A building or use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal building or use and located on the same lot with such principal building or use. An "accessory use" includes, but is not limited to, the following:

A service way at least 15 feet wide providing a secondary public means of access to abutting properties.

As applied to a building or structure, a change or rearrangement in the structural parts or in the existing facilities or an enlargement, whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height, or the moving from one location to another or any change in use from that of one zoning district classification to another.

Any change in the supporting members of a building such as bearing walls, columns, beams, girders or foundations.

A room or suite of rooms in a multiple-family structure which is used as a single housekeeping unit and which contains complete kitchen, bath and toilet facilities permanently installed.

A building used by three or more families living independently of each other and containing dwelling units.

The total of areas taken on a horizontal plane at the main grade level of the principal building exclusive of uncovered porches, terraces, steps, garages and other accessory buildings.

Engine rebuilding or major reconditioning or work on damaged motor vehicles or trailers; collision service, including body, frame or fender straightening or repair; and overall painting of vehicles.

Incidental repairs, replacement of parts, motor service to automobiles and state inspection, but not including any operation specified under "automobile repair, major" above.

A story partly underground, but having at least 1/2 of its height above the average level of the adjoining ground. A basement shall be counted as a story for the purpose of height measurement if the vertical distance between the ceiling and the average level of the adjoining ground is five feet or more or if the basement is used for business or dwelling purposes.

A structure, building wall or other outdoor surface used to display lettered, pictorial, sculptured or other matter which directs attention to any product, commodity or service offered only elsewhere than on the premises or as a minor and incidental service on the premises.

The Zoning Hearing Board of the Township of Stonycreek.

A strip of land which is planted and maintained in shrubs, bushes, trees, grass or other landscaping material and within which no structure is permitted except a wall or fence.

A structure having a roof supported by columns or walls for the shelter of persons, animals, chattels or property. When separated by walls which are common with the walls of adjoining dwellings, each portion of such structure shall be considered as a separate building.

The vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the proposed finished grade from the lowest ground level to the highest point of the roof for flat roofs, to the deckline of mansard roofs and to the mean height between eave and ridge for gable, hip and gambrel roofs.

The line within a property defining the required minimum distance between any building and the adjacent right-of-way or property line. This includes sun parlors and covered porches, whether enclosed or unenclosed, but does not include walks, steps, paved areas or terraces.

That percentage of the lot area covered by the building area.

A section of the Township for which uniform regulations governing the use, height, area and intensity of use of buildings and land and open spaces about buildings are herein established.

A minor private way used by vehicles and pedestrians on a mobile home lot or used for common access to a small group of lots or facilities.

A building designed or used exclusively as the living quarters for one or more families. Such dwelling shall be constructed or fabricated permanently in place on a foundation and shall meet area requirements as established for each zoning district. Any building designed for movement with an axle and wheel (mobile home) shall not be considered a dwelling under this definition.

One or more persons related by blood, marriage or adoption or three unrelated persons living as a household in a dwelling unit. It may also include domestic servants and gratuitous guests.

The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of a building or buildings, measured from the exterior faces of exterior walls or from the center line of common walls separating buildings. For purposes of determining parking and loading space requirements for the several zoning districts herein, the "floor area" of a building or buildings shall include: basement space, penthouses, attic space providing structural headroom of 7 1/2 feet or more, interior balconies and mezzanines, enclosed porches, accessory uses other than accessory off-street parking, lobbies and hallways. For determination of parking and loading space requirements, the following areas shall not be included: cellar space, elevator shafts and stairwells, floor space for mechanical equipment as necessary to service the needs of the building, uncovered steps, terraces, breezeways, open spaces unroofed unless specifically required in the parking regulations herein and fitting and dressing rooms. For the purpose of determining minimum floor area as applied to a dwelling unit, "floor area" shall mean the habitable living area of the dwelling as measured by exterior dimensions and shall not include attached garages, unfinished basements, laundry or furnace rooms or carports. Neither are porches included unless completely enclosed and finished.

An accessory building housing only motor-driven vehicles, the property of and for the use of the occupants of the lot on which the private garage is located.

Any garage, other than a private garage, available to the public and which is used for storage, parking, repair, rental, greasing, washing, servicing, adjusting or equipping of motor-driven vehicles.

The State Department of Health or its authorized representative of Stonycreek Township.

An accessory use of a service character customarily conducted within a dwelling by the residents which is clearly secondary to the use of the dwelling for living purposes and does not change the character thereof or have any exterior evidence of such secondary use other than a small nameplate and in connection therewith there is not involved the keeping of or exhibition of stock-in-trade. The office of a physician, surgeon, dentist, architect, attorney or other professional person shall be deemed to be a home occupation. Instructions in violin, piano or other individual musical instruments limited to a single person at a time shall be deemed a home occupation. The occupation of dressmaker, watchmaker, milliner seamstress or persons who offer skilled services to clients and are not engaged in the purchase or sale of economic goods shall be deemed to be a home occupation.

