Areas of contiguous lots that share a common lot line, except not including lots entirely separated by a street, public alley open to traffic, or a perennial waterway. See the definition of "adjacent."

One dwelling unit that is created within part of a principal dwelling or above a vehicle garage on a residential lot.

A structure serving a purpose customarily incidental to and subordinate to the use of the principal use and located on the same lot as the principal use. Accessory structures include but are not limited to a household garage, household storage shed, detached carport, a household swimming pool, or an accessory storage building to a business use. An "accessory building" is any accessory structure that meets the definition of a "building." A portion of a principal building used for an accessory use shall not be considered an accessory building. A solar energy collection panel that is detached from a building shall also be considered an accessory structure.

A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use or building and located on the same lot with such principal use.

Two or more lots that share a common lot line or that are separated only by a street or waterway from each other.

A use that has over 10% of the total floor area occupied by items for sale or rent that are books, films, magazines, videotapes, coin- or token-operated films or videotapes, paraphernalia, novelties or other periodicals which are distinguished or characterized by a clear emphasis on matter depicting, displaying, describing or relating to uncovered male or female genitals or "specified sexual activities." This shall include but not be limited to materials that would be illegal to sell to persons under age 18 under state law. If such items are within a separate room, then the ten-percent standard shall apply to the floor area of such room.

A use including live entertainment involving persons (which may include, but not be limited to, waiters, waitresses, dancers, clerks, bartenders, contractors or others) displaying uncovered male or female genitals or nude or almost nude female breasts or engaging in simulated or actual "specified sexual activities" to three or more persons, based upon the total number of patrons in the entire use and not just any one room, and which is related to monetary compensation paid to the person or entity operating the use or to persons involved in such activity.

A use involving the on-site presentation to three or more persons at one time of moving images distinguished by an emphasis on depiction of "specified sexual activities" and that is related to monetary compensation paid by the persons viewing such matter.

Adult bookstore, adult movie theater, adult live entertainment facility/use or massage parlor. These terms shall be distinct types of uses and shall not be allowed as part of any other use.

A use that permits the consumption of alcoholic beverages by five or more unrelated persons between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. and that involves some form of monetary compensation paid by such persons for the alcohol or for the use of the premises.

A residential development in which residency is qualified by age and other related characteristics in accordance the United States Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. § 3601 et seq.). Age-restricted residential developments are permitted as a by right use in the R-1 Low-Density Zoning District.

A thoroughfare primarily serving vehicle traffic to three or more lots and which has a cartway of less than 16 feet.

A use involving 15 or more token- or coin-operated entertainment machines and where the machines are the principal use of the property. This term shall not include an adult use.

A place used for the burial of the remains of five or more noncremated animals, other than customary burial of farm animals as accessory to a livestock use.

An exterior device or apparatus designed for cellular, digital, telephone, radio, pager, commercial mobile radio, wireless Internet, television, microwave or any other wireless communications through the sending and/or receiving of electromagnetic waves, including, without limitation, omnidirectional or whip antennas and directional or panel antennas. Unless otherwise stated, this term shall not include "standard antenna."

The vertical distance from the base of the antenna support structure at grade to the highest point of the structure, including any antennas attached thereto or forming a part thereof. If the support structure is on a sloped grade, then the average between the highest and lowest grades shall be used in calculating the antenna height.

A device, partially or wholly exterior to a building, that is used for receiving television or radio signals for use on site or for transmitting shortwave or citizens band radio signals. See "commercial communications tower or antenna."

See "dwelling types."

A landowner or developer, as defined in the state Municipalities Planning Code, who has filed an application for development, including his heirs, successors and assigns.

Coordinated and centrally managed rental housing including self-contained units designed to provide a supportive environment and 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 and older, persons with physical handicaps and/or the developmentally disabled. Assisted living facilities shall be licensed as personal care centers by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

An area where repairs, improvements and installation of parts and accessories for motor vehicles and/or boats are conducted that involves work that is more intense in character than work permitted under the definition of "auto service station." An auto repair garage shall include, but not be limited to, a use that involves any of the following work: major mechanical or body work, the straightening of body parts, painting, welding or the rebuilding of transmissions. Any use permitted as part of an auto service station is also permitted as part of an auto repair garage. This use shall not include activity meeting the definition of a "truck stop." See requirements in § 124-402A(8).

