An improved cartway designed and constructed to provide for vehicular movement between a street and a tract of land containing any use other than one single-family dwelling unit or farm.

A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use or building and located on the same lot as the principal use or building. No accessory use may be housed or conducted within any bus, boat, truck, truck trailer, truck bed, truck body, travel trailer or other part of any motor vehicle.

The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.

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

The tilling of the soil, the raising of crops and the keeping or raising of livestock, such as cattle, cows, hogs, horses, sheep, goats, poultry, rabbits, birds, fish, bees, and other similar animals. This definition also includes noncommercial greenhouses and mushroom houses, roadside stands, and incidental slaughter of livestock raised on the site for personal consumption. The breeding, raising, boarding, and/or selling of domestic pets is not agriculture as defined herein.

A minor right-of-way, privately or publicly owned, primarily for service access to the rear or sides of properties, and not intended to be used for through vehicular traffic movements.

Any change in the supporting members of a building or structure such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders, joists or rafters or enclosing walls. Any renovation to a building which would change its use.

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

Any establishment offering veterinary services. Animal hospitals can treat all types of animals and can include outdoor and overnight boarding of animals.[1]

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 use whereby passenger vehicles are offered for wholesale and/or retail sales at prearranged auction sales.

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

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

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

A use whereby passenger vehicles are stored awaiting transport to a different location.[2]

See "cellar."

A single-family detached dwelling, where between one and five rooms are rented to overnight guests on a daily basis for periods not exceeding one week. Meals may be offered only to registered overnight guests.

A sign upon which advertising matter of any character is printed, posted or lettered, whether freestanding or attached to a surface of a building or other structure. A billboard is used to advertise products, services or businesses at a location other than the premises on which the sign is placed.

The Zoning Hearing Board of Salisbury Township.

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 may be furnished meals or other services as part of the compensation.

A building or portion thereof arranged or used for sheltering or feeding, or both, of more than three and not more than 10 individuals that do not constitute a family as defined in this chapter.

Any structure with a roof intended for shelter or enclosure of persons, animals or property. For the purposes of § 340-22 of this chapter, this term shall also include gas or liquid storage tanks.

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.

A building's vertical measurement from the average ground level, based on existing grade prior to construction, at the corners of the building to the highest point of the roof.

The horizontal measurement of any continuous exterior building wall.

The permit required by the UCC.

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

A lot, tract or parcel of land upon which two or more campsites are located or established, intended and maintained for occupation by transients in recreational vehicles or tents, for periods not exceeding four continuous weeks.

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

A principal or accessory use at which structures equipped with apparatuses for the washing, waxing and/or vacuuming of vehicles are provided.

An unenclosed structure for the storage of one or more vehicles in the same manner as a private garage, which may be covered by a roof supported by columns or posts, except that one or more walls may be the walls of the principal building to which the carport is accessory.

A space with less than 1/2 of its floor-to-ceiling height above the average finished grade of the adjoining ground or with a floor-to-ceiling height of less than 6 1/2 feet. Within a dwelling unit, a cellar shall not be counted as floor area, nor as a story of permissible building height.

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.

The center of a surveyed street, road, lane, alley, alley right-of-way or, where not surveyed, the center of a traveled cartway.

A statement signed by a duly authorized Township officer, setting forth that a building, structure or use legally complies with this chapter and other applicable codes and regulations and that the same may be used for the purposes stated therein.

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

A place of worship, including a church, chapel, cathedral, synagogue, temple, mosque or other facility, that is principally used for prayer by persons of similar beliefs; or a special purpose building that is architecturally designed and particularly adapted for the primary use of conducting formal religious services on a regular basis.

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 that they are not conducting any commercial activities except as required for the membership of such club and provided that there are no overnight accommodations. Clubs shall include, but not be limited to, service and political organizations, labor unions, as well as social and athletic clubs.

