A detached, subordinate building, the use of which is customarily incidental to that of the principal building on the same lot.

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

A solar energy system that requires external mechanical power to move collected heat.

For the purpose of this chapter, "adult entertainment establishments" are defined as follows:

The tilling of the soil, raising of crops, forestry, horticulture, gardening, and animal and poultry husbandry, including sale of crops, dairy and horticultural products incidental to the operation of the farm.

A secondary building customarily used for agriculture, including barns, sheds and silos for the sheltering of livestock and the storage of farm products or equipment. Structures which are not used as a part of the agricultural operations of the property on which they are located shall be regarded and defined as accessory structures and uses rather than as agricultural buildings. Structures with the sole commercial purpose of raising poultry or livestock, such as chicken houses, veal pens, stockyards and feedlots, shall be defined as primary uses and structures.

An enterprise that is actively engaged in the commercial production and preparation for market of crops, livestock and livestock products and in the production, harvesting and preparation for market 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 in by farmers or are consistent with technological development within the agricultural industry.

Any item, goods or commodity which is directly generated from agricultural activity.

Any contrivance, except an unpowered hang glider or parachute, used for manned ascent into or flight through the air.

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 or air navigation facilities or rights-of-way, together with all airport buildings and facilities thereon.

Any structure or object, natural or man-made, or use of land which obstructs the airspace required for flight or aircraft in landing or taking off at an airport or is otherwise hazardous as defined by "airport hazard" in 74 Pa.C.S.A. § 5102.

Any area of land or water upon which an airport hazard might be established if not prevented, as provided for in this chapter and Act 164 of 1984 (Pennsylvania laws relating to aviation).[1]

A minor right-of-way, privately or publicly owned, primarily for service access to the rear or sides of properties.

Any exterior structural addition to a building or any renovation to a building which would change its use classification.

An establishment which includes more than one amusement device per 500 square feet or any establishment with more than five amusement devices.

Any mechanical or electronic device, structure or part thereof operated by coin or tokens, which involves games of skill or chance, such as pinball machines, video games, target shooting gallery or similar facility, which furnishes or provides entertainment. This definition shall not apply to telephone utility company facilities, parking meters, washing or drying machines, or auto vacuum cleaners.

One thousand pounds live weight of livestock and/or poultry animals, regardless of the actual number of animals that comprise the unit. For purposes of administering this chapter, the reference table of standard animal weights shall be used to calculate animal equivalent units. (See Appendix A.[3])

Any establishment offering veterinary services. Animal hospitals can treat all types of animals and can include overnight boarding of animals.

Breeding and care of equines, bovine, sheep, goats or porcine (swine) animals. (See definitions of "crops, livestock and livestock products" and "normal farming operations.")

A multiunit dwelling constructed by converting an existing building into independent dwelling units for more than one family without substantially altering the exterior of the building.

A structure housing more than one family, which does not have a lot line between dwelling units.

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

Any application, whether preliminary, tentative or final, required to be filed and approved prior to start of construction or development, including but not limited to an application for a building permit, for the approval of a subdivision plat or plan, or for the approval of a 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 surface zone height limitation slope set forth in § 310-123. In plan view, the perimeter of the approach surface coincides with the perimeter of the approach surface zone.

Areas as set forth in § 310-123.

A dwelling or a part thereof in which lodging is designed and provided for compensation by the owner and occupant to more than two guests, other than family members of the owner, and in which breakfast may be provided to the registered guests.

A sale of merchandise, food or services conducted for the purpose of providing financial aid to a person or persons who are in need of such assistance for medical or social reasons.

An earthen mound designed to create a visual and sound barrier between a use and adjoining properties, streets and adjacent uses.

Lineal ascendants, aunts, uncles, great-aunts, great-uncles, brothers and sisters, parents, children, or any person adopted by the preceding, or any married persons.

A building or portion thereof arranged or used for sheltering or feeding, or both, for compensation, of not more than five individuals.

A roofed structure connecting two buildings.

A landscaped area intended to be used as means of limiting the effects created by a use on adjoining properties, streets and uses.

Any structure, either temporary or permanent, having walls and a roof or other covering, and designed or used for a residence, business, industry or for the shelter or enclosure of any person, animal or property of any kind, including tents, awnings, vehicles or accessories thereto used for purposes stated above.

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

The total areas of the greatest outside dimensions on a horizontal plane of the principal building and all accessory buildings, including porches, decks, carports and outdoor cellar entrances.

See "building area."

The dimension of a building as measured from the average ground level at the corners of the building to the highest point of the roof, provided that chimneys, spires and elevator penthouses, tanks and other similar projections shall not be included in calculating the height.

A line formed by the intersection of a horizontal plane and a vertical plane that coincides with the exterior surface of a building on any side. In case of a cantilevered or projected section of a building, except overhanging eaves, gutters and cornices, the vertical plane will coincide with the most-projected surface. (All yard requirements are measured to the building line.)

