Township of Tredyffrin

Accessory apartment

One dwelling unit which is incidental and subordinate to the principal use of a building on a lot which may be either a separate living unit for a member of the family or other relatives, servants or caretakers in a residence or one dwelling unit in conjunction with the principal nonresidential use of a building.

Agricultural uses

A principal use involving the cultivating of the soil, the raising, keeping and/or training of livestock and/or poultry and the harvesting of products of the soil. The term "agricultural use" includes farming, animal husbandry, riding academy, horticulture and forestry.

Amusement facility: indoor

Establishments engaged in providing entertainment for a fee, including such activities as dance halls, studios, theatrical productions, bands, orchestras and other musical entertainment; bowling alleys and billiard and pool establishments; commercial facilities such as arenas, rings, rinks and racetracks; public golf courses and driving ranges; coin-operated devices, amusement parks, membership sports and health clubs, swimming pools, riding academies, carnival operations, expositions, game parlors and horse rides.

Amusement facility: outdoor

Establishments engaged in providing entertainment for a fee, including such activities as dance halls, studios, theatrical productions, bands, orchestras and other musical entertainment; bowling alleys and billiard and pool establishments; commercial facilities such as arenas, rings, rinks and racetracks; public golf courses and driving ranges; coin-operated devices, amusement parks, membership sports and health clubs, swimming pools, riding academies, carnival operations, expositions, game parlors and horse rides.

Apartment house

A building on one lot designed for and occupied exclusively for three or more dwelling units, each dwelling unit occupied by one family, including a building which is owned and operated as a condominium under the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act.

Apartment recreational facilities

A place designed and equipped for the conduct of sports and leisure-time activities as a principal use.

Vehicle Parking:
Determined on a case-by-case basis using the standards in § 208-103: Off-street parking and loading requirements.

Merchandise Loading:
See § 208-104: Off-street loading and unloading space for detailed information.

Development Requirements:

(a) The use and its design are compatible with the natural character of the area;
(b) Each building or structure shall be clearly incidental to the permitted outdoor use;
(c) Any club or lodge building and its services shall be for the use of members and their guests only;
(d) No commercial activity shall be permitted except for charging of admission, the sale of refreshments or such other purpose as is clearly incidental to the permitted outdoor activity;
(e) Each permitted use or activity shall be screened and separated from a public street and from an adjoining property by a landscaped planting strip not less than 100 feet in depth; subject to the requirements of § 208-103B relating to the location and buffering of off-street parking areas;
(f) Each incidental commercial use shall be located or screened so that it shall not be visible from a public street;
(g) There shall be no overhead lighting other than streetlight or parking lights;
(h) Not more than 40% of the land area of the lot shall be utilized for impervious surfaces; and
(i) Any activity not located within enclosed walls shall be limited to the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Assisted or personal care units

Residences usually occupied by the frail elderly that provide rooms, meals, personal care and health monitoring services under the supervision of a professional nurse and may provide other services, such as recreational, social and cultural activities, financial services and transportation. See "assisted living facility."

Assisted-living facility

Residences for the elderly that provide rooms, meals, personal care and supervision of self-administered medication. Services may also include recreational activities, financial services and transportation.

Auditorium

Automobile Service Station

Bank or other financial institution

Bed-and-breakfast facility

A building used for the purpose of furnishing temporary lodging to guests, together with food service to such guests, limited to breakfast and sometimes lunch or afternoon tea, prepared and served on site only to such guests and having an owner or manager in residence on the property. Such temporary lodging would normally be for a few nights and typically would not exceed a week.

Bridges

Physical additions and changes to land, such as grading, paving, curbing, fire hydrants, water mains, sanitary sewers, capped sewers, storm sewers, storm drains, catch basins, culverts, sidewalks, monuments, crosswalks, bridges, earthworks, streetlights, wells, on-site sewage disposal systems, street trees and other plantings and other structures, that may be necessary to produce usable and desirable land development.

Business or private school

Any building or part thereof that is designated, constructed or used for education or instruction in any branch of knowledge.