An area where gasoline is dispensed into motor vehicles and where no repairs are conducted, except work that may be conducted that is closely similar in character to the following: sale and installation of oil, lubricants, batteries and belts and similar accessories and safety and emission inspections, and sale of prepackaged propane. This use may include a convenience store, provided that all of the requirements for such use are also met. A business that maintains an accessory use of providing motor fuel only for use by vehicles operated by that business shall not, by itself, be considered to be an auto service station. See storage limits and other requirements in § 124-402A(9).

This use is any area, other than a street, used for the outdoor or indoor display, sale or rental of two or more of the following in operable condition: motor vehicles, recreation vehicles, boat trailers, farm machinery, motorcycles, trucks, utility trailers, construction vehicles, boats, or transportable mobile/manufactured homes in a livable condition. This use may include an auto repair garage as an accessory use, provided that all requirements of such use are complied with. This use shall not include a mobile/manufactured home park (unless the requirements for that use are also met) or a junkyard. See requirements in § 124-402A(7).

An enclosed level of a building that is not a "story" and that is partly underground.

A dwelling and/or its accessory structure which includes the rental of overnight sleeping accommodations and bathroom access for temporary overnight guests, and that meets the maximum number of overnight guests specified in § 124-402 for this use, and which does not provide any cooking facilities for actual use by guests, and which only provides meals to overnight guests, employees and residents of the dwelling. Overnight stays shall be restricted to transient visitors to the area, employees and their family. See requirements in § 124-402A(10).

A place used for lawful gambling activities, including but not limited to off-track parimutual betting and any use of electronic gambling devices. This term shall not regulate state lottery sales or lawful small games of chance.

See § 124-702.

A residential use in which a) room(s) that do not meet the definition of a lawful dwelling unit are rented for habitation or b) a dwelling unit includes greater than the permitted maximum number of unrelated persons. A boardinghouse shall not include a use that meets the definition of a "hotel," "dormitory," "motel," "life care center," "personal care center," "bed-and-breakfast inn," "group home" or "nursing home." A college fraternity or sorority house used as a residence shall be considered a type of boardinghouse. A boardinghouse may either involve or not involve the providing of meals to residents but shall not include a restaurant open to the public unless the use also meets the requirements for a restaurant. A boardinghouse shall primarily serve persons residing on site for five or more consecutive days.

East Petersburg Borough, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

A strip of land that a) separates one use from another use or feature and b) is not occupied by any building, parking, outdoor storage or any use other than open space or approved pedestrian pathways. A buffer yard may be a part of the minimum setback distance, but land within an existing or future street right-of-way shall not be used to meet a buffer yard requirement. See § 124-803D.

Any structure having a permanent roof and walls and that is intended for the shelter, work area, housing or enclosure of persons, animals, vehicles, equipment or materials and that has a total area under roof of greater than 50 cubic feet. "Building" is interpreted as including "or part thereof." See the separate definition of "structure." Any structure involving a permanent roof (such as a covered porch or a carport) that is attached to a principal building shall be considered to be part of that principal building.

The percentage obtained by dividing the total horizontal area covered by all buildings on a lot by the total lot area of a lot. For the purposes of this definition, building coverage shall include all buildings that are under a roof.

The vertical distance from the average of the finished ground level adjoining a building at all exterior walls to the average height of the highest roof surface. The finished ground level shall not slope away from a building wall in such a manner that it is not possible to position a ladder for fire rescue.

The horizontal measurement between two vertical structural walls that are generally parallel of one building, measured in one direction that is most closely parallel to the required lot width. For attached housing, this width shall be the width of each dwelling unit, measured from the center of each interior party wall and from the outside of any exterior wall. For detached buildings, this width shall be measured from the outside of exterior walls.

A building used for the conduct of the principal use of a lot and which is not an accessory building.

A use involving the bulk commercial collection, separation and/or processing of types of waste materials found in the typical household or office for some productive reuse, but which does not involve the actual processing or recycling of hazardous or toxic substances and which does not primarily involve the processing of nonrecycled solid waste, unless the use also meets the applicable requirements for a solid waste transfer facility. This definition shall not include a junkyard.

An area that includes facilities and structures for primarily outdoor recreational activities by organized groups and/or that involves overnight stays within seasonal cabins or temporary tents by organized groups and/or transient visitors to the area. This term shall only include facilities that are primarily used during warmer months and which have a maximum impervious coverage of five percent. This term shall not include a recreational vehicle campground.

A development under single ownership of the land with sites being rented, leased or sold through time-share for use for tents or recreational vehicle sites for transient visitors to the area and which may include associated recreational facilities.

A type of campground that involves persons temporarily living within recreational vehicles.

A place used for the burial of two or more noncremated humans.

