A residential shelter use in which rooms are provided to serve as a temporary safe and supportive environment for persons who, because of actual or threatened physical or mental abuse, are forced to leave their previous living arrangement. Such facilities shall be designed to provide in-house living for persons only until a safe, permanent living arrangement can be obtained.

A vehicular throughway serving a non-residential use or multi-family use located within a parking lot which directly adjoins parking spaces. An access drive provides the vehicular connection between parking space area and the driveway which directly connects to the public right-of-way. The access drive does not include the vehicular path that connects the parking area to the public way.

On site food preparation from raw products produced from on site.

A structure, such as a private garage, storage shed, gazebo, or greenhouse, serving a purpose customarily incidental to the use of the principal building and located on the same lot as the principal building.

A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use or building and located on the same lot with such principal use or building.

See "extension."

The limited scale transformation of raw materials or food.

An activity that focuses on delivering information and experiences to patrons interested in processes of the natural world.

The practice of visiting an agribusiness or agricultural operation for the purpose of recreation, education, purchase, or volunteering in the operation. These operations include those that are for-profit and those that are provided free of charge.

A tract of land, with or without buildings, where airplanes, jets, helicopters and or/and other type of aircraft land and take off.

A street, usually located to the rear or side of properties otherwise abutting a street, used primarily for vehicular service access and which does not typically provide primary frontage for a building.

As applied to land, a change in topography as a result of the moving of soil and rock from one location or position to another, also the changing of surface conditions by causing the surface to be more or less impervious; land disturbance. This term shall not apply to agricultural plowing and tilling activity.

Any change or rearrangement in the supporting members of an existing building such as bearing walls, columns, beams, girders, or interior partitions or any enlargement to or diminution of a building or structure, or the moving of a building from one location to another.

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

A commercially operated park with a predominance of outdoor games and activities for entertainment, including motorized rides, water slides, miniature golf, batting cages, and the like.

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

A subdivider, landowner or developer who has filed an application for development, including the landowner's or developer's heirs, successors, and assigns.

A building, establishment, complex or distinct part thereof which: a) accepts primarily aged persons (62 years of age or older) for domiciliary care; and b) provides on-site to its residents, room, board, non-medical living assistance services appropriate to the residents' respective needs and contract medical services as prescribed by each resident's treating physician. Such facility shall provide services to 60 or more residents.

An establishment primarily engaged in the retail sale of baked products for consumption off site. The products may be prepared either on or offsite. Such use may include incidental food service. A bakery shall be considered a general retail use.

An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue of money, for the extension of credit, and for facilitating the transmission of funds.

A place where alcoholic beverages are served as a primary or substantial portion of the total trade and where the sale of food may occur.

Any single-family dwelling in which more than three persons either individually or as families are housed or lodged for remuneration with meals normally included as a part of the services rendered and shall be restricted to transient visitors to the area for no more than 14 consecutive days per visitor.

The schedule of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to prevent or reduce the pollution of "waters of the United States." BMPs also include treatment requirements, operating procedures, and practices to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, or drainage from raw material storage. Additionally, agricultural practices are intended to be consistent with the Pennsylvania Nutrient Management Chapter.

A use where lawful gambling activities are conducted, including but not limited to off-track para-mutual betting. This term shall not include betting under the State Lottery programs or betting under the "Small Games of Chance" provisions of State law, which shall instead be regulated under the regulations applicable to the principal use of the property (such as a "membership club").

A type of off-premises advertising sign and which conveys a commercial or noncommercial message unrelated to the activity conducted on the lot where the sign is located, or a sign which directs attention to a business, one commodity, service, entertainment, or attraction sold, offered, or existing elsewhere than on the same lot where the sign is located. A structure intended to support or contain such a sign shall also be considered a billboard.

A residential use in which any or all of the following applies:

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

A restaurant that manufactures up to 5,000 barrels of fermented malt beverages per year on premises for either on- or off-premises consumption.

An industrial use that brews ales, beer, meads and/or similar alcoholic beverages on site. Breweries are classified as a use that manufactures more than stores as defined herein and/or brew pubs defined herein.

A structure, including any part thereof, having a roof and used for the shelter or enclosure of persons or property.

The operations office related to an entity engaged in construction and/or development.

Any facility where fuel, including but not limited to kerosene, home heating oil, gasoline, and propane, is stored in large volume tanks for distribution to wholesale establishments or individual users.

An area and/or building where buses are stored or parked on a regular basis with or without bus maintenance and repair facilities.

An establishment engaged in rendering services to business establishments on a fee or contract basis or to the general public on a less frequent or personal basis than provided by personal services establishments. Such enterprises may include: the service and repair of office equipment, machines, electronics, furniture, medical supplies, or commercial appliances; the printing, copy, and production of documents, signs, or banners; retail shipping and mailing services; food catering; locksmithing; carpentry; painting; remodeling; interior decorating or upholstering; roofing and insulation; carpet installation; heating and cooling; plumbing; taxidermy; and other similar business activities.

(Otherwise known as Bring Your Own Bottle Clubs) means any business facility such as a dance hall, club, association, or entity not licensed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, wherein patrons 21 years of age and older may, after payment of a fee, cover charge or membership fee, consume alcoholic beverages which said patrons have carried onto the premises. This definition does not include a facility which is rented for a limited period of time, not to exceed 12 hours, by an individual or an organization for the purpose of a private party in which alcoholic beverages are carried onto the premises.

