Areas of contiguous lots which share a common lot line, except not including lots entirely separated by a street or non-intermittent waterway.

An accredited medical school within this commonwealth that operates or partners with an acute care hospital licensed within this commonwealth.

An improved cartway designed and constructed to provide for vehicular movement between a public road and a tract of land containing any use other than one single-family dwelling unit, single-family semidetached (twin), townhouses, multiple-family building or farm.

A separate dwelling unit that is contained upon the same lot as an owner-occupied single-family detached dwelling and is contained within the principal dwelling building and is inhabited only by a person or persons related by blood or marriage to one or more of the occupants of the principal dwelling. All accessory apartments shall have direct separate means of entrance/exit.

Any equipment serving or being used in conjunction with a wireless telecommunications facility or wireless support structure. The term includes utility or transmission equipment, power supplies, generators, batteries, cables, equipment buildings, base stations, cabinets and storage sheds, shelters or similar equipment.

A solar collection system consisting of one or more roof- and/or ground-mounted solar collector devices and solar-related equipment, which has a rated capacity of less than or equal to 30 kilowatts (for electricity) or that has a lot coverage collector area of less than or equal to 1,000 square feet, and is intended to primarily reduce and/or supplement on-site consumption of utility power. A system is considered an accessory solar energy system only if it supplies electrical power solely for on-site use, except that when a property upon which the facility is installed also receives electrical power supplied by a utility company, excess electrical power generated and not presently needed for on-site use may be used by the utility company.

A subordinate use or building customarily incidental to, and located on the same lot occupied by, the main use or building. The term "accessory building" may include a private garage, garden shed or barn, a private playhouse, a private greenhouse, or a private swimming pool as hereinafter provided.

43,560 square feet.

The total land area contained within a property or proposed site, exclusive of lands within an existing or proposed public or private street right-of-way.

The latest version of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, as amended.[1]

Includes contiguous lots which share a common lot line or that are separated only by a street or waterway.

A business or club which engages in one or more of the following areas of sales, services, or entertainment:

An enterprise that is actively engages 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 with the agricultural industries.

The tilling of the soil, the raising of crops, forestry, horticulture and gardening, including the raising of livestock such as cattle, cows, hogs, horses, sheep, goats, poultry, rabbits, birds, fish, bees, and other similar animals. This definition also includes noncommercial greenhouses and mushroom houses. Agriculture can involve the incidental slaughter of livestock which has been raised on the site for no less than 2/3 of its lifespan.

A public or private thoroughfare, with a cartway or right-of-way of 20 feet or less which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property and is not intended for general traffic circulation. An alley is not a street. In the PRRC Zone, an "alley" is defined as a private thoroughfare providing for either one-way or two-way traffic which may afford a primary or secondary means of access to abutting property and is intended for traffic circulation only to and from abutting properties.

A facility, not located on the premises of a hospital, which provides outpatient surgical treatment. "Ambulatory surgical facility" does not include individual or group practice offices of private physicians or dentists, unless such offices have a distinct part used solely for outpatient surgical treatment on a regular and organized basis. For the purposes of this definition, "outpatient surgical treatment" means surgical treatment to patients who do not require hospitalization but who require constant medical supervision following the surgical procedure performed. In the event that the Pennsylvania statute defining this term is amended, or further amended, in that event this term shall be redefined as set forth in the statute. (See 35 P.S. § 448.802a, as amended.)

A commercial establishment which provides, as a principal use, amusement devices and/or games of skill or chance (e.g., pinball machines, video games, skeeball, electronic or water firing ranges, and other similar devices). This definition does not include the use of two or fewer such devices as an accessory use.

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

Telecommunications equipment that transmits and receives electromagnetic radio signals used in the provision of all types of wireless communications services. An antenna shall not include private residence-mounted satellite dishes or television antennas or amateur radio equipment including, without limitation, ham or citizen band radio antennas.

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

That part of a building which is immediately below and wholly or partly within the roof framing. Within a dwelling unit, an attic shall not be counted as floor area unless it is constructed as or modified into a habitable room by the inclusion of dormer windows, an average ceiling height of five feet or more, and a permanent stationary interior access stairway to a lower building story.

Any area of land, including structures thereon, that is used for the sale of gasoline or any other motor vehicle fuel and oil or other lubricating substances, including any retail sales of motor vehicle accessories, which may not include major repairing, body and fender work, painting, vehicular sales or rental, or automatic car washes.

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.

An area of land, with or without buildings, used for the storage, outside 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 the dismantling, processing, salvage, sale, or other use or disposition of the same. The deposit or storage on a lot of one or more unlicensed, wrecked, or disabled vehicles, or the major part thereof, shall be deemed to constitute an automobile/salvage facility. (A disabled vehicle is a vehicle intended to be self-propelled that shall not be operable under its own power for any reason or a vehicle that does not have a valid current registration plate or that has a certificate of inspection which is more than 60 days beyond the expiration date.)

The retail repair, servicing, maintenance or reconstruction of passenger vehicles, but not including car washes, per se.

The flood having a one-percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year (one-hundred-year flood).

The projected flood height of the base flood.

A structure or equipment at a fixed location that enables Federal Communications Commission-licensed or authorized wireless communications between user equipment and a communications network. The term does not encompass a tower or any equipment associated with a tower.

A single-family detached dwelling where one or more, but not more than five, rentable bedrooms are rented to overnight guests on a daily basis for periods not to exceed two weeks and which includes the owner residing on the premises. Breakfast shall only be offered to registered overnight guests.

Any room or space designated to be used or intended to be used for sleeping purposes. Spaces used for eating, cooking, bathrooms, toilet rooms, closets, halls, storage or utility room and similar uses are not considered bedrooms.

An accessory use to a farm in the A/RR Zone in which bees are raised and/or kept in compliance with § 180-16B(11)(c) of this chapter.

Practices that are designed to prevent or reduce impacts caused to air, water, soil, or biological resources, and to minimize the adverse impacts to public health, safety and welfare, including the environment and wildlife resources, utilizing the best available technology to the maximum extent possible.

A sign upon which images and/or messages of any kind are printed, posted, lettered or electronically displayed, whether freestanding or attached, to a surface of a building or other structure. A billboard is used to advertise products, services, or businesses at a location other than the premises on which the sign is placed or to disseminate other messages.

A facility, not part of a hospital, which provides maternity care to childbearing families not requiring hospitalization. A birth center provides a homelike atmosphere for maternity care, including prenatal, labor, delivery, and postpartum care related to medically uncomplicated pregnancies. In the event that the Pennsylvania statute defining this term is amended, or further amended, then in that event this term shall be redefined as set forth in the statute. (See 35 P.S. § 448.802a, as amended.)

The Zoning Hearing Board of Lehigh Township.

A detached building arranged or used for sheltering or feeding, or both, for three or more but not more than 10 individuals that do not constitute a family.

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

The total of areas taken on a horizontal plane at the average grade level of the principal building and all accessory buildings, exclusive or uncovered patios, decks, awnings, terraces, and steps.

A building's vertical measurement from the mean level of the ground abutting the building at its corners to the highest point on the roof.

The actual line of that face of the building nearest an adjacent right-of-way or street line. This face includes any structure above grade, except steps.

