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.

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:
May include a single-family dwelling, tilling of the soil, nursery or greenhouse and the keeping of livestock and poultry, but which may not include a piggery, poultry hatchery or similar establishment, provided that any building used for the keeping of livestock and poultry or as a greenhouse shall be located not less than 100 feet from any street line and not less than 150 feet from any other property line.

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

Compatible multifamily dwelling or apartment house

DWELLING, COMPATIBLE MULTIFAMILY OR 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, but not limited to, a building which is owned and operated as a condominium under the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act, said use being auxiliary to a health club and/or full-service hotel having a minimum gross floor area of 75,000 square feet and a minimum of 25,000 square feet of active indoor and outdoor amenities inclusive of fitness facilities, swimming pool and cafe/restaurant which has an existing management agreement, common control or common ownership with the compatible multifamily dwelling or apartment house at the time of submission of a land development application and which may also include complimentary office use by residents of the compatible multifamily dwelling or apartment house.

Vehicle Parking:
See § 208-42.3H for parking requirement details.

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

Development Requirements:
The following design standards shall apply to the development of a compatible multifamily dwelling or apartment house. To the extent the following design standards conflict with the design standards of § 181-50, § 208-102 or other applicable provisions of this Zoning Ordinance or Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance,[1] the following design standards of this § 208-42.3 shall apply.

A. A compatible multifamily dwelling or apartment house shall abut or share a tract (which may include more than one lot) with an auxiliary health club and/or full-service hotel within the Office District having a minimum gross floor area of 75,000 square feet and a minimum of 25,000 square feet of active indoor and outdoor amenities inclusive of fitness facilities, swimming pool and cafe/restaurant and shall be subject to a recorded joint covenant between the lots (in the event they are not on the same lot), which may include provisions for access, site amenities, walkways, shared parking, area and bulk and other criteria as applicable. Each individual lot need not meet the area and bulk requirements of the Office District as long as the totality of the tract (which may include more than one lot) is compliant with the applicable area and bulk requirements of the Office District, including any prior variances for the tract.

B. The auxiliary health club and/or full-service hotel and compatible multifamily dwelling or apartment house shall be developed pursuant to a common plan of development or the auxiliary health club and/or full-service hotel shall be in existence at the time of a land development application for the compatible multifamily dwelling or apartment house.

C. A proposed compatible multifamily dwelling or apartment house shall include pedestrian connectivity to the auxiliary health club and/or full-service hotel, which shall include covered walkways, sidewalks and/or crosswalks.

D. A compatible multifamily dwelling or apartment house shall have a lot area for the tract of 3,700 square feet per dwelling unit, with no more than 200 dwelling units.

E. A compatible multifamily dwelling or apartment house shall be limited to studio, one- and two-bedroom dwelling units.

F. Impervious surfaces shall be minimized through the use of structured parking facilities and green roof buildings in which the green roof shall be 50% of the gross roof area of the compatible multifamily dwelling or apartment house, excluding the parking structure.

G. In addition to the stormwater requirements of Chapter 174: Stormwater Management, compatible multifamily dwelling and apartment house developments shall have stormwater management controls designed to:

(1) Exceed the net two-year volume requirement defined in § 174-20C(1)(b)[1], Groundwater recharge and volume control standards, by at least 25% on a tract-wide basis through recharge, evapotranspiration, and/or on-site capture and reuse.

(2) Exceed the baseline peak rate control requirements in § 174-23: Stormwater peak rate control and management standards., Table 23.1, Stormwater peak rate control and management standards, by at least 25% for all design storms on a tract-wide basis.

H. Parking. See § 208-42.3H for parking details.

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.

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) No such use shall include an office open to the general public; the storage of materials; rotating equipment; trucking or repair facilities; housing of work crews; a storage garage; or any structure involving major traffic movements;
(b) The portion of any such use not located within a building is enclosed or adequately screened in such a manner as to not detract from the character of the district; and
(c) No advertising shall be affixed to any structure.

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

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:
Provided that the chief activity shall not be one that is customarily carried on as a business; no building shall be closer than 100 feet to a street or property line; the buildings or services shall be for the use of members and their guests only; and the use shall comply with the provisions of § 208-12F(3)(g) through (i) relating to privately owned outdoor recreational uses in RC Districts.

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

A facility or institution, whether public or private, principally engaged in providing services for health maintenance and the treatment of mental or physical conditions.

