(A) 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 in the district in which it is located.
(B) All new buildings and structures shall conform to the building regulations established herein for the district in which each building shall be located, except that parapet walls, chimneys, cooling towers, elevator bulkheads, fire towers, stacks, and necessary mechanical appurtenances shall be permitted to exceed the maximum height provisions when erected in accordance with all other ordinances of the village.
(C) The maintenance of yards, courts, and other open space and minimum lot area legally required for a building shall be a continuing obligation of the owner of the buildings or of the property on which it is located, as long as the building or the property on which it is located, as long as the building is in existence. No legally required yards, courts, 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.
(D) No zoning lot improved with a building or buildings shall hereafter be divided into two or more zoning lots and no portion of any zoning lot which is improved with a building or buildings shall be sold, unless all zoning lots resulting from each division or sale and improved with a building or buildings shall not be less conforming to all bulk regulations of the zoning district in which the property is located.
(E) All location of required open spaces or yards or courts and other open space allocated to a building or dwelling group shall be located on the same zoning lot as the building or dwelling group, except as otherwise permitted in planned development and planned open spaces.
(F) 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 below if already less than, the minimum yard requirements of this chapter for equivalent new construction, except as provided in § 159.141.
(G) No landscaping or other obstructions shall, after the date of the adoption of this section, be installed or located within the sight triangle, as described in § 159.014.
(Ord. 07-0508, passed 2-21-07; Am. Ord. 08-0715, passed 11-19-08; Am. Ord. 09-0799, passed 12-16-09; Am. Ord. 15-1229, passed 11-18-15)