THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. June 22, 1944 a ied ig Zoning Ordinance--Bellefonte Borough, 1944. SIDENTIAL & m—— | p——————— Tr —- 1 — —— PorTER —_ -, Pa HH 1G IH" wr TY Pall | RESIDEN A JBURN SIDE : RES) Pen Trac E 5 Artuur C. HewirT Peorough Engineer & | ZON Junie 124 4 An Ordinance of the Borough of Belle- fonte Regulating and Restricting the Use of Land and Erection, Con- struction, Reconstruction, Altera- tion, Repair or Use of Buildings; the Portions of Lot That May Be Occupied by Buildings; the Size of Yards, Courts, and Other Open Spaces; the density of Population and the location and Use of Build- inp, Structures and Land and Es- tablishing Building Lines Upon All Public Streets, ads, Highways, Lanes and Alleys in Said Borough. Conferrin Certain Powers upon the B ing Inspector; Providing for a Board of Adjustment and the Powers and Duties thereof: Pro- viding Penalties for the Viclation ot the Terms and Conditions there- WHEREAS, Council of the Bor ugh of Bellefonte, appointed the Zoning Commission as provided by law, to make a preliminary report, hold a public hear ng and make a final re- port to Council recommending a new Zoning Ordinance AND WHEREAS, in pursuance of a preliminary report made by sald zon- ing commission, a final hearing was advertised, as provided by law. in three newspapers published in Belle- fonte and which sa'd hearing was held on December 7, 1939, at the Court House in sald Borough, a final report was made by sald Commission to Council, AND WHEREAS, Council Borough of Bellefonte by advertise ment in the Centre Democrat and Keystone Gazette, as provided by law, ave fifteen days notice of a public earing held at the Council Cham! on May 26, 1984. of the final repo made by sald Commission and con id ered the expediency of the passage of an Ordinance In accord with sald re- port, therefore the following ordin- ance Is adopted ARTICLE 1 SECTION 1, Be It ordained and en- acted by the Council of the Borough of Bellefonte, County of Centre, and State of Pennsylvania, and it ls here by ordained and enacted by the nu- thority of the same; That from and after the passage and approval of this Ordinance, the following Zones shall be established and the p [Vt pe regulations, for the purpose of regu- lating and restricting the location of trades and bulldings and land de- signed for specified uses and regu latin and restricting the erection, ction, reconstruction, alters. tion, repair or use of bulldings, struc tures or land. and regulating and de- termining the area of yards, courts, and other open spaces In connection with bulldings hereafter erected or al- Jered, shall be In full force and ef- BECTION 2. This Ordinance shall be known as the Zoning Ordinance of of Bellefonte, ARTICLE 11 SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. Cer- UILDING OR iEIGHT OF eight f a bulld tance measured thest ighes adjacent CURB LEVEI he mean lev of the building the equivalent the : BOARD: Board { justement COURT: An open unoccupied tructed space other than a on the same jot as the busiding DWELLING: Any building which Is designed for or occupied in whole or in part as the home, residence or sleeping place of one or more persons either permanently or transiently his definition does not include Clubs Or DORrding nouse FAMILY a) An individual; (b) or tw (2) or more persons related by biocd or marriage living together, wr a group of individuals of not more than six (6) persons, not relat ed y bl r marriage, but living together ag a single housekeeping mit In each instance, the family be understood Ww elude the servants FAMILY DWELLING: A bulking designed for and cupned exclusively by one family DOUBLE HOUSE: A dwelling de- signed for or occupied exclusively hy i inder one roof and with a wall or BW between I'WO FAMILY DWELLING: (Du- plex A sepurat ¢ bulkinig detigned for and occupied exclusty ely by two families. one above the other MULTIPLE DWELLING: A dwell Ing desgned for or occupied other wise than as a single family dwelling two-fumily dwelling or double house TRAILER: A vehicle, whether self- propelled or not, originally designed for the dual purpose of human occu pancy and highway transportation COARAGE: a building, structure, or any part thereof in which one or more motor vehicles are housed, kept or repaired. Garages are classed as “Private garages or “public garages.” ‘A" A private garage is a garage used appurtenant to a dwelling hou.e primarily for the storage of powers driven vehicles and where no com- mercial repair work is done, in which garage, space for not more than one vehicle may be rented to persons not occupants of the premises upon which it Is situated, “B"—A lic garage 's any garage not incl within the definition of arage.” “private ARDS OR BILLBOARDS: thereof INGLE parte wo familie JON ny structure or part on which lettered or pictorial matter is displayed for advertising purposes, or inetd J. jo be. LOT: a parcel of ground which is OF my Ib Darerieg Do oh a bouings, Jofaing th the Accensory open spaces CORNER LOT: A lot upon two re streels at thelr intersect THROW dH LOT An interi \wving frontage on two streets YARD An open. unoccupled space art Aadt wiaea FR INT YARD: A yard across the l idth of the lot exiending from line of the building to the referred shall be ¢ oulside wall ding bay win- pariors, porches dorm rr projections and » ld wes, shall not » constructed or ined nearer the lot line ths the line so referred to SIDE YARD between butlding and the adjacent side line of the lot extending from the front yard to the rear yard REAR YARD: A yard across the full width of the jot extending from the rear line of the building to the rear line of the lot ACCESSORY BUILDING: A sub- ordinate bullding or portion of a main bullding. the use of which | incidental to that of the main bu id ing NON-CONFORMING USK The use of a bullding or land that doe not agree with the regulation of the Zone In which It is situated MIXED OCCUPANCY: Occupancy of & building or land for more than he use STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS Any change in the supporting men bers of a building or structure, such as bearng walls, bearing partitions columns, beams, or girders, or the en- closure of any previously open space STREET: Includes all lands estab- lished by dedication, usage ordin- ances of Council, or laid out upon the Borough pian as highways, ex- cept alleys and shall be synonymous with “roads.” “avenues,” “highways” “parkways,”" and other terms com monly applied to public highways ALLEY A highway for pedestrian or vehicular traffic of a wikith of twenty feet or less, STREET LINE: A Ine dividing the street from private property, TELEPHONE CENTRAL OFFICE A bullding nd its equipment erected and used for the purpose of facili- tath transmission and exchange of tele messages between subscrib- ers, and other business of the Tele phone Company; provided that In a residential district, a telephone cen- tral office shall not wclude public business facilities, storage of mater- inls, trucks or repair facilities, or housing of repair crews. ARTICLE 111 SRCTION 1. USE ZONE CLASSI- FICATIONS AND REGULATIONS: 1 is 1 adjacen buliding PROHIBITED USES The nufacture of Amm Hine, Colos Dye Cement Phosphate Nitrates and Coal Tar Products Dye Wood Preserves, Pertilizer Filler, Gas, Glue, Cain atin, Industrial Pols na or Lacnpblack, Oil Clot or Pa nts, Otis, Shelia Varni pentine, Paper or Pulp Prin Pyroxil ne r Celluloid Produ [ or Walerprocfing Products or Slaughter House Blast Rolling Mill Smelters, Coke Fish Smoking or Curing ven The manufacture or storage of Cunhpowder, Fireworks, or any other EXplogives or Explosive Dubsiance, ex cept fixed smumnmunition The Commercial Incmerstion or re- duction, or the storage of CGarbage, Offal, Dead Animals or Refuse The Distilling of Coal or Wood, or Grinding of Bones or Shells The Refining of Petroleum or the manulscture of Petroleum Products The manufacture of products cone taining asphalt or the refining of As phalt Iron or Bteel Poundry or Fabrica tion Works The tanning, curing or storing of Raw Hides or Skins, Leather or Hair The manufacture of Shoddy or the pulling or scouring of wool The storage of all pelrolen pro- ducts and other inflammable liquids, except when the same conforms tw regulations adopted by the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania The manufacture of Disinfectants or Insecticides Automobile wrecking yard BECTION 3 ZONES: In commercial zones, struc tures and land may be used for any pose except the Yoliowing, and may used for any of the following pur poses by resolution of Borough Couns cil on a favorable vote of a majority of