An improved cartway designed and constructed to provide for vehicular movement between a public or private road and the off-street parking and/or loading area for any use other than one single-family dwelling unit or farm.

That portion of an access drive in which exiting vehicles queue at a traffic control point along which there is no conflicting vehicle access point, or that portion of an access drive in which entering encounter no conflicting vehicle access points.

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

A dwelling unit that is located within a detached accessory building of a principal single-family detached dwelling.

A structure associated with an accessory use (e.g., swimming pools, patios, antennas, tennis courts, garages, utility sheds, etc.). However, for the purpose of establishing setbacks, any accessory building larger than 720 square feet shall comply with principal structure setbacks.

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 state of being side by side, next to or abutting one another.

Any of the following, either alone or in combination with any other use:

The tilling of the soil, the raising of crops, horticulture, and the keeping or raising of livestock such as alpacas, birds, beaver, bees, cattle, chinchilla, cows, deer, emus, fish, fowl, foxes, hogs, horses, lynx, sable, sheep, goats, llamas, mink, ostriches, peacocks, potbelly pigs, poultry, rabbits, raccoons, seal, shellfish and other similar animals for commercial distribution. This definition also includes commercial greenhouses and mushroom houses, the processing and retail sale of goods produced on the farm, uses devoted to research into agricultural technology that would change the conduct of normal farming operations and custom work. For the purposes of this definition, "custom work" shall mean the hiring of another person or agency who does not reside on the subject property to perform one or more activities necessary to the function of the principal farm use as a whole. This definition of "agriculture" does not include concentrated animal feeding operations, concentrated animal operations, commercial produce operations and gardening, each, as defined herein.

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

Any area of land or water which is used, or intended to be used, for the landing and takeoff of aircraft and any appurtenant areas which are used, or intended to be used, for airport buildings or navigation facilities or rights-of-way, together with all airport buildings and facilities thereon.

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

Any exterior structural addition to a building; any renovation to a building which would change its use; any change or rearrangement in the structural parts of a building such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders, joists or rafters, or enclosing walls; the moving of a building from one location or position to another.

Any device installed as an accessory use that supplies energy principally for the principal use of the property that is derived from natural sources (e.g., solar panels, wind turbines, hydro turbines, geothermal exchangers and similar and emerging technologies). This definition shall expressly exclude outdoor furnaces, as defined herein.

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

A principal use designed and operated for public amusement and education that features a self-contained and secure setting that enables visitors:

A standardized measure that enables regulation of density or intensity of animal population upon an area of land. One AEU is equivalent to 1,000 pounds of animal(s), including both animals customarily raised as livestock as well as animals kept as pets.

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

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

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

The two-dimensional measurement of space between known lines or boundaries.

The total land area proposed to be used for and/or within any, and all, of the following:

That part of a building which is immediately below and completely 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.

A principal commercial use at which items are imported for public or private sale during a competitive bidding process. This use shall also expressly include a cafeteria or refreshment counter, provided such use is contained completely within an enclosed building and patrons are limited to those participating in the auction. This term shall not include automobile auctions as defined below.

A building containing a stage and/or screen and seating for meetings, performances, or screening of movies.

A use whereby passenger vehicles are offered for wholesale and/or retail sales at prearranged sales during a competitive bidding process.

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

See definition of "parking compound."

See "passenger motor vehicle sales." Any building or land devoted to the retail sales leasing and/or rental of passenger vehicles, including accessory service and repair facilities if conducted within a completely enclosed building.

See passenger motor vehicle service. The retail repair, servicing, maintenance and reconstruction of passenger vehicles, provided that the washing of passenger vehicles as a principal use is excluded from this definition. (See "car wash.")

A use whereby passenger vehicles are stored awaiting transport to a different location.

Principal uses devoted to the receipt, saving, loaning, distribution, investment, and transfer of money, currency and wealth. This use shall expressly include uses commonly known as banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations, savings banks, investment companies, philanthropic foundations, or the offices of an investment manager, investment banker, or securities broker or dealer. For the purpose of this chapter, this term shall exclude pawn shops and non-bank operations that provide check-cashing services and advances on pay checks.

A space with less than half of its floor-to-ceiling height above the average finished grade of the adjoining ground and with a floor-to-ceiling height of greater than 6 1/2 feet.

A single-family detached dwelling, where between one and five sleeping accommodations are rented to overnight guests on a daily basis for periods not exceeding two weeks. Breakfast may be offered only to registered overnight guests.

The raising or keeping of bees within a man-made enclosure (beehive) for hobby or business purposes.

An off-premises sign which directs attention to a product, service, business, or cause.

Palmyra Borough.

The governing body of Palmyra Borough, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.

A professional engineer licensed as such in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, duly appointed as the engineer for Palmyra Borough.

An individual other than a member of a family occupying a dwelling unit or owning a lodging facility who, for compensation, is furnished sleeping accommodations within such dwelling unit or lodging facility, and who also may be furnished meals or other domestic services in return for compensation.

A building or portion thereof arranged or used for sheltering or feeding, or both, as a gainful business, for four but not more than 10 boarders. This term includes single-room occupancy residences (SROs), tourist homes and rooming houses.

The process of reproducing hard copies of printed materials including all aspects of production, collation, assembly packaging and distribution.

The deposition of liquid, gas, powder or other granular material within a sealed container.

An industrial facility where more than 15,000 barrels of malt or brewed beverages are produced on the premises and then sold or distributed for off-premises consumption. A brewery may also contain a brewery pub.

A retail establishment with on premises consumption of malt or brewed beverages produced at, and owned by the brewery in the same premises, or immediately adjacent premises, and which is licensed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. A brewery pub may also sell, for on-premises consumption, wine manufactured by the holder of a Pennsylvania limited winery license.

A continuous strip of land that is clear of all buildings and paved areas and is landscaped in accordance with § 380-44 of this chapter.

A carriage drawn by a horse that is commonly used by plain sects as a mode of transport and travel.

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

The total area of all buildings (principal and accessory) taken on one or more horizontal planes that are directly between the ground and the sky, exclusive of uncovered porches, awnings, terraces, and steps (e.g., top view).

The area of a lot that is available for development and free of restrictions as specified in this chapter.

A building's vertical measurement from the mean level of the natural grade abutting the corners of the building to the highest point of the building, including except as noted in § 380-32, any signs, antennas or other appurtenances.

The longest horizontal measurement of a building.

The actual distance between the closest part of a building including roof overhangs, (excluding those permitted projections listed in § 380-41 of this chapter) and:

Permits issued under the Uniform Construction Code. (Permits issued under this Zoning Ordinance are "zoning permits.")

