To cease or discontinue a use or activity without intent to resume but excluding temporary or short-term interruptions to a use or activity during periods or remodeling, maintaining, or otherwise improving or rearranging a facility, or during normal periods of vacation or seasonal closure.

Having a common border with or being separated from such common border by an alley or easement.

A means of vehicular approach or entry to or exit from property.

A secondary dwelling unit contained within a single-family detached dwelling or an accessory building and on the same lot.

A building or use which:

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 on-site use. An accessory solar energy system consists of one or more freestanding ground or roof-mounted solar arrays or modules, or solar-related equipment and is intended to primarily reduce on-site consumption of utility power or fuels.

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

Preparation for market or use of agricultural, agronomic, horticultural, silvicultural and aquacultural crops and commodities. The term includes an enterprise that implements changes in production practices and procedures or types of crops, livestock, livestock products or commodities produced consistent with practices and procedures that are normally engaged in by farmers or are consistent with technological development within the agricultural industry.

An enterprise that is actively engaged in the commercial production and operation and preparation for market of crops, livestock, and livestock products and in the production, harvesting and preparation for market or use of agricultural, agronomic, horticultural, silvicultural and aquacultural crops and commodities. The term includes an enterprise that implements changes in production practices and procedures or types of crops, livestock, livestock products or commodities produced consistent with practices and procedures that are normally engaged in by farmers or are consistent with technological development within the agricultural industry.

Agricultural uses shall include the following:

Intensive agricultural uses include but are not limited to:

Accessory uses conducted on a working farm and offered to the public or to invited groups for the purpose of recreation, entertainment, education, or active involvement in the farm operation. These activities must be related to agriculture or natural resources and incidental to the primary farm operation on the site. These activities may include a fee for participants. Examples include but are not limited to hayrides, corn mazes, farm tours, rodeos, educational exhibits, etc.

Soil formed from material, such as gravel, sand, or clay, deposited by a stream of water and showing little or no modification of the original materials or soil-forming processes.

As applied to a building or structure, any change or rearrangement in the total floor area, or an enlargement, whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height, or the moving from one location or position to another.

Federal regulations define an AFO as a facility where animals have been, are/or will be stabled or confined and fed or maintained for a total of 45 days or more in any twelve-month period, and where crops, vegetation, forage growth, or post-harvest residues are not sustained in the normal growing season over any portion of the lot or facility.

Any device used for the transmission or reception of radio, television, wireless telephone, pager or any other wireless communication signals along with necessary base cabinets or equipment shelters. This definition shall not include private satellite dishes or television antennas or amateur radio equipment, whether ham or citizen band.

A dwelling unit contained in a building comprising three or more dwelling units, each of which has an entrance to a hallway or balcony in common with at least one other dwelling unit.

The aggregate of the maximum horizontal cross-section area of all the buildings on a lot, excluding cornices, eaves, gutters, or chimneys projecting not more than 30 inches, bay windows not extending through more than one story and not projecting more than two feet, uncovered porches, terraces, balconies and steps.

An accessory building for the storage of one or more automobiles and/or other vehicles, accessory and incidental to the primary use of the premises, provided that no business, occupation, or service is conducted therein nor space therein for more than one automobile is leased to a nonoccupant of the premises.

Facilities for rendering services such as lubrication, washing and repairs vehicles.

A building, lot, or part thereof supplying and selling gasoline or other equivalent fuel for motor vehicles at retail direct from pumps and storage tanks and which may include accessory facilities for rendering services such as lubrication, washing and repairs.

The flood which has been selected to serve as the basis upon which the Floodplain Conservation District management provisions of this chapter have been prepared; for purposes of this chapter, the 100-year flood as delineated on the FHB/FIRM Maps prepared by the Federal Insurance Administration, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The 100-year flood elevation, as defined and delineated by the Federal Insurance Administration, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The base flood elevation shall be established as a point on the boundary of the Floodplain Conservation District as defined in § 166-19, closest to the construction site in question.

A story partly underground but having 1/2 or more of its height above the average level of the adjoining ground.

A dwelling used as an owner-occupied residence which also offers lodging overnight and normally a morning meal. These dwellings shall have no more than six rooms for overnight guests, not including the rooms used by the owners and their immediate family. Meals other than breakfast may be served when requested, and only to individuals who are staying at the facility overnight. Rooms may not be rented out on a permanent or extended basis or used as apartments.

