Except where specifically defined herein, all words used in this Zoning Code shall carry their customary meanings. Words used in the present tense shall include the future. The singular number shall include the plural, and the plural the singular. The word “shall” is always mandatory and not permissive. The word “used” or “occupied,” as applied to any land or building, shall be construed to include the words “intended, arranged or designed to be used or occupied”.
(1) Adult oriented businesses: Refer to Chapter 806.
(2) Antique shop: Any premises used for the sale or trading at a negotiated price or fee of articles which are over 50 years old or have collected value at the time of the sale.
(3) Appliance store: An establishment that specializes in the retail sale of portable devices or instruments used for domestic functions, including but not limited to vacuum cleaners, televisions, toasters, hairdryers, mixers, fans, radios, food processors, washers, dryers, refrigerators and the like.
(4) Auto essential services: A business establishment devoted to the repair and service of automobiles, including maintenance and reconstruction of motor vehicles, conducted within a completely-enclosed building.
(5) Automobile dealership: A business establishment devoted to the retail sales or leasing of motor vehicles. As a secondary function, the dealership may provide on-site facilities for the repair and service of vehicles sold or leased by the dealership.
(6) Automobile dominant use: a business, establishment and/or activity that is commonly frequented by customers or visitors arriving by motor vehicles and needs limited dedicated off-street parking areas and specialized loading/dock areas and typically does not generate additional visits to nearby pedestrian dominant uses. Said use may be any size GFA and can be located on any floor of a building or structure.
(7) Bakery: A facility where baked goods are prepared and baked which may utilize an open flame and/or commercial grade kitchen.
(8) Banks and financial establishments: Businesses including, but not limited to, savings and loans, credit agencies, investment companies, brokers and dealers of securities and commodities, security and commodity exchanges, insurance agents, lessors, lessees, buyers, sellers, agents and developers of real estate.
(9) Bar/tavern/public house/pub: An establishment serving alcoholic beverages in which the principal business is the sale of such beverages at retail for consumption on the premises and where sandwiches and snacks may be available for consumption on the premises.
(10) Bed and breakfast: A single-family, owner-occupied dwelling, where between one and six sleeping accommodations are rented to overnight guests on a daily basis for periods not exceeding two weeks. Breakfast may be offered only to registered overnight guests.
(11) Bookstore: A retail establishment specializing in the sale of books and magazines, and potentially the buying or trading of second-hand books, as well as accessory merchandise such as stationary, journals, and the like.
(12) Building facade: The relationship of a building’s various exterior parts to each other. Facade composition helps to establish the visual interest of a building and determine how it blends with its surroundings.
(13) Check cashing facility: An establishment that for compensation engages, in whole or in part, in the business of cashing checks, warrants, drafts, money orders, or other commercial paper serving the same purpose.
(14) Civic-oriented use: An area developed or to be developed that may contain one of the following public buildings or uses, including offices, libraries, playgrounds, parks, assembly halls, or first responder stations.
(15) Coffee shop/café: A restaurant that primarily serves coffee, tea and other drinks as well as well as foods as a secondary focus.
(16) Commercial recreation: Any establishment whose main purpose is to provide the general public with an amusing or entertaining activity and where tickets are sold or are free. Commercial recreation does not include movie theatres.
(17) Compatible uses not otherwise listed: A use which is not specifically listed in a particular zoning district, but which is determined by the Borough, in accordance with the express standards and criteria set forth in this chapter, to be similar in characteristics and impacts to another use which is specifically listed in the same zoning district as a permitted use, conditional use or use by special exception.
(18) Consignment/second-hand store: An enclosed facility in which used personal items such as clothes, jewelry, or artifacts, or small furniture is resold through a broker for the owner at an agreed-upon price.
(19) Convenience store: A retail establishment offering for sale a limited line of groceries and household items intended for the convenience of the neighborhood.
(20) Copy shop: A retail establishment that provides duplicating services using photocopying, blueprint, and printing equipment and may include the collating and binding of booklets and reports.
(21) Cultural and recreation services: Establishments including, but not limited to, libraries, museums and similar public or quasi-public use displaying, preserving and exhibiting objects of community and cultural interests in one or more of the arts or sciences.
(22) Department store: A business establishment which is conducted under a single owner’s name wherein a variety of unrelated merchandise and services are housed enclosed and exhibited and sold directly to the customer for whom the goods and services are furnished.