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

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

The amount of light that will illuminate a surface one foot distant from a light source to an intensity of one footcandle. Maximum (peak) candlepower is the largest amount of candlepower emitted by any lamp, light source, or luminaire.

A roofed structure open on two or more sides for the storage of motor vehicles.

An animal kept accessory to a principal residence whose occupants rely upon as a primary mode of transport and travel.

The surface of a street intended and available for use by vehicular traffic.

A commercial use used to clean the exterior, and sometimes the interior, of automobiles. There are several types of car washes, ranging from self-service coin-operated automatic car washes to fee-based full-service operations.

A facility other than a racetrack and/or an off-track betting parlor wherein wagering and other lawful gambling activity is conducted under Pennsylvania law. This use shall include any facility in which gambling devices, including but not limited to slot machines, video poker machines, punch boards, and similar devices are located. The term "lawful gambling activity" shall not include the sale of lottery tickets in compliance with State Lottery Law.[1]

A retail commercial use devoted to the preparation, packaging and/or delivery of prepared foods for consumption at another location. This use shall also expressly include the retail sales of those goods produced on the site; however, no seating for on-site consumption shall be permitted.

A space with less than one-half 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.

Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the deceased, including columbariums, crematoria, mausoleums, and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with the cemetery and within the boundaries thereof. This definition shall also include facilities for the burial of domestic pets.

A statement, signed by the Zoning Officer setting forth that a building, structure, sign, and/or land complies with this Zoning Ordinance; or that a building, structure, sign, and/or land may be lawfully employed for specific uses; or both.

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

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

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

A building containing a stage and/or screen and seating for the public screening of movies.

A building or group of buildings occupied by medical and/or other licensed practitioners and related services for the purpose of providing health, dental, emergency medical, wellness, dietary, social, behavioral, therapeutic, occupational and psychological services to outpatients. This definition does not include methadone treatment facilities as defined herein.

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

Code of the Borough of Palmyra.

Any device that is attached to an existing structure and used for the transmission or reception of wireless communications signals for ultimate reception by a radio, television, wireless telephone, pager, commercial mobile radio service, or any similar device

A principal use offering care or supervision of minors or adults for a period not to exceed 18 continuous hours that is licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

A retail business devoted to the raising and/or selling of trees, ornamental shrubs, flowers, and houseplants for transplanting, along with the sale of ancillary supplies wherein the preponderance of the growing operation is indoors.

Words and/or images intended to influence consumer behavior.

An agricultural use whereby plant materials are principally grown within enclosed buildings, and where such use exceeds a lot coverage of 10%.

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, cinemas, drive-in motion picture facilities, swimming pools, health clubs, miniature golf courses, museums, etc. This does not include adult uses, outdoor shooting ranges, amusement arcades, amusement/theme/zoo parks, automobile and/or animal racing with or without related wagering facilities, campgrounds, convention or conference center, gaming operations, golf courses and driving ranges, off-track betting, slot machine parlors and/or casinos.

See "school, commercial."

A motor vehicle as is defined as a "commercial motor vehicle" under Chapter 16 of the Pa. Vehicle Code.

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 with impervious surfaces shall not be classified as common open space. Common open spaces shall not include areas devoted to driveways, access drives, parking lots, street rights-of-way, stormwater detention basins, required setbacks and private yards.

A parking facility serving multiple uses or properties that is not owned by one user or property, although it may be owned jointly by all or some of the users.

A wall used or adopted for joint service between two buildings or parts thereof.

Any device used for the transmission or reception of wireless communications signals for ultimate reception by a radio, television, wireless telephone, pager, commercial mobile radio service, or any similar device. This term includes, without limitation, omnidirectional (or whip) antennas and directional (or panel) antennas owned or operated by any person or entity licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to operate such device. This definition shall not include residential satellite dishes, television antennas, or antennas for amateur radio equipment.

An unmanned building or cabinet containing communications equipment required for the operation of communications antennas.

A freestanding structure designed and used solely to support communications antennas.

A building or portion of a building used as a gathering place or meeting area by local residents of the Borough or development within which it is located.

A plaza, square, courtyard, park, pocket park, walkway, promenade, or other outdoor space in which features such as pavers, benches, gazebos, pergolas, trellises, planters, plantings, lighting, sculpture, and the like, are installed and maintained for public use and enjoyment.

The conversion of organic matter, such as yard waste, into fertilizer.

The Palmyra Area Region Comprehensive Plan of 2013.

An agricultural use regulated by the federal government involving the commercial keeping and handling of livestock quantities with characteristics in any of the following three criteria:

An agricultural use determined under Title 25, Chapter 83, Subchapter D, Section 83.262. of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's Nutrient Management Rules and Regulations involving the commercial keeping and handling of livestock and/or poultry quantities with densities exceeding 2,000 pounds per acre suitable for the application of manure on an annualized basis. Animal weights shall be determined using Table A within the above-described section.

Real estate, portions of which in accordance with the provisions of the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act of 1980,[2] are designated for separate ownership and the remainder of which is designed for common ownership solely by the owners of those portions. Real estate is not a condominium unless the undivided interests in the common elements are vested in the unit owners.

A private agreement between the landowner and the Borough (and possibly other designated persons or parties) that is applied to property to perpetually protect it from future development.

A specific action that has been identified by one of the Pennsylvania Natural Diversity Inventory (PNDI) jurisdictional agencies that can minimize impact upon a special concern species or resource in the vicinity of the project area.

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

An agreement or correspondence between matters being compared, which denotes a reasonable, rational, or similar connection or relationship.

The placement of materials and equipment in a defined area to be assembled, built, applied, and/or demolished in a temporary or permanent manner, as approved by the designated officials of the Borough.

The total necessary land area required for all buildings or uses within a development.

A business which specializes in the retail sales and/or rental of household products and foods. Although this use may be permitted by right in some zones, some of the following activities require the approval of a special exception or conditional use if they are conducted as part of the convenience store:

An assemblage of uses that provide a setting for indoor and outdoor exhibits and activities to serve various business activities, meetings, training sessions, entertainment, and recreation on a temporary basis. This use may include hotels and eating and drinking establishments as accessory uses.

To change or adapt improved property to a use, occupancy, or purpose other than what was intended at its time of construction.

The County of Lebanon, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

The Lebanon County Planning Department.

Cathode ray tube.

A proposed zoning amendment:

The point at which all light rays emitted by a lamp or luminaire are eliminated (cutoff) at a specific angle above ground.

