A use or structure subordinate to the principal use of a building on the same lot and serving a purpose customarily incidental to the use of the principal building.

An establishment having as a substantial or significant portion of the stock-in-trade books, magazines, other periodicals, photographs, slides and motion pictures which are distinguished or characterized by emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or anatomical areas or an establishment with a segment or section devoted to the sale or display of such material, being an establishment from which minors are excluded.

A drive-in theater for presenting material distinguished or characterized by emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas for observation by patrons, being an establishment from which minors are excluded.

An enclosed building with the capacity for fewer than 50 persons used for presenting material distinguished or characterized by emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas for observation by patrons therein, being an establishment from which minors are excluded.

An enclosed building with a capacity of 50 or more persons used for presenting material distinguished or characterized by emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas for observation by patrons therein, being an establishment from which minors are excluded.

A public or private way not more than 30 feet wide, affording only secondary means of access to abutting property.

Any change in the structural members of a building, such as walls, columns, beams or girders.

An open area, other than a street, used for the display, sale or rental of new or used motor vehicles or trailers in operable condition and where no repair work is done.

A building or place of business where gasoline, oil and greases, batteries, tires and automobile accessories are supplied and dispensed directly to the motor vehicle trade, at retail, and where the following repairs may be rendered:

The dismantling or dissembling of used motor vehicles or trailers; or the storage, sale or dumping of dismantled, partially dismantled, obsolete or wrecked vehicles or their parts.

A story whose floor is more than 12 inches but not more than half of its story height below the average level of the adjoining ground [as distinguished from a cellar, which is a story more than one-half (1/2) below such level]. Any portion of a basement, when used as a dwelling, shall be counted as a story for purposes of height measurement.

The  Zoning Hearing Board.

A building designed for occupancy as the temporary residence of individuals who are lodged with or without meals. The facility has a maximum of 75 lodging rooms and may include meeting rooms, dining facilities, a bar/lounge and ancillary recreational uses as accessory uses or structures incidental to the hotel operation.

Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls used for shelter or enclosures. When divided into separate parts by one or more unpierced walls extending from the ground up, each part is deemed a separate building, except as regards minimum side yard requirements.

The vertical distance measured from the average level of the highest and lowest portion of the building site covered by the building to the ceiling of the uppermost story.

A building which contains the principal use of the building site on which it is situated. In a residential district, a dwelling is a "principal building" on the zone lot.

The City Planning Commission of the City of Pottsville.

The City Council of the City of Pottsville.

A portion of the territory of the City of Pottsville within which certain uniform regulations and requirements apply under the provisions of this chapter.

Any building or portion thereof designed or used exclusively as the residence or sleeping place of one or more persons, except as provided herein:

Any structure containing one or more rooms providing sleeping and sanitary facilities, not including a hotel, hospital, nursing home, dormitory, fraternity or sorority house, rooming house, boardinghouse or similar structure.

One or more rooms, including a kitchen or kitchenette and sanitary facilities, in a dwelling structure, designed as a unit for occupancy by not more than one family.

Any premises which provides sleeping rooms where persons are lodged and where meals and/or nursing care is available due to the age of physical or mental infirmity of persons residing therein. This term includes nursing homes, assisted-living facilities, intermediate-care facilities, congregate-care facilities and elderly supervised independent living accommodations.

The construction or maintenance, by public utilities or governmental agencies, of gas, electrical, steam, telephone or water distribution systems. These include equipment such as poles, towers, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants and other similar equipment which conform to the height regulations of the district in which they are proposed, except that buildings and electric substations are excluded.

An individual or two or more persons related by blood or marriage or a group of not more than five persons (excluding servants) who are not related by blood or marriage, living together as a single housekeeping unit in a dwelling unit, except that dormitories and religious homes with common living quarters and adequate central services are excluded.

For the purposes of applying the requirements for off-street parking and loading, "floor area," in the case of offices, merchandising or service types of uses, shall mean the gross floor area used or intended to be used by tenants or for service to the public as customers, patrons, clients or patients, including areas occupied by fixtures and equipment used for display or sales of merchandise. It shall not include areas used principally for nonpublic purposes such as storage, incidental repair, processing or packaging of merchandise, for shop windows, for offices incidental to the management or maintenance of stores or buildings, for toilet or rest rooms, for utilities or for dressing rooms, fitting or alteration rooms.

