(A) Interpretation.
(1) Minimum requirements. The provisions herein shall be held to be the minimum requirements for the promotion of the public health, safety, morals and welfare. Except as provided in § 162.062(G) and (I) and §§ 162.110 through 162.113 relating to accessory buildings, there shall not be more than one building or structure on one lot.
(2) Relationship with other laws. The provisions herein regulating uses of property shall not be construed to allow violation of any other applicable law, ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation. Where the conditions imposed by any provisions herein 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 herein 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. The title and interpretation provisions of Chapter 10, generally applicable to this code, are specifically made applicable to this chapter as if fully set forth herein.
(c) Effect on existing agreements. These provisions are not intended to abrogate any easement, covenant or any other private agreement provided that where the regulations hereof are more restrictive or impose higher standards or requirements than the easement, covenants or other private agreements, the requirements herein shall govern.
(B) Use and bulk regulations. No building, structure or land shall hereafter be used or occupied, and no building or part thereof, or other structure shall be erected, raised, moved, reconstructed, extended, enlarged or altered, except in conformity with the regulations herein specified for the district in which it is located.
(C) Lot coverage.
(1) 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 or the owner’s successor in title 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 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, court, other open space or minimum lot area requirements for any other building. Yards, parking space or lot area required for one building cannot be used for another building.
(2) Division of zoning lots. No improved zoning lot shall hereafter be divided into two or more zoning lots unless all improved zoning lots resulting from each division shall conform with all the applicable regulations of the zoning district in which the property is located. The size of a lot may not be reduced below the requirements of this chapter.
(D) Frontage. All buildings and uses established on or after the effective date hereof must front on a street.
(E) Lot.
(1) Every building or structure must be built on a lot.
(1980 Code, § 29.104) (Ord. 8925, passed 11-5-2001) Penalty, see § 162.999