A subordinate use or building, the purpose of which is customarily incidental to that of the main use or building and on the same lot.

Any place to which the public is permitted or invited wherein coin-operated or slug-operated or electronically, electrically or mechanically controlled still or motion picture machines, projectors or other image-producing devices are maintained to show images characterized by the depiction of nudity, specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activities.

An establishment or business which provides the services of baths of all kinds, including all forms and methods of hydrotherapy during which specified anatomical areas are displayed or specified sexual activities occur. This definition shall not apply to hydrotherapy treatment practiced by, or under the supervision of, a licensed medical practitioner.

Any establishment or business which provides the service of applying paint or other substance, whether transparent or non-transparent, to or on the human body when specified anatomical areas are exposed.

Any commercial establishment which offers, for sale or rental to the public, books, magazines, periodicals or other printed matter, photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes or video reproductions, slides, or other visual representations that depict or describe specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activities or, instruments, devices, or paraphernalia, excluding prophylactics, which are designed for use in connection with specified sexual activities.

An adult arcade, adult bathhouse, adult body painting studio, adult bookstore or adult video store, adult cabaret, adult massage establishment, adult motion picture theater, adult model studio, adult motel, adult news rack, adult theater, escort agency or sexual encounter center.

A nightclub, bar, restaurant or other commercial establishment that regularly features persons who appear in a state of nudity; live performances characterized by the exposure of specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activities, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or other visual representations that depict or describe specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activities; or persons who engage in erotic dancing or performances that are intended for the sexual interests or titillation of an audience or customers.

Any establishment or business which provides the services of massage and body manipulation, including exercises, heat and light treatments of the body, and all forms and methods of physiotherapy, unless operated by a practitioner who is a certified graduate of an accredited program or certified by the National Certification Board for Massage Therapists and Body Workers. This definition does not include an athletic club, health 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.

Any place where, for consideration or gratuity, nude models display specified anatomical areas to be observed, sketched, drawn, painted, sculptured, photographed, or similarly depicted, except that this provision shall not apply to any establishment meeting the requirements for the issuing or conferring of a diploma or degree recognized by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

A motel, hotel or similar establishment that offers public accommodation for any form of consideration which provides photographs or visual material depicting or describing specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activities and which has a sign visible from the public right-of-way advertising the availability of these reproductions; offers a sleeping room for rent for a period of time that is less than 24 hours; or allows a tenant or occupant of a sleeping room to sub-rent the sleeping room for a period of time that is less than 24 hours.

An enclosed or unenclosed building with a capacity of more than five persons used for presenting any form of audio or visual material, and in which a substantial portion of the total presentation time measured on an annual basis is devoted to showing material depicting or describing specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activities.

Any coin-operated machine or device which dispenses material substantially devoted to the depiction of specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activities.

Any theater, concert hall, auditorium, or similar establishment that regularly features persons who appear, in person, in a state of nudity and/or live performances characterized by the exposure of specified anatomical areas or by specified sexual activities.

A public thoroughfare, other than a street which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property and is not intended for general traffic circulation.

As applied to a building or structure, means a change or re-arrangement of the structural parts in the existing facilities or an enlargement, whether by extension of a side or an increase in height or moving from one location or position to another.

Any buildings, structures, or premises, enclosure or other place used for the dispensing, sale, or offering for sale of automobile or truck fuel and oils at retail. When such dispensing, sale or offering for sale of automobile fuel and oils is incidental to the conduct of the establishment, the premises shall be classified as a motor vehicle repair shop.

Any body granted jurisdiction under a land use ordinance or under this chapter to render final adjudications.

Jonestown Borough, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.

To erect, convert, enlarge, reconstruct, or structurally alter a building or structure.

A structure which has a roof supported by columns, piers, or walls which is intended for the shelter, housing, or enclosure of persons, animals, or chattel or which is to house a use of a commercial or manufacturing activity.

The total area of outside dimensions on a horizontal plane at ground level of the principal building and all accessory buildings.

The vertical dimension measured from the average elevation of the finished lot grade at the front of the building to the highest point of the ceiling of the top story in the case of a flat roof; to the deckline of a mansard roof; and to the average height between the plate and ridge of a gable, hip, or gambrel roof.

A line formed by the intersection of a horizontal plane at average grade level and a vertical plane that coincides with the exterior surface of the building on any side. In the case of a cantilevered or projected section of a building, the vertical plane will coincide with the most projected surface. All yard requirements are measured to the building line.

