A way or means of approach to provide physical entrance to a lot.

A measure of land area containing 43,560 square feet.

An individual 18 or more years of age.

A development option in the Residential Agriculture District.

A right-of-way or service way which provides a secondary means of public access to the side or rear of abutting properties and is not intended for general vehicular circulation.

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

Any system of wires, rods, discs, panels, flat panels, dishes, whips, or other similar devices used for the transmission or reception of wireless signals. An antenna may include an omnidirectional antenna (rod), directional antenna (panel), parabolic antenna (disc) or any other wireless antenna. An antenna shall not include tower-based wireless communications facilities defined below.

A landowner or developer, as defined in the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code,[1] who has filed an application for development, including his or her heirs, successors and assigns.

Every application, whether preliminary, tentative or final, required to be filed and approved prior to start of construction or development, including but not limited to an application for a building permit, or the approval of a subdivision plan or the approval of a land development plan.

The sum of the areas of the several floors of the building or structure, including areas used for human occupancy or required for the conduct of the business or use and basements, attics and penthouses, as measured from the exterior faces of the walls. It does not include unenclosed porches, attics not used for human occupancy, or any such floor space intended and used for accessory heating and ventilating equipment.

The channel at the top of bank or point where water begins to overflow onto a floodplain.

Building space below the ground story. A basement shall be counted as building space for the purpose of floor area only if the vertical distance between the ceiling and the average level of the adjoining ground is more than four feet or if used for business or dwelling purposes.

An area of land divided into lots and bounded by three or more streets.

Land area planted with trees, shrubs, ground cover, or a combination of landscape materials, used to separate a street from another land; to separate one land use from another land use; to shield or block lights, noise or other nuisances; or to protect the views from public areas.

A structure having a roof, which is used for the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, or property. The word "building" shall include any part thereof.

That percentage of the lot area covered by the building area (the aggregate of the maximum horizontal cross-section areas of all buildings on a lot, including accessory structures, above the ground level, measured at the greatest outside dimensions).

The two-dimensional area of a lot within which a principal structure is permitted to be built.

The vertical distance measured from the average finished grade at the front facade to the top of the highest point of a flat or shed roof, including building equipment, to the deck level on a mansard roof, and to the average distance between the eaves and the ridge level for a gable, hip, or gambrel roof.

A line parallel to the lot line a distance measured perpendicular therefrom as prescribed by this chapter for a required yard.

The minimum distance between buildings. The minimum building spacing shall be measured from the outermost wall or projection, excluding bay windows, chimneys, flues, columns, cornices and gutters.

A subordinate building located on the same lot as a principal building and clearly incidental and subordinate to the principal building. Any portion of a principal building devoted or intended to be devoted to an accessory use is not an accessory building.

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

An occupation, profession or trade that includes commercial, industrial, and professional activity, whether "for profit" or otherwise.

The maximum thickness or diameter of a tree at a specified point. For measuring street trees and trees for buffering and landscaping purposes, caliper measurements shall be taken at a point on the trunk six inches above natural ground line for trees up to four inches in caliper and at a point 12 inches above the natural ground for trees over four inches in caliper. For measuring existing trees to determine whether they are a resource, caliper measurements shall be taken at a point on the trunk 4 1/2 feet above the natural ground.

The hard or paved surface portion of a street, or that portion of a street that includes travel lanes and parking lanes, but does not include shoulders, curbs, sidewalks, or swales, used by vehicles in the regular course of travel over the street.

A document allowing the occupancy or use of a building and certifying that the structure or use has been constructed and will be used in compliance with all the applicable municipal codes and ordinances.

Any use which substantially differs from the previous use of a building or land.

The mounting of one or more WCFs, including antennas, on an existing tower-based WCF or utility light pole.

Any vehicle other than a passenger vehicle used in the conduct of a business and which either exceeds a loading capacity of 3/4 ton or is marked with a sign indicating a business use, or both. Farm vehicles shall not be considered commercial vehicles.

A use permitted in a particular zoning district in accordance with the specific standards set forth in this chapter and pursuant to the provisions in Article VI of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act 247 of 1968, as amended.[2]

A development option in the Residential Agriculture and Residential Conservation Districts.

Next to, abutting, or touching and having a boundary, or portion thereof, which is coterminous, or a lot or parcel of land which shares all or part of a common lot line with another lot or parcel of land.