As defined by the American Standards of Nursery Stock. Typically, the diameter of a tree at the height of six inches from the top of the root ball. In the case of a multi-stem tree, the caliper is determined by the average of the stems.

A combination of indoor and outdoor spaces, with limited seasonal use.

A site for travel trailers, truck campers, camper trailers, motor homes and tents, for temporary occupancy. Campgrounds, recreational vehicle parks, primitive camping facilities and other similar facilities shall fall under this definition.

Any building or premises or portions thereof used for washing automobiles for commercial purposes.

A roofed structure not more than 75% enclosed by walls and attached to the main building for the purpose of providing shelter for one or more motor vehicles.

The portion of a street right-of-way designed or intended for vehicular use.

An area of land or buildings used for the burial of deceased humans, but not animals. The internment or scattering or remains of properly cremated humans is not regulated by this chapter.

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

The certificate issued by the City, which permits the use of a building in accordance with the approved plans and specifications and which certifies compliance with the provisions of law for the use and occupancy of the land and structure in its several parts, together with any special stipulations or conditions of the building permit.

The governing body of the City of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

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

The term defining not-for-profit organizations dedicated to the arts, culture, education, recreation, and/or government.

An area of unobstructed vision at street intersections defined by the center lines of the streets and by a line of sight between points on their center lines at a given distance from the intersection of the center lines.

A residential cluster shall include an area to be developed as a single entity according to a plan containing residential housing units in which the individual lots have a common or public open space as an appurtenance. Such common or public open space shall be assured of continued operation and maintenance through the creation of a homeowners' association, or the developer's binding agreements as may be required to achieve such assurances.

An institution or higher learning authorized to grant associates, bachelors, masters and/or doctorates degrees.

An establishment owned by a private-sector entity where the principal enterprise or activity involves the provision of primarily indoor recreational, amusement, and leisure activities, such as, but not limited to: fitness training, athletic courts, ice rinks, roller skating rinks, indoor playing fields, indoor swimming pools, bowling alleys, arcade games, indoor mazes, indoor play structures and ball pits, escape rooms, indoor riflery or archery, indoor batting cages, and indoor golf.

An establishment owned by a private-sector entity where the principal enterprise or activity involves the provision of outdoor recreational, amusement, and leisure activities, such as, but not limited to: tennis courts, sand volleyball courts, miniature golf courses, driving ranges, outdoor riflery or archery, outdoor batting cages, playing fields, outdoor swimming pools, beaches, and bumper car tracks, but not to include "golf courses."

A use that: a) has a total building coverage of less than 15%, b) is used principally for active or passive recreation (such as a driving range) and c) is used for a profit-making purpose.

A noncommercial use that exists solely to provide leisure and educational activities and programs to the general public or certain age groups. The use also may include the noncommercial preparation and/or provision of meals to low-income elderly persons. This shall not include residential uses or a "treatment center."

An area of land managed and maintained by a group of individuals to grow and harvest food crops and/or non-food ornamental crops, such as flowers, for personal or group use, consumption, or donation. Community gardens may be divided into separate plots for cultivation by one or more individuals or may be farmed collectively by members of the group and may include common areas maintained and used by group members.

A facility that is constructed for and devoted to accommodating meetings by providing meeting space.

Any parcel or area of undeveloped land conserved in its natural state for perpetuity through deeds or other legal means.

A development pattern that focuses on limited disturbances on the overall landscape.

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

A one-story retail store that is designed and stocked to sell primarily food, beverages and other household supplies to customers who purchase only a relatively few items (in contrast to a "food market"). It may also include the sale of gasoline but shall not include the repair or service of vehicles.

A publicly or privately operated facility housing persons awaiting trial or persons serving a sentence after being found guilty of a criminal offense.

A use conducted for the generation of revenue entirely within a dwelling, or in an accessory structure located on the same lot as dwelling. The use must be clearly incidental and accessory to the lot's residential use. The use must be limited to low intensity uses that produce, repair and/or sell a product, but can be operated in such a way that they do not adversely affect adjacent properties. Said use shall employ no less than two and no more than 10 employees.

A standalone facility (when permitted as a principal use) or a facility accessory to a funeral home or mortuary (when permitted as a principle or accessory use) containing properly installed, certified equipment intended for reducing deceased humans or animals to ashes by burning (cremation).

The cultivating, raising, and harvesting of products of the soil and the storage of these products produced on the premises. The definition of "crop farming" shall include orchards and tree farms but shall not include "raising of livestock," "forestry," "riding academies and stables," "stables" or "kennels." If a crop farming lot includes more than 15 acres, it may also include the keeping of up to 10 additional animals as an accessory use in addition to what is permitted by the regulation for "keeping of pets." (See § 445-29A.)

A building and/or land open to the public which primarily contains exhibits of clearly artistic or cultural interest, such as a museum, art gallery or indoor nature study area. This shall not include uses that are primarily commercial in nature.

A use providing supervised care and assistance to persons who are not in good physical health or suffering from Alzheimer disease or are developmentally handicapped and/or are physically handicapped and who need such daily assistance because of such condition. This use shall not include persons who need oversight because of behavior that is criminal or violent. This use may involve occasional overnight stays but shall not primarily be a residential use. The use shall involve typical stays of less than a total of 60 hours per week per person.