An exterior seating area associated with a restaurant or tavern which is under constant supervision by an employee of the business.

A lot, tract, or parcel of land upon which two or more campsites are located or established, intended and maintained for occupation by transients in recreational vehicles or tents.

A plot of ground within a campground intended for occupation by a recreational vehicle or tent.

The rating given to a PV system by its manufacturer denoting the load the system is able to meet or supply when operating at full capacity. For a solar PV system, this will occur when the system is in direct sunlight with no shade.

The individual designated by a patient to deliver medical marijuana.

An unenclosed structure for the storage of one or more vehicles in the same manner as a private garage, which may be covered by a roof supported by columns or posts, except that one or more walls may be the walls of the main building to which the carport is accessory.

The surface of a street, access drive, driveway or alley for vehicular traffic, including travel lanes and parking lanes but not including curbs, sidewalks, or swales.

A principal or accessory use whereby structures equipped with apparatus for the washing, waxing, and/or vacuuming of vehicles are provided.

A space with less than 1/2 of its floor-to-ceiling height above the average finished grade of the adjoining ground or with a floor-to-ceiling height of less than 6 1/2 feet. Within a dwelling unit, a cellar shall not be counted as floor area or as a story of permissible building height.

Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the deceased, including columbaria, mausoleums, and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with the cemetery and within the boundaries thereof. This definition shall not include crematoria.

A statement signed by the Zoning Officer setting forth that a building, structure or use legally complies with this chapter and other applicable codes and regulations and that the same may be used for the purposes stated therein.

The acquisition, possession, use or transportation of medical marijuana by a patient, or the acquisition, possession, delivery, transportation or administration of medical marijuana by a caregiver, for use as part of the treatment of the patient's serious medical condition, as authorized by certification by the commonwealth.

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

The manufacturing, processing or storage of chemicals individually or combined for the purpose of sales as part of an overall product manufacturing process.

A building, structure, or group of buildings or structures, including accessory uses, designed or intended for public worship. This definition shall include rectories, convents, and church-related educational and/or day-care facilities.

An entity that:

A development that blends residences with areas of natural sensitivity and/or public park lands. Cluster developments are permitted as a conditional use within the Village Residential Zone.

The mounting or installation of transmission equipment on an eligible support structure for the purpose of transmitting and/or receiving radio frequency signals for communications purposes.

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

An agricultural use involving the commercial keeping and handling of livestock in quantities exceeding any one of the following: five horses; 10 swine; 25 sheep; 25 dairy, beef or veal cattle; 500 poultry, excluding turkeys; or 100 turkeys.

An activity operated as a business, 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, health clubs, miniature golf courses, etc. This definition does not include adult-related uses, shooting ranges, amusement arcades, or off-track betting parlors, as defined herein.

A vehicle that exceeds a gross vehicle weight (truck plus rated payload) of 10,000 pounds.

Any area of land or water, or a combination of land and water, within a development site designed and intended for use by all residents of the development or the general public. Land included within the right-of-way lines of streets and stormwater detention basins shall not be classified as common open space. Common open spaces shall not include required setbacks between buildings and street rights-of-way, driveways, access drives, parking areas, and property lines of the development. No dwelling unit, residential accessory building, or parking or loading area may be located within common open space.

A noncommercial use chartered as a nonprofit organization for use by the residents of the community in which it is located. Such use exists solely to provide educational, cultural, recreational or civic activities and programs open to the general public or certain age groups. The use also may include the noncommercial preparation and/or provision of meals to low-income elderly persons. This use shall not include residential uses, day care, health care facilities, personal care facilities or centers for the treatment of alcohol and/or drug abuse.

The most recently adopted version of the Official Comprehensive Plan of Lehigh Township, Northampton County, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, including all amendments.

A device that raises the pressure of oil and natural gas and/or by-products. Compressors are any devices that create a pressure differential to move or compress a liquid, vapor, or a gas. Any such device used alone or in series to adequately move a liquid, vapor or a gas is considered a compressor.

All land and/or a lot, facility, parcel, or operating location in which animals have been, are or will be stabled or confined and fed or maintained for a total of 45 days or more in any twelve-month period and where a ground cover of vegetation is not sustained over at least 50% of the animal confinement area. A concentrated animal feeding operation shall include any agricultural operation with more than 1,000 animal equivalency units (AEUs); an agricultural operation with animals with a discharge to surface waters during a storm event of less than twenty-five-year/twenty-four-hour storm; or a concentrated animal operation (CAO) as defined below in § 180-15 with greater than 300 animal equivalent units (AEUs). For purposes of this definition, "animal confinement area" includes the buildings or structures, including feedlots, in which animals are confined, but does not include contiguous land used as plant filter areas over which crops or other vegetation are raised independent from the animal feeding operations.

An agricultural operation where the animal density exceeds two animal equivalent units (AEU) per acre on an annual basis. An AEU is 1,000 pounds of live weight of any animal. Standard animal weights used to determine the AEU calculation are found in Table 1 as follows:

A use which may be appropriate to a particular zoning district only when specific conditions and criteria prescribed for such use have been complied with. Conditional uses are reviewed by the Board of Supervisors after recommendations by the Planning Commission, in accordance with § 180-128 of this chapter.

A form of property ownership providing for individual ownership of a specific dwelling unit or other space together with an undivided interest in the land or other parts of the structure in common with other owners.

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

A facility for long-term residence of persons infirmed, ill, or of advanced age who are in need of custodial care and attention, but not active treatment, and may include a health care facility, provided that the convalescent home shall be licensed by an appropriate agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

A retail sales business which specializes in providing household products and food.

A group of uses designed and constructed as an integrated development to serve those attending consumer trade shows, association conferences and meetings, sports shows, banquets, receptions, and other similar functions.

The adaptation of one single-family detached dwelling to two or more dwelling units.

A publicly or privately operated facility housing persons (either juvenile or adult) awaiting criminal trial or adjudication, serving a sentence after being found guilty of a criminal offense or being adjudicated delinquent for a crime, which may be within the jurisdiction of a federal, state or local probation, parole or corrections agency and/or receiving treatment other than at a hospital while under the jurisdiction of such authority or agency. The term shall include, but not be limited to, jails, prisons, work release centers, pre-release centers and treatment centers. The term shall not include a group home or group institution otherwise approved and regulated by this Zoning Ordinance.

A dead-end street equipped with a vehicular turnaround at its terminus.

The offering of care or supervision over minors or special needs adults in lieu of care or supervision by family members. This definition does not include the offering of overnight accommodations.

The number of dwelling units permitted in relation to the land area actually in use or proposed to be used for residential purposes, exclusive of public and/or private streets.

A region within a county or counties described in a municipal or multi-municipal plan that preferably includes and surrounds a city, borough or village and within which residential and mixed-use development is permitted or planned for at densities of one unit to the acre or more; commercial, industrial and institutional uses are permitted or planned for; and public infrastructure services are provided or planned.

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.

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

A disability of a person which has continued or can be expected to continue indefinitely; a disability which is:

A person with a developmental disability.

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.

A person, including a natural person, corporation, partnership, association, trust or other entity, or any combination thereof, which holds a permit issued by the Department of Health (DOH) of the commonwealth to dispense medical marijuana.

