Contiguous properties sharing a common property boundary.

A private drive, which provides vehicular access between a street and a parking area, loading area, drive-in service window, and nonresidential or multifamily residential uses.

A detached subordinate building or structure, the use of which is customarily incidental to that of the principal building or use and that is located on the same lot as occupied by the principal building or use and is not considered a substantial improvement.

See "structure."

See "use."

The process that adapts buildings for new uses while retaining their historic features and architecture.

Two or more lots sharing a common property or lot line or that are separated only by a street right-of-way or waterway from each other.

See "care facilities."

An establishment open to the general public or a private club open to members, except persons under the age of 18 years, which is used and occupied for one or more of the following activities:

An enterprise that is actively engaged in the commercial production 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 includes an enterprise that implements changes in 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 or are consistent with technological development within the agricultural industry.

An area of land, for either private or public use, which is designed, used or intended to be used for the landing and takeoff of airplanes or ultra-light aircraft and any appurtenant areas which are designed to be used for airplane support facilities such as maintenance, refueling and parking facilities. Airports and airstrips, either privately or publicly owned and/or operated, shall meet all applicable state and federal regulations.

A permanent service way providing secondary means of access to abutting lands.

Any change or rearrangement in the structural parts or in the existing facilities of a building or structure, or any enlargement thereof, whether by extension on any side or by an increase in height, or the moving of such building from one location or position to another.

A small wind energy system and/or solar collector(s) for personal residential or small business use.

An establishment where electronic and/or mechanical coin-operated devices, including but not limited to pinball machines, electronically operated shuffleboards, bowling, video games, electronically operated tennis, billiards and other similar games of amusement are provided and utilized as the principal use of the premises. Amusement establishments include but are not limited to game rooms, arcades, and video arcades.

A building, structure or area of land where animals are given medical care. The housing or boarding of animals shall be for medical or surgical treatment only. The definition of "animal hospital" shall include a veterinarian office.

An individual dwelling unit within a multifamily dwelling.

A multifamily dwelling resulting from the conversion of an existing building or dwelling into three or more dwelling units without substantially altering the exterior of the building. See "dwelling" — "multifamily dwelling."

Buildings and land where gasoline and other automobile parts and supplies are sold at retail and where major vehicular or boat repairs are conducted. This definition shall include an automobile body shop.

An indoor or outdoor area, other than a street, used for the display, sale or rental of new or used motor vehicles, recreation vehicles or boats in operable condition, and where no major vehicular or boat repair work is done. Trucks, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATV), and off-highway vehicles (OHV) shall be included in this definition.

See "financial institution."

A portion of a building or structure that is partially below the finished grade but having at least 1/2 of its finished floor-to-ceiling height above the average elevation of the finished grade abutting the exterior walls. A basement shall be considered as one story in determining the permissible number of stories.

An accessory use to an owner-occupied dwelling contained in the principal dwelling and/or an accessory structure in which the owner rents guest rooms for short-term lodging purposes and serves breakfast to overnight guests. For the purpose of this definition, a guest room is one or more rooms with or without en suite toilet and bathing facilities, and do not contain cooking facilities.

Property bounded on one side by a street, and on the other three sides by a street, railroad right-of-way, waterway, and unsubdivided area or bodies of water, or other definite barrier.

The Zoning Hearing Board of the Borough of Wrightsville.

A dwelling, or that part of a dwelling, in which the owner or tenant rents no more than three rental units for residential or lodging purposes, regardless of whether meals are furnished or not. For the purpose of this definition, a "rental unit" is one or more rooms intended to be occupied by one family as separate living quarters, but does not contain kitchen facilities.

The Borough of Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania.

An area within a property or site and generally adjacent to and parallel with the property line, either consisting of natural existing vegetation or created by the use of trees, shrubs, fences and/or berms, that is designed to limit the view, sound and/or light from the site to adjacent sites or properties.

Any structure, either temporary or permanent, having walls and a roof or other covering, designed or used for the shelter or enclosure of any person, animal or property of any kind or combination thereof, including tents, awnings or vehicles situated on private property and used for purposes stated above.

The total area of outside dimensions on a horizontal plane at ground level of the principal building and all accessory buildings.

The total area of the lot covered by all principal and accessory buildings, including but not limited to the dwelling, garages, garden or storage sheds, etc.

See "grade."

The vertical distance from the grade at the front of the building or the average of the grade of the street fronts, if building faces more than one street, to the highest point of the roof beams of a flat roof and to the peak or ridge for gabled, hipped and pitched roofs. Chimneys, flues, vent pipes, water tanks, elevator houses, spires, ventilators, air-conditioning equipment, solar energy panels and similar vertical projections are excluded from this definition.