A use involving the supervised care of children under age 16 outside of the children's own home primarily for periods of less than 18 hours during the average day. This use may also include educational programs that are supplementary to State-required education, including a "nursery school." The following three types of day care are permitted without regulation by this chapter: 1) care of children by their own relatives, 2) care of children within a place of worship during regularly scheduled weekly religious services and 3) care of one to three children within any dwelling unit, in addition to children who are relatives of the care giver. See also the definition of "adult day care center."

A premises in which child day care is provided at any one time to between four to six children or more who are not relatives of the provider of the child day care, where such facility is required to be registered with the PA Department of Public Welfare under the PA Public Welfare Code.

A State licensed facility in which care is provided for more than six but less than 12 children, at any one time, if care is provided in a facility where the childcare areas are being used as a family residence.

The computation of overall residential dwelling units per acre of land. This figure shall be rounded to the nearest tenth and shall not include the area of lands intended for non-residential purposes, including churches or other civic/public uses within the development, nor shall it include dwelling units accessory to residential or non-residential uses. Open space shall, however, be included in the computation.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection ("DEP"), the Commonwealth agency responsible for overseeing and administering environmental laws and regulations within Pennsylvania.

Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate including, but not limited to, buildings or other structures, the placement of mobile homes, streets and other paving, utilities, filling, grading, excavation, mining, dredging, or drilling operations. The definition of development shall also include the storage of equipment or materials.

An enclosed facility used for the storage of merchandise or commodities for a short period of time, with additional operations such as cross-docking, order fulfillment, returned goods processing, packaging, and labeling.

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

A residential facility that is only inhabited by teaching faculty and/or full-time students of an accredited college, university or medical training facility or State-licensed teaching hospital or approved "Care and Treatment Center for Children" (as an accessory use to such use) or to an accredited public or private primary or secondary school, and which are owned and operated by such principal use to which the dormitory serves. Dwelling units shall not be regulated as "dormitories."

Any part of a building or structure that, by design of physical facilities or by services or pods provided, encourages, or permits customers to transact business, receive a service or obtain a product in a motor vehicle on the premises.

A vehicular connection from a lot to the public right-of-way. A driveway terminates at the right-of-way line and/or the access drive.

An establishment engaged in the retail sale of prescription drugs, nonprescription medicine, cosmetics, and related supplies.

Dwelling unit means habitable rooms occupied or designed to be occupied by an individual or family as an independent and separate housekeeping establishment in which separate kitchen and sanitary facilities are provided for the use of such individual or family, with a private entrance from outside the building or from a common hallway or stairway inside the building.

A piece of infrastructure that supplies electric energy for the recharging of plug-in electric vehicles, including electric cars, neighborhood electric vehicles, and plug-in hybrids.

A building for the housing of fire, emergency medical or police equipment and for related activities. A Membership Club may be included if it is a permitted use in that District. This may include housing for emergency personnel while on-call.

A building or structure and/or land whose operator keeps equines primarily for breeding and boarding and which operation may or may not be incidental to the owner's primary occupation.

Construction or assembly.

A municipal or utility facility that does not require enclosure in a building which is necessary for the public health and safety and which is routine, customary and appropriate to the character of the area in which proposed, including such facilities as poles, towers, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarms, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants, and other similar equipment. Building, sewage treatment plants, solid waste disposal facilities, commercial communication towers, utility company offices, storage of trucks or equipment and bulk storage, and any commercial commutations devices and/or facilities not specifically regulated by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission shall not be considered essential services or essential services requiring enclose in building.

An increase in the size of an existing structure or use, including the physical size of a property, building, parking lot, and other improvements.

An addition to the floor area of an existing structure, an increase in the size of a structure, or an increase in that portion of a lot occupied by an existing use; an enlargement.

Federal Aviation Administration of the United States Department of Transportation.

(1) A person; (2) two or more persons, all of whom are related by blood, marriage, parentage, or adoption (including foster children), living together as a single housekeeping unit. In addition to the family, two or fewer unrelated persons may reside with the housekeeping unit in the dwelling unit or (4) or less unrelated persons living together on a non-transient basis as a single housekeeping unit.

An eating establishment that prepares and serves food grown on-site and within Region 3 as defined by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture to the greatest extent possible. The principal objective of a farm cafe is to support local agriculture and provide alternatives to the conversion of farmland through sustainable rural economic development and empowering farmers to undertake entrepreneurial endeavors which augment, support, and highlight local agriculture.

A stand that sells fresh agricultural produce.

The offering for sale of fresh and packaged agricultural products directly to the consumer at an open-air market and/or combination of enclosed and open-air facility.

A fabricated barrier used to enclose an area of land or serve as a privacy or landscape buffer from a separate property.

A building or open area in which stalls or sales areas are set aside, and rented or otherwise provided, and which are intended for use by various unrelated individuals to sell articles that are either homemade, homegrown, handcrafted, old obsolete, or antique, and may include the selling of new or used goods at retail by businesses or individuals who are generally engaged in retail trade. Rummage sales and garage sales are not considered to be flea markets.

A repeating cycle of changing light intensity.

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.

