of a recognized profession, such as an accountant, architect, author, dentist, engineer, insurance agent, landscape architect, lawyer, minister or similar religious leader, optometrist, planner, physician, realtor, or similar professions.
Notice published once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in this county. Such notice shall state the time and place of a hearing and the particular nature of the matter to be considered at the hearing. The first publication shall be not more than 30 days and not less than seven days from the date of the hearing.
A vehicular-type unit primarily designed for recreational camping or travel use with its own motive power, commonly referred to as RVs, recreational vehicles, and motor homes.
A facility dedicated to the collection and processing of used or discarded materials with the intent of preparing or packaging said materials to use in the creation of new products.
A commercial facility in which customers can rent space to store possessions.
A building or group of buildings containing guest rooms, restaurants, retail shops, and similar component amenities and with a large portion of the site devoted to recreational activities, such as skiing and golf.
A commercial establishment where food is prepared and served to customers.
A business that deals in the sale of general goods individually or in small quantities to customers.
A public or private area, usually configured as a narrow strip of land, that allows for the passage of people, goods, or services. Includes public or private passageways such as roads, bike paths, pedestrian walkways, railroads, utilities, electricity and fuel transmission, and similar features.
A vegetated area, along a water feature, that partially protects the water feature from adjacent land uses.
An institution, whether public, private, or parochial, offering instruction at the preschool, elementary, middle, junior high, and/or senior high levels in the branches of learning and study required to be taught in the commonwealth.
A line, parallel to the street right-of-way line for front yards, and parallel to the lot lines for side and rear yards, designating the minimum distance from the right-of-way and/or lot lines that a building, structure, or other improvements may be erected under the various land requirements of this chapter.
The alternating changes in light intensity caused by the rotating blades of a wind turbine casting shadows on the ground or on stationary objects.
A group of retail stores planned and designed to function as a unit and having off-street parking as an integral part of the unit.
Any dwelling unit or portion thereof, or a building accessory to a dwelling unit, that is available for use or is used for accommodations or lodging of guests, paying a fee or other compensation for a period of less than 30 consecutive days. Includes bed-and-breakfast, homestay, and vacation rental.
A woody plant of relatively low height, having several stems arising from the base and lacking a single trunk.
Any device, fixture, placard, or structure that uses any color, form, graphic, illumination (excluding holiday lighting), symbol, or writing to advertise, announce the purpose of, or identify the purpose of a person or entity, or to communicate information of any kind to the public.
A sign that revolves, rotates, oscillates, swings, or otherwise moves by mechanical means; or a sign which uses flashes or other changes of lighting to depict action or to create a special effect or scene.
The entire area within a single continuous perimeter enclosing all elements of the sign that form an integral part of the display, including the perimeter border, and calculated using the best-fit rectangular and/or triangular shape or shapes that approximate the perimeter of the sign display.
Any sign that communicates a commercial or noncommercial message related to an activity conducted, a service rendered, or a commodity sold at a location other than where the sign is located.
A type of sign designed to accommodate a changing message, whether such changing message occurs manually, remotely, or automatically.
A sign constructed by one or more governmental, institutional, civic, or religious organizations which announces welcome to the community, and which contains no other advertising except for the name(s) of the organization(s).
A sign made of a flexible material, shaped like a feather, quill, sail, blade, or teardrop, and mounted on a solid or flexible pole or cord.
Any sign supported by structures or supports that are placed on, or anchored in, the ground and that are independent from any building or other structure.
The vertical distance measured from the elevation of the nearest curb, sidewalk, or street grade to the top of the highest component of the sign, sign face, sign structure, or any other appurtenance of the sign.
A permanent sign, not including billboard signs as defined herein, located for the purpose of providing directions to a use not readily visible and not located on the lot where the sign is erected.
A sign that is movable and not permanently attached to a structure or to the ground.
A sign erected and constructed wholly on and over the eaves of the roof of a building and supported by the roof structure.
Any sign attached parallel to, but within six inches of, a wall, painted on the wall surface of, or erected and confined within the limits of an outside wall of any building or structure, which is supported by such wall or building, and which displays only one sign surface.