Includes a sanitarium, sanatorium, preventorium, clinic, rest home, nursing home, convalescent home and any place for the diagnosis, treatment or other care of human ailments, and shall be deemed to be limited to such places.

A building in which lodging is provided and offered to the public for compensation and in which ingress and egress to and from rooms is made from an inside lobby or office supervised by a person in charge at all hours and which is open to transient guests, in contradistinction to a boardinghouse, lodging house or rooming house.

A building in which lodging is provided and offered to the transient public for compensation and in which egress and ingress to and from rooms may be made either directly from the exterior or through an inside lobby or office supervised by a person in charge at all times.

A public or private benevolent establishment devoted to the shelter, maintenance or education and care of minor children; homeless aged or infirm persons; or members of a religious community. The classification shall not include almshouses, penal or reformatory institutions, nursing homes or institutions for the custody, care or treatment of persons suffering from amentia, mental derangement, or drug or alcoholic addiction.

A space within the main building or on the same lot therewith providing for the standing, loading or unloading of vehicles.

A parcel, tract or area of land accessible by means of a public street. It may be a single parcel separately described in a deed or plat which is recorded in the office of the County Recorder or it may include parts of or a combination of such parcels when adjacent to one another and used as one parcel.

In the case of an interior lot, the line separating the lot from the street. In case of a corner lot, the line separating the narrowest frontage of the lot from the street.

The dimension of a lot, measured between the side lot lines on the building line.

A lot at the junction of two or more intersecting streets and having frontage on two or more such streets.

The mean horizontal distance between the front line and the rear lot line, measured midway between the side lot lines.

A lot other than a corner lot or a through lot.

A lot having frontage on two parallel or approximately parallel streets and which is not a corner lot.

A manufactured, transportable, single-family dwelling unit suitable for year-round occupancy and containing water supply, waste disposal and electrical conveniences.

A parcel of land for the placement of a single mobile home and the exclusive use of its occupants.

A contiguous parcel of land which has been developed for the placement of mobile homes and is owned by an individual, a firm, trust, partnership, public or private association or corporation.

That part of an individual lot which has been reserved for the placement of one mobile home unit.

See "hotel, motor." herein.

The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[1]

Any building or structure erected, altered and/or occupied by a governmental or public agency or organization providing services and facilities for the general public.

A building or use of land lawfully existing on the effective date of this chapter that does not completely conform to the use regulations for the district in which it is located.

A school designed to provide daytime care or instruction for two or more children of preschool age.

A structure designed and used only for office and administrative activities, and shall not include those activities of a commercial or manufacturing nature.

Any lot, parcel or yard used in whole or in part for the storage or parking of two or more vehicles where such usage is not incidental to or in conjunction with a one-family or two-family dwelling.

An off-street space available for the parking of one motor vehicle and having an area of not less than 180 square feet exclusive of passageways and driveways appurtenant thereto and giving access thereto and having direct access to a street or alley.

A private way which affords principal means of access to individual mobile home lots or auxiliary buildings.

The Planning and Zoning Commission of the Township of Stonycreek.

A business that provides home-type washing, drying or ironing machines or dry-cleaning machines for hire to be used by customers on the premises.

A structure housing toilet, lavatory and such other facilities as may be required by this chapter.

A building(s), premises or portions thereof which are used, arranged, designed or intended to be used for the retail sale of gasoline or other fuel for motor vehicles, boats or aircraft as well as for minor automobile repair, including state inspection.

Any surface, fabric, display of merchandise or vehicle device bearing lettered, pictorial, sculptured or other matter designed to convey information visually and exposed to public view; any structure designed to carry the above visual information; and any structure or device designed or installed principally to direct or attract attention, except traffic signs or devices.

That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it or, if there is not a floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it.

A public or private way other than an alley which affords the principal means of access to abutting properties.

Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires location on or in the ground or attachment of something having location on or in the ground.

Any trailer usually drawn by a passenger automobile, used for occasional transport of personal effects.

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

A space on the same lot with a principal building, open, unoccupied and unobstructed by structures, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.

A yard extending across the full width of the lot, unoccupied other than by steps, walks, terraces, driveways, lampposts and similar structures, the depth of which is the least distance between the lot line and building line.

A yard extending across the full width of the lot between the rear of the principal building and the rear lot line, unoccupied by other than accessory buildings which do not occupy more than 30% of the space and steps, walks, terraces, driveways, lampposts and similar structures, the depth of which is the least distance between the rear lot line and the rear of such building.

A yard between the principal building and the side lot line extending from the front yard, or from the front lot line where no front yard is required, to the rear yard. The width of the required side yard is measured horizontally and at 90° with the side lot line, from the nearest part of the principal building.

The person duly appointed by the Township of Stonycreek to enforce and administer the provisions of this chapter.