An office which generally operates on an appointment basis and with relatively low pedestrian or vehicular traffic, including offices of accountants, actuaries, architects, attorneys, clergy, dentists, designers, engineers, insurance and bonding agents, manufacturing representatives, physicians, real estate offices, teachers and miscellaneous consulting services. See also "office, professional."

A lot, tract or parcel of land upon which two or more campsites are located or established, intended and maintained for occupation by transients for seasonal, recreational or similar type living purposes in temporary, moveable buildings such as recreational vehicles, tents or shelters, and which may include accessory recreational facilities.

A plot of ground within a campground intended for occupation by a recreational vehicle, tent or shelter.

Establishments which provide food, shelter, personal assistance, supervision and/or medical or other health- and social-related services for individuals not in need of hospitalization, but who, because of age, illness, disease, injury, convalescence or physical or mental infirmity, need such care.

A facility devoted to the washing and waxing of the exterior of vehicles and the cleaning of their interiors by automated equipment and employees of the establishment, but where no sale of gasoline, preventive maintenance or repair to the vehicles shall be offered and performed.

A portion of a building or structure having a finished floor to ceiling height less than seven feet, and more than 1/2 of its finished floor-to-ceiling height below the average elevation of the finished grade abutting the exterior walls of the building. A cellar shall not be considered a story in determining the permissible number of stories.

Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the deceased, including columbariums or mausoleums.

The person or persons designated by the Borough to enforce applicable building and construction codes.

A vehicle designed or used primarily for carrying freight or goods. This definition shall also include buses, trolleys and taxis in the transport of passengers.

Any device used for the transmission or reception of radio, television, wireless telephone, pager, commercial mobile radio service or any other wireless communications signals including, without limitation, omnidirectional or whip antennas and directional or panel antennas, owned or operated by any person or entity licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to operate such device. This definition shall not include private residence-mounted satellite dishes or television antennas or amateur radio equipment including, without limitation, ham or citizen band radio antennas.

An unmanned building or cabinet containing communications equipment required for the operation of communications antennas and covering an area on the ground not greater than 250 square feet.

A structure other than a building, such as a monopole, self-supporting or guyed tower designed and used to support communications antennas.

A building and associated grounds, which is operated not-for-profit, and used primarily to provide cultural, recreational and social activities or programs for the general public.

Real estate, portions of which are designated for separate ownership and the remainder of which is designated for common ownership solely by the owners of those portions, created under the Pennsylvania Unit Property Act of July 3, 1963, 68, P.S. § 700.10 et seq., as amended, or the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act, 68 Pa.C.S.A. § 3101 et seq., as amended.

See "care facilities."

A retail establishment primarily selling a limited variety of prepackaged food, tobacco, drugs, periodicals, household goods, groceries, prepared ready-to-eat foods and similar miscellaneous items to the general public, but that is not primarily a restaurant. Convenience stores may include the dispensing of gasoline or other vehicle fuels, and drive-through facilities accessory to the principal retail use.

A small-scale industry that is carried on at home by family members using their own equipment and tools.

The Council of Wrightsville Borough.

York County, Pennsylvania.

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

A proposed zoning amendment made to the Council by any landowner who desires to challenge on substantive grounds the validity of an ordinance which prohibits or restricts the use or development of land in which he has an interest.

The dismantling, tearing down, removal or razing of the exterior of a building, in whole or in part. This term shall not include changes to the interior of a building.

The absence of routine maintenance and repair which leads to structural weakness, decay and deterioration in a building or structure.

The number of dwelling units within a standard measure of land area, usually given as units per acre.

A retail establishment wherein a variety of unrelated goods and services are available for purchase and exhibited and organized into separate departments. All departments are housed under the same roof to facilitate buying, customer service, merchandising, and control.

A portion of the territory of the Borough within which certain uniform regulations and requirements or various combinations thereof apply under the provisions of this chapter.

A business establishment so developed that its retail or service character is dependent upon providing an access drive approach or spaces for motor vehicles to service patrons while in or on the motor vehicle, rather than within a building.

A feature of an establishment which encourages or permits customers to receive services or obtain goods while remaining in or on a motor vehicle.

A private minor vehicular right-of-way providing access between a street and a garage, carport or other parking space for a single-family or two-family dwelling.

