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Accessory Amusements
A portion of a structure, not exceeding 25% of the gross floor area of the principal use, engaged in providing amusement or entertainment for the exclusive use of the occupants or clientele or the principal use.
Accessory Offices
A portion of a nonresidential structure, not exceeding 25% of the gross floor area, used for conducting the affairs of a business, profession, service, industry or government, and totally subordinate and incidental to the primary use of the structure.
Accessory Parking Area
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A parking area located on a lot occupied by a principal structure and use. Such parking may or may not be customarily incidental to the principal use.
Accessory Religious Shelter
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A temporary homeless shelter and operated under the supervision of an established religious group. Such temporary use shall be located in an area of an existing worship service facility suitable for such use and subject to the approval of the City's fire, building and health offices in accordance with applicable Fire and Building Codes and ordinances and specifically complying with Chapter 444, Public Health Standards, Article X, and Chapter 435, Property Maintenance and Housing Standards, Article II. The establishment of an accessory religious shelter shall be limited in duration to two one-month periods in a given year at a given site. Approval shall not be given for use in consecutive months. Use shall be limited to the hours of 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m.
Accessory Storage
Storage or warehousing which is customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use of the land or building and located on the same lot with such principal use. An accessory storage area shall not exceed 25% of the gross floor area of the principal structure.
Accessory Structure
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A structure or other feature detached from and on the same lot as the principal use to which it is customarily incidental and subordinate, such as a principal permitted use, such as garages, sheds, fencing, walls, basketball courts, pavements, and other stationary man-made objects.
Accessory Swimming Pool
A private not-for-profit swimming pool located on the same lot as the principal use to which it is customarily incidental and subordinate and is used for the exclusive use of the occupants and their guests of the principal structure. Such uses are permitted in rear yards only, shall be completely enclosed with a four-foot-high fence and shall be set back at least six feet from the rear lot line, six feet from the side lot line and four feet from any other structure.
Administrative Offices
Establishments primarily engaged in management and general administrative functions, such as executive, personnel and sales activities performed centrally for other establishments of the same company, including government administrative offices.
Adult Entertainment (B5)
Any business or part thereof which offers goods and/or services intended to provide sexual gratification or are generally considered sexual in nature, including, but not limited to, adult arcades, adult bookstores, adult cabarets, adult novelty stores, adult massage parlors, adult movie theaters, adult performances, adult visual material or video stores, and such similar or related uses.
Advertising
The use of off-premises signage.
Amusements (B2)
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Establishments engaged in providing amusement or entertainment and activities characterized by one or more of the following: building or site development intensive, regional in nature, spectator oriented, fee required, community impacts; e.g., lighting, trash, noise, traffic. These include dance halls, theatrical productions, cinemas, musical entertainment, billiard halls, and sports arenas.
Apparel, Finished Products
An establishment in which cloth, leather and kindred materials are assembled and otherwise processed for distribution to retail establishments.
Athletic Facilities (B6)
A facility or facilities devoted to recreation or sport, such as a playing field where sporting events take place.
Automotive Parts and Accessories
Establishments or places of business offering for sale and/or installation on the premises automotive parts and accessories, including repair garages.
Bed-and-Breakfast
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An establishment in a private, owner-occupied dwelling that supplies temporary accommodations to overnight guests for a fee. Any additional services such as dining shall be limited to lodging guest use only. No more than eight guest rooms shall be provided.
Business Services
Establishments primarily engaged in rendering services to business establishments, such as advertising and mailing, building maintenance, employment service, management and consulting service, protective service, equipment rental and leasing, commercial research, development and testing, printing, commercial copy centers, personnel supply services, union halls and chambers of commerce.
Check-Cashing Facility
A business establishment that provides financial services limited to the exchange of cash for a personal or business check, money order, or similar credit device, for a fee, as well as the sale of money orders and cash gift cards. Such facilities do not provide loans, savings or checking accounts, or any other such services generally offered by a bank, savings and loan, credit union, or other regulated financial services.
Chemical Industries
Limited to research and development laboratory, similar experimental testing or scientific establishment.
Communications Facilities
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A group or single communications antenna, communications equipment building, and/or communications tower, as defined and regulated in Part 6 of this chapter.
Community Services
Establishments rendering social services to the public, including welfare institutions, United Way, Red Cross, Salvation Army and similar uses.
Computers and Electronics
Establishments that manufacture computers, computer peripherals, communications equipment, and similar electronic products, and establishments that manufacture components for such products.
Cottage Industry
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An art, crafts or light industrial use, employing a maximum of three employees. The use includes, but is not limited to, carpentry, upholstery, woodworking, pottery, food production, mechanical repair, glassworks or similar uses.
Cultural Activities and Exhibitions (B1)
Establishments such as museums, art galleries, and similar activities of an historical, educational or cultural interest.