An earthen mound designed to create a visual and sound barrier between a use and adjoining properties, streets, and adjacent uses.

A sign that identifies or communicates a commercial or noncommercial message related to an activity conducted, a service rendered, or a commodity sold at a location other than where the sign is located.

A strip of land that may be planted and maintained in shrubs, bushes, trees, grass, or other landscaping. This area may contain a berm.

A strip of land planted and maintained in shrubs, bushes, trees, grass, or other landscaping material and intended to provide an area of separation between different districts or uses.

The space remaining on a zoned lot after the minimum open space requirements, such as coverage, yards, and setbacks, have been met.

A structure built, maintained, or intended for use for the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals or property of any kind, a fence or a shed of any kind, whether affixed to the real estate or not. The term is inclusive of any part thereof.

The line within a property defining the required minimum distance between any building or structure and the front, side or rear property line. It shall be a straight line parallel to the front, side or rear property line of rectilinear lots. On a curvilinear lot, the building setback line shall be radial to the arc. No point on the parallel to the tangent shall be a distance less than the minimum setback distance.

A measurement of the average finished grade to the highest visible point of the roof.

A structure which is the principal use of the lot and is not an accessory building.

A parcel of land used by campers for seasonal, recreation, or other similar temporary living purposes, in buildings of a movable, temporary, or seasonal nature, such as cabins, trailer campers, tents or shelters, but not including a mobile home camp court, or park where a fee for membership or use is collected for service.

An open space 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.

A story partly underground and having more than 1/2 of its clear height below the average level of the adjoining ground with a floor ceiling height of less than 6.5 feet. A cellar shall not be considered in determining the required number of stories.

Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including columbarium, crematories, mausoleums and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with and within the boundaries of such cemetery.

A development design option which allows the minimum lot areas and yard requirements to be reduced so that buildings and lots can be grouped together.

As a person or company, engaged in the business of breeding animals for sale and who harbors more than two intact females for the primary purpose of breeding animals for sale.

Any reproduction or purpose that is marketed, promoted, or sold and incorporates a financial transaction.

A parcel or parcels of land or an area of water, or a combination of land and water within a development site and designed and intended for the use or enjoyment of residents of a development, not including streets, off-street parking areas, and areas set aside for public facilities. Additionally, the open space shall not include floodplains, stormwater management facilities, and environmentally sensitive areas.

A structure and necessary auxiliary components used for the purpose of sending and receiving electronic signals as an integral component of a communication system.

A use that, owing to some special characteristics attendant to its operation or installation, is permitted in a district subject to approval by the Board of Supervisors in conjunction with Article IX of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code,[2] and is subject to special requirements in addition to the usual requirements of the district in which it may be located.

Ownership in common with others of a parcel of land and certain parts of a building thereon which would normally be used by all the occupants, together with individual ownership in fee of a particular unit or apartment in such building or on such parcel of land, and may include dwellings, offices, and other types of space in commercial buildings or on property.

Environmentally sensitive and valuable lands protected from any activity that would significantly alter their ecological integrity, balance, or character, except in cases of overriding public interest.

An easement granting a right or interest in real property that is appropriate to retaining land or water areas predominately in their natural, scenic, open, or wooded condition; retaining such areas as suitable habitat for fish, plants, or wildlife; or maintaining existing land uses.

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

Conversions of established single-family dwellings into two or more apartment dwelling units, provided that sanitary sewer is available, each lot or parcel of land so used has an area of not less than 10,000 square feet and a width of not less than 80 feet at the building line and no more than a total of eight dwelling units are located within the structure.

Ownership in common with others of a parcel of land and of a building or buildings thereon which would normally be used by all the occupants, together with individual rights of occupancy of a particular unit or apartment in such building or buildings or on such parcel of land, and may include dwellings, offices and other types of space in commercial buildings or on property where the lease, sale or exchange of a unit is subject to the agreement of the group of persons having common ownership.

A local or minor street intersecting another street at one end and terminated at the other by a vehicular turnaround.

An excavation; the difference between a point on the original ground and a designated point of lower elevation on the final grade; and also means the material removed in excavation.