The total area of land subject to a development proposal. For development proposed on one existing lot, site area shall be equivalent to the lot area. For development proposed on more than one existing lot, and where those existing lots will be consolidated into one parcel for development purposes, the site area shall be equal to the sum of the lot areas of the original existing lots.
A building or a structure within which a public service is provided by a local, county, state, or federal government entity, a municipal authority, an emergency service provider or a utility provider.
An area developed for snow skiing, with trails and lifts, generally considered to be part of a resort, and including ski rentals and sales, instruction, and eating facilities.
A principal use of property, comprised of systems of solar panels, related equipment, substations, and transmission lines, and designed and intended to capture solar energy, convert it to electricity, and convey such electricity to the electricity grid for off-site use.
A structure designed to utilize solar energy as an alternative for, or supplement to, a conventional energy system.
A use permitted in a particular zoning district pursuant to the provisions of Articles VI and IX of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code and §§ 27-1907, Subsection 1F, and 27-1909 of this chapter.
Any man-made object having an ascertainable stationary location on or in land or water, whether or not affixed to the land.
A facility for the staging and/or production of film, television, music video, multi-media, graphic design, or other related activities.
Any permanent or temporary structure which is constructed, used, or maintained to provide recreational facilities for swimming, bathing, or wading, and including all buildings, equipment, and appurtenances thereto.
A piece of land, typically connected to a divider strip, that defines the end of a row of parking within an off-street parking lot, that separates the end of a row of parking spaces from a parking access drive or parking circulation drive, and which may contain parking lot landscaping and help define parking lot circulation.
A building used for dramatic, operatic, motion pictures, or other performance. Such establishments may include related services such as goods and beverage sales and other concessions.
Any vehicles or devices manufactured, designed, marketed, or used to be coupled to or drawn by a licensed and registered motor vehicle.
Any vehicles or devices manufactured, designed, marketed, or used to be coupled to or drawn by a licensed and registered motor vehicle, intended primarily for recreational camping or travel use. These units include but are not limited to travel, fifth-wheel, and folding trailers, and truck campers.
A structure of open latticework, used as a support for plantings such as vines and other creeping plants.
A short-term rental within any dwelling unit or portion thereof, or a building accessory to a dwelling unit, where such dwelling is not concurrently being occupied by the owner, and where rooms within the dwelling unit or accessory building are made available to one or more party(ies) of guests.
Relief granted pursuant to the provisions of § 27-1908 of this chapter.
The portion of a lot covered by vegetation.
The use of a building, land area, or other premises for the display and sale of new and/or used automobiles, trucks, vans, motorcycles, boats, and/or similar vehicles. Such use may include vehicle service and vehicle repair (including warranty repair) as an accessory component to the use.
A facility, comprised on one or more wind turbines and related equipment, which constitutes a principal use on a lot, and which generates electricity primarily for off-site consumption.
A machine, including, but not limited to, windmills, which converts wind energy to electric current.
The distance measured from ground level to the highest point of the sweep of the blade(s) of a wind turbine, whether or not mounted on a tower.
For wind turbines installed on a tower, the distance measured from ground level to the hub to which blade(s) of a wind turbine are attached.
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 service.
A space open to the sky and unoccupied by any building, structure, or merchandise for display or sale.
A yard extending the full width of the lot and situated between the street right-of-way line and the front building line.
An open, unoccupied space between the building of a dwelling group or its accessory buildings which is not a front, side, rear or exterior yard.
A yard extending the full width of the lot and situated between the rear lot line and the rear building line.
A yard extending from the front building line to the rear building line and located between the side property line and the side building line.
The Carroll Valley Borough Zoning Hearing Board.
The map establishing the boundaries of the zoning districts of the Carroll Valley Borough Zoning Ordinance, which map shall be and is a part of this chapter.
The municipal official duly appointed by the Carroll Valley Borough Council to administer and enforce this chapter.
The Carroll Valley Borough Zoning Ordinance.
A permit required by this chapter to document compliance with the applicable provisions of this chapter.