A line parallel to, and the distance from, a public or private street right-of-way which determines the location of a future building or structure.

Any enterprise, occupation, trade or profession engaged in, either continuously or temporarily, for profit. The term "business" shall include the occupancy or use of a building or premises or any portion thereof for the transaction of business or the rendering or receiving of professional or personal service.

The conversion of all or a portion of an existing residential or nonresidential building for business use.

A building used as offices and occupied by personnel to perform business, professional, administrative or clerical functions.

Includes such uses as banks, credit unions, loan and insurance agencies, utility offices, government, business and professional offices, medical or dental office facilities.

The diameter of the tree measured at a height of five feet above the root mass or surrounding grade.

A lot or tract of ground on which may be placed tents, campers or travel trailers, which does not exceed 250 square feet in floor area, where persons or families may live temporarily (not exceeding four weeks).

Facilities for cleaning the exterior, interior or engines of vehicles, including automated facilities or those using individual bays for manual washing.

A structure accessory to a single-family dwelling for the keeping of horses and nonmotorized, horse-drawn vehicles.

The surface of a street available for vehicular traffic.

Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the deceased, including columbariums, crematoria, mausoleums and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with the cemetery and within the boundaries thereof.

A certificate issued and enforced by the Zoning Officer and/or Building Code Official 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 of the Zoning Ordinance and/or Uniform Construction Code are met.

An alteration of a building or a change of use theretofore existing within a building or on a lot to a new use which imposes other provisions of this chapter.

A natural or artificial watercourse with defined bed and banks which confine and conduct continuously or periodically flowing water.

That water which is flowing within the limits of a defined channel.

Producing and/or maintaining with the express purpose and intent of selling the product for a livelihood.

Any sign wording, logo or other representation that, directly or indirectly, names, advertises or calls attention to a business, product, service or other commercial activity.

The transportation of people for sightseeing purposes by vehicle, buggy, carriage, surrey, tram or similar device, whether propelled by animals or mechanical means. This shall include tethered hot air balloon rides. Not included are tours by vehicles that are properly licensed and registered under the Pennsylvania Vehicle Code.[4]

A use of land or improvements thereto for the purpose of engaging in retail, wholesale or service activities for profit.

See "vehicle, 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 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 building or portion thereof, designed for or occupied by a chartered nonprofit organization, comprised of residents of the community in which it is located, the primary purpose of which is the advancement of educational, cultural, recreational or civic pursuits and activities and in which there is neither the sale nor dispensation of intoxicating beverages.

A community sewage facility, whether publicly or privately owned, which uses a system of piping, tanks or other facilities for collecting, treating and disposing of sewage from two or more lots or two or more equivalent dwelling units into a subsurface soil absorption area or retaining tank.

Group living quarters for persons who need specialized housing, treatment and/or counseling, which provides supervised housing as an alternative to imprisonment, including but not limited to prerelease, work-release, probationary programs or active criminal rehabilitation, or which provides treatment/housing for persons convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol.

A sewage facility, whether publicly or privately owned, for the collection of sewage from two or more lots or two or more equivalent dwelling units and the treatment or disposal, or both, of the sewage on one or more of the lots or at another site.

A community sewage system which uses a method of sewage collection, conveyance, treatment and disposal other than renovation in a subsurface absorption area or retention in a retaining tank.

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.

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

A plan including a map(s) and narrative that, at the very least, outlines an erosion and sedimentation control plan for an identified parcel of land.

Crops, livestock and livestock products shall include but are not limited to the following:

A place for babysitting or otherwise caring for six or fewer children during normal working hours. (Also referred to as "child-care center.")

A place for babysitting or otherwise caring for more than six children during normal working hours, and licensed by applicable state authorities under the Pennsylvania Education Code.

An outside platform less than 12 inches above surrounding grade.

Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavating or drilling operations.

A disability of a person which:

A person with developmental disability.

A facility for storage or redistribution of bulk goods into smaller quantities for subsequent delivery. A distribution center typically does not serve the general public.

A two-unit dwelling created by the expansion of a single-family detached dwelling in order to provide living quarters for not more than one additional family. Members of the additional family shall be related by blood or marriage to the occupants of the original dwelling.

An establishment that, by design of physical facilities or by service or packaging procedures, encourages or permits customers to receive a service or obtain a product that may be used or consumed in a motor vehicle on the premises or to be entertained while remaining in a motor vehicle. Accessory services provided for customers which do not require the direct assistance of personnel of the establishment outside of the confines of the building (e.g., self-service gasoline pumps, vending machines, automatic teller machines, etc.) shall not be encompassed in this definition.

Any portion of a building or structure from which business is transacted or capable of being transacted directly with customers located in motor vehicles during such business transactions.

A private drive providing access between a public roadway or access drive and a permitted use or structure.

