A. General Requirements: All new buildings shall conform to the bulk regulations except as established herein for the district in which each building is located. Further, no existing building shall be enlarged, reconstructed, structurally altered, converted or relocated in such a manner as to conflict or further conflict with the bulk regulations of this title for the district in which such building shall be located.
B. Yards, Courts And Other Open Space:
1. Maintenance: 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 of such 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 reason be used to satisfy yard, court or other open space, or minimum lot area requirements for any other building.
2. Location: All yards, courts and other open spaces allocated to a building or dwelling group shall be located on the same zoning lot as such building or dwelling group.
C. Division Of Zoning Lots: No improved zoning lot shall hereafter be divided into two (2) or more zoning lots unless all improved zoning lots resulting from each such division shall conform with all the applicable bulk regulations of the zoning district in which the property is located.
D. Required Yards For Existing Buildings:
1. No yards now or hereafter provided for a building existing on the effective date hereof shall subsequently be reduced below or further reduced below if already less than the minimum yard requirements of this title for equivalent new construction.
2. For an existing street frontage between intersecting streets where fifty percent (50%) or more of its existing improved lots contain structures, the front yard setback for any proposed structures, whether on existing lots or new lots resulting from subdivision, shall be the mean of the front yard setbacks of the existing structures within the contiguous four hundred feet (400') of common street frontage but not extending across an intersecting street. However, at no time shall any yard setback be established that does not meet the minimum standard of the applicable zoning district, except as expressly permitted by this title. (Ord. 2010-04-07, 4-1-2010)