A form signed by an authorized Borough official that certifies that the use of the property is in compliance with this chapter, to the best knowledge of such Borough official.

A type of crop farming involving the raising and harvesting of evergreen trees for commercial purposes. This may include the retail sale during November and December of trees that were produced on the premises.

See "place of worship."

A logging method that removes all trees or the vast majority of trees from a mostly wooded area.

A structure, partially or wholly exterior to a building, used for transmitting or retransmitting electronic signals through the air, and that does not meet the definition of a "standard antenna." Commercial communications antennas shall include, but are not limited to, antennas used for transmitting commercial radio or television signals, or to receive such signals for a cable system, or to retransmit wireless telecommunications. A commercial communications tower shall be a structure over 30 feet in height that is primarily intended to support one or more antennas. See the standards in § 124-402.[1] This term shall not include a standard antenna.

The NC and HC Districts.

This term includes but is not limited to retail sales, offices, personal services, auto sales, auto repair garages and other uses of a similar profit-making nonindustrial nature. The sale of goods or services from a vehicle on a lot shall also be considered to be a commercial use.

A use that exists solely to provide primarily indoor leisure and educational activities and programs and meeting space to members of the surrounding community and/or certain age groups and which does not involve substantial use of machinery or noise-producing equipment. The use also may include the preparation and/or provision of meals to low-income elderly persons, as accessory to leisure activities. This shall not include residential uses or a treatment center.

The Growing Together Comprehensive Plan, as adopted by East Petersburg Borough Council in 2007, or its successor document, as amended.

A use listed as a conditional use under § 124-306, which is only allowed after review by the Borough Planning Commission and approval by Borough Council, under § 124-117.

A set of individual dwelling units or other areas of buildings each owned by an individual person(s) in fee simple, with such owners assigned a proportionate interest in the remainder of the real estate which is designated for common ownership, and which is created under the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act of 1980 or Uniform Planned Community Act of 1996, as amended.[2]

The Lancaster County Conservation District or any agency successor thereto.

A legal agreement granted by a property owner that strictly limits the types and amounts of development that may take place on such property. Such easement shall restrict the original and all subsequent property owners, lessees and all other users of the land.

Adjacent parcels of land, including parcels separated by a stream or road.

A use that primarily sells routine household goods, groceries, prepared ready-to-eat foods and similar miscellaneous items to the general public, but that is not primarily a restaurant, and that includes a building with a floor area of less than 7,000 square feet. A convenience store involving the sale of gasoline shall be regulated as an auto service station.

The raising of products of the soil and accessory storage of these products. This term shall include orchards, tree farms, wineries, plant nurseries, the raising of fish, greenhouses and the keeping of animals in numbers that are routinely accessory and incidental to a principal crop farming use. See "agriculture, intensive."

A process provided in the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code that authorizes certain types of challenges to a zoning ordinance.

A use involving the supervised care of children under age 16 outside of the children's own home(s) primarily for periods of less than 18 hours per child during the average day. This use may also include educational programs that are supplementary to state-required education, including nursery school or Head Start programs. See also the definition of "adult day-care center."

A use providing supervised care and assistance to persons who need such daily assistance because of their old age or disabilities. This use shall not include persons who need oversight because of behavior that is criminal, violent or related to substance abuse. This use may involve occasional overnight stays but shall not primarily be a residential use. The use shall involve typical stays of less than a total of 60 hours per week per person.

The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development or any agency successor thereto.

The total number of dwelling units proposed on a lot divided by the lot area, unless otherwise stated.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

A land area within the Borough within which certain uniform regulations and requirements apply under the provisions of this chapter.

A building used as living quarters for the exclusive use of bona fide full-time faculty or students of an accredited college or university or primary or secondary school and which is owned by and on the same lot as such college, university or school.

An establishment where at least a portion of patrons are served while the patrons remain in their motor vehicles.

A building used as nontransient living quarters, but not including a boardinghouse, hotel, motel, hospital, nursing home or dormitory. A dwelling may include a use that meets the definition of a "sectional home."

This chapter categorizes dwellings into the following types:

A single habitable living unit occupied by only one family. See the definition of "family." Each dwelling unit shall have a) its own toilet, bath or shower, sink, sleeping and cooking facilities; and b) separate access to the outside or to a common hallway or balcony that connects to outside access at ground level. A dwelling unit shall not include two or more separate living areas that are completely separated by interior walls so as to prevent interior access from one living area to another, unless approved as unit for care of relative.

