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Whitaker City Zoning Code

ARTICLE IX

Slope District

§ 440-15 Permitted uses in slope districts.

A. 
Except as provided in Article XI, Nonconforming Lots, Structures and Uses, no building or structure shall be constructed, and no building, structure or land, or part thereof shall be used for any purpose or in any manner other than for one or more of the uses hereinafter set forth as permitted in the Slope District.
B. 
Permitted uses in the Slope District are indicated in the list below. Specific uses, not included, but related or equivalent to a listed use may be permitted, subject to interpretation and approval by the Zoning Hearing Board.
C. 
The following uses shall be permitted in Slope Districts.
(1) 
Single-family dwellings, located within the buildable area of the lot and subject to the Slope Use Regulations.
(2) 
Public utility structure, facilities and installations for electricity, gas, oil, steam, telegraph, telephone (including telephone exchange building), and water, provided that such uses do not involve business offices or storage areas or structures requiring major trucking or traffic movements.
(3) 
Utility, railroads or other mass transportation company rights-of-way and trackage with accessory poles and wires, signals or other operating devices incident to the use thereof.
(4) 
Park or recreation area when owned and operated by a nonprofit organization.
(5) 
Cultivation of plants and plantings, when not involving retail sales, or advertising of sales, on the premises.
(6) 
Accessory use and structure customarily incident to any of the above uses, located within the buildable area of the lot unless otherwise specified, not involving retail sales, or advertising of sales on the premises.
(7) 
Fence (other than wire fence with barbs), walls and hedges subject to the provisions of Article X, § 440-24, of this chapter.
(8) 
Private garages used exclusively for the parking of automobiles of occupants or persons using the above permitted facilities.
(9) 
Signs, subject to the provisions of Article X, § 440-22, of this chapter.

§ 440-16 Slope use requirements.

A. 
Any structure or use permitted in Slope Districts hereafter erected, added to or structurally altered shall be located on a lot having not less than the minimum requirements set forth below and no more than one principal building shall be built upon any such lot. No existing lot shall be changed as to size or shape so as to result in the violation of the requirements set forth herein.
B. 
Area, yard and height requirements in Slope Districts.
(1) 
Minimum lot size: two acres.
(2) 
Minimum front yard depth: 30 feet.
(3) 
Minimum rear yard depth: 30 feet.
(4) 
Minimum side yard depth:
(a) 
Interior lot: 15 feet.
(b) 
Abutting a street or way: 30 feet.
(5) 
Maximum height:
(a) 
Principal building:
[1] 
Stories: 2 1/2.
[2] 
Feet: 38 feet.
(b) 
Accessory building:
[1] 
Feet: 15 feet.

§ 440-17 Use by special exception in Slope District.

[Added 10-13-2014 by Ord. No. 2-2014]
The Zoning Hearing Board shall permit following use by special exception:
A. 
Communications (antenna, facility, tower).

§ 440-18 Supplementary requirements and performance standards for special exception: communications, (antenna, facility, tower) in Slope District.

[Added 10-13-2014 by Ord. No. 2-2014]
A. 
The Zoning Hearing Board shall grant a special exception allowing a communication antenna, facility or tower in a Slope District provided that applicant shall meet the performance standards for communications (antenna, facility, tower) as set forth in Article VIII, § 440-14, Industrial use requirements and performance standards, Subsection C(2) through (4), (6) through (11) and (13) through (18), of this chapter of the Code of the Borough of Whitaker.
B. 
Additionally, an applicant who wishes to erect a communication antenna, facility or tower in a Slope District shall comply with the Borough's general goals for design and development set forth in Chapter 360, Subdivision and Land Development, § 360-77, of the Code of the Borough of Whitaker.