A building permanently erected on and attached to a foundation, having a fixed location on the ground, and used as the living quarters for one or more families, which in the normal frame of reference is immobile. Hospitals, hotels, boardinghouses, rooming and lodging houses, tourist courts and the like, offering overnight accommodations for guests or patients, shall not be considered dwellings.

One or more living and/or sleeping rooms arranged for the use of one or more individuals living as a family, with cooking, living and sanitary facilities.

Notice given by a municipality through the Internet of the time and place of a public hearing and the particular nature of the matter to be considered at the hearing, pursuant to 53 P.S. § 10109.[5]

An additional dwelling unit placed on a property for occupancy by either an elderly, handicapped or disabled person related by blood, marriage or adoption to the owners or lessees of the property.

An electrical generator whose sole function is to provide electric power when electric power from a utility service is interrupted.

Equipment consisting of containers, heat exchangers, piping and other transfer mechanisms (including fluids, gases or solids), controls, and related structural support for transporting and storing collected energy (from solar energy systems), including structural elements designed for use in passive solar energy systems.

The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance, by public utilities after PUC approval, municipal authorities, municipal or other governmental agencies, or private corporations under contract to a municipality, of gas, electrical, telephone, steam or water transmission or distribution systems and sewage disposal systems, including buildings, enclosures, wells, pumping stations, storage facilities, poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic light signals, hydrants and other similar equipment and accessories and services in connection therewith, reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by such public utilities, municipal authorities, municipal or other agencies, or private corporations under contract to a municipality, including firehouses or fire companies and emergency services under agreement with the municipality or for the public health or safety or general welfare. Essential services shall not include communications towers and communications antennas, as defined herein.

Federal Aviation Administration of the United States Department of Transportation.

The exterior walls of a building exposed to public view or that wall viewed by persons not within the building.

One or more persons living together in a single dwelling unit as a traditional family or the functional equivalent of a traditional family. It shall be a rebuttable presumption that four or more persons living together in a single dwelling unit, who are not related by blood, adoption or marriage, do not constitute the functional equivalent of a traditional family. This definition does not intend to prohibit group homes and/or community living arrangements that are determined to be protected by the Federal Fair Housing Law, provided such facilities are licensed and permitted under the authority of the Department of Welfare of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or other state department or agency. In determining the functional equivalent of a traditional family, the following criteria shall be present:[6]

A community-based residential home, licensed by the appropriate federal or state agencies, which provides room and board, personal care, rehabilitative services and supervision in a family environment for handicapped and disabled persons, as defined in the Fair Housing Act.

Any building or group of buildings used to provide services and support to individuals with physical or mental disabilities and their families or caregivers. This could include, but is not limited to, supervision and care services, day programs, educational classes, counseling, supervision, respite support, training, employment and related support services that may include overnight accommodations or services.

A parcel of land 40 acres or more which is used in the raising of crops, livestock and livestock products, including necessary dwellings, farm structures and the storage of equipment customarily incidental to the principal use.

Any parcel of land of exactly 15 acres in area that is used for the purposes of agriculture. A farmette may include one single-family residential dwelling.

An educational sightseeing tour of a farm that may involve the observation or inspection of: 1) the growing of crops; 2) the keeping of animals; and/or 3) techniques and equipment associated with the operation of the farm.

(See also "hedge" and "wall.") An enclosure of, but not limited to, vinyl, wood, wire or fabric.

Material placed or deposited so as to form an embankment or to raise the surface elevation of the land, including but not limited to levees, bulkheads, dikes, jetties, embankments and causeways, and as defined by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

A bank, savings and loan association, credit union, finance or loan company, etc.

The area within a building intended and designed for habitable use, measured from its surface to the corresponding surface above it, or eight feet, whichever is less.

The total floor area of the dwelling unit actually used for habitation, excluding unfinished cellars, storage attics, porches, garages and the like.

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.[7]

A principal use for the preparation and viewing of the dead prior to burial or cremation. Funeral homes shall not include cemeteries, columbariums, mausoleums or entombments, but do include mortuaries and crematoria.

An accessory building for the storage of one or more automobiles and/or other vehicles accessory and incidental to the primary use of the premises; provided, however, that one commercial vehicle of not more than three-quarter-ton capacity may be stored therein where the use of such vehicles is not incidental to the use of the premises.

Retail sale or display of merchandise on a temporary basis, which is conducted from a residential property and is not a customary part of any other business.

A tract of land for playing golf, improved with trees, greens, fairways, hazards, and which may include clubhouses and shag ranges, driving ranges or miniature golf courses.

A building whose roof and sides are made largely of glass or other transparent or translucent material and in which the temperature and humidity can be regulated for the cultivation of delicate or out-of-season plants for subsequent sale or for personal enjoyment. Any greenhouse in which there are retail sales and/or items stocked for resale is a commercial use.

A dwelling operated by an individual, family or organization, with a program to provide special care due to age or handicap (as defined in the Fair Housing Act), which are licensed where required by applicable government agencies.

