An improved way to permit vehicular access to a building, structure, land, or water area from the public or private street or right-of-way.

A private drive providing pedestrian and vehicular access between a public or private street and a parking compound on a single lot. An access drive shall not include and shall not be considered a driveway.

A detached, subordinate structure, the use of which is clearly incidental to that of the principal structure or principal use of the land and which is located on the same lot as occupied by the principal structure or use.

A use on the same lot with, and of a nature customarily incidental and subordinate to, the principal use.

Contiguous lots that share a common lot line or separated only by a street or watercourse.

An application that has been submitted to the Township along with all documents, exhibits, plans, and fees required by this chapter and any other Township ordinances and has been declared by the Township Zoning Officer as a completed application and therefore officially received for review.

The science and art of farming, the work of cultivating the soil, producing crops and livestock.

Any contrivance, except an empowered hang-glider or parachute, used for manned ascent into or flight through the air. See 74 P.S. § 5102.

Any area of land or water which is used, or intended to be used, for the landing and takeoff of aircraft and any appurtenant areas which are used, or intended to be used, for airport buildings on air navigation facilities or rights-of-way, together with all airport buildings and facilities thereon, including but not limited to the Butler County and Zelienople Airports. See 74 P.S. § 5102. As used herein, the term "airport" shall not include heliports. Public and private airports are defined separately in this section.

The highest point of an airport's usable landing area measured in feet from sea level. Butler County: 1,248 feet above mean sea level; Zelienople: 901 feet above mean sea level.

Any area of land or water upon which a hazard to air navigation (an airport hazard) might be established if not prevented as provided by these regulations and 74 P.S. § 5101 et seq.

Any airport licensed by Pennsylvania as a private airport, used primarily by the airport licensee, but available for use by others upon specific invitation of the licensee.

Any publicly or privately owned airport licensed by Pennsylvania as a public airport, which meets minimum safety standards and is open for use to the general flying public as defined by 74 P.S. § 5102.

As applied to a building or structure, means a change or rearrangement in the structural parts or in the existing facilities, or an enlargement, whether by extending on a side or by increasing height, or the moving from one location or position to another.

A landowner or developer, as hereinafter defined, who has filed an application for development, including his heirs, successors, assigns and agents.

Every application, whether preliminary or final, required to be filed and approved prior to start of construction or development, including, but not limited to, an application for a zoning use, zoning occupancy and/or building permit, for the approval of a subdivision plan or for the approval of a land development plan.

A surface longitudinally centered on the extended runway center line, extending outward and upward from the end of the primary surface and at the same slope as the approach zone height limitation slope set forth in Part 15 of this chapter. In plan, the perimeter of the approach surface coincides with the perimeter of the approach zone.

These zones are identified in the Airport Overlay Zoning Map, attached to this chapter.

United States Army Corps of Engineers or any agency successor thereto.

That portion of a building that is partly or completely below ground or below the adjacent ground level of the lot.

The Board of Supervisors of Jackson Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania.

An area that functions to visually separate site elements and land uses to ease the transitions between them through the use of screening within a yard or area as required by this Chapter and in accordance with Chapter 22, Subdivision and Land Development.

A front building setback line, at which construction of a building facade is to occur on a lot such that the line coincides with the location of the majority of the facade wall of a dwelling unit with respect to townhouses and duplexes; and any portion of the facade wall at the ground level when applied to single-family detached and multifamily units.

Any structure occupied or intended for supporting or sheltering any occupancy.

A "building setback line" to which provisions of this Chapter, where expressly set forth, require a building to locate.

A line parallel to a lot line, defining the yard required by this chapter.

The building setback line that is parallel to the front lot line, located at a distance equal to the front yard required by this chapter.

The building setback line that is parallel to the rear lot line, located at a distance equal to the rear yard required by this chapter.

The building setback line that is parallel to the side lot line, located at a distance equal to the side yard required by this chapter.

See "principal building."

A property, under single ownership, upon which two or more campsites are located, established, or maintained for occupancy by camping units as temporary living quarters for recreation, education or vacation purposes.

Any commercially manufactured tent, trailer, cabin, lean-to or recreational vehicle established or maintained and operated in a campground as temporary living quarters for recreation, education or vacation purposes.

Any plot of ground within a campground intended for exclusive occupancy by a camping unit or units, under the control of a camper.

A private parking area for the storage of one or more vehicles which may be covered by a roof supported by columns or posts and which shall have no more than two walls. A carport is an accessory structure or extension to a principal building and shall not extend into the front yards.

That portion of the street right-of-way intended for vehicular use. Width is determined from one edge of driving surface to the other edge of driving surface and shall not include the stormwater gutter or face of curb.

An area of unobstructed vision at the intersection of two or more streets, access drives or alleys. The triangle shall be measured 100 feet from the intersection of the center line, unless otherwise determined by the Township Engineer based on sound and accepted engineering practices on a case-by-case basis.

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

A collector street, as defined by Chapter 22, Subdivision and Land Development, that provides direct vehicular access primarily to nonresidential principal uses.

A vehicle which is titled or registered to a company and utilized for the business of that company, including but not limited to fleet vehicles, company cars, or other vehicles used for business. Construction equipment shall not be considered a commercial vehicle.

A private driveway utilized by two or more separate lots or dwelling units for access to a public or private street.

A parcel or parcels of land, or an area of water, or a combination of land and water, within a development site and designed and intended for the use or enjoyment of residents of a development, not including streets, off-street parking areas and areas set aside for public facilities, unless specifically authorized by this Chapter.

A parking compound utilized by more than one principle use, structure or dwelling on a single lot.

Any unmanned building, court or other enclosure containing equipment or control devices for the operation of a communications antenna.

The vertical distance measured from the ground level to the highest point on a communications tower, including any communications antenna mounted on the tower.

The Comprehensive Plan of Jackson Township, as adopted June 15, 2017, as may be amended by resolution of the Board of Supervisors from time to time.

A use which is permitted in a particular zoning district pursuant to the provisions of Article VI of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, 53 P.S. § 10601 et seq., as amended, and may be suitable in certain locations only when express standards and criteria are prescribed for such uses, as provided for in this chapter and approved by the Board of Supervisors.

Real estate, portions of which are designated for separate ownership and the remainder of which is designated for common ownership solely by the owners of those portions. The undivided interest in the common elements must be vested in the unit owners or a homeowners' association for the real estate to be a condominium.

A surface extending outward and upward from the periphery of the horizontal surface of the airport runway approach at a slope of 20 to 1 for a horizontal distance of 4,000 feet.

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

Machines which perform specific construction or demolition functions under power, including, but not limited to, hoisting, excavating and grading machines. The term "construction equipment" includes, but is not limited to, vehicles used for construction such as excavators, backhoes and cargo-moving equipment.

See "lot, corner."

The Butler County Planning Commission.

See "lot coverage."

Final adjudication of any board or other body granted jurisdiction under any land use ordinance or the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act 247, as amended, to do so, either by reason of the grant of exclusive jurisdiction or by reason of appeals from determinations. All decisions shall be appealable to the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County.

See "patio."

A measure of the number of dwelling units which occupy, or may occupy, an area of land.

The Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or any agency successor thereto.

The Department of Transportation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or any agency successor thereto.

Any landowner, agent of such landowner, or tenant with the permission of such landowner, who makes or causes to be made a subdivision of land or a land development; a subdivider.