A commercial establishment for the manufacture or processing of dairy products.

A use involving a building/premise primarily occupied by computers and/or telecommunications and related equipment, including supporting equipment, where information is processed, transferred and/or stored.

Utilities, utility lines, electrical substations, pump stations, water towers, mechanical equipment controls (air conditioning or cooling towers, fire suppression, etc.) redundant/backup power supplies, redundant data communications connections, and high security when located on the same tract or assemblage of adjacent parcels developed as a unified development for a data center.

A private residence where care, protection and supervision are provided by the owner or tenant of such residence, at least twice a week, for five or fewer children under 18 years of age, excluding those of the adult provider, in lieu of care and supervision ordinarily provided by parents in their own homes, with or without charge.

"Children's day-care center" shall mean any building or structure operated by any nursery, person, association, corporation, institution, or agency which provides care and supervision, at least twice a week, for six or more children under 18 years of age or special needs adults, in lieu of care and supervision ordinarily provided by parents in their own homes, with or without charge. Such day-care use shall be compliant with applicable state regulations.

A restriction on the use of the land set forth in the deed or instrument of conveyance. Such restriction usually runs with the land and is binding upon subsequent owners of the property. The governing body is not responsible for enforcing a deed restriction.

The quotient of the total number of dwelling units divided by the net area, in acres, of a site.

A vegetated pond designed to drain completely after storing runoff only for a given storm event and release it at a predetermined rate and is also known as a "dry pond."

Any landowner, agent of such landowner, or tenant with permission of such landowner, who makes or causes to be made a subdivision of land or a land development.

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, mining, dredging, filling, grading, excavation or drilling operations, and the subdivision of land.

The provisions for development, including a planned residential development; a plat of subdivision; all covenants relating to use, location and bulk of buildings and other structures; intensity of use or density of development; streets, ways and parking facilities, common open space, and public facilities. The phrase "provisions of the development plan," when used in this chapter, shall mean the written and graphic materials referred to in this definition.

A structure used for the receipt, order processing, storage and distribution of goods, products, cargo, and materials characterized by the breakdown of large orders from a single source into smaller orders or components and/or consolidation of several orders or components into a larger order or component for distribution to one or more recipients.

Any ditch, gutter, culvert, storm sewer, basin, or other structure designed, intended or constructed for the purpose of diverting surface waters from, or carrying surface waters off, streets, public rights-of-way, parks, recreational areas or any part of any subdivision or contiguous land area.

A building or structure designed for living quarters for one or more families, including mobile homes which are supported by a permanent foundation, but not including tents, cabins, travel trailers, motels, hotels, rooming houses, boarding homes, convalescent homes or other accommodations used for transient occupancy.

A single unit providing complete, independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation.

Three or more adjoining dwelling units, each of which is separated from the others by one or more unpierced walls from ground to roof.

A building designed for or containing three or more dwelling units, sharing access from a common hall, stair or balcony.

Two dwelling units, attached side to side, sharing only one common wall with the other; or two dwelling units arranged one over the other.

A dwelling designed for and occupied by not more than one family and having no roof, wall or floor in common with any other dwelling unit.

A building used by two families, with one dwelling unit arranged over the other and having two side yards.

The right of a person, government agency, or public utility company to use public or private land owned by another for a specific purpose.

Also known as "granny flat" or elder cottage housing. It permits a family member, related by blood, marriage, or adoption, to live independently but close to relatives on the same lot. The housing shall be connected to the utility system of the main dwelling unit.

The erection, construction, alteration, or maintenance, by public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies or private corporations under contract to a municipality, of gas, electrical, telephone, steam or water transmission or distribution systems, and sewage disposal systems, including buildings, enclosures, wells, pumping stations, poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic light signals, hydrants, and other similar equipment and accessories and services in connection therewith, reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by such public utilities or municipal or other agencies or private corporations under contract to a municipality including firehouses or fire companies and emergency services under agreement with the municipality or for the public health or safety or general welfare.

A place inside a building where a special occasion or event can be held. These venues can range from a small intimate banquet hall to a large spacious convention center and charge a fee to rent.

The person or persons or entity or entities having a legal or equitable interest in the wind energy facility, including the respective successors and assigns.

