A use which:

See "adult-oriented use."

See "adult-oriented use."

See "adult-oriented use."

Any adult bookstore, adult cabaret, or adult mini motion-picture theater, as defined herein, and which, under the Pennsylvania Obscenity Code, must exclude minors or may now knowingly disseminate to minor.

Any change, rearrangement in the structural parts, or enlargement, whether by extending on any side, by increasing in height, or moving from one location or position to another.

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

An owner-occupied dwelling in which a room or rooms are rented on a nightly basis for periods of not more than 30 days. Meals may or may not be provided.

A room or group of rooms in a bed-and-breakfast inn forming a single habitable unit used or intended to be used for living and sleeping, but not cooking or eating purposes.

See "sign, off-premises."

See "adult-oriented use."

A strip of required yard space adjacent to the new boundary of a property or district, not less in width than is designated in this chapter, upon which is placed suitable plantings, and other screening elements for the purpose of providing a barrier to visibility, glare, noise or airborne particles.

The area of a lot remaining after the minimum yard areas and open space requirements have been met.

Any structure having a roof supported by columns, piers, or walls and used for the housing or enclosing of persons, animals, or chattels.

The aggregate of the maximum horizontal cross-section areas of all buildings on a lot, excluding cornices, eaves, gutters, or chimneys and steps, one story open porches, or chimneys not extending more than one story and not projecting more than five feet, and balconies and terraces.

The amount of a lot covered by principal and accessory buildings. When this coverage is shown as a maximum allowable figure for any lot, it is usually expressed as a percentage.

The line parallel to the street line at a distance therefrom equal to the depth of the front yard required for the district in which the lot is located.

Land and structures that are used for the sale, storage, loading, and unloading of building, lumber, and millwork materials.

See "adult-oriented use."

See "motor vehicle washing facility."

A long-term facility or distinct part of a facility licensed or approved as a nursing home, infirmary unit of a home for the aged, or a governmental medical institution.

A facility that provides, on a regular basis, personal care, including dressing and eating and health-related care and services, to individuals who require such assistance but do not require the degree or length of care and treatment that a hospital or a long-term care facility provides.

An institution or part of an institution that is licensed or approved to provide health care under medical supervision for 24 consecutive hours or to two or more patients.

The portion of a street right-of-way, paved and unpaved, intended for vehicular use.

A story partly underground and having more than 1/2 of its clear height below the average level of the adjoining ground.

A line midway between and parallel to the two street or road property lines, or as otherwise defined by the Township Supervisors.

An establishment where patients are admitted for examination and treatment on an outpatient basis by one or more physicians, dentists, other medical personnel, psychologists, or social workers and where patients are not lodged overnight.

A building to house a club or social organization not conducted for private profit and which is not adjunct to or operated by or in connection with a public tavern, cafe or other public place.

A residential land development which allows for use of smaller lot sizes in conjunction with the preservation of open space and in which smaller lots are grouped together in a specified area of the development.

A building whose roof and sides are made largely of glass or similar transparent or translucent material and in which the temperature and humidity can be regulated for the cultivation of plants for the subsequent sale.

Any vehicle other than a passenger car, station wagon, motorcycle or similar vehicle, and pick-up or other truck less than 80 inches in width, 196 inches in length and gross vehicle weight range of 10,000 pounds. Construction or other similar vehicles or equipment not designed and intended for passenger use or for on-the-road hauling shall be deemed commercial motor vehicles.

A tract of land that is planned, developed, and operated as an integrated facility for a number of individual commercial and/or industrial uses, with provisions to accommodate transportation facilities, vehicular and pedestrian circulation, parking and loading, utilities, aesthetics, and compatibility.

A retail establishment offering for sale household items, newspapers and magazines, prepackaged food products, drinks, and sandwiches and other freshly prepared foods for off-site consumption, characterized by a rapid turnover of customers and high traffic generation, and having a maximum gross floor area of 5,000 square feet. It may also offer for sale gasoline and motor vehicle accessories but would not include any motor vehicle services or repairs.