Any man-made change to land or water areas, including, but not limited to, buildings, structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation, drilling operations, or, in the case of floodplain regulations, the storage of materials and equipment.

The provisions for development, including a planned residential development, a land development, a plat of subdivision, all covenants relating to use, location and bulk of buildings and other structures, intensity of use or density of development, streets, ways and parking facilities, common open space and public facilities. The phrase "provisions of the development plan" shall mean the written and graphic materials referred to in this definition. Where the provisions of this chapter require the filing of a development plan, such a plan shall encompass a proposed land development and/or development of property, which in addition to a plat of subdivision (if required by the Township) includes:

The outside bark diameter at breast height, 4.5 feet (1.37 m) above the forest floor on the uphill side of the tree.

Vehicular access from streets, access drives, parking areas, parking compounds, or driveways within plans, including land developments, PRDs, or subdivisions, to the street or streets on which said plans front. In cases where the plan fronts on and is served by one or more private streets or access drives, "direct access" shall be defined as the vehicular access from said private street or access drives to the public street from which said private street or access drive(s) extend.

An animal, such as a horse or dog, that has been tamed and kept by humans as a work animal, food source, or pet, and specifically a member of those species that have, through selective breeding, become notably different from their wild ancestors.

A private drive providing access between a public or private street or access drive and a parking area for a single-family residential dwelling unit and/or a lot utilized for a single-family dwelling, which shall comply in all respects with this chapter, the Driveway and Street Access Ordinance (Chapter 21, Part 1), and any other chapter or Township ordinance regulating the placement and/or construction of driveways.

Chapter 21, Part 1, Driveway and Street Access, of the Code of Jackson Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, as amended.

A building or portion thereof providing complete housekeeping facilities for a single family and which includes exclusive sleeping, cooking, eating and sanitation facilities. Buildings with more than one set of cooking facilities are considered to contain multiple dwelling units, unless the additional cooking facilities are clearly accessory, such as an outdoor grill.

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

A professional engineer licensed as such in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

All statues enacted by the Commonwealth relating to the protection of the environment or the protection of public health, safety and welfare, that are administered and enforced by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) or by another Commonwealth agency, including an independent agency, and all federal statues relating to the protection of the environment, to the extent those statutes regulate oil and gas operations.

Land area within steep slopes, jurisdictional wetlands, and FEMA floodplains and floodways.

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.

An increase in the area or use of a building, other structure and/or land.

Federal Aviation Administration of the United States Department of Transportation.

The wall of a building most nearly paralleling the adjoining street or access drive, including all fixtures visible from the adjoining street or access drive as well as the pitch of the roof and roof elements oriented toward and visible from the adjoining street or access drive.

A line parallel to the front lot line, coincident with the location of the majority of the facade wall of a dwelling unit with respect to townhouses and duplexes, and any portion of the facade wall at the ground level when applied to single-family detached and multifamily units.

A change or variation in feature, treatment or style of the facade of one dwelling in contrast with all adjoining units, applied as follows:

The wall or walls forming the facade, including the extents of an attached porch and related elements, excepting those that are authorized to encroach into a building setback line as set forth in § 27-1503, Supplemental yard, lot and area requirements.

A temporary inundation of normally dry land areas.

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.

Any combination of structural and nonstructural additions, changes, or adjustments to structures which reduce or eliminate flood damage to real estate or improved real property, water and sanitary facilities, structures and their contents.

The designated area of a floodplain required to carry and discharge floodwaters of a given magnitude. For the purposes of this chapter, the floodway shall be capable of accommodating a flood of the one-hundred-year magnitude.

The total area within, and/or adjacent to, a building or structure utilized for the primary use or uses, including area used for subordinate uses necessary to sustain the primary use.

The gross floor area of a building or buildings on a lot expressed in square feet divided by the total square feet of said lot.

The total square footage of all floors within the perimeter of the exterior walls of a building, excluding unfinished basements.

The total of the floor areas of a building, measured from the interior faces of walls, excluding stairwells and elevator shafts, common hallways which are not leasable space, lobbies, restrooms, storage (except in conjunction with warehouses and other industrial uses) and equipment rooms, food preparation areas in a restaurant, interior vehicle parking or loading areas and any other areas not accessible to the general public.

Areas or stands of trees, the majority of which are greater than 12 inches' caliper, covering an area greater than one acre; or groves of mature trees without regard to minimum area, consisting of at least 30 individual specimens.

See "yard, front."

The length of a lot line directly bordering and adjacent to a street that is open to vehicular traffic.

An establishment in which legal betting activities, pari-mutuel wagering activities, gambling activities and the playing of games of chance or mixed chance and skill are conducted and/or permitted under the laws of the United States of America and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, including but not limited to any establishment, business and/or facility regulated and/or licensed by the Pennsylvania State Horse Racing Commission, the Pennsylvania State Harness Racing Commission, and the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board under the Pennsylvania Race Horse Industry Reform Act, 4 P.S. § 325.101 et seq., as amended, and the Pennsylvania Race Horse Development and Gaming Act, 4 Pa.C.S.A. § 1101 et seq., as amended. This definition shall include an off-track betting facility as defined herein. For purposes of this chapter, a gaming enterprise shall be considered a use not expressly listed as a permitted use, a conditional use, or a use by special exception in any zoning district and therefore subject to the requirements of § 27-1444.

Plants, nursery products and stock, potting soil, hardware, power equipment and machinery, hoes, rakes, shovels and other garden and farm variety tools and utensils.

That which exhibits consistency.

The slope expressed in a percent which indicates the rate of change of elevation in feet per 100 feet.

The completed surfaces of lots, walks, streets, and roads brought to grades as shown on official plans or designs relating thereto.

Excavation or fill or any combination thereof, including conditions resulting from such activities.

The numerical value obtained by dividing the total number of dwelling units in a development by the gross area of the tract of land (in acres) within a development. This would include all nonresidential land uses and private streets of the development, as well as rights-of-way of dedicated streets, the result being the number of dwelling units per gross acre of land.

A story which is entirely housed within a hip, gable, mansard, or similar type of roof structure or which the second story is 70% or less gross floor area of the gross floor area of the first story.

Any structure or object, natural or man-made, or use of land that obstructs the airspace required for reasonable flight of aircraft in landing or taking off at an airport.

A movable or transportable vehicle or other apparatus commonly used in commercial, industrial, or construction enterprises, including but not limited to trucks, trailers, farm machinery, bulldozers, cranes, backhoes, rollers, loaders and lifts, having a gross weight of 2.5 tons or more.

Consists of trees of a deciduous nature with a minimum height of six feet at planting and a caliper of 1 1/2 inches at planting and trees of an evergreen nature with a minimum height of six feet at planting, except ornamental trees. All measurements and plant quality shall be consistent with the American Standards for Nursery Stock published by the American Nursery & Landscape Association, Washington, D.C., latest edition.

An unincorporated association or not-for-profit corporation whose membership consists of the lot owners of a residential development. A homeowners' association shall also include a condominium unit owners' association. All such associations shall comply with the requirements for unit owners' associations contained in the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act, 68 Pa.C.S.A. § 3101 et seq.

A horizontal plane 150 feet above the established airport elevation, the perimeter of which coincides with the perimeter of the horizontal zone.

The horizontal zone is established by swinging arcs of 10,000 feet radii from the center of each end of the primary surface of each runway and connecting the adjacent arcs by drawing lines tangent to those arcs. The horizontal zone does not include the approach and transitional zones.

