The relinquishment of property, or a cessation of the use of the property, by the owner or lessee without any evidence of transferring the rights to the property to another owner or of resuming the use of the property.

Having a common border with, or being separated from such a common border by a right-of-way, alley, or easement.

A subordinate building, structure or portion of the main building on the same lot, the use of which is customarily incidental to that of the main or principal building, including but not limited to detached garages, noncommercial greenhouses in residential districts, storage sheds, swimming pools, children's playhouses, decks, carports and private animal pens and dog houses, located in the required side or rear yards.

A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use or building and located on the same lot with such principal use of building, gardening as an avocation on a residential lot, keeping of domestic pets, off-street parking or loading, storage of merchandise normally carried in stock on the same lot with a commercial use unless such storage is excluded in the district regulations.

As applied to building or structure, means a change or rearrangement in structural parts or in the existing facilities or an enlargement, whether by extending on side, front or back or by increasing height or the moving from one location or position to another.

Revisions to the zoning text and/or the Official Zoning Map; the authority for any amendment lies solely with the Borough Council and is pursuant to the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.

A place where animals are given medical care and the boarding of animals is limited to short-term care incidental to the hospital use.

An application, required to be filed and approved by the Borough of Tyrone prior to start of construction or development.

The total of areas taken on a horizontal plane at the main grade level of the principal building and all accessory building.

A building used primarily for making major repairs to motor vehicles, including overhauling, body work, refinishing, and upholstering and incidental servicing.

A house, or portion thereof, where short-term lodging rooms and meals are provided. The operator of the inn shall live on the premises or in abutting premises.

A surface whereon advertising matter is set in view conspicuously and which advertising does not apply to premises wherein it is displayed or posted.

The Borough of Tyrone, Blair County Pennsylvania.

The Borough Council of the Borough of Tyrone, Blair County, Pennsylvania.

Any structure designed or intended for use to transmit or relay any digital, electronic, radio, television or microwave signal via the atmosphere, excluding satellite receivers less than 18 inches in diameter and transmission facilities required for public safety.

A structure having a roof supported by columns or walls and intended for use for shelter or storage of any individual, animal, process, equipment, goods or materials.

A statement, based on an inspection, signed by the Zoning Officer, setting forth either that a building, structure or use of a parcel of land complies with this Zoning Ordinance or that a building, structure or parcel of land may lawfully be employed for specified use or both.

An institution that people regularly attend to participate in or hold religious services, meetings, and other activities. The term "church" shall not carry a secular connotation and shall include buildings in which the religious services of any denomination are held.

Buildings or facilities owned or operated by a corporation, association, or persons for a social, educational, or recreational purpose; but not primarily for profit or to render a service that is customarily carried on as a business.

An establishment housing an occupation, employment or enterprise that is carried on for profit by the owner, lessee, or licensee, involving a sale of goods or services.

A specific use identified as allowable in a particular zoning district pending review and approval by the Borough Council.

A commercial establishment offering gasoline, prepared food primarily for off-premises consumption, packaged food and dairy products, beverages and related items, typically over extended hours or open for 24 hours.

The renovation and portioning of a single-family residential structure into no more than two apartments, each having a minimum of 800 square feet of gross floor area.

The ratio of the horizontal area measured from the exterior surface of the exterior walls of the ground floor of all principal and accessory buildings on a lot to the total lot area.

A facility in which part-time care is provided for children or adults, having the necessary licenses and permits required by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

An open, unroofed platform structure having a vertical elevation above the ground extending from a principal building.

A ratio of the number of dwelling units per acre that occupy or may occupy an area of land.

The provisions for development of a planned residential development, including 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.

An area constituted by or pursuant to this chapter and delineated by text and map as to location, extent, nature and contents.

Any premises licensed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board wherein alcoholic beverages are sold at retail for consumption on the premises.

A building or portion thereof that provides living facilities for one or more families.

One or more rooms physically arranged so as to create an independent housekeeping establishment for occupancy by one family with separate toilets and facilities for cooking and sleeping.

A building or portion thereof for occupancy by three or more families living independently of each other and containing three or more dwelling units.

One of two or more residential buildings having a common or party wall separating dwelling units.