Any change to or in a building which would alter its use classification.

A street with an intersection at a street at one end and terminating at the other end in a vehicular turnaround.

Four and five-tenths feet above grade.

Final adjudication of any board or other body granted jurisdiction under the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act 247 as amended,[3] to do so, either by reason of the grant of exclusive jurisdiction or by reason of appeals from determinations.

A flat-floored area, raised from surrounding grade by piers, adjacent to a building. Any permanent solid roof or enclosure of the deck shall be considered an extension of the adjoining building (retractable awning and/or trellis-type cover is not a roof or enclosure).

The number of dwelling units per unit of area.

The density of dwelling units calculated by dividing the total number of dwelling units by the base site area, as determined by § 450-1701.

The maximum density permitted on the net buildable site area, as determined by § 450-1701.

Final action by an officer, body or agency charged with the administration of this chapter or applications thereunder, except the Board of Supervisors and Zoning Hearing Board. Determinations shall be appealable only to the Boards designated as having jurisdiction for such appeal.

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.

Any man-made changes to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to buildings or other structures, the placement of mobile homes, streets or other paving, utilities, filling, grading, excavation, mining, dredging or drilling operations and the subdivision of land.

Zoning, subdivision, Official Map, floodplain regulation or other governmental regulation over the use and development of land.

Network of spatially separated antenna sites connected to a common source that provides wireless service within a geographic area or structure.

A part, zone or geographical area within the municipality within which certain and specific land use, zoning and/or development regulations apply uniformly.

A generally circular line, the circumference of which is determined by the outer reaches of a tree's widest branching points.

A private vehicular way providing access to parking spaces, a garage, dwelling or other structure.

A building or portion thereof that is used for human habitation.

Any room or group of rooms located within a residential building and forming a single, habitable unit with facilities which are used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking and eating by one family.

A grant of one or more of the property rights by the property owner to, or for, the use by the public, a corporation, or other person in equity.

An easement precluding future or additional development of a lot, parcel or tract of land.

An easement secured for the preservation of watercourses, natural drainageways, stream corridors and perennial and/or intermittent streams, and for related man-made drainage facilities.

An exit.

A condition that:

A person who conducts his work on the lot where the business, institutional, commercial, industrial, home occupation or other activity is located, whether or not as an employee or as an independent contractor.

Any placement or obstruction in a delineated floodway, right-of-way, easement, required yard, or setback.

An economic unit, generally at a single physical location, where business is conducted or services or industrial operations are performed.

A development option in the Residential Conservation and Residential Agriculture Districts.

The removal or recovery by any means whatsoever of soil, rock, minerals, mineral substances or organic substances other than vegetation, from water or land on or beneath the land surface, whether exposed or submerged.

A plan used to document site conditions so that open space purposes can be determined.

The exterior wall of a building exposed to public view.

One or more persons related by blood, foster relationship, guardianship, marriage or adoption and, in addition, any domestic servants or gratuitous guests thereof; or one or more persons who need not be so related, and in addition, domestic servants or gratuitous guests thereof, who are living together in a single, nonprofit dwelling unit and maintaining a common household with a single cooking facility. A roomer, boarder or lodger shall not be considered a member of the family.

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

The portion of the base site area encompassing preserved farmland soils and protected in accordance with the requirements of this chapter. The farmland preservation tract may include other soil classifications and other protected natural resources located upon the site. Structures and facilities such as residential dwellings, residential accessory structures, stormwater management facilities, wastewater treatment or disposal facilities, wells, roadways, and driveways shall not be located upon the farmland preservation tract.

All soils designated Capability Classes I, II, and III by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and/or classified as prime agricultural soils and soils of statewide importance under this chapter.

Federal Communications Commission.

The act of cutting a standing tree so that it falls to the ground.

An artificially constructed barrier of any man-made material or combination of materials erected to enclose or screen areas of land or land use.

Sand, gravel, earth, earthen or other materials of any composition whatsoever, placed or deposited by humans on or under the ground surface.

Any areas of West Rockhill Township, classified as special flood hazard areas (SFHAs) in the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) and the accompanying Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) dated March 16, 2015, and issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) or the most recent revision thereof, including all digital data developed as part of the Flood Insurance Study and, for areas abutting streams and watercourses where the 100-year floodplain (1% annual chance flood) has not been delineated by the Flood Insurance Study, the applicant shall submit a floodplain identification study. The study prepared by a registered professional engineer expert in the preparation of hydrologic and hydraulic studies shall be used to delineate the 100-year floodplain. The floodplain study shall be subject to the review and approval of the Township. All areas inundated by the 100-year flood shall be included in the Floodplain Area.