See "lot, corner."

An establishment that documents the social, religious, intellectual, and artistic characteristics of a society, including museums, art galleries, libraries, and similar facilities of a natural, historic, educational, or cultural interest.

The total number of dwelling units on a given tract divided by the total number of acres in the tract, not including existing dedicated roads, but including all residential streets to be built in conjunction with subdivision development and all land set aside and dedicated for public use.

An open area, usually part of an existing paved surface, which contains one or more donation or collection containers.

A structure, usually enclosed on at least three sides, often with a small door or opening providing access to its interior, intended mostly as a receptacle for the depositing of second-hand clothing, household goods, and furnishings.

An activity whereby patrons are served with food, soft drinks, ice cream and similar confections or whereby patrons are provided with professional or personal services for consumption outside the confines of the principal building or in vehicles parked upon the premises, regardless of whether or not, in addition thereto, seats or other accommodations are provided for the patrons.

A retail establishment selling food and drink for consumption on the premises.

The total wall surface, including door and window area, of a building's principal face. In the case of corner buildings which front on more than one street, only one face shall be used to calculate facade area.

One or more persons who are related by blood, marriage, or adoption and who reside together; or no more than four persons who are not related by blood, marriage, or adoption and who live together and share household expenses; who share kitchen facilities and dine together regularly; who may and/or do participate in all activities occurring on the premises; and who have access to all areas of the premises. This does not include, however, family care facilities, group care facilities, or correctional, penal, therapeutic, or other institutional facilities for treatment and/or rehabilitation.

A facility providing shelter, counseling, and other rehabilitative services in a family-like environment for six or fewer residents, plus such minimum supervisory personnel, as may be required to meet standards of the licensing agency. Residents may not be legally related to the facility operators or supervisors and, by reason of mental of physical disability, chemical or alcohol dependency, or family or school adjustment problems, require a minimal level of supervision but do not require medical or nursing care or general supervision. A family care facility must be licensed and/or approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services and may include uses such as foster homes, community residential alternative facilities, or home individual programs.

A tract of land comprised of at least five acres and used for:

Any building used for storing agricultural equipment or farm produce, housing livestock or poultry, and processing dairy products. This term shall not include dwellings.

A natural vegetation or artificially constructed barrier of wood, masonry, stone, wire, metal or other manufactured material or combination of materials erected.

Any bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, credit union, investment company/manager/banker, securities broker/dealer, or other similar use.

The sum of all floor areas of a building or structure, measured from the exterior faces of exterior walls or from the center line of walls separating buildings, including basement space, interior balconies and mezzanines, enclosed or roofed porches or terraces or other roofed spaces, and attic spaces, but excluding cellar space, elevator shafts, stairwells, bulkheads, accessory water tanks or cooling towers, terraces, breezeways, uncovered steps, and open space, and any space where the floor to ceiling height is less than six feet.

The sum of all floor areas of a building or structure, measured from the exterior faces of exterior walls or from the center line of walls separating buildings, excluding stairwells, elevator shafts, equipment rooms, interior vehicular parking or loading areas, and all floors below the first or ground floor, except when used or intended to be used for human habitation or service to the public.

Unit of light density incident on a plane (assumed to be horizontal unless otherwise specified), and measurable with an illuminance meter, a.k.a., light meter.

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 building or facility containing fuel pumps and which sells only fuel products.

Attribute of a lighting fixture from which no light is emitted at or above a horizontal plane drawn through the bottom of the fixture and no more than 10% of the lamp's intensity is emitted at or above an angle 10° below that horizontal plane, at all lateral angles around the fixture.

Attribute of a lighting fixture provided with internal and/or external shields and louvers to prevent brightness from lamps, reflectors, refractors and lenses from causing glare at normal viewing angles. In the context of this chapter, fully shielded shall be construed as equal to full cutoff.

See "streets, functional classification of."