A certificate issued and enforced by the Zoning Officer upon completion of the construction of a new building or upon a change or conversion of the structure or use of a building, which certifies that all requirements and regulations provided herein and within all other applicable requirements have been complied with.

The act of placing two or more antennas on one communications tower or other structure.

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 shall not include private residence-mounted satellite dishes or television antennas or amateur radio equipment including, without limitation, ham or citizen band radio antennas.

An unmanned building or cabinet containing communications equipment required for the operation of communications antennas and covering an area on the ground not greater than 250 square feet.

A structure other than a building, such as a monopole, self-supporting or guyed tower, designed and used to support communications antennas.

A use permitted in a particular zoning district by the Borough Council pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and Article VI of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, 53 P.S. § 10601 et seq.

Final adjudication of any board or other body granted jurisdiction under any land use ordinance or this chapter 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 the county and judicial district wherein the Borough lies.

Final action by an officer, body or agency charged with the administration of any land use ordinance or applications thereunder, except the following:

The net acreage of a tract of land which is used for calculating the residential density permitted, which is determined by excluding the floodway, wetlands, areas exceeding 15% slope, areas of streams, ponds, lakes and dams, cemeteries, landfills, quarries and areas within 50 feet of quarries and existing street rights-of-way from the gross lot area.

The provisions for development including a planned residential 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 development plan" when used in this chapter shall mean the written and graphic materials referred to in this definition.

A part of the Borough wherein regulations of this chapter are uniform.

An establishment where food or beverage is sold for consumption on the premises but not necessarily within a building.

One or more rooms providing living and sanitary facilities for one family, including equipment for cooking or the provisions for same.

A dwelling unit for rent or lease within multiple-family or group buildings providing living and sanitary facilities for one family, including provisions for cooking and sleeping, and may contain one or more bedrooms.

One or more buildings containing dwelling units arranged around courts or open spaces. A dwelling group may be a single building divided by party walls or partition walls into a row or three or more distinct and noncommunicating parts.

A building designed for or occupied exclusively by three or more families living independently of each other, including row- and townhousing.

A detached building designed for or occupied exclusively by one family.

A building with one dwelling unit from the ground to roof and only one party wall in common with another dwelling unit. Commonly described as a duplex, the semi-detached, single-family dwelling is on an individual lot, is connected on one side to a similar dwelling on an adjacent lot and is usually owner-occupied.

A building designed for or occupied exclusively by two families living independently of each other.

A building with two dwelling units from ground to roof (one unit over the other) and only one party wall in common with another, connected to a building which may contain one or two dwelling units. The two-family semi-detached dwelling is on an individual lot, and may be renter- or owner-occupied.

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 business which furnishes, offers to furnish or advertises to furnish escorts for a fee, tip or other consideration.

A single individual, doing his own cooking and living upon the premises as a separate housekeeping unit, or a collective body of persons, doing their own cooking and living together upon the premises as a separate housekeeping unit, in a domestic relationship based upon birth, marriage or other domestic bond, as distinguished from a group occupying a boardinghouse, lodging house, or hotel.

The total enclosed area in the horizontal plane of a structure measured from the faces of the exterior walls.

A living unit for not more than one family erected above a garage, said garage being accessory to the main building.

A building or space used as an accessory to the main building which provides for the storage of motor vehicles of the families residing upon the premises and in which no occupation, business, or service for profit is carried on, including carports.

A detached single-family dwelling on an individual lot where one side of the dwelling is constructed with no less than a five-foot side setback and the other side is constructed with a ten-foot side setback. A five-foot wide access easement shall be provided along the five-foot side setback boundary, on the adjoining lot, to facilitate garden home maintenance.

The average level of the finished surface of the ground for buildings more than five feet from a street line. For buildings closer than five feet to a street, the grade is the sidewalk elevation at the center of the building. If there is no sidewalk, the Borough Engineer shall establish the grade at the sidewalk location.

The sum of the gross horizontal areas of all rooms used for habitation, such as living room, dining room, kitchen or bedroom, but not including hallways, stairways, cellars, attics, service rooms or utility rooms, bathrooms, closets or unheated areas such as enclosed porches or rooms without at least one window or skylight opening onto an outside yard or court. At least 1/2 of the flow area of every habitable room shall have a ceiling height of not less than seven feet, and the floor area of that part of any room where the ceiling height is less than five feet shall not be considered as part of the habitable floor area.