A development that integrates required common open space and residential dwellings. Cluster developments are further regulated by §§ 340-63 and 340-64 of this chapter.

The duly constituted Township official designated to administer and literally enforce this chapter and others.

An agricultural use involving more than 15 or more hogs.

Producing and/or maintaining with the express purpose and intent of selling the product for a livelihood.

An agricultural use involving 1,000 or more birds such as, but not limited to, chickens and turkeys.

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, drive-in motion picture facilities, swimming pools, health clubs, miniature golf courses, museums, etc. This does not include adult-related uses or amusement arcades, as defined herein.

The latest version of the Township's official planning document as enabled by the Act.

A use which may not be appropriate to a particular zone as a whole, but which may be suitable in certain localities within the zone only when specific conditions and criteria prescribed for such uses have been complied with. Conditional uses are reviewed by the Board of Supervisors after recommendations by the Planning Commission, in accordance with § 340-147 of this chapter.

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

A lot within a development with single-family detached dwellings, single-family semidetached dwellings and/or two-family dwellings that does not involve cluster development, and does not involve the set-aside of common open space.

The Lancaster County Conservation District or any entity successor thereto.

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

A business which specializes in the retail sales and/or rental of household products and foods. Convenience stores may also include any of the following, provided that each use has obtained the necessary respective approvals, is clearly secondary to the retail sales operation, and it operates as an accessory use to the convenience store:

An assemblage of uses that provides for a setting where indoor and outdoor exhibits and activities serve various business, entertainment, recreation, conventions. This use can also include related lodging and dining facilities.

The offering of care or supervision over minors or special-needs adults in lieu of care or supervision by family members. This definition does not include the offering of overnight accommodations.

The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic. Development or any agency successor thereto.

A term used to express the allowable number of dwelling units per acre of land.

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

A disability of a person which has continued or can be expected to continue indefinitely; a disability which is:

A person with a developmental disability.

Animals, including but not limited to dogs and cats that are locally available for purchase as pets and are kept accessory to a residential use. This term shall include small farm animals, such as chickens, turkeys and other birds/fowl, in addition to large farm animals (excluding cows and pigs) if said animals are kept within limitations as noted in § 340-24M. This term shall exclude any animal requiring a special license or permit under Chapter 29 of the Game and Wildlife Code, 34 Pa.C.S.A. § 101 et seq.

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

Any building or portion thereof designed and used exclusively for residential occupancy by one family, including those listed below, but not including hospitals, hotels, boardinghouses, institutional houses, and the like or any other structure providing overnight accommodations or accommodations for a period of less than 30 consecutive days for guests or patients. Recreational vehicles and travel trailers shall not be considered to be dwellings. All dwellings except mobile homes shall 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 actions.

A building or portion thereof arranged or designed for residential occupancy by not more than one family, having separate cooking and sanitary facilities.

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. This definition shall not include plowing and/or tilling associated with agriculture, horticulture or forestry activities.

An additional temporary dwelling unit placed on a property for occupancy by elderly, handicapped or disabled persons related by blood, marriage or adoption to the occupants of the principal dwelling. The additional dwelling unit shall be removed from the property within three months after it is no longer occupied by a person who qualifies for the use.

An individual or individuals related by blood, marriage or adoption that maintain one common household and live within one dwelling unit. Additionally, up to four unrelated individuals who maintain a common household and live within one dwelling unit using common cooking facilities may be considered a family. Finally, a family shall also expressly include any number of unrelated persons who reside within a licensed group home, as defined herein.

Any parcel of land which meets the minimum lot area set forth in § 340-12E and is used for gain in the raising of agricultural products, livestock, poultry, or dairy products, including necessary farm structures and the storage of equipment customarily incidental to the primary use. Farms do not include the raising of fur-bearing animals, horse boarding, riding stables, or kennels.

An accessory use to the primary agricultural use of a property in which residents engage in a secondary occupation conducted on the farm.

