Borough of Prospect Park

Accessory buildings

ACCESSORY BUILDING

A building detached from and subordinate to the principal building on a lot and used for purposes customarily incidental to those of the principal building. (See "accessory structure" and "accessory use.")

Accessory structures

ACCESSORY STRUCTURE

A structure detached from a principal building located on the same lot and customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal building or use. (See also "accessory building" and "accessory use.")

Accessory uses

ACCESSORY USE

A use of land or of a building or structure or portion thereof customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use of the land, building or structure and located on the same lot as the principal use. (See also "accessory building" and "accessory structure.")

Affordable housing

AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT

A development included in the Housing Element and Fair Share Plan, and includes, but is not limited to, an inclusionary development, a municipal construction project or a 100% affordable development.

Apartment houses

APARTMENT HOUSE

A building containing three or more apartments or two apartments in the same building with another principal use, including common areas restricted to the use of residents such as laundry rooms, administrative offices, computer rooms, common rooms, vending machines and health clubs restricted to the use of residents.

Apartments (upper floors only)

APARTMENT

An independent, self-contained dwelling unit with its own sleeping, sanitary and cooking facilities in a building containing two or more such dwelling units or more than one use.

Apartments, accessory

ACCESSORY APARTMENT

A self-contained residential dwelling unit with a kitchen, sanitary facilities, sleeping quarters and a private entrance, which is created within an existing home, or through the conversion of an existing accessory structure on the same site, or by an addition to an existing home or accessory building, or by the construction of a new accessory structure on the same site.

Apartments, garden style

APARTMENT

An independent, self-contained dwelling unit with its own sleeping, sanitary and cooking facilities in a building containing two or more such dwelling units or more than one use.

Assisted living

ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY

Residences for the frail elderly that provide rooms, meals, personal care and the supervision of self-administered medication and may, in addition, provide recreational activities, financial services and transportation for the residents.

ASSISTED LIVING RESIDENCE

A facility licensed by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services to provide apartment-style housing and congregate dining and to assure that assisted living services are available when needed for four or more adult persons unrelated to the proprietor and that offers units containing, at a minimum, one unfurnished room, a private bathroom, a kitchenette and a lockable door on the unit entrance.

Automobile parts and supply stores

AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND SUPPLY STORE

A retail store whose business is the sale of automobile parts and supplies only, and which does not include any repair, service or installation, no matter how minor or infrequent.

Automobile repair shops

AUTOMOBILE REPAIR SHOP

An establishment engaged in furnishing automobile repair, service or maintenance, but not including body work or painting.

Automobile storage yards

AUTOMOBILE STORAGE YARD

An establishment whose principal use is the storage of automobiles. Space utilized for the storage of automobiles shall not be considered parking spaces within the meaning of this chapter.

Automobile supply and service stores

AUTOMOBILE SUPPLY AND SERVICE STORE

A retail store whose primary business is the sale of automobile parts and supplies, and which provides for the service or installation of such parts on the premises as an accessory use.

Automotive showroom/sales lots

Bars

BAR

An establishment used primarily for the serving of liquor by the drink to the general public.

Boarding, lodging or rooming houses

BOARDING-, LODGING OR ROOMING HOUSE

A dwelling or part thereof in which lodging is provided by the owner or operator to more than one boarder.

Bowling establishments

Cabarets or nightclubs

CABARET or NIGHTCLUB

Any room, place, space or premises operated as a commercial establishment in which eating and/or drinking may take place and in which there is also provided entertainment. Such entertainment may include music by a live musician or musicians, or any mechanical, electronic or other means, such as records, laser discs, audio or videotapes or other audio or audiovisual means; this does include the operation of a motion-picture theater. Also included as entertainment are any act, play, burlesque show, revue, pantomime, scene, dance act or song-and-dance act participated in by one or more employees, guests, customers or any other person or persons. For the purpose of this definition, background piped-in music shall not be deemed as a form of entertainment.

Car washes

AUTOMOBILE HAND WASH

An establishment wherein the washing of automobiles is performed predominantly by hand, without the use of automated or mechanical equipment.