An establishment primarily engaged in the operation of timber tracts, tree farms, forest nurseries, the gathering of forest products, or in performing forest services including the operation of a sawmill but excluding other wood manufacturing businesses.

A domestic bird of any kind, not including chickens.

A building or part thereof used for human funeral services. Such building may contain space and facilities for: 1) embalming and the performance of other services used in preparation of the dead for burial; 2) the performance of autopsies and other surgical procedures; 3) the storage of caskets, funeral urns, and other related funeral supplies; and 4) the storage of funeral vehicles but shall not include facilities for cremation. Where a funeral parlor is permitted, a funeral chapel shall also be permitted.

The use of a premises for the sale, display, and exhibition of visual art and craft products, which may include ancillary production or instruction in production of arts and crafts.

An area intended to remain in a predominately natural or undeveloped state to provide resource protection and possible opportunities for passive recreation and environmental education for present and future generations.

A structure, building, or area of land or any portion the thereof that's used for the sale of gasoline and oil or any other motor vehicle fuel and/or other lubricating substance. Which may or may not include facilities for lubricating, washing, and sale of accessories, but not including the painting and/or body work thereof and other vehicle and equipment repair operations as defined by this chapter. Any business or industry dispensing gasoline and servicing vehicles only for its own use will not be deemed to be a gasoline service station.

A small scale agrarian operation managed for pleasure as part of a family estate and which is not used to generate profit.

A tract of land for playing golf, improved with trees, greens, fairways, hazards, and which may include clubhouses and shag ranges, but does not include miniature golf course or golf driving ranges. Courses shall be considered "recreational facilities, private" for the purpose of this chapter.

A limited area on which golf players drive golf balls from a central driving tee, such area to include the driving tee and other incidental activities pertaining to this activity.

A novelty version of golf played with a putter and golf ball on a miniature course typically with artificial playing surfaces and including obstacles such as bridges and tunnels. "Golf course, miniature" shall be considered "recreational facility, private" for this purpose of this chapter.

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

An accessory structure, typically constructed of metal or wood framework and covered with glass for plastic, used for private use.

A retail location for the purveying and/or selling of predominantly food stuffs and other related living essentials.

A facility providing shelter, counseling, and other rehabilitative services in a family-like environment for more than nine but fewer than 15 residents, plus such minimum supervisory personnel as may be required to meet standards of the licensing agency. Residents may not be legally related to the facility operators or supervisors and, by reason of mental or physical disability, chemical or alcohol dependency, family or school adjustment problems, or past correctional offenses require a minimal level of supervision but do not require medical or nursing care or general supervision. A group care facility must be licensed and/or approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare. A Group Care Facility can also include transitional housing, a use that is intended to facilitate the movement of homeless persons or near-homeless persons into permanent housing within a maximum period of 23 months, and that provides links to supportive services on site or off site to assist in making the transition.

A facility housing residential clients and attendant (24 hours or less) staff, living together in a dwelling unit, and functioning as a single housekeeping unit under a common housekeeping management plan based upon an intentionally structured relationship providing organization and stability. The resident clients of a group home are limited to persons who need specialized housing because of age, disability, or illness, and may include, but not necessarily limited to children, the mentally or physically handicapped, and elderly, but shall not include drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities, or adult prerelease correctional facilities such as work release, halfway houses, or similar uses. Six or fewer resident clients is considered a "family."

A retail store where items such as plumbing, heating and electrical supplies, sporting goods and paints are sold.

An establishment where the principal enterprise conducted involves the provision of indoor wellness activities such as fitness training, saunas, athletic courts, and indoor swimming pools.

The maximum height of a building and/or structure measured from the average finished grade at perimeter of the base of the building and/or structure to the highest point of such building and/or structure. For the purpose of determining the height limits in all zones set forth and shown on the official supplementary Airport Overlay Zoning Map, the datum shall be mean sea level elevation unless otherwise specified.

An area used for take-off and landing for helicopters, together with any related support facilities such as for maintenance, refueling and storage. This Chapter is not intended to regulate the non-routine emergency landing and take-off of aircraft to pick-up seriously injured or ill persons.

A business or commercial activity administered or conducted as an accessory use which is clearly secondary to the use as a residential dwelling, whereas there shall be a maximum of two said accessory uses within any one dwelling, and which involves no customer, client, or patient traffic, whether vehicular or pedestrian, pickup, delivery, or removal function to or from the premises, in excess of those normally associated with residential use. The business or commercial activity must satisfy the following requirements:

An activity, intended to be financially gainful, conducted within a dwelling unit, the conduct of which is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling unit, and, whereas, there shall be a maximum of two said accessory uses within any one dwelling unit. Unlike a No-Impact Home Based Business, Home Occupations provide opportunity for on-site customers and therefore, also permit restricted signage opportunity.

Honey bees are limited to European races of apis mellifera.

An institution providing primary health services and medical or surgical care to persons, primarily inpatients, suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity and other abnormal physical or mental conditions. And including, as an integral part of the instruction, related facilities such as laboratories, outpatient facilities, or training facilities.

A building used primarily for providing more than 10 transient lodging accommodations on a daily rate basis to the general public in which the lodging rooms provide no cooking facilities.

A temporary occupant of a short-term rental living quarter within a dwelling unit.

