A. Maintenance. Normal maintenance and incidental repair to a nonconforming site element may be performed. However, no repairs or reconstruction are permitted that would create any new nonconformity or increase the degree of the previously existing nonconformity.
B. Required Conformance.
1. General. All nonconforming site elements must be brought into conformance when the following occurs:
a. A new principal building is constructed on a site. This includes construction of a second principal building on the site.
b. An existing principal building is increased in building footprint square footage by 30% or more.
2. Nonconforming Parking Lot Landscape. When a parking lot of 15 or more spaces does not conform to required parking lot landscape requirements, it must be brought into conformance when such parking lot is fully reconstructed or expanded by an additional 50% or more spaces (viz., the total number of spaces after expansion is 150% or more of the spaces prior to expansion). Resealing, repaving, resurfacing, and/or re-striping of an existing parking lot is not considered reconstruction.
3. Nonconforming Exterior Lighting. For exterior lighting, when 25% or more of exterior lighting fixtures are replaced, all exterior lighting on the site must be brought into conformance. This requirement is calculated by dividing the installation of new lighting posts and/or non-post mounted lighting fixtures by the total lighting installed, by the type of mounting. For example, if over 25% of the wall-mounted fixtures are to be replaced, all wall-mounted fixtures must be brought into conformance while nonconforming freestanding fixtures may remain.
(Ord. 885, passed 11-21-2023)