Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
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- Abandonment period for nonconformingNonconformingLawful when built, but not compliant with the rules now in force; usually allowed to continue but not to expand. uses
When a nonconforming use of a structure or structures and premises in combination is discontinued or abandoned for one year, or for 18 months during any three year period, except when government action impedes access to the premises; or when a nonconforming use is superseded by a permitted use; the structure and premises shall not thereafter be used except in conformity with the regulations of the district in which it is located.
- NonconformingNonconformingLawful when built, but not compliant with the rules now in force; usually allowed to continue but not to expand. lot of record may be used as building site
A single nonconforming lot of record at the time of enactment or amendment of this ordinance may be used as a building site, provided that yard dimensions and requirements other than those applying to area or width of the lot shall conform to the regulation for the district in which such lot is located.
- NonconformingNonconformingLawful when built, but not compliant with the rules now in force; usually allowed to continue but not to expand. structures may be continued but not enlarged
No nonconforming structure may be enlarged or altered in any way which increases its nonconformity; and any structure or portion thereof may be altered to decrease its nonconformity.
- NonconformingNonconformingLawful when built, but not compliant with the rules now in force; usually allowed to continue but not to expand. uses of land may be continued but not enlarged
No such nonconforming use shall be enlarged or increased nor extended to occupy a greater area of land than was occupied at the time of enactment or amendment of this ordinance.
- NonconformingNonconformingLawful when built, but not compliant with the rules now in force; usually allowed to continue but not to expand. uses of structure may be continued but not enlarged
No structure existing at the time of enactment or amendment of this ordinance devoted to a nonconforming use shall be enlarged, extended, moved, or structurally altered, except repairs on or installation of plumbing fixtures required by law or administrative action of the health official or the building official, or the changing of interior partitions or interior remodeling; or in changing the use of the structure to a conforming use.
From the ordinance
It is the intent of this ordinance to permit these nonconformities to continue, but not to encourage their survival, permit their expansion, or permit their use as grounds for adding other structures or uses prohibited elsewhere in the same district.