A flood that, on the average, is likely to occur every 100 years (i.e., that has a 1% chance of occurring each year, although the flood may occur in any year).

The visible or otherwise apparent discontinuance of a nonconforming use of a building or premises or the removal of the characteristic equipment or furnishing used in the performance of a nonconforming use without its replacement by similar equipment or furnishings or the replacement of the nonconforming use or structure.

An improved cartway designed and constructed to provide for vehicular movement between a street and any use other than one single-family dwelling unit or farm. A durable, all-weather surface, other than street, which provides vehicular access from a street or public road to a lot, e.g., a driveway.

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.

A store or other commercial use which offers for retail sale, rent or payment of admission shows, movies, tapes, books, magazines, literature and objects of any explicitly sexual nature, the purchase and possession of which is generally restricted to those over 18 as its main, or predominant, stock-in-trade. This provision shall not be constructed to apply to an establishment when the explicit material offered for sale constitutes only a small fraction of the inventory of the establishment.

Includes soil preparation services; crop services; large animal veterinary services; animal services; farm labor management services; farm product warehousing and storage; refrigerated warehousing and storage; interior storage of boats, automobiles, motor homes, airplanes or heavy equipment within barns or accessory farm buildings which were in existence as of the effective date of this chapter; seed and related agricultural supply stores; lawn and garden supply stores and tack shops.

The use of land for agricultural purposes including farming, dairying, pasturage, agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, viticulture and animal and poultry husbandry and the accessory uses for parking, treating, or storing the produce; provided, however, that the operation of any such accessory uses shall be secondary to that of normal agriculture activities.

All facilities for the storage, maintenance, takeoff and landing of the aircraft.

A private drive intended principally to provide vehicular access within a vehicular parking compound. Although an aisle provides interior vehicular circulation, its principal function is to provide entrance and exit for individual parking spaces. An aisle may not be used to intersect streets.

A strip of land over which there is a right-of-way intended to provide vehicular access to the side and/or rear of properties that front on a street. An alley is not intended for general traffic circulation.

Any change or revision of the text of this chapter or the Official Zoning Map or Zoning Overlay District Map.

A building used by a veterinarian for the treatment, housing or boarding of small domestic animals such as dogs, cats, rabbits, birds and foul.

A group of two or more buildings occupying a lot in single ownership with each building used by three or more families.

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

Defined in Section 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[1]

Defined in Section 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

The use of land and structures for the storage, bailing, sorting, handling, disassembling, purchase or sale of any material which has been used, salvaged, scrapped or reclaimed but is capable of being reused in some form, including metals, fiber, paper, cloth and rags, rubber, rope, bottles, machinery, tools, appliances, fixtures, utensils, lumber, boxes, crates, pipe and pipe fittings, tires, motor vehicles which do not have a current and valid inspection sticker as required by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and motor vehicle parts, but not including garbage or other organic wastes.

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

A building or place of business where gasoline, and possibly oil and greases, batteries, tires and automobile accessories are supplied and dispersed directly to the motor vehicle trade, at retail, and where repair service may be rendered. (See also "garage, repair.")

The water surface elevation of the flood level that has a 1% or greater chance of occurrence in any given year.

That portion of a building partly underground but having less than 1/2 of its clear height below the average lot grade. A basement shall be counted as a story for the purpose of height measurement if they vertical distance between the ceiling and the average level of the adjoining ground is more than five feet in height or if it is used for business or dwelling purposes.

A house, or portion thereof, where short-term lodging rooms and meals are provided. The operator of the inn shall live on the premises or in adjacent premises.

The Zoning Hearing Board of Rush Township.

The Board of Supervisors of the Township of Rush, Centre County, Pennsylvania.

A line marking the limit, or border, of a lot or district.

A "buffer strip" is an open space of ground containing no man-made structures (except signs as permitted by the sign regulations and fences) which acts as a barrier to noise and visibility. Buffer strips shall be assigned to meet specific dimensions provided under the provisions of this chapter and Chapter 290, Subdivision and Land Development.