A person who has a minimum of four years' experience in the field of forestry including the preparation of forestry plans.

A person who is, as a minimum, a graduate of a two-year forest technician program accredited by the Society of American Foresters.

A person who is, as a minimum, a graduate of a four-year college or university forestry curriculum accredited by the Society of American Foresters.

A written description with a map of a specific forestry operation prepared before the operation commences.

That portion of a lot extending along and parallel to a street line.

A deck, building or structure, or part thereof, used or intended to be used for the parking and/or storage of vehicles.

A building, structure or part thereof which is accessory to a residential dwelling and which is used for the parking and storage of vehicles owned and operated by the residents thereof, and in which no commercial activity, use, or service is rendered, provided or conducted, for the benefit of the general public.

The final elevation of the ground surface after development. Average finished grade shall be the midpoint between the highest and lowest points of the finished grade.

The elevation of the ground surface in its natural state, before man-made alterations.

A road used to move forest products from the log landing to a public roadway.

An administrative proceeding conducted by a Board pursuant to Section 909.1 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act 247, as amended.[4]

A hedgerow is a linear plant community dominated by trees and shrubs. Hedgerows occur along roads, fence lines, property lines, or between fields, and may occur naturally or be specially planted (e.g., as a windbreak). For the purposes of this chapter, hedgerows are considered woodlands or wooded areas and regulated as such.

A district, zone, or area designated by the Board of Supervisors within which the buildings, structures, appurtenances and places are of basic and vital importance because of their association with history, or because of their unique architectural style and scale, including color, proportion, form and architectural detail, or because of their being part of, or related to, a square, park, or area the design or general arrangement of which should be preserved and/or developed according to a fixed plan based on cultural, historical and/or architectural motives or purposes.

Structures and sites having remarkable significance to local, regional, state or national cultural traditions, heritage or history.

The protection, rehabilitation, or restorations of districts, sites, buildings, structures and artifacts significant in American history, architecture, archaeology, or culture.

Impervious surfaces are those surfaces which do not absorb rain. All buildings, parking areas, driveways, roads, sidewalks and any areas in concrete, asphalt, and packed stone shall be considered impervious surfaces. The Township Engineer shall make the final determination of whether a surface is to be classified as pervious or impervious.

The impervious surface ratio is measured by dividing the total area of all impervious surfaces within the site by the net buildable site area.

A stream identified on United States Geological Survey (USGS) mapping whose water flow normally occurs in the wetter parts of the year (October through April) or following major storm events.

Predominantly non-native, nonindigenous, alien tree, shrub, vine, or herbaceous species that grow or reproduce aggressively, usually because they have few or no natural predators, and which can so dominate an ecosystem that they kill off or drive out many indigenous plant species. Invasive trees, shrubs, vines or herbaceous species include, but are not limited to: Norway maple, tree of heaven, paper mulberry, white mulberry, empress tree, white poplar, multiflora rosa, Japanese barberry, European barberry, autumn olive, border privet, common privet, morrow's honeysuckle, tartarian honeysuckle, Japanese honeysuckle, common buckthorn, wineberry, Japanese spiraea, linden vibernum, guelder rose, oriental bittersweet, leatherleaf clematis, mile-a-minute weed, kudzu, garlic mustard, Canada thistle, crown vetch, tall fescue, purple loosestrife, sweet clover, Japanese stilt grass, reed canary grass, Johnson grass, and other species as listed on the Department of Conservation and Natural Resource's (DCNR) Invasive Plants in Pennsylvania, as amended.

Any scrap, waste, reclaimable material or debris, whether or not stored or used in conjunction with the dismantling, processing, salvage, storage, baling, disposal or other use or disposition of the same.

A vehicle not having valid inspection stickers issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, excluding farm vehicles, or a wrecked or broken vehicle or the major parts of such vehicles.

An area surrounding the shoreline of a lake or pond.

Natural or artificial bodies of water which retain water year-round. A lake is a body of water naturally occurring or man-made, covering an area of two or more acres. A pond is a permanent body of water naturally occurring or man-made, covering an area up to two acres. The shorelines of such water bodies shall be measured from the maximum condition rather than permanent pool if there is any difference.