AUTOMOBILE OR CAR WASH

An establishment wherein automated and/or mechanical equipment is predominantly utilized for the washing of automobiles.

Carnivals

CARNIVAL

A temporary enterprise offering amusements, entertainment, exhibitions, foods, contests and livestock exhibits, with or without the payment of a fee, admission or subscription. A carnival may also include a fair, rodeo, tent park, amusement trailer center or other similar appellations.

Catering halls

BANQUET OR CATERING FACILITY

An establishment which serves food and drink and provides entertainment to paying customers and their invited guests on weddings, bar mitzvahs, birthdays and other similar occasions.

Check cashing stores

CHECK CASHING STORE

An establishment primarily engaged in the business of cashing of checks for individuals and not offering the full range of financial services normally associated with a bank.

Child-care centers

CHILD-CARE CENTER

A facility licensed or authorized and regulated by the State of New Jersey where care is provided for three or more persons, whether children or adults, away from their own homes for less than 24 hours per day in a facility which is operated for such purposes, for more than five hours per week. The term "day-care center" shall include, without limitation, qualifying facilities that provide adult day health care or child day care.

Clubs and social halls

CLUB

A group of people organized for a common purpose to pursue common goals, interests, or activities and usually characterized by certain membership qualifications, payment of fees and dues, regular meetings, and a constitution and bylaws.

Community buildings

COMMUNITY CENTER

A building used for neighborhood meetings and recreational activities, whether or not on the basis of fees or charges, and exclusive of a building accessory to a church or religious organization.

Condominiums

CONDOMINIUM

Shall mean a building or group of buildings in which dwelling units, offices, or floor area are owned individually and the structure, common areas and facilities are owned by the owners on a proportional, undivided basis.

Congregate care facilities

CONGREGATE CARE FACILITY

A facility for ambulatory elderly residents consisting of apartment units with communal dining facilities and services such as housekeeping, organized social and recreational activities, transportation services and other support services appropriate for the residents.

Convenience stores

CONVENIENCE STORE

A retail establishment offering for sale prepackaged food products, household items, newspapers and magazines, and sandwiches and other freshly prepared foods for off-site consumption.

Dance halls

Day-care homes, family

Delis, bakeries and coffee shops

FOOD AND BEVERAGE STORE

An establishment selling food and beverages to the public, including but not limited to meat, poultry, fish, specialty foods, beverages, candy, nuts, dairy products, health food, liquor and wine, and including convenience stores, delicatessens and bakeries (for sale of goods on premises only), but not including eating and drinking establishments or restaurants.

Distribution centers

DISTRIBUTION CENTER

An establishment engaged in the receipt, storage and distribution of goods, products, cargo and materials, including transshipment by boat, rail, air or motor vehicle.

Drive-in establishments

DRIVE-IN ESTABLISHMENT

Premises constructed for the sale of any goods or services by means of curb, window-counter, or self-service, whether to the motoring public.

Dry-cleaning establishments

DRY-CLEANING ESTABLISHMENT

A retail establishment used primarily for the purposes of picking up or dropping off clothing by customers for dry-cleaning purposes, and in which only those clothes dropped of by the customers at such an establishment and no other are dry cleaned within the premises. (See also "dry-cleaning plant.")

Dry-cleaning plants

DRY-CLEANING PLANT

An establishment in which clothing dropped off by customers at the establishment, and from other establishments, is dry cleaned within the premises. (See also "dry-cleaning establishment.")

Dwellings, multifamily

MULTIFAMILY OR MULTIPLE-FAMILY DWELLING

A building containing three or more dwelling units, occupied or intended to be occupied by three or more families, each living independently of each other and with their own sleeping, sanitary and cooking facilities. A building containing three or more such families where separation of the units is provided by means of a wall, floor, door or other type of screen or partition, or with a separate outside entrance, or basement access, shall be considered a multiple-family dwelling.

Dwellings, single-family attached

ATTACHED SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING

See "row house."

Dwellings, single-family detached

DWELLING, ONE-FAMILY

A building containing one dwelling unit only.

Dwellings, two-family

DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY

A building containing two dwelling units only.