A building for the housing of fire, emergency medical or police equipment and for related activities. This use may include housing for emergency personnel while on call. See provisions for this use in § 124-402A(18).

The highest number of workers (including both part-time and full-time, both compensated and volunteer, and both employees and contractors) present on a lot at any one time, other than clearly temporary and occasional persons working on physical improvements to the site.

Utility or municipal uses that are necessary for the preservation of the public health and safety and that are routine, customary and appropriate to the character of the area in which they are to be located. Essential services shall include the following and closely similar facilities: sanitary sewage lines, waterlines, electric distribution lines, stormwater management facilities, cable television lines, natural gas distribution lines, fire hydrants, streetlights and traffic signals. Essential services shall not include a central sewage treatment plant, a solid waste disposal area or facility, commercial communications towers, a power generating station, septic or sludge disposal, offices, storage of trucks or equipment or bulk storage of materials.

One or more individuals related by blood, marriage or adoption (including persons receiving formal foster care) or three or fewer unrelated individuals who maintain a common household and live within one dwelling unit. A family shall also expressly include numbers of unrelated persons provided by the group home provision of § 124-402[3] residing within a licensed group home, as defined herein. Through those provisions and § 124-111D(5), the Borough's intent is to comply with the Federal Fair Housing Act, as amended.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency or any agency successor thereto.

A man-made barrier placed or arranged as a line of demarcation, an enclosure or a visual barrier that is constructed of wood, chain-link metal, vinyl or aluminum and/or plastic inserts. Man-made barriers constructed principally of masonry, concrete, cinder block or similar materials shall be considered a "wall." See § 124-403D(5).

An establishment primarily involved with loans and monetary, not material, transactions and that has routine interactions with the public.

See definitions of this term and related terms in § 124-504.

The total floor space within a building(s) measured from the exterior faces of exterior walls or from the center lines of walls separating buildings. Floor area shall specifically include, but not be limited to, a) fully enclosed porches and b) basement or cellar or attic space that is potentially habitable and has a minimum head clearance of at least 6.5 feet. Floor area shall not include unenclosed structures.

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, and which does not involve any land development. See "timber harvesting" in this section and § 124-402.[4]

The accessory use of any lot for the occasional sale or auction of only common household goods and furniture and items of a closely similar character. See § 124-403.

A sensation of brightness within the visual field which causes annoyance, discomfort or loss in visual performance, visibility and/or ability to focus. See § 124-507.

A use owned by a government, government agency or government authority for valid public health, public safety, recycling collection or similar governmental purpose and which is not owned by East Petersburg Borough or an authority created solely by East Petersburg Borough. This term shall not include uses listed separately in the Table of Uses in Article III, such as "publicly owned recreation." This term shall not include a prison.

A dwelling unit operated by a responsible individual, family or organization with a program to provide a supportive living arrangement for individuals where special care is needed by the persons served due to age, emotional, mental, developmental or physical disability. This definition shall expressly include facilities for the supervised care of persons with disabilities subject to protection under the Federal Fair Housing Act, as amended. Group homes must be licensed where required by any appropriate government agencies, and a copy of any such license must be delivered to the Zoning Officer prior to the initiation of the use. A group home typically involves an individual residing on the premises for more than 30 days at a time.

A product or waste, or combination of substances, that because of the quantity, concentration, physical 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 material includes, but is not limited to, materials which are included on the latest edition of one or more of the following lists:

Hazardous substances included on the list of "Extremely Hazardous Substances" in 40 Part 355, or its successor provisions, and that are stored or used in quantities above the threshold reportable limits in such regulations.

See "building height." To measure the height of any structure that is not a building, it shall be the total vertical distance from the average elevation of the proposed ground level to the highest point of a structure. For height of signs, see Article VII entitled "Signs."

An area used for the takeoff and landing of helicopters and related support facilities. A "private heliport" shall be limited to 15 total takeoffs and landings in any seven-day period and is not open to the general public. A "public heliport" is one that does not meet the definition of a "private heliport."

A routine, accessory and customary nonresidential use conducted within or administered from a portion of a dwelling or its permitted accessory building and that meets all of the requirements for a home occupation provided in § 124-403.[8]

A use involving the diagnosis, treatment or other medical care of humans that includes, but is not limited to, care requiring stays overnight. A medical care use that does not involve any stays overnight shall be considered an "office." A hospital may involve care and rehabilitation for medical, dental or mental health but shall not primarily include housing or treatment of the criminally insane or persons actively serving an official sentence after being convicted of a felony. A hospital may also involve medical research and training for health care professionals.