That portion of a lot bounded by the required front, side and rear yards and/or setbacks.

Any structure or edifice designed or intended for use as an enclosure, a shelter, or for protection of persons, animals or property.

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

That percentage of the plot of land area covered by the principal and accessory buildings (including covered porches, carports and breezeways but excluding open patios).

The vertical distance measured from the average level of the ground surrounding the building to a point midway between the highest and lowest point of the roof, but not including chimneys, spires, towers, tanks and similar projections.

A line parallel to the street line located at a distance which is equal to the front yard setback requirement for the district in which the lot is located.

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

A detached, subordinate building, not used for habitation, the construction and use of which is customarily incidental and subordinate to that of the principal building, and located on the same lot as that occupied by the principal building. Farm buildings not intended for habitation are considered to be accessory buildings.

A building which is enclosed within exterior walls or fire walls, which is built, erected, and framed of component structural parts, which is designed for housing, shelter, enclosure, and support of individuals, or property of any kind, and which is a main structure on a given lot. In the residential district, a dwelling shall be deemed to be a principal building.

A tract or tracts of land, or any portion thereof, used for the purpose of providing a space or spaces for trailers or tents or camping purposes, with or without a fee charged for renting or occupancy of such space.

The use of land and structures by campers for seasonal, recreational and temporary living purposes in cabins, tents or outdoor recreational vehicles.

The surface of a street, access drive, driveway, or alley available for vehicular traffic, including travel lanes and parking lanes.

A story partly underground and having more than 1/2 of its clear height below the average level of the adjoining ground. A cellar shall not be considered in determining the permissible number of stories or in measuring building height.

A line running parallel to and equidistant from both sides of a street.

The County Conservation District, created under authority of state law to administer soil and other conservation work within Centre County, with the technical assistance of state and federal agencies.

The use of land and structures for supervised day care of six or more children.

The use of land and structures for religious worship, education and related activities; includes chapels, cathedrals, temples, synagogues and the like.

The use of land and structures by a nonprofit group which is not operated for the purpose of trade or business, no part of the earnings of which benefit any individual but which is operated for social and community service activities among group members and their guests.

A grouping together of lots with a minimum perimeter.

The use of land and structures for the manufacture and processing of dairy products.

Defined in Section 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[2]

The use of land or structures for social and community service activities which are charitable, educational or religious in nature and are for public rather than for private gain, including recreational programs, counseling services and human service agencies and programs.

A use permitted in certain districts, as provided in Article III, which may only be authorized by the Rush Township Board of Supervisors as set forth in this chapter.

The construction, reconstruction, renovation, repair, extension, alteration or relocation of a building or structure including the placement of manufactured homes.

Small stores permitted in selected rural and residential districts which retail food and beverages primarily to the immediately surrounding population.

A one-family detached dwelling unit which is converted into a two-family dwelling; provided, however, single-family mobile homes shall not be included in this definition and may not be converted.

Centre County, Pennsylvania.

A curved curb connecting the tangents of two intersecting curbs of streets or driveways.

A facility regularly used for the care of five or more young children, whether or not a fee is charged for such care.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

Any existing or potential well site where such well is to be used for the provision of potable water supply and which has been identified by the official water survey, Official Map or other study deemed acceptable by the Township Engineer.

Any landowner, agent of such landowner, equitable owner, or tenant with the permission of the landowner, for whom subdivision or land development plans are being or have been made.

Any man-made change to improve or unimproved real estate including, but not limited to, buildings or other structures, the placement of mobile homes, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations.

Defined in Section 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[3]

All land and watercourses located within designated boundaries on the Official Zoning Map or Zoning Overlay District Map; a zoning district.

A temporary structure extending into a stream or other body of water for the purpose of securing a boat or boats.

The use of land and structures in which goods and services are dispensed directly to the patron while in a motor vehicle by any means which eliminates the necessity for the patron to exit the motor vehicle.

