A separate structure or building used to house or provide for an accessory use. See "use."

See "extension".

See § 27-710 of Part 7.

All facilities for the storage, maintenance, take-off and landing of motorized aircraft.

A corridor used for access within a parking lot by motor vehicles to the parking space.

See "street."

As applied to a structure, a change or rearrangement in the structural parts, including supporting members such as bearing walls, columns, beams, or girders or an enlargement, whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height, or the relocation of a structure onto or within a lot.

Any change or revision of the text of this Chapter or the Official Zoning Map.

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

A building containing several and separate dwelling units having common corridors and stairways and having shared exit and entrance facilities.

A group of two or more buildings occupying a lot in single ownership, with each building used by three or more families.

Defined in § 105 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, 53 P.S. § 10105.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

The use of land and structures engaged in the retail sale of gasoline, oil, grease, batteries, tires and other motor vehicle accessories, which may also provide minor mechanical repairs and servicing of motorized vehicles.

The use of land and structures for the storage, baling, packing, sorting, handling, disassembling, purchase or sale of any material which has been used, salvaged, scrapped or reclaimed, but is capable of being reused in some form, including metals, fiber, paper, cloth and rags, rubber, rope, bottles, machinery, tools, appliances, fixtures, utensils, limber, boxes, crates, pipe and pipe fittings, tires, motor vehicles which do not have a current and valid inspection sticker as required by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and motor vehicle parts, but not including garbage or other organic wastes.

The area which encompasses the houses on both side of the street, bordered at either or both sides by the nearest cross street.

A line marking the limit, or border, of a lot or district.

A structure, including any part thereof, having a roof and used for the shelter or enclosure of persons or property.

The line within a lot defining the required minimum setback distance between any structure and the adjacent street line.

The use of land and structures by campers for seasonal, recreational and temporary living purposes in cabins, tents or outdoor recreational vehicles.

The portion of a street right-of-way designed or intended for vehicular use.

A line running parallel to and equidistant from both sides of a street.

The use of land and structures for supervised day care of six or more children.

The use of land and structures for religious worship, education and related activities; includes chapels, cathedrals, temples, synagogues and the like.

The use of land and structures by a nonprofit group which is not operated for the purpose of trade or business, no part of the earnings of which benefit any individual but which is operated for social and community service activities among group members and their guests.

An apartment located above the first floor of a commercial building.

The use of land and structures for the manufacture and processing of dairy products.

Defined in § 107 of this Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

The use of land or structures for social and community service activities which are charitable, educational or religious in nature and are for public rather than for private gain, including recreational programs, counseling services, and human service agencies and programs.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

The construction, reconstruction, renovation, repair, extension, expansion, alteration or relocation of a building or structure, including the placement of manufactured homes.

Small stores permitted in selected rural and residential districts which retail food and beverages primarily to the immediately surrounding population.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

A curved curb connecting the tangents of two intersecting curbs of streets or driveways.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

Any manmade change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to buildings or other structures, the placement of manufactured homes, streets and other paving, utilities, filling, grading, excavation, mining, dredging or drilling operations.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

When used in regard to illumination, that form of lighting wherein the source is visible and the light is distributed directly from it to the object being illuminated.

All land and watercourses located within designated boundaries on the Official Zoning Map; a zoning district.

The use of land and structures in which goods or services are dispensed directly to the patron while in a motor vehicle by any means which eliminates the necessity for the patron to exit the motor vehicle.

A corridor which provides motor vehicle access from a street into or across a lot.

A building designed for human living quarters. (See "Sketch of Selected Zoning Terms," following.)

Construction or assembly.

The removal of soil, stone and other surface materials by the action of natural elements.

Facilities for the distribution of utility services, including gas, electric, steam, water, sewerage, telephone and similar services. See Part 2, § 27-208.

(1) an addition to the floor area of an existing structure; (2) an increase in the size of a structure; (3) an increase in that portion of a lot occupied by an existing use; (4) an enlargement of a use or structure.

(1) walls of a structure opposite to and parallel with one another, or (2) wall lines or wall lines extended of opposite walls intersecting at angles of less than 65°.

(1) a person, or (2) no more than two unrelated persons, or (3) two or more persons, all of whom are related by blood, marriage, parentage or adoption (including foster children), living together as a single housekeeping unit. Domestic servants employed on the premises and temporary gratuitous guests may be housed on the premises without being counted as part of the family.

The provision of care in accord with regulations of the appropriate State agency(ies) for up to three mentally ill, retarded or disabled children or adults or elderly persons in a dwelling unit by a provider who resides in that unit.