(23) Drive-through: A building opening, including windows, doors, or mechanical devices, through which occupants of a motor vehicle receive or obtain a product or service.
(24) Fast food restaurant: A business establishment that offers quick food service for consumption on or off the premises which is accomplished through a limited menu of items already prepared and held for service or prepared, fired or grilled quickly or heated in a device such as a microwave oven. Orders are not generally taken at the customer’s table, and food is generally served in disposable wrapping or containers.
(25) Financial service: An establishment that serves as a financial consultant to its customers that specializes in services such as accounting, tax consulting, and similar financial intervention or alleviation, for a fee.
(26) Fitness/health club: A facility where members or nonmembers use equipment or space for the purpose of physical exercise.
(27) Flex space: Structures which can be periodically converted from one use to another, typically for the purpose of office space, light industrial, or research.
(28) Funeral home: Establishments engaged in undertaking services such as preparing the dead for burial and arranging and managing funerals.
(29) Gallery: An establishment engaged in the sale, loan, or display of art books, paintings, sculpture, or other works of art.
(30) Green grocer: An establishment that sells primarily fresh fruits and vegetables for an advertised price.
(31) Grocery store: A business establishment that sells produce, dry goods, meats, baked goods, dairy items, frozen foods and the like. This includes supermarkets, food stores, dairies, delicatessens, but does not include convenience stores.
(32) Gross floor area: The sum of the gross areas of the several floors of a building or buildings, measured from the exterior faces of exterior walls or from the center lines of walls separating two buildings.
(33) Group care facility (youth/adult): A facility licensed and/or approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare that provides shelter, counseling, and other rehabilitative services in a family-like environment for more than nine but fewer than fifteen residents, plus such minimum supervisory personnel as may be required to meet standards of the licensing agency. Residents may not be legally related to the facility operators or supervisors and, by reason of mental or physical disability, chemical or alcohol dependency, family or school adjustment problems, or past correctional offenses require a minimal level of supervision but do not require medical or nursing care or general supervision. A group care facility must be licensed and/or approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare.
(34) Group Home: A facility licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare which houses six to nine residents and provides twenty-four hour supervision and rehabilitation services for developmentally disabled individuals (mental disability, autism, cerebral palsy, epilepsy or other similar conditions).
(35) Hardware store: A business establishment where items such as plumbing, heating, electrical supplies, and paints are sold.
(36) Health services: Medical care facilities, facilities and residences included in a continuum of care entity, as well as establishments providing support to the medical profession and patients, such as medical and dental laboratories, blood banks, oxygen, and miscellaneous types of medical supplies and services.
(37) Hospital: A public, private, and/or philanthropic institution providing health services primarily for human inpatient or medical or surgical care for the sick or injured, and including the related facilities such as attached laboratories, outpatient departments, training facilities, central service facilities, and staff offices which are integral parts of the facility.
(38) Hotel/motel: A business establishment inclusive of a building or portion thereof designed or used for transient rental for sleeping purposes. All room access is through interior hallways or courtyards. Individual rooms may contain kitchen and dining rooms. Accessory shops and services catering to the general public can be provided. The structure may include a restaurant as an accessory use. Kitchens not located in rental rooms shall not be accessible to occupants. Supervision is provided in shifts by on-site management.
(39) Material personal services: A business establishment providing non-medically related services, including beauty and barber shops; clothing rental; dry cleaning pick-up stores; laundromats; shoes repair stores, etc. The uses may also include accessory retail sales of products related to the services provided.
(40) Materials: The substance(s) of which an or product is made, composed, or constructed of.
(41) Medical practice/clinic, large-scale: An enterprise where one or more licensed medical professionals provide diagnostic services, medical, dental, and/or psychiatric services and/or treatment diagnosis and treatment to the general public without overnight accommodation and may include the administration of prescription and/or surgical treatments.
(42) Medical practice, small-scale: An enterprise less than 2,500 square feet where one or more licensed medical professionals provide consultation in relation to diagnostic services, medical, dental, and/or psychiatric services and/or treatment diagnosis and may prescribe but not administer any prescription and/or surgical treatments.
(43) Micro-brewery: A business establishment where beer, ale, etc. are brewed, typically in conjunction with a bar, tavern, or restaurant use. The maximum brewing capacity shall not exceed 20,000 gallons per year.
(44) Mixed use: Any building that combines the following: any use classified as a pedestrian dominant use on the ground floor of a building or structure; and for the remaining floors of the building or structure, any other use(s) classified as a pedestrian dominant use or a pedestrian supportive use.