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

Any building or portion thereof designed and used exclusively for residential occupancy, but not including hospitals, hotels, boardinghouses, rooming and lodging houses, institutional houses, tourist courts, and the like, offering overnight accommodations for guests or patients. In addition, all dwellings shall be properly connected to approved and permanently designed public or on-lot sewer, public or on-lot water, electrical and other utility systems.

Facilities for the distribution of utility services, including gas, electric, steam, water, sewage, telephone and similar services. Local distribution lines that provide retail essential to individual retail customers that do not require any additional rights-of-way or property of their own are exempted.

One or more persons, related by blood, adoption, adoption or marriage, living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit, or a number of persons living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit though not related by blood, adoption or marriage.

The provision of care in accord with regulations of the appropriate state agency (agencies) for up to three mentally ill, retarded or disabled children or adults or elderly persons in a dwelling unit by a provider who resides in that unit.

A temporary dwelling placed on a property for one farm laborer on which the farm housing is placed (see Section 305.1[4]).

The use of land and structures for one or more of the following: the tilling of land, the raising of crops, fruits and vegetables and the raising and keeping of animals and plants; horticultural uses related to the raising, propagating and selling of trees, shrubs, flowers and other plant materials; forestry uses related to the harvesting of lumber products.

Any establishment whose principal business is the sale of food or beverages with rapid turnover to customers in a ready-to-consume state for consumption either within the building or for carry-out off the premises and whose design or principal method of operation includes the following: Foods and beverages are usually served in disposable or edible containers; it is self-service, with customers expected to clean up after themselves; and menus are posted.

A repeating cycle of changing light intensity.

The sum of the gross usable area of all floors of a building measured from the face of the exterior walls. "Retail and service floor area" is that portion of the total floor area relegated to use by the customers and employees to consummate retail sales and services, including display areas for goods, but not including office space or storage areas.

The designated area of a floodplain as shown on the community's flood boundary and floodway map required to carry and discharge flood waters of a 100-year flood without cumulatively raising the flood elevation more than one foot at any point (see also Chapter 183, Flood Damage Prevention).

The continuous horizontal distance shared between a street and an adjoining lot.

An accessory building designed or used for the storage of not more than four vehicles owned and used by the occupants of the building to which it is necessary.

A building used primarily for making major repairs to motor vehicles including overhauling, body work, refinishing and upholstering as well as incidental servicing.

Defined in Section 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[5]

The act of excavating and/or filling land for the purpose of changing natural slope.

A partially or fully enclosed structure, permanent or temporary, which is used for the growth of plants.

A dwelling unit in which care and residence are provided in accord with regulations of the appropriate state agency (agencies) for more than three and not more than eight nonadjudicated clients who are dependent children or elderly, mentally ill, retarded or disabled adults.

Any floor area within a dwelling unit that is usable for living purposes, including area for working, sleeping, eating, cooking and recreation or a combination thereof. Living space shall not include floor area used for storage such as closet, attic or unimproved basement space.

A residence or community center in which social and community service activities in accord with regulations of the appropriate state agency (agencies) are provided for resident or nonresident alcoholics, drug addicts, emotionally disturbed adults, former convicts or other adjudicated individuals.

The vertical distance of a structure measured from the mean level of the ground surrounding the structure to its highest point, regardless of roof design.

An accessory use of a dwelling which is customarily conducted in a dwelling and is incidental to and subordinate to the use of the premise as a dwelling. A home occupation may be the practice of a profession, a craft or an activity conducted by a resident or residents of the dwelling which, while it may be for gainful employment, does not change the character of the residence as a dwelling nor the character of the residential district in which is located.

A business or nonprofit establishment for the diagnosis, treatment and other care of the general public through an organized medical staff which is primarily engaged in providing inpatient care. The establishment shall be licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health and have as its mission the provision of acute care medical and nursing services to injured, disabled, pregnant, diseased, sick or mentally ill persons and/or the provision of rehabilitation services for such persons and to provide further services which promote good health and well-being of people.

