A use or structure subordinate to the principal use of a building on the same lot and serving a purpose customarily incidental to the use of the principal building.

Any person who can show notarized written proof that he has authority to act for the property owner.

A public thoroughfare which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property.

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

A building, establishment, complex or district part thereof which:

The wholesale auction of cars, automobile auctions, and other businesses of like kind and nature, including but not limited to a principal use where automobiles are stored, readied and displayed for wholesale sales on a recurring scheduled basis. Related support for the auction including title services, arbitration services, the storage, washing and transportation of vehicles; and heavy equipment repair, for sale or use of principal.

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

A building or place of business where gasoline, oil and greases, batteries, tires and automobile accessories are supplied and dispensed directly to the motor vehicles trade at retail, and where the following services may be rendered.

The dismantling or disassembling of used motor vehicles or trailers; or the storage, sale or dumping of dismantled, partially dismantled, obsolete or wrecked vehicles or their parts.

Bakeries which are first permitted in the M-1 District only, include such baking establishments which manufacture quantities of goods for retail elsewhere than on the premises.

A floor level partly or completely below grade. It shall be considered a story if more than 33 1/3% of the perimeter walls of a basement are five feet or more above grade.

The Zoning Hearing Board of the Borough of Taylor.

Borough Council of the Borough of Taylor.

An establishment operated for profit or pecuniary gain, which has a capacity for the assemblage of 20 or more persons and in which alcoholic liquors, alcohol or malt or brewed beverages are not legally sold but where alcoholic liquors, alcohol or malt or brewed beverages are either provided by the operator or agents or employees of the operator for consumption on the premises or are brought into or kept at the establishment by the patrons or persons assembling there for use and consumption. The term shall not include a license under the Act of April 12, 1951 (P.L. 90, No. 21), known as the Liquor Code,[1] or any organization as set forth in Section 6 of the Act of December 19, 1990 (P.L. 1200, No. 202), known as the Solicitation of Funds for Charitable Purposes Act.[2]

Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls, used or intended to be used for the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, or property. When such a structure is divided into separate parts by one or more unpierced walls extending from the ground up, each part is deemed a separate building, except as regards minimum side yard requirements.

Any building, such as a store group, which is divided into separate parts by one or more unpierced walls extending from the ground up.

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

A building in which is conducted the principal use of the building site on which it is situated. In any residential district, any dwelling shall be deemed to be a principal building on the zone lot on which the same is located.

The storage of fuel beyond what is reasonably needed for customary on-site use. This includes the storage of fuel to be sold for off-site use.

A motor vehicle 30 feet or more in length, other than a taxi cab, limousine, motor home, or recreational vehicle (RV) designed to transport passengers.

The diameter of the main trunk of a tree. Caliper measurement shall be taken at a point on the trunk six inches above natural ground line for trees up to four inches in caliper and at a point 12 inches above the natural ground line for trees over four inches in caliper.

A commercial vehicle shall be any vehicle other than a private passenger vehicle, including trucks, trailers, and construction equipment.

The Borough Planning Commission of the Borough of Taylor.

The most recently adopted Master Plan or Comprehensive Plan of Taylor Borough.

An enumerated use which will only be allowed upon order of the Borough Council in accordance with the procedure set forth in § 180-27 hereof.

A mind control substance which has been classified as an illegal substance, including but not limited to marijuana, cocaine, heroin and crack.

A courtyard is any open, unoccupied area which is bounded by three or more attached building walls.

An establishment for patronage by underage (less than 21 years of age) persons, including establishments operated for profit or pecuniary gain which has the capacity for the assemblage of 20 or more persons for dancing, regardless of whether dancing is the primary or intended purpose of the building, establishment or place of assembly.

An establishment operated for profit or pecuniary gain which has the capacity for the assemblage of 20 or more persons for dancing, regardless of whether dancing is the primary or intended purpose of the building, establishment or place of assembly, and where alcoholic liquors, alcohol or malt or brewed beverages are either provided by the operator or agents or employees of the operator for consumption on the premises or are brought into or kept at the establishment by the patrons or persons assembling there for use and consumption. The term shall not include an establishment that has a valid license for the sale of alcohol pursuant to the Liquor Code, 47 P.S. § 1-101 et seq.

Within any large-scale development, the developer may select a portion of the entire approved large-scale development area to be developed in stages or phases; any such area shall be considered as a "development section."

A district or a zone shall be any portion of the territory of the municipality within which certain uniform regulations and requirements or various combinations thereof apply under the provisions of this chapter.

