If a lawful use involving individual structures, or a structure and land in combination, exists at the effective date of adoption or amendment of this chapter that would not now be allowed in the district under the terms of this chapter, the lawful use may be continued so long as it remains otherwise lawful, subject to the following provisions.
(A) Structural alteration or enlargement. No existing structure devoted to a use not permitted by this chapter in the district in which it is located shall be enlarged, extended, constructed, reconstructed, moved, or structurally altered except in changing the use of the structure to a use permitted in the district in which it is located.
(B) Extension of use. A nonconforming use may be extended throughout any parts of a building which were manifestly arranged or designed for such use at the time of adoption or amendment of this chapter, but no nonconforming use shall be extended to occupy any land outside such building.
(C) Change in use. Any structure, or structure and land in combination, in or on which a nonconforming use is superseded by a permitted use, shall thereafter conform to the regulations for the district, and the nonconforming use may not thereafter be resumed.
(D) Termination by discontinuance or abandonment. If any nonconforming use of a structure, or structure and land in combination, is discontinued for a continuous period in excess of six months (except where government action impedes access to the premises), such period of discontinuance of use shall constitute an abandonment of the use of the structure, or structure and land in combination, and the structure or structure and land in combination, shall not thereafter be used except in conformity with the regulations of the district in which it is located.
(E) Removal of structure. Where nonconforming use status applies to a structure and land in combination, removal or destruction of the structure shall eliminate the nonconforming status of the land. However, any future use of the land must be in conformity with the regulations of the district in which it is located.
(Ord. 2014-26, passed 9- -2014) Penalty, see § 156.999