An accredited medical school within this commonwealth that operates or partners with an acute care hospital licensed within this commonwealth.

A structure subordinate to the principal structure(s) on a lot and used for purposes customarily incidental to those of the principal structure(s).

A use on the same lot with, and clearly incidental and subordinate to, the principal use on the lot.

Any establishment providing adult reading and/or viewing material and/or entertainment which depicts or describes sexual nudity or sexual activity, including: adult arcade; adult bookstore; adult video store; adult cabaret; adult motion picture theater; adult theater; escort agencies; body painting studio (when specified anatomical areas are exposed); tattoo and/or piercing parlor (where specified anatomical areas are exposed); or massage establishment (that does not qualify as a massage therapy establishment).

Any use of land or structure(s) for an enterprise that is actively engaged in the commercial production of and preparation for market of crops, livestock, and livestock products and in the production, harvesting and preparation for market or USE of agricultural, agronomic, horticultural, Silvicultural and aquacultural crops and commodities. The term "agriculture" includes any use that implements changes in the production practices and procedures or types of crops, livestock, livestock products or commodities produced consistent with practices and procedures that are normally engaged by farmers are consistent with technological development within the agricultural industry. "Agriculture," as a land use term, is distinguished from "concentrated animal operation (CAO)" and "concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO)," see definitions for each.

An accessory dwelling related to an agricultural use generally constructed as a separate dwelling unit which allows agricultural landowners and/or developers to provide living arrangements for agricultural help and/or employees.

A place specifically designed to allow aircraft to take off and land, usually equipped with paved runways, hangers, and facilities for refueling and repair.

Nonresidential uses not otherwise assigned to a Zoning District specified within this chapter.

Residential uses not otherwise assigned to a Zoning District specified within this chapter.

Any change or rearrangement in the supporting members of an existing building, such as bearing walls, columns, beam, girders, or interior partitions, as well as any change in doors or windows, or any enlargement to the diminution of a building or structure, whether horizontally or vertically, or the moving of a structure from one location to another.

1,000 pounds live weight of livestock or poultry animals, regardless of the actual number of individuals comprising the unit. Animal weights shall be calculated using the Standard Animal Weights listed in Pennsylvania Act 38 Nutrient Management Program Technical Manual, by the Pennsylvania State Conservation Commission.

The agricultural practice of breeding and raising Farm Animals.

Animals other than household pets that are commonly raised or kept in an agricultural environment including, but not limited to pigs, sheep, goats, horses, cattle, llamas, donkeys, mules, and other similar animals.

A domesticated animal that is normally or can generally be kept within the immediate living quarters of a residential structure. Any member of the sheep, swine, poultry, bovine, or equine family of quadrupeds, or reptiles having venomous or constrictor nature does not constitute a household pet under any provisions of this Zoning Ordinance.

Any person (including any natural person, partnership, association, company, corporation or any entity of any kind or type), owner, developer, operator, and/or their agents who has an interest in real estate in the Township and is seeking a permit or other right to develop, erect, alter, drill or produce oil and gas, or otherwise use or occupy property or land located in the Township of West Deer.

See gross floor area; lot area.

Any structure or part thereof where premanufactured parts (i.e., parts not manufactured on site) are assembled into a finished product for wholesale or retail sale, and where manufacturing of parts does not occur.

A dwelling unit, attached by common wall or walls to one or more other similar dwelling units, each independent of the other and each with at least two direct access points to the outside. Common walls shall extend from the ground level to the roof without openings. Property lines would follow the centerline of the common walls. Side yard setbacks would not apply at common walls.

Retail sales of new automobiles or light load vehicles, including, as a minor part of the business, the sales of used automobiles or light load vehicles and the service of new or used vehicles.

Retail sales, or offering for sale, used automobiles or light load vehicles.

The storage or impoundment, on a lot or tract which is paved in accordance with parking lot paving requirements set forth in this chapter, of operable automobiles for the purpose of holding such vehicles for sale, distribution and/or storage. This definition shall not include the storage of wrecked or inoperable vehicles (see "salvage yard").

An establishment providing temporary use of automobiles, noncommercial trucks, motor homes, and/or recreational vehicles for a fee. Such use may or may not include the storage of vehicles, vehicle washing, and/or gassing facilities, but excludes vehicle repair work.

See garage, automobile repair.

An establishment devoted to the sale of automobiles, noncommercial trucks, motorcycles, motor homes, recreational vehicles, or boats. Such use may also include the servicing of the types of vehicles sold on the lot.

An establishment where breads, cakes, pastries, and the like are produced and/or sold.

See "financial institution."

See "density, base gross."

A commercial establishment that occupies a single-family dwelling and associated accessory structures where limited overnight lodging and breakfast is provided for compensation to guests and where said use may or may not also host accommodations for private events (e.g. Such as weddings and conferences). The dwelling may or may not include a publicly accessible restaurant as a related use. Overnight lodging occurs within individual sleeping rooms, each of which is accessible from the interior of the principal structure and/or existing accessory structure (constructed prior to the date of this chapter) and which each does not contain cooking facilities. New construction, alteration, or reconstruction of any structure shall also be governed by the Uniform Construction Code (UCC). The owner of said use shall be a permanent resident on the site.

The maintenance of honeybee colonies, typically in the form of hives.

Any sign, as defined herein, which advertises an establishment, person, activity, product or service which is unrelated to or not available on the premises where the sign is located.

Also known as raptors, refer to several species of predatory birds (i.e., birds that hunt and feed on other animals).

The Board of Supervisors of West Deer Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

A dwelling in which, for a fee or other consideration, the resident owner lives and provides sleeping accommodations with board for at least three but not more than 10 persons in the dwelling, exclusive of the resident owner and members of the resident owner's family with or without individual cooking facilities. A boarding house shall not be considered the same as a short-term rental.