A retail sales use where more than one vendor displays and sells general merchandise that is new or used. Farmers and/or flea markets can include indoor and outdoor display of merchandise.

The act of cutting a standing tree so that it falls to the ground.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency or any agency successor thereto.

A structure designed as a barrier to restrict the movement of persons, animals and/or vehicles. This definition shall not include ornamental fence treatments that are located in the front yard and extend less than 1/2 the width and/or depth of the front yard.

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.

A bank, savings and loan association, credit union, finance or loan company, etc.[3]

A retail sales use where more than one vendor displays and sells general merchandise that is new or used. Flea markets can include indoor and outdoor display or merchandise.[4]

A relatively flat or low land area which is subject to partial or complete inundation from an adjoining or nearby stream, river or watercourse; and/or any area subject to the unusual and rapid accumulation of surface waters from any source; and/or the Floodplain Zone (FP).[5]

The management of forest 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 sale or display of merchandise or other personal property, other than in the ordinary course of a business, from a garage, porch, lawn, basement or driveway of a dwelling or any such similar sale.

See "private garage."

The cultivation and sales of herbs, fruits, flowers or vegetables as an accessory use to a principal dwelling use. This definition shall expressly exclude the keeping of livestock.

A golf course with a minimum of 2,800 yards of play in nine holes.

The sum of the floor areas of a building as measured to the outside surfaces of exterior walls and including all areas intended and designed for the conduct of a use.

A dwelling operated by a reasonably responsible individual, family or organization with a program to provide a supportive living arrangement for individuals where special care is needed by the individual served due to age, emotional, mental or physical handicap. This definition shall expressly include facilities for the supervised care of developmentally disabled persons and those under treatment for alcohol and/or drug abuse. Group homes must be licensed where required by any appropriate government agencies, and a copy of any such license must be delivered to the Township prior to beginning the use. Group homes shall be subject to the same limitations and regulation by the Township as single-family detached dwellings.

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

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 Township.

A commercial business that offers active recreational and/or fitness activities. Such activities are provided only to club members and their guests. Such facilities do not include golf courses.

Vehicles and machinery that are not normally associated with domestic use (e.g., excavation equipment, commercial trucks and trailers, buses, yachts, farm equipment, mechanized amusement rides, industrial machinery, and other similar items).

Any use permitted in § 340-18B that exceeds two acres in lot area, or any industrial use not specifically provided for by § 340-18B of this chapter.

A building's vertical measurement from the average ground level based on existing grade prior to construction at the corners of the building to the highest point of the roof.

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

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

A principal use where one or more helicopters may land/take off and be stored. Such use may also include support services such as fueling and maintenance equipment, passenger terminals and storage hangers.

An activity that is undertaken solely as a leisure or recreational pastime. The sale of any item produced or the charging for any services rendered shall constitute a commercial or industrial use and not qualify as a hobby.

A business or commercial activity that is conducted as an accessory use in a dwelling unit, except that a limited business or commercial activity (no-impact home-based business) which meets all of the following criteria is not considered a home occupation and is an accessory use permitted by right in any dwelling unit:

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

A facility which provides lodging to boarders for compensation, which contains more than eight rooms with less than 25% of all rooms having direct access to the outside without the necessity of passing through the main lobby of the building, and which may provide meals and other services as a part of the compensation.

Soil that is wet long enough to periodically produce anaerobic conditions, thereby influencing the growth of plants.

Any plant growing in water or on a substrate that is at least periodically deficient in oxygen as a result of excessive water content.

The remodeling or added value installation to any structure, such as, but not limited to, siding, replacement windows, upgrading of kitchens and bathrooms and similar projects.

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

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 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 "junkyard." (A disabled vehicle is a vehicle intended to be self-propelled that shall not be operable under its own power for any reason, or a vehicle that does not have a valid current registration plate and a certificate of inspection.)