Business establishments such as banks and fast-food establishments, where customers may be served without leaving their cars; indoor and outdoor service may also be available in addition to the drive-in/drive-through facilities.

Facilities for the rehabilitation of persons addicted to controlled substances, including the overnight stay of patients for periods of two or more days.

Facilities for the treatment of persons who are addicted to the use of controlled substances, such as a methadone clinic, where such treatment is designed to cure persons of such addictions.

Any building or portion thereof designed or used exclusively as the residence of one or more persons, except boarding houses, hotels, motels, hospitals, nursing homes, and other congregate living facilities.

Any structure which shall contain one or more dwelling units, not including a hotel, hospital, nursing home, dormitory, fraternity or sorority house, rooming house or boarding house.

One or more rooms, including a kitchen or kitchenette, and sanitary facilities in a dwelling structure, designed as a unit for occupancy by not more than one family for living and sleeping purposes.

An earth-extraction industry is a business activity which includes the excavation and removal of natural resources from the earth. Earth-extraction industries include, but are not limited to mining and quarrying.

An earthmoving industry is a business activity which results in temporarily or permanently changing the contour of the earth. Earthmoving industries include, but are not limited to earth-extraction industries and sanitary landfills.

For the purposes of applying the requirements for off-street parking and loading, "floor area," in the case of offices, merchandising, or service type of uses, shall mean the gross floor area used or intended to be used by tenants, or for service to the public as customers, patrons, clients, or patients, including areas occupied by fixtures and equipment used for display or sales or merchandise. It shall not include areas used principally for nonpublic purposes such as storage, incidental repair, processing or packaging of merchandise, for shop windows, for offices incident to the management or maintenance of stores or buildings, for toilet or rest rooms, for utilities or for dressing rooms, fitting or alteration rooms.

The management of forests and timberlands when practiced in accordance with accepted silvicultural principles, through developing, cultivating, harvesting, transporting and selling trees for commercial purposes which does not involve any land development.

A detached accessory building or a portion of a principal building used only for the storage of automobiles by the families resident upon the premises.

A structure or portion thereof, other than a private garage, used for the storage, sale, hire, care, repair or refinishing of automobiles not including a structure or part thereof used only for storage or display of automobiles for other than transients.

The Borough Council of the Borough of Taylor.

A dwelling unit shared by handicapped persons, including resident staff, who live together as a single housekeeping unit and in long-term, family-like environment in which staff persons residing on the premises provide care, education, and participation in community activities for the residents with the primary goal of enabling the residents to live as independently as possible in order to reach their maximum potential. The term "group home for the handicapped" shall not include alcoholism or drug treatment center, work release facilities for convicts or ex-convicts, or other housing facilities serving as an alternative to incarceration.

Health care facilities consist of several different types of facilities such as hospitals, medical centers, nursing homes, hospice institutions, and other similar uses where people can receive medical treatment and related support services due to their inability to meet their own physical care needs. Rooming and boarding houses, and drug rehabilitation facilities and drug treatment centers other than for the medical treatment of persons requiring medical treatment for traumatic conditions resulting from overdosing on controlled substances are not considered to be health care facilities.

A building designed for occupancy as the temporary residence of individuals who are lodged with or without meals and in which no provision is made for cooking in individual rooms or suites.

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

Any man-made, immovable item that becomes part of, is placed upon, or is affixed to real estate.

An area of land, with or without buildings, used for the storage, outside a completely enclosed building, of used and discarded materials, including, but not limited to, wastepaper, rags, metal, building materials, house furnishing, machinery, vehicles, or parts thereof, with or without the dismantling, processing, salvage, sale or other use or disposition of the same. The deposit or storage on a lot of two or more unlicensed and wrecked or disabled vehicles, or the major part thereof, without current inspection stickers shall be deemed to be a "junkyard."

A medical facility for testing the medical condition of human beings, including but not limited to such tests as blood tests, urine tests, X-rays, CAT scans, and MRI tests. Testing the medical condition of animals is not included.

Land clearance subject to the provisions of this chapter shall include the clearance of more than one acre of trees and/or any other vegetation.

A highway designed in such a manner so as to provide no direct access to properties abutting its right-of-way and including all highways designated as limited-access highways as adopted by the Planning Commission.

A piece or parcel of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a principal building or a group of such buildings and accessory buildings, or utilized for a principal use and uses accessory or incidental to the operation thereof, together with such open spaces as required by this chapter, and having frontage on a public street.