A building or part thereof, designed or used as a living quarters for one or more families including mobile homes, which are supported by a permanent foundation. The term "dwelling" shall not be deemed to include boarding or rooming house, tourist home, hotel, motel, hospital, nursing home, dormitory, fraternity, sorority house or other group residence, tent, recreational vehicle, treatment center or other accommodations used for transient occupancy. For purposes of this chapter, the following types of dwellings are defined:

One room or a group of rooms forming a single housekeeping unit for one family with living, sleeping, cooking and sanitary facilities.

A small, self-contained residential unit built on the same lot as an existing single-family home. ADUs may be built within a primary residence (such as in an attic or basement), attached to the primary residence (like a small duplex unit with a separate entrance), or detached from the primary residence (such as above, or the conversion of, a detached garage). An ADU is subordinate in size, location, and function to the primary residential unit. Accessory dwelling units are also known as "accessory residential unit," "ECHO housing," "granny flat," "in-law apartment," etc.

A facility that produces electricity, owned and operated by an electric utility or independent producer.

A building and its equipment used for the purpose of switching or modifying the electric energy which passes through it in bulk in order to meet the needs of the public, but which does not have a public business office, storage yard, storage building or repair building.

A public use owned and/or operated by an independent fire department or company and/or emergency medical service or ambulance provider for related activities. Accessory club rooms, club grounds and meeting halls may be included if permitted use in that zoning district. This use may include accessory housing for emergency service or fire personnel while on call.

That portion of any exterior elevation on a building extending from grade to the top of the parapet, wall or eaves, and extending the entire length of a building on all sides.

An open area for holding fairs or exhibitions or circuses.

One or more persons that may or may not be related by blood, marriage, foster relationship or adoption living together in a single dwelling and maintaining and functioning as a common household.

The use of any building, structure, or land for the sales, storage, or service of machinery used in farming for agricultural purposes. Does not include sales, storage, or service of vehicles and other machinery not associated with farming.

An indoor or outdoor public market at which farmers, producers and other vendors sell farm products, value-added farm products and other commodities directly to consumers.

A man-made barrier placed or arranged as a line of demarcation between lots or to enclose a lot or portion thereof. The term "fence" shall be deemed to include a wall.

A bank, savings and loan association, credit union, finance or loan company or similar establishment.

A facility providing fitness, health and dietary instruction and training by certified professionals. Aerobic, cardiovascular and weight training instruction and equipment may be available as well as martial arts instruction, aquatic activities, and massage and other physical therapy. Fitness and health centers may include a snack bar or cafe that is incidental and accessory to the principal use.

As defined in Chapter 8, Floodplains.

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

A building designed for the purpose of the preparation and viewing of the deceased prior to burial or cremation. Funeral homes shall not include cemeteries, columbariums, mausoleums, or entombments, but may include mortuaries and crematoriums.

A protected area of water or land delineated, usually by a fence, and set apart to rear wild animals, including fish and fowl, so that they can be fished or shot for sport in the hunting season. For the purposes of this chapter, a game and fish preserve may operate as a private club or as a commercial operation.

An accessory building for the storage of one or more automobiles, other vehicles accessory and incidental to the principal use of the premises, or both.

A temporary use conducted from or on a residential premises in any zoning district involving all general sales and open to the public for the purpose of disposing of personal property.

A tract of land laid out for at least nine holes for playing the game of golf and improved with tees, greens, fairways, and hazards and that may include a clubhouse, shelters, maintenance and storage facilities, and a driving range.

The Council of Wrightsville Borough.

A public use owned, leased, or occupied by a county, federal or state government, government agency or government authority for valid public health, public safety, or similar governmental purpose, and which is not owned by the Borough or an authority created by the Borough.

A commercial principal use primarily involved in horticulture that includes the sale of plants grown on the premises and related goods and materials, as well as the storage of equipment customarily incidental and accessory to the principal use.

An open space corridor in largely natural conditions which may include trails or pathways for bicycles and pedestrians.

Any dwelling or portion thereof which is designed or used for at least three but not more than eight persons unrelated to each other or to any family occupying the dwelling unit and having common eating facilities. Group quarters include, but are not limited to, fraternity and sorority houses, dormitories and other quarters of an institutional nature. Such quarters must be associated with a parent religious, educational, charitable or philanthropic institution.

Floor area within the perimeter of the interior walls of the building under consideration used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking or eating purposes, excluding bathrooms, water closets, laundries, pantries, corridors, stairways, closets, basement recreation rooms and storage spaces.

A building where persons are aided in readjusting to society following a period of imprisonment, hospitalization, or institutionalized treatment. This definition includes community corrections centers run by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.

