Attached Structures. An accessory structure attached to the principal structure is considered a part of the principal structure for all regulatory purposes.

Nonattached Structures. An accessory structure standing apart from the principal structure is permitted only in a rear yard; provided, however, that it is at least three feet from the rear lot line, three feet from one side lot line and at least 10 feet from the principal structure. For all other requirements, a nonattached structure is considered the same as a principal structure.

Fences and Walls. In an R-O, R-T, or C Zone, no fence or wall (except a retaining wall or a wall of a building permitted under the terms of this chapter) shall be erected to a height of more than four feet in a front yard area and more than six feet in the side or rear yard area. In an I Zone, no fence may exceed eight feet in height in any yard area.

Solar and Wind Energy Facilities. Solar or wind energy systems either as part of a structure or as an independent structure providing a significant fraction of the electricity, space heating, space cooling, or domestic hot-water heating for a permitted use in any zone shall be permitted as accessory uses subject to the following constraints:

Satellite Dish Antenna. Any accessory structure capable of receiving, for the sole benefit of the principal use, radio, or television signals from a transmitter or transmitter relay located in planetary orbit shall be subject to the following constraints:

All outdoor swimming pools must conform to all applicable requirements of state law. No permanent swimming pool shall be permitted without an operable filtration system utilizing an antibacterial agent, in addition, all swimming pools must be secured a follows to prevent unauthorized access:

Inoperable Motor Vehicles. No inoperable or junked motor vehicle shall be parked, stored, placed, or allowed to remain on any lot within any zoning district within the Borough for a period of time in excess of 30 days unless such vehicle shall be contained within a completely enclosed building or be located on a lot permitted as a junkyard or automobile wrecking facility pursuant to this chapter.

Recreational Vehicles. In a residential zone, on-street parking of recreational vehicles is permitted for a period not to exceed 24 hours for purposes of loading and unloading. Recreational vehicles shall not be stored in the area between the street line and the line formed by the front wall of the principal building unless parked in a driveway which has adequate space available in addition to the required parking spaces for the principal use. If stored in a side or rear yard, all setback requirements must be met.

Outdoor Stockpiling: See Chapter 20, Solid Waste, Part 1, Collection and Disposal.

Front Setbacks from Major Thoroughfares. For the purpose of protecting residential use from adverse influences of traffic and for the purpose of protecting major thoroughfares for their traffic functions, buildings (including residential and nonresidential buildings) along these thoroughfares must be set back at least 50 feet from the right-of-way line of the thoroughfare. Major thoroughfares are or will be the following arterial streets and collector streets as specified in the Borough's Thoroughfare Classification Plan, plus any street constructed to meet the arterial or collector street design standards as set forth in the Thoroughfare Classification Plan:

Front Setback of Buildings or Built-up Streets. Where at least two buildings fronting on the same side of the street within 100 feet of the subject property are set back a lesser distance than required, the lesser distance becomes the required minimum front setback for the property.

Setback on Corner, Double Frontage, Reverse Frontage, and Triple Frontage Lots. In the case of corner, double frontage, and reverse frontage lots, a front setback shall be provided from each street and a side setback shall be provided from the remaining property lines. In the case of a triple frontage lot, a front setback shall be provided from each street and the remaining setback shall be a side setback.

Accessory or Appurtenant Structures. The setback regulations do not apply to the following, provided that they are not located within the clear sight triangle:

Sight Distances.

The height regulations do not apply to the following projections, provided that the height of any such projection above its base shall not be greater than the shortest distance measured along a horizontal plane from such base to any lot line:

Solar Energy Systems. Solar energy systems shall be permitted relief from previously stated limitations to the following extent:

Wind Energy Systems. Wind energy systems shall be permitted relief from previously stated limitations to the following extent:

All dwelling units must conform to the minimum habitable floor area as follows; provided, however, that each unit shall provide at least 150 square feet of habitable floor space for the first occupant and at least 100 square feet of habitable floor space for each additional occupant or that the total number of persons to occupy the unit does not exceed two times the number of habitable rooms as per § 11-108 of Chapter 11, Housing:

Signs Permitted and Extent of Use. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to include signs intended for viewing principally from within a building or signs temporarily attached to the inside face of a window announcing a sale or similar features. Such signs shall be permitted in addition to any of the specific signs mentioned above.

Projection of Signs. No sign may project:

Illumination of Signs.

Buntings and Pennants. Buntings and pennants are permitted only to announce the opening or closing of a business or industry or in connection with a special sale of civic event and must be removed within seven days after the event.

Temporary Signs. The following provisions shall apply to all types of temporary signs except for portable signs and sidewalk signs which must comply with the regulations set forth in Subsections 6 and 7, respectively.

Portable Signs. Portable signs shall be permitted in the Commercial, Borough Center, and Industrial Zones subject to the following requirements:

Sidewalk Signs. Sidewalk signs shall be permitted in the Commercial, Borough Center, and Industrial Zones, provided that the following provisions are satisfied:

Construction and Maintenance. Signs must be constructed of durable materials, maintained in good condition and not allowed to become dilapidated.

