Eligibility

Only property which has been continuously in the same ownership for a period of at least five (5) years shall be eligible for residential compound development. For purposes of this article, continuous ownership shall include the period during which parties own property as joint tenants or as tenants-by-the-entirety and the period during which the surviving joint tenant or tenant-by-the-entirety continues to own the property either in his or her own name as a joint tenant or tenant-by-the-entirety with another; the period during which a decedent has owned the property together with the time when his or her devisees or heirs-at-law shall own the property after the death of the decedent.

Also, only property which is an existing, conforming lot or a preexisting, nonconforming lot of record shall be eligible for development under the section.

(Ord. of 8-8-96(5))