Day-Care Center
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A facility which is licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare to provide care to a cumulative number of seven or more children during any twenty-four-hour period, where the child-care areas are not used for a family residence.
Dormitory (A14)
A building that contains rooms or groups of rooms that provide sleeping and living accommodations solely for students enrolled at a college, university or similar institutional facility and members of its faculty or staff, provided that the dormitory is owned or managed by the institution where the students are enrolled or is owned or operated for the interests of and is operated for the benefit of that college or university. The rooms or groups of rooms may include provisions for eating, cooking and sanitation in addition to living and sleeping. Dormitories may have may have a maximum of four nonrelated individuals living in a unit.
Eating and Drinking Places (C5)
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Includes any restaurant, coffee shop, cafeteria, short order cafe, luncheonette, tavern, sandwich stand, soda fountain, hospital kitchen, dining room or snack bar, school lunchroom or cafeteria or any other place where food, drinks or refreshments are prepared for sale or for service on the premises and any other eating and drinking place where food is served or provided for the public with or without charge. However, this definition does not include private households or private social club.
Educational Services
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Establishments such as preschool, primary schools, secondary schools, postsecondary schools, technical schools, colleges, libraries and related administrative activities, both public and private.
Extended-Care Facility
An institution or part of an institution that is licensed or approved to provide health care under medical supervision for 24 or more consecutive hours to two or more patients who are not related to the governing authority or its members by marriage, blood or adoption. This use includes nursing homes and hospices.
Fabricated Metal Industries
An establishment engaged in the transformation of metal into intermediate or end products, other than machinery, computers and electronics, and metal furniture or treating metals and metal-formed products fabricated elsewhere. Such uses engage in forging, stamping, bending, forming and machining, used to shape individual pieces of metal, and other processes, such as welding and assembling, used to join separate parts together. Fabricated metal industries may use one of these processes or a combination of these processes. An establishment engaged in the processing and storage of metal products for distribution to manufacturers or retailers, not including junkyards.
Finance, Insurance, Real Estate
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Establishments, such as, but not limited to, banks, trust companies, credit agencies, investment companies, brokers and dealers of securities and commodities, stock exchange brokers and real estate agents.
Food Establishments (C4)
An establishment with a building footprint less than 4,000 square feet where food or beverage intended for human consumption is kept, stored, dressed, handled, sold or offered for sale with or without charge either at wholesale or retail and not consumed on the premises. This establishment may include the sale of "six packs" of beer or liquor, except when sold as part of an eating and drinking place; however, "food establishment" does not include eating and drinking places, wholesale beer distributors, or retail specialty.
Food Processing
An establishment in which food and kindred products are processed or otherwise prepared or packed for distribution to retail establishments.
Freight Depot
An area or building used as a regular stopping place in a freight carrier line for trucks, trains or airlines, with classifying yards, docks and related facilities.
Furniture and Other Furnishings
Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in selling furniture, including carpeting and other furnishings, to the general public.
Furniture and Other Furnishings Manufacture
An establishment in which furniture, including carpeting and other furnishings, are assembled or otherwise processed for distribution to retail establishments.
General Bookstore/Coffee Shop (C2)
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An establishment primarily engaged in the buying, selling and/or trading of new and/or used books, manuscripts and periodicals of general interest, with an integral coffee shop which has a floor area not to exceed 20% of the use. This use is commonly found in conjunction with a college or university and may include the sale of gifts and apparel.
General Merchandise (C3)
Retail establishments or places of business engaged in selling or rental of general commodities or goods to the public with a footprint not greater than 4,000 square feet. This use does not include pharmacy, sale of liquor, wholesale or distributor of beer, guns, smoke or vape shops, or other retail specialty establishments.
Government Services
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Establishments primarily engaged in rendering services under the auspices of a department, commission, independent agency or instrumentality of the federal, state, county or City governments.
Group Homes (A13)
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Public or private dwelling which render supervised care in a residential setting to more than one person with a disability who maintain a common household. Nursing homes and other long-term care facilities are excluded and are considered institutional uses.
Hardware
Establishments or places of business primarily engaged in selling fittings, cutlery, tools, utensils and similar items.
Hospitals
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Establishments that provide inpatient health services, many of which can only be provided using the specialized facilities and equipment that form a significant and integral part of the production process.
Hotel/Motel
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Facilities offering overnight lodging accommodations to the general public and providing additional services such as restaurants, meeting rooms and recreation facilities which are not necessarily restricted to lodging guest use.
Indoor Shooting Range (B8)
A facility designed and operated for the use of archery or firearms for the purpose of practice shooting.