Any lot on which five or more adult domestic pets plus more than one litter or generation of offspring up to 10 weeks of age are kept at one time, and/or where there will be 26 or more domestic pets (adult and juvenile) within one calendar year kept, boarded, raised, bred, treated or trained.

The place where logs, pulpwood, or firewood are assembled for transport to processing facilities.

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

A completely planted visual barrier composed of evergreen shrubs and trees arranged to form both a low-level and a high-level screen between grade and to a height of six feet.

The boundary that legally and geometrically demarcates a lot. Notwithstanding the foregoing, when a lot is legally described as having a boundary within a public street right-of-way, the right-of-way line shall be considered the front lot line.

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

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. (See Figure 6.)

The area contained within the property lines of individual parcels of land, excluding any area within a street right-of-way, but including the area of any easement.

A percentage of the lot area which may be covered with an impervious surface (e.g., buildings, driveways, parking areas, sidewalks).

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

The horizontal distance measured at the building setback line between side property lines. On corner lots, lot width shall be measured between the right-of-way line for the nonaddress street and the directly opposite property line.

A through lot with vehicular access only from the street of lesser classification.

The normal ueep of structures such as, but not limited to, the replacement of roofing materials exposed to the weather, painting, decorating, rug replacements, plumbing repair and electric repair.

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 disposal. Types of storage facilities are as follows: underground storage, in-ground storage, trench silo, earthen bank, stacking area and aboveground storage.[6]

The average height of the sea for all stages of the tide using the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929.

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

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

Any structure intended for or capable of permanent human habitation, with or without wheels, and capable of being transported or towed from one place to the next, in one or more pieces, by whatsoever name or title it is colloquially or commercially known, but excluding transport trucks or vans equipped with sleeping space for a driver or drivers and travel trailers. Mobile homes placed in parks shall meet the requirements for mobile home parks listed in § 340-96 of this chapter. Mobile homes placed on individual lots shall be considered "dwellings" and be bound by the requirements there imposed. For the purposes of § 340-22 of this chapter, any travel trailer, as defined herein, that is contained on the same parcel for more than 180 days in any calendar year shall be considered a mobile home.

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

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 facility which provides lodging to boarders for compensation, for periods not exceeding four continuous weeks, and which may provide meals and other services as a part of the compensation. Motels shall not consist of mobile homes or travel trailers.

The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act of July 31, 1968, P.L. 805, No. 247, 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq., as reenacted and amended. See also "Act."

Any use owned and/or operated by the Township.

Structures for which the start of construction commenced on or after the effective date of this chapter.

Any building used for on-site consumption of alcoholic or nonalcoholic beverages where live entertainment is offered. For the purposes of this definition, "live entertainment" is meant to include the use of disc-jockeys for the purposes of supplying musical entertainment. Nightclubs may also provide for the on-site consumption of food. Additionally, nightclubs may offer the retail sale of carry-out beer and wine as an accessory use. This is meant to include an "under 21" club which features entertainment. Nightclubs shall not include adult-related uses, nor off-track betting parlors, as defined herein.

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 reason of such adoption or amendment.

A structure or part of a structure manifestly not designed to comply with the applicable use or extent of use provisions in this chapter or amendment heretofore or hereafter enacted, where such structure lawfully existed prior to the enactment of this chapter or amendment or prior to the application of this chapter or amendment to its location by reason of annexation. Such nonconforming structures include, but are not limited to, nonconforming signs.

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

Any aspect of a land use that does not comply with any size, height, bulk, setback, distance, landscaping, coverage, screening or any other design or performance standard specified by this chapter, where such dimensional nonconformity lawfully existed prior to the adoption of this chapter or amendment thereto.

Any activity, practice, or procedure that fits within the definition of the term "normal agricultural operation" in Section 2 of the Act of June 10, 1982 (P.L. 454, No. 133), entitled "An act protecting agricultural operations from nuisance suits and ordinances under certain circumstances," commonly referred to as the Right to Farm Act, 3 P.S. § 952.