A building or buildings including rooms rented out to persons as clearly transient and temporary living quarters. Any such use that customarily involves the housing of persons for periods of time longer than 90 days shall be considered a "boardinghouse" and shall meet the requirements of that use. See "bed-and-breakfast" use. A hotel or motel may also include a restaurant, meeting rooms, nightclub, newsstand, amusement arcade, gift shop, swim club, exercise facilities, tavern and similar customary accessory amenities, and provided that any such use shall only be allowed as a principal use of the property if such use is allowed by the applicable district regulations.

Land owned by an organized group of persons formed as a club that is used for hunting, fishing, and similar types of passive recreation and which involves no buildings except those for the recreational, lodging, eating and sanitary facilities for members and invited guests and routinely accessory storage buildings.

The percentage that results from dividing the land area on a lot covered by all "impervious surfaces" by the total land area of the lot.

Areas covered by buildings, paving or concrete, or other man-made surfaces that have a runoff coefficient of 0.85 or greater. Areas of stone regularly used for vehicle parking and movement shall be considered impervious for the purposes of restricting impervious coverage under the Zoning Ordinance.[9]

The LI Zoning District.

Any discarded, unusable scrap or abandoned man-made or man-processed material or articles stored outside of a completely enclosed building. Examples of junk include scrap metal, used furniture, used appliances, used motor vehicle parts, worn-out machinery and equipment, used containers, and scrap building materials. Junk shall not include a) solid waste temporarily stored in an appropriate container that is routinely awaiting imminent collection and proper disposal, b) toxic substances, c) yard waste or tree trunks, d) items clearly awaiting imminent recycling at an appropriate location, e) building materials awaiting imminent use at an ongoing building, or f) "clean fill" as defined by state environmental regulations.

The keeping of a greater number of dogs and/or cats than are permitted under the "Pets, Keeping of" provisions of this chapter and which may also include temporary keeping of other household pets. In addition, in any case, if seven or more dogs age six months or older are kept, it shall be considered a kennel.

The owner of a legal or equitable interest in land, including the holder of a written, signed and active option or contract to purchase or a person leasing the property (if authorized under the lease to exercise the right of the landowner) or authorized officers of a partnership or corporation that is a landowner.

Illumination that passes from the source through a translucent cover or shade.

The raising and keeping of livestock, poultry or insects beyond the number and type allowed under the "keeping of pets" section of § 124-403[10] and beyond what is customarily incidental to a principal "crop farming" use. "Raising of livestock or poultry" shall not include a slaughterhouse nor a stockyard used for the housing of animals awaiting slaughter.

A designated parcel, tract or area of land established by a plat or otherwise as permitted by law and to be used, developed or built upon as a unit. The term "lot" shall mean a lot of record according to official county records. If lands are separated by a street, then each side of the street shall be considered a separate lot. The area and depth of a lot shall be measured to the legal right-of-way line of the street, and all lots shall front on public or private streets.

The horizontal land area contained within the lot lines of a lot (measured in acres or square feet). For the purposes of determining compliance with the minimum lot area, the following shall be excluded:

A percentage of the lot area which may be covered with a paved surface (e.g., buildings, driveways, parking areas, sidewalks).

The property lines bounding the lot. Wherever a property line borders a public street, for the purposes of determining setbacks, the lot line shall be considered to be the street right-of-way line that will exist at the time of completion of a subdivision or development.

The horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured at the minimum prescribed front yard setback line, unless otherwise stated. In the event of a curved lot line, such lot width at the minimum prescribed front yard setback line shall be measured along the curve. Where buildings are permitted to be attached, the lot width shall be measured from the center of the party wall. Where a pie-shaped lot fronts upon a cul-de-sac, the minimum lot width may be reduced to 75% of the width that would otherwise be required.

A lot abutting on two or more intersecting streets which has an interior angle of less than 135° at the intersection of right-of-way lines of two streets.

A lot that does not meet the required minimum lot width at the minimum front yard building setback line and which typically includes a narrow stretch of land connecting the bulk of the lot area to a street.

A type of adult use that is an establishment that meets all of the following criteria:

An area of land or building routinely used by a recreational, civic, social, fraternal, religious, political or labor union association of persons for meetings and routine socializing and recreation that is limited to members and their occasional guests, and persons specifically invited to special celebrations, but which is not routinely open to members of the general public and which is not primarily operated as a for-profit business.