The angle formed by a line drawn from the direction of light rays at the light source and a line perpendicular to the ground from the light source, above which no light is emitted.

A luminaire with elements such as shields, reflectors, or refractors, or refractor panels which direct and cut off the light at a cutoff angle that is less than 90°.

A principal use devoted to the:

The offering of care or supervision over minors or adults for a period not to exceed 18 continuous hours.

A term used to express the allowable number of dwelling units per acre of land exclusive of improved public rights-of-way and rights-of-way for public and private streets. In the case where a proposed development with more than one principal use is to rely upon one or more private access drives rather than streets, the area devoted to the access drives that serve more than one principal use and any adjoining curbs and sidewalks shall also be deducted from the calculation of acreage.

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.

The area encompassing an application or a land development and any public improvements or common amenities related thereto, whether or not located on an applicant's property. The development site includes all areas of disturbance and areas of impact anticipated by, or expected to result from, the proposed development and the construction of the public improvements and common amenities.

Light actually seen coming straight from the lamp, reflector, or reflector diffuser in the luminaire.

A portable structure used and properly maintained by on-site residents to convert household organic waste into materials useful for gardening and lawn care.

The noncommercial keeping of no more than four adult nonfarm animals that are locally available for purchase as pets, as an accessory use to a primary residential use. Domestic pets shall not include any species identified as "exotic animals" and "livestock," both as defined herein nor any animal species that, in the opinion of the Zoning Officer, poses a threat to the health, safety and/or welfare of the community.

Electric and/or liquid fuel powered devices that assist in the maintenance and repair of personal property and one's residence (e.g., power tools, lawn mowers, chain saws, snow blowers, generators, compressors, power washers, etc.).

The outside edge of the area located directly beneath the canopy of a plant upon which rain is intercepted before it falls to the ground.

Any portion of a building or structure from which business may be transacted with a customer in a motor vehicle.

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

A use at which articles of clothing, uniforms, linens, sheets, blankets, tablecloths, draperies, towels, diapers and other fabric items are delivered to be cleaned with the use of chemical agents that are generally not water soluble.

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, tourists 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.

A sign incorporating LCD, LED, plasma, CRT, pixelized lights, other video-like displays or other means of changing messages.

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. For the purposes of this chapter, this definition shall not include the tilling of the soils and cultivation associated with the growing of crops.

A measurement used to compare light output to the power consumed to operate the lamp.

Notice given by a municipality through the Internet of the time and place of a public hearing and the particular nature of the matter to be considered at the hearing.

The level of the ground adjacent to a structure, storage area, sign or other improvement.

A use conducted indoors that offers personal amusement and/or enjoyment through mental engagement. This does not include adult uses, amusement arcades, amusement/theme/zoo parks, automobile and/or animal racing with or without related wagering facilities, off-track betting, slot machine parlors and/or casinos.

All bears, coyotes, lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars, cheetahs, cougars, wolves and any crossbreed of these animals which have similar characteristics in appearance or features. The definition is applicable whether or not the animals were bred or reared in captivity or imported from another state or nation.

Any one of the following:

An accessory use to a detached single-family dwelling principal use offering care or supervision to no more than six different persons during any calendar day for a period not to exceed 18 continuous hours that is registered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The limit on the number of persons shall not be applied to those who reside on the property.

A parcel of land that is used for one or more agricultural operations (q.v.), including but not necessarily limited to the raising of agricultural products, livestock, poultry, or the production of dairy products. A "farm" shall be understood to include a dwelling unit as well as all structures necessary for the housing of animals, storage of feed and equipment, and other operations customarily incidental to farm use.

A business or commercial activity that is conducted as an accessory use to a principal agricultural or horticultural use.

A retail sales use where more than one vendor displays and sells raw agricultural products, prepared foods, packaged products and other similar merchandise on a regularly occurring basis. Farmers markets can include indoor and outdoor display of merchandise.

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 of the site.

The Federal Communications Commission of the United States of America.

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.

Bank, credit union, savings and loan association, savings bank, investment company, philanthropic foundation, or the office of an investment manager, investment banker, or securities broker or dealer. For the purpose of this chapter, this term shall exclude pawn shops and non-bank operations that provide check-cashing services and advances on paychecks.

A principal use devoted to the raising of fish for wholesale distribution and/or wholesale public release.

The assembly that houses a lamp or lamps and can include all or some of the following parts: a housing, a mounting bracket or pole socket, a lamp holder, a ballast, a reflector or mirror and/or a refractor lens.

A lot permitted under specific requirements of this chapter whose lot width at its frontage is less than that required at the building setback line.

A retail sales use where more than one vendor displays and sells general merchandise that is new or used on a regularly occurring basis. Flea markets can include indoor and outdoor display of merchandise.

Any light fixture or lamp that incorporates a reflector or a refractor to concentrate the light output into a directed beam in a particular direction.

The gross floor area of all buildings on a lot in relation to the gross lot area.

A unit of light density produced on a horizontal plane stated in lumens per square foot and measured with a light meter.

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

An individual, partnership, company, firm, association or corporation engaged in timber harvesting, including the agents, subcontractors, and employees thereof.

Any communications antenna, communications tower and/or communications equipment that is not co-located upon an existing structure.

The line of a lot coincident with an abutting right-of-way line of a street.

An attribute of a lighting fixture from which no light is emitted at or above a horizontal plane drawn through the bottom of the fixture and no more than 10% of the lamp's intensity is emitted at or above an angle 10° below that horizontal plane, at all lateral angles around the fixture.

An attribute of a lighting fixture provided with internal and/or external shields and louvers to prevent brightness from lamps, reflectors, refractors, and lenses from causing glare at normal viewing angles.

A building or part thereof used for human funeral services. Such building may contain space and facilities for:

Any facility or location at which any lawful gambling activity other than or in addition to pari-mutuel wagering may be conducted under Pennsylvania law, including any facility in which gambling devices, including but not limited to slot machines, video poker machines, punch boards, and similar devices are located. The term "lawful gambling activity" shall not include the sale of lottery tickets in compliance with the State Lottery Law.[3] The incidental use of less than eight amusement devices and/or games of skill or chance (e.g., pinball machines, video games, skeet ball, electronic or water firing ranges and other similar devices) is not considered to be a gaming facility and can be offered at suitable uses and locations (e.g., restaurants, taverns, nightclubs, commercial recreation establishments, and similar uses).

An accessory building for the storage of one or more personal motor vehicles and/or other vehicles all of which must be accessory and incidental to the primary use of the residential premises.