TWO-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DWELLING

A detached residential building containing two dwelling units occupied or intended to be occupied by two families, each living independently of each other and with their own sleeping, sanitary and cooking facilities.

Fences

FENCE

An artificially constructed barrier of any material or combination of materials erected to enclose or screen areas of land.

Financial institutions, with drive-up window

DRIVE-THROUGH OR DRIVE-THRU BANK

A bank where transactions are made to customers within an automobile outside the confines of a building.

Financial institutions, without drive-up window

BANK

A business establishment authorized to perform financial transactions such as receiving and lending money, but not including check cashing stores or pawnshops.

Funeral homes, mortuaries

FUNERAL PARLOR or MORTUARY

A building used for the preparation of deceased human beings for burial or interment and for the display of the deceased and ceremonies connected therewith before burial or cremation.

Garages, private

PRIVATE GARAGE

A structure that is accessory to a residential use which is used for the parking of vehicles, and which is not used by the general public.

Garages, public

GARAGE, PUBLIC

See "public parking lot or garage."

Garages, semipublic

GARAGE, SEMIPUBLIC

See "semipublic parking structure."

Garden centers

GARDEN CENTER

A retail establishment providing plants, trees, flowers and other landscaping and gardening materials primarily to the public, including plant nurseries.

Gasoline service stations or repair garages

GASOLINE SERVICE STATION

An establishment primarily used for the retail dispensing of vehicular fuel and oil to automobiles and the incidental servicing thereof, but not including bodywork or painting.

Greenhouses

GREENHOUSE

A structure utilized for seed germination and plant propagation through the maintenance of a controlled climate necessary to sustain plant growth otherwise not possible in natural or out-of-door surroundings.

Health clubs or gymnasiums

HEALTH CLUB or GYMNASIUM

An establishment that provides facilities for physical exercise such as aerobics, running, jogging, weight lifting, game courts, swimming facilities, and accessory saunas, showers, massage rooms and lockers, within an enclosed building or buildings.

Home occupations (major)

HOME OCCUPATION

An activity carried out for gain by a resident, conducted entirely within a dwelling unit, which is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the lot for residential purposes. The term shall not include businesses or occupations such as the operation of a beauty parlor, barbershop, automobile repair servicing or body shop, convalescent or nursing home, insurance or real estate agency, boardinghouse, kennel or stable, massage parlor, dancing instructions, band instrument instructions in group, day-care centers or nurseries, drug counseling centers, antique shops, restaurants, tea rooms, tourist homes, real estate offices, insurance offices, mortuary establishments, stores, trades or similar establishments offering services to the general public and veterinary hospitals. (See §§ 235-406D and 235-2402.)

Home occupations (minor)

HOME OCCUPATION

An activity carried out for gain by a resident, conducted entirely within a dwelling unit, which is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the lot for residential purposes. The term shall not include businesses or occupations such as the operation of a beauty parlor, barbershop, automobile repair servicing or body shop, convalescent or nursing home, insurance or real estate agency, boardinghouse, kennel or stable, massage parlor, dancing instructions, band instrument instructions in group, day-care centers or nurseries, drug counseling centers, antique shops, restaurants, tea rooms, tourist homes, real estate offices, insurance offices, mortuary establishments, stores, trades or similar establishments offering services to the general public and veterinary hospitals. (See §§ 235-406D and 235-2402.)

Hospitals

HOSPITAL

An institution which maintains and operates organized facilities and services for the diagnosis, treatment or care of persons suffering from illness, injury or deformity and/or obstetrics, and in which all diagnosis, treatment and care are administered by or performed under the direction of persons licensed to practice medicine in the State of New Jersey.

Hotels/motels

HOTEL

A facility offering transient lodging accommodations to the general public wherein all rooms are connected to interior hallways, and thereby to interior elevators, lobbies or stairways, through which access to the exterior is gained. Hotels may include but not be limited to related services such as restaurants, meeting rooms or recreation facilities.