The use of land and structures for one or more of the following: the tilling of the land, the raising of crops, fruits and vegetables, and the raising and keeping of animals and plants; horticultural uses related to the raising, propagating, and selling of trees, shrubs, flowers and other plant materials; forestry uses related to the harvesting of lumber products.

Any establishment whose principal business is the sale of food or beverages with rapid turnover to customers in a ready-to-consume state for consumption either within the building or for carry out off the premises, and whose design or principal method of operation includes the following: foods and beverages are usually served in disposable or edible containers; it is self-service, with customers expected to clean up after themselves; and menus are posted.

All habitable interior space, excluding unheated porches, carports and garages.

The limits of the Floodplain Conservation regulations are hereby determined to be areas subject to periodic inundation by flood waters or runoff as delineated on the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) for municipality, as prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency or on maps pertaining to Centre Hall Borough in "Soil Survey of Centre County, Pennsylvania," August 1981, published by the United States Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service in Cooperation with The Pennsylvania State University College of Agriculture and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources State Conservation Commission. Such maps shall be interpreted as follows:

A relatively flat or low land area which is subject to partial or complete inundation from an adjoining or nearby stream, river or watercourse; and/or any area subject to the unusual and rapid accumulation of surface waters from any source.

Waters which escape from streams or other bodies of water and overflow adjacent lands, as distinct from runoff.

The sum of the gross usable area of all floors of a building measured from the face of the exterior walls. Retail and service floor area is that portion of the total floor area relegated to use by the customer and employees to consummate retail sales and services including display areas for goods but not including office space or storage areas.

The portion of a lot boundary abutting a street.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

The act of excavating and/or filling land for the purpose of changing natural slope.

A dwelling unit in which care and residence are provided in accord with regulations of the appropriate State agency(ies) for more than three, and not more than eight nonadjudicated clients who are dependent children or elderly, mentally ill, retarded or disabled adults.

A residence or community center in which social and community service activities in accord with regulations of the appropriate State agency(ies) are provided for no more than eight resident and an unlimited number of nonresident alcoholics, drug addicts, emotionally disturbed adults, former convicts or other adjudicated individuals.

The vertical distance of a structure measured from the mean level of the ground surrounding the structure to its highest point, regardless of roof design.

The use of land and structures which are open to the general public and such land, structures and preserved and exhibited objects are of educational and historical significance. Historical museums shall be permitted, but are not limited to, the following functions: the exhibiting, preserving, recording; or storing of objects of educational and historical significance; educational events; arts and crafts demonstrations; art performances; and fund raising events to benefit the museums.

An accessory use of a dwelling which is customarily conducted in a dwelling and is incidental to and subordinate to the use of the premises as a dwelling. A home occupation may be the practice of a profession, a craft or an activity conducted by a resident or residents of the dwelling which, while it may be for gainful employment, does not change the character of the residence as a dwelling nor the character of the residential district in which it is located.

A business or nonprofit establishment for the diagnosis, treatment and other care of the general public through an organized medical staff which is primarily engaged in providing in-patient care. The establishment shall be licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health and have as its mission the provision of acute care medical and nursing services to injured, disabled, pregnant, diseased, sick or mentally ill persons and/or the provision of rehabilitation services for such persons and to provide further services which promote good health and well-being of people.

A building used for seasonal and temporary living purposes by persons engaged in hunting, fishing and similar recreational purposes. Also called a "seasonal cottage" or "seasonal dwelling" or "summer cottage".

An area planned for the integrated design of two or more primary industrial uses and structures on a lot held in single ownership.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

The portion of the floor area of a dwelling relegated to use for residential purposes but excluding crawl spaces, garages, carports, breezeways, attics or portions thereof with clear ceiling heights of less than five feet, open porches, balconies, terraces and accessory structures.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

The total ground floor area (footprint) of all primary and accessory structures and any coverage not penetrable by water (driveways, swimming pools, etc.) shall not exceed the percent of coverage permitted in the particular district with the exception of a lot for which the primary use is a parking lot, in which case the coverage allowed may exceed the coverage permitted in that particular district if said excess coverage and the percentage thereof is approved by the Borough Engineer.

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 connected to the required utilities. The term includes park trailers, travel trailers, recreational and other similar vehicles placed on a site for more than 180 consecutive days.

A parcel (or contiguous parcels) of land which has been planned and improved for the placement of two or more manufactured homes.

The use of land for the purpose of extracting rocks and minerals for sale, exclusive of grading a lot preparatory to the construction of a structure for which a zoning permit has been issued.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code. As used in this Chapter it means the Borough.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

A building with sleeping rooms where persons are housed or lodged and furnished with meals, nursing care for hire, and which is approved for such by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

The map setting forth the boundaries of the zoning districts of this Chapter and adopted by the Borough Council.