Ground, soil or earth, including structures thereon, above or below the ground surface.

Any of the following activities:

A description of how land is occupied/utilized or intended to be occupied/utilized, as provided in and regulated by this chapter.

A place where logs are assembled for transportation in loads.

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.

All cattle, horses, ponies, donkeys, mules, hogs, sheep, rabbits, hares, poultry, and any other similar creatures raised for human use or profit, but shall not include dogs, cats or similar creatures customarily kept as household pets.

To cut tops and slash into small pieces to allow material to settle close to the ground.

A designated parcel, tract, or area of land, established by plan, subdivision, or otherwise permitted by law, to be owned, used, developed, or built upon.

The area contained within the property lines of a lot shown on a subdivision plan or required by this chapter. Excluded are easements for overhead facilities, public water and sewer facilities, and any area within an existing or designated ultimate street right-of-way or the area of any easement for detention basins or other above ground stormwater management and/or drainage facilities. The minimum lot area does not include any area designated as open space under the requirements of § 450-1701, Application of natural resource protection standards.

The line separating the lot from the ultimate right-of-way.

Any lot line which is parallel to or within 45° of being parallel to a street line. In the case of a lot having no street frontage or a lot of an odd shape, the lot line farthest from any street shall be considered a rear lot line.

Any lot line which is not a street line or a rear lot line.

Any boundary line of a lot.

The distance measured between the side lot lines at the required building setback line. In a case where there is only one side lot line, lot width shall be measured between such side lot line and the opposite rear lot line or ultimate right-of-way line.

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

A lot which does not have the required frontage on a street but which gains access to a street by means of a strip of land connecting the lot to a public street.

A lot other than a corner lot.

The smallest lot area established by this chapter on which a use may be located in a particular zoning district.

A through lot fronting on two classifications of streets, where the front yard faces the internal or lower classification street and the rear yard faces the perimeter or external street.

A lot which fronts upon two parallel streets, or which fronts upon two streets which do not intersect at the boundaries of the lot.

A structure, transportable in one or more sections which is built on a permanent chassis and is designed for use with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities. The term also includes parked trailers, travel trailers, mobile homes and other similar vehicles placed on a site for more than 180 consecutive days.

An area extending beyond the delineated wetland, stream or lake and pond shoreline.

A transportable, single-family dwelling intended for permanent occupancy, contained in one unit, or in two units designed to be joined into one integral unit capable of again being separated for repeated towing, which arrives at a site complete and ready for occupancy except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembly operations and constructed so that it may be used without a permanent foundation. For purposes of this chapter, travel trailers are not considered as mobile homes.

A parcel of land in a mobile home park, improved with the necessary utility connections and other appurtenances necessary for the erection thereon of a single mobile home.

A parcel of land or contiguous parcels of land which has been so designated and improved that it contains two or more mobile home lots for the placement of mobile homes.

A WCF or site which consists of a single pole structure, designed and erected on the ground or on top of a structure, to support communications antennas and connecting appurtenances.

A professional engineer licensed as such in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, duly appointed as the Engineer for the municipality.

A plant which occurred within the state of Pennsylvania before settlement by Europeans.

All nontower wireless communications facilities, including but not limited to, antennas and related equipment. Nontower WCF shall not include support structures for antennas and related equipment.

Any use that is not a residential or agricultural use, including but not limited to commercial, industrial, institutional, recreational, or utilities, and any use listed in this chapter that does not fall within § 450-1604B.

Any parcel or area of land or water unimproved and set aside, dedicated or reserved for resource protection, public enjoyment, or for the use and enjoyment of owners and occupants of land adjoining or neighboring such open space. Open space shall not include land occupied by nonrecreational structures, roads, street rights-of-way, rights-of-way for aboveground electric transmission facilities, parking lots, land reserved for future parking, any area which is required by this chapter for minimum lot areas, minimum yards, minimum setbacks, building separations, or stormwater facilities, or any other land precluded from being counted as open space in accordance with the terms of this chapter.

The total amount of required open space divided by the base site area, as determined by § 450-1701.

The individual, partnership, company, firm, association or corporation engaged in the harvest of timber, including his agents, subcontractors or employees.

The individual, partnership, company, firm, association or corporation which holds title to standing timber and to the land on which it is situate, including his agents or subcontractors or employees.

See "lot."