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.

A surface which resists the entrance or passing through of water or other liquids and prevents the percolation of water into the ground.

Pavements, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, water mains, sanitary sewers, storm sewers, stormwater management facilities, grading, street signs, plantings and other items for the welfare of the property owners and/or the public.

The storage, warehousing, compounding, assembling, processing, recycling, salvaging, packing, or treatment of raw materials or other products.

A planned residential development as defined within this chapter, all phases of which comprise a site area of 10 acres or less, and which adjoins a lot or lots within a major subdivision, planned residential development, or traditional neighborhood development bearing three or more units per acre of site area.

Any discarded material, articles or things, including but not limited to scrap, copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, iron, steel and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material; any wrecked, ruined, dismantled, abandoned, non-operable, disabled or junked motor vehicles, or parts thereof, or motor vehicles no longer used as such.

Any motor-driven vehicle, regardless of size, which is incapable of being self-propelled or is unable to move under its own power upon the public streets of the Township or is incapable of being utilized for its intended purpose; also included in this definition is any trailer, semitrailer or any other article which would be classified as a vehicle and shall include any disabled, abandoned, non-operable, nonregistered, wrecked, ruined or dismantled motor vehicle.

The legal or beneficial owner or owners of land, including the holder of an option or contract to purchase (whether or not such option or contract is subject to any condition), a lessee if he is authorized under the lease to exercise the rights of the landowner or other person having a proprietary interest in land.

A professional landscape architect licensed as such in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Grass, ground cover, trees, shrubs, vines and other growing horticultural material. In addition, the combination or design may include other decorative surfacing such as wood chips, crushed stone, or mulch materials not to exceed 20% of the total for any landscape area. Structural features such as fountains, pools, statues, and benches shall also be considered a part of landscaping, but such objects alone shall not meet the requirements of landscaping.

An establishment or collection of establishments which is planned, developed, owned and managed as a unit related in its location and size, including independently owned and managed outparcels which are accessed solely through the access drive or drives serving the core of the center, which are limited to those principal uses defined as "small-scale retail or service" within § 27-1439 of this chapter and which include either multiple principal buildings or one or more buildings with greater than 8,000 square feet of gross floor area.

Measured in a straight line along the ground.

Domestic animals used or raised on a farm, whether for home use or profit, including but not limited to cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, chickens, and turkeys.

Horses, cattle, mules, sheep, goats, llamas, pigs and any other animal, other than a dog, that weighs more than 100 pounds when fully grown.

The total composite of all off-street structures and facilities for a loading/unloading area, to include but not be limited to the loading/unloading space(s), docking approach, access drive(s), and all related accessory facilities.

A space not less than 14 feet wide and 65 feet long with an overhead clearance of 14 feet six inches, plus an additional 30 feet in depth for a docking approach. This space may be inside, enclosed, or outside of a structure and shall be used exclusively for the temporary standing of a motorized vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials. This space shall be located off or beyond the public or private right-of-way and shall have direct access to a public or private street without the use of parking aisles. This space shall be on the same lot with a use or structure of which the loading/unloading space is being provided.

A designated parcel, tract or area of land established by a plat or otherwise permitted by law and to be used, developed or built upon as a unit.

The area contained within the property lines of the individual parcels of land as shown on a survey or subdivision plan, not including any area within a street right-of-way.

That portion or percentage of the plot or lot area covered by the buildings and/or structures and including all impervious surfaces.

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

Any boundary of a lot.

A lot line separating the lot from the street. For corner lots, the front lot line abuts the street upon which the main entrance of the structure is located. If a structure is angled and faces neither street but the intersecting points of the streets, then the front lot line will be determined by the location of the pedestrian access.

The lot line not intersecting a front lot line that is most distant from and most closely parallel to the front lot line. A lot bounded by only three lot lines will not have a rear lot line.

Any lot line which is not a front lot line or rear lot line.

The mean horizontal distance across a lot between the side lot lines as measured at the front building setback line, unless otherwise stated.

A lot abutting upon two streets at their intersection.

A parcel accessed through a strip of land extending from a right-of-way, either publicly maintained or otherwise improved to municipal standards, wherein the strip of land bears less than the minimum frontage required along the aforesaid right-of-way by no less than 25 feet of said frontage.

Consists of shrubs and any other plant species that is greater than two feet in height at planting and less than six feet in height at planting. All measurements and plant quality shall be consistent with the American Standards for Nursery Stock published by the American Nursery and Landscape Association, Washington, D.C.

See "industrial or manufacturing."

The term "medical marijuana" shall be defined consistent with the definition of "medical marijuana" contained in the Medical Marijuana Act.

The Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana Act, 35 P.S. § 10231.101 et seq., as amended.

The term "medical marijuana dispensary" shall be defined consistent with the definition of "dispensary" contained in the Medical Marijuana Act.

A facility owned and operated by a private for-profit entity, a private nonprofit entity or government agency or department where the drug methadone or similar substances are prescribed and administered for the treatment, maintenance or detoxification of persons. A methadone treatment facility shall be considered a medical clinic, as defined in this chapter.

Any aggregate or mass of mineral matter, whether or not coherent. The term includes, but is not limited to, limestone and dolomite, sand and gravel, rock and stone, earth, fill, slag, iron ore, zinc ore, vermiculite and clay, anthracite and bituminous coal, coal refuse, peat and crude oil and natural gas.

See definition contained in the Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance (Chapter 22).

A transportable, single-family dwelling intended for permanent occupancy, contained in one unit, or in two or more units designed to be joined into one integral unit capable of again being separated for repeated towing, which arrives at a site complete and ready for occupancy, except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembly operations, and constructed so that it may be used without a permanent foundation.

A unit of land in a mobile home park, improved with the necessary utility connections and other appurtenances necessary for the erection thereon of a single mobile home (also known as "mobile home space").

The units per acre of the site area minus the environmentally sensitive area on the site expressed in acres.

Modified gross density as applied to PRDs or land developments that bear direct access to a local or secondary residential corridor street.

A body politic and corporate created pursuant to the Municipality Authorities Act, 53 Pa.C.S.A. § 5601 et seq., as amended.

The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq., as amended and reenacted.

The North American Industrial Classification System, 2017, as developed by the United States Census Bureau.

A fossil fuel consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbon gases, primarily methane, and possibly including ethane, propane, butane, pentane, carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, and other gas species. The term includes natural gas from oil fields known as non-associated gas, cola beds, shale beds and other formations. The term does not include coal bed methane.

A lot which does not comply with the applicable area and dimensional requirements of this chapter or an amendment hereinafter enacted, which lawfully existed prior to the enactment of this chapter or any subsequent amendment.

A structure, or part of a structure, manifestly not designed to comply with the applicable minimum yard or other dimensional requirements of this chapter or an amendment hereafter enacted, which lawfully existed prior to the enactment of this chapter or any subsequent amendment. 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 of this chapter or amendment hereafter enacted, which lawfully existed prior to the enactment of this chapter or any subsequent amendment.

A social service, charitable or educational entity that holds current tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service, derives more than 50% of its operating funds from charitable donations or public donations and can demonstrate that such funds are used to achieve the objects and purposes of the organization as stated in its Articles of Incorporation as a tax-exempt organization.

Any use other than single-family or multifamily dwellings. Also, an institutional use in which persons may reside, such as a dormitory, prison, nursing home or hospital, shall be considered a nonresidential use.