Materials which have the potential to damage health or impair safety. Hazardous materials include but are not limited to inorganic mineral acids or sulphur, fluorine, chlorine, nitrogen, chromium, phosphorus, selenium and arsenic and their common salts; lead, nickel and mercury and their inorganic salts of metal-organic derivatives; coal tar acids, such as phenols and cresols, and their salts; petroleum products and radioactive material. Also included are floatable (flotage) materials with the potential to cause physical damage, such as logs, storage tanks, and large containers.

Any trash, refuse, sludge, discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material, or any combination of the above, which because of its quantity, concentration, physical characteristics, or infectious characteristics may:

Any structure, group of structures, aboveground or underground storage tanks, or any other area or buildings used for the purpose of permanently housing or temporarily holding hazardous waste for storage or treatment for any time span other than the normal transportation time through the Township.

A facility that offers active recreational and/or fitness activities. Such facilities do not include golf courses.

(See also "fence" and "wall.") Plant life material used as a separator for a privacy screen.

For the purpose of determining the height limits pertaining to airports, "height" shall refer to distance above mean sea level elevation unless otherwise specified.

A vertical measurement from the average elevation of the surrounding ground to the highest point.

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

An area, either at ground level or elevated on a structure, licensed by the federal government or an appropriate state agency and approved for loading, landing and takeoff of helicopters, and which may include auxiliary facilities such as parking, waiting room, fueling and maintenance equipment.

An accessory use to the primary residential use of a property, customarily conducted within a dwelling, which is clearly incidental and secondary to the dwelling use. A home occupation shall be regulated by the standards listed in § 310-193.

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

A facility which provides twenty-four-hour medical services for humans, including physical or mental care, and which is operated by medical staff licensed in the State of Pennsylvania. This definition shall not apply to physicians' offices.

A facility which provides lodging to boarders for compensation, which contains more than eight rooms with less than 25% of all rooms having direct access to the outside without the necessity of passing through the main lobby of the building, and which may provide meals and other services as a part of the compensation.

For the purposes of this definition, impervious coverage includes any portion of a lot covered by material impenetrable by precipitation, including buildings, structures, sidewalks, parking lots, parking areas and paved areas. All portions of parking lots, parking areas and outdoor storage areas shall be considered as impervious area regardless of the degree of precipitation penetrability.

A surface which prevents the percolation of water into the ground.

An individual sewage system, whether publicly or privately owned, located on one lot and serving one dwelling unit, which uses a system of piping, tanks or other facilities for collecting, treating and disposing of sewage into a subsurface absorption area or a retaining tank.

A sewage facility, whether publicly or privately owned, located on a single lot and serving one dwelling unit, and collecting, treating and disposing of sewage in whole or in part into the soil or into waters of this commonwealth or by means of conveyance of retaining tank wastes to another site for final disposal.

An individual sewage system, whether publicly or privately owned, which uses a method of sewage collection, conveyance, treatment and disposal other than renovation in a subsurface absorption area or retention in a retaining tank.

Any agricultural activity that exceeds two animal equivalent units per acre of land.

Any farm building, structure and/or facility specially designed, constructed and/or operated for the intensive and accelerated raising of livestock and/or poultry, including, but not limited to, an environmentally controlled house or other confined housing or outdoor pen(s).

Materials such as scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste iron, steel and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material, including wrecked, scrapped, ruined, dismantled or junked motor vehicles or parts thereof.

An area of land, with or without buildings, used for the storage outside or in other than a completely enclosed building of used and discarded materials, including but not limited to wastepaper, rags, metal, building materials, house furnishings, machinery, vehicles or parts thereof, with or without dismantling, processing, salvage, sale or other use or disposition. The deposit or storage on a lot of two or more unregistered, wrecked or disabled vehicles, or the major parts thereof, shall be defined as a "junkyard."

Facilities for housing more than three dogs that are more than six months old.

Any of the following activities:

The use of a lot or land or part thereof for the primary purpose of disposal of garbage, refuse and other discarded materials, including but not limited to solid and liquid waste materials, resulting from industrial, commercial, agricultural and residential activities. The operation of a landfill normally consists of: 1) depositing the discarded material in a planned, controlled manner; 2) compacting the discarded material in layers to reduce its volume; 3) covering the discarded material with a layer of earth; and 4) compacting the earth cover.

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 authorized to exercise the rights of the landowner, or other person having a proprietary interest in land.

A completely planted visual barrier composed of earthen berms, vegetative shrubs or trees arranged to form both a low-level and a high-level opaque screen between grade and to a height of six feet, which shall be opaque at all times of year and shall attain this state within three years of initial installation.

A runway that is constructed for and intended to be used by: 1) propeller-drive aircraft of greater than 12,500 pounds' maximum gross weight; and 2) jet-powered aircraft.

A business premises equipped with individual clothes washing and/or drying machines for the use of retail customers, exclusive of laundry facilities provided as an accessory use in a multifamily housing development.