One or more persons related to each other by blood, adoption, marriage, or otherwise by law, who are occupying the same dwelling unit and are living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit, exclusive of foster children, household servants, and not more than two additional persons who are not so related. Apart from the above, not more than four persons living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit though not so related shall be deemed to constitute a family. A "family" as herein defined specifically excludes a boarding- or rooming house, lodging house, club, fraternity, hotel or any similar group living arrangement.

Any parcel of land which is used for gain in the raising of agricultural products, livestock, poultry, or dairy products, including necessary farm structures within the prescribed limits and the storage of equipment customarily incidental to the primary use. For the purpose of this chapter, a farm shall not include the raising of fur-bearing animals, riding academy, livery or boarding stables, or dog kennels.

A building on a farm used for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.

A use at which goods and services are rendered in support of local farming operations or to supplement on-farm income. Examples of farm-related businesses include, but are not limited to:

Any structure, constructed of wood, metal, wire mesh or masonry, erected for the purpose of screening one property from another either to assure privacy or to protect the property screened. For this chapter, a masonry wall is considered to be a fence.

The sand, gravel, earth, or other material placed or deposited such as to form an embankment or raise the elevation of the land surface.

A repeating cycle of changing light intensity.

The sum of the floor area for each of a building's stories measured from the exterior limits of the faces of the structure. The floor area of a building includes basement floor area and includes attic floor area only if the attic area is considered habitable. It does not include cellars and unenclosed porches or any floor space in an accessory building or in the principal building which is designed for the parking of motor vehicles in order to meet the parking requirements of this chapter, or any such floor space intended and designed for accessory heating and ventilating equipment. It shall include the horizontal area at each floor level devoted to stairwells and elevator shafts.

The management of forest and timberlands when practiced in accordance with accepted silviculture principles.

A building for the private use of the owner or occupant of a principal building, situated on the same lot as the principal building, for the storage of motor vehicles, with no facilities for mechanical service or repair of a commercial or public nature. (An accessory building.)

A building designed and used for the storage of automotive vehicles operated as a business enterprise with a service charge or fee being paid to the owner of operator for the parking or storage of privately owned vehicles. (Not an accessory building.)

The effect produced by light with an intensity sufficient to cause annoyance, discomfort, or loss in visual performance and visibility.

The total floor area designed for tenant occupancy and exclusive use, including basements, mezzanines, and upper floors, if any, expressed in square feet and measured from the center line of joint partitions and from outside wall faces.

The minimum distance between the ground and any part of the wind turbine blade, as measured from the lowest point of the arc of the blades.

The floor of a building nearest the mean grade at the front of the building.

A dwelling operated by a responsible individual, family, or organization with a program to provide supportive living arrangement for individuals where special care is needed by the individual served due to age, emotional, mental, or physical handicap. Group homes must be licensed where required, and a copy of such license shall be delivered to the municipality prior to approval of the use.

A noninstitutional living arrangement with treatment and support services for persons with substance abuse problems or for inmates and parolees approaching parole release date or release from a corrections institution. The halfway house (community corrections center) operates under the rules and regulations of the Pennsylvania Department of Health or Department of Corrections or similar authorities. The residents are provided full-time supervision and counseling on employment, vocations, finances and community living.

Materials which have the potential to damage health or impair safety. Hazardous materials include, but are not limited to, inorganic mineral acids or sulfur, fluorine, chlorine, nitrogen, chromium, phosphorus, selenium, and arsenic and their common salts, petroleum products, and radioactive material. Also included are floatable materials with the potential to cause physical damage, such as logs, storage tanks, and large containers.

A business, profession, occupation or trade conducted for gain or support and located entirely within a residential building, or a structural accessory thereto, which use is accessory, incidental and secondary to the use of the building for dwelling purposes and does not change the essential residential character or appearance of such building.

An institution as approved by the State Medical Board in which patients or injured persons are given medical or surgical care.

A building containing rooms intended or designed to be used or which are used, rented or hired out to be occupied or are occupied for sleeping purposes by guests and where only a general kitchen and dining room are provided within the building as an accessory use.

Any cat, dog, bird, hamster and such other animal as is customarily house kept. "House pet" shall not include the keeping of horses, pigs, rabbits or baby chicks, chickens or any such farm animals.