Completely without clothing; or with the human male or female genitals, pubic area or buttocks with less than a full opaque covering; or the showing of the female breasts with less than a fully opaque covering of any portion thereof below the top of the nipple; or the covered male genitals in discernibly turgid state.

A facility licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the purpose of providing skilled or intermediate nursing care and related medical or other health services.

Any wall, dam, wharf, embankment, levee, dike, pile, abutment, projection, excavation, channel, rectification, culvert, building, fence, stockpile, refuse, fill, structure, or matter in, along, across, or projecting into any channel, watercourse, or flood-prone area, which may impede, retard, or change the direction of the flow of water either in itself or by catching or collecting debris carried by such water or is placed where the flow of the water might carry the same downstream to the damage of life and property.

A facility in which pari-mutuel wagering is conducted by a licensed racing entity, other than the horse racetrack where live racing is conducted, pursuant to the Pennsylvania Race Horse Industry Reform Act, 4 P.S. § 325.101 et seq., as amended. For purposes of this chapter, an off-track betting facility shall be considered a gaming enterprise, as defined herein.

A development on a tract of land that contains a building or buildings exceeding 8,000 square feet of gross floor area which contain professional or business offices, medical offices, and accessory and supporting uses, and open space designed, planned, constructed, and managed on an integrated and coordinated site, provided that supporting uses which may consist of banks, restaurants, day-care centers, personal services, and retail sales and service do not exceed more than 25% of the gross floor area within the park.

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

An unoccupied space containing no buildings or structures open to the sky on the same lot with the building.

Consists of trees of a deciduous nature with a minimum height of six feet at planting and a caliper of 1 1/2 inches at planting that will not ultimately exceed 25 feet in height. All measurements and plant quality shall be consistent with the American Standards for Nursery Stock published by the American Nursery & Landscape Association, Washington, D.C., latest edition.

A zoning district that encompasses one or more underlying zoning districts and that imposes additional requirements or provisions above that required by the underlying zoning district.

The owner of record of a parcel of land.

An area on a lot utilized for the parking of vehicles as an accessory use.

A parking area on a single lot containing any use other than agricultural or one single-family detached dwelling for the parking of three or more vehicles (see also "common parking compound") that is served by an access drive or driveway.

The total composite of all off-street structures and facilities for a parking area, to include but not be limited to parking spaces, parking aisles, standby/stacking lanes, driveways, access drives, and all related accessory facilities.

An off-street space available for the parking of a vehicle. Occupancy of one space shall not restrict ingress or egress to another space unless the subject parking spaces serve a residential use.

A fenced land area without other structures covered with grass or similar vegetation used in the feeding or grazing of cattle, horses, sheep and similar animals.

An uncovered or covered outdoor living area, in excess of 24 square feet in area, projecting from the front, side, or rear walls of a building. These are considered part of the principal building and shall not extend beyond the building setback line nor into the front yard setbacks.

Unless otherwise specified, "person" shall mean both the singular and plural, male or female, firm, business, partnership, association, limited-liability company or corporation, or any other legal entity.

Premises in which food, shelter and personal assistance or supervision are provided for a period exceeding 24 consecutive hours for more than three adults who are not relatives of the operator and who require assistance or supervision in such matters as dressing, bathing, diet or medication prescribed for self-administration but who do not require hospitalization or care in a skilled nursing or intermediate care facility, as defined in current state licensing requirements.

The Jackson Township Planning Commission.

A map or plan, either preliminary or final, presented to the Township for approval, indicating the subdivision, consolidation, redivision of land or a land development.

A publicly owned area specifically designed for outdoor recreational use by children. A playground shall also include a parcel of land or portion thereof owned by a homeowners' association or condominium association, as part of a Township-approved subdivision, land development and/or planned residential development, specifically designed for outdoor recreational use by children. A playground shall not include a commercial recreation facility.

See "patio."

Any lot, parcel, or tract of land or body of water and any building constructed thereon.

When used in connection with natural and historic resources, shall include means to conserve and safeguard these resources from wasteful or destructive use, but shall not be interpreted to authorize the unreasonable restriction of forestry, mining or other lawful uses of natural resources.

A surface longitudinally centered on a runway. When the runway has a specially prepared hard surface, the primary surface extends 200 feet beyond each end of the runway.

A building or buildings in which is conducted the main or principal use of the lot on which the building is located.

The main use of land or structures as distinguished from a subordinate or accessory use.

Land reserved for use as a road, street or alley, crosswalk or pedestrianway intended for use as access to only limited properties, and not intended for use by the general public.

See "airport, public."

A place being a use, structure, or area being on land or water for the temporary or occasional assembly of people.

A formal meeting held pursuant to public notice by the Board of Supervisors, Planning Commission or Zoning Hearing Board intended to inform and obtain public comment, prior to taking action in accordance with the MPC and/or this chapter.

A forum held pursuant to notice under 65 Pa.C.S.A. Chapter 7 (relating to open meetings).

Notice published once each week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Township. Such notice shall state the time and place of the hearing and the particular nature of the matter to be considered at the hearing. The first publication shall not be more than 30 days and the second publication shall not be less than seven days from the date of the hearing.

Land reserved by way of public ownership or dedication for use as a road, street, alley, crosswalk, pedestrianway, or other public purpose.

A municipal sanitary sewer system approved and permitted by DEP and owned by the Township or a municipal authority.

A system providing distribution of water, gas, electric, or telephone services, or the collection and disposal of wastewater, such system operating as a municipal authority or under the rules and regulations of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. This definition does not include any system or device used for the transmission or reception of radio, television, wireless telephone, pager, commercial mobile radio service or any other wireless communications signals.

A municipal water supply facility approved and permitted by DEP and owned by the Township or a municipal authority or a water supply facility owned by a public utility and operated in accordance with a certificate of public convenience granted by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.

A course or facility where motor vehicles, including but not limited to automobiles, trucks, go-carts, motorcycles, model airplanes and similar vehicles, are driven and/or operated for recreation, testing and/or competition; or any course or facility where animals are raced for competition. For purposes of this chapter, a racetrack shall be considered a use not expressly listed as a permitted use, a conditional use, or a use by special exception in any zoning district and therefore subject to the requirements of § 27-1542.

A vehicular-type portable structure without permanent foundation that can be towed, hauled, or driven and primarily designed as a temporary living accommodation for recreational, camping, and travel use and including, but not limited to, travel trailers, truck campers, camping trailers, and self-propelled motor homes.

Visually screened areas for the collection of refuse not to exceed 100 square feet in area and not used for the storage or disposal of refuse materials beyond seven days.

The one-hundred-year-flood elevation, plus a freeboard safety factor of 1 1/2 feet.

Any letter, review, memorandum, compilation or similar writing made by any body, board, officer or consultant other than a solicitor to any other body, board, officer or consultant for the purpose of assisting the recipient of such report in the rendering of any decision or determination. All reports shall be deemed recommendatory and advisory only and shall not be binding upon the recipient, board, officer, body or agency, nor shall any appeal lie therefrom. Any report used, received, or considered by the body, board, officer or agency rendering a determination or decision shall be made available for inspection to the applicant and all other parties to any proceeding upon request, and copies thereof shall be provided at cost of reproduction.

