The Board of Zoning Appeals shall have the following powers:
(a) To hear and decide appeals where it is alleged by the appellant that there is error in any order, requirement, permit, decision, determination or refusal made by the Building Inspector or other administrative official in the carrying out or enforcement of any provision of this Zoning Ordinance.
(b) Permit the extension of an existing or proposed building or use into a more restricted district under such conditions as will safeguard the character of the more restricted district.
(Ord. 4520/53. Passed 12-28-53.)
(c) Grant a permit in an RA District, RB District, RC District, RD District, or RE District for a group residential development on a site containing not less than three acres of land, so as to permit a more flexible placing of buildings on the land by exempting each individual building in such group development from the yard and lot area requirements and to permit the grouping of open spaces and such accessory facilities as garages and parking spaces. However, the Board of Zoning Appeals may not diminish in distance any required setback line along any street line, or any rear yard or side yard requirement along the boundaries of the development.
(Ord. 11309/99. Passed 7-14-99.)
(d) Grant a permit in any Residence or Commercial District for a temporary building or use incidental to the residential or commercial development, such permit to be issued for a period of not more than two years.
(e) Grant a permit for the erection and use of a building and accessory structures and the use of premises in any Residence District for a telephone exchange, electric substation, water supply booster pump station and reservoir, gas supply pressure adjustment station, and radio and television transmitter station, subject to such conditions and safeguards as will protect the character of the Residence District.
(f) Grant a permit in an MA District for a building or use otherwise excluded from such District, provided such building or use is distinctly incidental and essential to the use of a building or plant with a series of buildings permitted in such District, subject to such conditions as will safeguard the public health, safety, convenience and general welfare.
(g) Apply the provisions of this Zoning Ordinance in such a way as to carry out the true intent and purpose where the street and alley layout on the ground differs from the layout shown on the Zoning Map.
(h) Where by reason of exceptional narrowness, shallowness or shape of a specific piece of property or by reason of exceptional situations or conditions of such piece of property, the strict application of these regulations would result in peculiar and exceptional practical difficulty to or exceptional or undue hardship upon the owner of such property, the Board shall have the power in a specific case to vary from such strict applications so as to relieve such difficulties or hardships, provided such relief may be granted without substantial detriment to the public good and without substantially impairing the intent and purpose of this Zoning Ordinance and subject to such conditions and safeguards as the Board may impose.
(Ord. 4520/53. Passed 12-28-53.)