The distance measured from the surface of the tower foundation to the highest point of the wind turbine hub to which the blade is attached.

A club, created for the purpose of seasonal hunting and fishing and primitive camping, exclusively provided for members and guests, where seasonal membership fees are collected for the privilege of hunting or fishing.

Any material impenetrable by precipitation, including buildings, structures and paved areas. For purposes of this chapter, "impervious cover" shall be deemed to include gravel driveways and parking areas.

A planned, coordinated development of a tract(s) of land with two or more separate industrial buildings. Such development is planned, designed, constructed and managed on an integrated and coordinated basis with special attention given to on-site vehicular circulation, parking, utility needs, building design and orientation, and open space.

A use engaged in the basic processing and manufacturing of materials or products predominantly from extracted or raw materials, or a use engaged in storage of, or manufacturing processes using, flammable or explosive materials, or storage or manufacturing processes that potentially involve hazardous or commonly recognized offensive conditions.

A use engaged in the manufacture, predominantly from previously prepared materials, of finished products or parts, including processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment, packaging, incidental storage, and sales, but excluding basic industrial processing.

Any area and/or structure used primarily for the collecting, storage and sale of wastepaper, rags, scrap metal or discarded material or for the collecting, dismantling, storage and salvaging of machinery or vehicles primarily not in running condition and for the sale of parts thereof.

An establishment licensed to operate a facility housing dogs, cats, or other household pets and where grooming, breeding, boarding, training or selling of animals is conducted as a business.

See "zoning permit."

A designated parcel, tract or area of land established by a plat or otherwise permitted by law and to be used, developed, or built upon as a unit.

The area contained within the property lines of a lot, including space within any public right-of-way.

The area contained within the property lines of a lot, excluding space within any public right-of-way, but including the area of easement.

The percentage of the lot area covered by any and all impervious surfaces.

The mean horizontal distance between the street line and rear lot line, measured along the mean direction of the side lines of the lot.

The lot dimension measured along the street line of any street abutting a lot.

A line bounding a lot which divides one lot from another or from a street or any other public or private space.

That lot line which is parallel to and most distant from the front lot line of a lot; in the case of an irregular, triangular or gore-shaped lot, a line 20 feet in length, entirely within the lot, parallel to and at the maximum possible distance from the front line shall be considered to be the rear lot line. In the case of lots which have frontage on more than one road or street, the rear lot line shall be opposite the lot line along which the lot takes access to a street.

Any lot line other than a front or rear lot line.

Any validly recorded lot which at the time of its recordation complied with all applicable laws, ordinances and regulations.

The mean horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured at the building setback line. Where there is only one side lot line, lot width shall be measured between such lot line and the opposite lot line or future right-of-way line.

A lot at the junction of and abutting on two or more intersecting streets or private roads or at the point of abrupt change of a single street or private road, where the interior angle is less than 135° and the radius of the street or private road line is less than 100 feet. In the case of lots which have frontage on more than one road or street, the rear lot line shall be opposite the lot line along which the lot takes access to a street.

An interior lot having frontage on two streets.

A lot other than a corner lot.

A facility where logs or sawed lumber are cut for sale.

The process and/or converting of raw, unfinished or finished materials or products, or any or either of them, into an article or substance of different character or for use for a different purpose; industries furnishing labor in the case of manufacturing, rebuilding or refinishing of manufactured articles.

A tower used for the measurement of wind speed.

A parabolic ground-based reflector, together with its pedestal and any other attachments and parts thereof, commonly referred to as a "dish-shaped antenna," used or intended to receive radio or electromagnetic waves from an overhead satellite.

Blend of multiple uses, such as residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment, where those functions are to some degree physically and functionally integrated, and that provides pedestrian connections.

Any site, lot or tract of land upon which two or more authorized mobile homes/manufactured homes are parked permanently or temporarily, either free of charge or for revenue purposes, and shall include any appurtenant facilities used or designed as part of the equipment of such mobile home/manufactured home court or park.

An area designed exclusively for mobile homes or manufactured homes and mobile dwelling units where lots are not rented but sold.

A building or group of buildings, whether detached or in connected units, used as individual sleeping or dwelling units designed primarily for transient automobile travelers and provided with accessory off-street parking facilities. The term "motel" includes buildings designed as tourist courts, auto courts and other similar designations but shall not be construed to include mobile or immobile trailers or homes.