Medical centers, including mini medical centers, are establishments, other than hospitals, which provide medical evaluation and treatment services to individuals; such treatment may include day surgery, outpatient surgery, magnetic resonance imaging centers and similar uses, but they may not include drug rehabilitation facilities or drug treatment centers other than for the medical treatment of persons requiring medical treatment for traumatic conditions resulting from overdosing on illegal controlled substances. Satellite hospital facilities which do not include facilities for the overnight stay of patients are also included in this use category.

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

A parcel or contiguous parcels of land which have been so designated and improved that it contains two or more mobile home lots for the placement thereon of mobile homes. Provisions regulating mobile home parks are set forth in § 180-33H hereof.

A series of attached or semiattached dwelling structures, where each unit has convenient access to parking space for the use of the units' occupants. The units, with the exception of the manager's office or caretaker's unit, are designed to provide sleeping accommodations for automobile transients or overnight guests.

The Borough of Taylor.

Total acreage excluding any area within a public right-of-way.

The net land area of any development parcel shall include only the area contained within the property line and the ultimate right-of-way line. The area within the right-of-way (public right-of-way or other thoroughfare) shall not be computed as part of the "net land area."

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

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 reasons 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 set forth herein 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 reasons 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 set forth herein or any amendment heretofore or 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 premises with less than 40 sleeping rooms where persons are lodged and furnished with meals and nursing care.

An open area for the same uses as a private garage, and regulated as a private garage.

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.

The Planning Commission of the Borough of Taylor.

The office of a member of a recognized profession. When conducted in a residential district, a professional office shall be incidental to the residential occupancy, shall be conducted by a member of the residential family entirely within a residential building, and shall include only the offices of doctors, or physicians, dentists, optometrists, ministers, architects, landscape architects, professional engineers, lawyers, artists, authors and such other similar professional occupations which may be so designated by the Zoning Hearing Board upon finding by the Board that such occupation is truly professional in character by virtue of the need for similar training and experience as a condition for the practice thereof and that the practice of such occupation shall in no way adversely affect the safe and comfortable enjoyment of property rights in any zone to a greater extent than for the professional activities listed herein. The issuance of a state or local license for regulation of any gainful occupation need not be deemed indicative of professional standing.

Vehicles such as a travel trailer, camping trailer, truck camper, water craft, all-terrain vehicles, snowmobile and motor home.

A street, between two intersecting streets, upon which an R District abuts, or where 50% or more of the abutting street frontage is in predominantly residential use.

A building containing a single dwelling unit and rooms for the rooming and/or boarding of between three and 25 persons, by prearrangement for a definite period of not less than one week.

A sanitary landfill is considered to be any facility devoted to the storage and/or disposal of solid wastes pursuant to the regulations of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection governing sanitary landfills. Sanitary landfills may include staging areas as defined in Article XI. Sanitary landfills shall be subject to all regulations contained herein governing earthmoving activities.

A line established by the subdivision regulations and/or zoning ordinance generally parallel with and measured from the lot line, defining the limits of a yard in which no building or structure may be located above ground, except as may be provided in said codes.

A name, identification, description, display, or illustration which is affixed to, or painted, or represented directly or indirectly upon a building, structure, a piece of land, or on any other object such as a stationary vehicle (automobile, truck, trailer, tractor trailer, bus, etc.) upon which there is any information presented for public view, where such information directs attention to an object, product, place, activity, person, institution, organization or business; provided, however, that information in the form of lettering and/or illustrations on vehicles accessory (sending or receiving) to the business or the parcel where they are located shall not be considered to be a sign.

A sign which directs attention to a business or profession conducted or to a commodity, service, or entertainment sold or offered upon the premises where such sign is located, or to which it is affixed.

Any illuminated sign on which the artificial light is not maintained stationary or constant in intensity and color at all times when such sign is in use. For the purpose of this chapter, any revolving, illuminated sign shall be considered a "flashing sign."

The "gross surface area" of a sign shall be the entire area within a single continuous perimeter enclosing the extreme limits of such and in no case passing through or between any adjacent elements of same. However, such perimeter shall not include any structural or framing elements, lying outside the limits of such sign and not forming an integral part of the display. The gross surface area of freestanding signs shall include the area of one side of such sign even if display information is included on both sides of the sign.

An outdoor sign or billboard which directs attention to a business, profession, commodity or entertainment conducted, sold, or offered elsewhere than upon the same lot. Under the provisions of this chapter, outdoor advertising can be erected on the premises in any of the nonresidential districts.

A double outdoor advertising sign shall be a sign constructed with separate framing elements which are structurally connected at their sides. No half of such a double sign shall, however, exceed 2/3 of the maximum permitted gross surface area of an individual sign; and the combined gross surface area shall not exceed the maximum permitted for a single sign.