Land managed primarily for the production of desirable, introduced, perennial forage plants for grazing livestock. Pastureland cover may consist of a single species in a pure stand, a grass mixture, or a grass-legume mixture.

An impervious and/or semipervious area constructed at the same elevation as the surrounding grade, adjacent to a building. Any permanent solid roof or enclosure of the patio shall be considered an extension of the adjacent building.

A stream whose water flow normally occurs year-round and is identified on United States Geological Survey (USGS) mapping.

Written permission, warrant or license granted by a governmental authority.

A permit issued by the Township prior to the construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair or addition to a building, structure or part thereof.

A permit issued by the Zoning Officer stating that the purpose for which a building, structure, land or portion thereof will be used shall be in conformance with all applicable requirements of this chapter for the zoning district in which the use and property is situated.

A use allowed by right in a zoning district and which meets all of the regulations applicable to that use and zoning district.

Individuals, corporations, companies, associations, joint-stock companies, firms, partnerships, limited-liability companies, corporations and other entities established pursuant to statutes of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; provided that "person" does not include or apply to the Township or to any department or agency of the Township.

A covered unenclosed entrance to a building, with a floor elevation raised above surrounding grade.

A use that is not permitted in a zoning district.

A formal meeting held pursuant to public notice by the Board of Supervisors or the Planning Commission, intended to inform and obtain public comment, prior to taking action in accordance with the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act 247 as amended.[6]

A forum held pursuant to notice under the Act of October 15, 1998 (P.L. 729, No. 93), known as the "Sunshine Act" (65 Pa.C.S.A. § 701 et seq.).

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.

Those materials which may be processed or refabricated for reuse and which are specified by the Township for separation from the regular solid waste. Such material may include, but not be limited to, aluminum products, cardboard, ferrous containers, bimetal containers, glass containers, newspaper, magazines, periodicals, other paper product of various kinds, plastic containers and yard wastes.

The collection, separation, recovery and sale or reuse of metals, glass, paper, plastics and other materials which would otherwise be disposed of or processed as municipal waste, as defined in this chapter.

Any letter, review, memorandum, compilation or similar writing made by any body, board, officer or consultant other than a solicitor to any other body, board, officer or consultant for the purpose of assisting the recipient of such report in the rendering of any decision or determination. All reports shall be deemed recommendatory and advisory only and shall not be binding upon the recipient, board, officer, body or agency, nor shall any appeal lie therefrom.

Zoning districts which primarily permit residential and agricultural uses. Zoning districts meeting this definition as of the effective date of this chapter are RC Residential Conservation District, RA Residential Agricultural District, SR Suburban Residential District, VC Village Center District, and the VR Village Residential District.

The surface of and space above and below any real property in the Township in which the Township has a regulatory interest, or interest as a trustee for the public, as such interests now or hereafter exist, including, but not limited to, all streets, highways, avenues, roads, alleys, sidewalks, tunnels, viaducts, bridges, skyways, or any other public place, area or property under the control of the Township, and any unrestricted public or utility easements established, dedicated, platted, improved or devoted for utility purposes, but excluding lands other than streets that are owned by the Township.

The legal right-of-way as established by the commonwealth or other governing body with jurisdiction and currently in existence.

An area of land and vegetation adjacent to a body of water, stream, river, marsh, or shoreline. Riparian areas form the transition between the aquatic and the terrestrial environment. This includes woodlands, vegetation, and floodplains.

An area of trees, shrubs, and other vegetation, adjacent to a body of water that is managed to maintain the integrity of stream channels and shorelines, to reduce the impact of upland sources of pollution by trapping, filtering, and converting sediments, nutrients, and other chemicals, and to supply food, cover, and thermal protection to fish and other wildlife.

A person, except family, occupying any room or group of rooms forming a single, habitable unit used or intended to be used for living and sleeping, but not for cooking or eating purposes, and paying compensation for lodging or board and lodging by prearrangement for a week or more at a time to an owner or operator. Any person occupying such room or rooms and paying such compensation without prearrangement or for less than a week at a time shall be classified for purposes of this chapter not as a roomer, boarder or lodger but as a guest of a commercial lodging establishment (motel, hotel, or bed-and-breakfast).

A public utility system designed to collect, centrally treat and dispose of sewage from customers in compliance with Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection regulations or regulations of West Rockhill Township or West Rockhill Township Authority specifications or the authority having jurisdiction, whichever are more stringent.

