To join at a border or boundary; to share a common boundary with.

A building or use which:

The intentional integration of trees and shrubs into crop and animal farming systems to create environmental, economic and social benefits.

The all-encompassing noise level associated with a given environment, being a composite of sounds from all sources at the location, constituting the normal or existing level of environmental noise at a given location without extreme atmospheric conditions, such as wind greater than three meters per second or precipitation, and then adjusting the noise level to eliminate any noise associated with existing developments or facilities.

The breeding, raising or care of animals or livestock, excluding fowl, aquatic animals, and household pets.

A structure for housing domestic livestock that is made of wood or other similar materials that provides shelter from the elements.

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 as defined below.

An indoor area, whether privately or publicly owned, to which the public has access by right or by invitation, expressed or implied, whether by payment of money or not, including but not limited to private-members clubs, conference halls, activity centers, public halls, courthouses, municipal buildings, fire halls, libraries and school auditoriums, other than religious convocations.

State-of-the-art mitigation measures applied to oil and natural gas drilling and production to help ensure that energy development is conducted in an environmentally responsible manner.

Any structure having a roof.

The vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the grade of the perimeter of the proposed structure to the highest point of the roof for flat roofs, to the deck line of mansard roofs and to the mean height between eaves and ridges for gable, hip and gambrel roofs.

A line extending the entire width of the lot. The "building line" shall be located along the plane created by the wall of the building facing the front yard.

One or more offices of individual physicians, dentists, chiropractors or other medical practitioners and their supporting staffs where human patients receive diagnosis, treatment and counseling and who are not kept overnight, including a methadone clinic.

Any office of recognized professions, other than medical, such as 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.

A publicly funded place of educational instruction, typically Pre-K through 12th grade, that is free to attend and that operates under a charter granted by a recognized local board of school directors. Enrollment must comply with state and local laws governing public school admissions, must be nondiscriminatory and must be open to all students, with preference given to local residents if applicable, however, a lottery system may be used if demand in high.

A system utilized while drilling so that various types of pits are not used and instead steel bins or closed containers are used to collect all drilling waste.

The mounting of one or more WCFs, including antennas, on an existing tower-based WCF, or on any structure that already supports at least one nontower WCF.

The date within 60 days of the completion of drilling, redrilling or reworking of the well site.

A facility, licensed by the commonwealth, located within a building that is not used as a dwelling unit, for the care, on a regular basis, during part of a twenty-four-hour day, of children under the age of 16 or handicapped or elderly persons.

A nonproducing gas well used for the storage of wastewater.

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

Shall include any animal maintained, kept or possessed by a household, other than household pets, which shall include those typically associated with agricultural animal husbandry, to include the following and no other, the classifications for which shall be strictly construed: goats, sheep and pigs.

Any activity involving the breeding, raising, caring for, housing and principally the hobby/personal use of domestic livestock and products derived from those animals by the occupant, owner or lessee of the lot on which such use is located.

A dwelling designed for or occupied exclusively by two families, with separate entrances for each, but under one roof and with a wall or party wall between, but no interior connection between the two.

Any digging or boring of a new well to explore, develop, or produce oil, gas or other hydrocarbons or to inject gas, water or any other fluid or substance into the earth.

An area that includes the perimeter of the surface area of drilling operations.

Any building which is designed for or occupied in whole or in part as the home, residence or sleeping place of one or more persons either permanently in Zoning Districts R-1 through R-4 or transiently or permanently in Zoning Districts C, R-C-1 and M. Notwithstanding the above, the definition of a dwelling shall not preclude the principal occupant/owner or the principal tenant/occupant of a home in Zoning Districts R-1 through R-4 from having any friend or relatives as invited guests. Each dwelling shall have a minimum gross floor area of 750 square feet, subject to the Property Maintenance Code as adopted in Chapter 310.

Notice given by a municipality through the internet of the time and place of a public hearing and the particular nature of the matter to be considered at the hearing, pursuant to 53 P.S. § 10109.

A condition that:

Temporary geologic or geophysical activities, drilling in context with the "zoning" definition in this chapter, including seismic surveys, related to the search for natural gas or other subsurface hydrocarbons.