A commercial dwelling facility designed and used for providing group housing, medical, dining or social support to persons who have special needs due to age or handicap, which is operated by staff licensed in the State of Pennsylvania.

Any member of the avian, bovine, equine, porcine, ovine and piscine species, including but not limited to poultry, fowl, cows, steer, horses, ponies, pigs, sheep, goats and fish. "Livestock" is defined to specifically exclude dogs.

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. A "lot" may include one or more adjacent pieces, parcels or plots of land of record.

A lot at the point of the intersection of and abutting two or more intersecting streets, and which has an interior angle of less than 135° at the intersection of the two street lines. Corner lots shall have two front yards, one side and one rear yard.

An interior lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel streets.

A lot whose frontage does not satisfy the minimum width requirements for the respective zone but which does have sufficient lot width on another part of the lot.

A lot other than a corner lot, the sides of which do not abut a street.

See "parent tract."

The area contained within the property lines of a parcel of land, excluding any area within a street right-of-way.

A percentage of the lot area which may be covered with an impervious surface.

The horizontal distance measured at a right angle between the street right-of-way line and the closest rear property line. On corner lots, the depth shall be measured from the street right-of-way line of the street of address to the property line directly opposite this line.

The horizontal distance measured at a right angle between side property lines. On corner lots, lot width shall be measured between the right-of-way line for the nonaddress street and the property line located directly opposite.

Notice given by a municipality by first-class mail of the time and place of a public hearing and the particular nature of the matter to be considered at the hearing, pursuant to 53 P.S. § 10109.[9]

The fecal and urinary excrement of livestock and poultry, often containing extraneous feed, bedding or litter.

A detached structure or other improvement built to store manure for future use.

Any hood, canopy, awning or permanent construction which projects from a wall of a building, usually above an entrance and/or across a sidewalk toward the street.

The water surface elevations of a flood which would completely fill the floodplain to the boundaries of the Floodplain Zone.

The average height of the sea for all stages of the tide, using the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929.

Any building or group of buildings used to provide medical services on an outpatient basis as part of a specialized medical research and teaching program that includes laboratory services and related support uses, including overnight accommodations for families of patients, medical students and interns.

Any building or group of buildings occupied by medical practitioners and related services for the purpose of providing health services to people on an outpatient basis.

An anaerobic digestion system for the purpose of generating electrical and/or heat energy for on-site or off-site consumption.

A facility for the long-term storage of materials or goods in separate enclosed storage areas, which is typically offered for use to the general public.

Occupancy of a building for more than one use.

A transportable, single-family dwelling intended for permanent occupancy, contained in one unit or in two 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 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, motor lodges, auto courts and other similar designations.

Any building or land devoted to the retail sales of passenger vehicles, including accessory service and repair facilities if conducted within a wholly enclosed building.

A building containing three or more dwelling units, typically when one is located above or below the remaining units.

A municipal authority, established under the Municipal Authorities Act,[10] which provides, maintains, owns or operates sewage facilities.

Any use owned or operated by the Township or an authority created by the Township or under contract to the Township.

A facility for the public display of items, materials or information that are related to some historic, educational, cultural or scientific purpose. Museums can include related accessory uses (e.g., restaurant, gift shop, etc.) so long as these remain incidental to the primary museum use. Museums can be operated as a business but shall not involve the retail sales of museum displays.

Any building used for on-site consumption of alcoholic or nonalcoholic beverages where live entertainment is offered. For the purposes of this definition, "live entertainment" is meant to include the use of disc jockeys for the purposes of supplying musical entertainment. Nightclubs may also provide for on-site consumption of food. Additionally, nightclubs can offer the retail sale of carry-out beer and wine as an accessory use. This is meant to include an "under 21" club which features entertainment.

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 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.

A lot, the area or dimensions of which was lawful prior to the enactment of this chapter, or any amendment thereto, but which fails to conform to the requirements of the zone in which it is located by reason of the enactment of this chapter or any amendment hereto.

A structure or a part of a structure manifestly not designed to comply with the applicable use or extent of use provisions in this chapter, or any amendment hereto, where such structure lawfully existed prior to the enactment of this chapter or such amendment. Such nonconforming structures include, but are not limited to, nonconforming signs.

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

Any agricultural activity that does not exceed two animal equivalent units per acre of land.

A runway having an existing instrument approach procedure utilizing air navigation facilities with only horizontal guidance or area type navigation equipment, for which a straight-in nonprecision instrument approach procedure has been approved or planned.

The customary and generally accepted activities, practices and procedures that farmers adopt, use or engage in year after year in the production and preparation for market of crops, livestock and livestock products and in the production and harvesting of agricultural, agronomic, horticultural, silvicultural and aquacultural crops and commodities.

A facility which serves residents requiring continuous, intermediate or skilled nursing care for various periods of time.