Facilities which provide for the housing, boarding and nursing care and related medical or other health services for a period exceeding 24 hours for two or more individuals, who are not relatives of the administrator, who are not acutely ill and not in need of hospitalization, but who, because of age, illness, disease, injury, convalescence or physical or medical infirmity, need care. The term includes an institution or facility licensed by the Department of Health in which health services are provided on a regular basis to resident individuals who do not require the degree of care and treatment that a hospital or skilled nursing facility is designed to provide but who, because of the individuals' mental or physical condition, require health services above the level of room and board. This use shall encompass an assisted living facility which shall be licensed as a personal care home by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Any wall, dam, wharf, embankment, levee, dike, pile, abutment, projection, excavation, channel, rectification, culvert, building, fence, stockpile, refuse, fill, structure, or matter in, along, across, or projecting into any channel, watercourse or flood-prone area:

A commercial use at which persons can visit to wager upon, and observe by remote television, the outcome of events that are taking place elsewhere.

A place where the primary use is conducting the affairs of a business, profession, service or government, including administration, recordkeeping, clerical work and similar business functions. An office shall not involve manufacturing, fabrication, production, processing, assembling, cleaning, testing, repair or storage of materials, goods or products; or the sale or delivery of any materials, goods or products which are physically located on the premises. Office supplies used in the office may be stored as an incidental use.

The disposal of sewage generated by one principal use with the use of 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. Uses relying upon on-lot sewers are regulated by § 340-39 of this chapter.

The provision of a safe, adequate and healthful supply of water to a single principal use from a private source.[7]

A space unoccupied by buildings or paved surface and open to the sky on the same lot with the building.

A parcel or parcels of land, an area of water or a combination of land and water within a cluster development designed and intended for the use of all residents of the development (common open space) or the general public (public open space), not including streets and walkways, off-street parking areas, areas with no public accessibility, setbacks and areas at other than ground level. Open space areas may include floodplains and drainage basins. Common or public open space shall be substantially free of structures but may contain such improvements as are appropriate for recreational use by the residents or the general public.

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

When used in determining the permissible number of lots which may be subdivided or dwellings erected in the Agricultural Zone (A), all contiguous land held in single and separate ownership, regardless of whether a) such land is divided into one or more lots, parcels, purparts or tracts; b) such land was acquired by the landowner at different times or by different deeds, devise, partition or otherwise; or c) such land is bisected by public or private streets or rights-of-way, which was held by the landowner of his predecessor in title on July 27, 2009, or, if such land was not classified as Agricultural Zone (A) on July 27, 2009, which was held by the landowner or his predecessor in title on the date such land was first classified as Agricultural Zone (A) after July 27, 2009.

A primary business where passenger vehicles may be stored for short-term, daily or overnight off-street parking and connected to a street by an access drive.

An accessory use in which required and possibly additional parking spaces are provided subject to the requirements listed in § 340-34 of this chapter.

An off-street space available for the parking of one motor vehicle and having usable access to a street or alley.[8]

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

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 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.

A group of uses planned and designed as an integrated unit with controlled ingress and egress and shared off-street parking provided on the property as an integral part of the unit. Such centers also may include "planned center signs" as regulated herein.

The Planning Commission of Salisbury Township.

A forest practice, such as thinning or pruning, which results in better growth, structure, species, composition, or health for the residual stand but which does not yield a net income to the landowner, usually because any trees cut are of poor quality, are too small or are otherwise of limited marketability or value.

