Nonconforming building

A building that does not meet the current requirements of a regulation in the building code or restrictions in the zoning code.

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By ordinance, when the restoration of a nonconforming building involves the majority of the building, the restoration must be approved by the zoning board of appeals (ZBA) and cannot increase the building's nonconformity.

Nonconformity of a building is not increased when renovations are within footprint of original structure

The answer: He would not be allowed a home in that zone unless he bought a pre-existing, nonconforming building with continuous use as a home since before the zoning change.

Planner explains new Templeton zoning bylaw

That section requires the amortization of all nonconforming building colors within two years of the effective date of the code provision.

The status of nonconforming use law in Florida

1952) (upholding an ordinance that prohibited alterations to nonconforming buildings in excess of fifty percent of value unless they conformed to all of the requirements for new buildings); Bird v.

Billboards and big utilities: borrowing land-use concepts to regulate "nonconforming" sources under the Clean Air Act