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

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

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

Any landowner except those on whose property all or a portion of a wind energy facility is located pursuant to an agreement with the facility owner or operator.

Any lot or parcel of land used to cultivate, propagate, and grow trees, shrubs, vines, and other plants, including the buildings, structures, and equipment customarily incidental and accessory to the primary use.

Any wall, dam, wharf, embankment, levee, 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, which may impede, retard or change the direction of the flow of water, either in itself or by catching or collecting debris carried by such water, or is placed where the flow of the water might carry the same downstream causing damage of life and property.

Occupancy of a building or land for more than one use.

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

An area that is intended to provide light and air, and is designed for either environmental, scenic, or recreational purposes. Open space may include, but is not limited to, lawns, decorative planting, walkways, active and passive recreation areas, playgrounds, swimming pools, wooded areas and watercourses. Open space shall not include driveways, parking lots or other surfaces designed or intended for vehicular travel.

The entity responsible for the day-to-day operation and maintenance of the wind energy facility.

The keeping of any goods, materials, or equipment outside of a building for more than 24 hours, excluding vehicle recycling facilities, vehicle storage yards, towing and impound yards, and outside display of merchandise.

(Wedding venue) A place outside or in a building with limited utilities for guest to hold a ceremony or gathering and charge a fee to rent.

An off-street space available for the parking of a motor vehicle and which, in this chapter, is held to be an area 10 feet wide and 18 feet long, exclusive of passageways and driveways appurtenant thereto and giving access thereto.

A landowner upon whose property all or a portion of a wind energy facility is located pursuant to an agreement with the facility owner or operator.

Includes such uses as barbershops, beauty salons, photographic studios, coin-operated laundromats, tailors, dressmaking, millinery and dry cleaning and laundry operations.

A nonprofit use of land or a building or buildings as a place of worship, convent, monastery or similar religious institution, including rectory and parish houses for an organization solely or primarily used as a religious institution when located on the same premises.

A planning commission, planning department, or a planning committee of the governing body.

A roofed, open, screened or glass-enclosed structure projecting from the front, side or rear wall of a building.

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, and heat exchangers, substations, electrical infrastructure, transmission lines and other appurtenant structures.

Includes but are not limited to offices for real estate, stock and bond brokers, accountants, adjusters, appraisers, utility companies, physicians, lawyers, clergymen, teachers, dentists, architects, engineers, insurance agents, opticians, banks, financial institutions, contractors (excluding storage) and similar office-oriented uses.

A formal meeting held pursuant to public notice by the Board of Supervisors, Zoning Hearing Board or Planning Commission, intended to inform and obtain public comment prior to taking action in accordance with this chapter.

Any improvement, facility or service, together with customary improvements and appurtenances thereto, necessary to provide for public needs, such as vehicular and pedestrian circulation systems; storm sewers; flood control improvements; water supply and distribution facilities; sanitary sewage disposal and treatment; and public utility and energy services.

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 be not more than 30 days and the second publication shall not be less than seven days from the date of the hearing.

The purpose of extracting stone, sand, clay, gravel, or topsoil for sale, and exclusive of the process of grading a lot preparatory to the construction of a building for which application for a building permit has been made.

Leisure-time activities, usually of a more formal nature and performed with other individuals, often requiring equipment and taking place at prescribed places, site or fields. Such areas usually require physical alteration of the area before they can occur and are intensively used, such as playgrounds, ball courts and swimming pools.

Leisure-time activities, usually of an informal nature and which can be carried out with little alteration or disruption to the area in which they occur, such as hiking and picnicking.

A structure that is: utilized principally for recreational activity only.

A vehicular-type unit primarily designed as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use, which has its own motive power or is mounted on or drawn by another vehicle, including camping trailer, motor home, travel trailer and truck camper; and a body width of no more than eight feet and a body length of no more than 35 feet when designed for the road, whether licensed or not licensed.

The 100-year flood elevation plus a freeboard safety factor of 1 1/2 feet.

The restoration and maintenance of object, which are compatible with each other uses in the zoning district. Includes but not limited too such uses as radio, television and appliance repair shops, plumbing shops, carpenter shops, and shoe repair shops.