A group of commercial establishments which is planned, developed, owned and managed as a unit related in its location and size, including independently owned and managed outparcels which are accessed solely through the access drive or drives serving the core of the center, which includes at least 20,000 square feet exclusively of uses with a general use class of "Retail or Service" as per the Use Authorization Table in Part 27 of this chapter.

Land set aside for use as a street, alley or other means of travel.

Same as "frontage."

Same as "frontage."

A permanent or temporary structure used for the display, support and protection of products such as vegetables, fruits, poultry, and dairy or other products grown, raised or created on the same property.

A defined area on an airport prepared for landing and takeoff of aircraft along its length.

The inner edge of this approach zone coincides with the width of the primary surface and is 500 feet wide. The approach zone expands outward uniformly to a width of 1,500 feet at a horizontal distance of 5,000 feet from the primary surface. Its center line is the continuation of the center line of the runway.

The inner edge of this approach zone coincides with the width of the primary surface and is 500 feet wide. The approach zone expands outward uniformly to a width of 3,500 feet at a horizontal distance of 10,000 feet from the primary surface. Its center line is the continuation of the center line of the runway.

A masonry wall, solid board fence with finished side toward an adjacent use or a screen planting and/or earthen mounding used to conceal from the view of the occupants of an adjoining use the structures and uses on the premises on which the visual screen is located.

Same as "building setback line."

Same as "adult-oriented business."

The length of street, measured along the center line, which is continuously visible.

Any surface fabric, device or structure bearing lettered, pictorial or sculptured matter intended, designed, or used to convey information visually and exposed to public view, which directs attention to an object, product, place, activity, person, institution, organization, or business. The term "sign" does not apply to a flag, emblem or insignia of a nation, political unit, school, or religious group.

The entire area within a single continuous perimeter enclosing the extreme limits of a sign and in no case passing through or between any adjacent elements of the same. However, such perimeter shall not include a structural or framing element lying outside the limits of such sign and not forming any part of the display.

The site area expressed in square feet of a lot or lots of which a portion or all of which is part of a subdivision, PRD, or land development application, including all phases within an associated preliminary or tentative approval and excluding street rights-of-way existing at the time of application.

Any establishment as defined by and as regulated within § 27-1439 of this chapter.

An authorized use of a structure or land which may be granted only by the Zoning Hearing Board after public hearing and in accordance with express standards and criteria specified in this chapter.

A parcel bearing principal nonresidential uses, zoned CC, I, or Transitional Overlay, that lies outside of an office park or shopping center as authorized signage under Part 18 of this chapter.

Areas of existing topography where, in over a one-hundred-foot horizontal distance, or where the difference in elevation is over 20 feet, the slope equals or exceeds 25% from the top to bottom of the break in grade.

See "patio/deck/porch/stoop."

Chapter 26, Part 1, Stormwater Management, of the Code of Jackson Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, as amended.

That portion of a building, other than a cellar, included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it.

A strip of land, including the entire right-of-way, utilized as a means of vehicular and pedestrian travel for more than one lot or parking compound. "Street" includes an avenue, boulevard, road, highway, freeway, parkway, lane, alley, viaduct, and any other ways used or intended to be used by vehicular traffic or pedestrians, whether public or private; however, "street" shall not include a driveway, common driveway, or access drive as defined herein. The existing streets within Jackson Township have been identified in the Jackson Township Comprehensive Plan and classified as to function by official action of the Board of Supervisors. Streets within the Township shall be defined and classified in accordance with the definitions and classifications set forth in the Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance (Chapter 22).

Same as "frontage."

The dividing line between the street and the lot, also known as the "right-of-way."

A line defining the edge of a street right-of-way and separating the street from abutting property or lots, also known as the "street line" or "right-of-way line."

A street, or portion thereof, that is platted within and as part of an approved and recorded subdivision and/or land development, that provides frontage to lots within said subdivision and/or land development.

Public streets that are not otherwise classified as primary or secondary residential corridors.

The following streets:

Any man-made object having an ascertainable stationary location on or in land or water, whether or not affixed to the land. The term "structure" includes buildings, communications towers, parking areas, sidewalks and similar construction.

The vertical distance from the average elevation at finished grade level to the highest point of the structure.

A developer.

The division or redivision of a lot, tract or parcel of land by any means into two or more lots, tracts, parcels or other divisions of land, including changes in existing lot lines for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of lease, partition by the court for distribution to heirs or devisees, transfer of ownership or building or lot development; provided, however, that the subdivision by lease of land for agricultural purposes into parcels of more than 10 acres, not involving any new street or easement of access or any residential dwelling, shall be exempted.

Chapter 22, Subdivision and Land Development, of the Code of Jackson Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, as amended.

The entire area within a single continuous perimeter enclosing the extreme limits of writing, representation, emblem, or any figure or similar character together with any frame or other material or color forming an integral part of the display or used to differentiate the sign from the background against which it is placed, excluding necessary supports or uprights upon which such sign is placed. For signs utilizing individual letters or figures or characters mounted directly on the wall or face of a structure, the gross surface area shall be the entire area within a single continuous perimeter enclosing the extreme limits of this sign.

Any reasonably permanent pool or open tank, not located within a completely enclosed building, and containing or normally capable of containing water to a depth at any point greater than 1 1/2 feet. Farm ponds and/or lakes are not included, provided that swimming was not the primary purpose for their construction.

Jackson Township, Butler County, a Township of the Second Class.

Chapter 5, Part 1, Construction Code, of the Code of Jackson Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, as amended. Any reference to "Township Building Code" shall be interpreted to mean the Township Construction Code.

The Township Construction Standard Details as referenced by Chapter 22, Subdivision and Land Development, as may be amended by resolution of the Board of Supervisors from time to time.

The professional engineer licensed as such in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and duly appointed as the Engineer of Jackson Township, or his designee.

The Manager of Jackson Township, or his designee, or the designee of the Board of Supervisors of Jackson Township.

These surfaces extend outward at ninety-degree angles to the runway center line and the runway center line extended at a slope of seven feet horizontally for each foot vertically from the sides of the primary and approach surfaces to where they intersect the horizontal and conical surfaces. Transitional surfaces which project through and beyond the limits of the conical surface extend a distance of 5,000 feet measured horizontally from the edge of the approach surface and at ninety-degree angles to the extended runway center line.

The transitional zones are the areas beneath the transitional surfaces.

A facility that is not physically occupied by persons on a regular basis, and the operation and control of which is not performed by persons physically located on the site of the facility.

The specific purpose for which land or a building is designed, arranged, intended or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained. The term "permitted use" or its equivalent shall not be deemed to include any nonconforming use.

See "nonconforming use."

A use, whether of land, water body, or structure, which was not in existence prior to the enactment of this chapter or amendment and does not comply with the regulations of this chapter or its amendments.

A grant of relief, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, by the Zoning Hearing Board permitting a developer or an owner to use a property in a manner not wholly in accordance with this chapter because strict conformance would be an unusual hardship depriving the developer of reasonable use of the property, but specifying what modifications to strict conformance are permitted.

A runway intended solely for the operation of aircraft using visual approach procedures.

Those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface water or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands include, but are not limited to, swamps, bogs and similar areas. Wetlands shall be identified by a person appropriately qualified and trained to delineate wetlands, using the current delineation manual and other protocols and guidance required by the DEP, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and/or the Army Corps of Engineers.

A community of plants characterized by areas, groves or stands of trees. Area measurement of woodlands shall be understood to include the canopy. Categories of woodlands shall be as follows:

An open space at grade between a building and the adjoining lot lines, unoccupied and unobstructed by any portion of a structure from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.

