Otter Creek Township Zoning Ordinance - Mercer County Regional ...

Certificate of Use and Occupancy. A statement, based on an inspection and signed by theZoning Officer, indicating that a building, structure, and/or land conforms with the provisionsprescribed in the Zoning Ordinance and may lawfully be occupied or used for a specified useor uses.Child Care Center. Provides out-of-home care for seven (7) or more children for part of a24-hour day to children 15 years and younger, including care provided to a child at the parentswork site when the parent is not present in the child care space, and including care provided inpublic or private profit or non-profit facilities. Also, care provided before or after the hours ofinstruction at non-public and private nursery schools and kindergartens. Definition does notapply to care provided: by a relative; in places of worship during religious services; in afacility were the parent is present at all times child care is provided; during hours ofinstruction in non-public or private nursery school or kindergarten.Church. A building and/or accessory buildings for public religious worship.Clinic. Any professional medical building or establishment where people are examined ortreated by doctors or dentists, but are not hospitalized overnight.Club, Lodges and Fraternal Organizations. An establishment operated for social,recreational, or educational purposes, and open only to members and their guests, but not thegeneral public.Conditional Use. A permission or approval granted by the Board of Supervisors to use landin a district for a purpose other than that permitted outright in that district. Conditional usesmay be approved or denied by the Board of Supervisors only in accordance with theprovisions of the PA Municipalities Planning Code (Act 247 of 1968, as amended).Construction. The construction, reconstruction, renovation, repair, extension, expansion,alteration, or relocation of a building or structure, including the placement of mobile homes.Convalescent Home. A dwelling converted into quarters or new building constructed withquarters for the full-time convalescent or chronic care of persons who, by reason of advancedage, chronic illness, or infirmity, are unable to care for themselves.Convenience Store. A retail establishment of limited size (less than 5,000 sq. ft. of building)designed for the sale of sundries, groceries and gasoline (and sometimes diesel fuel, propaneor kerosene). Convenience stores do not include repair services, tire sales or similar activities.Conversion. The change in a use or a structure.Court. A portion of a lot unoccupied above grade but partially or wholly surrounded bybuilding walls.85