Sec. 1-305

Extracted standards

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From the ordinance

The board of zoning appeals (BZA) shall have the power to grant variances in the yard lot area and other dimensional requirements in any district so as to relieve practical difficulties or particular hardships in cases, when a property owner can show that his property was acquired in good faith and where, by reason of exceptional narrowness, shallowness, size, or shape of a specific piece of property at the time of the effective date of this ordinance, or where by reason of exceptional topographic conditions of other extraordinary situation, or condition of such piece of property, or the use or development or property immediately adjacent thereto, the strict application of the terms of this ordinance would effectively prohibit or unreasonably restrict the use of the property, or where the BZA is satisfied, upon the evidence heard by it, that the granting of such variance will alleviate a clearly demonstrable hardship as distinguished from a special privilege or convenience sought by the applicant, provided, that all variances shall be in harmony with the intended spirit and purpose of this ordinance.