A use which because of its unique characteristics requires individual consideration in each case by the Zoning Hearing Board as specified in Articles VIII and IX, before it may be permitted in the district enumerated in Article III. In accordance with the provisions of this chapter, the Zoning Hearing Board may require certain conditions and safeguards before such a use is permitted.

Any existing tree with a caliper that is 75% or more of the record tree of the same species in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

A staging area is an area designated for motor vehicles or other means of transportation or any other types of refuse container containing solid waste materials which are to be deposited at a sanitary landfill site. Loaded vehicles awaiting their opportunity to deposit such wastes shall wait for their turn in a designated staging area on the sanitary landfill site. All staging areas shall be subject to all regulations contained herein governing sanitary landfills.

Any vehicle that is parked on a single parcel of land for a period of more than 24 hours within 200 feet of any street right-of-way lines, if it is visible within said 200 foot distance; e.g., if it is within 200 feet of the right-of-way and it is not visible from the right-of-way or from any adjacent residential property, it shall not be considered to be a stationary vehicle.

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 no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling above it.

Any mining operation by which the earth and rocks overlying a coal vein are removed by mechanical means or by hand for the purpose of recovering, mining, or removing coal thereunder. Strip mining shall be considered both an earth-extraction and an earthmoving industry.

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

Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires location on the ground or attachment to something having a fixed location on the ground. Among other things, structures include buildings, mobile homes, carports, walls, fences and billboards.

A device attached to a building, structure, or telecommunications tower principally intended for receipt or transmission of signals for such uses as commercial or public VHF or UHF television, FM radio, two-way radio, commercial carriers, cellular telephone, fixed-point microwave, lower-power television or AM radio, including accessory equipment related to telecommunications. Not included are antennas for private, noncommercial and amateur purposes, including but not limited to ham radios and citizens band radios.

Facilities used for transmitting or retransmitting electronic signals, including but not limited to the transmission of commercial radio or television signals or cellular telephone communications. TV satellite disk antenna are not included under this category of use.

Antennas for private, noncommercial and amateur purposes, including TV satellite dish antennas as regulated in § 180-33B(4).

The building in which electromagnetic receiving and relay equipment for a telecommunications tower is housed.

A freestanding structure, including any guy wires, principally intended to support facilities for receipt or transmission of signals for uses such as commercial or public VHF or UHF television, FM radio, two-way radio, commercial carriers, cellular telephone, fixed-point microwave, low-power television, or AM radio, including accessory equipment related to telecommunications. Not included are towers and supportive structures for private, noncommercial and amateur purposes, including but not limited to ham radios and citizens band radios.

Land held in single ownership which consists of lands to be subdivided or suitable for a land development. The tract shall consist of not less than the minimum area required for subdivision or development as set forth herein.

A non-passenger vehicle which is designed to be drawn/towed and primarily used to carry property, also including any portion of said tractor-trailer assembled or disassembled thereof, or similar structure, with or without wheels.

A vehicle, less than 30 feet in length and used for temporary living or sleeping purposes, and standing on wheels.

The non-load-carrying component of a truck, commonly referred to as the "cab," used to draw other vehicles or loads.

The distance measured from the surface of the tower foundation to the highest point of the turbine rotor plane.

The full width of the road designated by the governing body to be the minimum required width of any public right-of-way.

The Zoning Hearing Board may authorize departure to a minor degree from the terms of this chapter in direct regard to hardship peculiar to an individual lot in accordance with the procedures set forth in the chapter.

A facility where one or more windmills are located and are used for the generation of electricity which is used on-site for commercial purposes or which is sold on the open market. A windmill accessory to a principal structure which is sized and intended to be used to generate electricity primarily for the principal structure to which it is accessory shall not be considered a wind farm.

A machine that operates on the energy generated by a series of blades or slats rotated by the wind.

The vertical distance measured from the base of the support structure at grade to the highest point of the structure, including blades. If the support structure is on a sloped grade, then the average between the highest and lowest grades shall be used in calculating the height.

A windmill that serves as an accessory source of energy to a principal use. Not more than one windmill shall be permitted as an accessory windmill on any property.

An open space, as may be required by this chapter, of uniform width or depth on the same lot with a building or a group of buildings, which open space lies between the principal building or group of buildings and the nearest lot line and is unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward except as herein permitted.

The Zoning Hearing Board of the Borough of Taylor.

The Zoning Map or Maps of the Borough of Taylor, Pennsylvania, dated May 1990, together with all amendments subsequently adopted.

The administrative officer, appointed by the governing body, who shall administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter.