A.
Minimum requirements. The provisions of this Zoning
Chapter shall be held to be the minimum requirements for the promotion
of the public health, safety, morals, and welfare.
B.
Relationship with other laws. Where the conditions
imposed by any provision of this Zoning Chapter upon the use of land
or buildings, or upon the bulk of buildings, are either more restrictive
or less restrictive than comparable conditions imposed by any other
provision of this chapter or any other law, ordinance, resolution,
rule or regulation of any kind, the regulations which are more restrictive
(or which impose higher standards or requirements) shall govern.
C.
Effect on existing agreements. This chapter is not
intended to abrogate any easement, covenant, or any other private
agreement, provided that where the regulations of this chapter are
more restrictive (or impose higher standards or requirements) than
such easements, covenants or other private agreements, the requirements
of this chapter shall govern.
A.
Application. Except as hereinafter provided:
(1)
No building or land shall hereafter be used or occupied
and no building or part thereof shall be erected, moved or altered
unless in conformity with the regulations herein specified for the
district in which it is located.
(2)
No building shall hereafter be erected or altered
to exceed the height, to accommodate or house a greater number of
families, to occupy a greater percentage of lot area, or to have narrower
or smaller rear yards, front yards, side yards, inner or outer courts
than is specified herein for the district in which such building is
located.
(3)
No part of a yard or other open space about any building
required for the purpose of complying with the provisions of this
chapter shall be included as part of a yard or other open space similarly
required for another building.
(4)
No lot, yard, setback, parking area or other space
shall be so reduced in area, dimension or capacity as to make said
area, dimension or capacity less than the minimum required under this
chapter. If already less than the minimum required under this chapter,
said area, dimensions or capacity shall not be further reduced.
B.
Responsibility. The final responsibility for the conforming
of buildings and use to the requirements of this chapter shall rest
with the owner or owners of such building or use and the property
on which it is located.
A.
Contiguous parcels. When two or more parcels of land,
each of which lacks adequate area and dimension to qualify for a permitted
use under the requirements of the use district in which they are located,
are contiguous and are held in one ownership, they shall be used as
one zoning lot for such use.
B.
Lots or parcels of land of record. Any single lot
or parcel of land held in one ownership, which was of record at the
time of adoption of this chapter, that does not meet the requirements
for minimum lot width and area, may be utilized for a permitted use,
provided that yards, courts, or usable open spaces are not less than
75% of the minimum required dimensions of areas.
Except as otherwise provided for in this chapter,
every building shall be constructed or erected upon a lot or parcel
of land which abuts upon an existing or platted street unless a permanent
easement of access to a public street was of record prior to the adoption
of this chapter.