See "recreation facility."

A structure that is enclosed, and portions of which are protected from the weather and are usually climate controlled (heated and/or air conditioned), and that is usable for habitation or as a working environment.

The officer or other designated authority charged with the administration and enforcement of the adopted building code.

The vertical distance measured between the average of the highest and the lowest elevations at finished grade of the structure and, if a flat-roofed building, the top of the roof or a parapet wall; or, if a sloped-roofed building, the average between the gutter and ridge lines of the highest roof element on the building.

A line parallel to the front, side or rear lot line set so as to provide the required yard (setback).

An establishment, licensed to operate as such by the granting local and/or commonwealth agencies.

An establishment that provides services primarily to business typically on a fee or contract basis, such as advertising and public relations, management and consulting services, security and maintenance services, equipment rental/leasing, document reproduction-related services, computer and data processing services, cell phone sales, and computer sales.

An area that allows for a mix of business, commercial space, and warehouses in the Industrial Zoning district. It also allows more flexible site design and setback requirements. The BTP can be utilized as either an overlay or a conditional use in the Industrial Zoning district.

A universal measurement of a tree's trunk at 12" above ground.

A nonresidential use of a parcel of land for temporary overnight use by tents and/or recreational vehicles for which a fee may or may not be charged.

An area of land and/or structure with machine and/or hand-operated facilities used principally for the interior and/or exterior cleaning, washing, polishing, or waxing of motor vehicles, and where no vehicle repairs or sales of petroleum fuel or lubricants are performed. A car wash may or may not include accessory uses such as auto detailing.

A standardized, reusable vessel that is or appears to be: (1) originally, specifically or formerly designed for or used in the packing, shipping, movement or transportation of freight, articles, goods or commodities, or (2) designed for or capable of being mounted or moved on a rail car, or (3) designed for or capable of being mounted on a chassis or bogie for movement by truck trailer or loaded on a ship.

That portion of a street or alley which is improved, designated, intended, used or capable of being used for vehicular travel.

Land that is reserved for the burying of the deceased and that may contain mausolea and columbaria, but may not contain crematoria.

A structure devoted to the indoor display of motion pictures, but excluding an adult-oriented business.

See "medical clinic."

A public street or road which, in addition to providing access to abutting lots, intercepts local streets and provides a route for carrying considerable volumes of local traffic to community facilities and arterial streets.

Engaging in a business, enterprise, activity or other undertaking ordinarily or actually for profit.

The legally appointed Planning Commission of the Township of West Deer, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Land or the area of a lot(s) which is held by one entity or multiple entities for the benefit of the general use of recreation, resource protection, amenity and/or buffers, not including any area of a residential lot, any part of an existing or future street right-of-way. The calculations of the total common space area shall not include easements and stormwater detention facilities which are located within the common open space.

An instrument intended for use in the wireless transmission or in the gathering of data, or relaying of any portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, including television, radio, telephonic, cellular, or any other type of communicative transmission, which is to be affixed to a building or structure, including the equipment necessary for its use, but not including structures for signal reception only.

A structure, typically a steel pole/lattice work or tower, whose principal use is to be utilized for communication purposes associated with service, radio, and/or television broadcast.

A lot comprised of one or more tax parcels that is used by a group of individuals in the community to grow and harvest food primarily for personal or group use or donation. Community gardening may be divided into plots for cultivation by one or more individuals and/or groups, or it may be cultivated by individuals and/or groups collectively.

The comprehensive, long-range plan document for the desirable use of land in West Deer Township; the purposes of such plan being, among other things, to serve as a guide for the zoning and progressive rezoning of land to meet changing community needs, in the subdividing and use of undeveloped land and in the acquisition of land for such public purposes as streets, parks, schools and other public buildings.

An agricultural operation where certain large quantities of livestock or poultry are housed inside buildings or in confined feedlots classified as an operation with more than 1,000 AEUs or a CAO with more than 300 AEUs.

A livestock or poultry farming operation that has more than eight total animal equivalent units (AEUs) and exceeds 2,000 pounds of live animal weight per acre suitable for manure application.

An authorized use which may be granted only by the Board of Supervisors pursuant to express standards and criteria prescribed in this chapter, after review and recommendation by the Township Planning Commission and public hearing by the Board of Supervisors pursuant to public notice.

An establishment used for corporate or professional meetings, seminars and/or employee training, that may include dining and lodging facilities and related recreational facilities as accessory uses.

An agreement or correspondence between matters being compared which denotes a reasonable rational, similar, connection or relationship.

An area of land used by a contractor or builder where equipment and materials are stored, where a contractor fabricates or assembles components to be used at different job sites, or where construction equipment is serviced but excluding a construction site or any establishment otherwise defined or classified herein.

An establishment offering for sale gasoline, food products, household items, and other goods commonly associated with the same and generally having a gross floor area of less than 10,000 square feet.

An establishment offering for sale food products, household items, and other goods commonly associated with the same and generally having a gross floor area of less than 10,000 square feet.

The division or redivision in the traditional curvilinear or rectilinear pattern 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, transfer of ownership or building or lot development.

See "shallow well."

An establishment that has as its principal use facilities for playing golf and that may include one or more of the following accessory uses: a clubhouse and/or restaurant, locker rooms, pro shop, swimming pool, or facilities for racquet sports.

A building fitted with the proper equipment for the purposes of the cremation of human remains and includes all facilities and appliances incidental or ancillary thereto.

An establishment, licensed as such by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, located within a building that is not used as a dwelling unit for the care during part of a twenty-four-hour day of children and/or adults.

