A building subordinate to the main building and used for purposes customarily incidental to those of the main building.

Any place to which the public is permitted or invited whereon coin-operated, slug-operated or for any form of consideration or electronically, electrically or mechanically controlled still or motion-picture machines, projectors, video or laser disc players or other image-producing devices are maintained, not located within viewing booths, to show images to five or fewer persons per machine at any one time, and where the images so displayed are distinguished or characterized by the depicting or describing of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.

A commercial establishment which, as one of its substantial business activities, offers for sale or rental for any form of consideration any one or more of the following:

A nightclub, bar, restaurant or other commercial establishment which regularly features:

A commercial establishment where, for any form of consideration, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides or similar photographic reproductions or visual presentations of any kind are regularly shown which are characterized by the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.

A theater, concert hall, auditorium or similar commercial establishment which regularly features persons who appear in a state of nudity or seminudity, or live performances which are characterized by the exposure of specified anatomical areas or by specified sexual activities.

As applied to a building or structure, that change or rearrangement in the structural part or in the existing facilities or in the enlargement, whether by extending, as a side, or by increasing in height, or the moving from one location to another.

As applied to a building or structure, that change or rearrangement in the structural part or in the existing facilities or in the enlargement, whether by extending, as a side, or by increasing in height, or the moving from one location to another.

The area used or intended for services to the public as customers, patrons, clients or tenants, including areas occupied for fixtures and equipment used for display or sale of merchandise. Floor areas may be excluded which are used exclusively for storage, housing of mechanical equipment integral with the building, for maintenance facilities or for those areas so restricted that customers, patients, clients, salesmen and the general public are denied access.

A sign used for the general advertising of goods, places or services offered elsewhere than on the premises upon which the sign is located.

Any reference to the borough contained herein shall refer specifically to Freedom Borough.

The height of the building from the average ground level, representing the midvalue between the highest and the lowest level of the lot, to the roof level. The roof level will measure up to the midpoint of a roof parapet or, in the case of a slant roof, up to the midpoint between the lowest point of the uppermost ceiling and the ridge of the roof.

An imaginary line located at a fixed distance from the front line of the lot and interpreted as being the nearest point that a building may be constructed to the front lot line. The "building line" shall limit the location of porches, patios and similar construction, steps excepted, to the face of this line.[1]

A unique concept of residential development employing a more compact arrangement of dwelling units situated on land that has not been subdivided in the usual manner with structures situated on individual lots. The housing units, which may be either single-family detached dwellings, townhouses or garden apartments, are usually grouped around a common open space or green area which constitutes a major characteristic of "cluster development."

Engaging in a business, enterprise, activity or other undertaking for a profit.

The legally appointed Planning Commission of the Borough of Freedom.

The comprehensive, long-range plan for the desirable use of land in Freedom Borough; the purpose of such plan being, among other things, to serve as a guide for the zoning and progressive rezoning of land to meet changing community needs, in the subdividing and use of undeveloped land and in the acquisition of land for such public purposes as streets, parks, schools and other public buildings.

The remodeling of a single-family dwelling unit into two or more separate living units, each having a minimum of 500 square feet of habitable area, exclusive of basement and/or cellar dwellings, one bathroom and three habitable rooms, separate and private sanitary, cooking and dining facilities and a minimum of two off-street parking spaces per living unit.

Any reference to the county contained herein shall refer specifically to Beaver County.

A dwelling designed for or occupied exclusively as a residence for two or more families with separate housekeeping and cooking facilities for each family. It shall not include hotels, motels or other transient uses but may include sectional or modular structures.

A single detached structure intended for resort purposes and occupied on a seasonal or short-term basis.

A building designed for or occupied exclusively as a permanent, immobile residence for one family only. It shall not include mobile homes or trailers but may include sectional or modular structures.

The date on which this chapter is duly adopted by the borough or as specified in an ordinance adopting the same.

A person who performs any service on the premises of a sexually oriented business on a full-time, part-time or contract basis, whether or not the person is denominated an employee, independent contractor, agent or otherwise and whether or not said person is paid a salary, wage or other compensation by the operator of said business. Employee does not include a person exclusively on the premises for repair or maintenance of the premises or equipment on the premises or for the delivery of goods to the premises.

Includes built, constructed, reconstructed, moved upon or any physical operations on the land required for the building. Excavation, fill, drainage and the like shall be considered part of the "erection."

A person who, for consideration, agrees or offers to act as a companion, guide or date for another person or who agrees or offers to privately model lingerie or to privately perform a striptease for another person.

A person or business association who furnishes, offers to furnish or advertises to furnish escorts as one of its primary business purposes for a fee, tip or other consideration.

The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance by public utilities, municipal departments or commissions of facilities, including buildings necessary for the furnishing of adequate services for the public health, safety or general welfare.

The permission or approval by the Zoning Hearing Board to locate a use under specific provisions and terms of this chapter, and where such a use will not prove injurious to the public interest.

Any number of individuals living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit, as distinguished from a group occupying a boardinghouse.

Where two or more residential buildings are constructed on a plot of ground not subdivided into the customary lots and streets.

Any use customarily conducted entirely within a dwelling and carried on by the inhabitants thereof which is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling purposes and does not change the character thereof. The conducting of a clinic, hospital or any similar use shall not be deemed to be a "home occupation."

A building or a group of buildings having units containing sleeping accommodations which are available for a temporary, rental occupancy by transients routinely for periods shorter than seven consecutive days.

A sign which is illuminated by electrical, mechanical or other means as well as those using luminous paint or reflectorized glass to reflect light.