Any business of a tradesperson, including carpenter, cabinet making, furniture repair, light metalworking, tinsmith, plumbing, or similar shop.

Excessive brightness in the field of view that is sufficiently greater than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted, to cause annoyance or loss in visual performance and visibility, so as to jeopardize health, safety or welfare.

Municipal, county, state, or federal government building or facility designed and intended to be occupied by the government or designed and intended for public use sponsored by such governments, but not including clinics.

A facility providing shelter, counseling, and other rehabilitative services in a family-like environment for more than six residents, plus such minimum supervisory personnel, as may be required to meet standards of the licensing agency. Residents may not be legally related to the facility operators or supervisors and, by reason of mental or physical disability, chemical or alcohol dependency, or family or school adjustment problems, require a minimal level of supervision but do not require medical or nursing care or general supervision. A group care facility must be licensed and/or approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services.

The vertical distance of a structure measured from the average elevation of the ground surrounding the structure to its highest point.

The vertical distance measured from the lowest exposed part of the building as determined by the complete perimeter to the highest point on the roof for flat roofs; to the deck line of mansard roofs; and to the mean height between eaves and ridges for gable, hip and gambrel roofs; provided that chimneys, spires, towers, mechanical penthouses, tanks and similar projections of the building not intended for human occupancy shall not be included in calculating the height. If there are two or more separate roofs on a single building, the height of such building shall be calculated from the highest roof.

A large scale, unified shopping center contained in one or more buildings and consisting of large type anchor stores, restaurants, indoor theatres, retail business, family entertainment facilities, financial institutions, and such other uses as permitted by the Board of Supervisors, and is located near a major highway interchange.

An occupation or professional use that is customarily carried on in a dwelling unit, or a structure accessory thereto, clearly secondary and incidental to the dwelling in which the practitioner resides.

See "no-impact home-based business."

Any institution providing primary health services and medical, surgical and/or obstetrical care to persons suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity, and/or other abnormal physical or mental conditions. This shall include general hospitals and institutions in which service is rendered to inpatients, but it shall also include related facilities such as outpatient services, laboratories, education and training, medical offices, administrative offices, and staff housing.

A building or group of buildings designed primarily as a transient abiding place containing individual rooms for rent, primarily for transient guests, with common hallways for all rooms on the same floor and where no provision is made for cooking facilities in any room or suite of rooms. Such establishment furnishes to the guests customary hotel amenities such as maid service and the furnishing and laundering of linen. Such establishments may include additional services, such as meeting rooms/banquet facilities, recreation facilities, and indoor entertainment. Eating and drinking places may be located within the same building or within one separate principle structure on the lot.

Quantity of light, measured in footcandles.

The amount of a lot that may be covered by impervious surface, usually expressed as a percentage. Such coverage computations usually include building coverage.

Any material that prevents absorption of stormwater into the ground.

Venues that offer musical, theatrical, dance, comedy, magic or similar performance arts for crowds up to 200 individuals with all activities ceasing by 11:00 p.m.

Building or part of a building devoted to the showing of motion pictures or for dramatic, dance, musical, or other live performances.

See "commercial/industrial park."

Any place where discarded materials or articles, including, but not limited to, scrap metal, scrapped, abandoned or junked motor vehicles, machinery, equipment, paper, glass containers and structures are stored, disposed of or accumulated.

Any structure or premises in which seven or more dogs or cats or any combination thereof, are boarded, kept, or trained.

A building for scientific experimentation or research.

A facility for the laundering of clothing, consisting of equipment that is operated solely by the patrons.

Light emitted by a lighting fixture or installation, which is cast beyond the boundaries of the property on which the lighting installation is sited.

A piece of land on which a main building and any accessory building are or may be placed, together with the required open spaces. The area of a lot that abuts a street shall be measured to the street line or proposed street line only.

An area of land that is determined by the limits of the property lines bounding that area and expressed in terms of square feet or acres. Any portion of a lot included in a street right-of-way shall not be included in calculating lot area.

