Adoption of the Official Zoning Map. The Official Zoning Map shall be identified by the signatures of the Chairman or President of the Borough Council, attested by the Borough Secretary, under the following words: "This is to certify that this is the Official Zoning Map of Centre Hall Borough, Centre County, Pennsylvania", together with the date of enactment of the ordinance. The map shall be kept on file with the Borough Zoning Officer, and shall be the final authority as to the current zoning status of land and water areas in the Borough.

Changes in the Official Zoning Map. If, in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter, changes are made in district boundaries or other matter portrayed on the Official Zoning Map, such changes shall be entered promptly on said map. All changes shall be certified by initialing of the Chairman or President of the Borough Council, together with a brief description of the changes and the date of enactment of such changes, under the word "Revised". No amendment to this Chapter which involves matter portrayed on the Official Zoning Map shall become effective until after such change and entry has been shown on said map.

Replacement of the Official Zoning Map. In the event that the Official Zoning Map becomes damaged, lost or difficult to interpret because of the nature or number of changes, the Borough Council may, by resolution, adopt a new Official Zoning Map which shall supersede the previous map. The new Official Zoning Map shall be identified by the signatures of the Chairman or President of the Borough Council, attested by the Borough Secretary, under the following words: "This is to certify that this Official Zoning Map supersedes and replaces the Official Zoning Map adopted __________ as part of Ordinance No. _____, known as the Zoning Ordinance of Centre Hall Borough", together with the date of adoption of the resolution. The previous Official Zoning Map or any significant parts thereof remaining shall be preserved, together with all available records pertaining to its adoption or amendment.

District Boundary Lines. The district boundary lines shall be shown on the Official Zoning Map. Where uncertainty exists as to the boundaries of districts, the following rules shall apply:

Primary Uses. In the Residential Districts, no more than one primary use shall be permitted on any single lot of record. In all other zoning districts, there may be more than one primary use, but each additional primary use must conform to the lot, yard setback, maximum height and all other regulations contained herein.

Accessory Uses. All accessory structures, except where otherwise permitted by this Chapter, shall comply with the lot, yard setback and maximum height requirements for the primary use to which it is accessory. Accessory uses and structures may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Airports and Landing Strips. All airports and landing strips shall be designed and constructed in accordance with standards of the Federal Aviation Agency and the Pennsylvania Bureau of Aviation.

Automobile Service Stations. In addition to the district regulations specified, all automobile service stations shall meet the following regulations:

Auto Wrecking, Junk and Scrap Establishments. In addition to the district regulations specified, all auto wrecking, junk and scrap establishments shall meet the following regulations:

Child Day Care Centers. In addition to the district regulations specified, all child day-care centers shall meet the following requirements:

Churches and Other Places of Worship and Theaters for the Performing Arts and Auditoriums. Churches and other places of worship and theaters for the performing arts and auditoriums shall be located only on lots with direct motor vehicle access onto collector or arterial streets in the districts where they are permitted uses.

Convenience Food Stores. Convenience food stores are defined as small stores permitted in selected rural and residential districts which retail food and beverages primarily to the immediately surrounding population. Sales of additional products, when clearly incidental and subordinate to the retailing of food and beverages, may include non-prescription drugs, housewares, periodicals and tobacco. The sale of gasoline and oil and food beverages for consumption on the premises is expressly prohibited. In addition to the district regulations specified, all convenience food stores shall meet the following requirements:

Dwelling Units, Attached. In addition to the district regulations specified, no buildings used for semidetached dwelling units in the R-2 District shall contain more than two dwelling units per building.

Manure storage. In addition to the district regulations specified, the outdoor storage of silage or hydrated manure in bulk for farm uses shall not be permitted within 150 feet of any lot line.

Golf Courses, Mini-Golf Courses, Pitch Putt Golf Courses, and Driving Ranges. In addition to the district regulations specified, all golf courses, pitch putt golf courses, mini-golf courses and driving ranges shall meet the following applicable regulations:

Home Occupations. Permitted home occupations shall include professional offices, crafts and domestic services such as: the professional practice of medicine and dentistry; architecture and engineering; law, teaching, accounting, real estate and insurance; artists, artisans and writers; barbers and beauticians; domestic service such as babysitting (no more than five children who are not regular members of the household), cooking and sewing. Under no circumstances shall home occupation be construed to include motor vehicle repair and/or maintenance. All home occupations shall conform to the following regulations:

Public and Private Nurseries, Kindergartens, Elementary, Secondary and Post-Secondary Schools. Public and private nurseries, kindergartens, elementary, secondary and post secondary schools shall locate in the districts where they are permitted uses only when adjacent to the following street classifications:

Personal Care Boarding Home, Family Care, Group Homes and Halfway Houses/Rehabilitation Centers.