Indoor recreation

INDOOR COMMERCIAL RECREATIONAL USE

A building or group of buildings used for recreational purposes and operated as a business and open to the public for a fee, including bowling alleys, skating and roller rinks, pool and billiard halls, indoor rifle and pistol ranges, indoor batting cages, recreation centers, and indoor swimming pools or tennis courts. (See also "recreation use or facility.")

Industrial Parks

INDUSTRIAL PARK

A tract of land that is planned, developed and operated as an integral facility for a number of individual industrial uses, with consideration to transportation facilities, circulation, parking, utility needs, aesthetics, and compatibility.

Institutional uses or structures

Junkyard or salvage yards

JUNKYARD or SALVAGE YARD

A lot, land or structure, or part thereof, used primarily for the collecting, storage and sale of wastepaper, rags, scrap metal or other scrap or discarded material or for the collecting, dismantling, storage and salvaging of machinery or vehicles not in running condition and for the sale of parts thereof.

Kennels, commercial

COMMERCIAL KENNEL

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

Laboratory, research uses

LABORATORIES

An establishment or part thereof equipped and used for experimental study, testing or analysis in a field of science.

Laundromats

LAUNDROMAT

A business premises equipped with individual clothes-washing machines for the use of retail customers, exclusive of laundry facilities provided as an accessory use in an apartment house or hotel.

Live entertainment

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

Any form of entertainment which is performed in person before an attending audience.

Live/work units

LIVE/WORK UNIT

An apartment designed to provide space in which to conduct a business or trade, including offices, studios, crafts workshop area or laboratory space. (See also "live/work building.")

Long-term care facilities

Manufactured home parks and or subdivisions

MANUFACTURED HOME PARK or MANUFACTURED HOME SUBDIVISION

A parcel (or contiguous parcels) of land divided into two or more manufactured home lots for rent or sale.

Manufactured housing

MANUFACTURED HOME

A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which is built on a permanent chassis and is designed for use with or without a permanent foundation when attached to the required utilities. The term "manufactured home" does not include a recreational vehicle.

Markets, indoor

INDOOR MARKET

A single indoor retail establishment which is designed, arranged or intended to be used on a permanent basis by multiple vendors.

Massage establishments

MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENT

Any establishment having a fixed place of business where massages are administered for pay, including but not limited to massage parlors, sauna baths and steam baths. This definition shall not be construed to include a hospital, nursing home or medical clinic or the office of a physician, surgeon, chiropractor, osteopath or duly licensed massage therapist, physical therapist or health professional or barbershops or beauty salons in which massages are administered only to scalp, face, neck or shoulders. This definition also shall exclude health clubs which have facilities for physical exercise, such as tennis courts, racquetball courts or exercise rooms, and which do not receive their primary source of revenue through the administration of massages.

Mausoleums

MAUSOLEUM

A building for interring the human dead aboveground.

Medical or dental clinics

MEDICAL OR DENTAL CLINIC

An establishment where patients are admitted for examination and treatment on an outpatient basis by one or more physicians, dentists, other medical personnel, psychologists, or social workers and where patients are not lodged overnight, and are provided treatment not commonly performed in medical or dental offices.

Medical or dental offices

MEDICAL OFFICE

The office of recognized medical practitioners, including but not limited to doctors, dentists, dental surgeons, veterinarians, chiropractors, podiatrists, psychologists, and licensed therapists.

Mini warehousing or self-service storage facilities

MINI WAREHOUSE or SELF-SERVICE STORAGE FACILITY

A facility consisting of a building or group of buildings in a controlled-access compound that contains varying sizes of individual compartmentalized and controlled access stalls or lockers for the dead storage of customers' goods and wares.

Municipally owned or operated buildings

MUNICIPAL USE

Any use of land, building or structure by the Borough of Prospect Park or an agency thereof.

Nursing homes

NURSING HOME

An institution licensed and 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.

Offices

OFFICE

A room or group of rooms used for conducting the offices of a business, profession, service, industry or government, and generally furnished with desks, tables, files, and communication equipment, including offices of general, business, executive, legal, accounting, architect, planning, engineer, real estate, contractor and employment agencies.