Health club

An establishment that provides health and fitness facilities such as running, jogging, aerobics, weight lifting, court sports, and swimming, and may include ancillary facilities such as locker rooms, showers, massage rooms, saunas, sales of related health equipment and clothing, juice bars, and other related uses.

Historical or cultural museum

Hospital

An institutional facility providing primary health services and medical or surgical care to persons, primarily inpatients, suffering from illness, disease, injury and other abnormal physical or mental conditions, and including as an integral part of the institution related facilities, such as laboratories, outpatient facilities, training facilities, medical offices and staff residences.

Hotel

A facility offering transient lodging accommodations to the general public, which rooms are entered exclusively from an interior lobby, corridor or hallway from a common entrance, and which may include additional facilities and services, such as restaurants, lounges, meeting rooms and other common areas, or recreation facilities for use only by registered hotel guests. See "motel."

Impoundment basins

Jails or prisons

Junkyard

Any lot, land, parcel, building or structure, or part thereof, used for the storage, collection, processing, purchase, sale, salvage or disposal of any scrap, waste, reclaimable material or debris for sale or in the process of being dismantled, destroyed, processed, baled or disposed of.

Library

A place in which literary, musical, artistic, or reference materials (such as books, manuscripts, recordings, or films) are kept for use.

Living accommodations for watchmen, caretakers of the staff or employees

Low-impact home-based business

Any activity carried out for financial gain by a resident and conducted as a customary, incidental and accessory use in the resident's dwelling which does not change the character thereof. Low-impact home occupations include dressmaking, millinery, upholstery, furniture-refurbishing (excluding paint stripping operations) or similar handicrafts; professional studios or offices of an architect, physician, dentist, engineer, lawyer, musician, photographer or practitioner of similar character; small pet grooming, bed-and-breakfast facilities, day-care or other low-impact home occupations of similar character and impact. Low-impact home occupations shall not include the following: a barber, beauty shop or hair stylist; tearoom, tourist or boarding house; or kennel.

Mail order distribution establishment

Manufactured home

A transportable, single-family dwelling, constructed off site, 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 with or without a permanent foundation, including any addition or accessory structure, such as porches, sheds, decks, garages or additional rooms. The term includes park trailers, travel trailers, recreational and other similar vehicles which are placed on a site for more than 180 consecutive days.

Manufactured home park

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

Manufactured home subdivision

The division or redivision of a lot, tract or parcel of land by any means into two or more lots, tracts, parcels or other divisions of land, including changes in existing lot lines for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of lease, partition by the court for distribution to heirs or devisees, transfer of ownership or building or lot development; provided, however, that the subdivision by lease of land for agricultural purposes into parcels of more than 10 acres, not involving any new street or easement of access or any residential dwelling, shall be exempted.

Manufacturer's representative or catalog ordering establishment

Manufacturing

Medical/dental office

Mortuary

A place for the storage of human bodies prior to their burial or cremation.

Multifamily dwelling

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.

Multi-modal transportation center

A public transit station served primarily by a commuter rail train which provides direct connections/transfers to bus or taxi service, an interconnected pedestrian walkway system, park-and-ride facilities, retail and service establishments and residential neighborhoods.

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, or pickup, delivery or removal functions to or from the premises in excess of those normally associated with residential use.

Nonresidential structures

Nursery school

A facility which provides daytime care and instruction to a number of persons between the ages of two years and five years and operates on a regular or seasonal basis.

Nursing homes

A facility or institution, whether public or private, principally engaged in providing services for health maintenance and the treatment of mental or physical conditions.

Office

A room or group of rooms used for conducting the affairs of a business, profession, service, industry or government and generally furnished with desks, tables, files and communication equipment.

Office of a veterinarian or profession involving the treatment, boarding or breeding of animals

An establishment in which dogs or domesticated animals are housed, groomed, bred, boarded, trained or sold, all for a fee or compensation.

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:
Such use is located on a lot of not less than 10 acres and that the facilities so used are located a minimum of 150 feet from any street or property line.

Off-street parking area

Parking of motor vehicles as an accessory use located upon the same lot as a permitted principal use to serve the parking requirements and needs of the principal use.

One single-family detached dwelling

A one-family dwelling which is not attached to any other dwelling by any means and is surrounded by open space or yards on all sides.

On-site sewage systems

Outdoor seating

Outdoor storage of vehicles or materials

Park

Parking lot (principal use of lot)

An off-street, ground level area for the temporary parking of vehicles, forming the principal use of the lot, and not including any area wherein vehicles for sale or repair are kept.