A yard extending across the full width of the lot and extending back in depth the required minimum distance from the front lot line to the parallel front building setback line.

A yard extending across the full width of the lot and extending forward in depth the required minimum distance from the rear lot line to the parallel rear building setback line.

A yard extending the required minimum distance between the side lot line and the parallel side building setback line.

A legal, 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 to be built upon.

A change in any zoning district which includes revisions to this chapter text and/or the Official Zoning Map.

A finite area of land, as designated by its boundaries on the Zoning Map, throughout which specific and uniform regulations govern the use of land and/or the location, size and use of buildings. The term "zoning district" shall include overlay districts.

A Board appointed by the Board of Township Supervisors to examine and decide appeals for relief from strict conformance of application of this chapter and to hear testimony regarding the validity of any regulations upon development in the Township or regarding challenges to the decisions of the Zoning Officer.

A member of the Zoning Hearing Board selected by the Zoning Hearing Board to, in some circumstance, conduct hearings for the Zoning Hearing Board.

The Official Map delineating the zoning districts of the Township, together with all amendments subsequently adopted which are incorporated in, and made a part of, this chapter by reference thereto.

A permit issued by the Zoning Officer which is required by this chapter prior to the occupancy and use of a new building or structure or one that has been structurally altered; the occupancy and use of building or structure that has been moved or relocated; the change in use and/or ownership and/or tenancy of an existing building, structure, water body, or area of land; any change to or enlargement or extension of a nonconforming use, building, or structure; the change in the tenancy of any dwelling unit; and/or the occupancy of any previously vacant public, commercial or industrial building.

That individual authorized by the Board of Supervisors to be the administrator of the day-to-day application of the provisions contained in this chapter.

A permit issued by the Zoning Officer which is required by this chapter prior to the placement, erection, or construction of a building or structure; the structural alteration or reconstruction of a building or structure; the addition to a building or structure; the relocation of a building or structure; the construction of a swimming pool; the construction, reconstruction, alteration or movement of a retaining wall; and/or the erection or alteration of a sign.

An adult arcade, adult bookstore, adult novelty store, adult video store, adult cabaret, adult motion-picture theater, adult theater, escort agency, nude model studio, sexual encounter center or similar businesses as defined in Chapter 13, Part 2, Sexually Oriented Businesses, of the Code of Jackson Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, as amended.

An enterprise that is actively engaged in the production and preparation of crops, livestock and livestock products and in the production, harvesting and preparation or use of agricultural, agronomic, horticultural, silvicultural and aquacultural crops and commodities. The term includes an enterprise that implements changes in production practices and procedures or types of crops, livestock, livestock products or commodities produced consistent with practices and procedures that are normally engaged by farmers or are consistent with technological development within the agricultural industry.

A facility that is designed and operated as an amusement center which includes:

The sales or rental of new or used motor vehicles or trailers, including outdoor display areas, service areas within a completely enclosed building and a showroom and offices within the building.

An organization, usually a corporation, chartered by a state or federal government, which does most or all of the following: receives demand deposits and time deposits, honors instruments drawn on them, and pays interest on them; discounts notes, makes loans, and invests in securities; collects checks, drafts, and notes; certifies depositor's checks; and issues drafts and cashier's checks.

A computer-controlled terminal located on the premises of a financial institution or elsewhere, through which customers may make deposits, withdrawals or other transactions as they would through a bank teller.

Any establishment operated for profit wherein the facilities are leased on a temporary basis for private wedding receptions, meetings, banquets, and other similar events. Such establishments shall not be open to the general public and may include food preparation facilities and areas for dancing, dining and other entertainment activities customarily found in association with banquets or receptions. Said facilities may include off-site catering services as an accessory use.

An existing residential structure converted for use from a single-family dwelling to a facility for the boarding of overnight guests on a limited basis.

An off-premises sign, excluding off-premises directional signs, which advertises a business, organization, establishment, activity, event, person, product or service not principally located or sold on the premises where the billboard is located and which constitutes a principal use of a lot.

Storage of fuel, primarily for off-site use and consumption, as the principal use of a property.

To provide food service for or a business that caters banquets and weddings.

A burial place, or ground for human remains, including graveyards, mausoleums, crematories and columbariums.

A facility, other than a residential dwelling unit, where day care for the elderly or child care and educational instructions are provided for seven or more children under the age of 16 or any number of elderly persons, who are not relatives of the operator, at any one time for part of a twenty-four-hour day and which is licensed by the Department of Human Services as a day-care center, per 55 Pa. Code, Chapter 3270. Day care for fewer than four children shall be permitted as a no-impact home-based business.

A facility where child care is provided for four, five or six children under the age of 16, who are not relatives of the operator, at any one time for part of a twenty-four-hour day and which is licensed by the Department of Public Welfare as a child day-care home. Day care for fewer than four children shall be permitted as a no-impact home-based business.

A building enclosed on at least two sides by exterior walls or party walls, having a permanent roof, and possibly having garage-type doors to permit vehicle access to the interior of the building, designed for, and intended to be used for, the washing and cleaning of motorized licensed vehicles having no more than two axles and a gross vehicle weight of less than 13,000 pounds. Such facilities shall include automotive car washes, any facility, its structures, accessory uses, or paved areas used wholly or partly to wash, clean and dry the exterior of vehicles, using conveyors to move the vehicle, or equipment that moves over or around the vehicle, or other automated equipment intended to mechanically wash such vehicles; and self-service car washes, any facility, its structures, accessory uses or surrounding areas used wholly or partly to wash, clean and dry the exterior of automobiles using handheld equipment.

See "recreation facility, commercial."

Any device used for the transmission or reception of radio, television, wireless telephone, pager, commercial mobile radio service or any other wireless communications signals, including, without limitation, omnidirectional or whip antennas and directional or panel antennas, owned or operated by any person or entity licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to operate such device. This definition includes freestanding antennas, antennas mounted on communications towers ("tower-mounted communications antennas") and antennas mounted on buildings ("building-mounted communications antennas"). This definition does not include satellite dishes, television antennas or amateur radio equipment (including ham or citizen band radio antennas) mounted on private residences and accessory to the residential use of a dwelling.

A structure, other than a building, such as a monopole, self-supporting or guyed tower, designed and used to hold and facilitate the operation of communications antennas. A communications tower shall include the appurtenant tower-mounted communications antennas and communications equipment building.

An unenclosed portion of the lot or parcel upon which a construction contractor maintains its principal office or a permanent business office. Designation of the lot or parcel as a contractor's storage yard would allow this area to be used to store and maintain construction equipment and other materials customarily used in the trade carried on by the construction contractor. Where permitted, the entire lot or parcel shall be classified as a contractor's storage yard and shall conform to all applicable zoning district standards and other Township regulations.

Any retail establishment offering for sale prepackaged food products, household items, newspapers and magazines, and sandwiches and other freshly prepared foods, such as salads, for off-site consumption. A convenience store may include the retail sale of gasoline.

Publicly or privately-operated facilities housing persons awaiting trial or persons serving a sentence after being found guilty of a criminal offense, including but not limited to halfway houses, homes licensed for juvenile offenders or other facilities where individuals are incarcerated or otherwise required to reside pursuant to court order under the supervision of paid staff and personnel.

A building or part thereof where the process of marketing and supplying goods to a customer, retailer or manufacturer is conducted.