A facility, licensed or approved by the commonwealth as required by the laws of the commonwealth, located within a dwelling in which the operator resides, 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, including care provided to children who are relatives of the provider, where such use shall be secondary to the use of the dwelling for living purposes and shall meet all applicable requirements for home occupation.

Federal Communications Commission.

The murky, salty water from fracking natural gas wells. It consists of frack fluid which returns to the surface as well as produced water.

The management of forests and timberlands when practiced in accordance with accepted silvicultural principles, through developing, cultivating, harvesting, transporting and selling trees for commercial purposes, which does not involve any land development.

The process of injecting water, customized fracking fluid, steam, or gas into a gas well under pressure to improve gas recovery.

Water obtained from a potable water source of the commonwealth, such as a hydrant, stream, lake, water well, spring or other source that has not been treated or utilized in commercial or industrial operations.

The public right-of-way area located directly in front of a physical structure.

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 of 60° F. and pressure of 14.7 psia, any manufactured gas, any by-product gas or any mixture of gasses.

Any well drilled for the intent of extracting gas or other hydrocarbons from beneath the surface of the earth.

The sum of all gross horizontal areas of several floors of a building or buildings, measured from the exterior faces of exterior walls or from the center line of common walls separating buildings. This includes stairwells, rest rooms, lobby areas, floor space for mechanical equipment and all other common areas and basements.

Water in that portion of the generally recognized hydrologic cycle which occupies the pore spaces and fractures of saturated subsurface materials. Groundwater often supplies wells and springs and is often withdrawn for domestic, agricultural, municipal, industrial and other beneficial uses.

An establishment that provides room and board to persons who are residents by virtue of receiving supervised specialized services limited to health, social and/or rehabilitative services provided by a governmental agency, their licensed or certified agents or a nonprofit social service corporation charted in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or authorized to operate in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

The vertical distance measured from the ground level, including any base pad, to the highest point on a tower-based WCF, including antennas mounted on the tower and any other appurtenances.

An accessory use of a service character conducted entirely within a dwelling by the residents thereof, which use is clearly secondary to the use of the dwelling for living purposes and does not in any way change the character of the dwelling.

The processing and fabrication of certain materials and products where no process involved will produce noise, vibration, air pollution, fire hazard or noxious emission which will disturb or endanger neighboring properties. "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 and food products, but not animal slaughtering, curing nor rendering of fats.

An enclosed structure of any natural or man-made material or a combination of materials, permanently affixed to the land or a structure, intended to shelter a collection of books, magazines, or other printed literary materials available to the public for recreational use at no cost. Any books, magazines, or other printed materials which are characterized by the depiction or description of "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas," as further defined at § 450-22G(2)(b) of this chapter, are specifically excluded from this definition.

A public street or road, adopted by ordinance, serving abutting homogeneous land uses and providing for no truck usage except for local deliveries.

A parcel of land fronting on a street or highway, which is or may be occupied by a main building, or a unit group of buildings, and accessory buildings, with the open spaces required by this chapter.

The total area within the lot lines of a lot, provided that the area shall be measured to the street right-of-way line only and shall not include any part of an alley or areaway used in common with the owner or occupier of other lots.

That boundary of a lot which is along the right-of-way line of an existing or dedicated public street or, where no public street exists, is along a public way.

That boundary of a lot which is most distant from and most parallel to the front lot line.

Those boundaries of the lot that extend from the front lot line to the rear of the lot.

The horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured along the building line.

That portion bounded by the required front, side and rear yards.

Notice given by a municipality by first-class mail of the time and place of a public hearing and the particular nature of the matter to be considered at the hearing, pursuant to 53 P.S. § 10109.

An activity that involves more than 2,000 square feet of impervious area, to include both newly created impervious area and any reconfiguration of existing impervious area, and results in a total earth disturbance of more than 5,000 square feet.

A facility licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health to use the drug methadone, suboxone, and subutex in the treatment, maintenance and detoxification of persons.

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 incidental unpacking and assembly operations, and constructed so that it may be used without a permanent foundation.

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

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

An outdoor living space surfaced with asphalt or other durable material and designed to supplement the mobile home living area.

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 building or portion thereof containing three or more dwelling units.

An activity that involves more than 2,000 square feet of impervious area, to include both newly created impervious area and any reconfiguration of existing impervious area, and results in a total earth disturbance of more than 5,000 square feet.

