Land nonconforming by area

209.1 - Enlargement of undersized lots. Lawfully established lots which have less than the minimum area requirements may be maintained and may be changed by adding additional land to such lots without prejudice to the right of the owner of such lots pursuant to the provisions of this section.

209.2 - Merger of undersized lots. Lawfully established contiguous unimproved, or improved and unimproved, substandard lots of record in the same ownership shall be merged together to create dimensionally conforming lots or to reduce the extent of dimensional nonconformance. Said lots shall be so merged, as of September 12, 2005 the effective date of the amendment to this zoning ordinance.

209.3 - Lawfully established merged lots. Any lawfully established lots which have been merged and shown on the assessor's plats as one lot shall not be divided unless in conformance with the dimensional regulations of this ordinance.

209.4 - Substandard lots of record. Notwithstanding the failure of a single substandard lot of record or contiguous lots of record to meet the dimensional and/or quantitative requirements of this zoning ordinance, and/or road frontage or other access requirements applicable to the district as stated in the ordinance, a substandard lot of record shall not be required to seek any zoning relief based solely on the failure to meet minimum lot size requirements of the district in which such lot is located. The setback, frontage, and/or lot width requirements for a structure under this section shall be reduced and the maximum building coverage requirements shall be increased by the same proportion as the lot area of the substandard lot is to the minimum lot area requirement of the zoning district in which the lot is located. All proposals exceeding such reduced requirement shall proceed with a modification request or a dimensional variance request, whichever is applicable.

209.5 - Merger prohibited for certain lots. The merger of lots shall not be required when the substandard lot of record has an area equal to or greater than the area of 50 percent of the lots within 200 feet of the subject lot, as confirmed by the zoning enforcement officer.