A building, portion thereof, or other structure used primarily for human habitation (whether permanent or seasonal) that includes separate kitchen and bathroom facilities and separate entrances for each unit. The word "dwelling" shall not include hotels, motels, fraternity or sorority houses, boardinghouses, assisted living facilities, group residential facilities, group homes, rooming houses, tourist homes, or similar uses for group residence.

A building designed and built to contain two dwelling units, side by side, with each as an independent dwelling relative to utilities, facilities, and access.

A building containing two or more dwelling units, including units that are located one over the other and/or side by side, excluding duplexes, patio homes, and townhouses.

A dwelling within a group of units, consisting of a minimum of three, but no more than four, independent single dwelling units that are attached side by side by common unpierced party walls such that units are attached by one wall or two walls perpendicular to one another, or a minimum of three to four units attached by party walls parallel to one another where each unit does not exceed one and a half stories in height. This definition shall not otherwise townhouse dwellings as defined in this Part 2.

Townhouse, duplex, or patio home dwellings.

A detached building containing one dwelling unit.

A dwelling within a group of units, consisting of a minimum of three, but no more than six, independent single dwelling units that are attached side by side by common unpierced party walls. This definition shall include patio homes.

The provision of distribution systems by public utilities regulated by the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission (PUC), municipal authorities, Township or other governmental agencies of underground or overhead water, sanitary sewers, or storm sewers, gas, electrical, telephone, pipes, conduits, cables, towers, fire alarm boxes, traffic signals, hydrants, and similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith and where reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate services by such public utilities regulated by the PUC, municipal authorities, Township, or other governmental agencies or for the public health and safety or general welfare. Specifically excluded from this definition are communications towers, communications antennas, wind farms and windmills.

A facility where child care is provided for four, five or six children under the age of 16, who are not relatives of the operator, at any one time for part of a twenty-four-hour day and which is licensed by the PA Department of Human Services as a child day-care home. Day care for fewer than four children shall be permitted as a no-impact home-based business

The use of a building or buildings by one tenant or multiple tenants for an office, distribution center, pilot manufacturing, technological assembly, light industrial, warehouse and/or wholesale, and associated administrative space.

The management of forests and timberlands when practiced in accordance with accepted silvicultural principles, through developing, cultivating, harvesting, transporting and selling trees for commercial purposes, which does not involve any land development.

A building, structure, or parking area, operated by a transit authority, county or municipal entity, or department of the commonwealth, where motor vehicles can be temporarily parked. The term shall also include the parking, storage, and dispatch of buses on privately owned premises that are operated to primarily serve the Seneca Valley School District.

An enclosed and covered private parking space for the use of the occupants of the premises for the storage of one or more motor vehicles, provided that no business, occupation, or service is conducted for profit therein.

A building, buildings, premises or portions thereof that are used or arranged, designed, or intended to be used for the retail sale of gasoline or other motor vehicle or motorboat fuels, as well as limited minor repairs.

Establishments primarily engaged in rental of equipment cited within NAICS 52310, General Rental Centers, but limited to customary household items, lawn and garden equipment, home repair tools, and moving equipment and supplies.

A building constructed chiefly of glass, in which the temperature is maintained within a desired range for the purpose of growing plants.

A facility or establishment including one or more of the following, as defined:

A facility in a residential area that provides room, board and specialized services to a group of more than eight unrelated disabled individuals living together as a single housekeeping unit with shared common facilities. If required, staff persons may reside on the premises. The term "group home" may include a personal care center if the residents are disabled. The term "group home" shall specifically exclude assisted living facilities and group residential facilities.

A structure or structures providing residence for a group of persons with central kitchen, dining and recreational facilities, with separate bedrooms and/or living quarters. A group residential facility shall not include a group home, assisted living facility or dwelling, halfway house, home licensed for juvenile offenders or other facilities where individuals are incarcerated or otherwise required to reside pursuant to court order under the supervision of paid staff and personnel.

Sales or rental of recreational vehicles, aircraft, commercial boats, and those activities classified under NAICS Code 53241, Construction, Transportation, Mining, and Forestry Machinery and Equipment Rental and Leasing, including sales of such equipment, and NAICS 453930, Manufactured and Mobile Home Dealers.

The manufacture, storage, processing, and treatment of materials which are potentially hazardous, or processes which produce significant amounts of smoke, noise, glare, or dust or odor as a primary or secondary effect of the principal use of the land or buildings. Heavy industry characteristically employs some of such equipment as smokestacks, tanks, distillation or reaction columns, chemical processing equipment, scrubbing towers, pickling equipment and waste treatment lagoons. Heavy industry, although conceivably operable without polluting the environment, has the potential to pollute when equipment malfunctions or human error occurs. Examples of heavy industry are oil refineries, basic steel manufacturing plants (such as foundries, blast furnaces, and stamping mills), industries handling animal offal or hides, basic cellulose pulp-paper mills and similar fiberboard and plywood production, production of cement and asphalt, lime manufacturing, ore and metal smelting and refining, and chemical plants such as petrochemical complexes.

A lot, with a minimum area of at least three acres but less than 10 acres, where agricultural activities are conducted by the residents thereof but where such activities are not the principal source of employment or income, with no more than one large livestock per each three acres of the lot.

The use of cultivating herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables on a piece of ground adjoining the dwelling, excluding the keeping of animals.

An establishment that is accessory to a single-family detached dwelling as specified in § 27-1305 of this chapter.

An institution providing primary health services and medical or surgical care to persons, primarily inpatients, suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity, and other abnormal physical or mental conditions and including, as an integral part of the institution, related facilities, such as laboratories, outpatient facilities, training facilities, medical offices and staff residences.

A building made up of two or more living or sleeping quarters used independently of each other and used principally and commercially for overnight accommodations.

A commercial recreation facility in which all principal activities are conducted within a completely enclosed building.

Any yard, lot, place, or structure (covered or uncovered, outdoors or in an enclosed building) containing junk and upon which principally occurs one or more acts of buying, keeping, storing, accumulating, dismantling, processing, recycling, salvaging, selling or offering for sale any such junk, in whole units or by parts, or any premises used for the storage of two or more junked motor vehicles. This definition shall not include a transfer station, licensed or permitted by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or a recycling center, licensed or permitted by Jackson Township.

The keeping of four or more household pets that are more than six months old. A kennel is not a home occupation and is not an accessory use to a residential dwelling unless specifically permitted.

An establishment which offers retail sale of garden and landscaping supplies, principally garden compost, mulch, decorative gravel, and similar products.

The manufacture, fabrication, assembly, or processing of goods and materials, excluding heavy industrial establishments.

Any establishment or business which provides the personal services of massage and body manipulation, including exercises, heat and light treatments of the body and all forms of physiotherapy, unless operated by a medical practitioner, chiropractor or professional physical therapist licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This definition does not include an athletic club, school, gymnasium, reducing salon, spa or similar establishment where massage or similar manipulation of the human body is offered as an incidental or accessory service.

An establishment, excluding a professional office, where human patients receive diagnostic testing, treatment and/or counseling by professionals licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health, where patients are not provided with board or room or kept overnight on the premises, provided that all such uses have access only from the interior of the building or structure, including methadone treatment facilities.

The term "medical marijuana grower/processor" shall be defined consistent with the definition of "grower/processor" contained in the Medical Marijuana Act.