The removal from the surface or beneath the surface of the land of bulk mineral resources using significant machinery. This use also includes accessory stockpiling and processing of mineral resources. "Mineral extraction" includes but is not limited to the extraction of sand, gravel, topsoil, limestone, sandstone, oil, coal, clay, shale, and iron ore. The routine movement of and replacement of topsoil during construction shall not by itself be considered to be mineral extraction.

See under "dwelling types."

A lot under single ownership which includes two or more mobile/manufactured homes for residential use. The individual manufactured homes may be individually owned. A development of mobile/manufactured homes that is subdivided into individual lots shall be regulated in the same manner as a subdivision of site-built homes and shall not be considered to be a mobile home park. See § 124-402A(32).

An automobile, recreational vehicle, truck, bus, motorcycle, all-terrain vehicle or similar means of transportation designed to operate to carry persons or cargo on roads and that is powered by mechanized means.

The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, as amended.[11]

The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, as reenacted and amended.

An establishment that offers amplified music after 12:00 midnight, sells alcoholic beverages primarily for on-site consumption, includes hours open to patrons after 12:00 midnight, has a building capacity of over 150 persons, and has less than 20% of its total sales in food and nonalcoholic beverages.

A lot which does not conform with the minimum lot width or area dimensions specified for the district where such lot is situated but was lawfully in existence prior to the effective date of this chapter, or amendments hereinafter enacted.

A structure or part of a structure that does not comply with the applicable lot coverage, dimensional and other provisions in this chapter, as amended, where such structure lawfully existed prior to the enactment of such Ordinance or applicable amendment(s). Such nonconforming structures include but are not limited to signs. See § 124-805.

A use, whether of land or of a structure, which does not comply with the applicable use provisions in this chapter or amendment(s), where such use was lawfully in existence prior to the enactment of this chapter or applicable amendment(s). A use granted by variance is not a nonconforming use. See § 124-805.

A facility licensed by the state for the housing and intermediate or fully skilled nursing care of three or more persons. See § 124-402A(33).

A use that involves administrative, clerical, financial, governmental or professional operations and operations of a similar character. This use shall include neither retail nor industrial uses but may include business offices, medical offices, laboratories, photographic studios, and/or television or radio broadcasting studios.

A parcel or parcels of land within a tract which meets all of the following standards:

The East Petersburg Borough Zoning Ordinance, including the Official Zoning Map, as amended.

A boiler, furnace or similar device that meets all of the following:

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Off-street parking and aisles for vehicle movement unless otherwise stated.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, or its successor.

Allowed uses in which zoning matters may be approved by the Zoning Officer, provided that the application complies with all requirements of the Zoning Ordinance. A nonconforming use shall not be considered to be a permitted-by-right use, a special exception use or a conditional use.

An assisted living facility.

An establishment that provides a service oriented to personal needs of the general public and which does not involve primarily retail or wholesale sales or services to businesses. Personal services include barber- and beauty shops, photography studios, travel agency, shoe repair shops, household appliance repair shops, and other similar establishments but shall not include any adult uses, as herein defined.

The keeping of domesticated animals of types that are normally considered to be kept in conjunction with a dwelling for the pleasures of the resident family. This shall include dogs, cats, small birds, gerbils, rabbits and other animals commonly sold in retail pet shops. See § 124-403.[12]

An area of open space and pavilions that is not publicly owned and is used for group picnics and related outdoor recreation and which is used on a commercial basis.

Buildings, synagogues, churches, religious retreats, monasteries, seminaries and shrines used primarily for religious and/or spiritual worship for more than 10 persons at a time and that are operated for nonprofit and noncommercial purposes. If a religious use is primarily residential in nature, it shall be regulated under the appropriate "dwelling type." See standards in § 124-402.[13]

A principal structure which is also a building.

The structure in which the principal use of a lot is conducted. Any structure that is physically attached to a principal structure shall be considered part of that principal structure.

A dominant use(s) or main use on a lot, as opposed to an accessory use.

A correctional institution within which persons are required to inhabit by criminal court actions or as the result of a criminal arrest.

Notice required by the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code. (See the definition in Section 107 of such law.)[14]

Leisure facilities owned, operated or maintained by governmental entities for use by the general public. "Publicly owned recreation" is a distinct use from "indoor recreation" or "outdoor recreation."

The offering of leisure-time activities to unrelated persons. This term shall not include any adult use. For the purposes of this chapter, recreation facilities shall be permitted by right as an accessory use when clearly limited to residents of a development and their occasional invited guests.