A retail establishment engaged in the sale of articles for the house and garden, including but not limited to, tools, keys, paint, small appliances, housewares and plumbing and electrical supplies and fixtures.

A parcel of land containing one or more historic resources.

Any building, structure, object, or site that meets one or more of the criteria listed in § 27-307, Subsection 3, of this chapter, and retains its integrity.

An accessory use that is clearly incidental to the residential use of the dwelling unit and which involves customers, clients, or patient traffic.

An institution, licensed in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a hospital, which renders inpatient and outpatient medical care for a twenty-four-hour-per-day basis; and provides primary health services and medical/surgical care to persons suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity and other abnormal physical or mental conditions. A hospital use can also include attached and detached accessory uses, provided that all uses are contained upon the hospital property. This definition does not include an animal hospital.

A building or group of buildings which provides lodging to boarders for compensation, which contains more than eight rooms with less than 25% of all rooms having direct access to the outside without the necessity of passing through the main lobby of the building, and which may provide meals and other services as part of the compensation. This definition shall include "tourist home."

A building, structure, or group of buildings or structures, including accessory uses, designed or intended for worship. Accessory uses may include rectories, convents, church-related schools, church day-care facilities, cemeteries or any combination thereof.

A parcel of land with or without a dwelling, trailer or other building or structure which is intended only for seasonal or temporary occupancy, for the purpose of hunting or fishing.

A surface that prevents the infiltration of water into the ground. Impervious surfaces and areas shall include, but not be limited to, roofs, additional indoor living spaces, patios, garages, storage sheds and similar structures, and any new streets and sidewalks. However, any surface or area designed, constructed and maintained to permit infiltration as specified herein shall be considered pervious, not impervious. For the purposes of this chapter, a surface or area shall not be considered impervious if such surface or area does not diminish the capacity for infiltration of stormwater for storms up to, and including, a two-year, twenty-four-hour storm event.

Development of vacant or remnant lands passed over by previous development in urban areas.

As used in this chapter, historic integrity is the composite of seven qualities: location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association. All seven qualities do not need to be present as long as the overall sense of past time and place is evident. All properties change over time. The retention of integrity depends upon the nature and degree of alteration or change. It is not necessary for a property to retain all the physical features or characteristics that it had during its period of significance. However, the property must retain the essential physical features that enable it to convey its past identity or character and therefore its significance.

A lot, land or structure or parts thereof used for the collection, storage, dismantling, salvage or sale of used and discarded materials including, but not limited to, wastepaper, rags, scrap metal or other scrap, salvage or discarded material, vehicles or machinery. This definition shall include auto recycling centers and similar and like terms.

Any building or buildings and/or land used for the sheltering, boarding, breeding or training of six or more (in total) dogs, cats, fowl or other small domestic animals at least four months of age and kept for purposes of profit, but not to include riding academy, or livestock, animals and fowl raised for agricultural purposes. A kennel operation may include accessory uses such as animal grooming. The definition of "kennel" shall also include any and all definitions of kennel under the Pennsylvania Dog Law (3 P.S. § 459-101 et seq.), including but not limited to "kennel," "boarding kennel," "commercial kennel," and "rescue network kennel."

A facility licensed and approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for the disposal of solid waste where there is no reasonable probability of adverse effects on the public health or the environment from such disposal.

For the purposes of this chapter, only large-scale commercial/industrial operations apply, those establishments engaged primarily in high volume laundry and garment services, including: power laundries (family and commercial), carpet/rug and upholstery cleaners, diaper service, garment pressing and dry cleaning, industrial laundries, and linen supply. Self-service laundries are included in "personal services."

A public facility for the use, but not sale, or literary, musical, artistic, or reference materials.

A building, or spaces within a building, used jointly for commercial and residential purposes, where the residential use of the space is secondary or accessory to the primary use as a place of work. In a live-work arrangement, storekeepers, tradespeople, doctors, lawyers, and others live upstairs from or adjacent to their shops or offices.

A designated parcel, tract or area of land established by a plat or otherwise as permitted by law and to be used, developed or built upon as a unit.

The space contained within the lot lines, excluding space within all existing and future or ultimate street rights-of-way.

That portion of a lot covered by impervious surfaces such as, but not limited to buildings, parking areas, driveways, etc.

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

The length of the front lot line measured at the right-of-way of a public street or private road. On an interior lot, the lot line abutting a street; or, on a corner lot, the shorter lot line that abuts a street; or, on a through lot, the lot line abutting the street providing the primary access to the lot; or, on a flag lot, the lot line most parallel to and nearest the street from which access is obtained.

