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 or farm.

A secondary residential unit which is part of the primary residential use and is in compliance with § 220-58. An accessory dwelling suite shall not be used or occupied as a typical tenant/landlord rental apartment with respect to the nature of the permitted occupants. Occupants shall only be a parent, an in-law, an adult child, a sister, a brother, an aunt or an uncle, directly related to or through marriage of the property owner(s).

A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use or building and located on the same lot as the principal use or building.

The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[1]

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

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

Any change in the supporting members of a building or structure, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders, joists or rafters or enclosing walls; any enlargement of a building or structure; the moving of a building or structure from one location to another; any change in the means of egress from or access to a building or structure; any change to the use of land upon a lot; and any renovation to a structure which would change its use.

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

Any domestic animal or fowl, any wild animal or fowl, any farm animal or any household pet.

The vertical distance measured from the base of the antenna support structure at grade to the highest point of the incorporated structure, which shall include all appurtenances connected thereto (support brackets, antennas, etc.). If the support structure is on a sloped grade, the average height between the highest and lowest grades, at the ground connection points, shall be used in calculating the antenna height.

All types of poles, tripods, quad-base towers, self-supporting structures, monopoles, telescoping masts and guy-wire-anchored facilities as well as any other structure, as defined herein, which is designed or proposed to support a device used in the transmitting or receiving of radio frequency energy.

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, 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 commercial business at which any or all of the following services are performed upon passenger vehicles:

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

The repair, servicing, maintenance and reconditioning of passenger vehicles, but not including car washes per se.

See "cellar."

An owner-occupied, single-family detached dwelling where between one and six rooms are rented to overnight guests on a daily basis for periods not exceeding two weeks. Meals may be offered only to registered overnight guests.

Sign upon which images and/or messages of any kind are printed, posted or lettered, 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.

The Zoning Hearing Board of Manheim Borough.

A building or portion thereof arranged or used for sheltering or feeding, or both, of not more than six individuals who do not constitute a family.

Manheim Borough, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Any structure with a roof intended for shelter or enclosure of persons, animals or property.

The total of areas taken on a horizontal plane at the main grade level of the principal building and all accessory buildings, exclusive of uncovered porches, awnings, terraces and stairs.

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

The actual line of that face of the building nearest an adjacent right-of-way or street line. This face includes sun parlors and covered porches, whether enclosed or unenclosed, but does not include stairs.

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

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. Within a dwelling unit, a cellar shall not be counted as floor area.

A tract or parcel of land or portion thereof upon which wireless or cellular communications antenna(s), antenna support structures, accessory buildings, equipment and/or parking or other uses associated with and ancillary to wireless and cellular communications are either constructed or proposed to be erected, constructed or developed.

Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the deceased, including columbariums, mausoleums and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with the cemetery and within the boundaries thereof. This definition shall not include crematoria, which shall be considered as part of a funeral home.

A statement signed by a duly authorized Borough 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.

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.

The Manheim Borough Code of Ordinances, as amended from time to time.

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, museums, etc. This does not include adult-related uses or amusement arcades, as defined herein.

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 shall not be classified as common open space. Common open spaces shall not include required open areas nor setbacks between buildings and between buildings and street rights-of-way, driveways, access drives, parking areas and property lines of the development. No dwelling unit, residential accessory buildings or parking or loading areas may be located within common open spaces.

Group living quarters for persons who need specialized housing, treatment and/or counseling that provides supervised housing as an alternative to imprisonment, including but not limited to community confinement centers, prerelease, work-release, probationary programs, halfway houses, and active criminal rehabilitation facilities.

A use which may be suitable in certain localities within the zone only when specific conditions and criteria prescribed for such uses have been complied with. Conditional uses are reviewed by Borough Council after recommendations by the Planning Commission in accordance with § 220-118 of this chapter.

A form of property ownership providing for individual ownership of a specific dwelling unit or other space not necessarily on ground level, together with an undivided interest in the land or other parts of the structure in common with other owners.

The offering of care or supervision over minors or 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 in relation to the area of land of a parcel in use or proposed to be used for residential purposes, exclusive of public rights-of-way.