Offices (upper floors only)

OFFICE

A room or group of rooms used for conducting the offices of a business, profession, service, industry or government, and generally furnished with desks, tables, files, and communication equipment, including offices of general, business, executive, legal, accounting, architect, planning, engineer, real estate, contractor and employment agencies.

Offices of philanthropic organizations

OFFICES OF PHILANTHROPIC ORGANIZATIONS

A building or group of buildings containing offices for use by civic, charitable, philanthropic, fraternal, trade union or veterans organizations, but excluding residential facilities and social welfare facilities such as soup kitchens, emergency or overnight shelters, or the dispensing of medical care or other forms of personal aid.

Off-site parking

OFF-SITE PARKING

Parking provided for a specific use but located on a site other than the one on which the specific use is located.

Open space lands

OPEN SPACE

Any parcel or area of land or water essentially unimproved and set aside, dedicated, designated or reserved for public or private use or enjoyment or for the use and enjoyment of owners, occupants and their guests, of land adjoining or adjacent to such open space.

Outdoor recreation, court games

TENNIS OR SPORTS COURT

A structure constructed on the ground consisting of a playing area of whatever consistency used to engage in the game of tennis or other sports. A backstop, consisting of netting, fencing or similar material and designed to prevent the passage of tennis or other balls, shall be considered to be part of the tennis or sports court.

Outdoor recreation, other

RECREATION USE OR FACILITY

A place designed and equipped for the conduct of sports and leisure-time activities.

Outdoor storage

OUTDOOR STORAGE

The keeping of any goods, junk, material, merchandise or vehicles outdoors in the same place overnight or continually for a period of more than 12 hours.

Parish houses

PARISH HOUSE

The residence of the clergy associated with a place of worship.

Parking, Borough

Parking, commercial vehicles in residential zones

COMMERCIAL VEHICLE

Any motor vehicle licensed by the state as a commercial vehicle.

Parking, recreational equipment

RECREATION VEHICLE

A vehicular-type portable structure without permanent foundation that can be towed, hauled or driven and designed primarily as a temporary living accommodation for recreation, camping and travel use, including but not limited to travel trailers, truck campers, camping trailers and self-propelled motor homes.

RECREATIONAL VEHICLE

A vehicle which is: A. Built on a single chassis; B. Four hundred square feet or less when measured at the longest horizontal projections; C. Designed to be self-propelled or permanently towable by a light-duty truck; and D. Designed primarily not for use as a permanent dwelling but as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, travel, or seasonal use.

Parking, structured and private areas

Parklands and playgrounds

PARK or PLAYGROUND

A tract of land designated and used by the public for active and passive recreation.

Pawn shops

PAWN SHOP or PAWNBROKER'S SHOP

An establishment in which the proprietor lends money on the security of personal property pledged in his or her keeping.

Places of indoor public assembly

Places of worship

PLACE OF WORSHIP

A church, synagogue, temple, mosque, or other building or group of buildings which by design and construction are intended for the conducting of organized religious services and accessory uses associated therewith.

Pools, community

Pools, noncommercial, private, swimming or wading

PRIVATE SWIMMING POOL

A swimming pool located as an accessory use on the same lot as the principal use it serves, is utilized only by the owner or tenants or his or their nonpaying guests.

Printing shops and establishments

Quarries

QUARRY

An open excavation used for obtaining slate, limestone or other stone building material.

Radio or TV antenna/towers

ANTENNA, RADIO AND TV

Antenna used by homeowners to receive radio or television communications.

Radio or TV antenna/towers, amateur

AMATEUR RADIO OR TV TOWER

A structure utilized by a single homeowner to send and/or receive radio and/or television communications.

Recreation areas

RECREATION USE OR FACILITY

A place designed and equipped for the conduct of sports and leisure-time activities.

Recreational facilities, commercial or private

Recreational uses or facilities

RECREATION USE OR FACILITY

A place designed and equipped for the conduct of sports and leisure-time activities.

Religious uses

Residential flats, condominium-style

CONDOMINIUM-STYLE RESIDENTIAL FLATS

An apartment house dwelling unit which has one habitable floor and which has one means of egress.