Any line dividing one lot from another.

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

A lot situated at and abutting the intersection of two streets having an interior angle of intersection not greater than 135°.

A facility where building materials such as lumber, plywood, drywall, paneling, cement blocks and other cement products, and other building products are stored and sold. Lumber yards may also process lumber by performing millwork, planing, cutting, and other customizing processes. Lumberyards may provide for the sale of associated products including tools and fasteners.

Factory-built, single-family structure that meets the National Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act (42 U.S.C. § 5401), commonly known as the HUD (United States Department of Housing and Urban Development) Code, is transportable in one or more sections, but is not constructed in such a way that allows transport of the unit other than for the purpose of delivery to a permanent site.

The mechanical or chemical treatment or processing of raw products or the production or assembly of finished products from raw or prepared materials into new forms or qualities.

A person holding a valid massage license issued by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or absent such licensing procedure, satisfying either of the following criteria:

A place, building or portion of a building used exclusively by physicians, optometrists, chiropractors, dentists, physical therapists, massage therapists, or other drugless practitioners involving nonsurgical treatment, care, examination and diagnosis, and preventative health services, including inoculation and educational services to outpatients. This definition includes medical laboratories used in the taking, analyzing and testing of physical samples and specimens for the diagnosis and treatment of patients.

A commercial use of land and/or buildings for a facility licensed by the Department of Health to use the drug methadone in the treatment, maintenance or detoxification of persons.

A site where a mineral, stone, sand, gravel or topsoil is excavated and processed.

A building and/or series of buildings divided into separate storage units for personal property and/or property associated with some business or other organization. These units shall be used solely for dead storage and no processing, manufacturing, sales, research and development testing, service and repair, or other non-storage activities shall be permitted.

A building that has one or more dwelling units in addition to one or more commercial uses.

A transportable, single-family dwelling intended for permanent occupancy, contained in one unit, or in two or more units designed to be joined into one integral unit capable of again being separated for repeated towing, which arrives at a site complete and ready for occupancy except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembly operations, and constructed so that it may be used without a permanent foundation.

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

A building or group of buildings which provides lodging to boarders for compensation, which contains more than eight rooms with at least 25% of all rooms having direct access to the outside without the necessity of passing through the main lobby of the building, and which may provide meals and other services as a part of the compensation.

An area or building that is the origin and/or destination point of short- and long-distance hauling and/or is used for the purpose of storing, transferring, loading and unloading, in addition to truck parking.

Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act 247 of 1968, P.L. 805, as reenacted and amended.[3]

See "dwelling — multiple-family dwelling."

A building for two or more principal commercial or nonresidential uses that are either permitted by right or by special exception in the zoning district where this chapter permits a multiple-use building.

A building or facility owned, used or managed by the Borough, or an agency of the Borough, including but not limited to parks, playgrounds, recreational areas, maintenance garages and administrative buildings.

A building having public significance by reason of its architecture or former use or occupancy or a building serving as a repository for natural, scientific, historical or literary collections or objects of interest, or works of art, and arranged, intended and designed to be used by members of the public for viewing, with or without an admission charge, and which may include as an accessory use the sale of goods to the public as gifts or for their own use.

The official federal list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects significant in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering and culture.

A type of tavern that offers the sale of liquor in conjunction with live entertainment and/or dancing.

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.

A lot which does not meet with the minimum area or dimensions specified for the district where such lot is situated, but was lawfully in existence prior to the effective date of this chapter or is legally established through the granting of a variance by the Board.

A structure or building, or part thereof, which does not meet the applicable provisions or requirements of the district in which it is located, either at the time of enactment of this chapter or as a result of subsequent amendments thereto, where such building or structure lawfully existed prior to the enactment of such ordinance or amendment. Such nonconforming structures include, but are not limited to, nonconforming signs.

A use of land which does not conform to the applicable regulations of the district in which it is located, either at the time of the enactment of this chapter or as a result of subsequent amendments thereto, but which did not violate any applicable use regulations prior to the enactment of such ordinance or amendments. However, no existing use shall be deemed nonconforming solely because of the existence of less than the required off-street parking spaces.

The unreasonable, unwarrantable or unlawful use of public or private property which causes injury, damage, hurt, inconvenience, annoyance or discomfort to any person in the legitimate enjoyment of his reasonable rights of person or property.

For the purpose of this chapter, an "object" shall mean a construction primarily artistic in nature or relatively small in scale and simply constructed, such as a statue, milepost, hitching-post, etc.