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

Any gainful occupation conducted within a dwelling which is of a service or professional nature such that the following conditions are met, as applicable: (1) the proprietor engages primarily in the sale of a service; (2) the handling of any durable goods is limited to primarily repairing or hand-crafting, and (3) the handling of nondurable or consumable goods for sale is incidental to service. Such home occupations include but are not limited to: physicians, dentists, lawyers, architects, engineers, and accountants; insurance, real estate or securities brokers; barbers and beauticians; photographers; tutors of individual students; seamstresses and tailors; and other occupations meeting these criteria which are not otherwise prohibited by law. Occupations of a nature that involve the stocking of items for retail or wholesale transfer, or use of facilities that involve gathering of people, or occupations that normally use large areas, or customarily are not compatible with dwellings, by virtue of creating excessive noise, fumes, odor, dust, electrical interference, or substantially more than normal residential levels of traffic are prohibited. Prohibited home occupations include but are not limited to: retail and wholesale stores; instructional classes of all types; shops and equipment storage of contractors; auto, truck or engine repair; medical or dental clinics.

A building containing rooms intended or designed to be used or which are used, rented, or hired out to be occupied or are occupied for sleeping purposes by guests and where only a general kitchen and dining room are provided within the building as an accessory use.

A nonprofit establishment for public use.

Any specialized agricultural activity including, but not limited to, mushroom production, egg and/or poultry production, swine production and dry lot livestock production, which due to the intensity of production or raw material storage needs, necessitates special control or operation, raw material storage and processing and disposal of liquid and solid wastes; in addition, any activity involving more than two animal units per acre as defined by the Nutrient Management Act (Act 6 of 1993), which number of animal equivalent units shall be calculated in accordance with Act 6.

Any area and/or structure used primarily for the collecting, storage, and sale of wastepaper, rags, scrap metal, or discarded material or for the collecting, dismantling, storage and salvaging of machinery or vehicles primarily not in running condition and for the sale of parts thereof.

A space within the main building or on the same lot having a minimum dimension of 12 feet by 50 feet.

A dwelling consisting of not more than one living unit occupied by persons not related by blood, marriage, or adoption. This term includes rooming house, boardinghouse, tourist home, and nursing home.

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

An area of land which is determined by the limits of the lot lines bounding that area.

The percentage of the lot area covered by the total building area.

A mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines measured in the general direction of its side lot lines.

The mean horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured at right angles to its depth. Required lot width shall be measured at the most forward allowable building line or setback line; however, the mean lot width shall not be less than the required lot width.

A parcel of land at the junction of and fronting or abutting on two or more intersecting streets. For the purpose of this chapter, all corner lots shall be considered to have two front yards, one side yard and one rear yard, as those terms are defined herein.

The unobstructed area needed for a truck to back in a single movement directly from the access street into a loading space, the depth of which is measured perpendicular to and from the front of the loading space to the curb side of the most remote lane in the access street.

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 parcel 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.

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.

A building or group of buildings, whether detached or in connected units, used as individual sleeping or dwelling units designed primarily for transient automobile travelers and provided with accessory off-street parking facilities. The term "motel" includes buildings designed as tourist courts, auto courts, and other similar designations but shall not be construed to include mobile or immobile trailers or homes.

A body politic and corporate created pursuant to the Act of May 2, 1945 (P.L. 382, No. 164), known as the "Municipalities Authority Act of 1945."

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 reason of such adoption or amendment.

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

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

The appearance or showing of a human bare buttock, anus, anal cleft or cleavage, pubic area, male genitals, female genitals or vulva, with less than a fully opaque covering, or a female breast with less than a fully opaque covering below the top of the areola at its highest point, or human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state even if completely and opaquely covered.

A building designed for or used as the offices of professional, commercial, industrial, religious, public, or semipublic persons or organizations.

An off-street space available for the parking of a motor vehicle and which, in this chapter, is held to be an area nine feet wide and 16 feet long, exclusive of passageways and driveways appurtenant thereto and giving access thereto.

Facilities for the provision of personal wireless services.

Includes commercial mobile services, unlicensed wireless services and common carrier wireless exchange access services.