That percentage of the lot area that may be covered by one level of a building area.

The distance along a straight line drawn from the mid-point of the front lot line to the mid-point of the rear lot line.

A property line or portion thereof which is coexistent with a street line. In the case of a street of undefined width, said property line shall be assumed to parallel the center line of the street at a distance of not less than 28 1/2 feet therefrom.

A line forming the front, rear or sides of lots or parcels of property as described in the recorded title.

The street line at the front of a lot. In the case of a corner lot, the owner may designate either street line as the front lot line.

Any lot line which is parallel to or within 45° of being parallel to a street line, except for a lot line that is itself a street line, and except that only in the case of a corner lot, the owner shall have the option of choosing which of the two lot lines that are not street lines is to be considered a rear lot line. In the case of a lot having no street frontage or a lot of an odd shape, only the one lot line furthest from any street shall be considered a rear lot line.

Any lot line not a front lot line or a rear lot line.

The distance between straight lines connecting the ends of the front and rear lot lines measured at the required building setback lines.

A lot that has an interior angle of less than 135° at the intersection of two street lines. A lot abutting upon a curved street or streets shall be considered a corner lot if the tangents to the curve at the points beginning with the lot or at the points of intersection of the side lot lines with the street right-of-way lines intersect at an interior angle of less than 135°.

A lot other than a corner lot.

A lot of record existing at the date of passage of this chapter or, due to subsequent zoning changes, which does not have the minimum width or contain the minimum area for the zone in which it is located.

As used in the context of this chapter, the light-output rating of a lamp (light bulb).

The treatment or processing of raw products and the production of articles or finished products from raw or prepared materials by giving them new forms or qualities.

A facility licensed by the PA Department of Health to use the drug methadone in the treatment, maintenance, or detoxification of persons.

A use involving the excavation and/or removal of minerals, stone, sand, gravel, coal, ore, or similar solid resources.

A transportable, single-family dwelling intended for permanent occupancy, office, or place of assembly contained in one unit, or in two 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 of land in a mobile home park, improved with the necessary utility connections and other appurtenances necessary for the erections thereon of a single mobile home, which is leased by the park owner to the occupants of the mobile home erected on the lot.

A parcel of land under single ownership which has been planned and improved for the placement of mobile homes for nontransient use, consisting of two or more lots.

A single-family dwelling transported to a site in one or more units and designed to be joined into one integral unit and constructed at the site on a full basement, having a minimum under clearance of seven feet.

An establishment providing sleeping accommodations for transient guests, with the majority of rooms having direct access to the outside without passing through a main lobby.

A self-propelled device, including cars, trucks, and boats, used to transport persons and/or goods over land and water surfaces.

Any building or premises in which the primary activity includes the maintenance of motor vehicles, including, but not limited to, oil changes, repairs to tires, brakes and mufflers.

Any building or premises in which the primary activity is the maintenance, servicing, or repairing of motor vehicles.

Any building, land area, or other premises used for the display and sale of new and used motor vehicles. It may include any preparation or repair work to such vehicles conducted clearly as an accessory use.

Buildings and premises where gasoline, oil, grease, batteries, tires and accessories, or any combination thereof, are sold at retail and normal mechanical repairs are conducted, but not including body work, painting, spraying or welding or storage of vehicles not in operating condition and not on the premises for normal mechanical repairs.

Any building or premises or portions thereof used for washing motor vehicles.

The PA Municipalities Planning Code, Act of July 31, 1968, P.L. 805, No. 247, as amended.

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, which business or commercial activity otherwise satisfies the requirements of this chapter.

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 reason of such adoption or amendment. See also "lot, nonconforming."

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

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

A tract of land, which may contain a greenhouse or other similar structures, used to grow flowers and/or plant materials for sale.

Section 5903, Title 18, Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, as amended.

An on the property space for the standing, loading, and unloading of vehicles to avoid undue interference with the public use of streets and alleys.

An on the property space for the parking of vehicles.