The property upon which the activity is conducted as determined by physical facts, rather than property lines. It is the land occupied by the buildings or other physical uses that are necessary or customarily incidental to the activity, including such open spaces as are arranged and designed to be used in connection with such buildings or uses. The following are not considered to be a part of the premises on which the activity is conducted, and any signs located on such land are to be considered off-premises advertising:

A detached accessory building, and/or a portion of the principal residence that is used for the storage of one or more automobiles and/or other vehicles accessory and incidental to the primary use of the premises; provided, however, that one commercial vehicle of not more than 11,000 pounds gross vehicle weight may be stored therein. No business, occupation or services shall be conducted therein, nor shall space therein be leased to a nonoccupant of the premises. Where a garage is an attached integral part of a dwelling unit, the garage shall not be counted as floor area unless it is constructed or modified into a habitable room by the removal of all vehicular access doors and provided adequate off-street parking is still available on the same lot as the dwelling unit.

Owned, operated or controlled by a governmental agency (federal, state or local, including a corporation created by law for the performance of certain specialized governmental functions, not including the Board of Education).

A formal meeting held pursuant to public notice by the Board of Supervisors or planning agency, intended to inform and obtain public comment, prior to taking action on zoning-related matters.

A forum held pursuant to notice under the Act of October 15, 1998 (P.L. 729, No. 93), known as the Sunshine Act (65 Pa.C.S.A. § 701 et seq.).

Notice published once each week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Township. Such notice shall state the time and place of the hearing and the particular nature of the matter to be considered at the hearing. The first publication shall not be more than 30 days, and the second publication shall not be less than seven days from the date of the hearing. Public notice for rezoning, special exception, conditional use and/or variance requests shall also include the posting of a sign(s) at a conspicuous location along the perimeter of the subject property; this sign(s) shall be posted at least one week prior to the hearing and will exhibit the nature, date, time, and location of the hearing.

A 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.

Includes post offices, parks, and fire and ambulance stations.

Use or extension thereof which is operated, owned or maintained by a municipality or municipal authority; or which is privately owned and has a certificate of public convenience issued by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission for the purpose of providing public sewage disposal, and/or treatment and/or public water supply and distribution or for the purpose of providing the transmission of energy or telephone service; or which is privately owned by an entity which has all necessary approvals from PA DEP for the operation of a community sewage treatment and disposal system and/or a community water supply system.

A water supply and distribution system which is owned and/or operated by a municipality, municipal authority, entity with a certificate of public convenience, or entity with necessary approvals from the PA DEP for the operation of a community water system. Such systems are capable of serving more than one principal use.

Any person licensed by the Department of State or otherwise qualified by law to perform work required by this chapter.

Any natural or artificially produced substance which emits radiation spontaneously.[9]

See "travel trailer."

Materials which have been discarded and have entered a process by which their reuse are likely.

The temporary transferal of goods for compensation.

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 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). Caterers shall be included in this definition.

An establishment that serves prepared food generally packaged in disposable wrappers and/or disposable plates and containers. Such food can be consumed either on or off of the site.

The total area of use which is devoted to the display of goods and/or services, including aisles, to prospective patrons.

Retail stores are those businesses whose primary activities involve the display and retail sales of goods and products. This term shall not include adult-related facilities as defined herein.

Retirement housing shall consist of living units exclusively serving persons of retirement age. Such a development may include facilities for health or convalescent care, ancillary support services, and community services for persons of retirement age in the surrounding area. At least one resident of each household shall be at least 55 years of age or be the surviving spouse of a deceased resident who was at least 55 years of age. In addition, the care of persons with disabilities shall be permitted in assisted living facilities and/or nursing, rest, or retirement homes.

A corridor of publicly owned land for purposes of maintaining primary vehicular and pedestrian access to abutting properties, including, but not limited to, roads, streets, highways and sidewalks. Abutting property owners are prohibited from encroaching across the right-of-way line. (See also "street line.")

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

A land site on which engineering principles are utilized to bury deposits of solid waste without creating public health or safety hazards, nuisances, pollution or environmental degradation.