An establishment, licensed as such by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, located within a dwelling, for the care on a regular basis during part of a twenty-four-hour day of not more than six children under 16 years of age, excluding care provided to children who are relatives of the provider. Such use shall be secondary to the use of the dwelling for living purposes and persons who do not reside in the dwelling shall not be employed.

An outdoor, uncovered unenclosed structure used as a walking or living surface with a minimum height above grade of 10 inches which may incorporate a railing.

An unconventional well, or any pierced or bored hole drilled or being drilled into or below the Marcellus Shale rock formation for the purpose of, or to be used for, producing, extracting gas, oil, petroleum or another liquid related to oil or gas production.

The areas occupied by the facilities, structures, materials and equipment, excluding those areas that are temporary in nature, necessary for or incidental to the preparation, construction, drilling, fracturing, production or operation of a deep well. This definition also includes any exploratory wells for deep well sites but excludes well pad access roads. If multiple areas are used, then the total combined areas shall be considered the deep well site area.

The number of dwelling units in a lot, or group of lots, divided by the area in acres of the lot, or group of lots, computed exclusive of any portion of the right-of-way of any public road.

The Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Any portable framework, tower mast and/or structure which is required or used in connection with drilling or reworking a well for the production of oil or gas.

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

A person, including a natural person, corporation, partnership, association, trust or other entity, or any combination thereof, which holds a permit issued by the Department of Health (DOH) of the commonwealth to dispense medical marijuana.

The Department of Health (Commonwealth of PA).

The digging or boring of a well for the purpose of exploring for, developing or producing oil and/or gas or other hydrocarbons.

Any part of a building or structure that, by design of physical facilities or by services or pods provided, encourages or permits customers to transact business, receive a service or obtain a product in a motor vehicle on the premises.

An establishment operated for the purposes of developing golfing techniques, including miniature golf courses, but excluding golf courses and Par 3 courses.

Any building designed or used as permanent living quarters, but not including hotels, motels, boardinghouses, or short-term rentals.

A single room or a group of connected rooms, with its own private bathing, toilet, cooking and food storage facilities, in a building for the exclusive use of one family.

The date on which this chapter is duly adopted by the Township or as specified in the ordinance so adopted.

Includes built, constructed, reconstructed, moved upon, or any physical operations on the land required for the building. Excavation, fill, drainage and the like shall be considered part of the erection.

The erection, construction, alteration, operation or maintenance of buildings, power plants, or substations, water treatment plants or pumping stations, sewage disposal or pumping plants and other similar public service structures by a utility, whether publicly or privately owned, or by a municipal or other government agency, including the furnishing of electrical, gas, communication, water supply, and sewage disposal services.

The erection, construction, alteration, or maintenance of underground or overhead gas, electrical, steam, or water transmission or distribution systems, including poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduit cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants, street signs, cable television, or other telecommunications transmission lines provided by public or private entities, and other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith, reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by such public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies or for the public health or safety or general welfare, but not including any structures identified as an essential service facility.

Any organization, including a business, whether private, public, governmental, social, or otherwise, together with its owners, directors, employees, members, merchandise, inventory, and equipment, founded and united for a specific purpose.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is the agency of the United States Department of Transportation responsible for the regulation and oversight of civil aviation within the United States.

A single person occupying a dwelling or dwelling unit and maintaining a household; two or more persons related by blood or marriage or adoption occupying a dwelling unit and maintaining a household; not more than three unrelated persons occupying a dwelling or dwelling unit, living together, and maintaining a common household. The term shall not include any tenant or person(s) paying any rent, fee, or rate for use of a dwelling or portion thereof as a short-term rental for a period of less than 30 days. This definition is not intended to nor shall be interpreted to conflict with the Fair Housing Act, as amended.

An establishment in which money is kept for saving or commercial purposes, invested, supplied for loans or exchanged.

A structure that can be subdivided for use by multiple tenants primarily for light industrial, warehousing, and associated office/administrative space.

A normally dry land area adjacent to stream channels that is susceptible to being inundated by overbank stream flows. For regulatory purposes, the Pennsylvania Floodplain Management Act (Act of October 4, 1978, P.L. 851, No. 166) and regulation pursuant to the act define the floodplain as the area inundated by the 100-year flood and delineated on a map by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) or by the applicant in accordance with municipal ordinance requirements.

A structure or group of structures used for the storage, assembly, packaging, and distribution of prepared food related products, and not including any food preparation.

A business, including a catering business, that prepares food for consumption off-premises, has no on-site seating, and is not open to the public for dining.

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, and which does not involve any land development.

Any apparatus or equipment that utilizes gas as a fuel or raw materials to produce light, heat, power, refrigeration or air conditioning.

A structure used for the embalming of the deceased for burial, but not including cremation, and for the display of the deceased and ceremonies connected therewith before burial or cremation.

An establishment that services motor vehicles with all types of repair work including engine and transmission repairs, body work, painting, and similar activities, but excluding heavy equipment repair.

An accessory structure for the storage of motor vehicles, recreational vehicle or boats owned and used by the owner or tenant of the lot for a purpose accessory to the use of the lot, and for not more than one additional motor vehicle owned and used by others.

A private or municipal owned structure where motor vehicles can be temporarily stored or parked typically for the payment of a fee.

Structure(s), and lands associated therewith, for the growing and sale of flowers, fruits, vegetables, plants, shrubs, trees, or similar vegetation together with gardening tools and implements which are sold at retail from such building or lot to the general public.

Any fluid, either combustible or noncombustible, which is produced in a natural state from the earth and which maintains a gaseous or rarefied state at standard temperature and pressure conditions and or the gaseous components or vapors occurring in or derived from petroleum or natural gas.

See "convenience store with gasoline."

Any well drilled, to be drilled, or used for the intended or actual production of gas.

That which exhibits consistency.