A small network of antennas that are connected to a common source that provides coverage in a building or a small geographic area.

A process whereby materials, goods, or products are imported, stored by one person, and then delivered to another.

Any means for passage of vehicles, whether one combined ingress/egress point or one clearly defined ingress point appropriately separated from another clearly defined egress point, between property abutting on a private or public street serving one single-family dwelling unit, semidetached (twin), townhouse or multiple-family building, farm or public facility. It will also include such drainage structures as may be necessary for the proper construction and maintenance thereof.

Any building or portion thereof designed and used exclusively for residential occupancy, including those listed below, but not including hospitals, hotels, boarding-, rooming and lodging houses, institutional houses, tourist courts, and the like, offering overnight accommodations for guests or patients. All dwellings must be permanently affixed to a completely enclosed foundation constructed of currently accepted materials that shall be an entire perimeter wall and extend from below the frost line to the first floor of the building. Such foundation shall be constructed to provide sufficient structural integrity to prevent the building from heaving, shifting, or settling unevenly due to frost action. In addition, all dwellings shall be properly connected to approved and permanently designed sewer, water, electrical and other utility systems.

A building or portion thereof arranged or designed for occupancy by not more than one family and having separate cooking and sanitary facilities.

Any construction or other activity which disturbs the surface of the land, including but not limited to excavations, embankments, land development, subdivision development, mineral extraction and the moving, depositing or storing of soil, rock or earth, excluding the tilling of the soil.

Any request for modification of an existing tower or base station that does not substantially change the physical dimensions of such tower or base station, involving: i) collocation of new transmission equipment; ii) removal of transmission equipment; or iii) replacement of transmission equipment.

Any tower or base station, provided that it is existing at the time the relevant application is filed.

An area surrounding or adjacent to a wireless support structure within which base stations, power supplies or accessory equipment are located.

An individual or individuals related by blood, marriage, or adoption (including persons receiving foster care) that maintain one common household and live within one dwelling unit. Additionally, up to three unrelated individuals who maintain a common household and live within one dwelling unit may be considered a family. Finally, a family shall also expressly include unrelated persons who reside within a licensed group home, as defined herein.

Any parcel of land with 10 or more acres which is used in the raising of agricultural products, including but not limited to trees, livestock, poultry or dairy products, including necessary farm structures and the storage of equipment customarily incidental to the primary use.

A retail sales use where more than one vendor displays and sells general merchandise that is new or used. Farmers' and/or flea markets can include indoor and outdoor display of merchandise.

An accessory use to the primary agricultural use of a property in which residents engage in a secondary occupation conducted on the active farm.

A principal use that may or may not be located upon a farm, at which goods and services are rendered in support of local farming operations.

A freestanding, artificially constructed barrier consisting of wood, glass, metal, plastic, wire, wire mesh or masonry or a combination thereof, erected to enclose, screen or separate properties or areas of a property.

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

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

A general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas from the overland flow of watercourses or from the unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source.

The projected heights, in relation to the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD), reached by floods of various magnitudes and frequencies in the floodplain areas.

An area of land adjacent to the channel of a watercourse which has been or is likely to be flooded, or any area subject to the unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff 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 property, structures and their contents.

The channel of a watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the base flood elevation more than one foot.

The sum of the floor areas of a building as measured to the outside surfaces of exterior walls and including all areas intended and designed for the conduct of a business or use.

The total floor area designed for occupancy by an owner or tenant, as measured to the center of interior joint walls and the exterior of outside walls.

The sum of the floor areas of a dwelling unit as measured to the outside surfaces of exterior walls and including all rooms used for habitation, such as living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, closets, hallways, and stairways, but not including cellars or attics, or service rooms or areas such as utility rooms, or unheated areas such as enclosed porches.

The management of forest and timberlands when practiced in accordance with accepted silvicultural principals, through developing, cultivating, harvesting, transporting and selling trees for commercial purposes. Forestry shall not include the removal of timberlands for purposes of constructing a residential dwelling on a lot size of two acres or less.

The characteristics of the medical marijuana recommended or limited for a particular patient, including the method of consumption and any particular dosage, strain, variety and quantity or percentage of medical marijuana or particular active ingredient.

The linear measurement taken along a property's common boundary with an adjoining street right-of-way, other than that of a limited access highway.

A nonfreestanding pole which is attached to an electrical transmission tower which is used to support antennas and accessory equipment and which is anchored to the ground and obtains lateral bracing by direct attachment to the electrical transmission tower.

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

An area of a municipal or multi-municipal plan outside of and adjacent to a designated growth area where residential, commercial, industrial and institutional uses and development are permitted or planned at varying densities and public infrastructure services may or may not be provided, but future development at greater densities is planned to accompany the orderly extension and provision of public infrastructure services.

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 may be stored therein where the use of such vehicle is not incidental to the use of the premises. No business, occupation or service shall be conducted therein, nor shall space therein for more than one vehicle be leased to a nonoccupant of the premises. Where a garage is an attached integral part of a dwelling unit, the garage shall not be counted as floor area unless it is constructed or modified into a habitable room by the removal of all vehicular access doors and provided that adequate off-street parking is still available on the same lot as the dwelling unit.

That which exhibits consistency.

A golf course with a minimum of 2,800 yards of play in nine holes.

A dwelling operated by a reasonably responsible individual, family, or organization with a program to provide a supportive living arrangement for individuals not necessarily related by blood, marriage, adoption or legal guardianship, where special care is needed by the individual(s) served due to their emotional, mental, or physical handicap. Group homes must be licensed where required by any appropriate government agencies (including the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare), and a copy of any such licenses must be delivered to the Township prior to beginning the use. This definition shall expressly exclude facilities for the supervised care of persons under treatment for alcohol and/or drug abuse and any use related to criminal rehabilitation of adults or juveniles or services related to the treatment of the criminally insane. Facilities which house persons who pose a direct physical threat to the community may not be deemed "group homes" under the provisions of this chapter, noting that such persons include, but are not necessarily limited to, individuals who have violent behavioral disorders or who have been convicted or adjudicated delinquent for violent offenses. The following facilities also do not constitute group homes under this chapter: a group institution; a facility housing juveniles who have been adjudicated delinquent; a facility serving as an alternative to incarceration, confinement or imprisonment; an alcohol or drug treatment facility; a halfway house; a work release facility for individuals convicted or adjudicated delinquent of a crime; a facility providing housing to sexual offenders; or a secured care facility, secure detention or secure treatment center (such as where the residents have been convicted or adjudicated for violent offenses).

A building, other than a group home, constituting a household of not more than 14 persons, not necessarily related by blood, marriage, adoption or legal guardianship, who, because of their physical or emotional condition, or their social or interpretation skills, are limited, inhibited or prevented from functioning as useful or productive members of society. All group institutions shall be licensed and regulated by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare ("DPW") and accredited by an authorized third-party agency such as the Joint Commission [formerly the Joint Commission on Accreditation on Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)]. Group institutions shall include those facilities that serve as an alternative to incarceration, as well as those facilities that provide housing to juveniles adjudicated delinquent of nonviolent offenses. Group institutions shall not provide housing for individuals who have violent behavioral disorders or who have been convicted or adjudicated delinquent for violent offenses. The following facilities also do not constitute group institutions under this chapter: an alcohol or drug treatment facility, a halfway house for adults, a work release facility for individuals convicted of a crime, a facility providing housing to sexual offenders, or a secured care facility, secure detention or secure treatment center (such as where the residents have been convicted or adjudicated for violent offenses). Group institutions shall not provide, nor be licensed to provide, treatment for adjudicated sex offenders, fire setters, murderers, kidnappers, armed robbers or juveniles diagnosed with violent psychiatric disorders.