A building used for seasonal and temporary living purposes by persons engaged in hunting, fishing and similar recreational purposes. Also called a "seasonal cottage" or "seasonal dwelling" or "summer cottage."

An area planned for the integrated design of two or more primary industrial uses and structures on a lot held in single ownership.

That portion of the national system of interstate highways located with the commonwealth as officially designated or as may be hereafter by the State and/or Federal Departments of Transportation.

Any used or discarded material, including, but not limited to, wastepaper, rags, metal, glass, building materials, house furnishings, machinery, vehicles or parts thereof, with or without the dismantling, processing, salvaging, sale or other use or disposition of the same.

An area of land, with or without buildings, utilized for the collection, storage, warehousing and/or sale of used and discarded materials which shall include, but not limited to, wastepaper, rags, scrap metal, glass, building materials, house furnishings or for the collecting, dismantling, storage and salvaging of machinery or vehicles not in running condition and/or for the sale of parts thereof. A junkyard may exist with or without the actual dismantling, processing salvage, sale or other use or disposition of the above-mentioned items. A junkyard, a defined herein, may also include an automotive dismantling and recycling facility.

The legal, beneficial, equitable 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 conditions) a lessee (if he is authorized under the lease to exercise the rights of the landowner), or another person having a proprietary interest in land, shall be deemed to be a landowner for the purposes of this chapter.

A manufacturing or industrial operation that produces a negligible amount of noise, smoke, odor, dust vibration or glare as a result of operation of the activity.

The portion of the floor area of a dwelling relegated to use for residential purposes but excluding crawl spaces, garages, carports, breezeways, attics or portions thereof with clear ceiling heights of less than five feet, open porches, balconies, terraces and accessory structures.

A tract or parcel of land, established by a plat or otherwise permitted by lay, intended for transfer of ownership, use development or improvement; land which is shown as a separate parcel on records of Centre County.

Any lot which individually or as part of a subdivision has been recorded in the office of the Centre County Recorder of Deeds.

A workshop, manufacturing plant or industrial facility where work is machined, repaired or rebuilt. For the purposes of this chapter, machine shops shall include, but not be limited to, the following types of operations: automotive engine rebuilding, tool and die making and similar activities.

A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which is built on a permanent chassis and is designed for use with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities. The term includes park trailers, travel trailers, recreational and other similar vehicles placed on a site for more than 180 consecutive days.

The act of producing or preparing finished products or goods from raw materials through the repetitious use of an established or set process.

The fair market price of a structure or property as determined by an appraiser or insurance adjuster; the price at which both buyer and seller are willing to do business.

Defined in Section 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[6]

The extraction of mineral from the earth or waste or stockpiles of from pits or banks, including, but not limited to, strip, drift, auger and open pit mining, dredging, quarrying, leaching, mountaintop removal, box cutting and activities related thereto.

Includes, but is not limited to, anthracite and bituminous coal, lignite, limestone and dolomite, sand, gravel, rock stone, earth, slag, ore, vermiculite, clay and other mineral resources.

The use of land for the purpose of extracting rocks and minerals for sale, exclusive of grading a lot preparatory to the construction of a structure for which a zoning permit has been issued.

A transportable, single-family dwelling intended for permanent occupancy, office or place of assembly contained in one unit or in two units designed to be joined into one integral unit capable of again being separated for repeated towing which arrives at a site complete and ready for occupancy except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembly operations and is constructed so that it may be used without a permanent foundation.

A parcel or contiguous parcels of land which have been so designated and improved to contain two or more mobile home lots for the placement thereon of mobile homes.

A series of attached or semiattached dwelling structures which are designed to provide sleeping accommodations for automobile transients or overnight guests.

Defined in Section 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[7]

Rush Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania.

The construction, reconstruction, renovation, repair, extension, expansion, alteration, location or relocation of a building (including mobile homes), structure and/or improvements (such as street utilities, etc.).

