(A) Maintenance of yards, courts and other open spaces. The maintenance of yards, courts and other open spaces and minimum lot area legally required for a building shall be a continuing obligation of the owner of the building or of the property on which it is located, as long as the building is in existence. Furthermore, no legally required yards, courts or other open spaces 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, court, other open space or minimum lot area requirements for any other building.
(B) Division of zoning lots. No improved zoning lot shall hereafter be divided in two or more zoning lots unless all improved zoning lots resulting from each such division shall conform with all the applicable area and bulk regulations of the zoning district in which the property is located.
(C) Required yards for existing buildings. No yards now or hereafter provided for a building existing on the effective date of this chapter shall subsequently be reduced below if already less than the minimum yard requirements of this chapter for equivalent new construction.
(1983 Code, § 9-1-6) (Ord. 09-07, passed 9-8-2009)