The use of 200 square feet or more of the area of any lot, whether inside or outside a building, for storage, keeping or abandonment of junk, including scrap metals, or for the dismantling, demolition or abandonment of automobiles or other vehicles, machinery or parts thereof.

Having general knowledge of or reason to know or a belief or ground for belief which warrants further inspection or inquiry, or both, of:

The Council of Freedom Borough.

A person in whose name a license to operate a sexually oriented business has been issued, as well as the individual listed as an applicant on the application for a license; and, in the case of an employee, a person in whose name a license has been issued authorizing employment in a sexually oriented business.

The area required to accommodate one truck in a space 12 feet wide, 15 feet high and 45 feet long, exclusive of access and turning area.

The parcel of land on which any main building and any accessory buildings are placed, together with the required open space.

The horizontal area within the lot lines.

The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines.

The mean horizontal distance across the lot between the side lot lines measured at right angles to the depth.

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.[2]

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

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

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

Any place where a person who appears seminude, in a state of nudity or who displays specified anatomical areas and is provided to be observed, sketched, drawn, painted, sculptured, photographed or similarly depicted by other persons who pay money or any form of consideration. Nude model studio shall not include a proprietary school licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or a college, junior college or university which maintains and operates educational programs in which credits are transferable to a college, junior college or university supported entirely or partly by taxation; or in a structure:

The showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic area, vulva, anus, anal cleft or cleavage with less than a fully opaque covering, the showing of the female breast with less than a fully opaque covering of any part of the nipple or the showing of the covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state.

Any dwelling with sleeping rooms where persons are housed or ledged and furnished with meals and nursing care for hire, or a home operated by a nonprofit group and operated as an institution.

A statement signed by the Zoning Officer setting forth either that a building or structure complies with this chapter or that a building, structure or parcel of land may lawfully be employed for specified uses, or both.

The area required for parking one automobile 10 by 20 feet excluding access or turning area.

An individual, proprietorship, partnership, corporation, association or other legal entity.

A domesticated animal that is normally or can generally be kept within the immediate living quarters of a residential structure. Any member of the swine, sheep, poultry, bovine or equidae family of quadrupeds, or reptiles having a venomous or constrictor nature, does not constitute a "household pet" under any provision of this chapter.

The major or dominant use or activity occurring on an individual lot.

An accessory building for the storage of motor vehicles or boats owned and used by the owner or tenant of the lot for a purpose accessory to the use of the lot and for not more than one additional motor vehicle owned and used by others.

Any office or business conducted by an individual or association who or that must be licensed under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

A building or structure where motor vehicles can be temporarily stored or parked for the payment of a small fee.

A building other than a hotel where lodging is offered by prearrangement for a definite period, for compensation, of three or more persons, not open to transient guests, in contradiction to hotels, motels or tourist homes open to transients.

The state of dress in which the clothing partially or nonopaquely covers specified anatomical areas.

An area of land, including structures, used for the sale of gasoline or other motor vehicle fuel and oil and other lubricating substances and the sale of motor vehicle accessories which may include associated facilities for automobile servicing excluding painting.

A business or commercial enterprise that, as one of its principal business purposes, offers for any form of consideration

An adult arcade, adult bookstore, adult novelty store, adult video store, adult cabaret, adult motion-picture theater, adult theater, escort agency, nude model studio or sexual encounter center.

A structure that is arranged, intended, designed or used as an advertisement, announcement or direction, or a sign posted, painted or placed in some fashion on a building, structure or any surface for such a purpose.

Human genitals, pubic region, anus, buttocks, female breast(s) below a point immediately above the top of the areola, or human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely covered.

Any of the following offenses:

Any of the following

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

A unique residential structure containing four or more attached dwelling units. Each dwelling unit has a recorded lot in addition to a vested interest in the common open space. The structure may be one or two stories in height.

Refer to the "mobile home" definition.

The various pieces of equipment shall be defined as follows:

Includes any of the following:

Within the framework of this chapter, utilities shall include public water or public sanitary sewer facilities only.

The legal permission by the Zoning Hearing Board to use a parcel of property for a permitted use in the particular zone, but to do so with some modification in the development standards for that zone. A "variance" applies only to that particular piece of property for which it is granted and only to the modification of the land development standards. It does not apply to the modification of the permitted uses within the zone.

Booths, stalls, partitioned portions of a room, rooms or other enclosures which are available for viewing films, movies, videos or visual reproductions of any kind depicting or describing specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas, or persons who appear in a state of nudity or seminudity or who offer performances or presentations characterized by the exposure of specified anatomical areas or by specified sexual activities.

A required open space unoccupied and unobstructed by any structure or portion of a structure from 30 inches above the general ground level of the graded lot upward; provided, however, that fences and walls may be permitted in any yard subject to height limitations as indicated herein.

The open space extending across the entire width of the lot between the front line of the building and the street line.

The required open space extending from the rear of the main building along the rear lot line (not necessarily a street line) throughout the entire width of the lot.

The required open space extending from the side of any building along the side lot line through the entire depth of the building.

A legal and administrative process whereby a municipality divides its territory into districts and applies to each district a number of regulations to control the use of land, the height and bulk of buildings and the area of ground built upon.

The Board assigned the duties of judging various appeals of persons aggrieved by the interpretation of the terms of this chapter.

An individual authorized by Borough Council to be the administrator of the day-to-day application of the provisions contained in this chapter.

A statement signed by the Zoning Officer indicating that the application for permission to construct, alter or add is approved and in accordance with the requirements of the terms of this chapter.