A visual sensation caused by excessive and uncontrolled brightness.

The total area of a building measured by taking the outside dimensions of the building at each floor level.

A facility which houses unrelated residents and provides twenty-four-hour supervision and rehabilitation services for developmentally disabled individuals (intellectual disability, autism, cerebral palsy, epilepsy or other similar conditions). Licensing for such use shall be in accordance with the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services requirements.

A person, including a natural person, corporation, partnership, association, trust or other entity, or any combination thereof, which holds a permit from the DOH to grow and process medical marijuana.

A licensed facility which houses inmates on release for more restrictive custodial confinement or initially placed in lieu of such more restrictive custodial confinement, where supervision, rehabilitation, and counseling are provided to mainstream residents back into society, enabling them to live independently. Staffed with an on-site resident manager, a halfway house also includes a dwelling unit occupied on a transient or short-term basis by persons assigned by a court of law, or referred by a public, semipublic, profit or nonprofit entity, and managed by or on behalf of a public, semipublic, profit or nonprofit entity responsible for the occupants' care, safety, conduct, counseling and supervision, where the residents reside there for purposes of transitional alcohol, drug or substance abuse recovery, shelter for battered persons and their children, maternity homes, community reentry services following incarceration, prison assignment, house arrest or other court-ordered treatment, the housing of persons accepted for residence on the basis of their status as juvenile offenders or delinquents, and other similar short-term supervised assignments. The manager of said halfway house shall be a permanent resident on the site.

The word "hearing" shall mean "public hearing" as defined in § 210-107.

A facility or structure that is intended or used for the landing and take-off of rotary-wing aircraft, including regular repair, fueling, or maintenance of such aircraft or the sale of goods or materials to users of such aircraft.

A facility or structure that is intended or used for the landing and take-off of rotary-wing aircraft, but not including the regular repair, fueling, or maintenance of such aircraft, or the sale of goods or materials to users of such aircraft.

A business administered or conducted as an accessory use clearly secondary to the use as a residential dwelling. The business must satisfy the following requirements:

A business administered or conducted as an accessory use 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 must satisfy the following requirements:

A business carried on entirely within a building whose principal use is a single-family dwelling that does not meet the requirements of a no-impact or low impact home-based business.

A homeowner's association (HOA) is an organization in a subdivision, planned community, or condominium building that makes and enforces rules for the properties and its residents. Those who purchase property within an HOA's jurisdiction automatically become members and are required to pay dues, known as HOA fees.

An establishment (including sanitariums) for the short-term care of patients suffering from physical or mental illnesses, but not including narcotics addiction or those found to be criminally insane, and which may or may not include facilities for major surgery, and which may be publicly or privately operated.

An establishment which provides transient lodging accommodations to the general public in sleeping units, each unit of which has independent access. Such establishment may provide such additional supporting services as restaurants, meeting rooms, recreation facilities, and living quarters for a resident manager or proprietor.

A domesticated animal that is normally or can generally be kept within the immediate living quarters of a residential structure. Any member of the sheep, swine, poultry, bovine, or equine family of quadrupeds, or reptiles having venomous or constrictor nature does not constitute a household pet under any provisions of this chapter.

A lined pit or reservoir that holds large volumes of fluid.

Are factory-built houses engineered and constructed to the strict specifications of the International Residential Code (IRC).

A type of redevelopment, typically vacant lots, that allows the development of an existing lot to a set of existing standards or characteristics of the existing neighborhood that allows the development of the lot to be possible where typical zoning requirements would not allow development to be feasible.

See "Density, initial net."

Those wells and activities used to place fluids and/or gases underground into porous geologic formations for permanent storage. These underground formations may range from deep sandstone or limestone, to a shallow soil layer. Injected fluids and/or gases may include carbon dioxide, fresh water, waste water, brine (saltwater), or water mixed with chemicals. Injection wells include all EPA classes of injection wells.

The use of more than 200 square feet of any area, whether inside or outside a structure, or the use of any lot that joins the street for storage, keeping or abandonment of junk including scrap metals, or for the dismantling, demolition, or abandonment of automobiles or other vehicles, machinery or parts thereof, where such activity is associated with commercial and/or business purposes.

Maintaining ducks or chickens solely for personal use of the residents of the lot, and not involving any profit-making activity such as slaughtering or selling eggs.

Maintaining horses and/or ponies for profit for use in boarding, riding instruction and/or training of horses owned by persons of the lot and/or other than residents of the lot.

Maintaining horses and/or ponies solely for personal use of the residents of the lot, and not involving any profit-making activity such as boarding, riding instruction, or training of horses owned by persons other than residents of the lot.

Any establishment where more than four dogs or more than six cats who are more than six months old are kept, bred, trained, groomed, boarded, and/or administered veterinary services.

Any of the following activities:

A structure containing printed and pictorial material for public use for purposes of study, reference, and recreation. May also provide access to the internet.

A health care facility for the transitional residency of senior and/or disabled persons, providing for a progression of residential living types such as from independent living in single-family units to assisted and/or congregate living and culminating in a full health and continuing care nursing home facility where any portion of the facility may include common dining and recreation areas and which provides supportive services, not primarily medical in nature, to facility residents for activities of daily living. A life care facility/senior living community may include a licensed adult day-care program; such facility shall comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws, ordinances and regulations relating to housing for the elderly.

A divided arterial highway designed for large volumes and high-speed traffic with access limited to grade-separated intersections.

The area required to accommodate one cargo/delivery truck or similar equivalent vehicle, exclusive of access and turning area.

A public street or road designed to provide access to abutting lots and to discourage through traffic.

A tract or parcel of land held in single or separate ownership, that is described by reference to a recorded plan or by metes or bounds, and is intended as a unit for transfer of ownership, use, improvement, dedication or for development exclusive of public or private road right-of-way.