Parking structure

A covered structure or portion of a covered structure that provides parking areas for motor vehicles, including parking areas within the footprint of a permitted building.

Personal service establishment

An establishment primarily engaged in the provision of frequent or recurrent services of a personal nature. Typical uses include, but are not limited to, beauty salons and spas, barbershops, tanning salons, massage establishments, commercial copy shops, animal grooming, shoe repair, personal item repair shops, laundromats, dry cleaners, and tailors. Personal service establishments do not include any adult uses.

Printing, publishing, lithographing, binding

Private home swimming pool

Private parking space

A parking area for the exclusive use of the owners or occupants of the lot on which the parking area is located.

Private tennis court

Private, noncommercial garden or greenhouse

Privately owned outdoor recreational area or use

Public library

Public or private 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.

Public park

Public transportation shelter

A small, roofed structure, usually having three walls, located near a street and designed primarily for the protection and convenience of transit vehicle passengers.

Public utility use

A closely regulated enterprise with a franchise for providing to the public a utility service deemed necessary for the public health, safety and welfare.

Publishing, job printing or similar establishment

Quarrying operations

An industrial use involving the extraction of sand, clay, shale, gravel, stone or similar material from the ground and associated accessory uses such as the creation of settling basins or ponds and the storage of overburden, but not including the filtering, refining or processing of said natural resources.

Radio or television station/studio

A building or portion of a building used as a place of work by a practitioner or instructor of art photography, drama, music, dance or certain healing sciences or for radio or television broadcasting.

Railroads

Recreation uses that do not require structures

Recreational vehicles

A vehicle which is built on a single chassis; not more than 400 square feet, measured at the largest horizontal projections; designed to be self-propelled or permanently towable by a light-duty truck; not designed for use as a permanent dwelling but as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, travel, or seasonal use.

Religious school

Removal of topsoil

Research facility

A facility for investigation into the natural, physical or social sciences, which may include engineering and product development. Research laboratories imply physical activities usually associated with "wet" labs or places with running water, gases, special ventilation devices, chemicals, special heating and electrical or electronic equipment, or use of animals or human subjects under controlled conditions.

Residential care facilities for older persons

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."

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:
Density for residential care facilities for older persons in the PIP District shall be calculated based on the requirements of § 208-46E, except that density shall be calculated on a net tract area basis instead of a lot area basis.

Residential structures

Restaurant

An establishment where food and drink are prepared, served and offered for sale to customers, primarily for consumption at tables inside or outside the building, but on the same lot as the principal building.

Restaurant (excluding drive-in/drive-through facility)

An establishment where food and drink are prepared, served and offered for sale to customers, primarily for consumption at tables inside or outside the building, but on the same lot as the principal building.

Retail (excluding auto sales)

Establishments engaged in the selling or rental of goods or merchandise to the public generally for personal use or household consumption (although they may also serve business and institutional clients) and in rendering services incidental to the sale of such goods, and including the processing or manufacturing of some of the products sold on the premises so long as those processing and manufacturing activities are incidental or subordinate to the selling activities.

Sanitary landfill

Sanitary sewer outlets

Self-storage facility

A building or group of buildings containing separate, individual, and private storage spaces of varying sizes available for lease or rent for varying periods of time.

Vehicle Parking:
At least one parking space for each 1,000 square feet of gross floor area or fraction thereof.
Parking spaces dedicated to the storage of recreational vehicles, boats, campers, trailers, or similar vehicles shall not be considered in the calculation of required parking.
See § 208-103: Off-street parking and loading requirements for more information on parking requirements.

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

Development Requirements:

Self-storage facilities shall be subject to the following requirements:

A. In addition to any buffering and screening requirements of the underlying zoning district, the outdoor storage of recreational vehicles, boats, campers, trailers or similar vehicles shall be screened by landscaping or fencing designed to conceal the view of all such vehicles from abutting properties.
B. Any outdoor storage of vehicles, as permitted by this section, shall be subject to the requirements of § 149-5A(7) of the Property Maintenance Code, related to the storage of uninspected or unregistered motor vehicles.

Sewage pumping stations

Short-term rental

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

Vehicle Parking:
Short-term rental: at least two parking or garage spaces for every dwelling unit therein.

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

Development Requirements:

In the C-2 District: as part of a dwelling in a multiuse development.

