(A) Location. All yards and other open spaces allocated to a building (or group of buildings comprising one principal use) shall be located on the same lot as such building. The maintenance of yards and other open space and minimum lot area legally required for a building shall be a continuing obligation of the owner of such building or of the property on which it is located, as long as the building is in existence. Furthermore, no legally required yards, other open space, or minimum lot area allocated to any building shall, by virtue of change of ownership or for any other reason, be used to satisfy yard, other open space, or minimum lot area requirements for any other building.
(B) Lot division. No improved lot shall hereafter be divided into two or more lots and no portion of an improved lot shall be sold, unless all improved lots resulting from each such division or sale shall conform with all the applicable bulk regulations of the zoning district in which the property is located.
(C) Reduction. No yards, now or hereafter provided for a building existing on the effective date of this chapter, shall subsequently be reduced below, or further reduced if already less than, the minimum yard requirements of this chapter for equivalent new construction.
(Ord. 96-54, passed 3-26-96)