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

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

An improved cartway designed and constructed to provide vehicular movement between a public road and a tract of land serving one single-family dwelling unit or a farm.

Any building or portion thereof designed and used exclusively for residential occupancy, including those listed below, but not including hospitals, hotels, boardinghouses, 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. 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. All dwelling units shall be owner-occupied or leased for periods of not less than one continuous month.

A dwelling unit of at least 500 square feet of habitable space and in compliance with § 220-58.

The erection, construction, alteration, extension or maintenance by a public utility corporation, municipality, municipal authority or which is privately owned and operated under the approval of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to provide gas, electrical, telephone, television, steam or water transmission or distribution services, stormwater controls and/or sewage disposal services, including buildings, enclosures, wells, pumping stations, storage facilities, poles, wires, mains, drains, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, transformers, streetlights, traffic signals, hydrants and other similar fixed equipment, accessories and services in connection therewith, which are reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate services for the public health, safety or general welfare of the local residents. Wireless and cellular communications are not considered to be essential services.

A building or portion thereof that can be used for public or private assembly for special events or regularly scheduled programs. Such events may include, but are not limited to, lectures, performances, weddings, receptions, banquets and fundraisers. Live music performances shall not present a nuisance to neighboring properties.

An individual or individuals related by blood, marriage or adoption who maintain one common household and live within one dwelling unit. Additionally, up to four 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 eight unrelated persons who reside within a licensed group home, as defined herein.

A structure designed as a barrier to restrict the movement of persons, animals and/or vehicles.

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

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.

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

The sum of the floor areas of a dwelling unit as measured to the interior surfaces of exterior walls and including all rooms used for habitation, such as living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, but not including closets, hallways, stairways, cellars or attics, or service rooms or areas such as utility rooms, nor unheated areas such as enclosed porches.

A line establishing the required location for all or a portion of a building's front facade.

The horizontal dimension that coincides between a street and a property.

An institutional care facility, licensed, registered or certified under an applicable county. Commonwealth or federal agency, for persons who need temporary and specialized housing, treatment and/or counseling for physical or mental disabilities, including persons recovering from addiction, to reside in while receiving therapy or counseling prior to moving into more permanent living arrangements in a family dwelling or nursing, convalescent or similar health care facilities.

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 11,000 pounds gross vehicle weight may be stored therein. 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 adequate off-street parking is still available on the same lot as the dwelling unit.

The ground elevation adjacent to a structure, plant or other object.

A dwelling unit operated by a responsible individual, family or organization with a program to provide a supportive living arrangement for up to eight handicapped individuals, as defined by the Fair Housing Act[2] and the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, as amended. A group home shall not include a group care and treatment center or community rehabilitation facilities as defined by this chapter. Group homes must be licensed where required by any appropriate government agencies, and a copy of any such licenses must be delivered to the Borough prior to beginning the use. Group homes shall be permitted and regulated in the same manner as any other dwelling unit within each respective zone where special care is needed by the individual served.

Any garbage, refuse, sludge from an industrial or other wastewater treatment plant, sludge from a water supply treatment plant or air pollution facility, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material resulting from municipal, commercial, industrial, institutional, mining, agricultural operations, and from community activities, or any combination of the above, which because of its quantity, concentration or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may:

Off-street parking spaces that directly abut and access a public street. These spaces run perpendicular to or are angled (no less than 60° interior angle) from the public street.

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 building's vertical measurement from the average ground level at the corners of the building to the highest point of the roof.

A structure's vertical measurement from the mean level of the ground abutting the structure to the highest point of the structure.

The vehicular entrance or exit of a use to a public street.

An activity that is undertaken solely as a leisure or recreational pastime. The sale of any product or service shall not be considered to be a hobby.

A facility for the retail sale of a combination of products used in the construction, repair and improvement of homes, including but not limited to lumber, masonry products, exterior siding, roofing, plumbing fixtures, pipes, electrical supplies, floor coverings, paints and wall coverings, windows and glass, landscaping materials, hardware, tools and other accessories. Home improvement stores shall always involve outdoor storage of materials; any facilities that sell the above-described products that do not have outdoor storage can be considered to offer the general retail sale of goods.