Residential flats, condominium-style, age restricted

CONDOMINIUM-STYLE RESIDENTIAL FLATS

An apartment house dwelling unit which has one habitable floor and which has one means of egress.

AGE-RESTRICTED UNIT

A housing unit designed to meet the needs of, and exclusively for, the residents of an age-restricted segment of the population such that: A. All the residents of the development where the unit is situated are 62 years or older; or B. At least 80% of the units are occupied by one person that is 55 years or older; or C. The development has been designated by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as "housing for older persons" as defined in Section 807(b)(2) of the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. § 3607.

Restaurants, drive-in

DRIVE-IN RESTAURANT

An establishment where food or drink is served to a customer in an automobile outside the confines of a building for consumption on the premises. (See also "drive-through or drive-thru restaurant.")

Restaurants, fast food

FAST-FOOD RESTAURANT

An establishment in which food is preprepared and sold over a counter in disposable containers or wrappers selected from a limited menu for consumption on or off the premises.

Restaurants, subject to standards of § 235-2409

RESTAURANT

An establishment where food and drink are prepared, served and consumed within an enclosed building, and wherein food is served only to be consumed by customers seated at tables on the premises. (See also "eating and drinking establishment," "drive-in restaurant" and "drive-through restaurant.")

Restaurants, with drive-through

DRIVE-THROUGH OR DRIVE-THRU RESTAURANT

An establishment where food is served for immediate consumption outside the confines of a building and where all or part of that consumption occurs outside the confines of the building, off the premises.

Restaurants, without drive-through

RESTAURANT

An establishment where food and drink are prepared, served and consumed within an enclosed building, and wherein food is served only to be consumed by customers seated at tables on the premises. (See also "eating and drinking establishment," "drive-in restaurant" and "drive-through restaurant.")

Retail sales and personal service

RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT

An establishment engaged in selling of goods and merchandise to the general public for personal or household use, including automobile parts and supplies (with no service), clothing and shoes, fabrics, curtains, drapes, floor coverings, furniture, lamps, appliances, radios, television sets, computers, electronics, upholstery, china and glassware, luggage and leather goods, antiques, home wares, paint and wallpaper, arts and crafts, candles, records, tapes, videos, musical instruments, pets, books and stationery, flowers, tobacco, drugs, sporting goods, jewelry, sewing machines, photography equipment, keys, cards, gifts, and toys, and including TV, appliance, computer and electronics sales and repair establishments, department stores, variety stores, hardware stores (with products for sale predominantly to the public), interior decorating stores, hobby shops and art galleries.

PERSONAL SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS

An establishment engaged primarily in providing services involving the care of a person or his or her personal goods or apparel, including but not limited to linen supply, diaper service, beauty shops and barbershops, dressmaker, milliner, tailor shops, watch repair, clothing and shoe repair, laundromats, dropoff laundry and dry cleaners (not including dry-cleaning establishments or plants), nail salons and tanning salons.

Retail sales and personal service, subject to standards of § 235-2409

RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT

An establishment engaged in selling of goods and merchandise to the general public for personal or household use, including automobile parts and supplies (with no service), clothing and shoes, fabrics, curtains, drapes, floor coverings, furniture, lamps, appliances, radios, television sets, computers, electronics, upholstery, china and glassware, luggage and leather goods, antiques, home wares, paint and wallpaper, arts and crafts, candles, records, tapes, videos, musical instruments, pets, books and stationery, flowers, tobacco, drugs, sporting goods, jewelry, sewing machines, photography equipment, keys, cards, gifts, and toys, and including TV, appliance, computer and electronics sales and repair establishments, department stores, variety stores, hardware stores (with products for sale predominantly to the public), interior decorating stores, hobby shops and art galleries.

PERSONAL SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS

An establishment engaged primarily in providing services involving the care of a person or his or her personal goods or apparel, including but not limited to linen supply, diaper service, beauty shops and barbershops, dressmaker, milliner, tailor shops, watch repair, clothing and shoe repair, laundromats, dropoff laundry and dry cleaners (not including dry-cleaning establishments or plants), nail salons and tanning salons.