A detached accessory building used only for the storage of automobiles by the family's resident upon the premises located upon the zoned lot.

A structure other than a private garage used for the storage, sale, hire, care, repair or refinishing of automobiles.

Any use considered to be inconsistent with the public comfort, convenience, health, safety and general welfare. The following factors are included:

A retail store (less than 20,000 square feet in size) that primarily sells food, including canned and frozen foods, fresh fruits and vegetables, and fresh (raw) and prepared meats, fish and poultry.

An establishment at which health care is provided, including hospitals, doctors' offices, and clinics.

A building designed for occupancy as the temporary residence of individuals who are lodged with or without meals. No cooking is provided in any individual room or suites.

Includes scrap metals and their alloys, bones, used materials and products (such as rags and cloth, rubber, rope, tinfoil, bottles, old tools and machinery, fixtures and appliances, lumber, boxes or crates, pipe and pipe fittings) and other manufactured goods that are so worn, deteriorated or obsolete as to make them unusable in their existing condition, but are subject to being dismantled.

Consists of buildings or premises where junk, waste, discarded or salvage materials are bought, sold, stored, packed or handled. "Junkyards" include automobile wrecking yards, house wrecking and structural steel materials and equipment. The purchase or storage of used furniture, household equipment and used cars in operable condition are not included.

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.

Any establishment having a fixed place of business where massages are administered for pay, including but not limited to massage parlors, health clubs, sauna baths and steam baths. This definition shall not be construed to include a hospital, nursing home, medical clinic or the office of a physician, surgeon, chiropractor, osteopath or physical therapist duly licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, nor barbershops or beauty salons in which massages are administered only to the scalp, the face, the neck or the shoulders, nor hotels with at least 20 rooms available for transient guests. This definition shall not be construed to include a volunteer fire department, a volunteer rescue squad or a nonprofit organization operating a community center, swimming pool, tennis court or other educational, cultural, recreational and athletic facilities and facilities for the welfare of the residents of the area, being an establishment from which minors are excluded.

A dwelling unit that can be towed, transported or self-propelled from its place of manufacture to a designated site; a unit that can be moved in its entirety and be relocated by the same method of towing, transporting or self-propellation as originally used.

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

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

A building comprised of more than 50% percent of offices. Offices permitted in the C-1 District and home occupations with offices are not considered to be "office buildings."

A facility that is adjacent to, or is part of, a dining or entertainment establishment (including, but not limited to, hotels, theaters, restaurants, taverns, social halls, clubs and lodges) that includes outdoor areas for dining and/or entertainment (including, but not limited to, theatrical, musical or cultural performances).

An open area for the same uses as a private garage, and subject to the same conditions.

An open area, other than a street or other public way, used for the parking of automobiles and available to the public.

Any use requiring no special action by the Board or the Commission before a zoning permit is granted by the Zoning Officer, subject to all other applicable provisions of this chapter.

A building containing a single dwelling unit and rooms for the rooming and/or boarding of between three and 25 persons for definite periods of not less than one week.

Any name, identification, description, display, illustration or device which is affixed to or represented directly or indirectly upon or within a building, structure or land in view of the general public and which directs attention to a product, place, activity, person, institution or business. Further sign definitions are as follows:

The portion of a building included between the surfaces of any floor and the floor above it; if there is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it.

Includes street, avenue, boulevard, road, highway, freeway, parkway, lane, alley, viaduct and any other ways used or intended to be used by vehicular traffic or pedestrians, whether public or private.

Any mining operation by which the earth and rocks overlying a coal vein are removed by mechanical means or by hand for the purpose of recovering, mining or removing coal thereunder.

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

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; provided, however, that the subdivision by lease or 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.

Relief granted by Zoning Hearing Board from the requirements set forth in this chapter and in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Zoning Code where it is alleged that the provisions of this code inflict unnecessary hardship upon an applicant.

An open space of uniform width and depth, lying between a building (or group of buildings) on the same lot and the nearest lot line. It is unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise permitted.