A person, including a natural person, corporation, partnership, association, trust or other entity, or any combination thereof, which holds a permit from the DOH to grow and process medical marijuana.

Materials which have the potential to damage health, endanger human life or impair safety.

The definition of hazardous waste contained in Pa. Code Title 25, Chapter 261a, Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste, is hereby adopted by reference.

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 commercial business that offers active recreational and/or fitness activities. Such activities are provided only to club members and their guests. Such facilities do not include golf courses.

A general, chronic disease, or other type of hospital, a home health care agency, a hospice, a long-term care nursing facility, cancer treatment centers using radiation therapy on an ambulatory basis, an ambulatory surgical facility, or a birth center, regardless of whether such health care facility is operated for profit, nonprofit, or by an agency of the commonwealth or local government. The term "health care facility" shall not include an office used primarily for the private practice of a health care practitioner, nor a program which renders treatment or care for drug or alcohol abuse or dependence unless located within a health care facility, nor a facility providing treatment solely on the basis of prayer or spiritual means. A mental retardation facility is not a health care facility, except to the extent that it provides skilled nursing care. The term "health care facility" shall not apply to a facility which is conducted by a religious organization for the purpose of providing health care services exclusively to clergymen, or other persons in a religious profession, who are members of a religious denomination. In the event that the Pennsylvania statute defining this term is amended, or further amended, then in that event this term shall be redefined as set forth in the statute. (See 35 P.S. § 448.802a, as amended.)

Machinery, vehicles and other devices that are not normally used for domestic purposes upon a residential dwelling lot. Examples include, but are not limited to, farm machinery, excavation equipment, commercial trucks and trailers, Class II recreational vehicles (as defined herein), yachts, industrial machinery, etc.

The vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the proposed finished grade at the front of the building to the average top of fascia height of a pitched roof or height of the roof, as applicable, excluding incinerators, vent pipes, antennas, public utility structures, commercial radio and/or television transmission tower, water tank, clock tower, dormer, spire, belfry, enclosure for service equipment, elevator bulkhead, stage tower, scenery loft, chimneys, cupolas, silos, parapets, mansard roofs, gale roofs, hip roofs, solar panels, satellite dishes, stairway enclosures, and other similar structures or mechanical appurtenances that extend not more than 20 feet from the top of the roof.

The vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the proposed finished grade at the front of the structure to the average top of fascia height of a pitched roof or height of the roof, as applicable, excluding incinerators, vent pipes, antennas, public utility structures, commercial radio and/or television transmission tower, water tank, clock tower, dormer, spire, belfry, enclosure for service equipment, elevator bulkhead, stage tower, scenery loft, chimneys, cupolas, silos, parapets, mansard roofs, gale roofs, hip roofs solar panels, satellite dishes, stairway enclosures, and other similar structures or mechanical appurtenances that extend not more than 20 feet from the top of the roof.

An accessory use where no more than one helicopter may land/take off and be stored.

A principal use where one or more helicopters may land/take off and be stored. Such use may also include support services, such as fueling and maintenance equipment, passenger terminals and storage hangers.

The conversion of an historic structure into two or more dwelling units.

The conversion of an historic structure into a restaurant.

A structure that is on the National Register of Historic Places or recognized by the Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission, the Northampton County Historical Society, or any Township-appointed body created for such purposes as being historically significant.

A business or commercial activity that is conducted as an accessory use in a detached dwelling unit, except that a limited business or commercial activity which meets all of the following criteria is not considered a home occupation and is permitted by right in any dwelling unit:

An institution, licensed in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a hospital, having an organized medical staff, established for the purpose of providing to inpatients, by or under the supervision of physicians, diagnostic and therapeutic services for the care of persons who are injured, disabled, pregnant, diseased, sick, or mentally ill, or rehabilitation services for the rehabilitation of persons who are injured, disabled, pregnant, diseased, or sick or mentally ill. The term includes facilities for the diagnosis and treatment of disorders within the scope of specific medical specialties but not facilities caring exclusively for the mentally ill. A hospital use can also include attached and detached accessory uses, provided that all accessory uses are contained upon the hospital property.

A building or group of buildings which has a central office on site and 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.

A document issued by the DOH that permits access to medical marijuana.

Any material that covers the land which inhibits the percolation of stormwater directly into the soil, including but not limited to buildings and pavements; provided, however, that this definition shall not include stormwater management facilities.

Any land area characterized by any or all of the following:

An institution which provides, on a regular basis, health-related care and services to resident individuals who do not require the degree of care and treatment which a hospital or skilled nursing facility is designed to provide but who, because of their mental or physical condition, require health-related care and services above the level of room and board. Intermediate care facilities exclusively for the mentally retarded, commonly called "ICF/MR," shall be considered intermediate care facilities for the purpose of this chapter. In the event that the Pennsylvania statute defining this term is amended, or further amended, then in that event this term shall be redefined as set forth in the statute. (See 35 P.S. § 448.802a, as amended.)

Used and/or discarded materials, including but not limited to wastepaper, rags, metal, building materials, house furnishings, machinery, vehicles, or parts thereof.

Any lot on which two or more animals that are older than six months (except relating to a farm) are kept, boarded, raised, bred, treated, or trained for a fee, including but not limited to dog or cat kennels.

A unit of electrical power equal to 1,000 watts, which constitutes the basic unit of electrical demand. The watt is a metric measurement of power (not energy) and is the rate (not the duration) at which electricity is used. One thousand kW is equal to one megawatt (MW).

A unit of electrical energy, equivalent to the use of one kilowatt of electricity for one full hour. Utilities measure customers' electric energy usage on the basis of kilowatt-hours, and electricity rates are most commonly expressed in cents per kilowatt-hour.

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, shall be deemed to be a landowner for the purposes of this chapter.

Refers to any activity that modifies the visible features of an area of land, including living elements, such as flora or fauna; or what is commonly called "gardening," the art and craft of growing plants with a goal of creating a beautiful environment within the landscape. Natural elements such as landforms, terrain shape and elevation, or bodies of water; and abstract elements such as the weather and lighting conditions.

A landscaping business is defined as a business concern which may operate to construct, install, and maintain lawns, trees, yards, shrubs, gardens, patios, related grounds and other outdoor areas which are owned by others. A landscaping business shall have but not be limited to the following characteristics:

Something that decorates or adorns; an embellishment. An object or feature intended to beautify the appearance of that to which it is added or of which it is a part; embellishment; decoration.

The processing, fabrication, treatment, or assembly of materials, raw or otherwise, or manufacturing of products that may or may not require additional processing, fabrication, treatment, or assembly, whether or not for ultimate use by the consumer.

A landscaping business which meets the "home occupation" exception criteria as set forth in § 180-15.