A medical, dental, or psychiatric practice offering medical or dental services on an outpatient basis and which may also contain associated in-house ancillary services such as in-house diagnostic testing facilities, medical counseling services, and similar services, including medical marijuana dispensaries, and excluding medical clinics.

Includes all activity which removes from the surface or beneath the surface of the land some material, mineral resource, natural resource or other element of economic value by means of mechanical excavation necessary to separate the desired material from an undesirable one; or to remove the strata or material which overlies or is above the desired material in its natural condition and position. Open pit mining includes, but is not limited to, the excavation necessary to the extraction of sand, gravel, topsoil, limestone, sandstone, coal, clay, shale and iron ore. Oil and gas extraction, excavation for the purposes of grading a building lot or roadway or the removal of grass or sod for landscaping and the removal of materials from a lot for use on that same lot shall not be considered mineral extraction.

Small or automotive engine repair or reconditioning, collision and body repair, including straightening and repainting, replacement of parts and incidental services, and repair of appliances of a scale customarily utilized by individuals for noncommercial purposes and by retail or administrative uses.

A parcel or contiguous parcels of land which has been so designated and improved that it contains two or more mobile home lots for the placement thereon of mobile homes.

Any facility that is designed, operated or maintained for the disposal of municipal waste as that term is defined by the Solid Waste Management Act, 35 P.S. § 6018.101 et seq., and the Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and Waste Reduction Act, 53 P.S. § 4000.101 et seq.

A facility designed and constructed to compress natural gas that originates from an Oil and Gas Well Site Development or collection of such wells operating as a midstream facility for delivery of natural gas to a transmission pipeline, distribution pipeline, Natural Gas Processing Plant, or underground storage field, including one or more natural gas compressors, associated buildings, pipes, valves, tanks and other equipment.

A facility that is not a natural Gas Compressor Station and which is designed and constructed to remove materials and gases such as ethane, propane, butane, and other constituents or similar substances from natural gas to allow such natural gas to be of such quality as is required or appropriate for transmission or distribution to commercial markets.

A commercial enterprise (including all or a portion of a restaurant, hotel or motel) which offers dancing and entertainment, either live or recorded, and may be characterized by low light levels, closely packed tables and/or a dance floor, whether or not the consumption of alcoholic beverages is permitted or allowed on the premises. Nightclubs shall not include banquet facilities, private clubs, recreation facilities or other buildings used primarily for social gatherings of members of condominiums, cooperatives, homeowner associations, civic, charitable or fraternal organizations which periodically have dances, stage shows, or music, and alcoholic beverage consumption and admission fees. For purposes of this definition, entertainment shall not include television viewing of sporting events, programs or movies.

A business or commercial activity administered or conducted as an accessory use which is clearly secondary to the use as a residential dwelling and which generally involves no customer, client or patient traffic, whether vehicular or pedestrian, pickup, delivery or removal functions to or from the premises in excess of those normally associated with residential use and which otherwise complies with the requirements of § 27-1608 of this chapter.

See "recreation facility, noncommercial."

The term includes the following: well location assessment, including seismic operations, well site preparation, construction, drilling, water or fluid storage operations, hydraulic fracturing and site restoration associated with an oil and gas well of any depth. The term includes conventional (vertical) and non-conventional (horizontal) methods of drilling.

The storage of materials, equipment, containers and/or trailers outside of a completely enclosed building.

A parcel of land owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Butler County, and/or the Township that is dedicated, either publicly or privately, specifically for outdoor use for open space and/or active or passive recreation purposes. A park shall also include a parcel of land owned by a homeowners' association or condominium association, as part of a Township-approved subdivision, land development and/or planned residential development that is dedicated, either publicly or privately, specifically for the use as a park, open space and/or active or passive recreation area. A park shall not include a commercial recreation facility, unless it is part of a Township facility, as defined herein.

Establishments primarily engaged in providing services involving the care of a person or his or her personal goods or apparel, including but not limited to barbers, beauticians, laundry and dry cleaning, massage establishments, tailors, photographers or travel agents.

An institution of any denomination where people regularly observe, practice or participate in religious or spiritual services, meetings or activities.

One or more retail/office uses, developed as a single entity, whether developed at one time or in phases or by different owners.

A use that principally involves administrative, clerical, financial, governmental or professional operations and operations of a similar character, excluding medical offices.

A system providing distribution of water, gas, electric, or telephone services, or the collection and disposal of wastewater, such system operating as a municipal authority or under the rules and regulations of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. This definition does not include any system or device used for the transmission or reception of radio, television, wireless telephone, pager, commercial mobile radio service or any other wireless communications signals.

An establishment offering recreation, sports, games of chance, skill or leisure-time activities and for purposes of this chapter is specifically defined and delineated as follows:

Farms and woodland adapted for use as vacation farms or demonstration farms; riding stables; picnicking and sports areas; fishing waters; camping; scenic and nature appreciation; hunting areas; hunting preserves; and watershed projects, excluding overnight lodging.

A facility used for the collection and/or processing of reusable material, including but not limited to metals, glass, plastic, and paper.

An establishment where the principal business is the sale of food and beverages in a ready-to-consume state, and where the design or principal method of operation consists of one or more of the following:

A business establishment which sells goods or merchandise to the general public for personal, household, or office consumption and renders services customarily incidental and subordinate to the sale of such goods or merchandise. An adult-oriented business shall not be considered retail sales and service.

Any building or group of buildings, the use of which meets commonwealth requirements for elementary, secondary, or higher education, whether publicly or privately owned, and excluding trade or vocational schools.

A building or group of buildings in a controlled-access and usually fenced compound that contains varying sizes of individual, compartmentalized and controlled-access rooms, stalls or lockers for the storage of the customer's goods or belongings.

A dwelling or portion thereof that contains not more than 3 bedrooms, is not owner occupied, and is available for use or is used for accommodations for lodging of guests paying a fee or other compensation for a period of less than 30 consecutive days. This definition does not include a bed and breakfast.

The keeping of one or more animals, other than three household pets, within a roofed enclosure. A stable is not a home occupation, but may be an agricultural use, and is not an accessory use to a residential dwelling unless specifically permitted.

Buildings, structures and/or land owned, occupied, controlled and/or operated by the Township or any of its agencies and used to provide services to the residents of the Township. Township facilities shall include but not be limited to administrative offices, public works buildings, storage yards, Police Department facilities, recreation facilities, parks and playgrounds.

An establishment offering regularly scheduled instruction in professional, technical, commercial or trade skills, such as, but not limited to, business, real estate, building and construction, electronics, computer programming and technology, automotive and aircraft mechanics and technology, and similar types of instruction.

A facility for the receipt, transfer, short-term storage, and dispatching of goods transported by truck.

A place where animals are given medical care and boarding of animals is limited to short-term care incidental to the veterinary office use.

An establishment for the storage and handling of freight, goods or merchandise, but not including the maintenance or fueling of commercial vehicles.

An establishment engaged in selling merchandise to retailers or professional business customers or other wholesalers rather than to the general public or acting as a broker for such merchandise sales.

An electric-generating facility whose main purpose is to supply electricity, consisting of one or more windmills and other accessory structures and buildings, including substations, meteorological towers, electrical infrastructure, transmission lines and other appurtenant structures and facilities.

A wind-energy conversion system that converts wind energy into electricity through the use of a wind turbine generator and includes the nacelle rotor, tower and pad transformer, if any.