A detached 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, which renders inpatient and outpatient medical care on a twenty-four-hour-per-day basis, and provides primary health services and medical/surgical care to persons suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity and other abnormal physical or mental conditions. A hospital use can also include attached and detached accessory uses, provided that all accessory uses are contained upon the hospital property.

An establishment which is open to transient guests and in which lodging with or without meals is offered for compensation and in which there are more than five separate sleeping units.

Any type of structure, excavation or pavement, excluding a driveway or curb.

Any on-site vehicular movement lane(s) that is associated with a use other than a single-family dwelling.

A common driveway that serves three or four adjoining dwellings within a village cluster development.

Any used and/or discarded materials, including but not limited to wastepaper, rags, metal, building materials, house furnishings, appliances, tires, machinery and vehicles or parts thereof, with or without the dismantling, processing, salvage, recycling, sale or other use or disposition of the same. For purposes of this definition, the storage of one or more unlicensed, wrecked or disabled vehicles, or major parts thereof, on the lot of one principal dwelling or business shall constitute a junkyard. (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 and a certificate of inspection.)

An area of land, with or without buildings, used for the storage, outside a completely enclosed building, of junk.

Any lot on which four or more adult animals (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.

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/she/it 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.

A three-dimensional, detached or attached, decorative, accessory structure, including but not limited to memorials, statues, sculptures, permanent fountains, public art displays, and similar features.

A completely planted visual barrier composed of evergreen plants and trees arranged to form both a low-level and a high-level screen. The high-level screen shall consist of evergreen trees planted with specimens having an initial height of not less than five feet and planted at intervals of not more than 10 feet on center. The low-level screen shall consist of evergreen shrubs planted at an initial height of not less than two feet and spaced at intervals of not more than five feet on center. The low-level screen shall be placed in alternating rows to produce an effective visual barrier.

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

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.

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 areas, sidewalks).

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

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.

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

Articles which are components of a future product.

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

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 non-storage activities shall be permitted.

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. Mobile homes shall be considered "dwellings" and be bound by the requirements there imposed.

Borough of Manheim, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Any building used for on-site consumption of alcoholic or nonalcoholic beverages where a dance floor and live entertainment is offered. For the purposes of this definition, "live entertainment" is also meant to include the use of disc jockeys for the purposes of supplying musical entertainment. Nightclubs may also provide for the on-site consumption of food. Additionally, nightclubs may 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. The business or commercial activity must satisfy the following requirements:

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 reason of such adoption or amendment.

A structure or part of a structure manifestly not designed to comply with the applicable use or extent of use provisions in this chapter or any amendment heretofore or hereafter enacted, where such structure lawfully existed prior to the enactment 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 structure, which does not comply with the applicable use provisions in this chapter or amendment heretofore or hereafter enacted, where such use was lawfully in existence prior to the enactment of 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 this chapter, 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.

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.

The keeping in an unenclosed area of goods, merchandise or materials for a period of longer than 24 hours.

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

A primary 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 § 220-32 of this chapter.

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

A recreational facility owned or operated by a nonpublic agency and/or conducted as a private gainful business.

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-related uses and amusement arcades.

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

An individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, incorporator's association or any other similar entity.

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 may also include "planned center signs" as regulated herein.

The Planning Commission of Manheim Borough. (See Chapter 49.)

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 incidental 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:

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 therein 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, labor unions, as well as social and athletic clubs.

A function involved in the manufacture of materials, goods or products in which they are not physically changed except for packaging or sizing.

Any article whose appearance or composition has been changed or altered but not in a completed form for ultimate disposition.

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).

A formal meeting held pursuant to public notice by Borough Council or the Planning Commission intended to inform and obtain public comment prior to taking action on zoning-related matters.

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

Notice published once each week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Borough. Such notice shall state the time and place of the hearing and the particular nature of the matter to be considered at the hearing. The first publication shall not be more than 30 days, and the second publication shall not be less than seven days from the date of the hearing. Public notice for rezoning, special exception, conditional use and/or variance requests shall also include the posting of a sign(s) at a conspicuous location along the perimeter of the subject property; 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 condition or activity which takes place on a property or within a structure which creates a health or an environmental impact on the general public or on an adjacent property or neighborhood (e.g., odors, noise, dust, smoke, glare, wastewater, solid waste disposal, etc.).