An off-street paved space suitable for the loading or unloading of goods and having direct usable access to a street or alley.

A facility that provides skilled or intermediate nursing care or both levels of care to two or more patients who are unrelated to the nursing home administrator for a period exceeding 24 hours.

Any parcel or tract of land intended as a single unit for purposes of ownership, transfer of ownership, use, rent, improvement or development. The word "lot" includes the word "plot," "parcel" or "tract." Contiguous nonconforming lots of record under single and separate ownership shall be considered one lot for the purposes of this chapter. A lot as herein defined may or may not coincide with a lot of record.

The area contained within the property lines of individual parcels of land, excluding any area within a street right-of-way but including the area of any easement.

A percentage of the lot area which may be covered with an impervious surface (e.g., buildings, driveways, parking area, sidewalks and ground-mounted energy systems).

The horizontal average distance measured between the street right-of-way and the rear property line. On corner and reverse frontage lots, the depth shall be an average distance measured from the street right-of-way line of the street of address to the directly opposite property line.

A lot identified on a subdivision plan or on a deed or other instrument of conveyance recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds in and for Northampton County, Pennsylvania.

The horizontal distance measured between side property lines. On corner lots, lot width shall be measured between the right-of-way line for the non-address street and the directly opposite property line. Lot width shall be measured at the building setback.

A function involving either the processing or production of materials, goods, or products.

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

A detached structure or other improvements built to store manure for future use or disposal. Types of storage facilities are as follows: underground storage, in-ground storage, earthen bank, stacking area, and aboveground storage.

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.

A voluntary negotiating process in which parties in a dispute mutually select a neutral mediator to assist them in jointly exploring and settling their differences, culminating in a written agreement which the parties themselves create and consider acceptable.

Marijuana for certified medical use as legally permitted by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with Act 16.[3]

Any facility used to house delivery vehicles for supplying marijuana plants or seeds to one or more marijuana grower/processors and/or dispensaries.

A dispensary or a grower/processor of marijuana for medical purposes.

A building or portion of a building, which building or portion of building is not larger than 45,000 square feet of gross floor area and is occupied by licensed medical practitioners and other health-related personnel for the purpose of providing health and health-related services to people on an outpatient basis.

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

A principal use whereby a comprehensive medical and residential environment primarily serves retirement-aged persons and/or those possessing some ailment or disability. Medical residential campuses also offer a variety of residential dwelling types determined by the occupants' respective needs for some level of nursing and/or medical care.

Unit of electric power equal to 1,000 kW, or 1,000,000 watts.

A building, structure, lot, or land area used as a private club or social organization not conducted for profit or gain.

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.

Minimum height necessary for a WCF to function satisfactorily.

A building and/or series of buildings divided into separate storage units for personal property and/or property associated with some business or other organization. These units shall be used solely for dead storage, and no processing, manufacturing, sales, research and development testing, service and repair, or other nonstorage activities shall be permitted.

A building that contains at least one floor devoted to permitted nonresidential uses and at least one floor devoted to permitted residential uses.

Any structure intended for or capable of permanent human habitation, with or without wheels, and capable of being transported or towed from one place to the next, in one or more pieces, by whatsoever name or title it is colloquially or commercially known, but excluding transport trucks or vans equipped with sleeping space for a driver or drivers, and travel trailers.

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.

The improvement, upgrade or expansion of existing wireless telecommunications facilities, accessory equipment or base stations on an existing wireless support structure or the improvement, upgrade or expansion of the wireless telecommunication facilities located within an existing equipment compound, if the improvement, upgrade, expansion or replacement does not substantially change the physical dimension of the wireless support structure.

A tower which consists of a single pole structure without any guy wires, designed and erected on the ground or on top of a structure, to support communications antennas and connect appurtenances.

A facility which provides lodging to boarders for compensation, which contains more than eight rooms, with at least 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 part of the compensation.

Structures for which the start of construction commenced on or after the effective date of this chapter.

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 definition is also meant to include an "under 21" club which features entertainment.

An accessory use to a principal detached single-family dwelling that is not contained upon a farm, whereupon livestock are kept exclusively by the residents of the site.

A lot the area or dimension of which was lawful prior to the adoption or amendment of a zoning ordinance but which fails to conform to the requirements of the zone in which it is located by reasons of such adoption or amendment.

A structure or part of a structure manifestly not designed to comply with the applicable use or extent of use provisions in the zoning ordinance or amendment heretofore or hereafter enacted, where such structure lawfully existed prior to the enactment of such ordinance or amendment or prior to the application of such ordinance or amendment to its location by reason of annexation. 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 in the zoning ordinance or amendment heretofore or hereafter enacted where such use was lawfully in existence prior to the enactment of such ordinance or amendment or prior to the application of such ordinance or amendment to its location by reason of annexation.

Any aspect of a land use that does not comply with any size, height, bulk, setback, distance, landscaping, coverage, screening, or any other design or performance standard specified by the zoning ordinance, where such dimensional nonconformity lawfully existed prior to the adoption of this chapter or amendment thereto.

Facilities designed for the housing, boarding, and dining associated with some level of nursing care.

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:

The purpose for which a building or portion thereof is utilized or occupied.

A place where the primary use is conducting the affairs of a business, profession, service, or government, including administration, recordkeeping, clerical work, and similar business functions. An office shall not involve manufacturing, fabrication, production, processing, assembling, cleaning, testing, repair, or storage of materials, goods or products or the sale or delivery of any materials, goods, or products which are physically located on the premises. Office supplies used in the office may be stored as an incidental use.

A commercial use at which persons can visit to wager upon, and observe by remote television, the outcomes of events that are taking place elsewhere.

A facility or location that contains a compressor, compressors and all related components to facilitate the movement of oil and/or natural gas and/or its by-products through a pipeline.

A system used to measure all oil and/or natural gas entering or exiting the pipeline system to provide accurate and continuous gas measurements and/or regulate gas pressure and delivery volumes.

All parts of those physical facilities through which oil and/or natural gas moves in transportation, including pipe, valves, and other appurtenances attached to pipes, compressor units, metering stations, regulator stations, delivery stations, holders, and fabricated assemblies.

A facility that receives oil and/or natural gas and associated hydrocarbons from a truck, railway car, or pipeline system serving one or more wells, which processes, compresses, condenses, pressurizes, deals with dew point control or gas quality related issues or otherwise treats oil and/or natural gas making it suitable for, among other things, pipeline transmission, or which removes and separates or adds other materials, products, and impurities to or from the oil or gas, and which may or may not include compressor stations, cooling facilities, storage tanks and related equipment and facilities.

A flood which is likely to be equaled or exceeded once every 100 years (i.e., that has a one-percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year). A study by the Federal Insurance Administration, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the United States Department of Agriculture's Soil Conservation Service, the United States Geological Survey, or a professional land surveyor or professional engineer, registered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is necessary to define this flood.

The outer boundary of an area of land that is likely to be flooded once every 100 years (i.e., that has a one-percent chance of being flooded each year). A study by the Federal Insurance Administration, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the United States Department of Agriculture's Soil Conservation Service, the United States Geological Survey, or a professional land surveyor or professional engineer, registered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is necessary to define this boundary.