A sanitary sewage collection system in which sewage is carried from individual lots by a system of pipes to a central treatment and disposal plant.

A space not located within any street right-of-way used by motor vehicles for the temporary storage of trucks and other commercial vehicles while loading and unloading merchandise or materials.

A space not located within any street right-of-way used by motor vehicles for the temporary storage of one motor vehicle.

A sanitary sewage disposal system in which sewage is treated and discharged on the same lot at the use which it serves.

A flood that, on the average, is likely to occur once every 100 years, (i.e., that has a 1% chance of occurring each year, although the flood may occur in any year).

A row of parking spaces abutting one another along the length of each space.

A facility providing off-street parking space for five or more motor vehicles.

Act of 1968, July 31, P.L. 805, as amended, and reenacted, Act of 1988, December 21, P.L. 1329 (53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.).

The planning commission established for this municipality pursuant to Article II of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

Any lot and any structure constructed thereon.

Not publicly owned, operated or controlled.

Owned, operated or controlled by a governmental unit or a governmental agency.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

For the purpose of this Chapter, electric substations, automatic telephone exchanges, micro-relay stations and the like (but excluding public sewer and water facilities and radio and television transmitters and towers) and any other public utility corporation when exempted from the provisions of this Chapter by State law.

A commercial establishment for the racing of animals or motor vehicles.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

An establishment where horses are kept for riding or driving or are stabled for compensation as part of a club, association, ranch or similar establishment.

A corridor of land set aside for use, in whole or in part, by a street.

The surface water discharge or rate of discharge of a given watershed after a fall of rain, snow or other form of precipitation that does not enter the soil but runs off the surface of the land.

Any place offering instruction in any branch of knowledge under the supervision of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or lawfully constituted ecclesiastical governing body, person, partnership or corporation meeting the requirements of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

A single-family detached dwelling used for seasonal and temporary living purposes during any season by persons engaged in recreational pursuits. Also called a "summer cottage" or "hunting and fishing cabin."

The process by which mineral or organic matter is accumulated or deposited by the movement of wind and water or by gravity.

A group of two or more primary uses or structures used for retail sales and service occupying a lot in single ownership.

A corridor providing for pedestrian access on or across a lot.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

Land whose slope (surfaces at an angle to the plane of the horizon) is 25% or more (a vertical difference of 25 feet or more per 100 feet of horizontal difference).

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, 53 P.S. § 10105. The following terms used therein are further defined for the purpose of this Chapter as follows: (See "Street Criteria" for illustration).

The dividing line between a street and the lot; includes right-of-way line and front lot line.

Any manmade object having an ascertainable stationary location on or in land or water, whether or not affixed to the land (as stated in the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code); provided, however, that on-site sewage systems shall not be construed to be a structure and for purposes of setback requirements, sidewalks, driveways, fences and freestanding walls shall not be considered a structure.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

Any modification, alteration, reconstruction or improvement of any kind to an existing structure to an extent or amount of 50% or more of its market value either (1) before the improvement, modification or repair is stared or (2) if the structure has been damaged and is being restored before the damage occurred.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

A single-family detached dwelling used for seasonal and temporary living purposes during any season by persons engaged in recreational pursuits. Also known as a "seasonal cottage," "seasonal dwelling" or "hunting and fishing cabin."

An establishment or facility providing outdoor recreation during the summer or warm weather period of the year such as golf course, golf ball driving ranges, batting cages, baseball, football, soccer and other sports playing fields.

A use permitted for a fixed period of time with the obligation and intent to discontinue the use at the end of such time. Such uses do not involve the construction or alteration of any permanent structure.

The use of land and structures which may contain an assembly hall and studios with or without stage, which may be equipped with curtains and permanent stage scenery or with mechanical equipment adaptable, but not limited to, the showing of plays, operas, performances, spectacles and similar forms of live or audio visual entertainment and for instruction in the performing arts.

A single-family dwelling in which overnight accommodations are provided as offered for transient guests for compensation and where the provider of accommodations resides in the dwelling.

Defined in § 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

Any purpose for which a lot or structure may be designed, arranged, intended, maintained or occupied or any activity, occupation, business or operation carried on in a structure on a lot.

Defined in §§ 107 and 910.2 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

The use of the land and structure or part thereof, which is open to the general public and designed for the dissemination of information. Such information may include, but shall not be limited to, exhibits, maps, brochures, pamphlets and similar items.

An establishment or facility providing outdoor recreation during the winter such as skiing, sledding and skating.

An unoccupied space, open to the sky, extending from the lot line to a structure. The size of a required yard shall be measured as the shortest distance between the structure and lot line.