(A) The Zoning Board of Appeals is empowered to recommend variances in order to prevent or to lessen such practical difficulties and unnecessary physical hardships inconsistent with the objectives of this chapter as would result from a strict or literal interpretation and enforcement of certain of the regulations prescribed by this chapter. A practical difficulty or unnecessary physical hardship may result from the size, shape, or dimensions of a site or the location of existing structures thereon, from geographic, topographic, or other physical conditions on the site or in the immediate vicinity, or from population densities, street locations, or traffic conditions in the immediate vicinity.
(B) Recommending the variance will not merely serve as a convenience to the applicant, but is necessary to alleviate some demonstrable difficulty. Cost to the applicant of strict or literal compliance with a regulation shall not be the sole reason for recommending a variance.
(C) The power to recommend variances does not extend to use regulations because the flexibility necessary to avoid results inconsistent with the objectives of this chapter is provided by the special use provisions of this chapter.
(D) The Zoning Board of Appeals may recommend variances to the regulations prescribed by this chapter, in accord with the procedure prescribed in this subchapter, with respect to fences, walls, hedges, screening, and landscaping, site area, width, frontage, depth, and coverage, front, rear, and side yards, basic floor area, usable open space, height of structures, distances between structures, courts, signs, and off-street parking facilities and off-street loading facilities.
(Ord. 1992-10, § 2000, passed 3-18-1993)