A business or commercial activity administered or conducted as an accessory use which is clearly secondary to the use as a residential dwelling and which involves no customer, client or patient traffic, whether vehicular or pedestrian, pickup, delivery or removal functions to or from the premises, in excess of those normally associated with residential use. The business or commercial activity must satisfy the following requirements:

Defined in Section 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[8]

Defined in Section 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[9]

Defined in Section 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[10]

Any premises with sleeping rooms where elderly or otherwise infirm persons are lodged and furnished with meals and/or nursing care.

Any dam, wharf, embankment, levee, dike, pile, abutment, projection, excavation, channel, rectification, bridge, conduit, culvert, building, wire fence, rock gravel, refuse, fill, structure or matter in, along, across or projecting into any channel, watercourse, floodplain or regulatory flood hazard area which may impede, retard or change in the direction of the flow of water or that is placed where the flow of water might carry the same downstream to the damage of life or property.

A residence, school, hospital, church, public library or other building used for public gathering that is occupied or in use when a permit application is submitted.

A sanitary sewage collection system in which sewage is carried from individual lots by a system of pipes to a central treatment and disposal plant.

A space not located within any street right-of-way used by motor vehicles for a temporary storage of trucks and other commercial vehicles while loading and unloading merchandise or materials.

Defined in Section 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[11]

The map setting forth the boundaries of the zoning districts of this chapter and adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township.

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.

A space not occupied by a structure, open to the sky and on the same lot with the building or structure.

A row of parking spaces abutting one another along the length of each space.

A facility providing off-street parking for five or more motor vehicles.

An off-street space available for the parking of a vehicle. The parking space shall meet the minimum requirements of this chapter.

Act of 1968, July 31, P.L. 805, as amended and reenacted, Act of 1988, December 21, P.L. 1329 (53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.)

Any premises in which food, shelter and personal assistance or supervision are provided for a period exceeding 24 consecutive hours for four to eight adults 55 years of age or older who are not relatives of the operator and who require assistance or supervision in such matters as dressing, bathing, diet or medication prescribed for self-administration but do not require hospitalization or care in a skilled nursing or intermediate care facility. Such personal care boarding home shall be licenses by the Department of Human Services of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

An area of land, controlled by a landowner(s), to be developed as a single entity for a number of retail businesses, the development plan for which does not necessarily correspond in lot size, bulk or type of commercial establishment, density, lot coverage and required open space to the regulations established in the general commercial district.

A group of industries planned and developed specifically for the site upon which they are to be built and owned as a suit. The development plan for this type of activity will not necessarily correspond to the lot, yard or open space requirements established for their uses in the industrial district.

Defined in Section 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[12]

Defined in Section 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[13]

The Planning Commission of Rush Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania.

For purposes of this chapter, a "pond" shall be defined as a water embankment made by construction of a dam or embankment or by excavating a pit or dugout. This definition does not include retention and detention basins/ponds which are governed by soil conservation and for the purpose of stormwater management.

Any lot and any structure constructed thereon.

That portion of connected main highways located within the commonwealth as officially designated or may be thereafter so designated by the State and/or Federal Department of Transportation.

At least 51% of the actual cash value of the structure is above the ground.

Not publicly owned, operated or controlled.

A park which provides outdoor recreational enjoyment and activity for members of the organization which owns the facility or to the general public or a fee basis. A private park may also include buildings and accessory structures.

Owned, operated or controlled by a governmental unit or a governmental agency.

Defined in Section 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[14]

Notice published once each week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Township. Such notice shall state the date, time and place of the hearing and the particular nature of the matter to be considered. The first publication shall be not more than 30 days nor less than 14 days from the date of the hearing and the second publication shall be not less than seven days prior to the hearing date.

A system designed to treat the sewage wastes of more than one structure and which discharges the resultant outflow into a stream or other body of water. Such a system must be designed in accordance with DEP standards and permitted by the Bureau of Water Quality of the Department of Environmental Protection. These systems shall include Township treatment facilities as well as package treatment plans installed by private developer.

For the purpose of this chapter, electric substations, automatic telephone exchanges, micro-relay stations and the like (but excluding public sewer and water facilities and radio and television transmitters and towers) and any other public utility corporation when exempted from the provisions of this chapter by state law.

