No building or land shall hereafter be used, and no building or part thereof shall be erected except in conformity with the regulations herein:
(A) Every residential building hereafter erected, moved or structurally altered shall be located on a lot. In no case shall there be more than 1 principal building and its customary accessory building(s) on any lot, except where a regulating district has been adopted which permits otherwise;
(B) No lot shall be reduced in size such that compliance with respect to any development, health or safety requirements cannot be met. Examples of this requirement are but not limited to: frontage, building coverage, area, built-upon area, width, setback, parking, landscape, distance between well and septic tank, replacement drainage fields or signage. Nor shall any nonconformity or violation be increased;
(C) Where 2 or more contiguous lots in 1 ownership form a buildable lot, that buildable lot shall not be reduced in size such that compliance with respect to any development, health or safety requirements cannot be met. Examples of this requirement are but not limited to: frontage, building coverage, area, built-upon area, width, setback, parking, landscape, distance between well and septic tank, replacement drainage fields or signage. Nor shall any nonconformity or violation be increased;
(D) The prohibitions in divisions (B) and (C) of this section shall not apply if the lot size is reduced as a direct result of an acquisition or condemnation proceeding by the county, the city or the state;
(E) Where 2 or more contiguous lots in 1 ownership form a buildable lot, the lots shall be combined or recombined into 1 lot prior to the issuance of any permits;
(F) Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to require any change in the plans, construction or designated use of a building or structure where a building permit was secured prior to the adoption of this chapter, so long as the building permit remains valid;
(G) Every lot created shall have permanent, direct access to a public road. No lot shall be created that is landlocked or that does not have permanent ingress or egress to the property;
(H) Every lot created shall have an assured water supply and shall either have access to a public sewer or shall have the ability to sustain a septic tank system, including its drainage fields and replacement drainage fields; and
(I) Every lot created shall be capable of meeting the standards of this chapter. Every lot created shall be usable by virtue of size, soil type, topography, access to roads, water and sewage disposal.
(Ord. 3 § 2.9, passed 9-14-1998)