An occasional and temporary use of a residential lot, wherein the occupants of the said lot display and offer personal possessions for sale to the general public.

The growing of plants for personal use as an accessory use upon a residential site, or the growing of plants for personal use upon assigned plots located away from the residential site.

Excessive brightness in the field of view that causes loss of visual performance or annoyance, jeopardizing health, safety, or welfare.

A golf course with a minimum of 675 yards of play in nine holes.

An accessory use to a golf course devoted to the practice of driving golf balls.

A commercial recreational use based upon golf that requires only a putter and is typically, but not necessarily, lit for night play.

The Borough Council of Palmyra Borough, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.

A use that is operated by a duly recognized level of government (local, state and federal); provided, however, that such use shall not include solid waste and/or hazardous waste disposal and/or handling facilities, prisons, and/or hospitals.

A measurement of slope expressed in terms of percentage of vertical versus horizontal distance.

A retail business devoted to the raising and/or selling of trees, ornamental shrubs, flowers, and houseplants for transplanting, along with the sale of ancillary supplies wherein the preponderance of the growing operation is indoors.

A structure designed or used for the indoor growing of plants, typically found as an accessory structure to a residence. No sales may be conducted from the structure, nor may the plants grown in the greenhouse be sold from the residence as a business operation.

An assemblage of man-made and natural materials that support vegetation as the principal exposed surface atop a building and are designed and maintained to offer thermal protection and hydrological benefit over conventional roofing surfaces.

See the definition of "family" and "dwelling."

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

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, for 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:

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 the storage or treatment for any time span other than the normal transportation time through the Borough.

A principal use that offers service, support, entertainment, recreation, leisure and other activities only to club members and their guests. Such use does not include adult uses, casinos, golf courses, off-track betting parlors or outdoor shooting ranges, all as defined herein.

Vehicles and machinery that are not normally associated with domestic use (e.g., excavation equipment, commercial trucks in excess of 11,000 pounds gross vehicle weight, cargo and storage containers, cargo trailers, buses, yachts, farm equipment, mechanized amusement rides, industrial machinery, and other similar items).

The vertical distance from the ground directly below the center line of the luminaire to the direct-light-emitting part of the luminaire.

A family of electric discharge light sources including metal halide, high-pressure sodium, and mercury vapor lamps.

A structure's vertical measurement from the mean level of the natural grade abutting the corners of the structure to the highest point of the structure, including except as noted in § 380-32, any signs, antennas or other appurtenances.

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

Any area of land or water which is used, or intended to be used, for the landing and takeoff of helicopter aircraft and any appurtenant areas which are used, or intended to be used, for heliport buildings or navigation facilities or rights-of-way, together with all heliport buildings and facilities thereon.

An accessory use where no more than one helicopter may land/take off without storage of a helicopter.

An HID light source that typically provides high efficacy but poor color. The source is considered to be yellow in color by most people.

The face of exposed overburden and mineral in an open cut of a surface mining operation or for entry to underground mining activities.

Any site and/or structure that is:

The change or adaptation of an historic structure for use and occupancy for a use other than that generally permitted within the site's zone.

A facility for the retail sale and/or rental 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.

An occupation customarily conducted within a dwelling unit that is clearly incidental and secondary to the residential use of the dwelling. The following uses that are expressly prohibited as home occupations include, but are not limited to, animal hospitals; commercial stables and kennels; day-care facilities, funeral homes; tourist homes; restaurants; wholesale sales; storage or mail order activities in which goods are distributed from the dwelling or property; the repair, servicing, storage, or rental of motor vehicles; offices of medical practitioners; clinics; hospitals; and machine and welding shops.

See "riding stable."

The cultivation of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants for commercial distribution.

An institution, licensed in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 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.

A building or group of buildings containing rooms for rental on a transient basis of not more than 30 continuous days nor more than 60 days within any calendar year. This term excludes "boarding house," "bed-and-breakfast" and "campground" all as defined herein. Accommodations provided as an accessory by institutional and educational uses for their patrons shall not be considered a "hotel;" similarly, buildings where human beings are housed under legal constraint are excluded from this term. Hotels are a building or group of buildings containing rooms for rental on a transient basis whose primary access is limited through a lobby. Motels are a building or group of buildings containing rooms for rental on a transient basis whose primary exterior access occurs at each respective unit. Hotels and motels may also include related accessory uses primarily directed towards serving its patrons, including but not limited to dining, recreation, meetings, gifts, laundry, maid service and other personal services. Mail service shall be limited to counter service within the facility's lobby and no individual unit mail boxes, individual unit mail slots or exterior gang mail boxes shall be permitted. All hotels, motels and similar lodging facilities shall require a full time on-site staff that operates 24 hours per day and seven days per week and shall not require guests to sign a lease agreement.

Those wastes in households that are hazardous in nature, but are not regulated as hazardous waste, under federal and state laws. Included are such items as old paints and paint-related products, pesticides, pool chemicals, drain cleaners, and degreasers, car care products, etc.

The distance measured from the surface of the tower foundation to the height of the wind turbine hub to which the blade is attached.

A surface not readily penetrated by water under normal pressure associated with rainfall or other typical conditions associated with the proposed use. These typically include but are not limited to roads, access drives, interior drives, driveways, buildings, structures, sidewalks, off-street parking spaces, off-street loading spaces, paved recreation courts and compacted gravel surfaces.

Any area characterized by any of the following:

Any structure or paving placed upon land, including the provision of underground or aboveground utilities, as well as any physical change to the surface of the land, including but not necessarily limited to grading, paving, the placement of stormwater management facilities, sidewalks, street signs, traffic control devices, and monuments. This definition shall expressly exclude the tilling of soil.

Direct light that is reflected from or has scattered off of other surfaces.

Any on-site vehicular movement lane(s) that are associated with a use other than a single-family dwelling and/or farm.

All plants regulated or prohibited under the Controlled Plants and Noxious Weeds Act, 3 Pa. C.S. § 1501 et seq., and the applicable regulations of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.

International Society of Arboriculture.

Insurance Services Office.

A parking lot that is designed, constructed and operated on a shared basis by two or more adjoining uses with one or more shared access drives.

An improved cartway designed and constructed to provide for vehicular movement between a road and up to four properties, each of which contain a single dwelling unit.

Used materials, discarded materials, or both, including, but not limited to, wastepaper, rags, metal, building materials, house furnishings and appliances, machinery, vehicles or parts thereof, all of which are being stored awaiting potential reuse or ultimate disposal.