A room, group of rooms, or building in which services are performed involving the functions of a business, profession, service, or industry.

An unoccupied area open to the sky, usually in a natural state but including squares, plazas, and formal gardens. Also, the unoccupied area open to the sky on the same lot with a principal and/or accessory building.

Area of a lot unoccupied by buildings, streets, driveway and/or parking lots, but including areas occupied by walkways, patios, outdoor recreation, gardens, trees or stormwater management facilities.

An outdoor facility that provides various means of entertainment.

A coin-operated machine that sells predominantly food and drink, which is located outside of a building.

Act of July 31, 968, P.L. 805, No. 247, as amended.

A place where transfer between modes of transportation takes place.

A business that is engaged primarily in providing services involving the care of a person and his/her personal goods or apparel. These establishments may include, but are not limited to, laundries, laundromats, dry cleaners, beauty shops, barbershops, nail salons, tanning salons, shoe repair shops, and health and fitness establishments.

Any material that permits full or partial absorption of stormwater into the ground.

A building or group of buildings, including customary accessory buildings, designed or intended for the conducting of formal religious services. This shall include churches, synagogues, chapels, cathedrals, temples, mosques, and similar designations, as well as parish houses, convents, and related accessory uses, but does not include schools, recreation facilities, or dormitories.

A building in which is conducted, or is intended to be conducted, the principal use of the lot on which it is located.

An accessory building used for the parking and storage of motor vehicles and farm equipment owned and operated by the residents thereof. This does not include a separate commercial facility available to the general public.

A doctor, surgeon, dentist, psychiatrist, psychologist, chiropractor or licensed professional person offering similar medical care; optician, architect, artist, accountant, insurance agent, real estate broker, teacher, engineer, lawyer, musician, surveyor, landscape architect, land planner, systems analyst, computer programmer or other similar uses as determined by the Zoning Officer.

A building, other than a private garage, used primarily for the parking and storage of vehicles and available to the general public.

Includes:

Any municipally or privately owned sewer system in which sewage is collected and piped to an approved sewage disposal plant or central septic tank disposal system and which is approved by the PA Department of Environmental Protection.

Hydroelectric and electric lines, power plants and electric substations, pumping and boating stations, pipelines, sewage treatment plants, water plants and other similar facilities necessary to serve demonstrated public needs.

Any municipally or privately owned water system for the distribution and sale of water, in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

A vehicle or piece of equipment, whether self-powered or designed to be pulled or carried, intended primarily for leisure time or recreational use. "Recreational vehicles or units" include travel trailers, truck-mounted campers, motor homes, folding tent campers and autos, buses or trucks adapted for vacation use and other vehicles not suitable for daily conventional family transportation. Snowmobiles, mini-bikes, all-terrain vehicles, go-carts and boat trailers are also deemed to be "recreational vehicles."

A place designed and equipped for the conduct of sports and leisure-time activities within an enclosed space, including gymnasiums, arcades, health and fitness areas, indoor tennis and racquetball courts, bowling alleys, and indoor swimming pools for use by hotel guests only.

See "eating and drinking place."

Any establishment that engages in selling goods or merchandise to the general public for personal or household consumption and rendering services incidental to the sale of such goods.

Any establishment that primarily renders services incidental to any retail sales and may include a bakery, ice cream or similar shop, custom tailoring or millinery shop, clock, watch or jewelry shop, or household appliance repair shop.

A commercial enterprise contained in one building, including, but not limited to, the display and sale of commodities to the general public and rendering services incidental to the sale of such goods.

The total width of any land reserved or dedicated as a street, alley, or crosswalk or for any other public or semipublic purpose.

A lot or parcel of land used primarily for the disposal of waste.

Any building or part thereof designed, constructed, or used for education or instruction in any branch of knowledge.

A secondary or higher education facility teaching usable skills that prepare students for employment in a trade or business and meeting the state requirements for schools.