That percentage of the lot covered by principal and accessory structures and/or buildings.

The horizontal distance between the midpoint of the front lot line and the midpoint of the rear lot line.

The horizontal distance of the building lines as measured across the lot between the side lot lines. In the case of a curved building line, the arc distance along the building line shall be used.

The horizontal surface area within the lot lines of a lot exclusive of public or private road right-of-way.

Modular homes that are factory-built houses engineered and constructed to the strict specifications of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Federal Building Code after 1976.

The use of lands or structures for the purpose of creating, assembling, preparing, inspecting, finishing, treating, altering, repairing, warehousing or storing, or adopting for sale of any goods, substance, article, thing or service.

The processing and fabrication of certain materials and products where no process involved will produce noises, vibration, air pollution, fire hazard, or noxious emissions which will disturb or endanger neighboring lots. Light manufacturing includes the production of the following goods: home appliances, electrical instruments, office machines, precision instruments, electronic devices, timepieces, jewelry, optical goods, musical instruments, novelties, wood products, printed material, lithographic plates, type composition, machine tools, dies and gauges, ceramics, apparel, lightweight nonferrous metal castings, film processing, light sheet metal products, plastic goods, pharmaceutical goods, beverage goods and food products; but excludes animal slaughtering, curing or rendering of fats.

Any establishment or part thereof where massage services are provided: by a person having graduated from a massage therapy training program approved by the authorizing board within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or equivalent agency if trained in another state; by a person certified through a massage therapy certification examination approved by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies; by a person certified through the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork; or by a practitioner or member of either of the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA), Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals (ABMP), or International Massage Association (IMA).

A system that is used to power, ventilate or exhaust a fuel fired appliance.

A voluntary negotiating process in which parties in a dispute mutually select a neutral mediator to assist them in jointly exploring and settling their differences, culminating in a written agreement which the parties themselves create and consider acceptable.

A structure where two or more licensed medical professionals provide diagnostic health, medical, surgical, and/or psychiatric services to the general public without overnight accommodation. Such uses may include reception areas, waiting areas, consultation rooms, x-ray and minor operating rooms and a dispensary, providing that all such uses have access only from the interior of the structure.

Marijuana for certified medical use as legally permitted by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in accordance with Act 16 of 2016 and the most current regulations regarding marijuana.

A location (whether business or nonprofit) where patients or consumers can access marijuana/cannabis in a legal and safe manner.

A facility that grows and processes medical marijuana for wholesale to other medical marijuana facilities.

A dispensary, or grower/processor of marijuana for medical purposes.

Any facility used to house delivery vehicles for supplying marijuana plants or seeds to one or more marijuana grower/processors and/or dispensaries.

A building or structure where the brewing and production of beer and related products occurs on site in accordance with the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. The term "microbrewery" may or may not include a restaurant or area for consumption of such beverages.

A public or private lot and/or structure(s) approved by the United States Department of Defense and used for the training of military personnel, maintenance, development and manufacturing of military vehicles and equipment, and/or administrative purposes. Excludes all paramilitary facilities and uses.

A building containing a combination of complementary and integrated residential and nonresidential uses, in which apartments make up the majority of the building's total floor area.

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. Mobile homes shall only be placed in mobile home parks.

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

A commercial establishment consisting of a building or group of buildings, whether detached or in connected units, used as individual sleeping units with separate exterior entrances, open year-round and designed for temporary occupancy, primarily for transient automobile travelers. Structures shall provide for accessory off-street parking areas. Supervision is provided in shifts by twenty-four-hour on-site management.

Any individual or group of structures or lots utilized for municipally owned and/or operated service facilities for the benefit of the health and welfare of the citizens of West Deer Township and the public at large.

A facility designed and constructed to compress natural gas that originates from a gas well or collection of such wells operating as a midstream facility for delivery of gas to a transmission pipeline, distribution pipeline, natural gas processing plant or underground storage field, including one or more natural gas compressors, associated buildings, pipes, valves, tanks and other equipment.

A facility designed and constructed to remove water from natural gas and natural gas liquids.

A facility designed and constructed to remove materials such as ethane, propane, butane, and other constituents or similar substances from natural gas to allow such natural gas to be of such quality as is required or appropriate for transmission or distribution to commercial markets but not including facilities or equipment that is designed and constructed primarily to remove water, water vapor, oil or naturally occurring liquids from the natural gas. Interconnects shall not be considered natural gas processing plants.

A lot with the area or dimension which was lawful prior to the adoption or amendment of the West Deer Township Zoning Ordinance, as amended, but which fails to conform to the current requirements of the zoning district in which it is located by reasons of such adoption or amendment.

A structure or part of a structure not designed to comply with the applicable use provisions of the West Deer Township Zoning Ordinance or amendments thereto, where such structure lawfully existed prior to the application of that ordinance or amendments. Such nonconforming structures include, but are not limited to, nonconforming signs.

A structure or part of a structure that was lawfully in existence prior to the adoption or amendment of the West Deer Township Zoning Ordinance, as amended, but which fails to conform to the current use requirements of the zoning district in which it is located by reasons of such adoption or amendment.

A not-for-profit or commercial establishment, licensed as such by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, engaged in providing twenty-four-hour per day inpatient nursing and health-related personal care, utilizing in whole or part licensed and/or registered nurses; but excluding hospital services and excluding day-to-day personal care that is not health care by licensed or registered nurses.

A statement signed by the Zoning Officer setting forth either that a building or structure complies with this chapter or that a building, structure or parcel of land may lawfully be employed for specified uses or both.