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 term "salvage yard" includes "junkyard," but does not include scrap metal processing operations and automobile shredding establishments. 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 a "salvage yard." (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 has expired.)

An accessory use in which one or more animals are kept for the purpose of providing the primary mode of transport and travel for occupants of the site.

Any lot on which three or more nonfarm animals are kept, boarded, raised, bred, treated, or trained for commercial purposes or a fee, including but not limited to dog or cat kennels. This definition shall also expressly include animal rescue and similar emergency treatment facilities, whether or not they are operated on a commercial basis.

A use devoted to the conduct of experiments, research and observation associated with scientific study.

A light bulb.

For the sole purpose of use within this Zoning Ordinance, any of the following activities:

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 who has a proprietary interest in land.

A planting of noninvasive species arranged to form both a low-level and a high-level barrier between grade and to a height of six feet. This definition can also include the use of an earthen berm, provided such berm is covered with noninvasive vegetative materials that stabilize its slopes and form both a low-level and a high-level screen between grade and to a height of six feet.

A use at which articles of clothing, uniforms, linens, sheets, blankets, table cloths, draperies, towels, diapers and other fabric items are delivered to be cleaned with the use of agents that are generally water soluble.

A self-service business in which patrons clean, dry clean and/or dry articles of clothing, uniforms, linens, sheets, blankets, table cloths, draperies, towels, diapers and other fabric items.

Liquid crystal display.

Light-emitting diode.

Light emitted by a lighting fixture which is cast beyond the boundaries of the property on which the lighting fixture is situated.

An animal typically bred and raised associated with some form of agriculture. This term shall expressly include alpacas, birds, beaver, bees, burrows, cattle, chinchilla, cows, donkeys, emus, fish, fowl, foxes, goats, hogs, horses, lynx, mules, sable, sheep, goats, llamas, mink, ostriches, peacocks, potbelly pigs, poultry, rabbits, raccoons, seal, shellfish, swine, and other similar animals for commercial distribution.

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

The process of cutting treetops and slash into smaller pieces to allow material to settle close to the ground.

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. For the purposes of complying with this chapter, the term "lot" may include more than one lot of record.

A percentage of the lot area which may be covered with an impervious surface (e.g., buildings, driveways, parking area, sidewalks). To the extent a building or structure incorporates a green rooftop (as defined herein), such area shall not be considered to be impervious.

The horizontal distance measured between the street right-of-way line and the closest rear lot line measured perpendicular along straight streets rights-of-way and measured radially along curved street rights-of-way. 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 lot line.

A recorded boundary line of a lot; however, any line that abuts a street or other public or quasi-public right-of-way shall be interpreted as the lot line for the purposes of determining the location of the setbacks required by this chapter.

The horizontal distance measured between side lot lines along the minimum front yard setback line and at the street right-of-way line. On corner lots, lot width shall be measured between the right-of-way line for the non-address street and the directly opposite lot line along the minimum front yard setback line and at the street right-of-way line along the street of address. In the case of flag lots, only where specifically permitted within this chapter, lot width shall be the horizontal distance measured between side lot lines along the front yard building setback line, as defined herein.

The unit representing the quantity of light being produced by a lamp or emitted from a luminaire. In the International System, the lumen is the unit of luminous flux, equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle by a source of one candela intensity radiating equally in all directions.

A complete light fixture, consisting of a light source, optical reflector and housing, and electrical components for safely starting and operating the source.

A principal use devoted to the shaping, forming and finishing of metals into finished products or parts used in other industrial production and/or assembly.

Notice given by a municipality by first class mail of the time and place of a public hearing and the particular nature of the matter to be considered at the hearing.

A body of surface water that has been constructed with a bottom and sides generally comprised of natural materials with the possible exception of an artificial dam or spillway or bottom liner.

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. Manufactured homes placed in parks shall meet the requirements for manufactured home parks listed in § 380-93 of this chapter. Manufactured homes placed on individual lots shall be considered "dwellings," and be bound by the requirements there imposed.

A parcel of land in a manufactured home park, improved with the necessary utility connections and other appurtenances necessary for the erection thereon of a single manufactured home, which is leased by the park owner to the occupants of the manufactured home erected on the lot.

A parcel of land under single ownership, which has been planned and improved for the placement of two or more manufactured homes for nontransient use.

Production of goods from raw materials, by the assembly of constituent parts produced elsewhere, or by a combination of these means, including the final packaging of such goods for sale or shipment. Includes all activities included in the NAICS (q.v.) list of "manufacturing" activities except those excluded by the definition of "heavy industry" as contained herein.

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

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

An area of land with or without structures where passengers are routinely collected by and dispatched from buses, trains, subways, taxicabs or other passenger vehicles (other than aircraft) owned and operated by a provider of public transportation.

A deciduous tree with a diameter at breast height (DBH) greater than or equal to 10 inches or a coniferous tree at least 10 feet tall.

The maximum illumination measured in footcandles at a lot line.

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.

A building or group of buildings occupied by medical and/or other licensed practitioners and related services for the purpose of providing health, dental, emergency medical, wellness, dietary, social, behavioral, therapeutic, occupational and psychological services to outpatients. This definition does not include methadone treatment facilities as defined herein.

A use that provides a harmonious and balanced mix of medical, residential, limited commercial and recreational uses, primarily serving campus residents, and public, quasi-public and medical services for the off-campus retirement-aged community.

An HID light source that typically provides long lamp life but poor color and low efficacy compared to other HID sources.

That unit of time in which one complete message is displayed upon a sign incorporating a dynamic message display.

An HID light source that typically provides good color and high efficacy.

Any use licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health that administers the drug methadone in the treatment, maintenance or detoxification of persons.

See "brewery."

The least amount of lot area required to be associated with a principal use as required by this Zoning Ordinance.

The minimum horizontal distance measured between two identifiable points.

The extraction of overburden and minerals from the earth; the preparation and processing of minerals, including any activities or processes or parts thereof for the extraction or removal of minerals from their original location and the preparation, washing, cleaning, crushing, stockpiling or other processing of minerals at the mine location so as to make them suitable for commercial, industrial or construction use; the removal of such materials through sale or exchange, or for commercial, industrial or municipal use; and the disposition of overburden, tailings and waste at the mine location. Mining shall expressly exclude the following:

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

See "manufactured home."

See definition of "garage, yard and moving sale," as defined herein.

See definition of "hotel, motel and similar lodging facilities," as defined herein.

A device sensing motion electronically and switching on lighting for a timed duration.

The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[6]

See the definition of "dwelling, multifamily," as defined herein.

The Borough of Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.