A domesticated species of dog, cat, or other non-exotic animal generally weighing less than 150 pounds that resides within a dwelling unit and is not raised for production of products for sale.

A surface that prevents the infiltration of water into the ground. Impervious surfaces (or areas) shall include, but not be limited to: roofs; additional indoor living spaces, patios, garages, storage sheds and similar structures; and any new streets or sidewalks. Decks, parking areas, and driveway areas are not counted as impervious areas if they do not prevent infiltration.

A large tract of land that has been planned, developed, and operated as an integrated facility for a number of individual industrial uses, with special attention to circulation, parking, utility needs, aesthetics, and compatibility.

Junk shall include, but not be limited to:

Land or a structure used for the collection, storage, dismantling, processing, buying, selling, handling, wrecking and/or salvaging, other than within a completely enclosed building, of material of one or more of the following types:

Any accessory building or building or land designed or arranged for care of dogs, cats or household pets belonging to the owner of the principal use, kept for purposes of show, hunting or as pets, and not involving the commercial sale or barter of animals.

A use of new or existing plants, earthen mounds, fences and/or walls located between two uses, or between one use and a public right-of-way, that is intended to lessen negative impacts, such as undesirable views, noise, or light.

The retail handling of any article, substance, or commodity related to the planning, maintenance, or harvesting of garden plants, shrubs, chemicals, or other nursery goods and related products in small quantities to the consumer.

A self-service facility containing clothes washing machines and dryers which are usually coin-operated and are open for use to the general public.

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.

The portion of the lot that may be impervious. This includes, but may not be limited to, both building footprint and parking area.

A line generally established by metes and bounds, which, when combined with other lot lines, delineates a lot.

The area contained within the boundary lines of a lot.

The horizontal distance between side lot lines:

An area used for the storage, distribution, and sale of finished or rough cut lumber and lumber products, but not including manufacture or fabrication of lumber, lumber products or firewood.

A facility involving generally unobtrusive processes not resulting in the storage of hazardous materials or the generation of hazardous waste products, or other environmentally regulated processes. Uses producing products predominately from previously prepared materials, finished products and parts, including, but not limited to, research, engineering or testing laboratories, assembly from components, fabrication of products, textile and clothing manufacturing, warehousing, distribution centers, furniture, or other wood products production and the like, but excluding basic industrial processing.

An external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people.

A person, including a natural person, corporation, partnership, association, trust or other entity, or any combination thereof, which holds a permit issued by the Department of Health (DOH) of the Commonwealth to dispense medical marijuana.

A person, including a natural person, corporation, partnership, association, trust or other entity, or any combination thereof, which holds a permit from the DOH to grow and process medical marijuana.

A type of boarding house used and occupied by a formal, legally incorporated cooperative organization (with each full member having a vote in the operations of the organization) of full-time college or university students. Such use may contain residential, social, and eating facilities for members and their occasional guests.

A structure which contains two or more distinctly separate uses such as a commercial use and a residential use.

A building used primarily for providing more than 10 transient lodging accommodations on a daily rate basis to the general public in which the lodging rooms provide no cooking facilities.

The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act 247 of 1968, 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq., as reenacted and amended.

A Municipal, County, State or Federal government building or facility designed and intended to be occupied by the government or designed and intended for public use sponsored by such governments.

A noncommercial preservation of land for providing wildlife habitats, forests or scenic natural features that involves no buildings other than a nature education and/or study center and customary maintenance buildings.

A structure for which the start of construction commenced on or after the adoption date of this chapter, including any subsequent improvements thereto.

A tavern or restaurant that: a) has a primary or substantial portion of the total trade in the sale of alcoholic beverages, b) frequently charges admission or cover charges for entertainment or music for dancing, c) has a capacity of more than 150 persons for such entertainment or dancing and d) is not a sexually oriented business.

A lot the area or dimension of which was lawful prior to the adoption or amendment of this zoning ordinance, but which fails to conform to the requirements of the zoning district 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 zoning ordinance or any amendment heretofore or hereafter enacted, where such structure lawfully existed prior to the enactment of such ordinance or amendment or prior to the application of such ordinance or amendment to its location by reason of annexation. Such nonconforming structures include, but are not limited to, nonconforming signs.

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

Any nonconforming lot, structure or use of land or structures.

A facility licensed by the State for the housing and intermediate or fully-skilled nursing care of three or more persons needing such care because of old age or a physical illness or disability or a developmental disability, but not including a "Treatment Center."

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 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.

An open area, other than a street or other public way, used for the parking of automobiles and available to the public whether for a fee, free or as an accommodation for clients or customers.

An open area, other than a street or other public way, used for the parking of automobiles and available to the public whether for a fee, free or as an accommodation for residents.

A use that involves administrative, clerical, financial, governmental, or professional operations and operations of a similar character. This use shall include neither retail nor industrial uses, but may include business offices, medical or dental offices, clinics or laboratories, photographic studios and/or television or radio broadcasting studios.

A facility operated by one or more physicians, dentists, chiropractors, or other licensed practitioners of the healing practices for the examination and treatment of persons solely on an outpatient basis. Medical and dental offices do not include veterinary services or animal hospitals.

The removal of oil and gas resources from the ground by means of drilling, as defined herein, in accordance with a valid permit issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP) under the provisions of the PA Oil and Gas Act (58 P.S. § 601.101-§ 602.605), as now or hereafter amended.