The edge of the normal pool of water associated with a lake or pond system, not associated with a drought or flood condition.

A perennial woody plant different from a tree by its low growth and multiple stems.

The site shall be defined as a parcel or parcels of land intended to have one or more buildings or intended to be subdivided into one or more lots or developed by a land development within the boundaries of West Rockhill Township.

All land area within the site as defined in the deed and as measured by a site survey.

The area of a lot, parcel or tract of land exclusive of the area located within all existing and ultimate street rights-of-way, exclusive of the area located within utilities rights-of-way and exclusive of land shown on previous subdivision or land development plans as restricted from development.

That area of a site remaining after required open space area and lands set aside for resource protection, as defined by this chapter, is deducted from the base site area.

Main route for skidding logs from woods to the landing.

A temporary trail used for skidding logs from the site of felling to the main skid road.

Dragging trees on the ground, by any means, from the stump to the landing.

Debris left after logging, including logs, chunks, bark, branches, stumps and broken understory trees and brush.

A standing dead tree without branches or the standing portion of a broken off tree. Snags may provide feeding and/or nesting sites for wildlife.

All unconsolidated mineral and organic material of whatever origin that overlies bedrock and can be readily excavated.

Land available for agricultural purposes that contains soils with a land capability classification of Class I or Class 2 or listed as prime farmland in the Official Soil Survey provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Web Soil Survey (http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/). In addition, other lands available for agricultural purposes identified in the Official Soil Survey with a land capability classification of Class 3 or listed as farmlands of statewide importance in the Official Soil Survey are farmland soils for the purposes of this chapter.

Areas subject to periodic flooding or listed in the Official Soil Survey provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Web Soil Survey (http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/), as soils having a flood frequency other than none.

Soils that formed under conditions of saturation, flooding, or ponding long enough during the growing season to develop anaerobic conditions in the upper part and can support the growth and regeneration of hydrophytic vegetation. For the purpose of this chapter, hydric soils shall include both poorly drained and very poorly drained soils, including those soils that have been modified by anthropomorphic activities. Final determination of the presence and extent of hydric soils rests with the Township based on soils information provided by the applicant.

A use permitted in a particular zoning district only upon approval being granted by the Zoning Hearing Board in accordance with the standards set forth in this chapter and of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, as amended.[7]

A unique, rare, or otherwise specifically selected tree considered worthy of conservation by West Rockhill Township because of its species, size, age, shape, form, historical importance, or any other significant characteristic, including listing as a species of special concern by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Spillover parking spaces are designed for passenger automobiles and are intended to provide for arrival of service vehicles, occasional visitors or the sporadic arrival of a large number of visitors for a party or other gathering.

A grouping of trees of sufficiently uniform species, composition, age and condition to be distinguished from surrounding stands and managed as a single unit.

The type of forest management treatment, if any, to be applied to a particular stand to achieve the stated management objective. The stand prescription should include, but not be limited to, detailed instructions on how that treatment is to be carried out on the ground, the desired residual stand and details on any other treatments to be applied.

A selection, shelterwood, seed tree or clear-cut that is designed to replace the existing stand with a new stand of young trees.

A development option in the Residential Conservation and Residential Agriculture Districts.

Camouflaging methods applied to wireless communications towers, antennas and other facilities, which render them more visually appealing or blend the proposed facility into the existing structure or visual backdrop in such a manner as to render it minimally visible to the casual observer. Such methods include, but are not limited to, architecturally screened roof-mounted antennas, building-mounted antennas painted to match the existing structure and facilities constructed to resemble trees, silos, shrubs, and light poles.

Areas where the average slope is 8% or greater, which, because of this slope, are subject to high rates of stormwater runoff, erosion and/or pollution.

The surface runoff generated by precipitation reaching the ground surface.

Any structure, natural or man-made, that, due to its condition, design, or construction, conveys, stores, or otherwise affects stormwater runoff quality, rate or quantity. Typical stormwater management facilities include, but are not limited to, detention and retention basins, open channels, storm sewers, pipes, and infiltration structures.

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

That story with its floor level immediately above the average finished grade level of the adjoining ground at any particular point or side of the building. The ground story is the first story used in determining the permissible number of stories.

A story, used for business or dwelling purposes, immediately under a gable, hip or gambrel roof.