The seating capacity of a particular building or use. In the event individual seats are not provided, each 20 inches of benches or similar seating accommodations shall be considered as one seat for the purposes of this chapter.

A structure or group of structures containing separate, secure, and private storage spaces of varying sizes that are leased or rented.

A line that, between it and the street or lot line, no building or other structure, or portion thereof, except as provided in this chapter, may be erected above the grade level. The setback line is considered to be a vertical surface intersecting the ground on such line.

A shopping area of integrated design and development including, but not limited to, such uses as retail shops, personal service establishments, professional and business offices, banks, post offices, restaurants, theaters and auditoriums, and housed in an enclosed building or buildings and utilizing such common facilities as customer parking, pedestrian walks, loading and unloading spaces, utilities and sanitary facilities.

Any object, device, display, or structure that is used to advertise, identify, display, direct, or attract attention, including structural elements, bases, sign faces, trim and borders.

That portion of a sign, including the display area, border and trim, but excluding the base, supports and other structural members, facing traffic moving in one direction.

A sign that uses movement or change of lighting to depict action or to create a visual effect or scene.

A sign of lightweight fabric or similar material that is attached at one or more edges or corners to a pole or building. A banner that acts as a business identification, informational, or promotional sign is considered a temporary sign.

A sign which contains elements which identify the official name of a business and which may contain minimal references to products or services that help to clarify the type of business being conducted on the premises.

A sign or portion thereof with characters or illustrations that can be changed or rearranged without altering the face or surface of the sign. A sign upon which the message changes more than eight times per day shall be considered an animated sign. A sign that shows the date, time, and/or temperature shall not be considered a changeable copy sign.

An advertising sign or device intended to direct or point toward a place or object or that points out the way to a place or object that obviously could not be easily found without such a sign or device.

A sign, the illumination of which is not kept constant in intensity at all times when in use, and which exhibits sudden or marked change in lighting effects. Illuminated signs that indicate the date, time, and/or temperature, or other similar information, shall not be considered a flashing sign.

A permanent in-ground or surface-mounted sign which is constructed to be independent of all adjoining structures or which is supported or suspended from a freestanding column or other support located in or upon the ground surface.

A sign that is lighted by or exposed to artificial lighting from a light source on or inside the sign or directed toward the sign.

A sign that does not conform to the provisions of this chapter that regulate signs.

Any outdoor sign, display, figure, painting, drawing, message, billboard or any other thing which is designed, intended or used to advertise or inform, any part of which advertising or information content is visible from any place on the main traveled way of the interstate system or any thoroughfare in the Township; but does not include on-premises signs advertising or identifying activities conducted on or products sold on the property upon which they are located.

A sign that directs attention to a person, business, profession, product, home occupation, or activity conducted on the same lot.

See "off-premises sign."

A sign designed to be transported, including, but not limited to, signs transported by wheels, signs converted to A-frames, menu or sandwich board signs, balloons used as signs, and signs attached to or painted on vehicles that are parked and visible from the public right-of-way, unless said vehicle is used in the normal day-to-day operations of a business.

A sign which is attached directly to a building wall and which extends at least 12 inches but no more than four feet from the face of such wall, but not canopy signs.

A temporary sign that advertises or describes sales events, products or service promotions, or new products or service introductions related to the business being conducted on the premises.

A sign relating to the property on which it is located, offering such property for sale, lease, or rent, and includes open house signs.

A permanent sign which the entire bottom of the sign is affixed to the ground, not to a building, and not exceeding eight feet in height.

A sign erected and constructed on the roof of the building on which it is located and extending vertically no higher than the highest point of the roof.

A sign which is not permanently mounted or affixed to the ground, building, or display window and which is displayed for a specific period of time.

A sign that is attached parallel to a building wall with the face of said sign extending no more than 12 inches from the face of the wall.

The ownership of a lot by one or more persons, partnerships, or corporations, which ownership is separate and distinct from that of any adjoining lot.

That part of a building located between a floor and the floor or roof next above. The first story of a building is the lowest floor having 75% or more of its wall area above grade level.