A sign which directs attention to the primary business, commodity, service, industry which is actively sold, offered, or conducted on the premises upon which such sign is located, or to which it is affixed. A sign will be an on-premises sign if it meets the following requirements:

A parcel or parcels of land incorporated within a subdivision that is used for passive and unorganized play areas. This land may include floodplain, wetlands, steep slopes, stormwater basins and drainage areas. The land set aside as open space may not be used towards calculating the parkland requirements of the development.

Commonly occurring practice, product or process directly related to the function of the principal use.

An area or facility storing or offering for sale building supplies, metal supplies, lumber, stone, coal, heavy equipment, feed and grain, sand and gravel, and similar goods. This term shall not include the wrecking, salvaging, dismantling, scrapping, or storage of junk vehicles.

A tract of land presently owned or controlled and used by private or semipublic persons, entities, groups, etc. for active and/or passive recreational purposes.

A natural or landscaped area, buildings, or structures, provided by a unit of government, to meet the active or passive recreational needs of the people.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation ("PennDOT"), the Commonwealth agency responsible for overseeing and administering transportation laws and regulations within Pennsylvania.

Act of July 31, 1968, P.L. 805, No. 247, as reenacted and amended, 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.

A residential use providing residential and support services primarily to persons who are over age 60, physically handicapped and/or the developmentally disabled and that is licensed as a Personal Care Center by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and that does not meet the definition of a "Treatment Center."

An establishment that provides a service oriented to personal needs of the general public and which does not involve primarily retail or wholesale sales or services to businesses. Personal services include barber and beauty shops, State-licensed massage therapists, photography studios, shoe repair shops, household appliance repair shops, and other similar establishments, but shall not include any adult activity.

Building, synagogues, churches, religious retreats, monasteries, seminaries, and shrines used primarily for religious and/or spiritual worship and that are operated for nonprofit and noncommercial purposes. A place of worship may include two dwelling units as an accessory use to house full-time religious leaders and their families. If a religious use is primarily residential in nature, it shall be regulated under the appropriate "dwelling type."

An area of land, controlled by a landowner, to be developed as a single entity for a number of dwelling units, or combination of residential and nonresidential uses, the development plan for which does not correspond in lot size, bulk, type of dwelling or use, density or intensity, lot coverage and required open space to the regulations established in any one district created, from time to time, under the provisions of a municipal zoning ordinance.

The Scranton City Planning Commission, City of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

A covered entrance to a building or structure which may or may not be enclosed and which projects out from the main wall of such building or structure and has a separate roof or an integral roof with the principal building or structure to which it is attached.

Not publicly owned, operated or controlled.

Intended for the general population to partake or participate.

A notice published once each week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality. Such notice shall state the time and place of the hearing and the particular nature of the matter to be considered at the hearing. The first publication shall not be more than 30 days and the second publication shall not be less than seven days from the date of the hearing.

A principle use on a lot, not accessory parking to a use on a lot. An open space, other than a street or way, used for the parking of only automobiles.

A studio engaged in transmitting oral and visual programs to the public, but not including the transmitter and/or antennas for such broadcasting.

The raising or keeping of livestock at a limited scale for home use or any commercial purpose.

Parks, swimming pools, playgrounds, tennis courts, and other recreational facilities owned and operated by a private, non-public entity. Use of such facility may or may not be restricted by the private owner.

Parks, swimming pools, playgrounds, tennis courts, and other recreational facilities owned and operated by the City, County, school district, state, or federal government.

Whereas the intended customer-base is the City of Scranton residents and businesses, a building in which recyclable material only is collected, processed, and/or baled in preparation for shipment to others who will use those materials to manufacture new products.

The spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing of one or more Regulated Substances upon or into any land or water within the City of Scranton. Release includes, without limitation, leakage of such materials from failed or discarded containers or storage systems and disposal of such materials into any on-site sewage disposal system, dry-well, catch basin, swale, drainage way.

To restore by replacing parts or putting together what is torn or broken. Repair can be defined as an accessory or principal use.

A structure or group of structures used primarily for applied and developmental research. The use may include testing to determine the physical qualities of already manufactured materials or materials used in the manufacturing of a prototype.

A lot containing a residential use or a vacant lot that is zoned for a residential use and meets the zone provisions for the permitted residential use.

A use for a structure or portion of a stricture which is a person's permanent principal residence; this does not include motor homes, travel trailers, other recreational vehicles, or transient accommodations.

A building or group of buildings containing two or more guest rooms, other than a boarding house, hotel, or motel, and including outdoor recreational activities such as, but not limited to, horseback riding, golf course, swimming, tennis courts, shuffleboard courts, barbeque and picnic facilities, and dining facilities intended for the primary use of its guests, but not including bars, restaurants, which cater primarily to other than guests.

An establishment where limited options of food and drink are prepared, served, and consumed.

An establishment that sells ready-to-consume food or drink, that primarily sells food intended to be consumed off-premises, that might or might not have seating for on-premises dining.

An establishment that sells ready-to-consume food or drink where at least a portion of patrons are served while the patrons remain in their motor vehicles.

An establishment where food and drink are prepared, served, and consumed primarily within the principal building.