A commercial use where persons can wager upon, and observe by remote television, the outcomes of events that are taking place elsewhere.

A use that involves administrative, clerical, financial, governmental and professional operations and operations of a similar character. This use shall not include retail or industrial uses.

A building in which services are performed by a member of a profession, or multiple professions, including, but not limited to, an accountant, architect, dentist, engineer, insurance agent, landscape architect, lawyer, minister, notary, optometrist, physician, realtor or undertaker.

The area of a lot unoccupied by principal or accessory structures, streets, driveways or parking areas; but includes areas occupied by walkways, patios, porches without roofs, playgrounds, outdoor recreation or play apparatus, gardens or trees.

The "Wrightsville Borough Zoning Ordinance," including the Official Zoning Map, and any amendments enacted by Borough Council.

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

Any tract or contiguous tracts of land in the same ownership and contained in the same deed, and occupied as one unit. Land separated by an existing state or Borough road shall be considered contiguous.

A use of land, which may include accessory buildings and structures, for active and/or passive outdoor recreation for the purpose of pleasure, leisure, fellowship or exercise, commonly involving a sporting activity, camping, hiking, jogging, bicycling, swimming, picnicking and other related activities and which is open to the public. A park may include amenities such as ball fields, tennis courts, trails, playground equipment, rest rooms, picnic tables, cooking grills and similar features. For the purposes of this chapter, parks shall not include improvements for, or permit, uses considered commercial recreational uses.

Outdoor areas or specially designed buildings or garages used for vehicle parking that is operated as a business enterprise by charging a fee for parking.

A parking lot of the premises and not operated for profit where off-street parking spaces are provided for passenger or commercial vehicles which are owned or operated by the person owning or leasing the parking lot, his employees, customers, tenants, boarders, visitors or the like.

A building, structure or area where transportation vehicles, including but not limited to buses, trains, and taxis, load or unload passengers.

An establishment that provides a service oriented to personal needs which does not involve primarily retail sales of goods or professional advisory services. Personal services include barber and beauty shops, shoe repair shops, household appliance repair shops, self-service laundries, tailor and seamstress shops, and other similar establishments.

The York County Planning Commission.

Enterprises engaged in the distribution, sorting, and delivery of the United States mail, or the local and intercity delivery of small parcels.

Any principal building, principal structure or principal use, or the lot or parcel of land on which the principal building, structure or use is located, and all accessory uses and all yards, open spaces, off-street parking and loading spaces, and driveways.

When used in connection with natural and historic resources, "preservation" or "protection" shall include the means to conserve and safeguard these resources from wasteful or destructive use.

The building in which the principal use of a lot is conducted.

See "use."

Establishments engaged in printing by gravure, letterpress, lithography, offset, screen, or other common process, including electrostatic (xerographic) copying and other "quick printing" services; and establishments serving the printing trade including bookbinding, electrotyping, engraving, photoengraving, silk screening, and typesetting. This use also includes establishments that publish books, newspapers, and periodicals; and establishments manufacturing business forms and binding devices.

A function that involves only the cleaning, sorting, sizing, packaging or any combination thereof, of products.

A temporary structure at which agricultural products primarily grown on site, such as raw vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers, plants, nuts, honey and eggs, are sold. Value-added agricultural products that are made from raw products grown, raised, or produced on-site, such as jams, jellies, oils, vinegars, and cheeses may also be sold at produce stands.

See "preservation or protection."

Of or relating to a government; authorized by, administered by, or acting for the people as a political entity.

Notice required by Act 247, the Pennsylvania Municipality Planning Code.[4] Currently, Act 247 requires notice to be given not more than 30 days and not less than seven days in advance of any public hearing required by this chapter. Such notice shall be published once each week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Borough. Such notice shall state the time and place of the hearing and the particular nature of the matter to be considered at the hearing.

Use or extension thereof which is operated, owned or maintained by a municipality or municipal authority or which is privately owned and approved by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission for the purpose of providing public sewage disposal, treatment, or both; public water supply, storage, treatment or any combination thereof; and/or electric, gas or oil generating or treatment facilities, supply works, substations, transmission lines, distribution lines.

A private facility designed and equipped for the conduct of sports and/or leisure-time activities.

Any vehicle, regardless of size, self-propelled or designed to be towed or carried by another vehicle, which is designed as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation uses. Recreational vehicles include campers, travel trailers, motor homes or vans designed principally for recreational use.

When used in connection with historic resources, recycle or salvage shall mean retention of reusable building materials for reuse.