Cell tower

A parcel of land containing a tower, sending and receiving antennas attached to the tower or a prefabricated or modular structure or cabinets containing electronic equipment; a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licensed facility, designed and used for the purpose of transmitting, receiving and relaying voice and data signals from various wireless communication devices and equipment. For purposes of this chapter, amateur radio transmission facilities and facilities used exclusively for receive-only antennas are not classified as cellular telecommunications towers and facilities.

Cemetery

Property used for the interment of the dead.

Church, temple, synagogue, mosque or similar places of worship

A church, synagogue, temple, mosque or other facility that is used for prayer by persons of similar beliefs; or a special purpose building that is architecturally designed and particularly adapted for the primary use of conducting formal religious services on a regular basis.

Club or lodge

A noncommercial social, professional or philanthropic organization characterized by the payment of dues, regular meetings and a constitution and bylaws. A building is used for club or lodge purposes when it serves as a meeting place for such organization and is not an adjunct to or operated by or in connection with a public tavern, cafe or other commercial or public place, although it may be used for recreational and/or dining facilities limited to the membership and their guests.

Commercial greenhouse or nursery

The growing, cultivation, storage and sale of garden plants, flowers, trees, shrubs and fertilizers as well as the sale of garden tools and similar accessory and ancillary products to the general public.

Commuter railroad station

Compounding or packaging of pharmaceuticals

Conservation facility

Convent, monastery or similar religious institutions

A building used as group living quarters for a student body or religious order as an accessory use to a college, university, boarding school, convent, monastery or similar institutional use.

Conversion of a dwelling to two-family or multifamily use

Conversion of a single-family dwelling to two-family or multifamily

Corporate conference/training center for employees and/or customers

Cutting or removal of trees or other flora

Cutting or removal of trees or other flora except where the area is devoted to forestry or nursery use, or except for certain permitted uses like a park or golf course where routine maintenance and care occurs, in which case cutting or removal shall be on a selective basis with appropriate reforestation measures practiced.

Dams

Day-care center

An establishment providing for the care, supervision and protection of children or for the elderly and/or functionally impaired adults for part of a twenty-four-hour day.

Docks and piers for boating

Dormitory

A building used as group living quarters for a student body or religious order as an accessory use to a college, university, boarding school, convent, monastery or similar institutional use.

Dump

A land site used primarily for the disposal by dumping, burial, burning or other means and for whatever purposes of garbage, sewage, trash, refuse, junk, discarded machinery, vehicles or parts thereof and other waste, scrap or discarded material of any kind.

Dwelling: multi-use development

A development designed for both residential and commercial uses. Commercial uses, such as retail stores, personal service establishments, and restaurants, must be located on the ground floor along any arterial or collector street frontage. Dwelling units may be located above the ground floor or behind nonresidential uses on the ground floor.

Electric substation or any similar public utility use

An assemblage of equipment for purposes other than generation or utilization, through which electric energy in bulk is passed for the purpose of switching or modifying its characteristics.

Elementary, secondary and postsecondary schools

Any building or part thereof that is designated, constructed or used for education or instruction in any branch of knowledge.
(1) SCHOOL, ELEMENTARY -- Any school that is licensed by the state and meets the state requirements for elementary education.
(2) SCHOOL, POSTSECONDARY (COLLEGE) -- An educational institution authorized by the state to award associate, baccalaureate or higher degrees.
(3) SCHOOL, SECONDARY -- Any school that is licensed by the state and authorized to award diplomas for secondary education.

Fences

An artificially created barrier intended to prevent escape or intrusion, to obscure visibility or mark a boundary.
(1) FENCE, SECURITY -- Any fence topped or intertwined with barbed wire, concertina wire or similar material used as an obstacle to deter intrusion or escape.

Fraternity or sorority house

A dwelling or dwelling unit maintained exclusively for fraternity or sorority members and their guests or visitors and affiliated with an academic or professional college, university or other institution of higher learning.

Game preserve

Golf or country club

Governmental utility use

Any agency that, under public franchise or ownership or under certificate of convenience and necessity or by grant of authority by a governmental agency, provides the public with electricity, gas, heat, steam, communication, transportation, water, sewage collection or other similar service.

Health care facility or skilled nursing facility

Township of Tredyffrin, PA

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