A structure where one or more persons are employed in the management, direction, or conducting of business and whose staffs/employees serve clients who seek advice and consultation regarding business. A business office may include the administrative, corporate, or professional offices for profit, nonprofit, or charitable organizations.

A structure where one or more licensed medical professionals provide diagnosis and treatment to the general public without surgical procedures, overnight accommodation, or pharmacy. Includes such uses as reception areas, offices, consultation rooms, and x-ray, providing that all such uses have access only from the interior of the structure.

A structure where recognized professional(s) such as doctors, lawyers, architects, engineers, real estate brokers, insurance agents, and others who, through training, are qualified to perform services of a professional nature; and other offices used primarily for accounting, corresponding, research, editing, or other administrative functions, but not including banks or other financial institutions.

Crude oil, fossil fuels, natural gas, methane gas, coal bed methane gas, propane, pentone, carbon dioxide, butane, hydrocarbon gases, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide and other gas species, including all natural gas liquids, and/or any other constituents or similar substances that are produced by drilling an oil or gas well of any depth into, through and/or below the surface of the earth.

The well site preparation, construction, drilling, redrilling, hydraulic fracturing, nonhydraulic fracturing (including stimulation by explosives), and/or site restoration associated with an oil or gas well of any depth; The definition does not include natural gas compressor stations or natural gas processing plants.

Interconnects, natural gas dehydration facilities and similar facilities not otherwise defined or regulated herein which are required for transportation of oil and gas from wells to transmission lines. Interconnects and natural gas dehydration facilities shall be located not less than 750 feet from an existing principal structure.

Any reference to an oil or gas well shall mean, either individually or together, a deep well, shallow well or any exploratory well of any kind or type.

Public or private land used for recreation, resource protection, amenity and/or buffers, not including any area of a lot, any part of an existing or future street right-of-way, easement of access or areas set aside for public or private utilities, stormwater facilities and easements.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration, an agency of the US government under the Department of Labor with the responsibility of ensuring safety at work and a healthful work environment.

An area utilized to meet the parking requirements of this chapter, including the parking aisles that provide access to the parking spaces, but excluding any streets or driveways that provide access to the parking lot.

See "Garage, public."

The area required for parking one automobile, 10 feet by 18 feet excluding access or turning area.

An area consisting of natural or man-made material which is constructed at or near grade level and intended for use as an outdoor living area.

A structure used exclusively as a residence and designed to permanently occupy a fixed location, as contrasted to a mobile home. Under this Zoning Ordinance, a dwelling shall be classified as either a permanent dwelling or a mobile home, depending on the intention of its designers at the time it is first constructed, manufactured or built.

This person is knowledgeable about food safety and has a variety of required duties. The duties can be found in the most current FDA Food Code (§ 2-103.11).

(i) A premise in which food, shelter and personal assistance or supervision are provided for a period exceeding 24 hours, for four or more adults who are not relatives of the operator, who do not require the services in or of a licensed long-term care facility, but who do require assistance or supervision in activities of daily living or instrumental activities of daily living. (ii) The term includes a premise that has held or presently holds itself out as a personal care home and provides food and shelter to four or more adults who need personal care services, but who are not receiving the services.

An establishment providing services pertaining to the person, their apparel, or personal effects commonly carried on or about the person, including, but not limited to, shoe repair, tailoring, clothes cleaning, watch repairing, barber shops, beauty parlors, tattoo parlors, body piercing parlors and/or other related activities.

See "Household pet."

An establishment that dispenses drugs by prescription. The term pharmacy may also include the provision of a limited selection of housewares and foodstuffs.

A structure or area of land that is designed for the assembly or collection of persons, for civic, political, religious, educational, or social purposes, and where recreation, amusement, or dining may occur as accessory activities.

A structure or area of land where people regularly observe, practice, or participate in religious or spiritual services, meetings, and/or activities.

A property or group of contiguous properties planned and developed as a unified whole to provide lots for a variety of businesses and industrial uses, including some of the following uses: assembly of products completely within an enclosed building, open space, including parks and similar noncommercial recreational uses; and businesses, professional, commercial offices, such as, data storage, telecommunications facilities, corporate financial institutions, daycare facilities, engineering facilities, airports and aviation related facilities, and research laboratories, including biotechnical uses.

An area of land, controlled by a landowner, to be developed as a single entity to provide for a variety of commercial and office uses, including retail, consumer services, restaurants, and to promote a traditional walkable setting with provisions for enhanced pedestrian safety/circulation and landscaping.

An area of land, controlled by a landowner, to be developed as a single entity for a number of dwelling units, or combination of residential and nonresidential uses, the development plan for which does not correspond in lot size, bulk, type of dwelling, or use, density, or intensity, lot coverage and required open space to the regulations established in any one district created, from time to time, under the provisions of the West Deer Township municipal Zoning Ordinance.

The Planning Commission of West Deer Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

A body of water either formed naturally or man made by hollowing/embanking land to hold water.

A roofed structure attached to, and forming part of the main building adjacent to a door providing direct access to the building. Porches can be screened but cannot have solid or glass walls. Porches cannot be winterized or plumbed for water supply or sewage. Front porches may encroach up to 10 feet into the front yard setback.

An establishment owned and maintained or leased by the United State Postal Service for the purpose of distributing mail to the public.

Goods or wares made off-premises and brought to a subject lot or development for further assembly or use.

A structure containing the principal use on a lot. Where there are (1) multiple dwellings on a residential lot or (2) multiple structures on a nonresidential lot which contain the principal use then all such structures shall be considered principal structures. Barns, sheds, garages and other accessory structures shall not be considered principal structures.

See "Use, principal."

An establishment that provides duplicating services using photocopy, blueprint, and/or offset printing equipment including collating of booklets and reports, and/or prints computer-generated goods on paper or plastic.