Any structure, growth or other object, including a mobile object, which exceeds a limiting height set forth in § 310-123 of this chapter, or any dam, wall, wharf, embankment, levee, dike, pile, abutment, projection, excavation, channel rectification, bridge, conduit, culvert, building, wire, rock, gravel, refuse, fill, structure or other matter in, along, across or projecting into any channel, watercourse or floodplain, 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 that is placed where the flow of water might carry the same downstream to cause damage to life or property.

A building or portion of a building wherein services are performed involving predominantly administrative, professional or clerical operations.

A structure having one roof and not fully enclosed.

Provision of outdoor displays or display space on a lease or rental basis only.

The Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

The extension of the main walls of a building above the roof level or a false front or wall above a roofline.

The lot existing prior to a specific frame of reference, which may be:

An open lot where motor vehicles may be stored for a short term (daily or overnight) off-street, and connected to a street by an access drive.

An off-street space available for the parking of a motor vehicle, exclusive of passageways and driveways appurtenant thereto and giving access thereto.

A common, shared wall between two separate structures, buildings or dwelling units.

A solar energy system that uses natural and architectural components to collect and store energy without using any external mechanical power.

The Department of Transportation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

As it relates specifically to mobile homes, shall include a "skirt" around the perimeter of the mobile home which shall be of masonry construction upon footers set below the frost line and oriented to the perimeter of the mobile home so as to provide a weathertight joint on all four sides.

An individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint stock association, or governmental entity; includes a trustee, a receiver, an assignee, or a similar representative of any of them.

Includes such uses as barbershops, beauty salons, photographic studios, tailor, dressmaking, millinery shops and dry cleaning/laundry dropoff points.

Any substance or mixture of substances intended for use in preventing, destroying, repelling, sterilizing or mitigating any insects, rodents, nematodes, predatory animals, fungi, weeds or other forms of plant or animal life.

Any place where one or more birds or animals that have similar characteristics and appearance to birds or animals wild by nature, or local domestic animals, are kept in captivity for the evident purpose of exhibition to the public, with or without charge.

Oil or petroleum of any kind and in any form, including crude oil and derivatives of crude oil. It may be alone, as a sludge, as oil refuse, or mixed with other wastes.

A cohesive unit of stores, offices or industrial buildings, with the building(s) arranged and constructed according to an overall plan.

A facility for the raising or sheltering of more than 100 fowl.

Any lot, parcel or tract of land and any building constructed thereon. The term "premises" shall also include the area occupied by a business or other commercial, professional or industrial enterprise. When more than one such enterprise occupies a building, each business area shall be considered separate premises.

Leacock Township's Class I, II and III soils, as defined by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.

An area of land held in single and separate ownership, with a tax parcel code assigned, having one or more premises located on it. "Property" includes "tract," "parcel" and "lot."

A recorded boundary of a lot. However, any property line which abuts a street or other public or quasi-public roadway shall be measured from the legal street right-of-way line.

A facility owned, operated, or controlled by a governmental agency, (federal, state, or local), including a corporation created by law for the performance of certain specialized governmental functions, and the Board of Education. Examples of such facilities include Township buildings and parks, School District facilities, fire companies, etc.).

Any natural or artificially produced substance which spontaneously emits radiation.

A facility, open to the public, for the purpose of public recreation or entertainment, including but not limited to bowling alleys, drive-in motion-picture facilities, swimming pools, miniature golf courses, museums, etc. This does not include adult-related uses or amusement arcades, as defined herein.

See "vehicle, recreational."

A facility for the collection of materials destined for reuse, but which does not include on-site processing except for incidental bundling or packaging.

Additional principal buildings and/or uses that are typically a part of the permitted use and located on the same lot as the principal use.

Includes such uses as radio, television and appliance repair shops, plumbing shops, carpenter shops and shoe repair shops.

A commercial establishment where food or beverage is sold for consumption on the premises either in a customer's vehicle or in an outside area, but not within a building.

An accessory use to a commercial restaurant where the customer receives food or beverage via a drive-up window without the need for the customer to leave his vehicle.

A commercial establishment where a variety of foods and beverages are sold for consumption on the premises. Customers are normally seated at a table where they select food and beverage from individual menus, and they are served foods and beverages by a restaurant employee at the same table at which said items are ordered and consumed.

An establishment where food and/or beverages are sold in a form ready for consumption, where all or a significant portion of the consumption takes place or is designed to take place outside the confines of the restaurant, and where ordering and pickup of food may take place from an automobile.

Retail stores are those businesses whose primary activities involve the display and retail sales of goods and products. This term shall not include adult-related facilities, as defined herein.

A residential dwelling which may consist of a mixture of apartment or independent housing units and personal care, skilled care or nursing care facilities in an environment which cannot be achieved through the use of conventional residential development. The facility serves persons who are a minimum of 50 years old. Housing and health care services are provided to residents of a retirement home pursuant to an agreement effective for a minimum period of one year.