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

All non-tower wireless communications facilities, including, but not limited to, antennas and related equipment mounted to a wireless support structure. Nontower WCFs shall not include support structures for antennas or any related equipment that is mounted to the ground or at ground level.

A lot the area or dimension of which was lawful prior to the adoption or amendment of this chapter, but which fails to conform to the requirements of the zoning districts in which it is located by reasons of such adoption or amendment.

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

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

The well site preparation, well site construction, drilling, fracturing, and/or site restoration associated with an oil and gas well of any depth; water and other fluid storage; gas reservoir; impoundment and transportation used for such activities; and the installation and use of all associated equipment, including tanks, meters, and other equipment and structures, whether permanent or temporary; and the site preparation, construction, installation, maintenance and repair of oil and gas pipelines, not regulated by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission or United States Department of Transportation, Office of Pipeline Safety, and associated equipment; and all other equipment and activities associated with the exploration for, production of and transportation of oil and gas, including natural gas compressor stations and natural gas processing plants, and structures, defined as other support facilities or structures performing similar functions that operate as midstream facilities.

Activities performed under the surface of the ground that are part of the operation of oil and gas drilling, as defined herein, whether or not located on properties within the unit for a particular well site, but that are not included in the well site, including, but not limited to, horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing zones, underground gathering and transmission pipelines established in accordance with Public Utility Commission (PUC) guidelines, water distribution lines and similar underground facilities incidental to oil and gas drilling.

Hydrocarbons in liquid form at standard temperature of 60° F. and pressure of 14.7 psia.

An identified outdoor area where entertainment is provided by a commercial entity, such as ice skating rinks and swim clubs or pools.

A paved area, other than a driveway, on a residential lot intended for the parking of one or more motor vehicles owned by the owners and tenants of the lot which is accessory to the principal use of the lot.

Any occupancy which is not transient occupancy.

An indoor area, whether privately or publicly owned, to which the public has access by right or by invitation, expressed or implied, whether by payment of money or not, including but not limited to theaters, concert halls, ballrooms, dance halls, discotheques, nightclubs, indoor leisure centers, adventure/activity centers, sports clubs, cinemas, amusement parks, casinos and zoos, indoor miniature golf, indoor roller-skating rinks and other related uses.

A privately funded place of educational instruction, typically Pre-K through 12th grade, that does not primarily receive government funding but relies on fees, tuitions, grants and donations to operate. Enrollment is open only to students that are selected and admitted based on particular qualifications or religious affiliations.

Any occupied structure measured horizontally within 1,500 feet of a drilling site or within 3,000 feet of the outside wall of the nearest permanent structure of an oil and gas development facility or disposal well. The term shall not include any structure whose owner has signed a waiver relieving the operator from implementation of the measures established herein or other applicable provisions of the Code of the Township of Wilkins. In the waiver, the owner must acknowledge that the operator is explicitly relieved from complying with the regulations applicable to a protected structure. The waiver must be notarized.

A publicly funded place of educational instruction, typically Pre-K through 12th grade, that is free to attend and that is operated by a local school district, state educational department or other governmental authority. Enrollment must comply with state and local laws governing public school admissions, must be nondiscriminatory and must be open to all students in the local attendance or catchment zone of the school.

A structure, owned or operated by a public utility regulated by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, designed and used to support overhead electricity, telephone or other transmission lines.

The use of land, not commercially, by persons, nonprofit corporations or associations for outdoor swimming pools, tennis courts, ball fields, basketball courts, shuffleboard courts, slides, swings, horseshoe courts and none other.

Deepening or sidetrack/horizontal drilling of the existing well bore extending more than 150 feet from said well bore.

Any piece of equipment related to, incidental to, or necessary for, the operation of a tower-based WCF or nontower WCF. By way of illustration, not limitation, related equipment includes generators and base stations.

Reentry of an existing well within the existing bore hole or by deepening or sidetrack/horizontal operations (which does not extend more than 150 feet horizontally from the existing well bore) or replacement of well liners or casings.

Any instance in which an animal is running about loose on a street, or upon the property of a person other than the owner of such animal, unleashed and unaccompanied by the owner or custodian or by any member of the owner's family or by any servant or agent of the owner of such animal.

A school building or former school building which is no longer used for educational purposes.