The water surface elevations of the one-hundred-year flood.

The disposal of sewage generated by one principal use with the use of safe and healthful means within the confines of the lot on which the use is located, as approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

The provision of a safe, adequate and healthful supply of water to a single principal use from a private well.

A space unoccupied by buildings or paved surface and open to the sky on the same lot with the building.

A special use district, defined by special physical characteristics or designated for specific uses, either graphically depicted on a map or described by metes and bounds, whose uses, conditional or by right, are permitted in the underlying or base zoning district.

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

A primary retail sales business where passenger vehicles may be stored for short-term, daily, or overnight off-street parking and connected to a street by an access drive.

An accessory use in which required and, possibly, additional parking spaces are provided subject to the requirements listed in § 180-37.

An off-street space available for the parking of one motor vehicle and having usable access to a street or alley.

Those facilities designed and used for recreation purposes by the general public that are owned and operated by a government or governmental agency/authority or are operated on a nonprofit basis. This definition is meant to include the widest range of recreational activities, excluding adult entertainment uses, amusement arcades, off-track betting parlors and shooting ranges.

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

A premises in which food, shelter and personal assistance or supervision are provided for a period exceeding 24 hours for four or more adults who are not relatives of the operator and who do not require the services in or of a licensed long-term care facility but who do require assistance or supervision in matters such as dressing, bathing, diet, financial management, evacuation of a residence in the event of an emergency or medication prescribed for self-administration.

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.

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

The technology that uses a semiconductor to convert light directly into electricity.

The pathway in which the pipelines and facilities of a pipeline operator are located in the jurisdiction of Lehigh Township including public rights-of-way and easements over and through public or private property.

A group of uses planned and designed as an integrated unit with controlled ingress and egress and shared off-street parking provided on the property as an integral part of the unit. Such centers also may include planned center signs as regulated herein.

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 a municipal zoning ordinance.

The Planning Commission of Lehigh Township.

Man-made or man-induced contamination or other degradation of the physical, chemical, biological, or radiological integrity of air, water, soil, or biological resource.

A contract to purchase energy. PPAs are usually established between a power plant and a purchaser of electrical energy, such as a utility. A PPA may be a contract written between a building owner that wants to use solar energy and a third-party developer who will install, maintain and own the PV system used to generate the electricity on the building's structure, then sell the solar energy produced by the system to the building owner at a pre-determined rate.

The property upon which the activity is conducted as determined by physical facts rather than property lines. It is the land occupied by the buildings or other physical uses that are necessary or customarily incident to the activity, including such open spaces as are arranged and designed to be used in connection with such buildings or uses. The following are not considered to be a part of the premises on which the activity is conducted, and any signs located on such land are to be considered off-premises advertising:

When used in connection with natural and historic resources, includes 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.

Land used for agricultural purposes that contains soils of the first, second or third class as defined by the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resource and Conservation Services County Soil Survey.

An area of land or other area used for a solar collection system principally used to capture solar energy and convert it to electrical energy. A principal solar energy production facility is a system which uses solar-related equipment and which has a rated capacity of more than 18 kilowatts or that has a lot coverage collector area of more than 1,000 square feet.

A principal use whereby waste is brought to the site for storage, processing, treatment, transfer, or disposal.

An organization catering exclusively to members and their guests, or premises or buildings for social, recreational and administrative purposes which are not conducted for profit, provided there are not conducted any vending stands, merchandising or commercial activities except as required for the membership of such club. Clubs shall include but not be limited to service and political organizations and labor unions, as well as social and athletic clubs. Private clubs shall not include adult-related facilities or off-track betting parlors, as defined herein.

A function which involves only the cleaning, sorting, sizing and/or packaging of products and materials for sale or profit.

An individual with at least a graduate degree in aquatic and/or terrestrial biology and/or ecology and with a depth of knowledge in organisms and the process of ecological systems.

Any habitable structure, religious institution, public building, health care facility, school, camp, or public park. This term shall not apply to accessory buildings, garages, hangars, or storage buildings.

Owned and/or operated by the Township, its authority, a Township-supported fire company, or a Township-supported ambulance association.

A formal meeting held pursuant to public notice by the governing body or planning agency intended to inform and obtain public comment prior to taking action on zoning- or planning-related matters.

A designated growth area and all or any portion of a future growth area described in a county or multi-municipal comprehensive plan where public infrastructure services will be provided and outside of which such public infrastructure services will not be required to be publicly financed.

A forum held pursuant to notice under the act of July 3, 1986 (P.L. 388, No. 84), known as the "Sunshine Act," and subsequent amendments.[4]

Notice published once each week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality. 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. Public notice for rezoning, special exception and/or variance requests shall also include the posting of a sign(s) at a conspicuous location(s) upon the subject property to notify potentially interested citizens. This sign(s) shall be posted at least one week prior to the hearing and will exhibit the nature, date, time and location of the hearing.

A municipal sanitary sewer or a comparable common or package sanitary facility approved and permitted by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Such systems are capable of serving multiple users.

A use or extension thereof which is operated, owned or maintained by a public utility corporation, municipality or municipal authority or which is privately owned and approved by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission for the purpose of providing public sewage disposal and/or treatment, or public water supply, storage and/or treatment, or for the purpose of providing the transmission of energy or telephone service.

A municipal water supply system or a comparable common water facility approved and permitted by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Such systems are capable of serving multiple users.

Any natural or artificially produced substance which emits radiation spontaneously.

A portable structure primarily designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreation, camping or travel purposes. In addition to the above, any of the following attributes are characteristic of a travel trailer:

A use involving the commercial collection, separation, and/or processing of nonhazardous waste materials found in the typical household or office for the purpose of reuse but which does not involve the processing of nonrecycled residential or municipal solid waste, unless the use also meets the applicable requirements for a solid waste transfer facility. Recycling facilities do not include junkyards.

The registry established by the DOH for all medical marijuana organizations and practitioners.

The one-hundred-year flood elevation plus a freeboard safety factor of one foot.

Any method, process or substance whose supply is rejuvenated through natural processes and, subject to those natural processes, remains relatively constant, including but not limited to biomass conversion, geothermal energy, solar and wind energy and hydroelectric energy, and excluding those sources of energy used in the fission and fusion processes.

A procedure by which services or personal property is temporarily transferred to another person for a specific time period for compensation.

A function involved in correcting deficiencies of products that affect its performance and/or appearance.

The replacement of existing wireless telecommunications facilities on an existing wireless support structure or within an existing equipment compound due to maintenance, repair or technological advancement with equipment composed of the same wind loading and structural loading that is substantially similar in size, weight and height as the wireless telecommunications facilities initially installed and that does not substantially change the physical dimensions of the existing wireless support structure.

An establishment that serves prepared food primarily on nondisposable tableware but can provide for incidental carry-out service so long as the area used for carry-out service does not exceed 5% of the total patron seating area or 80 square feet (whichever is less). Caterers shall be included in this definition.

An establishment that serves prepared food generally packaged in paper wrappers and/or disposable plates and containers. Such food can be consumed either on or off the site.

Those businesses whose primary activities involve the display and sales of goods and products to the general public. This term shall not include adult-related uses as defined herein.