An organization of persons who are identified as members, whether paying or not, which generally meet on a scheduled basis for the purposes of conducting club activities and where such organization and activities do not meet the criteria of a social club. The affairs and management of such club are conducted in accord with bylaws overseen by a board of directors, executive committee or similar body chosen by members at an annual meeting. No commercial activities can be conducted and there can be no overnight accommodations.

See "Garage, private."

Any office or business conducted by an individual or association including attorneys, architects, chiropractors, engineers, medical doctors and dentists who are licensed under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, but not to include personal services such as barber shops or beauty shops.

Public includes any municipally-, state- and/or federally-owned and/or operated use.

See "Garage, public."

Include (1) parks, playgrounds and other public areas; (2) sites for schools, sewage treatment, refuse disposal and other publicly owned or operated facilities.

A formal meeting held pursuant to public notice by the governing body or planning agency intended to inform and obtain public comment, prior to taking action in accordance with this act.

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

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

An establishment open to the public, that normally charges a fee/admission/donation, whether or not for profit, for the provision of recreation or entertainment for the general public including but not limited to amphitheaters, theaters, dance halls, bowling alleys, billiard and pool halls, video and other coin-operated game parlors, miniature golf courses, indoor rifle range, indoor archery range, go-kart tracks and automobile race tracks/speedways and not including establishments that feature gaming and/or adult-oriented entertainment.

A structure or group of structures in which are located facilities for scientific research, investigation, testing, or experimentation, but not facilities for the manufacture or sale of products, except as incidental to the main purpose of the laboratory.

An open pit or reservoir used for the storage of drill cuttings, impaired water, or solid waste.

A group of six or more dwelling units or lots that were derived from a single parcel or group of parcels developed in conjunction with one another at the same time by a single developing entity.

An establishment where food and drink are served to the public and where all services take place within the building, tableside, or otherwise.

An establishment where food and drink are served to the public and where the design of physical facilities and/or packaging procedures permit or encourage patrons to order from and/or be served in their automobiles.

An establishment located entirely within a building which sells goods, services or merchandise to the general public for personal, household, or office consumption and which shall not include wholesaling, manufacturing or processing of the goods offered for sale.

Land reserved for use as a street, alley, interior walk, or other public purpose and dedicated for public use; all must be recorded in the County Recorder of Deeds Office. For purpose of this chapter, public right-of-way lines shall prevail over private parcel lines that are designated as falling within the public right-of-way. When a lot abuts a right-of-way of a public thoroughfare or alley, all applicable lot area and front, side, and rear lot requirements shall be computed from the public right-of-way line.

The portion of a property that abuts a public or private roadway, street, lane, etc. In the case of a leased portion or subdivided portion of land on a larger parcel such as a well pad, natural gas compressor station or natural gas processing plant, road frontage shall be considered for the entire original parcel. Private driveways are excluded from this definition.

A businesses operated on a lot for the sale of agriculture and forestry-related products.

Any discarded material or article and shall include, but not be limited to, scrap metal, scrapped, abandoned or junked motor vehicles (including tires and other parts therefrom), machinery, equipment, paper, glass containers and structures. It shall not include, however, refuse or garbage kept in a proper container for the purpose of prompt disposal.

Any outdoor area where scrap metal, paper, rags, tires, and other waste and/or used materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, bailed, packaged, disassembled or handled; or where inoperable machinery, motor vehicles or other salvage (as defined above) are collected, dismantled, stored or sold for parts.

A public, sectarian, or private nonprofit establishment approved by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to provide formal academic and/or vocational education at the kindergarten, elementary, and secondary levels.

An academic or nonacademic establishment providing nonacademic training, vocational, or trade-related educational courses and/or programs.

Any landscaping or structure such as walls, fences, landscaped berms, and hedges, used to conceal or reduce the negative visual and audio impacts of certain land uses or activities from streets or adjacent development. The height of a screen is measured from the highest finished grade abutting the element to be screened.

A structure or group of structures consisting of individual self-contained units that are less than 500 square feet in size and are leased or owned for the storage of business and household goods or contractor's supplies.

A structure that provides recreation, social, or noninvasive health maintenance services, such as blood pressure screening, to senior citizens by a professionally trained staff or volunteers.

An area of land, including structures, used for the sale of gasoline or other motor vehicle fuel and oil and other lubricating substances, sale of motor vehicle accessories which may include associated facilities for automobile servicing, excluding painting.

The minimum distance that a structure can be located from a right-of-way or property front, rear and side line or another structure, thereby creating a required open space lot.

A pierced or bored hole drilled or being drilled into the ground but above the Marcellus Shale rock formation for the purpose of, or to be used for, producing, extracting or injecting gas, oil, petroleum or another liquid related to oil or gas production or storage, including brine disposal.

The area occupied by the facilities, structures, materials and equipment, whether temporary or permanent, necessary for or incidental to the preparation, construction, drilling, fracturing, production or operation of a shallow well. This definition also includes any exploratory wells for shallow well sites. If multiple areas are used, then the total combined areas shall be considered the shallow well site area.

The use of a dwelling or dwelling unit in which the owner rents any area of the dwelling or dwelling unit to one or more individuals for compensation or fee, including offer of exchange in kind, of any type (whether or not involving overnight accommodations or separate sleeping quarters) for less than 30 consecutive days. This definition applies to all types of dwellings for residential use including but not limited to single-family dwellings, multiple-family dwellings, duplexes, apartments, and townhomes.

Any device, fixture, placard, or structure that use any color, form, graphic, illumination, symbol, or writing to advertise, announce the purpose of, or identify the purpose of a person or entity, or to communicate information of any kind to the public.

The entire face of a sign including the advertising surface and any framing, trim or molding, but not including the supporting structure.