The act or process of making possible a compatible use for a property through repair, alterations, and additions while preserving those portions or features which convey its historical, cultural, or architectural values.

A facility or land area that is used for any one or a combination of the following:

An establishment that principally sells food, frozen desserts and nonalcoholic beverages in a ready-to-consume state primarily in disposable containers, in bags or on trays. The customer primarily orders and receives the food at an inside counter or outdoor drive-up, drive-through, or walk-up window without the assistance of a waiter or waitress. A cafeteria-style restaurant shall be considered a sit-down restaurant. This definition shall include a snack bar or ice cream stand with no inside seating facilities.

A restaurant that does not meet the definition of a fast-food restaurant. This includes restaurants where the majority of the food is consumed within the restaurant at tables.

A building in which retail merchandise is sold or rented, including a furniture store, a gift shop, and an establishment for the sale of automobile accessories. This shall not include an adult business use.

Strip of land abutting any stream or watercourse, within which woodland disturbances or land disturbances are limited.

The Wrightsville Borough Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance, as amended from time to time.

See "recycle or salvage."

An educational facility offering a wide range of education or instructional activities, including but not limited to business and technical programs, martial arts and athletics, and artistic, dance, and musical training, and that may, or may not, be operated as a gainful business by some person or organization other than the public school district.

An educational facility offering kindergarten, elementary, secondary, post-secondary, post-graduate, or any combination thereof, education that may or may not be operated as a gainful business.

An educational facility licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the purpose of providing kindergarten, elementary, secondary, and adult education, and operated by the Eastern York County School District. In addition, for the purpose of this chapter, public school use shall include parochial schools established and maintained by a religious body.

An educational facility that may or may not be operated as a gainful business that principally offers training in any of the following occupations: truck driving, engine repairs, building construction and general contracting, woodworking, masonry, plumbing, electrical contracting and other similar type uses.

The method by which a view of one site from another adjacent site is shielded, concealed or hidden. Screening techniques include fences, walls, hedges, berms or other features.

A building which is used to primarily provide at least three of the following activities, programs or services for the elderly: counseling, education, health, nursing, nutrition, recreation, referral, religious, self-development, or social welfare.

The required horizontal distance between a minimum setback line and a property or street right-of-way line.

A group of stores, offices, theaters, eating establishments, financial institutions, either free standing or attached, having an aggregate gross ground floor area of 10,000 square feet or more, planned and designed for the site on which it is built, functioning as a unit, with off-street parking provided on the property as an integral part of the unit. For the purposes of this chapter, a strip mall is a type of shopping center.

A device for visual communications that is used to bring a subject to the attention of the public. Signs include: lettering, logos, trademarks, or other symbols located on a building or elsewhere on a property; signs attached to windows that are readily visible and intended to be seen by passersby; flags and insignia of any organization; banners; streamers, tinsel, pennants, spinners, reflectors, ribbons and similar materials; and inflatable objects. Signs do not include: architectural features; backlit awnings with no lettering, logos, or other symbols; signs within a buildings intended to be seen only within the building; and legal outdoor displays of merchandise.

The entire area within a single continuous perimeter composed of rectangles enclosing the extreme limits of a sign and in no case passing through or between any adjacent elements of the sign. However, such perimeter shall not include any structural or framing elements lying outside the limits of such sign and not forming an integral part of the display. More descriptive definitions are provided for freestanding and parallel signs.

An institutional use of land and/or a building within which is housed an organization that caters exclusively to members and their guests. They shall include premises or buildings for social, recreation, and administrative purposes that are not conducted for profit, provided there are no vending stands, merchandising or commercial activities, except as required for the membership of such club. Clubs shall include but not be limited to, fraternal, political, religious, and service organizations, labor unions, granges, and social and athletic clubs. Clubs shall not be used for adult-related activities such as provided by an "adult-oriented business" defined herein.

A solar photovoltaic cell, panel, or array, or solar hot air or water collector device, which relies upon solar radiation as an energy source for the generation of electricity or transfer of stored heat.

The permission granted by the Borough Zoning Hearing Board (ZHB) to conduct or maintain that type of use which is not permitted as of right in a particular Zoning District, but for which special provision in the district has been made and which may be permitted if the specific standards and criteria prescribed for the use by this chapter are found by the ZHB to have been met.

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

Activities listed below which are not permitted to be displayed for observation or participation by business patrons:

The commercial boarding or renting of horses.