A use in which merchandise is sold or rented to the general public, but not including the following: sales of motor vehicles or boats, adult movie theater, adult bookstore, manufacturing, tavern, car wash, auto service station, auto repair garage, convenience store or any restaurant.

An establishment where horses are kept for riding or driving, or are stabled for compensation, or incidental to the operation of any club, association, ranch, or similar establishment.

A corridor of land set aside for use, in whole or in part, by a street or other public purpose.

A ground-based reflector, usually parabolic in shape, that receives electronic signals from a satellite. This term shall also include any pedestal or attached structure. A satellite antenna shall be considered an accessory structure for the purposes of this chapter.

A facility where logs or partially processed cants are sawn, split, shaved, stripped, chipped, or otherwise processed to produce wood products, not including the processing of timber for use on the same lot by the owner or resident of that lot.

A facility that is primarily intended for education of a work-related skill or craft or a hobby and that does not primarily provide State-required education to persons under age 16. This shall include a dancing school, martial arts school, or ceramics school.

A private institution for the teaching of children or adults including primary and secondary schools, colleges, professional schools, dance schools, business schools, trade schools, art schools, and similar facilities.

A public institution for the teaching of children or adults including primary and secondary schools, colleges, professional schools, dance schools, business schools, trade schools, art schools, and similar facilities.

A dwelling unit, including mobile homes, for full-time, temporary, or permanent employees engaged in agricultural pursuits.

Soil materials transported by wind or water as a result of erosion.

A building or buildings containing separated spaces to be leased or rented to individuals and/or business for the storage of personal belongings, goods, or supplies.

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

Any fully enclosed building used for the discharge of any firearm or bow for recreational or training purposes. Any such commercial operation, any such area operated by any private, non-profit entity, any community association, any such area operated by any sportsman's, recreation or fraternal club or association with 25 or more members, and any such area which is used or is intended to be used for more than five hours in any one week shall be considered an indoor shooting range for the purposes of this Zoning Ordinance.

A specialized facility designed for firearm and bow qualifications, training, or practice.

A group of commercial establishments planned, constructed, and managed as a total entity with customer and employee parking provided on site, provision for goods delivery separated from customer access, aesthetic considerations, and protection from the elements.

The use of a Dwelling in which the owner rents any area of the Dwelling to one, or more, individuals for compensation or fee, including offer of exchange in kind, of any type (whether or not involving overnight accommodations or separate sleeping quarters) on a temporary basis. This definition applies to all types of residential dwellings including, but not limited to, One-Family, Two-Family and Multiple-Family Dwellings. Also referred to as an "Airbnb."

An ornamental plant with woody stems that is at least two gallons in depth at planting. See the City's official plant list for a listing of permitted shrubs.

Any device, structure, fixture, painting, emblem, or visual that uses words, graphics, colors, illumination, symbols, numbers, or letters for the purpose of communicating a message. Sign includes the sign faces as well as any sign supporting structure.

Tower or other structure on a farm used for feed/grain storage.

A grocery store with a total floor area of 12,000 square feet or less.

A retail establishment with a total floor area of 5,000 square feet or less.

Radiant energy (direct, diffuse and/or reflective) received from the sun.

Items including a solar photovoltaic cell, module, or array, or solar hot air or water collector device panels, lines, pumps, batteries, mounting brackets, framing and possibly foundations or other structures used or intended to be used for collection of solar energy.

A system, structure, or device accessory to a principal use which is used to collect, store, and distribute energy derived from the sun for the purpose of providing electricity on-site, heating or cooling the interior spaces of buildings, or heating domestic hot water. Small solar energy systems may include, but are not limited to, solar collectors, solar reflectors, heat storage tanks, south facing double glazed window walls, attached south facing greenhouses utilizing double glazing, and architectural overhangs for blocking sunlight on south facing windows.

An area of land or other area used for a solar collection system principally used to capture solar energy, convert it to electrical energy or thermal power and supply electrical or thermal power primarily for off-site use. Principal Solar Energy Systems consist of one or more freestanding ground, or roof mounted solar collector devices, solar related equipment, and other accessory structures and buildings including light reflectors, concentrators, heat exchanges, substations, electrical infrastructure, transmission lines and other appurtenant structures.

A place or building where active exercise and related activities are preformed utilizing weight control or muscle building equipment or apparatus for the purpose of physical fitness. Also, a place or building that provides massage, exercise, and related activities with or without such equipment or apparatus.

A spatially defined element of usable open space designed such that it directly abuts streets on two or more sides. Squares may be located throughout the required open space of a community in a manner which enhances the form, appearance, and function of this element of the community. Landscaping and lighting must be provided to augment the function of this feature within the open space network.

Any Structures or land use having stalls or compartments where animals, excluding dogs and cats are sheltered and fed; may be accessory to a residential or other use or a freestanding principal use.

A space or place for storing materials and supplies for use by the principal use located on the same site. Includes the storage of goods which were produced on site. Storage is accessory to the principal use on the site.

A watercourse. Most streams are shown on the U.S.D.A. Soil Conservation Service "Soils Survey of Scranton" mapping or as watercourses shown on a U.S.G.S., 75 minute quadrangle map as solid blue lines or as state open waters identified in a letter of interpretation issued by the Pennsylvania DEP.