all the members of Council, COMMERCIAL | erected. altered : be Places » shi all be nearer altered or placed nearer three (3) leet a : " ¥ Private Garages N ; ’ pr garage in any Residential wares shall be shall be nearer to the street 3 al N silAdinie 1 ¢ within the owner's property nthe building line fixed by s his Ordinance, nor woser LO an aliey not be permilied on the 4 a " . ‘ street, road, highway, lahe or than five (5) feel, nor closer J ros ign N or : we f a side ot line than the bullding line fxed by this Ordinance SECTION 5 GENERAL TIAL ZONE: y etruet ie nn ™ Hi ire n 11 finryiay nes fil CGIEDIAYS or facillities for FOTION 4 FIRST RESIDENTIAL RESIDEN shall ther than »e ected or used, and no land shall specified uses, or + used for purposes other than for necessary or ordin Y following specified use i i" uses th PUTPDOSES NECESATY OF GrQinaruy tment houses acoesnory WO such uses i) s111y Family Dwellings wes permitied in First Residen- Family Dwellings i tial Zone! Double Dwellwigs Boarding Houses Clubs Social Churches, Convents and Parish Recreational and Coowxnunity Houses, Center Bullding: hools, Libraries and Museums Multiple Dwelling? Farming, Gardening, Nurseries and Apartment Houses Greeti Houses that are not used Hospitals, Orphanages, Asyiums and . hp’ - for Commercial purposes Other Charitable or Philanthiropi Rallroad Passenger Stations and Institutions, except such as are Railroad Right-of-Way, and tele- intended for the insane or feeble phone central Offices minded, or for the custody, cor- Equipment and facilities for public | rection, reformation or detention service except gasoline service | of persons for any cause stations, gas tanks or enclosure f structures A minimum requirement as to lot (2) An accessory use shall not in areas for a dwelling house or bulld- clude a business or industry but may | Ing to be built or erected in General include the usual accessories of & | Residential Zones shall be five thou- re'idence located upon the sane lot sand (5000) square feel of ground and with the residence and appurtenant shall have a mnimum frontage of to the dwelling, together with the forty (40) feet, provided, however, conduct of a profession such as phy- that if the land affected be an un- sician or dentist and also customary plotted Jct baving an area or front. home occupations engaged in solely by | 8° less than that Stated herein and the occupants of the dwelling; pro- held under separate ownership the vided, however, that no window dis- | Area of such unplotted lot so held play, or sign other than a name plate under Separate ownership from the not exceeding two square feet in | Adjoining land ag the area and bearing only the name and cocupation of the occupants, shall be allowed as appertaining to use as of- fices or for home oocupaiions as pers mitted under this section (3) The minimum requirement as to Jot areas for a dwelling house or other building to be bullt or ited in a Frst Residential Zone shall be seventy-five hundred Purposes $ pace In Hine nearer Lhe minimum Zone set by ARTICLE In USE REGULATIONS ECTION 1. GENERAL Ul ULATIONS Outbuildings and lings except " ! ted In Resident located nearer thirty a comer J Traliers. No raller may plsced within the Borough limits for residential Use regardic of whether it is placed upon a foundation or not (0). In the Commercwul Zones gas- oline service aligns may be esiad- lished or extended provided no pore ton of the sine or any of thea equipment [or service Is placed closer 0 the street Le than twenty 0) feet nor closer therelo than the build- ing line of bulidings on adjacent lols (dy. In the Comxnercial Zones, pub- lic garages and gasoline servee sta- tiong may be established, erected or enlarged provided (1) That the proposed structure shall not have entrance or exit closer than two hundred OH feet 0 & public school, public Bursary, church, theatre, or any other ablic gather ing place, hotpital, ayground, or fire station (2) Ro public garage or gasoline service station shall be constructed al tered, or enlarged except with provis- sons for rendering all services on the premises and not on the public streets (e), No certificate of occupancy and compliance shall be issued for Ue es tablishment, enlargement or extens sion of a public garage or gasoline
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