That portion of a building, included between the surface of any floor and the ceiling next above it, having a vertical distance of not less than seven feet, shall be considered a full story. Any such portion of a building having a vertical distance of less than seven feet shall be considered a half story. Basements shall be considered full stories, while cellars shall not be considered as being stories or half stories.

A strip of land, including the entire right-of-way or cartway, intended primarily as a means of vehicular and pedestrian travel. "Street" includes avenue, boulevard, road, highway, freeway, parkway, lane, viaduct, and any other ways used or intended to be used by vehicular traffic or pedestrians, whether public or private, but shall not include an alley.

The line defining the edge of a street including curbs and sidewalks and not just the cartway. Commonly known as the "street right-of-way line."

The appearance or view of a street where buildings are placed close to the street and features such as facades, porches, shop fronts, street trees, streetlights, sidewalks, fences, and awnings contribute to a cohesive character.

Any man-made object having an ascertainable, stationary location on or in land or water, whether or not affixed to the land or something located on the land but excluding patios, driveways, access drives, walkways, temporary signs, and parking areas or other at-grade structures. The term "structure" shall include: buildings, permanent signs, fences, walls, towers, swimming pools, porches, garages and similar structure. "Structure" shall be interpreted as including the words "or part thereof." All structures must meet setback requirements.

Any structure that contains water over 24 inches in depth and which is used, or intended to be used, for swimming or recreational bathing. This includes in-ground, aboveground and on-ground swimming pools, hot tubs and spas. Farm ponds and/or lakes are not included, provided that swimming was not the primary purpose for their construction.

A building or part thereof, licensed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, and primarily engaged in the retail sale and the on-site consumption of alcoholic beverages by consenting adults. This definition includes, but is not limited to, beer gardens, cocktail lounges, saloons and taprooms. Restaurants that serve alcoholic beverages but are primary engaged in the retail sale of prepared food are not included in this definition.

A building or part of a building devoted to the showing of motion pictures or theatrical or performing arts productions as a principal use, but not including an outdoor drive-in theater.

See "dwelling — single-family attached dwelling."

An area of land which may comprise the entire area or subpart of a parcel. Individual "tracts" within a parcel of land shall not be constituted separate lots for the purpose of construction, permitting, or for the purposes of this chapter. Such tracts contained within parcels shall be considered descriptive only.

A right-of-way containing a marked or beaten path, either paved or unpaved, for pedestrian, equestrian or bicycle use.

A facility, usually at the side of a major highway, where truck drivers and other travelers stop for fuel, often including a restaurant, sleeping and showering rooms, and a store selling basic items.

The specific purpose for which land, sign, structure or building is designed, arranged, intended or for which it may be occupied or maintained, or any activity, occupation, business or operation which may be carried on thereon or therein.

The modification granted by the Borough Zoning Hearing Board to a regulation or provision of this chapter, in accordance with the substantive rules governing the grant or denial of a variance set forth in Section 910.2 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act 247 of 1968, as amended.[5]

See "animal hospital."

A building or group of buildings primarily used for the indoor storage, transfer and distribution of products and materials, but not including retail uses or a truck or motor freight terminal, unless such uses are specifically permitted in that zoning district.

Any area meeting the official wetland definition of the United States Army Corps of Engineers or the PA DEP, as amended. In the event that the definition of a wetland accepted by the United States Army Corps of Engineers conflicts with the definition of a wetland accepted by the PA DEP, the more restrictive definition shall apply.

Any distribution procedure involving persons who, in the normal course of business, do not engage in sales to the general public.

A wind energy conversion system consisting of a wind turbine, a tower, and associated control or conversion electronics, and which has a rated capacity of not more than 100 kW, and is intended to primarily reduce on-site consumption of utility power.

A tree mass or plant community in which tree species are dominant or co-dominant, and the branches of the trees form a complete, or nearly complete, aerial canopy. For the purposes of this chapter, the extent of any woodland plant community, or any part thereof, shall be measured from the outermost drip line of all the trees within the community. "Woodland" shall include any area where timber has been harvested within the previous three years, and/or woodland disturbance has occurred within the previous three years, which would have met the definition of "woodland" prior to timbering or disturbance. Woodlands do not include orchards.

An open space on the same lot with a structure, or a group of structures, which lies between the structure, or a group of structures, and a lot line and which is unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward except as herein permitted.

See "district."

The Zoning Hearing Board of Wrightsville Borough.

The Official Zoning Map of Wrightsville Borough, which is an integral part of this chapter and which is kept on display at the Municipal office.

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

A permit issued indicating that a proposed use, building or structure is in accordance with this chapter which authorizes an applicant to proceed with said use, building or structure.