A residential building containing not more than one dwelling unit entirely surrounded by open space on the same lot.

A building arranged, designed, or intended for occupancy by two families living independent of each other and doing their own cooking therein, on a single lot.

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

A commercial establishment that serves food and beverages primarily for on-premises consumption. This includes cafes, sit-down restaurants and outdoor cafes.

A retail outlet where food or beverages are sold to a substantial extent for consumption off-premises or a drive-in window is provided.

The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance by public utilities or public service establishment or municipal or other governmental agencies of: underground gas, electrical, telephone, radio, television transmission or distribution systems; and public water, public sanitary sewer and public storm sewer facilities including wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, fire alarm boxes, traffic signals, hydrants and similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith; including buildings necessary for the furnishing of adequate services for the public health, safety and general welfare; excluding sanitary landfills.

An artificially constructed barrier of any material or combination of materials erected to enclose, separate or screen areas of land.

An occasional or periodic market held in an open area or structure where groups of individual sellers or dealers offer goods for sale to the public.

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 group of people formally organized for a common interest, usually cultural, religious or entertainment, with regular meetings, rituals and formal written membership requirements.

An enclosed space for the storage of one or more motor vehicles, either attached to or detached from the principal building, provided that no business, occupation or service is conducted for profit therein nor space therein for more than one car is leased to a nonresident of the premises.

The sum of the total horizontal areas of the building of all floors of a building sustaining a particular use, measured from the exterior face of exterior walls, or from the center line of a common wall separating two buildings or uses, excluding any space where the floor-to-ceiling height is less than six feet and any interior parking/garage/loading space.

A facility or dwelling unit providing food, shelter and personal guidance with supervision to four or more persons who are not within the second degree of kinship and are operating as a group family household, including but not limited to handicapped persons, foster children, elderly, battered children and women, and operates as a special treatment facility providing less than primary health care.

In a dwelling unit, the sum of the interior floor area excluding the area devoted to a kitchen, bathroom/powder room, closets, pantry, hallways, basement, garage, porch/deck, attic and storage space.

An occupation, profession, activity, or use other than a no-impact home-based business as defined in this chapter, permitted under the provisions and conditions of this chapter.

The science or art of cultivating fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plant.

A facility offering transient lodging accommodations on a daily rate to the general public and providing additional services, such as restaurants, meeting rooms, and recreational facilities.

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

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

Old, dilapidated, scrap or abandoned metal, paper, building material and equipment, bottles, glass appliances, furniture, beds and bedding, rags, rubber, motor vehicles, and parts thereof.

A commercial establishment on a lot or in a structure, or part thereof, 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 not in running condition, and for the sale of parts thereof.

Any of the following activities are included as land developments:

The legal or beneficial owner or owners of land, including the holder of an option or contract to purchase (whether or not such option or contract is subject to any condition), a lessee if he is authorized under the lease to exercise the rights of the landowner, or other person having a proprietary interest in land.

A platted parcel of land intended to be separately owned, developed, and otherwise used as a unit.

The area of horizontal plan bounded by the vertical planes through front, side, and rear lot lines.

Determined by dividing that area of lot that is occupied or covered by the total horizontal projected surface of all buildings and structures by the gross area of that lot.

The average horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines.

On an interior lot, the lot line abutting a street; or, on a corner lot, the shorter lot line abutting a street; or, on a through lot, the lot line abutting the street providing the primary access to the lot; or, on a flag lot, the interior lot line most parallel to and nearest the street from which access is obtained.

A lot whose existence, location, and dimensions have been legally recorded or registered in a deed or on a plat.

The horizontal distance between side lot lines, measured at the required front setback line.

A lot abutting two or more streets at their intersection.

A lot other than a corner lot.

A shopping center where tenants are located on one or both sides of a covered walkway with direct pedestrian access to all establishments from the walkway.

The act of producing, processing, preparing or assembling finished products or goods from raw materials or component parts through the repetitious use of an established or set process.

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 has been so designated and improved that it contains two or more mobile home lots for the placement thereon of mobile homes.

A building or group of detached or connected buildings designed or used primarily for providing sleeping accommodations for automobile travelers and having a parking space adjacent to a sleeping room.