A principal use whereby equestrian instruction is offered and horses are kept, bred, trained and/or exercised upon land not occupied by the owner of the horse(s).

The surface of and space above and below any real property in the municipality in which the federal government, commonwealth, municipality or municipal authority has a regulatory interest, or interest as a trustee for the public, as such interests now or hereafter exist, including, but not limited to, all streets, highways, avenues, roads, alleys, sidewalks, tunnels, viaducts, bridges, skyways, or any other public place, area or property under the control of the federal government, commonwealth, municipality or municipal authority, and any nonexclusive public or utility easements established, dedicated, platted, improved or devoted for utility purposes. Private rights-of-way and other government-owned lands not listed above shall not be considered a right-of-way. The phrase "in the right(s)-of-way" means in, on, over, along, above and/or under the right(s)-of-way.

The highest elevation point of the roof. A roof shall be defined as the outside top covering of a building.

An area described in a municipal or multi-municipal plan within which rural resource uses, including but not limited to agriculture, timbering, mining, quarrying and other extractive industries, forest and game lands and recreation and tourism, are encouraged and enhanced, development that is compatible with or supportive of such uses is permitted, and public infrastructure services are not provided except in villages.

The latest version of the Township's Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance, as may be amended.[5]

A device incorporating a reflective surface which is solid, open mesh or bar configured and is in the shape of a shallow dish, cone, horn, or cornucopia. Such device shall be used to transmit and/or receive radio or electromagnetic waves between terrestrially and/or orbitally based uses. This definition is meant to include but not be limited to what are commonly referred to as satellite earth stations, TARO's, and satellite microwave antennas.

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

An assemblage of materials that are arranged so as to block the ground-level views between grade and a height of six feet. Suitable screening materials include trees, shrubs, hedges, berms, walls, sight-tight fences and/or other similar type materials. No wall or fence shall be constructed of plywood, corrugated metal or fiberglass, or sheet metal. Landscape screens must achieve the required visual blockage within two years of installation.

Goods and products that are generally offered for retail sale to the public during specific periods of any calendar year. Examples include, but are not limited to, holiday decorations, nursery and garden stock, home and garden supplies and equipment, outdoor play and recreation equipment, etc.

A dwelling, cabin, lodge or summer house which is intended for occupancy less than 182 days of the year.

The required horizontal distance between a setback line and a property or street right-of-way line.

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 that property or street line.

Liquid or solid sludges and other residues from a municipal sewage collection and treatment system and liquid or solid sludges and other residues from septic and holding tank pumpings from private residential septic systems. The term includes materials derived from sewage sludge. The term does not include ash generated during the firing of sewage sludge in a sewage sludge incinerator, grit and screenings generated during preliminary treatment of sewage sludge at a municipal sewage collection and treatment system, or grit, screenings and nonorganic objects from septic and holding tank pumpings from residential systems.

Single-family detached dwelling.

A deciduous tree that shall have a clear trunk at least five feet above the finished grade.

A place where firearms and other projectile-type weapons (e.g., guns, rifles, shotguns, pistols, air guns, archery crossbows, etc.) can be shot for recreation, competition, skill development and/or training. Nothing within this definition shall be construed to include hunting when conducted in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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

Any dwelling unit owned or managed by a person or entity which is rented or leased to a transient visitor for a period of less than 30 days. This term shall not include "bed-and-breakfast" or a "hotel" as those terms are defined in this chapter.

The written grant of right to operate a short-term rental.

A device for visual communication that is used to bring the subject to the attention of the public, but not flags or other insignia of any government, fraternal, or similar organization.

The ownership of a lot by one or more persons, which ownership is separate and distinct from that of any abutting or adjoining lot. Ownership shall be considered separate and distinct where lots have been separately described as such, by metes and bounds, in a recorded deed or conveyance prior to the enactment of this chapter, or an amendment thereto, and have continued since that date to be so separately described in all subsequent recorded deeds of conveyance.

For towers other than towers in the public rights-of-way, the current boundaries of the leased or owned property surrounding the tower and any access or utility easements currently related to the site, and, for other eligible support structures, further restricted to that area in proximity to the structure and to other transmission equipment already deployed on the ground.

Any facility, or part of a facility, in which professionally supervised nursing care and related medical and other health services are provided for a period exceeding 24 hours for two or more individuals who are not in need of hospitalization and are not relatives of the nursing home administrator but who, because of age, illness, disease, injury, convalescence, or physical or mental infirmity, need such care. In the event that the Pennsylvania statute defining this term is amended, or further amended, then in that event this term shall be redefined as set forth in the statute. (See 35 P.S. § 448.802a, as amended.)

A use involving the killing of animals for the wholesale production of food or other commercial products. A commercial stockyard or similar facility that primarily involves the storage or transferring of animals to be slaughtered shall also be considered a slaughterhouse.

The vertical change of an area of land divided by the horizontal change, measured in a percent.

The discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any sewage sludge from a municipal treatment plant or pumpings from a private residential septic system into or on any land in the Township, provided that the spreading of manure generated from conventional agricultural activities and/or mushroom compost on cropland or farmland for agricultural purposes shall not be included within this term and such activity shall be regulated by the Pennsylvania Nutrient Management Act.[6]

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

Any solar collector or other solar energy device, or any structural design feature, mounted on a building or on the ground, and whose primary purpose is to provide for the collection, storage and distribution of solar energy for space heating or cooling, for water heating or for electricity.

Items including a solar photovoltaic cell, panel, or array, or solar hot air or water collector device panels, lines, pumps, batteries, mounting brackets, framing and possibly foundations used for or intended to be used for collection of solar energy.

A use that is generally compatible with a particular zone once specified criteria have been met. Special exception uses are listed by zone and approved by the Zoning Hearing Board in accordance with § 180-119C of this chapter.

Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus, or female breasts below a point immediately above the top of areolae and/or human male genitals in a discernible turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered.

For the purposes of this chapter, this term shall include any of the following: actual or simulated sexual intercourse, oral copulation, anal intercourse, oral anal copulation, bestiality, direct physical stimulation of unclothed genitals, flagellation or torture in the context of a sexual relationship or the use of excretory functions in the context of a sexual relationship, and any of the following depicted sexually oriented acts or conduct:

State-of-the-art design techniques used to blend objects into the surrounding environment and to minimize the visual impact as much as possible. These design techniques are applied to wireless communications towers, antennas and other facilities which blend the proposed WCF into the existing structure or visual backdrop in such a manner as to render it less visible to the casual observer. Such methods include, but are not limited to, architecturally screened roof-mounted antennas, building-mounted antennas painted to match the existing structure and facilities constructed to resemble trees, shrubs, light poles, utility poles or flag poles.

A function involving the deposition of materials, goods and/or products for safekeeping.

The wall of a unit of occupancy which faces the front yard within a planned center, as defined herein.

That part of a building located between a floor and the floor or roof next above. The first story of a building is the lowest story, having 75% or more of its wall area above grade level. A half story is a story under a gable, hip or gambrel roof, the wall plate of which on at least two opposite exterior walls is not more than two feet above such story.

Includes street, avenue, boulevard, road, highway, freeway, lane, viaduct and any other dedicated and adopted public right-of-way, or private right-of-way, used or intended to be used by vehicular traffic and/or pedestrians. The definition of "street" specifically excludes driveways.