Termination of Enterprise. Upon termination or abandonment of a commercial or industrial use, all signs pertaining to and identifying the enterprise must be removed.

Size of Parking Space. The parking space must have an area of not less than 200 square feet, exclusive of passageways and driveways appurtenant to the space and giving access to it. Where five or more parking spaces are required, the total parking area including passageways and driveways must average 300 square feet per required parking space.

Spaces Required. Off-street parking spaces must be provided for each building erected, altered, enlarged, or converted in accordance with the following schedule, except that if a use in the Borough Center or Commercial Zone not involving or containing a dwelling or dwelling unit(s) is located in a metered area or within 300 feet of a municipal parking facility, no off-street parking shall be required.

Location. The parking area must be on the same or nearby premises. If on nearby premises:

Layout. Parking areas must be arranged so there will be no need for motorists to back over:

Parking Area Adjacent to Street. For multi-family and nonresidential uses where a parking area or other area open to movement of vehicles abuts the right-of-way of a public street, a pipe railing, post and chain barricade, raised curbs, or equally effective devices satisfactory to the Borough Engineer must line the public right-of-way except at access points so that parked vehicles will not extend into the street right-of-way.

Paving. For commercial, industrial, and multi-family residential uses, all required parking areas shall be paved with concrete or bituminous paving material. A parking area for more than five vehicles must be approved by the Borough Engineer, relative to paving, grading, and drainage.

Size; Surfacing. The loading space must be not less than 10 feet wide and 25 feet long. It must be surfaced with a bituminous or concrete paving material.

Spaces Required. Off-street loading spaces must be provided for each building erected or enlarged in accordance with the following schedule:

Layout. The loading area must be arranged so that there will be no need for motorists to back over public rights-of-way and must not be located in the front yard area.

Width. Within 10 feet of the street right-of-way, driveways may not exceed 35 feet in width.

Number. The number of driveways may not exceed two per lot on any one street frontage. The Zoning Hearing Board may grant permission by special exception for additional driveways where required to meet exceptional circumstances and where frontage of unusual length exists.

Location. Driveways may not enter a public street:

Sight Distance; Slope; Cut. A driveway must be located in safe relationship to a sight distance and barriers to vision. The drive may not exceed a slope of 10% within 25 feet of the street right-of-way line. Where a drive enters a bank through a cut, unless a retaining wall is used, the shoulders of the cut may not exceed 50% in slope within 25 feet of the point at which the drive intersects the street right-of-way. The height of the bank must not exceed three feet within 10 feet of the street right-of-way line. Cuts for a driveway at curbs must be two inches above gutter-grade and must not have more than a 10% slope across walks.

Paving. An access drive must be paved with a concrete or bituminous paving material to prevent gravel or other loose material from being carried onto the street.

Where an industrial or commercial use is proposed in a C or I Zone and it abuts a residential zone, except for street or alley frontage:

Adequate Drainage Required. No principal building may be erected, structurally altered, or relocated on land:

Building Restricted Adjacent to Drainage Channels and Watercourses. No building may be erected, structurally altered, or relocated:

Drainage Upon Streets. In order to prevent improper surface water drainage upon streets, each building erected, structurally altered, or relocated, and its driveways, must be at a grade in satisfactory relationship:

Drainage Upon Adjoining Properties.

Obstruction to Drainage Prohibited. The damming, filling, or otherwise interfering with the natural flow of a surface watercourse is not permitted without approval of the Borough Engineer.

Continuance.

Expansion or Alteration.

Replacement.

Restoration. If any nonconformity is destroyed in part of in whole by reason of windstorm, fire, explosion, or other act of God or a public enemy, the nonconformity may be rebuilt, restored, or repaired to the extent of the nonconformity prior to destruction, provided that restoration is begun within one year following said destruction. Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the strengthening or restoring to a safe condition any wall, floor, or roof which has been declared unsafe.

Discontinuance or Abandonment. A nonconforming use shall be adjudged as discontinued or abandoned when there occurs a cessation of any such use or activity by an apparent act or failure to act on the part of the tenant or owner to reinstate such use within a period of one year from the date of cessation or discontinuance. Such use shall not thereafter be reinstated and the structure shall not be re-occupied except in conformance with this chapter.

Reversion. No nonconformity shall, if once changed to conform to the regulations of this chapter, be changed back again to a nonconformity.

Zone Changes. Whenever the boundaries of a zone shall be changed so as to transfer an area from one zone to another zone of a different classification, the foregoing provisions shall also apply to any nonconforming uses or dimensional nonconformities existing therein or created thereby.

Certificate of Nonconformity. Within 90 days after the adoption of this chapter or 90 days after any amendment or variance creating a nonconformity, a person with a certificate application must contain all the nonconforming conditions of the applicant's property. This certificate affirms the legality of the nonconformity.

Home offices shall be used and operated in accordance with the following requirements:

Commercial communications antennas which meet the following requirements shall be allowed in the zones in which they are permitted under the use schedule and shall not be considered as a separate principal use for purposes of the dimensional requirements of this chapter.