A principal use in which supervised education or instruction is offered according to the following categories:

All land area encompassing existing school facilities, such as, but not limited to, buildings, parking areas, recreation areas, etc.

The required horizontal distance between a setback line and a property or street line.

The distance between the street line and the front setback line projected the full width of the lot. (Also referred to as the "required front yard.")

A line within a property and parallel to a property or street line which delineates the required minimum distance between some particular use of property and a street line.

The distance between the rear lot line and the rear setback line projected the full width of the lot. (Also referred to as the "required rear yard.")

The distance between the side lot line and the side setback line projected from the front yard to the rear yard. (Also referred to as the "required side yard.")

A substance that contains the waste products or excrement or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals and noxious or deleterious substances being harmful or inimical to the public health or to animal or aquatic life, or to the use of water for domestic water supply or for recreation, or which constitutes pollution under the Clean Streams Law.

The official of the local agency who issues permits, reviews permit applications and sewage facilities planning modules and conduct investigations and inspections necessary to implement the act and the regulations thereunder.

A system of sewage collection, conveyance, treatment and disposal which will prevent the discharge of untreated or inadequately treated sewage or other waste into waters of this commonwealth or otherwise provide for the safe and sanitary treatment and disposal of sewage or other waste.

A program authorized by the official action of a municipality for the administration, management and regulation of the disposal of sewage.

A group of retail stores, offices and/or service businesses planned and designed for the site on which it is built, functioning as a unit, with off-street parking provided on the property as an integral part of the unit.

A shopping center with stores, offices and/or service businesses on both sides of an enclosed or open pedestrian walkway.

A freestanding building containing one dwelling unit for one family and having two side yards, one front yard, and one rear yard; in the case of a corner lot, the building will have two front and a side and rear yard.

A freestanding building containing two dwelling units, arranged in a side-by-side configuration, with a common wall, typically with one front and rear yard and two side yards.

The open space between a solar or wind collector and the sun or prevailing wind which must be free of obstructions that may shade or impede the collector to the extent that it would reduce its cost-effective operation.

An individual or community sewerage system designed to adequately treat sewage flows not greater than 2,000 gallons per day for final disposal using a stream discharge or discharge to the surface of the ground.

The latest published version of the United States Department of Agriculture's Soil Survey for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

A freestanding or fixed device, or combination of devices, structures or part of a device or structure that transforms direct solar energy into thermal, chemical or electrical energy that contributes significantly to a structure's energy supply.

Radiant energy (direct, diffuse and reflected) received from the sun.

A complete design or assembly consisting of a solar energy collector, an energy storage facility (where used), and components for the distribution of transformed energy.

Garbage, sludge, refuse, trash, rubbish, debris and other discarded materials, including but not limited to solid and liquid waste materials resulting from industrial, commercial, agricultural, residential and community activities.

A use in one or more zones for which the Zoning Hearing Board may grant a special use permit pursuant to certain specified conditions and the provisions of this chapter.

A fully enclosed structure where materials or supplies may be housed or stored.

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 seven feet below the top plane shall be counted as a story; and if less than seven feet below the top plane, it 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 alley, avenue, boulevard, road, highway, freeway, lane, viaduct and any other dedicated and adopted public right-of-way used or intended to be used by vehicular traffic and/or pedestrians.

The horizontal line paralleling the street that bisects the street right-of-way into two equal widths. In those instances where the street right-of-way cannot otherwise be determined, the street center line shall correspond to the center of the cartway.

A line defining the edge of a street right-of-way and separating the street from abutting property or lots. The street line shall be the same as the legal right-of-way line currently in existence.

A facility for the transient holding or feeding of livestock, which are in the process of being sold, slaughtered or shipped. This definition shall not apply to butchers.

Unenclosed or uncovered outside placement of goods or materials for a period of two months or more.

Any assembly of materials constructed or erected with a fixed location on the ground, or attached to something having a fixed location on the ground, any portion of which is above the natural surface grade, including but not limited to buildings, sheds, cabins, mobile homes, trailers, fences, dams, culverts, roads, railroads, bridges, storage tanks and signs.

A facility for the raising or sheltering of more than 10 swine or hogs.

An establishment that serves primarily alcoholic beverages for mostly on-premises consumption and which is licensed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. Taverns may also serve food, but no live entertainment shall be permitted.

A building or part of a building devoted to the showing of moving pictures or for dramatic, musical or live performances.

See "bed-and-breakfast establishment."

A dwelling with three dwelling units but not more than six dwelling units attached by party walls and not having any horizontal division between the dwelling units.

Leacock Township.

A vehicle, including but not limited to a mobile home, which can be used as habitation for one or more persons or for business, commercial or office purposes. The term "trailer" shall include such vehicles mounted on temporary or permanent foundations, with or without the wheels removed.

A vehicular portable or towable structure built on a chassis (pickup camper, converted bus, tent-trailer, or similar device) designed to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel and recreational purposes, having a body width not exceeding eight feet.