A commercial establishment for the racing of animals or motor vehicles.

These facilities shall include outdoor activities such as golf courses and country clubs, riding academies and commercial stables, parks, tennis courts, skiing facilities, primitive tent campsites and other similar uses.

A vehicle which is:

Defined in Section 107 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[15]

An establishment where horses are kept for riding or driving or are stabled for compensation as part of a club, association, ranch or similar establishment.

Land reserved for use as a street, alley, crosswalk, utilities, or other public or private use.

See "bed-and-breakfast."

The surface water discharge or rate of discharge of a given watershed after a fall of rain, snow or other form of precipitation that does not enter the soil but runs off the surface of the land.

A comprehensive inventory of existing facilities, services, land uses, etc., for Rush Township, Centre County, and a detailed analysis of the community's future needs and its projected goals and objectives.

Any place offering instruction in any branch of knowledge under the supervision of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or lawfully constituted ecclesiastical governing body, person, partnership or corporation meeting the requirements of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

The provision of a barrier to visibility, glare and noise between adjacent properties composed of plant materials such as trees or shrubs which shall be of such species as will produce within three years a visual screen of least six feet in height. However, such plantings shall adhere to § 290-44 of Chapter 290, Subdivision and Land Development, and shall be broken at points of vehicular or pedestrian access or utility easements.

A single-family detached dwelling used for seasonal and temporary living purposes during any season by persons engaged in recreational pursuits. Also called a "summer cottage" or "hunting and fishing cabin." Permanent structures or mobile homes intended to be utilized only periodically during the year. Such use may include occupancy during hunting and fishing seasons, vacation uses, weekend uses and other similar periodic visits. Such use may not include occupancy for more than 90 consecutive days or a total of more than 180 days in each year.

Any structure designed and used for the purpose of renting or leasing storage space to occupants who are to have access to such for the purpose of storing and removing said property.

The on-and-off flickering effect of a shadow caused when the sun passes behind the rotor of a wind turbine.

A group of two or more primary uses or structures used for retail sales and service occupying a lot in single ownership.

Any surface, fabric, device or structure bearing lettering or pictorial or sculpture matter designed for visual communication or information and used for the purpose of bringing the subject thereof to the attention of the public, not including any flag, badge or insignia of a government.

A facility for the care and treatment of household pets and other small animals and which is climate controlled, served by public sewer and water and which has no exterior or outside kennels or runs.

A wind energy conversion system which has a rated capacity of up to 100 kilowatts which is incidental and subordinate to a permitted use on the same parcel. A system is considered a small wind energy system only if it supplies electrical power solely for on-site use, except that when a parcel upon which the system is installed also receives electrical power supplied by a utility company, excess electrical power generated and not presently needed for on-site use may be used by the utility company.

Land whose slope (surfaces at an angle to the plane of the horizon) is 25% or more (a vertical difference of 25 feet or more per 100 feet or horizontal difference).

Those controls and measures (e.g., storm sewers, berms, terraces, bridges, dams, basins, infiltration systems, swales, watercourses, and floodplains) used to effect a stormwater management system.

A strip of land over which there is a public or private right-of-way intended to serve principally as a means of vehicular access to, and frontage for, abutting properties, as well as general traffic circulation. Streets are further classified as follows:

A line defining the edge of a street right-of-way and separating the street from abutting properties or lots. The street line shall be the same as the legal right-of-way line.

Any man-made object having an ascertainable stationary location or in land or water which may or may not be affixed to the land.

The division or redivision of a lot, tract, or parcel of land by any means into one, two or more lots, tracts, parcels, or other divisions of land, including changes in existing lot lines for the purpose, whether immediate or future, or 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 of land or agricultural purposes into parcels of more than then 10 acres, not involving any new streets or easements of access or residential dwelling, shall be exempted.