R-1/2 and R-1 Districts - located in a historic structure, subject to the provisions in § 208-122.1a: Short-term rentals.

Single-family attached dwelling

A one-family dwelling in a row of at least three such units in which each unit has its own ground floor access to the outside, no unit is located over another unit and each unit is separated from any other unit by one or more common vertical walls and has open space on at least two sides.

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) Has frontage on a major arterial highway;
(b) Abuts a railroad;
(c) Has a maximum lot depth, measured from the major arterial highway, of 125 feet;
(d) Has a maximum of one curb cut per 100 feet of frontage and sufficient turning area to negate the necessity for any vehicle to back out onto the major arterial highway; and
(e) Is not feasible for mixed-use development, as demonstrated by the applicant.

Single-family attached dwelling (townhouse)

A one-family dwelling in a row of at least three such units in which each unit has its own ground floor access to the outside, no unit is located over another unit and each unit is separated from any other unit by one or more common vertical walls and has open space on at least two sides.

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) Has frontage on a major arterial highway;
(b) Abuts a railroad;
(c) Has a maximum lot depth, measured from the major arterial highway, of 125 feet;
(d) Has a maximum of one curb cut per 100 feet of frontage and sufficient turning area to negate the necessity for any vehicle to back out onto the major arterial highway; and
(e) Is not feasible for mixed-use development, as demonstrated by the applicant.

Single-family semidetached dwelling

A one-family dwelling attached to one other one-family dwelling by a common vertical wall, with each dwelling located on a separate lot, and having open space on three sides.

Single-family semidetached dwelling (twin)

A one-family dwelling attached to one other one-family dwelling by a common vertical wall, with each dwelling located on a separate lot, and having open space on three sides.

Sod farming

Stable, barn or other structure

A structure that is used for the shelter or care of horses and cattle.

Storage of hazardous materials

Storm sewers

Student home located in a single-family dwelling

A building on one lot containing one dwelling unit.

Student home located in a single-family or two-family dwelling

A building on one lot containing one dwelling unit or A building on one lot designed for and occupied exclusively for two dwelling units, each of which is totally separated from the other by an unpierced wall extending from ground to roof or an unpierced ceiling and floor extending from exterior wall to exterior wall, except for a common stairwell exterior to both dwelling units.

Substantial improvement to an existing manufactured home park or manufactured home subdivision

Any reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition, or other improvement of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds 50% of the market value of the structure before the start of construction of the improvement. This term includes structures which have incurred substantial damage regardless of the actual repair work performed. The term does not, however, include any project for improvement of a structure to correct existing violations of state or local health, sanitary, or safety code specifications which have been identified by the local code enforcement official and which are the minimum necessary to assure safe living conditions.

Swimming club

Technical school

A school conducted for profit for such instruction as business, computers, art, music, trades, handicraft, dancing or riding.

Tennis club

Township administrative building

Two-family attached dwelling (duplexes)

A two-family dwelling with one family living wholly or partially above the other having one or more party walls in common with at least two other dwellings on adjacent lots and having open space on at least two sides.

Two-family detached dwelling (duplex)

A two-family dwelling on one lot with one family living adjacent to the other or living wholly or partially above the other and having open space on at least three sides.

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:
See 208-150 and the special development regulations of § 208-102 for more information.

Two-family semidetached

A two-family dwelling on one lot with one family living wholly or partially above the other and having one or more party walls in common with a similar two-family dwelling on an adjacent lot and having open space on three sides.

Two-family semidetached dwelling (quad)

A two-family dwelling on one lot with one family living wholly or partially above the other and having one or more party walls in common with a similar two-family dwelling on an adjacent lot and having open space on three sides.

Utility line

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:

(1) No such use shall include an office open to the general public; the storage of materials; rotating equipment; trucking or repair facilities; housing of work crews; a storage garage; or any structure involving major traffic movements;
(2) The portion of any such use not located within a building is enclosed or adequately screened in such a manner as to not detract from the character of the district; and
(3) No advertising shall be affixed to any structure.

Warehouse

A building used primarily for the storage of goods and materials.

Waterlines and sealed wells.

Wholesale establishment

An establishment or place of business primarily engaged in selling merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional or professional business users; to other wholesalers; or acting as agents or brokers and buying merchandise for, or selling merchandise to, such individuals or companies.

Woodlot

A privately maintained restricted area of woodland used as a source of fuel, posts and lumber.

Township of Tredyffrin, PA

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