The Borough of Tyrone, Blair County, Pennsylvania.

A commercial establishment having a maximum size of 900 square feet of gross floor area, primarily to serve day-to-day convenience needs of local residents of the immediate neighborhood in a pedestrian-oriented design. Examples of such establishments are those meeting the maximum size requirement and include but are not limited to groceries, cafes, drugstores, beauty shops/hairstylists and craft stores.

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

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

A use, whether of land or of structure, which does not comply with the applicable use provisions in a zoning ordinance or 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.

An institution for the care of the aged or the infirm, who are residents by virtue of requiring specialized care and supervision relating to health, social and/or rehabilitative services, but not for the care and treatment of alcoholism or narcotics addiction. The facility shall be licensed in accordance with appropriate state and/or county laws and regulations.

Any parcel or designated land area in its natural state or essentially unencumbered by either principal or accessory uses, buildings, structures, or impervious surfaces.

A solid fuel-burning appliance, not construed to be an accessory building or accessory use under this chapter, located to the exterior of the building it serves, used for space heating and/or domestic water heating.

A continuous quantity of land in the possession of or owned by, or recorded as the property of, the same person or persons.

An area on a lot and/or within a building intended for the use of temporary parking of a personal vehicle. This term is used interchangeably with parking stall. Each parking space must have a means of access to a public street. Tandem parking stalls in single-family detached, single-family attached, and townhouse residential uses shall be considered to have a means of access to a public street.

An unroofed area or courtyard built at ground level, paved with concrete, bituminous, brick or a similar dustless all-weather surface, adjoining a residential dwelling used as an area for outdoor lounging, dining, etc.

Commercial establishments in that portion of a building or property located at or closest to the level of the public sidewalk or within 40 feet of a public sidewalk.

Act of 1968, P.L. 805, No. 247 as reenacted and amended, the enabling legislation that permits municipalities in Pennsylvania to prepare and enact comprehensive development plans, zoning ordinances and other land use controls.[2]

Facilities that provide lodging, food and some support services for people who are elderly or who have mental or physical disabilities; who are unable to care for themselves but who do not require twenty-four-hour nursing services in a licensed nursing care facility. Typically, residents of these facilities need help with dressing, feeding, taking medications, mobility issues and finances.

Offices of organizations primarily involved in dispensing or receiving aid from funds set aside for humanitarian purposes.

The Planning Commission of the County of Blair.

A municipal planning committee or commission established by Borough Council, in conformance with Article II of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[3]

A map, plan or layout of a subdivision indicating the location and boundaries of individual properties.

A roofed open area, which may be glazed or screened, attached to and directly accessible to/from a principal building, conforming to the dimensional requirements required for principal buildings in the respective zoning district.

A structure in which the principal use of the site is conducted.

The main use of land or structures, as distinguished from a secondary or accessory use.

An organization catering exclusively to members and their guests; or premises and building for recreational or athletic purposes which are not conducted primarily for gain, providing that any vending stands, merchandise or commercial activities are conducted only as required generally for the membership of each club.

The office of a member of a recognized profession practitioner of a calling or occupation that the commonly identified to be professional in character by virtue of specialized knowledge, training, education and/or experience required for the practice of said calling or occupation. Said professions shall include, but not be limited to, law, medicine, chemistry, ministry, architecture, accounting, engineering, writing and education.

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

A forum held pursuant to notice under the Act of July 3, 1986 (P.L. 388, No. 84), known as the "Sunshine Act."[4]

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

Includes public and semipublic uses of a welfare and educational nature, such as parks, churches or houses of worship, cemeteries, fire stations, municipal buildings, essential public utilities that require enclosures within a building, municipal active and passive recreational facilities, easements for alleys, streets, and public utility rights-of-way.

Leisure time activities requiring specialized equipment, sites and fields, carried out in an organized fashion and usually performed by teams or other individuals.

A leisure time activity not considered active, occurring in a nonstructured manner and requiring little if any community infrastructure or equipment, including but not limited to hiking, bicycling, nature walks and rustic camping.