Includes a street, avenue, boulevard, road, highway, freeway, parkway, lane, alley, viaduct, and any other way used or intended to be used by vehicular traffic or pedestrians, whether public or private. Streets are further classified according to the functions they perform:

An object, including a mobile object, includes without limitation, buildings, towers, cranes, smokestacks, earth formation and overhead transmissions lines.

An establishment where arts such as dance, martial arts, music, and visual arts are taught, studied, or produced, or where movies, radio, television, or music recording is produced.

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

1) Any increase in the height of a wireless support structure by more than 10%, or by the height of one additional antenna array with separation from the nearest existing antenna not to exceed 20 feet for structures located outside of the rights-of-way, or 10 feet for structures located within the rights-of-way, whichever is greater, except that the mounting of the proposed wireless communications facility may exceed the size limits set forth herein if necessary to avoid interference with existing antennas; or 2) any further increase in the height of a wireless support structure which has already been extended by more than 10% of its originally approved height or by the height of one additional antenna array.

A room or rooms open to the general public, primarily used for the retail marketing of beverage-related products controlled by the PA Liquor Control Board. Merchandise offered for sale within the tasting room may also include souvenirs and clothing bearing the logo of the business, as well as related items and other products that reflect or enhance the character or theme of the product(s). Rooms where wine tasting occurs, where beverage tasting is part of the normal business practice in the wholesale marketing of beverage products and that are not open to the public are not considered tasting rooms.

Any establishment, place of business, or location wherein the procedure of inserting permanent markings or coloration upon or under human skin is practiced through including artistic tattoo parlors and any establishment conducting cosmetic tattooing where tattooing is engaged in or where the business of tattooing is conducted or any part thereof.

A use lasting for a limited time of seven days or less, unless specified as longer under a particular use. Does not include the construction or alteration of any structure.

A building or part of a building devoted to showing of motion pictures or theatrical performing arts productions as a principal use, but not including an outdoor drive-in theater.

A district that encourages mixed-use, compact development that is sensitive to the environmental characteristics of the land and facilitates the efficient uses of services.

A way designed for and used by equestrians, pedestrians, and cyclists using non-motorized bicycles. Trails may allow electric bikes unless otherwise restricted by local, state, or federal regulations.

A use (other than a prison or a permitted accessory use in a "hospital") providing housing facilities for persons who need specialized housing, treatment and/or counseling for stays in most cases of less than one year and who need such facilities because of:

A terminating point where goods are transferred from a truck to a storage area or to other trucks or picked up by other forms of transportation.

The activities that include the growing, processing, marketing, distribution, and consumption of food and other products through growing plants and raising animals in and around an urban area. Such activities can be public, private, or commercial and can exist in a variety of forms, including community gardens, market gardens, and backyard animal keeping. When done successfully, these activities also produce environmental, health, social, and economic effects that can positively impact a community and increase its resilience.

A corporation, enterprise, government entity or persons generating, transmitting, distributing, transporting and/or collecting in any manner, electricity, heat, steam, natural gas, propane, water, wastewater, or communications (cable, telephone, and fiber optic) to the public, or any portion thereof.

A permissive waiver of terms and conditions of this chapter issued by the Zoning Hearing Board.

The use of any building, land area or other premises for the display and sale of new and used automobiles of operable condition; panel trucks or vans; mobile homes or trailers; recreation vehicles; or farm or construction equipment including any warranty repair work and other repair service as an accessory use. No business or facility which generates less than 50% of its gross sales from the actual sale of new or used vehicles or equipment of the type herein described (excluding parts and repairs) shall be considered a vehicle and equipment sales operation.

An establishment engaged in the service and/or repair of any motor vehicle as its principal use, including but not limited to auto body shops, repair garages, truck repair garages and agriculture equipment repair.

The act of not meeting specific conditions or requirements of this chapter.

Terminal facilities operated for a specific commercial establishment or group of establishments in a particular industrial or economic field and used for the storage of goods and materials.

A facility that utilizes waste (such as trash, sludge, coal culm waste or any other non-"hazardous" commercial, residential, or industrial materials) as a fuel to produce usable energy (such as steam or electricity).

A facility used to treat industrial wastewater or domestic wastewater.

An establishment or place of business primarily engaged in selling merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional, or professional business users, or to other wholesalers; or acting as agents or brokers and buying merchandise for, or selling merchandise to, such individuals or companies.

Any device or 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.

A licensed facility used for the commercial processing of grapes or other fruit products to produce wine or similar spirits or the refermenting of still wine into sparkling wine.

A structure other than a building, such as a monopole or guyed tower, designed and used to support one or more wireless communications antennas.

A freestanding structure, such as a tower-based wireless communications facility or any other support structure that could support the placement or installation of a non-tower based wireless communications facility if approved by the City.

An unoccupied space, open to the sky, extending from the lot line to a structure. The size of a required yard shall be measured as the shortest distance between the structure and lot line.

An area bounded by a lot line and a line drawn parallel to the lot line at a distance specified in the ordinance for front, side, or rear yard setbacks.

A finite area of the City, as designated by its boundaries on the Zoning Map, throughout which specific and uniform regulations govern the use of land and/or the location, size and use of buildings and structures. The regulations of a zoning district may be supplemented or altered by regulations imposed in an overlay zoning district.

The Scranton Zoning Hearing Board, City of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

The map setting forth the boundaries of the districts of this chapter and adopted by City Council.