A municipal sanitary sewer approved and permitted by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Such systems are capable of serving multiple users.

Public and semipublic facilities that serve the Manheim community, including parks, libraries, fire, police and ambulance stations and municipal properties, buildings and garages.

A use or extension thereof which is owned, operated and/or maintained by a public utility corporation, municipality, municipal authority or which is privately owned and operated under the approval of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission for the purpose of providing essential services such as public sewage disposal and/or treatment, public water supply, storage and/or treatment, natural gas supply, transmission of electric energy, transmission of visual or audio communication services via a system of underground conduits or overhead poles, wires, cables, conduits, transformers, etc., for the benefit of the public health, safety or general welfare.

A municipal water supply system permitted by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Such systems are capable of serving multiple users.

An accessory use whereby recycled materials are dropped off by the public for collection by a waste hauler and/or processor.

A principal use whereby collected recyclables are separated, processed, cut, shredded, cleaned, ground, crushed, bundled, bailed and/or packaged.

A procedure by which services or personal property are 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.

An establishment that serves prepared food primarily on non-disposable tableware but can provide for incidential carry-out service so long as the area used for carryout service does not exceed 5% of the total patron seating area nor 80 square feet (whichever is less). Caterers shall be included in this definition.

An establishment that serves prepared food generally packaged in disposable or recyclable wrappers, 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 corridor of publicly owned land for purposes of maintaining primary vehicular and pedestrian access to abutting properties, including but not limited to roads, streets, highways and sidewalks. Abutting property owners are prohibited from encroaching across the right-of-way line. (See also "street line.")

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, TVROs and satellite microwave antennas.

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

Manheim Central School District.

The required horizontal distance between a setback line and a property or street 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. Such minimum distance shall be measured horizontally between the street and/or property line and a vertical plane that coincides with the closest face or projection of the structure at or above grade (except for overhanging eaves, gutters and cornices) to the street and/or property line.

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

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.

A device for visual communication that is used to bring the subject to the attention of the public, including lettering or symbols that are an integral part of another structure or flags or other insignia of any government, fraternal or similar organization.

Garbage, refuse and other discarded materials, including but not limited to solid and liquid waste materials resulting from municipal, industrial, commercial, agricultural and residential activities. Such wastes shall not include biological excrement nor hazardous waste materials as defined in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 40, Chapter 1, Part 261, dated July 1, 1984, or as amended.

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 § 220-107C of this chapter.

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

For the purposes of this chapter, this term shall include any of the following:

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

Includes street, 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 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.

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.

Manufactured or field constructed equipment designed to contain water on a permanent or semi-permanent basis and used for swimming, wading, immersion or therapeutic purposes.

Any method of placing ink or other pigment into or under the skin or mucosa by the aid of needles or any other instrument used to puncture or burn the skin resulting in permanent coloration of the skin or mucosa.

Any location where tattooing is engaged in or where the business of tattooing is conducted.

An establishment which serves primarily alcoholic beverages for mostly on-premises consumption and which is licensed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. Taverns may also provide for the on-site consumption of food. Additionally, nightclubs may offer the retail sale of carry-out beer and wine as an accessory use.

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

A separate, temporary, detached accessory dwelling unit with its own cooking, living, bathing and sleeping facilities, to be occupied by a single family under the supervision of recognized nonprofit housing organization (i.e., community or public housing group or church). For this use, the definition of a family shall be limited as follows: an individual or individuals related by blood, marriage or adoption who maintain one common household.

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":

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

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 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.

Includes 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 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service. Wetland areas are not limited to the locations delineated on wetland maps prepared by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Any distribution procedure involving persons who, in the normal course of business, do not engage in sales to the general public.

Any device which converts wind energy to mechanical or electrical energy.

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.

An area between the permitted structures and the property lines.

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

The Zoning Hearing Board of Manheim Borough.

The duly constituted municipal official designated to administer and enforce this chapter in accordance with its literal terms. In the Borough, it is the Zoning Officer.

Written authorization from the Zoning Officer to alter, improve, construct and/or make use of an area of land as regulated by this chapter.