The practice of growing and cultivation of trees.

A dwelling unit attached to one or more other dwelling units by common party walls where each individual dwelling unit is accessed from the exterior of the unit and where each individual dwelling unit is intended to be occupied by one family.

A structure containing one dwelling unit which is the only principal building on the lot and is intended to be occupied by one family.

An organization of persons with an identified purpose for providing services and opportunities associated with civic outreach to all ages of the general public.

An establishment providing assistance to those persons requiring help with legal, counseling, employment, learning or physical disabilities needs.

An authorized use which may be granted only by a Zoning Hearing Board pursuant to express standards prescribed in this chapter and a hearing conducted by a Zoning Hearing Board pursuant to public notice.

Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, anus or female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areolae; or male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered.

The line defining the edge of the legal width of a dedicated street right-of-way.

Any man-made or prefabricated object having an ascertainable stationary location on or in land or water, whether or not affixed to the land. Structures include, but are not limited to buildings, sheds, decks, signs, fences, ponds over 1/2 acre in size, retaining walls, and landfills but excluding swing sets, playground equipment, landscaping, concrete or pavestone patios and residential parking pads.

An establishment used as a workspace by one or more artist, martial artist, photographer, musician, artisan craftsperson or other similar professionals, which may include space for the instruction of the public, as well as space for exhibits and sales incidental to the primary use as a studio.

An establishment where the principal use is the serving of alcoholic beverages by the drink to the general public and where food or packaged beverages may be served or sold as an accessory use.

A structure intended to be used for a period of one year or less, including but not limited to construction or land sales trailers, tents, bleachers, air-supported structures, seasonal displays, and similar structures.

See "Deep well."

See "Dwelling unit."

The practice of raising ducks and/or chickens on a parcel that is less than one acre in size.

The purpose of the activity for which the land or structure thereon is designed, arranged or intended, or for which it is occupied or maintained. The term "principal use" or "use by right," or its equivalent, shall not be deemed to include any nonconforming use.

The major or dominant use of a lot.

Within the framework of this chapter, utilities shall include public water or public sanitary sewer facilities. Public sewerage facilities are those operated and maintained by the Deer Creek Drainage Basin Authority and/or Richland Township or its designee. Any future expansion of the public sewer system must be in keeping with the "Allegheny County Comprehensive Sewerage Needs Plan" and the Township's "Comprehensive Plan" Public Water Service by the Municipal Authority of the Borough of Oakmont, the Hampton Township Municipal Authority and Fawn Frazer Joint Water Authority. Each authority operates and maintains the water system within its respective service areas and is responsible for future expansion in keeping with the Allegheny County Comprehensive Water system Needs plan and the Township's Comprehensive Plan.

A modification of the regulations of this chapter by the Zoning Hearing Board to an owner in the use of land or a structure when a literal enforcement of this chapter would result in unnecessary hardship. All variances must be forwarded to the Board of Supervisors and entered in their official minutes as a matter of public record.

An establishment containing facilities for the medical or surgical treatment of animals or pets. Use as a kennel shall be limited to short-time boarding, shall be fully enclosed within a structure or building, and shall only be incidental to such medical uses.

A structure or part thereof used for the housing, storage, adapting for sale, packaging, or wholesale distribution of goods, wares, merchandise, food stuff substances, and articles, but excluding the maintenance or fueling of vehicles.

Water obtained from a hydrant, stream, lake, water well, river, spring or other source, that has not been treated or utilized in commercial or industrial operations, or water obtained from public water sources, such as hydrants and private/municipal water providers, in a form that is appropriate for human consumption.

A fluid which was formerly fresh water but which has been exposed to chemicals, minerals or other substances that are not part of the water treatment process utilized for delivery of water for human consumption. This definition of "impaired water" includes, but is not limited to, terms such as "brine," "fracturing fluid," "produced water," "recycled water," "impaired water," "flowback water" and any other fluid that does not satisfy the definition of "fresh water" that is utilized in oil and gas development operations.

The person (including any natural person, partnership, association, company, corporation or entity of any kind or type), and all subcontractors, agents, (i) designated as the well operator on the permit application or well registration, or (ii) the applicant.

A person (including any natural person, partnership, association, company, corporation or entity of any kind or type), who owns, manages, leases, controls or possesses an oil or gas well.

The graded and fenced in area upon which permanent unconventional drilling equipment, including the well bore and related facilities, are located.

An establishment primarily engaged in selling merchandise to retailers, institutional, commercial, professional business customers, or other wholesalers, rather than to the general public; and may include warehouse(s) and/or distribution center(s) on the site of the principal business.

The area of a property between property lines and setback lines, of dimensions as herein noted in the Zoning Ordinance for each zoning district, within which enclosed buildings, or structures, or any enclosed portion thereof, shall not be constructed. Fences and walls may be permitted in any yard subject to height limitations as indicated herein.

The area of a property extending across the entire width of the lot between the front building line and the street line.

The area of a property extending from the rear of the main building along the rear lot line (not necessarily a street line) throughout the entire width of the lot.

The area of a property extending from the side of any building along the side lot line through the entire depth of the building.

The legal, administrative process whereby a municipality divides its territory into districts and applies to each district a number of regulations to control the use of land, the height and bulk of buildings, and the area of ground to be built upon.

The Board assigned the duties of judging various appeals of person aggrieved by the interpretation of the terms of this chapter.

The official Zoning Map or Maps of West Deer Township, which are part of the West Deer Township Zoning Ordinance, and all amendments thereto.

The duly appointed administrative officer designated to administer the Zoning Ordinance and issue zoning or building permits.

A statement signed by the Zoning Officer indicating that the application for permission to construct, alter, or add is approved and in accordance with the requirements of the terms of this chapter.