A use for collection and temporary storage of more than 500 pounds of common household materials for recycling but that does not involve processing or recycling other than routine sorting, baling, and weighing of materials. This term shall not include the indoor storage of less than 500 pounds of household recyclables and their customary collection, which is a permitted-by-right accessory use in all zoning districts, without additional regulations. A recycling collection center is also a permitted-by-right accessory use to a public or private primary or secondary school, a place of worship, a Borough-owned use, or an emergency services station.

Persons who are related by blood, marriage, adoption or formal foster relationship to result in one of the following relationships: spouse, brother, sister, parent, child, grandparent, great-grandparent, grandchild, great-grandchild, uncle, aunt, niece, nephew, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, or parent-in-law. This term specifically shall not include relationships such as second, third, or more distant cousins. See definition of "dwelling unit."

Shops for the repair of appliances, watches, guns, bicycles and other household items.

A use or structure that is clearly accessory, customary and incidental to a principal residential use on a lot, including the following uses and uses that are very similar in nature: garage (household), carport, tennis court, garage sale, basketball backboard, household swimming pool, gazebo, storage shed, greenhouse, children's playhouse or children's play equipment. No business shall be conducted in a household garage or storage shed that is accessory to a dwelling, except as may be allowed as a home occupation.

The R-1, R-2 and R-3 Zoning Districts.

The lot line of a lot that:

A use in which merchandise is sold or rented to the general public, but not including the following: sales of motor vehicles or boats, adult movie theater, adult bookstore, manufacturing, tavern, car wash, auto service station, auto repair garage, convenience store, or any restaurant.

An area or strip of land which is reserved for use by or as a street or by one or more utilities or by the public or by others. The term "right-of-way" by itself shall mean the street right-of-way, unless another meaning is otherwise stated or clearly implied from the context in which it is used.

See "boardinghouse."

An educational institution primarily for persons between the ages of five and 19 that primarily provides state-required or largely state-funded educational programs. This term shall not include "trade schools."

Year-round plant material of substantial height and density designed to provide a buffer. See the requirements in § 124-803D.

A building or group of buildings divided into individual separate access units which are rented or leased for the storage of personal and small business property.

A line separating a yard from the area within which a building or use is allowed.

Sanitary sewage service to a building that does not meet the definition of "public sewage service," such as, but not limited to, an individual on-lot septic system.

Central sanitary sewage service involving collection from multiple lots for conveyance to treatment by a system owned and/or operated by a municipality or a municipal authority.

A lot that includes five or more retail sales and/or personal service establishments and which may also include offices and restaurants.

Any dwelling unit which is rented or leased for overnight lodging to transient guests for a period of not less than one day nor more than 30 consecutive calendar days. Short-term rentals shall include vacation homes but shall not include bed-and-breakfasts/inns, boardinghouses, hotels, motels, hospitals, nursing homes, or dormitories as defined in this chapter.

An area required to be kept free of certain visual obstructions to traffic. See § 124-803.[15]

Any physical device for visual communication that is used for the purpose of attracting attention from the public and that is visible from beyond an exterior lot line, including all symbols, words, models, displays, banners, flags, devices or representations. See definitions of types of signs in Article VII. This shall not include displays that only involve symbols that are clearly and entirely religious in nature and which do not include advertising.

See Article VII.

See § 124-702.

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

This term shall include one or more of the following activities:

Land or structures where solid waste is received and temporarily stored, at a location other than the site where it was generated, and which facilitates the bulk transfer of accumulated solid waste to a facility for further processing or disposal. Such facility may or may not involve the separation of recyclables from solid waste. Such facility shall not include a junkyard, leaf composting, clean fill, or septage or sludge application.

An area where municipal solid waste and similar materials are incinerated or otherwise processed to result in usable energy for off-site use.

A use for which the Zoning Hearing Board may grant permission following a public hearing and findings of fact consistent with this chapter, provided that the use complies with the conditions and standards required by this chapter. See § 124-116.

One or more of the following:

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and its agencies.

A level of a building routinely accessible to humans having an average vertical clearance from floor to ceiling of 6.5 feet or greater shall be considered a full story, except as follows: If the floor of a basement level is more than six feet below the finished grade level for more than 50% of the total building perimeter, it shall not be regulated as a story. Any level of a building having an average vertical clearance from floor to ceiling of less than 6.5 feet shall be considered a half story.

A public or private thoroughfare which provides the principal means of vehicle access to two or more lots or that is an expressway, but not including an alley or a driveway. The terms "street," "highway," and "road" have the same meaning and are used interchangeably.