Any repair, reconstruction or improvement of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds 50% of the 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 purposes of this definition, "substantial improvement" is considered to occur when the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor or other structural part of the building commences, whether or not that alteration affects the external dimensions of the structure. The term does not include either any project for improvement of a structure to comply with existing state or local health, sanitary or safety code specifications which are solely necessary to assure safe living conditions or any alteration of a structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places or a state inventory of historic places.

Where, in the judgment of the Township 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.

A single-family detached dwelling used for seasonal and temporary living purposes during any season by persons engaged in recreational pursuits. Also known as "seasonal cottage," "seasonal dwelling" or "hunting and fishing cabin."

See "mineral extraction operation."

A telecommunication facility consists of equipment, buildings and structures involved in transmitting and receiving electromagnetic waves.

The building in which electronic receiving and relay equipment for a telecommunication tower is housed.

A use or structure permitted for a fixed period of time with the obligation and intent to discontinue the use, or dismantle the structure, at the end of such time. Such uses do not involve the construction or alteration of any permanent structure.

The use of land and structures which may contain an assembly hall and studios with or without stage, which may be equipped with curtains and permanent stage scenery or with mechanical equipment adaptable, but not limited to, the showing of plays, operas, performances, spectacles and similar forms of live or audio visual entertainment and for instruction in the performing arts.

A single-family dwelling in which overnight accommodations are provided as offered for transient guests for compensation and where the provider of accommodations resides in the dwelling.

A monopole, freestanding, or guyed structure that supports a wind generator.

Any ground-mounted structure that is designed and constructed primarily for the purpose of supporting one or more antennas for telephone, radio and similar communication purposes, including self-supporting lattice towers or monopole towers; and includes radio and television transmission towers, microwave towers, common-carrier towers, and cellular telephone towers. The term includes the structure and any support thereto. Not included are towers and supportive structures on residential dwellings for private noncommercial, amateur purposes, including but not limited to ham radios and citizens band radios that are regulated by the regulations in each respective residential district.

The height above grade of a fixed portion of the tower, excluding the wind turbine and blades.

The Board of Supervisors of Rush Township.

See "recreational vehicle."

A structure or group of structures owned and/or operated by trucking firm(s) intended to be used for loading, unloading, storage and/or transfer of truck-transported goods, including truck maintenance and fueling facilities.

The specific purpose of which land or a building is designed, arranged, intended or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained. The term "permitted use" shall not be deemed to include any nonconforming use. The term "primary use" is the principal use of a lot or structure. The term "accessory use" is the use of land which is customarily incidental; and inferior, secondary and subordinate to the primary use and located on the same lot with such unless specifically permitted elsewhere herein.

A modification of the literal provisions of this chapter which the Zoning Hearing Board is permitted, but is not obligated, to grant the strict enforcement would cause undue hardship to an individual property owner. (See 53 P.S. § 10910.2 for additional details and criteria to be utilized when a variance is requested.)

The use of the land and structure or part thereof which is open to the general public and designed for the dissemination of information. Such information may include, but shall not be limited to, exhibits, maps, brochures, pamphlets and similar items.

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. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs and similar acres.

A wind generator and all associated equipment, including any base, blade, foundation, nacelle, rotor, tower, transformer, vane, wire, inverter, batteries and/or other component necessary to fully utilize the wind generator.

Equipment that converts energy from the wind into electricity. Includes the rotor, blades, and associated mechanical and electrical conversion components necessary to generate, store, and/or transfer energy.

An establishment or facility providing outdoor recreation during the winter such as skiing, sledding and skating.

An open space which lies between the principal building or group of buildings and the nearest lot line and is unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward except as herein permitted. (Reasonable plantings shall not be considered an obstruction hereunder.)

The Zoning Hearing Board of Rush Township.

The Official Zoning Map of Rush Township, together with all references, notations and amendments which may subsequently be adopted. Said map is made a part of this chapter in § 335-2-3.

The administrative officer charged with the duty of enforcing the provisions of this chapter.

A permit stating that the purpose for which a building or land is to be used is in conformity with the uses permitted and all other requirements of this chapter for the district in which it is to be located.