A facility that is not a junkyard and in which recoverable resources, such as newspapers, glassware, plastic containers, and metal cans, are collected, stored, flattened, crushed, or bundled, essentially by hand, within a completely enclosed building.

A collection point for small refuse items, such as bottles and newspapers, located either in a container or small structure.

A strip of land occupied or intended to be occupied by a street, crosswalk, railroad, electric transmission line, oil or gas pipeline, water main, sanitary or storm sewer main, shade trees, or other special use.

A public or private way that affords principal means of access to abutting properties. The word "road" shall include, but not be limited to, the words "street," "highway," "alley," and "thoroughfare."

The center of the surveyed road right-of-way, or where not surveyed, the center of the traveled cartway.

For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions are employed:

A vegetative material of sufficient height and density to conceal from the view of property owners in adjoining residential districts the structures and uses on the premises on which the screen planting is located.

A warehousing facility where separate storage spaces of varying size are available for lease or rental, usually on a self-service basis. For the purposes of this chapter, there shall be no residential occupancy or nor commercial sales conducted from such storage areas.

Any premises where gasoline and other petroleum products are sold and/or light maintenance activities such as engine tuneups, lubrication, minor repairs, and carburetor cleaning are conducted for motor vehicles.

The required minimum horizontal distance between the building line and the related front, side, or rear property line.

A business establishment with more than 15 square feet of floor area devoted to an adult arcade, adult bookstore, adult video store, adult cabaret, adult motel, adult motion picture theatre, adult theater, escort agency, nude model studio, or sexual encounter center as defined and further regulated in Chapter 58, Adult Entertainment.

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

A structure that consists of any device, light, letter, word, model, banner, pennant, trade flag, logo, insignia, balloons or representation that advertises, directs, or announces the use conducted; goods, products, services or facilities available; or that influences persons or conveys information, or that calls attention to the building or the use located on the lot. The term "sign" does not include the flag of the United States of America or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or any federal, state or municipal traffic or directional sign or other official federal, state, county or municipal government signs.

The area of the smallest geometric figure or sum of the combination of regular geometric figures and background that comprise the sign face, excluding structural supports, and decorative trim, that displays the sign copy.

The development and/or maintenance of a forest or wooded preserve.

A use permitted in a particular zoning district pursuant to the provisions of Articles VI and IX of Act 247, the Pennsylvania Municipalities Code, as amended.[5]

That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there be no floor above it, then the space between any floor and the ceiling next above it.

Any man-made object having an ascertainable stationary location on or in land or water, whether or not affixed to the land.

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

Any reasonably permanent pool or open tank, not located within a completely enclosed building, and containing, or normally capable of containing, water to a depth any point greater than two feet. Ponds and/or lakes are not included, provided that swimming is not the primary purpose for their construction. Barrier requirements for aboveground pools shall be measured from the ground.

A lot or structure, or part thereof, used primarily for the collection and/or storage of garbage, refuse and other discarded materials including, but not limited to, solid and liquid waste materials resulting from industrial, commercial, agriculture and residential activities.

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.

A modification of the literal provisions of this chapter pursuant to the provisions of Articles VI and IX of Act 247, the Pennsylvania Municipalities Code, as amended,[6] which the Zoning Hearing Board is permitted to grant when strict enforcement would cause undue hardship owing to circumstances unique to the individual property on which the variance is sought.

Natural landscaping materials providing decoration and/or screening, including trees, bushes, ornamental grass, shrubs and similar material.

Terminal facilities and buildings used for the storage of goods and materials and/or handling of freight, with or without maintenance facilities.

The business of selling merchandise to retailer, industrial, commercial, institutional, professional or other business users; or to other wholesalers; or acting as agents or brokers and buying merchandise for, or selling merchandise to, such individuals or companies.

An open space that is between the principal building or group of buildings and the nearest lot line. Such space shall be unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward except as may herein be permitted.

The Zoning Hearing Board of the Tyrone Borough

The Official Zoning Map of Tyrone Borough, together with all notations, references and amendments that may subsequently be adopted. The Zoning Map shall be considered a part of this chapter.

The administrative officer charged with the duty of enforcing the provisions of this chapter.

The ordinance in effect as adopted or amended that controls or regulates land use in the Borough.