An area of land, controlled by a landowner, to be developed as a single entity for a number of dwelling units, or combination of residential and nonresidential uses, the development plan for which does not correspond in lot size, bulk, type of dwelling, or use, density or intensity, lot coverage and required open space to the regulations established in any one district created, from time to time, under the provisions of this chapter.

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

Includes:

A formal meeting held pursuant to public notice by the Borough Council or Planning Commission, intended to inform and obtain public comment, prior to taking action in accordance with this chapter.

A forum held pursuant to notice under the Act of July 3, 1986 (P.L. 388, No. 84), known as the "Sunshine Act," 53 P.S. §§ 271 et seq.

Notice published once each week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Borough. 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.

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.

The setback of a building from a particular lot line is the horizontal distance from such lot line to the part of the building nearest to such lot line.

A business or commercial enterprise that offers, for any form of consideration, physical contact in the form of wrestling or tumbling between persons of the opposite sex and/or activities between mate and female persons and/or persons of the same sex when one or more of the persons is in a state of nudity.

Any outdoor advertising that is a structure or that is attached to or painted upon a building or that is leaned against a structure or displayed on a premises.

The area defined by the frame or edge of a sign. Where there is no frame or edge to the sign, the area shall be defined by a projected, enclosed, four-sided (straight sides) geometric shape which most closely outlines the said sign.

Any sign which is owned or operated by any person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of outdoor advertising for direct profit gained from the rental of such signs or any sign advertising a commodity not sold or produced on the premises. This shall include billboards and off-premises signs indicating the direction to a particular place.

A plan of a lot or subdivision on which is shown topography; location of all buildings, structures, roads, rights-of-way, boundaries; all essential dimensions and bearings; and any other information deemed necessary by the Borough in unusual or special cases.

A use permitted in a particular zoning district pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and Articles VI and IX of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, 53 P.S. § 10601 et seq., and § 10901 et seq.

The human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if fully and opaquely covered; and less than completely or opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, buttocks or a female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola.

The fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus or female breasts, whether covered or uncovered; sex acts, either normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including intercourse, oral copulation or sodomy; masturbation, actual or simulated; or excretory functions as a part of or in connection with any of these described activities.

A story is that part of a building between the surface of any floor and the next floor above it or, in its absence, then the finished ceiling or roof above it. A split level story shall be considered a second story if its floor level is six feet or more above the level of the line of the finished floor next below it. Any floor under a sloping roof at the top of a building which is more than two feet below the top place shall be counted as a story; and, if less than two feet below the top place, shall be counted as a half-story. A basement shall be counted as a story if it averages more than five feet above grade.

Includes street, avenue, boulevard, road, highway, freeway, parkway, lane, alley, viaduct or any other ways used or intended to be used by vehicular traffic or pedestrians whether public or private with a right-of-way width of 20 feet or greater.

The street line is that line determining the limit of the street or highway right of the public, either existing or contemplated. Where a definite right-of-way width has not been established, the street line shall be assumed to be at a point 25 feet from the center line of the existing street. Center line is a line halfway between the street right-of-way lines.

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

Essentially a level and defined area, usually raised, either paved or planted, forming part of a garden or building setting.

The specific purpose for which land or a building is designed, arranged, intended, or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained.

Relief granted pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and Articles VI and IX of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code. 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.

The area extending the full width of the lot contained between the principal structures and the street right-of-way line, except that where a portion of the site has a front property line that is located away from the street right-of-way and runs generally parallel to the street, the front yard shall also include that area that is located between the principal structure and the front property line that generally parallels the street (see diagram below).

The area contained between the principal structure and the property line directly opposite the street of address. For flag lots, the rear yard shall be that area between the principal structure and that lot line which is directly opposite the above-described front yard.

The area(s) between a principal structure and any side lot line(s). On corner lots, the side yard shall be considered those areas between the principal structure and the property lines directly opposite the nonaddress street(s). For flag lots, the side yards shall be the area between the principal structure and that one outermost lot line which forms the flag and pole, plus the area on the opposite side of the principal structure (see diagram below).

The duly constituted municipal official designated to administer and enforce this chapter. The Zoning Officer shall administer this chapter in accordance with its literal terms. The Zoning Officer may be the Building Inspector and serve both offices of the Borough.

A permit stating that the purpose for which a building or land is to be used is in conformity with the uses permitted and all other requirements under this chapter for the zone in which it is located or is to be located.