A facility for the overnight storage or parking of more than two tractor trailers, or any vehicle exceeding 10,000 pounds (gross vehicle weight), or parts thereof.

A detached residential building containing two dwelling units, designed for occupancy by not more than two families.

The conversion of an existing single-family detached dwelling unit to contain two separate dwelling units.

A vehicle, powered or unpowered, that is used or intended to be used for manned operation in the air by a single occupant for recreation or sport purposes only and that does not have any United States or foreign airworthiness certificate. Weight, fuel capacity and maximum speed shall be as regulated by Part 103 of the Federal Aviation Regulations.

The construction code as established by the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act, Act 45 of 1999, as amended.[12]

The principal purpose or activity for which land or a structure is designed, arranged, intended, occupied or maintained.

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

A single-family detached dwelling in which lodging is designed and provided for transients for a specified time period. A vacation rental house is not owner-occupied during the same time period(s) as transient occupancy.

A modification of the regulations of this chapter granted by the Zoning Hearing Board on grounds of practical difficulties or unnecessary hardship, not self-imposed, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.

An area used for the purpose of growing all types of edible foods.

A means of transporting or carrying something, including horse-drawn carts.

Any vehicle operated for the transportation of persons or property in the furtherance of any commercial or industrial enterprise, for-hire or not-for-hire, and displaying the name or symbol of a commercial or industrial enterprise; not including, however, a vehicle used in a ride-sharing arrangement.

Motor homes, travel trailers, house trailers, boats, camping trailers, all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, watercraft and trailers for transporting such vehicles.

A building or structure on a lot that is used for the repair or painting of bodies, chassis, wheels, fenders, bumpers and/or accessories of automobiles, trucks and other vehicles used for conveyance.

Any area of land, including structures thereon, that is used for the sale of gasoline or any other motor vehicle fuel and oil and other lubricating substances, including any retail sales of motor vehicle accessories, which may not include major repairing, body and fender work, painting, vehicular sales, nor rental, or automatic car washes.

A structure, building or area of land or any portion thereof used primarily for the servicing and repair of automobiles, trucks and similar vehicles. A vehicle repair garage may provide one or more of the following services: general mechanical repair of motor vehicles, including state inspection, lubrication, washing or sale of accessories and motor vehicle fuels. Uses permissible as a repair garage do not include bodywork, straightening of body parts, painting, welding and storage of certain vehicles. A repair garage is not an automobile body shop or retail automotive parts store.

A building or lot or part thereof supplying and selling gasoline or other equivalent fuel for motor vehicles at retail direct from pumps and storage tanks and which may include accessory facilities for rendering services, such as lubrication, washing and minor repairs, but which does not include vehicle sales, rental, automatic washing, major repairs, bodywork or painting.

A building on a lot, designed and used primarily for the washing and polishing of motor vehicles, and which may provide for the retail sale of minor automotive accessories.

Any mechanical device or structure or part thereof which may be operated by the use of coins or tokens, which dispenses food, drink, merchandise, products or commodities of whatever nature or description, or which furnishes services or provides entertainment. This definition shall not include gas, electric, water meters, washing and drying machines, telephones or municipally operated parking meters.

A building used primarily for the treatment, by a veterinarian, of all types of animals. No boarding of animals is permitted.

The construction, alteration or use of any structure, building, sign or land, or the change of use, area of use, percentage of use or displacement of the use of any structure, building, sign or land without first obtaining a permit; the use of any building, structure, sign or land without receipt of a certificate of use and occupancy; or the failure to comply with any other provisions of this chapter.

(See also "fence" and "hedge.") A work or structure intended for security or privacy from outside intrusion. Constructed of stone, brick or other materials forming a solid enclosure.

A structure constructed for the purpose of controlling topographic areas, which includes, but is not limited to, masonry, decorative block, railroad ties and landscape timbers.

A facility used for storage, transfer, repackaging or shipping of goods in bulk, including truck or motor freight terminals.

A facility use for storage, transfer or sale of goods in bulk.

A permanent or intermittent stream, river, brook, run, creek, channel, swale, pond, lake or other body of surface water, carrying or holding surface water, whether natural or man-made.

All the land from which water drains into a particular watercourse.

Sale of goods primarily in bulk or large quantities to persons engaged in further resale of such goods or use of them in construction, auto repair or similar activities. Wholesale uses typically do not serve the general public.

A device that converts wind energy to mechanical or electrical supply; commonly referred to as "windmills."

The blades, plus hub to which the blades are attached, that are used to capture wind for the purpose of energy conversion. The wind rotor is used on a pole or tower along with other generating and electrical storage equipment and forms a wind energy conversion system.

The unobstructed open space around a building. Porches and carports shall be considered a part of the building.

A classification of land use, including regulations. (Same as "zoning district.")

The duly constituted municipal official designated to administer and enforce this chapter.

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.