A device incorporating a reflective surface which is solid, open mesh or bar-configured and is in the shape of a shallow dish, cone, horn or cornucopia. Such device shall be used to transmit and/or receive radio or electromagnetic waves between terrestrially and/or orbitally based uses. This definition is meant to include, but not be limited to, what are commonly referred to as satellite earth stations, TVROs and satellite microwave antennas.

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

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. Landscape screens must achieve the required visual blockage within two years of installation.

A dwelling, cabin, lodge or summer house which shall not be occupied for more than 182 days of the year.

The required horizontal distance between a setback line and a property or street line.

A line within a property and parallel to a property or street line which delineates the required minimum distance between some particular use of property and that property or street line.

A group of stores planned and designed for the site on which it is built, functioning as a unit, with shared off-street parking provided on the property as an integral part of the unit.

A device for visual communication that is used to bring the subject to the attention of the public, but not including lettering or symbols that are an integral part of another structure, or flags or other insignia of any government, fraternal or similar organization.

The dragging of felled trees on the ground from the stump to the landing by any means.

Woody debris left in the woods after logging, including logs, chunks, bark, branches, uprooted stumps, and broken or uprooted trees and shrubs.

The latest version of Chapter 310, Subdivision and Land Development, of the Code of the Township of Salisbury.

The latest published version of the United States Department of Agriculture's soil survey for Lancaster 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, or as amended.

A principal use at which waste is bought to the site for storage, processing, treatment, transfer and/or disposal.

A use that is generally compatible with a particular zone once specified criteria have been met. Special exception uses are listed by zone and approved by the Zoning Hearing Board in accordance with § 340-138C 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:

Any area of forest vegetation whose site conditions, past history, and current species composition are sufficiently uniform to be managed as a unit.

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

A strip of land over which there is a public or private right-of-way intended to serve as:

The horizontal line paralleling the street that bisects the street right-of-way into two equal widths. In those instances where the street right-of-way cannot be determined, the street center line shall correspond to the center of the cartway.

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

Any pool, not located within a completely enclosed building and containing, or normally capable of containing, water to a depth at any point greater than 1/2 foot. Farm ponds and/or lakes are not included, provided that swimming was not the primary purpose for their construction.

The latest version of Chapter 296, Stormwater Management, of the Code of the Township of Salisbury.

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, but no live entertainment shall be permitted.

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.

Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

A portable structure, primarily designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreation, camping or travel purposes. In addition to the above, any of the following attributes are characteristic of a "travel trailer":

The upper portion of a felled tree that is not merchantable because of small size, taper or defect.

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

The Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code, as promulgated by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, and as adopted by the Township.

The United States Department of Agriculture or any agency successor thereto.

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

A permit issued by the Zoning Officer certifying a use's compliance with information reflected on the building permit and this chapter.

A modification of any provision of this chapter granted by the Zoning Hearing Board subject to findings specified by the Act.

A building used primarily for the treatment, by a veterinarian, of small domestic animals such as dogs, cats, rabbits and birds or fowl. No outdoor boarding of animals is permitted.

A permanent or intermittent stream, river, brook, run, creek, channel, swale, pond, lake or other body of surface water carrying or holding surface water, whether natural or artificial.

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

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.[10]

Those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface water or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of hydrophites typically adapted for life in hydric soil conditions, including swamps, marshes, bogs and similar areas. The term includes, but is not limited to, wetland areas listed in the State Water Plan, the United States Forest Service Wetlands Inventory of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Coastal Zone Management Plan and any areas designated as wetlands by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, a river basin commission or the Township.

Any distribution procedures, which in the normal course of business does not engage in sales to the general public.

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

An opening to the outside other than a door which provides all or part of the required natural light, natural ventilation or both to an interior space. The glazed portion of a door in an exterior wall may be construed to be a window in regard to provision of natural light.

An open space unobstructed from the ground up, on the same lot with a structure, extending along a lot line or street right-of-way line and inward to the structure.

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

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

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 under this chapter for the zone in which it is to be located.