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 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.

(Applies only to wireless communication facilities). A modification substantially changes the physical dimensions of an eligible support structure if it meets any of the following criteria:

Any repair, reconstruction, or improvement of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds 50% of the fair market value of the structure either before the improvement or repair is started or, if the structure has been damaged and is being restored, before the damage occurred. For the purpose of this definition, "substantial improvement" is considered to occur when the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor, or other structural part of the structure commences, whether or not that alteration affects the external dimensions of the structure.

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

An establishment which serves primarily alcoholic beverages for mostly on-premises consumption and which is licensed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, or a successor organization. Taverns may also serve food.

A function involving the examination and assessment of qualities, performances and/or capabilities of a product, good or material.

Any structure that exceeds 10 feet in height and is built and/or installed for the sole or primary purpose of supporting any Federal Communications Commission-licensed or authorized antennas and their associated facilities, including structures that are constructed for wireless communications services including, but not limited to, private, broadcast, and public safety services, as well as unlicensed wireless services (i.e., wifi) and fixed wireless services (i.e., point-to-point microwave transmission) such as microwave backhaul, and the associated site. A building, water tower, electrical transmission tower, utility pole, light pole, traffic signal pole, flag pole or other similar structure designed and constructed for a sole or primary purpose other than supporting any Federal Communications Commission-licensed or authorized antennas and their associated facilities, as well as a Ft. Worth attachment, shall not be considered a tower.

Wireless communications facilities that include the installation of a tower to support the transmission equipment.

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An area of land developed for a compatible mixture of residential units for various income levels and nonresidential commercial and workplace uses, including some structures that provide for a mix of uses within the same building. Residences, shops, offices, workplaces, public buildings, and parks are interwoven within the neighborhood so that all are within relatively close proximity to each other. Traditional neighborhood development is relatively compact, limited in size and oriented toward pedestrian activity. It has an identifiable center and a discernible edge. The center of the neighborhood is in the form of a public park, commons, plaza, square or prominent intersection of two or more major streets. Generally, there is a hierarchy of streets laid out in a rectilinear or grid pattern of interconnecting streets and blocks that provide multiple routes from origins to destinations and are appropriately designed to serve the needs of pedestrians and vehicles equally.

An occupant of a dwelling unit or bedroom for not more than 30 days, unless the occupant is related to the owner as married spouse, parent or child, grandparent or grandchild, or brother or sister.

Equipment that facilitates transmission for any Federal Communications Commission-licensed or authorized wireless communications service, including, but not limited to, radio transceivers, antennas, coaxial or fiber-optic cable, and regular and backup power supply. The term includes equipment associated with wireless communications services including, but not limited to, private, broadcast, and public safety services, as well as unlicensed wireless services and fixed wireless services such as a microwave backhaul.

A commercial use that primarily involves providing fuels and other services to commercial trucks. This use may also involve repair services, sale of personal care items and gifts, a restaurant, showers and a motel.

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

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

A permit issued by the Zoning Officer certifying a use's compliance with information reflected on the zoning permit and this chapter.

A modification of any provision of this chapter granted by the Zoning Hearing Board subject to findings specified by the Act.

A building used primarily for the treatment, by a veterinarian, of small domestic animals such as dogs, cats, rabbits and birds or fowl. No outdoor boarding of animals is permitted.

A commercial storage building for storage of merchandise or commodities where there is no manufacturing or processing of goods nor is there the retail or wholesale sale of said goods (provided that the same may be sold from the warehouse) to be delivered to another location, and further provided that the warehouse may have an office, the business of which is limited solely to that business of the warehouse, which shall occupy no more than 20% of the floor area of the warehouse.

Garbage, refuse and other discarded materials, including but not limited to solid, semisolid, contained gaseous and liquid materials resulting from municipal, industrial, institutional, commercial, agricultural, residential, and other activities. Such wastes shall also include biological excrement and hazardous waste materials, as defined in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 40, Chapter 1, Part 261, dated July 1, 1984, or as amended. Waste shall expressly include those materials defined, at any given time, as "waste" by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the United States Environmental Protection Agency. For the purposes of this chapter, the difference between waste and junk or recyclables is that waste shall include materials that have entered a reasonably continuous process by which their ultimate disposal is imminent, whereas junk includes materials that may be stored for longer periods of time awaiting potential reuse or ultimate disposal, and whereas recyclables include materials that have entered a reasonably continuous process whereby their reuse is imminent.

Any person or corporation, including a municipal corporation operating beyond its corporate limits, which furnishes water to or for the public for compensation.

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 artificial.

A lined depression, excavation, pit, or facility situated in or upon the ground, whether natural or artificial, used to store fresh water.

A lined depression, excavation, pit, or facility situated in or upon the ground, whether natural or artificial, used to store wastewater including but not limited to brine, fracturing fluid or residual waste.

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

Wireless communications facilities located on existing structures such as, but not limited to, buildings, water towers, electrical transmission towers, utility poles, light poles, traffic signal poles, flag poles and other similar structures that do not require the installation of a new tower. This term includes the replacement of an existing structure with a similar structure that is required to support the weight of the proposed WCF.

Any device which converts wind energy to mechanical or electrical energy and shall include blades, hubs to which blades are attached, and any device, such as a tower, used to support the hub and/or rotary blades, etc.

Area with the characteristics of wetland, as defined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, and the United States Soil Conservation Service. Wetland areas are not limited to the locations delineated on wetland maps prepared by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

Any distribution procedure involving transactions with other businesses and their agents, which is not open to or serves the general public.

An establishment or business, not open to the public, engaged in selling merchandise to retailers, commercial or industrial institutions, professionals, business users or other wholesalers. "Wholesale trade" may also include agents or brokers and buying or selling merchandise to individuals or companies.

An opening to the outside other than a door which provides all or part of the required natural light, natural ventilation or both to an interior space. The glazed portion of a door in an exterior wall may be construed to be a window in regard to provision of natural light.

Transmissions through the airwaves including, but not limited to, infrared line of sight, cellular, personal communications service (PCS), microwave, satellite, or radio signals.

The set of equipment and network components including antennas, transmitters, receivers, base stations, cabling and accessory equipment, used to provide wireless data and telecommunication services. The term shall not include the wireless support structure.

A freestanding structure, such as a guyed or self-supporting monopole or tower, electrical transmission tower, water tower or other structure not classified as a wireless support structure, including but not limited to buildings, light poles, utility poles, traffic signals and other similar structures that could support the placement or installation of wireless telecommunications facilities if approved by the municipality.

Any trailer that is primarily used for business purposes, including, but not limited to, transporting equipment used in a business or in accomplishing physical work as part of a limited landscaping business (such as hauling material).

Any motor vehicle that is primarily used for business purposes, including, but not limited to, transporting equipment used in a business or in accomplishing physical work as part of a limited landscaping business (such as hauling material).

An area between the permitted structures and the property lines.

The designation of specified districts within the Township reserving them for certain uses, together with limitations on lot size, heights of structures and other stipulated requirements.

A document signed by the Township Zoning Officer which is required by this chapter prior to the commencement of a use or the erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, conversion or installation of a structure or building.