A street, avenue, boulevard, road, highway, freeway, parkway, lane, alley, viaduct, and any other ways used or intended to be used by vehicular traffic or pedestrians, whether public or private.

The dividing line between the street and the lot. The street line shall be the ultimate (future) right-of-way line.

A local street providing access to abutting properties.

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

The division 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 purposes, whether immediate or future, of lease, partition by the court for the distribution to heirs or devisees, transfer of ownership or building or lot development.

A raised embankment with a relatively level top.

The upper portion of a felled tree not merchantable because of small size, taper or defect.[8]

Any structure that is used for the purpose of supporting one or more antennas, including, but not limited to, self-supporting lattice towers, guy towers and monopoles, utility poles, and light poles. DAS hub facilities are considered to be tower-based WCFs.

West Rockhill Township, Bucks County, PA.

Any activity, occupation, business or operation carried on or intended to be carried on.

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

The main use on a lot.

Solid waste that is especially harmful or potentially harmful to public health as defined in the Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act (Act 97).[9] This shall include, but not be limited to, explosives, toxic materials and medical wastes. For the purposes of this chapter, hazardous waste does not include small quantities of such waste available on a retail basis to the homeowner (e.g., aerosol cans, fertilizers, herbicides, household cleaners, paints, pesticides, etc.) for use in their home.

Any garbage, refuse, industrial lunchroom or office waste and other material, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material, resulting from operation of residential, municipal, commercial or institutional establishments and from community activities, and any sludge not meeting the definition of "residual or hazardous waste" hereunder from a municipal, commercial or institutional water supply treatment plant, wastewater treatment plant, or air pollution control facility.

Any garbage, refuse, other discarded material or other waste, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous materials resulting from industrial, mining and agricultural operations and any sludge from an industrial, mining or agricultural water supply treatment facility, wastewater treatment facility or air pollution control facility, provided that it is not hazardous.

Waste, including, but not limited to, municipal, residual or hazardous wastes, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous materials.

A purveyor of a community water supply that owns and/or operates a public water supply system. Public water suppliers include municipal authorities, municipal water departments, and privately owned and/or operated entities, such as investor companies and homeowners' associations.

Any privately owned system for supplying and distributing water from a common source(s) to two or more dwellings and/or other buildings in a single neighborhood and/or land development.

A system for supplying and distributing water to a single dwelling or other building from a source located on the same lot.

A system for the provision to the public of water for human consumption through pipes or other constructed conveyances, if such system has at least 15 service connections or regularly serves at least 25 individuals.

A channel or conveyance of surface water having defined bed and banks, whether natural or artificial, with perennial or intermittent flow. Watercourses include intermittent and perennial streams.

All streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, reservoirs, aquifers, irrigation systems, drainage systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface or underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon the state or any portion thereof, and as defined by the Pennsylvania Clean Streams Act.[10]

Those areas that are inundated and saturated by surface water or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions, including swamps, marshes, bogs or similar areas.

Area of protection around a wetland within which specific development, construction, and other human activities are prohibited.

The native environment of an animal ideally providing all elements for life and growth: food, water, cover and space.

Transmissions through the airwaves, including, but not limited to, infrared line of sight, cellular, PCS, microwave, satellite, or radio signals.

The antennas, nodes, control boxes, towers, poles, conduits, ducts, pedestals, electronics, and other equipment used for the purpose of transmitting, receiving, distributing, providing, or accommodating wireless communications services.

Any person that applies for a wireless communication facility building permit, zoning approval and/or permission to use the public ROW or other Township-owned land or property.

A freestanding structure, such as a tower-based wireless communications facility or any other support structure that could support the placement or installation of a wireless communications facility if approved by the Township.

Areas, groves or stands of mature or largely mature trees (i.e., greater than six inches caliper, except for dogwoods which shall be considered mature when the caliper is two inches or more) covering an area greater than 1/4 acre, measured from the dripline of the outer trees; or groves of mature trees (greater than 10 inches caliper) consisting of more than 10 trees; or any lot which has more than one viable tree of a caliper of six inches or greater per 1,500 square feet of lot area, and the associated intermediate layers in these areas including the understory shrubs and smaller trees, the ground layer of herbaceous plants and the forest floor.

An open space unobstructed from the ground up, on the same lot with a structure, extending along a lot line or street line and inward toward the structure. The size of a required yard shall be measured as the shortest distance from the lot line or street line toward the structure.