Those uses and facilities designed to furnish necessary support for the general public health, safety and welfare that are typically the responsibility of local governments and other locally operated service agencies and are not operated on a commercial basis. Such uses shall include, but are not limited to:

An institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for the purpose of study, education and enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people, their history and environment.

The point directly below the luminaire when the luminaire is pointed straight down at a zero-degree angle.

The North American Industrial Classification System, as developed and maintained by the U.S. Bureau of the Census.

An area of land with 43,560 square feet, exclusive of public rights-of-way, public streets and private streets with access easements serving other properties. In the case where a proposed development with more than one principal use is to rely upon one or more private access drives rather than streets, the area devoted to the access drives that serve more than one principal use and any adjoining curbs and sidewalks shall also be deducted from the calculation of acreage.

Structures, including substantial improvements thereto, for which the start of construction commenced on or after the effective date of this chapter.

Any building whose principal use is the regular offering of live entertainment along with the offering of on-site consumption of food and beverages, including alcoholic beverages. Additionally, nightclubs may offer the retail sale of carry-out beer and wine as an accessory use. For the purposes of this definition, "live entertainment" is meant to include the use of disc jockeys for the purposes of supplying musical entertainment and an "under 21" club which features entertainment. This use does not include adult uses, casinos or gaming facilities as defined herein.

The hours between civil sunset and civil sunrise.

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 all of the following requirements:

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

A structure or part of a structure that does not comply with the applicable extent of use or bulk provisions in this Zoning Ordinance or amendment heretofore or hereafter enacted. 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 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 this Zoning Ordinance, where such dimensional nonconformity lawfully existed prior to the adoption of this chapter or amendment thereto, or when such nonconformity is the result of the acquisition of land and/or rights-of-way by a governmental agency.

Plants identified by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture's Noxious Weed Control list. The following lists the current known species:

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

An off-street area provided for the loading or unloading of goods and/or materials that has direct usable access to a use's loading docks and/or doors and is connected to a street or alley by an access drive subject to the requirements listed in § 380-37 of this chapter. This definition shall also expressly include any area that directly adjoins the loading docks and/or doors that is necessary for the vehicles to maneuver into place with the use's loading docks and/or doors. This definition shall not include the access drives on the site that do not directly adjoin the loading docks and/or doors unless they require vehicles to move in a reverse direction to negotiate access to and from the loading docks and/or doors.

An accessory use in which required and, potentially, additional parking spaces are provided subject to the requirements listed in § 380-38 of this chapter.

A facility other than a racetrack wherein pari-mutuel wagering, but no other lawful gambling activity, is conducted.

A building or a space in a building, the primary use of which is the conduct of 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, except that office supplies necessary for the operation may be stored as an incidental use. An office shall only involve the incidental sales or delivery of any materials, goods, or products physically located on the premises.

On-lot sewer service is the disposal of sewage by use of septic tanks, or other 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 water to a single user from a source located on the user's lot.

Any area of land or water, or a combination of land and water, within a development site that is free of improvement and impervious surfaces. Open spaces shall not include, among other things, areas devoted to buildings, structures, driveways, access drives, parking lots, street rights-of-way, and/or stormwater detention basins, but can include required setbacks and private yards.

An accessory use that:

A building or group of buildings designed for and intended to provide housing facilities for minors, who are in need of direct care in lieu of that available from their parents. The facility may include accessory medical facilities intended to serve the residents of the orphanage but not the general public.

An accessory use to a principal residence which is improved for the use by residents and their guests to engage in recreational sport.

A facility designed and constructed that is not completely enclosed within a building that allows for the safe discharge of firearms and other projectile-type weapons (e.g., guns, rifles, shotguns, pistols, air guns, archery crossbows, etc.) by persons for the practice of marksmanship, recreation, competition, skill development, training, or any combination thereof. 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 separate lot within a planned center that relies upon the planned center's circulation system for vehicular access.

The strata or material overlying a noncoal mineral deposit or in between noncoal mineral deposits in its natural state and material before or after its removal by surface mining.

An off-street parking space designed to accommodate a vehicle with one or more of the following characteristics:

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

The enclosure of products into sealers, containers, wrappers, boxes or other suitable protective coverings for shipping, distribution and/or sales.

A principal business use at which passenger vehicles are parked in rented spaces on an hourly, daily, monthly or continuous basis.

A use provided by the Borough, Lebanon County and/or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that is devoted to the daily storage of passenger vehicles who engage in some form of mass transit and/or carpooling.

An accessory use in which required and additional parking spaces are provided subject to the requirements listed in § 380-38 of this chapter.

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 not operated on a commercial basis. This definition is meant to include the widest range of recreational activities, excluding adult uses, amusement arcades, amusement or theme parks, gaming facilities, golf courses, off-track betting facilities, racetracks, and shooting ranges. Such uses may include:

A person who works less than 20 hours per week or less than 1,000 hours per year at a farm occupation.

A passenger vehicle that is less than 26,001 pounds gross vehicle weight (weight of vehicle with rated passenger and/or load capacity) that is used and licensed as the principal mode of conveyance by the occupants of a residential premises upon the public road system. This definition shall expressly exclude race vehicles, stake-body trucks, dump trucks, panel trucks, tractor trailers, commercial trucks and heavy equipment.

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

The retail repair, servicing, maintenance and reconstruction of passenger motor vehicles, provided that the washing of passenger vehicles as a principal use is excluded from this definition. (See "car wash.")

A condition of surface in which man-made materials are applied resulting in a durable, smooth, stable and dust-free surface over which vehicles and pedestrians may pass. This definition shall expressly include asphalt, bituminous, concrete, masonry, gravel, permeable, geo-grids and other similar materials, provided they are applied with sufficient depth and base to achieve the required durable, smooth, stable and dust-free surface.

An individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability corporation, limited liability partnership, firm, company, association, governmental entity, trustee, receiver, assignee, or similar representative.

A licensed vehicle that is meant to be attached to a passenger vehicle for the purposes of transporting personal property upon the public road system.

A passenger vehicle owned or leased by an occupant of a residential dwelling unit.

A principal use (excluding adult uses) including barber shops, beauty and tanning salons, dry-cleaning and laundry pickup and dropoff facilities, music, art, dance and photographic studios, the repair of clocks and small appliances and similar activities. This use shall not include "adult uses" as defined herein.

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

Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

An electronic device that turns the luminaire on at dusk and off at dawn.

A freestanding sign that is associated with a coordinated development of more than one land use all sharing common vehicle access and off-street parking.