A business establishment whose principal business is the selling of unpackaged food to the customer in a ready-to-consume state, in individual servings, or in nondisposable containers, and where the customer consumes these foods while seated at tables or counters located within the building.

Any establishment whose principal business is the sale of foods, frozen desserts, or beverages in ready-to-consume individual servings, for consumption either within the restaurant building or for carry-out, and where either:

Includes such uses as variety stores, apparel stores, drugstores, grocery stores, antique shops, music shops, sporting goods stores, and book, stationery, magazine, candy, and tobacco shops.

Dwellings exclusively designed for and occupied by senior citizen residents 55 years of age or older, in a building with central kitchen facilities providing meals for the residents. There is no minimum age requirement for the spouse of a resident who is 55 years of age or older.

Land reserved for use as a street, alley, interior walk or for other public purposes.

A dwelling where lodging is provided, for compensation, for five to 10 persons who are not members of a family occupying that dwelling unit and who do not occupy the dwelling as a simple housekeeping unit.

That portion of the wind turbine, i.e., blades and associated hub and shaft, which is intended to be moved or activated by the wind.

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

The use of plant or landscaping materials, fencing, walls and/or earthen berms to aid in the concealment of such features as parking areas and vehicles within them or open storage areas, and to provide privacy between two or more different land uses which abut one another.

A building or group of buildings in a compound that contains varying sizes of individual, compartmentalized, and controlled-access stalls or lockers or garage-type units for the storage of customers' goods, belongings or wares.

The setback of a building from a particular lot line is the horizontal distance from such lot line to the part of the building nearest to such lot line.

Alternating changes in light intensity caused by a moving wind rotor blade casting shadows on the ground and stationary objects.

A single-story building/structure not to exceed 12 feet in height and less than 250 square feet.

The horizontal distance which a projectile can be propelled. A place where shooting a firearm is practiced, to include but not limited to shotguns, rifles, pistols and/or bow and arrows.

A group of retail businesses planned and designed to function as a unit for the lot on which it is located, with off-street parking provided as an integral part of the unit.

Any dwelling or portion thereof that is available for use, or is used, for lodging of guests by paying a fee or other compensation for a period of less than 30 consecutive days. Common platforms include but are not limited to Airbnb, FlipKey, HomeAway, and Vrbo.

Any structure, device, light or object, including the ground itself or any part thereof, or any device attached thereto, or painted or represented thereon, which shall be used to identify, advertise or attract attention to any object, product, place, activity, person, institution, organization, firm, group, commodity, profession, enterprise, industry or business, or which shall display or include any letter, word, model, number, flag, pennant, insignia, device or representation used as an announcement, direction or advertisement and which is intended to be seen from off the premises or from a parking lot, and shall be deemed to include signs which are affixed to the insides of windows and glass doors and are intended to be seen from roadways or parking lots.

A right, expressed as an easement, restriction, covenant, or condition contained in any deed, contract, or other written instrument executed by or on behalf of any landowner, for the purpose of assuring adequate access to direct sunlight for solar energy systems.

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

That part or portion of a solar energy system containing one or more receptive cells or modules, the purpose of which is to convert solar energy for use in space heating or cooling, for water heating and/or for electricity.

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

A use permitted in a particular zoning district pursuant to the provisions of Article VI and IX of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[3]

A building or land where horses are kept for remuneration, hire, sale, boarding riding or show.

Any building, incidental to an existing residential, principal use, that shelters horses for the exclusive use of the occupants of the premises.

A story is that part of a building between the surface of any floor and the next floor above it or, in its absence, then the finished ceiling or roof above it. A "split-level" story shall be considered a second story if its floor level is six feet or more above the level of the line of the finished floor next below it. Any floor under a sloping roof at the top of a building which is more than two feet below the top plate shall be counted as a story; and, if less than two feet below the top plate, shall be counted as a half story. A basement shall be counted as a story if it averages more than five feet above grade.

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

The street line is that line determining the limit of the street or highway right of the public, either existing or contemplated. Where a definite right-of-way width has not been established, the street line shall be assumed to be at a point 25 feet from the center line of the existing street.

The distance between right-of-way lines measured at right angles to the center line of the street.