A public thoroughfare that is legally open or officially plotted by the Township, or a private thoroughfare over which the owners or tenants of two or more lots held in single and separate ownership have the right-of-way.

Anything constructed or erected with a fixed location on or below the ground or attached to something having a fixed location on the ground. A building shall be construed as a structure. Fences under six feet and retaining walls under four feet are excluded from this definition.

The working place of a painter, sculptor, photographer, or similar artist, or the place for the study of an art, such as dancing, singing, musical instrument playing, or similar artistic endeavor.

Any container, above or below ground level, designed to hold 12 inches or more of water, located on a lot as an accessory use, and intended or adapted for the purposes of immersion or partial immersion of persons therein.

Communication over a distance greater than one mile by signal carried by electronic, electromagnetic, optical, or like means.

A building or part of a building or a structure or part of a structure used for the transmission, exchange, receipt, or processing of telecommunications or radio signals. In residential districts, such use shall not include the transaction of business with the public, storage of materials outside of a building, storage of vehicles, repair facilities, or housing of repair crews. A telephone central office includes telecommunications signal facilities but does not include private, noncommercial facilities for recreational telecommunication or radio use, such as HAM radio or similar facilities.

Tilden Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

Specifications duly adopted by the Board of Supervisors by formal resolution for a specific purpose.

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

An area or building where trucks load and unload cargo and freight that may be broken down or aggregated into smaller or larger loads for transfer to other vehicles. Any related storage facilities are to be clearly incidental to the principal use.

Any purpose for which a lot or structure may be designed, arranged, intended, maintained, or occupied, or any activity, occupation, business, or operation carried on in a structure on a lot.

Any use within a given zoning district that is specifically allowed as a matter of right.

See "accessory use."

See "conditional use."

See "nonconforming use."

The primary use or purpose of which a building, structure, and/or land, or major portion thereof, is designed, arranged or intended, or for which it may be occupied or maintained, under this chapter.

A use of land or structures that is not permitted within a particular zoning district.

A use permitted in a particular zoning district pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and Articles VI and IX of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, 53 P.S. §§ 10601 et seq., and 53 P.S. § 10901 et seq.

See "public utility installation."

Relief granted pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and Articles VI and IX of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.

Any building used for the treatment and limited temporary boarding of small domestic animals ,such as dogs, cats, goats, rabbits and birds or fowl by a veterinarian. Such use shall not be construed as a professional office under the definitions and terms of this chapter.

A building used primarily for the storage of goods and materials.

A building or group of buildings primarily used for the indoor storage, transfer, and distribution of products and materials not manufactured on site, and not including retail sales or a truck terminal.

Garbage, refuse, and other discarded materials, including, but not limited to, solid and liquid waste material resulting from industrial, commercial, agricultural, and residential activities.

An establishment which sells merchandise to retailers, other wholesalers, and industrial, commercial, institutional, or professional business users.

The open space separating any buildings situated on a lot held in single and separate ownership.

The required open space, the full width of the lot, extending from the rear property line of the lot to the nearest structure on the lot, exclusive of steps, overhanging eaves, gutters, or cornices.

The required open space, the full depth of the lot, extending from the side line of the lot to the nearest structure on the lot, exclusive of steps, overhanging eaves, gutters, or cornices.

The required open space, the full width of the lot, extending from the street line to the nearest structure on the lot, exclusive of overhanging eaves, gutters, or cornices.

A body appointed by the Board of Supervisors to examine and decide appeals for relief from strict conformance to this chapter or relief from a decision of the Zoning Officer and to hear testimony regarding the validity of any regulations upon development in the Township.

The official plan of zoning districts in the Township showing precisely the boundaries and titles of each zoning district, which map is part of this chapter.

A person retained by the Township to enforce the regulations of this chapter, with power to issue permits, to halt illegal construction, and to interpret literally the meaning of the various sections of this chapter subject to appeal of the Zoning Hearing Board.