Any man-made object having a stationary location on, below or in land or water, whether or not affixed to the land. Any structure shall be subject to the principal or accessory setbacks of this chapter, as applicable, unless specifically exempted or unless a specific setback is established for that particular type of structure by this chapter. For the purposes of this chapter, utility poles, stormwater basins, wells, paving, and septic systems shall not be considered structures and shall not be subject to minimum zoning setback requirements unless stated otherwise.

The definition in the state Municipalities Planning Code shall apply.

The Lancaster County Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance, as amended, or a successor ordinance as may be adopted by East Petersburg Borough Council.[16]

A man-made area with walls of man-made materials intended to enclose water at least 30 inches deep for bathing or swimming and that is intended to serve the residents of only one dwelling unit and their occasional guests. See § 124-403.[17]

A man-made area with walls of man-made materials intended to enclose water at least 30 inches deep for bathing or swimming and that does not meet the definition of a "household swimming pool."

A building or part of a building devoted to the showing of motion pictures or theatrical or performing arts productions as a principal use, but not including an outdoor drive-in theater or adult movie theater.

The storage of more than 20 used tires on a lot, except that a tire retail store may include the temporary storage of up to 100 used tires awaiting disposal on a lot without being regulated by this term. See "outdoor storage and display" in § 124-403.[18]

The total horizontal area of land contained within the property lines of all parcels of land within the subject area, excluding areas within existing public street rights-of-way.

See "dwelling types."

An area of land comprised of a single parcel or multiple parcels which are either in single or, in the case of multiple ownership, subject to an agreement of all owners that development will be governed by and will be completed in accordance with a unified land development plan. A tract may contain parcels that are separated by public or private street rights-of-way.

A facility that a) is primarily intended for education of a work-related skill or craft or a hobby, and b) does not primarily provide state-required education to persons under age 16. Examples include a dancing school, martial arts school, cosmetology school, or ceramics school.

A person involved with building trades, such as but not limited to plumbing, electrical work, building construction, building remodeling, and roofing.

A physical portion of a condominium or planned community designated for separate ownership or occupancy, the boundaries of which are described pursuant to a declaration creating a condominium or planned community pursuant to Pennsylvania Condominium and Planned Community Acts.[19]

A dwelling unit that:

Any motor vehicle or trailer that does not display a license plate with a current registration sticker or does not have a valid state safety inspection sticker. The requirement for a safety inspection sticker shall not apply to vehicles (such as licensed antique cars and trailers of less than 3,000 pounds aggregate gross vehicle weight) for which state regulations do not require such a sticker. The term shall not include a motor vehicle displaying an inspection sticker that expired less than 30 days previously. See the regulations of the Property Maintenance Code.[20]

The purpose, activity, occupation, business or operation for which land or a structure is designed, arranged, intended, occupied or maintained. Uses specifically include but are not limited to the following: activity within a structure, activity outside of a structure, any structure, recreational vehicle storage, or parking of commercial vehicles on a lot.

The granting of specific permission by the Zoning Hearing Board to use, construct, expand, or alter land or structures in such a way that compliance is not required with a specific requirement of the Zoning Ordinance. Any variance shall only be granted within the limitations of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code. See § 124-111.

See "fence."

A building or group of buildings primarily used for the indoor storage, transfer, and distribution of products and materials, but not including retail uses or a truck terminal, unless such uses are specifically permitted in that zoning district.

Water supply service to a building that does not meet the definition of "central water service," such as but not limited to an individual on-lot well.

Central water service by a system owned and/or operated by a municipality or a municipal authority.

A channel or conveyance of surface water having a defined bed and banks, whether natural or artificial, with perennial or intermittent flow.

An area of land and/or water meeting one or more definitions of a "wetland" under federal and/or Pennsylvania law and/or regulations.

An open area unobstructed from the ground to the sky that is not permitted to be covered by buildings and principal structures and that is on the same lot as the subject structure or use. A minimum yard is also known as a "minimum setback." Each required yard shall be measured inward from the abutting lot line or existing street right-of-way (as exists after completion of any subdivision or land development). Regulations of each district prohibit principal and accessory structures within the specified minimum yards.

Shall have the same meaning as "garage sales," which is defined in this section.

A yard measured from and running parallel to the front lot line or street right-of-way line (as exists after the completion of any subdivision or land development). Such yard shall extend the full width of the lot from side lot line to side lot line.

The Official Zoning Map of East Petersburg Borough, Pennsylvania.

The person charged with the duty of enforcing the provisions of the Zoning Ordinance, and any officially designated assistant.

The East Petersburg Borough Zoning Ordinance, as amended.