Uses Omitted and Prohibited. This Chapter is intended to apply to all conceivable uses and structures. Under no circumstances, however, shall the following uses be permitted in any district in the Borough:

Uses Prohibited in Residential and Commercial Districts. The raising and keeping of animals of the equine, bovine, ovine and porcine species even as household pets and wild animals of any nature, unless as a part of a farm use meeting the requirements in the appropriate district regulations; provided, that this regulation shall be modified and subject to any other ordinances, resolutions or actions of the municipality relating to the keeping of animals during the annual Grange Fair.

Forestry Uses. Forestry uses relating to the harvesting of lumber products shall not engage in "clear cutting."

Minimum Lot Size and Width. All lots created after the date of enactment of this Chapter shall be no less than the minimum lot size and width requirements stipulated for each use in the district regulations.

Maximum Lot Coverage. 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.

Where two or more primary structures for nonresidential use are proposed to be placed upon a lot in single ownership, the front, side and rear yard setback areas are required only at lot lines abutting other property.

Where two or more detached or semidetached dwelling units are proposed to be built upon a lot in single ownership, the front, side and rear yard setback areas are required as though each structure were on an individual lot.

Where a side lot line runs coterminous with a party wall of a semidetached and an attached dwelling, the side yard setback for such lot line does not apply to the structure.

Where two or more attached dwelling units are proposed to be placed upon a lot in single ownership, or upon two or more abutting lots under single ownership, the front, side and rear yard setback areas stipulated in the district regulations are required only from the lot lines abutting the property of another. Within the lot, however, the minimum horizontal distance between facing walls of any two buildings shall be 40 feet.

Where a lot abuts upon a street (including private streets) with a right-of-way of less than 50 feet in width, the front yard setback shall be measured from a line parallel to, and 25 feet from, the center line of the street cartway.

Fences, hedges and freestanding walls are permitted in any yard setback area unless otherwise restricted or prohibited by other provisions of this Chapter.

Balconies, bay window, chimneys and flues, columns, cornices and eaves, fire escapes, gutters and downspouts, sills and unenclosed porches may not project into the specified yard setback areas of a lot.

On corner lots, nothing, including structures, fences, walls and vegetation, shall be erected, placed, planted or allowed to grow in such a manner as to impede vision between a height of 2 1/2 and 10 feet above the center line grades of the intersecting streets and within an area bounded by the street right-of-way lines of such corner lots and a line joining points on these street right-of-way lines 25 feet from their intersection.

On a corner lot the following setbacks shall apply:

On a through lot the following shall apply for a rear yard setback:

Buffer Yards. Where a Commercial or Industrial District adjoins a residential district, a buffer yard of not less than 25 feet shall, at the time of development, be provided on such commercial or industrial land, except where the district boundary is coterminous with a public street. The buffer yard shall be parallel to, and adjacent with, the district boundary, and shall be completely covered with a vegetative ground cover. In addition, sight obscuring evergreen planting shall be placed the full length of the boundary in accordance with the following requirements:

Exceptions. The maximum height requirements shall not apply to the following: accessory farm buildings, barns and silos, belfries, bulkheads, chimneys, church spires, domes, flag poles, monuments, utility poles and towers, ventilators and water tanks, provided they are erected only to such height as is necessary to accomplish the purpose they are to serve, and provided they are not intended for human occupancy as dwellings.

Masts and aerials, radio and telephone broadcasting, transmission or receiving towers and windmills shall be permitted in the commercial districts up to a height of 65 feet.

Computation. The height of a structure shall be computed as the vertical distance measured from the mean level of the ground surrounding the structure to its highest point.

Essential Services. Essential services shall be categorized in three ways: on-lot, area facilities and plants.

On-lot Facilities. On-lot facilities shall consist of sewer laterals, telephone lines, water connections, etc., which connect the use on the lot to the utility or essential services; on-lot essential services shall be considered accessory uses or structures which are accessory to the primary use.

Area Facilities. Area facilities shall consist of telephone transfer stations, electrical transmission connectors and other small structures or facilities necessary for area dissemination of the utility or essential services. These shall be permitted only as special exceptions by the Zoning Hearing Board, subject to the following conditions:

Plants. Plants or other major facilities for generating, storing or treating shall meet all the requirements for the district in which they are located.

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

Quasi-Public Facilities. Similar to public in usage and existing for public use, but not owned, operated or controlled by a governmental unit or a governmental agency. Examples include the fire company, churches, grange hall, Eastern Star, Masons Lodge and the Lion's Club. Quasi-public facilities shall be permitted uses in any zoning district, provided that the use conforms to the lot requirements, yard setback requirements, maximum height regulations, parking regulations and all other appropriate requirements of the zoning district in which the quasi-public facility is to be located.

Exceptions. Public and quasi-public facilities shall be permitted to purchase one lot or property for the purpose of extending or establishing a parking lot for that facility. This shall be permitted only if the facility existed prior to the adoption of this Chapter. Maximum lot coverage for the parking lot shall be determined by § 27-708C(1) of this Chapter.