(45) Multi-family dwelling: A building and lot are occupied by more than one family.
(46) Multi-family dwelling - apartment: A building containing three or more dwelling units, at least one of which must be located above or below the remaining units.
(47) Multi-family dwelling - townhouse: A building containing between three and eight dwelling units, arranged in a side-by-side configuration with two or more common party walls.
(48) Multi-purpose workshop/studio: An establishment either operated as a for-profit, non-for-profit, or public enterprise, that provides building space, tools, equipment and materials for a nominal fee and which can be used to fabricate artwork, goods, etc., for sale or personal use.
(49) Off-street parking: An outdoor area that is used solely for the purpose of patron vehicle parking.
(50) Pedestrian dominant use: A business, establishment and/or activity that is commonly supported by customers or visitors arriving by foot or by using available on-street parking spaces and has no need for dedicated off-street parking areas or specialized loading/dock facilities.
(51) Pedestrian supportive use: A business, establishment and/or activity that is often frequented by customers or visitors arriving by motor vehicles and needs limited dedicated off-street parking areas but typically generates street walking and additional visits to nearby pedestrian dominant uses.
(52) Pharmacy: A business establishment which primarily sells prescription drugs, patent medicines and legal surgical, medicinal and sickroom supplies. A pharmacy may be within a retail establishment.
(53) Place of worship/place of assembly: An institution and/or lot that is designed for the assembly or collection of persons, for civic, political, educational, social or religious purposes, and where recreation, amusement, dining, or religious worship may occur as accessory activities. A place of assembly does not include a private club.
(54) “Pop-up” retail store: A temporarily operated business establishment, either reoccurring or non-reoccurring, that specializes in the retail sale of specialty products, seasonal and/or holiday related merchandise.
(55) Print shop: A facility for the custom reproduction of written or graphic materials on a custom order basis for individuals or businesses. Typical processes include, but are not limited to, photocopying, oversized plotting, screen printing, and including offset printing.
(56) Professional office: The workplace or studio of a lawyer, architect, artist, engineer, certified public accountant, real estate broker or salesman, insurance broker or agent, musician, teacher, or similar occupation.
(57) Retail business: An establishment engaged in selling goods or merchandise to the general public for personal or household consumptions and rendering services incidental the sale of such goods.
(58) Sandwich shop: A restaurant where lunches are primarily served, specializing in sandwiches or take-out style meals.
(59) School: A place of instruction operated by a public, private, non-profit or religious organization, having regular sessions, with regularly employed instructors and meeting all of the requirements of the Pennsylvania Department of Education for providing primary, secondary, post-secondary, undergraduate and/or graduate collegiate education.
(60) Single-family dwellings: A dwelling unit and lot designed and intended to be occupied by one family that is not attached to another dwelling unit.
(61) Sit down restaurant: An establishment maintained, operated, and /or advertised or held out to the public as a place where food and beverage are served to the public on demand from a menu during stated business hours, served in and on reusable containers and dinnerware, to be consumed on the premises primarily inside the building at tables, booths, or counters, with chairs, benches, or stools.
(62) Social services: Establishments providing assistance and aid to those persons requiring counseling for psychological problems, employment, learning disabilities and physical disabilities, and residential care such as child day care and nurseries.
(63) Studio: a business establishment used by an artist, photographer, or artisan or used for radio or television broadcasting.
(64) Transportation services: A business establishment furnishing services incidental to transportation, such as forwarding and packing services and the arranging of passenger or freight transportation.
(65) Theater: A building or part of a building devoted to showing motion pictures or for dramatic, dance, musical, or other live performances.
(66) Transparency: The degree to which a surface is transparent, as in, how clearly the surface is able to be seen through. A non-colored glass window would be highly transparent, while a stone wall would not be transparent.
(67) Veterinary clinic: An enterprise for the medical care and treatment of small animals, including household pets.
(68) Wine and spirit shop: A state-owned and operated establishment specializing in the retail sale of beer, wine, or other alcoholic beverages for on- or off-premise consumption.
(69) Wine bar/ winetasting room: A business enterprise focusing on the sale of wine, and possibly beer as a secondary product, for on-site consumption, but additionally the retail sale of wine intended to be consumed off-site.
(Ord. 2210. Passed 4-21-97; Ord. 2523. Passed 8-15-16; Ord. 2568. Passed 11-18-19.)