A structure that permits the sale of products directly to consumers. The structure shall be located on the premises, in proximity to a high traffic area.

Any dwelling or dwelling unit utilized as a single-family residence rented for the purpose of overnight lodging for a period of 30 days or less.

A yard extending along a side lot line between the front yard and rear yard for the minimum depth specified in this chapter.

A separate building designed for or occupied by one family.

An establishment devoted exclusively to the sale of distinctive, high quality merchandise, including one or more or the following: art and photography galleries or studios; antiques; books; boutique items; candles; confectioneries; cards and stationery; cut and dried flowers; gifts; handicraft; handmade or gourmet food and baked goods, including ice cream parlors; interior decorator items; leather goods; men's, ladies' and children's apparel, seamstress and tailor shops; and shops of a similar nature.

An establishment devoted exclusively to the sale of distinctive, high quality merchandise, including one or more of the following: art and photography galleries or studios; antiques; books; boutique items; candles; candies; cards and stationary; cut and dried flowers; gifts; handicraft; handmade and gourmet food and baked goods; interior decorator items; leather goods; men's, ladies' and children's apparel; pipes and tobacco; and shops of a similar nature.

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, shrubs, and light poles.

A public right-of-way which affords a primary means of access to abutting property.

Any man-made object having an ascertainable stationary location on or in land or water, whether or not it is affixed to the land. This includes, but is not limited to, communications equipment buildings and communications towers.

A modification to an existing wireless communications facility substantially changes the physical dimensions of a tower or base station if it meets any of the following criteria:

The use of land by persons, nonprofit corporations or associations primarily for sports or swimming activities.

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. DAS hub facilities are considered to be tower-based WCFs.

The Township of Wilkins, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Any vehicle used or so constructed as to permit its being used as conveyance on the public streets and highways and duly licensed as such and constructed in such a manner as will permit occupancy thereof as a temporary dwelling for one or more persons. A trailer shall not be construed as a mobile home for purposes of this chapter.

Any person or persons who occupies a dwelling unit as a sleeping unit, which is not his or her residence or domicile, for not more than 30 days.

A separate building designed for or occupied exclusively by two families, one above the other.

A lined depression, excavation pit or facility situated in or upon the ground, whether natural or artificial, used to store fresh water.

A lined depression, excavation pit or facility situated in or upon the ground, whether natural or artificial, used to store wastewater fluid, including but not limited to brine, fracturing fluid, produced water, recycled water, impaired water, flowback water or any other fluid that does not satisfy the definition of "fresh water."

Pennsylvania Wireless Broadband Collocation Act (53 P.S. § 11702.1 et seq.).

A bore hole drilled or being drilled for the purpose of or to be used for producing, extracting or injecting any gas, petroleum or other liquid related to oil or gas production or storage, including brine disposal, but excluding bore holes drilled to produce potable water to be used as such. The term "well" does not include a bore hole drilled or being drilled for the purpose of or to be used for systems of monitoring producing or extracting gas from solid waste disposal facilities, as long as the wells are subject to the Act of July 7, 1980 (P.L. 380, No. 97), known as the "Solid Waste Management Act,"[2] and do not penetrate a workable coal seam. The term also does not include a bore hole drilled or being drilled for the purpose of or to be used for degasifying coal seams if the following conditions are satisfied:

Any person, partnership, company, corporation and its subcontractors and agents who have an interest in real estate for the purpose of exploring or drilling for, producing or transporting oil or gas; the person designated as the well operator or operator on the permit application or well registration. If the owner is a separate entity than the operator, then the owner shall also be listed. Where a permit or registration was not issued, the term shall mean any person who locates, drills, operates, alters or plugs any well or reconditions any well with the purpose of production therefrom. In cases where a well is used in connection with the underground storage of gas, the term also means a storage operator.

Shall consist of the area occupied by any of the facilities, structures and equipment associated with or incidental to the construction, drilling, fracturing, production, or operation of an oil or gas well. If multiple areas are used, then the total combined areas shall be considered the well site.

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 communications facility building permit, zoning approval and/or permission to use the public right-of-way (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 is primarily constructed to support the placement or installation of a wireless communications facility.

An open space adjacent to a lot line, open and unobstructed from the ground to the sky, except as otherwise provided herein.

The person or persons appointed by the Board of Commissioners to enforce this chapter.