Information and Data Processing
Establishments, such as, but not limited to, software publishing, the motion-picture and sound-recording industries; the broadcasting industries; telecommunications industries; Internet service providers and web search portals, data processing industries, and the information services industries. Information and data processing use shall not include Internet-based operations where goods are kept, stored, handled, sold or offered for sale or transfer with or without charge either at wholesale or retail (e.g., world wide web auctioneers).
Large Family Day-Care Home
An accessory home occupation operated for profit or not for profit in which child day care is provided on a regular basis to no more than six children, who are not relatives of the caregiver, during any twenty-four-hour period.
Liquid Fuels (C9)
Establishments or places of business offering for sale oil, gas, kerosene, propane and other similar fuels on a retail or wholesale basis.
Lumber and Wood Products
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An establishment in which lumber and wood products, except furniture, are processed for sale to retailers and the public.
Manufactured Home Park (A16)
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Any site, lot, field or tract of land, privately or publicly owned or operated, upon which two or more mobile homes, used for living, eating or sleeping quarters by persons not related to the proprietor or his agent, are or are intended to be located, whether operated for or without compensation by whatsoever name or title they are colloquially or commercially termed.
Medical Services
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Establishments that provide outpatient health services, primarily engaged in the field of dentistry, medicine, imaging, psychiatry, and psychology.
Mixed Residential/Business (A12)
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A structure containing both dwelling-unit and commercial components as principal uses. No such building or structure shall contain a residential component at or below the grade level and/or first level. Each dwelling unit shall be occupied by a single housekeeping unit. This use shall not include a mixed-use/dormitory.
Mixed-Use/Dormitory (A15)
A structure containing a dormitory [as defined in use Subsection A(1)(n)] and commercial and/or service components open to the public at or below grade level, as otherwise permitted by right or special exception within the district, as principal uses.
Motor Vehicle Sales (C8)
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The use of any building, land area or other premises for the display, sale and incidental service of new or used automobiles, motorcycles, trucks or recreational vehicles.
Multifamily (A7)
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A residential structure containing more than two but less than five dwelling units, each totally separate from the others by an unpierced wall, ceiling or floor, and each dwelling unit is occupied by a single housekeeping unit. Multifamily structures shall not contain more than three stories.
No-Impact Home-Based business
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:
(a) The business activity shall be compatible with the residential use of the property and surrounding residential uses.
(b) The business shall employ no employees other than family members residing in the dwelling.
(c) There shall be no display or sale of retail goods and no stockpiling or inventory of a substantial nature.
(d) There shall be no outside appearance of a business use, including, but not limited to, parking, signs or lights.
(e) The business activity may not use any equipment or process which creates noise, vibration, glare, fumes, colors or electrical or electronic interference, including interference with radio or television reception, which is detectable in the neighborhood.
(f) The business activity may not generate any solid waste or sewerage discharge, in volume or type, which is not normally associated with residential use in the neighborhood.
(g) The business activity shall be conducted only within the dwelling and may not occupy more than 25% of the habitable floor area.
(h) The business may not involve any illegal activity.
Nonresidential solar energy system
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A solar energy system that is an accessory use to lawful nonresidential use in any zoning district and mounted on the principal building on the lot.
Outdoor Storage Area
An area, in excess of 200 square feet and not contained within a building, on which materials and objects are stored but not processed, manufactured, remanufactured or abandoned. Such use is not open to the public, and materials and objects are not available for sale, whether retail or wholesale.
Parking Lot/Structure
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Any public or private land area or structure designed and used for parking motor vehicles.
Parks (B3)
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Tracts of land designated and used by the public for active and passive recreation.
Passenger Depot
A regular stopping place in a passenger transportation route, including a bus station, taxi or limo stand, train station and airport or heliport.
Pawnshop
Any establishment in which is carried on the business of pawn brokerage, or the business of loaning money for the broker or for another person, receiving as security for payment thereof pawns or pledges of property, or the business of purchasing personal property and reselling or agreeing to resell, trade or exchange the article to vendors, their personal representatives or their assignees at a price agreed upon at or before the time of purchase, whether the business be the principal or sole business so carried on or be merely incidental to, in connection with or a branch or a department of some other business.
Personal Services
Establishments primarily engaged in providing services involving the care of a person or his or her apparel, including, but not limited to, laundry, cleaning and garment services, garment pressing, linen supply, diaper service, coin-operated laundries, dry cleaning shops, carpet and upholstery cleaning, hair, skin and/or nail care shops, spas, weight reduction salons, health and gym clubs, massage and acupuncture parlors, shoe repairs, hat cleaning, funeral services, clothing rental, locker rental and porter service.
Petroleum Industries
Limited to research and development laboratory or similar experimental testing or scientific establishment.
Pharmacy (C11)
A place where drugs and medicines are prepared and dispensed. This definition includes medical marijuana dispensaries.
Plastics and Rubber Industries
Limited to research and development laboratory or similar experimental testing or scientific establishment.