Retirement communities

Satellite antennas

SATELLITE ANTENNA

Any accessory structure capable of receiving and/or transmitting, for the sole benefit of the principal use, radio or television signals from a transmitter or transmitter relay located in planetary orbit and including but not limited to satellite receivers, satellite dish antennas, satellite disks, direct broadcast systems (DBSs), and television reception only systems (TVROs).

Schools, commercial

COMMERCIAL SCHOOL

An educational or training establishment operated for a business, including the instruction of language, dance, fine or applied arts, martial arts, business, computers, trades, vocations, or the like.

Schools, elementary and intermediate

SCHOOL

Any place of education or instruction, other than a commercial school, college, university, theological seminary, convent, monastery, day-care center, children's day camp and religious retreat as defined in this chapter.

Schools, elementary and secondary, nonprofit, subject to institutional use requirements

SCHOOL

Any place of education or instruction, other than a commercial school, college, university, theological seminary, convent, monastery, day-care center, children's day camp and religious retreat as defined in this chapter.

Schools, postsecondary and other educational facilities

Schools, secondary

SCHOOL

Any place of education or instruction, other than a commercial school, college, university, theological seminary, convent, monastery, day-care center, children's day camp and religious retreat as defined in this chapter.

Screening

SCREENING

A method of visually shielding or obscuring one abutting or nearby structure or use from another by fencing, walls, berms or densely planted vegetation. (See also "buffer.")

Sheds

SHED

A small, fully enclosed structure for storage. (See also "accessory structure.")

Signs, subject to standards of § 235-2503E

SIGN

Any outdoor illuminated or nonilluminated device, fixture, placard or structure that uses any color, form, graphic, illumination, symbol or writing to advertise, announce the purpose of or identify the purpose of a person or entity or to communicate information or concepts of any kind to the public, provided that signs described in Chapter 90 of the Borough Code shall not be subject to the provisions of this chapter.

Stations or studios, audio, radio, video and television

AUDIO, RADIO, VIDEO AND TELEVISION STATION AND STUDIO

A building or portion thereof utilized to produce audio, radio, video or television programs.

Storage facilities

STORAGE FACILITY

An establishment engaged in the storage of goods, products or materials primarily for business or industrial purposes.

Studios

STUDIO

The workshop of an artist, sculptor, photographer or craftsperson or a place where radio, television or movies are produced. (See also "live/work unit.")

Theaters

THEATER or MOVIE THEATER

A building or part of a building devoted to showing motion pictures or for dramatic, dance, musical or other live performances to the public for a fee.

Townhouses

TOWNHOUSE or TOWNHOUSE DWELLING

A building containing three or more dwelling units wherein each unit has its own front and rear access to the outside, no unit is located over another unit, and each is separated from the other by one or more common vertical walls. (See also "row house or attached single-family dwelling.")

Trailers

TRAILER

A structure which temporarily or permanently stands on wheels and is capable of being towed or hauled by another vehicle and used for temporary or long-term human occupation.

Utilities, public or private

PUBLIC OR PRIVATE UTILITY

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 services.

Veterinary hospitals

VETERINARY OFFICE OR HOSPITAL

An office or hospital where animals are given medical care and the boarding of animals is limited to short-term care incidental to the principal use.

Warehousing and distribution

WAREHOUSE AND DISTRIBUTION

An establishment used primarily for the storage of goods, products, cargo and materials and/or which receives, stores or distributes such goods or materials by boat, rail, air or motor vehicle.

Wholesaling establishments

Wireless telecommunications towers and facilities

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS ANTENNA (WT ANTENNA)

Antenna of any type of design, which is or may be used for the delivery of wireless telecommunications, except for those radio antenna, dish antenna, or satellite receiving stations regulated pursuant to Part 6.

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPOUND (WT EQUIPMENT COMPOUND)

The area which houses any combination of WT equipment.

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT (WT EQUIPMENT)

Any building, structure, or equipment, including without limitation transmitters, power sources, or other equipment, except antennas or towers, which are or may be used for the delivery of wireless telecommunications.

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS TOWERS (WT TOWERS)

A vertical structure which is or may be used to support any WT antenna or other WT equipment, whether freestanding or attached to any existing structure.

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