The Planning Commission of Palmyra Borough.

A video display technology that relies upon the electric excitation of phosphors to emit light.

An accessory use to a residence comprised of a structure (freestanding or otherwise) with one or more components and supportive members which in whole or part is intended for use or play by children, including but not limited to tree houses, swingsets, sliding boards, jungle gyms, climbers, seesaws, rockers, nonportable sand boxes, big toys, modular playsets, etc.

The Pennsylvania Natural Diversity Inventory.

Portable containers that are used for temporary storage of personal property of occupants on the site during times of transition (e.g., remodeling, moving, construction, emergency).

A principal use devoted to the creation, storage, conversion, distribution and transmission of electrical energy for use at another location.

The property upon which the activity is conducted as determined by physical facts rather than lot 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:

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

A principal use operated by Lebanon County devoted to the collection, sorting, storage, transport and disposal of solid waste.

See "school, private."

Pertaining to a systematic modification through mechanical, physical, chemical, and/or energy forces.

A formal meeting held pursuant to public notice by the governing body or the planning agency, intended to inform and obtain public comment, prior to taking action in accordance with this chapter.

A forum held pursuant to notice under the act of July 3, 1986 (P.L. 388, No. 84), known as the Sunshine Act.[7]

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, conditional use and/or variance requests shall also include the posting of a sign at conspicuous locations along the perimeter of the subject property deemed sufficient by the Borough to notify potentially interested citizens. These 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. Once posted in accordance with the requirements of the Act, the Borough, absent actual notice, shall not be responsible for loss or destruction of sign(s) due to vandalism or an act of God.

See "school, public."

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.

Use or extension thereof which is operated, owned or maintained by a municipality or municipal authority or which is privately owned and requires a "certificate of convenience" approved by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission for the purpose of providing public sewage disposal and/or treatment; 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.

An area of land designed and maintained to offer on-site stormwater regeneration. Within off-street parking lots, the use of rain gardens must include interconnected drains with the site's stormwater management system that prevent the overflow of stormwater at each of the respective rain garden locations.

A vehicle which is:

A use devoted solely to the collection of discarded materials that have entered a reasonably continuous process whereby their reuse is foreseeable, for processing and disposal at another location.

A use that specializes in the collection and processing of discarded materials that have entered a reasonably continuous process whereby their reuse is foreseeable.

The temporary transfer of goods for compensation.

To fix or rehabilitate an object to its intended condition and/or function.

The nontransient occupancy of a dwelling unit by one family for a continuous period of 30 or more days. In order for the occupancy of a dwelling unit to be considered residential occupancy, such dwelling unit shall be owner-occupied or shall be leased for a period of not less than 30 continuous days.

An accessory use involving any structure and inflatable device used for swimming, not located within a completely enclosed building, and containing, or normally capable of containing, water to a depth at any point greater than 24 inches. Farm ponds, stormwater basins and/or lakes are not included, provided that swimming was not the primary purpose for their construction.

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 nor 80 square feet (whichever is less). Restaurants may offer incidental live entertainment.

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 of the site.

Pertaining to the general public availability for purchase and personal use and/or consumption.

A use devoted to the display and retail transfer of ownership and/or rental of goods and products. This term shall not include "adult uses" as defined herein.

A man-made structure used to stably contain land at a location of substantial elevation change.

A principal use at which the operator offers services and facilities to board, train, and exercise horses that are owned by nonresidents of the subject property. This use also expressly includes the recreational riding of horses for a fee, riding lessons, periodic competitions and similar events related to the care, use and enjoyment of horses.

An area secured for public use and which may, but need not, be improved with streets, utilities, stormwater management facilities, traffic control facilities, curbs, sidewalks, bicycle lanes or paths, streetlights, and similar improvements for public benefit or enjoyment.

The existing width or area of land currently owned by the Borough, the state, or some other public agency or authority.

The width or area of land necessary to accommodate present or future public improvements.

An accessory business or commercial activity that is conducted within an accessory structure of a principal single-family detached dwelling.

The latest version of the Borough's Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance.[8]

A use devoted to the transfer of ownership and/or rental of goods and products. This term shall not include "adult uses" as defined herein.

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.

That range of horizontal directions the installed satellite dish antenna must be aimed to send or receive signals. These directions are usually expressed as degrees from true North. The adjacent diagram illustrates a range of azimuth alignments between 170.1° and 252.3°.

That range of vertical directions the installed satellite dish antenna must be aimed to send or receive signals. These directions are usually expressed as degrees above the horizon. The adjacent diagram illustrates a range of elevation alignments between 11.4° and 43.8°.

The combination of azimuth and elevation alignments needed for an installed satellite dish antenna to send or receive signals.

The area within a direct line between the satellite dish antenna and an orbiting satellite and or a fixed terrestrially based sending station. For the satellite dish to remain unimpaired, this reception window must be kept relatively free from obstructions.

A principal use devoted to the processing of natural wood products into semifinished products for wholesale distribution.

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, other similar type materials, or any combination thereof. No wall or fence shall be constructed of plywood, corrugated metal or fiberglass, nor sheet metal.

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

A semisolid waste that collects at the bottom of sewage treatment devices that is not continuously released during normal treatment flows and needs to be periodically removed and processed and disposed of elsewhere.

A principal use devoted to the collection and conversion of the septage and/or spent mushroom compost for healthful disposal.

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 right-of-way line which delineates the required minimum distance between some particular use of property and that property or street line.

A freestanding accessory building to a residence that is generally of portable construction and used to store personal property solely of the inhabitants on the site.

A development consisting of any single retail store in excess of 20,000 square feet of gross floor area or two or more establishments which are designed to function as a unit, for retail sales; personal services; restaurants, taverns and nightclubs; business, professional, or banking offices; civic uses, commercial schools, and/or similar uses together with shared stormwater management, vehicular access, off-street parking and signage.

A principal place of business where tradesmen perform their services within completely enclosed buildings on site and where they schedule and prepare to conduct work at other locations.

The use of a dwelling in a manner which does not meet the definition of residential occupancy, i.e., the occupancy of the dwelling by one family for a period of less than 30 days. The use of a dwelling as an approved bed-and-breakfast establishment as an accessory use in an owner-occupied dwelling shall not be considered a short-term rental.

See § 380-45 of this chapter.

A principal use devoted to the production of signs.

A lot, or portion thereof, devoted to a particular use as regulated by this chapter.

A principal industrial use at which live animals and/or their physical remains are imported for preparation into materials of human, plant and/or animal nourishment or some other beneficial use.