Any change in the supporting or structural members of a building or structure, such as the bearing walls, partitions, columns, beams, girders, etc., or any change in the dimension or configuration of the rooms or exterior walls.

Any man-made object having an ascertainable stationary location on or in land or water, whether or not affixed to the land. "Structure" means a building of any kind and includes a fence and a shed, whether or not affixed to the land.

A use or structure on improved or unimproved real estate which is of impermanent nature, and is used for less than 60 days.

The cutting or removal of timber for purposes of sale or profit for wood product purposes, such as lumber, biomass, or firewood,

A dwelling unit placed on a property for occupancy as either a primary or principal use dwelling unit with a habitable floor area of 400 square feet or less with a foundation or on wheels.

More than one tiny house per lot.

When referring to a wind turbine, the distance measured from the surface of the tower foundation to the highest point of a wind rotor blade when the blade is positioned at 90° to the surface of the ground.

The land area contained within the boundaries of a tract, exclusive of the areas of such permanent easements as are associated with overhead power transmission lines and underground pipelines, and land within the right-of-way of existing public roads that are present on the land at the time of development.

The supporting structure of a wind turbine or communication antennas are placed, on which a rotor and accessory equipment are mounted.

An unpowered vehicle towed by another.

A commercial operation or business such as a tree plantation, tree nursery, or Christmas tree farm that grows trees for sale, and includes a privately owned forest that is managed for timber production.

Land and buildings used as a relay station for the transfer of a load from one vehicle to another or one party to another. The terminal cannot be used for permanent or long-term accessory storage for principal land uses at other locations. The terminal facility may include storage areas for trucks and buildings or areas for the repair of trucks associated with the terminal.

The specific purpose for which land or a building is designed, arranged, intended, or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained. The term "permitted use" or its equivalent shall not be deemed to include any nonconforming use.

Any and every use conducted within a building or accessory thereto.

The specific primary purpose for which land is used.

The permission granted by the Zoning Hearing Board following a public hearing that has been properly advertised as required by Act 247, as amended,[4] for an adjustment to some regulation which, if strictly adhered to, would result in an unnecessary hardship and where the permission granted would not be contrary to the public interest, and would maintain the spirit and original intent of this chapter.

The process of storing physical inventory in a building. This use prohibits vehicle servicing and repair facilities, fueling, dispensing and storage of petroleum products, and overnight accommodations. This definition includes distribution and logistic centers.

An area that is inundated or saturated by surface water or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances does support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions, commonly known as "hydrophytic vegetation."

An electric-generating facility, whose main purpose is to supply electricity, consisting of one or more wind turbines and other accessory structures and buildings, including substations, meteorological towers, electrical infrastructure, transmissions lines and other appurtenant structures and facilities.

A wind energy conversion system that converts wind energy into electricity using a wind turbine generator, and includes the nacelle, rotor, tower, and pad transformer, if any.

An open space on the same lot with a building or building group lying between the front, rear or side wall of a building and the nearest lot line, unoccupied except for projections and the specific minor uses or structures allowed in such open space under this chapter.

An open unoccupied space on the same lot with a main building, situated between the street line and front line of the building projected to the side lines of the lot. The depth of the front yard shall be measured between the front line of the building and the street line. Covered porches, whether enclosed or unenclosed, shall be considered as part of the main building and shall not project into a required front yard.

An open unoccupied space between the buildings of a dwelling group or between a building and its accessory buildings, not a front, side, or rear yard.

A yard on the same lot with a main building, situated between the rear line of the lot and the rear line of the building projected to the side lines of the lot. The depth of the rear yard shall be measured between the rear line of the lot and the rear line of the main building.

A yard on the same lot with the building, situated between the required setback line and the side line of the lot and extending from the front lot line to the rear lot line. Any lot line not a rear line or a front line shall be deemed a sideline.

A portion of the Township or adjacent municipality(s) within which certain uniform regulations and requirements or various combinations thereof apply under the provisions of this chapter (or the adjacent municipality's zoning ordinance).

The Official Zoning Map of Southampton Township which is an integral part of this chapter and which is kept up-to-date and on display at the Township office, and/or office of the Township Secretary.

A permit stating that the purpose for which a building, structure, fence or shed of any kind, whether or not affixed to the 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 located or is to be located.