A facility other than a racetrack and/or an off-track betting parlor wherein wagering and other lawful gambling activity is conducted under Pennsylvania law. This use shall include any facility in which gambling devices, including but not limited to slot machines, video poker machines, punch boards, and similar devices are located. The term "lawful gambling activity" shall not include the sale of lottery tickets in compliance with State Lottery Law.[9]

A use devoted to the mechanical restoration of machines that power domestic tools and other household devices and appliances. This definition shall not include uses involved in the repair of personal motor vehicles, commercial trucks and heavy equipment, all as defined herein.

The latest published version of the United States Department of Agriculture's soil survey for Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.

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.

A use that is generally compatible with uses permitted in a zone but for which additional criteria have been established and approval by the Zoning Hearing Board is required as provided for by § 380-139B 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:

Soil or mulch-like material that is a by-product of the cultivation of mushrooms.

Existing natural slopes of 15% or greater (equal to 15 feet vertical distance over 100 feet horizontal distance). The alteration of slopes that were lawfully man-made (such as walls of a detention basin or quarry or excavated banks along a street) shall be regulated by a reasonable estimate of the preexisting natural slope.

A temporary placement of products and materials for preservation, later use and/or disposal.

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

A public or private right-of-way, excluding driveways and access drives, intended for use as a means of vehicular and pedestrian circulation that provides a means of access to abutting property. The word "street" includes "thoroughfare," "avenue," "boulevard," "court," "drive," "expressway," "highway," "lane," "road," and similar terms.

A line laterally bisecting a street right-of-way into equal widths. Where the street right-of-way cannot be determined, the cartway center line shall be deemed the street center line.

A luminaire placed in or adjacent to a street right-of-way for the purpose of illuminating a road, sidewalk, and/or intersection.

The line defining the limit 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.

The publicly accessible area straddling public and/or private streets often located between building facades and including service lanes, sidewalks, pedestrian-oriented spaces and pedestrian corridors.

Any natural or man-made channel of conveyance of surface water with an annual or intermittent flow within a defined bed and bank.

Any man-made object, including buildings, having an ascertainable stationary location on or in land or water, whether or not affixed to the land, excluding stormwater management retention/detention basins and related inlet and/or outlet devices, sidewalks, driveways leading directly to a public street, and public utility lines and appurtenances. Structures shall not include such things as sandboxes, decorative fountains, swing sets, birdhouses, bird feeders, mailboxes, and any other similar nonpermanent improvements.

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

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.

Where, in the judgment of the Borough Engineer, at least 90% (based on the cost of the required improvements for which financial security was posted) of those improvements required as a condition for final approval have been completed in accordance with the approved plan, so that the project will be able to be used, occupied, or operated for its intended use.

Any structure and inflatable device, not located within a completely enclosed building, and containing, or normally capable of containing, water to a depth at any point greater than 24 inches. Farm ponds, stormwater basins 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. Taverns may also serve food and offer incidental live entertainment.

A building containing a stage and/or screen and seating for meetings, performances, or screening of movies.

A forestry operation that involves cutting down of trees and removing logs from the forest for the primary purpose of sale or commercial processing into wood, wood-related or paper products.

See definition of "dwelling, townhouse," defined herein.

Hazardous materials that are persistent, bioaccumulative (accumulate in living organisms), and highly dangerous because they pose significant risks to our health and our environment as regulated by such statutes as the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) [15 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq. (1976)] or as recognized by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).

A principal use that involves the indoor instruction of clients/customers on any of a wide range of subjects, including but not limited to occupational, cultural, business, technical, professional, trade, religious, life skills, emergency response, and similar activities.

Any person who assumes temporary occupancy for the purposes of visitation, recreation or leisure purposes. This definition shall expressly exclude permanent residents and/or migratory workers and their families.

See "recreational vehicle."

A principal use contained on a single property:

A principal use designed as one functioning site in which various services and amenities are provided for the comfort, convenience and safety of those engaged in the trucking distribution industry and other motorists. Suitable examples include vehicle filling stations, vehicle repair and services, vehicle washing, dining and lodging, laundromats, rest lounges and areas, travel-related retail shops, gift shops, locker rooms and bathing facilities and similar uses.

The distance measured from the surface of the tower foundation upon which the wind turbine is attached to the highest point of the turbine rotor blades at their highest point of rotation.

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

The latest version of the statewide building code adopted by the Pennsylvania General Assembly applicable to new construction in all municipalities whether administered by the municipality, a third party of the Department of Labor and Industry. Applicable to residential and commercial buildings, the Code adopted by the International Residential Code (IRC) and the International Building Code (IBC), by reference, as the construction standard applicable with the commonwealth. For coordination purposes, references to the above are made specifically to various sections of the IRC and the IBC.

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

See "certificate of use and occupancy" as defined herein.

Principal uses that:

Relief granted to the terms of this chapter upon application to the Zoning Hearing Board pursuant to § 380-139C of this chapter.

A building or portion thereof, used primarily for the treatment of small domestic animals such as dogs, cats, rabbits and birds or fowl., by a licensed veterinarian. This term excludes the outdoor boarding or keeping of animals.

An educational use that offers training of the following occupations:

A building whose purpose is the storage of goods awaiting further processes or delivery/distribution.

A principal use where goods, products and/or materials are stored waiting further processing, delivery and/or distribution.

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.

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

A principal use devoted to the joining of metals through intense heat for repair or the preparation of parts used in other industrial production and/or assembly.

The transitional area extending from the outer limit of a delineated wetland. For the purpose of this chapter, the wetland margin shall extend 50 feet from the wetland boundary or to the limit of the hydric soils outside the boundary, whichever is less.

Those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions, including swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas, and which shall be identified using the United States Army Corps of Engineers Technical Report Y87-1, Corps of Engineers Wetlands Delineation Manual.

Pertaining to the sale of goods for resale.

A principal use devoted to the generation of electrical energy for consumption elsewhere by means of solar panels and/or wind energy conversion systems.

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

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.

An area between the permitted use and/or structures and the site's lot lines.

A portion of the Borough within which certain uniform regulations and requirements or combinations thereof apply under the provisions of this chapter.

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

The Zoning Hearing Board of Palmyra Borough, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.

The Official Zoning Map of Palmyra Borough adopted as part of this chapter.

The duly constituted municipal official designated to administer and enforce this chapter in accordance with its literal terms.

The Official Zoning Ordinance of Palmyra Borough.

A permit stating that the purpose for which a building or land is to be used is in conformity with the applicable requirements of this chapter for the zone in which it is, or will be, located.