HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance-1975-0186 - Amend WR Ord 98 - Non-conforming Lots of RecordINTRODUCED BY COUNCILMAN MERKL
ORDINANCE NO, 186
Series of 1975
TITLE. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION TWENTY-FIVE OF
ORDINANCE NO. 98, SERIES OF 1971, RELATING TO NON-CONFORMING
LOTS OF RECORD.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE,
COLORADO, THAT:
SECTION 1. Paragraph D, Section Twenty-Five,
Ordinance No, 98, Series of 1971, is hereby amended to
read as follows:
D. NON-CONFORMING LOTS OF RECORDS - In any district
any building may be erected on any single lot of record which
exists as such at the time of adoption of this ordinance. Such
lot must have been in separate ownership and not of continuous
frontage with other lots under the same ownership. This provi-
sion shall apply even though such lot fails to meet the require-
ments of the district in which it is located for area, or
width, or both provided however that the requirements of the
district for minimum yard dimensions shall be met unless a
variance to said requirement has been granted by the Board of
Adjustment.
If two or more lots or combinations of lots and
portions of lots with continuous frontage in single ownership
are of record, the time of passage or amendment of this
ordinance, and part or all of said lots do not meet the
requirements of the district in which they are located as to
minimum area or frontage or both, the lands shall be considered
for the purpose of this ordinance to be an undivided parcel
and no portion of said parcel shall be sold or used in a manner
which diminishes compliance with lot width and area requirements
established by this ordinance.
SECTION Z. Subparagraph 1, paragraph F, Section
Twenty Five, Ordinance No. 98, Series of 1971, is hereby
amended to read in whole as follows:
F.1 Any such structure may be enlarged, altered,
or added to, provided that any such enlargement, alteration,
or addition meets all building setback and lot coverage require-
ments of the zoning district in which the structure is located.
SECTION 3. A new paragraph H is hereby added to Section
Twenty-Five, Ordinance No. 98, Series of 1971, to read as follows:
H. Non-conforming lot(s) - Any legal non-conforming
lot which is non-conforming due to ingress/egress, landscaping,
parking or street related improvements, which has located on it a
building housing a non-conforming use within the zoning district
may be repaired and/or maintained in accordance with paragraph
I of this Section.
Where the use of the building is in conformance with
the zoning district or where initial building development is
proposed, the building may be erected, enlarged, altered, or
added to, provided that any such new building, enlargement,
alteration or addition meets all building setback and lot
coverage requirements of the zoning district in which the
building is located, and provided that the requirements for
ingress/egress, landscaping, parking and street and related
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improvements be provided unless a waiver of part of all of
these requirements is recommended by the Planning Commission.
SECTION 4. Paragraphs H, I and J, Section 2S,
Ordinance No. 98, Series of 1971, are hereby retitled
paragraphs I, J and K, respectively..
SECTION S. The retitled paragraph I is hereby
amended to read as follows:
I. Repairs
structure, or portion
forming use, work may
on ordinary repairs,
wall fixtures, wiring
content existing when
increased.
and Maintenance - On any non-conforming
of a structure containing a non-con-
be done during any one (1) year period
3r on repair and replacement of non-bearing
or plumbing, provided that the cubic
it became non-conforming is not
If a non-conforming structure, or a portion of a
structure devoted to a non-conforming use becomes physically
unsafe or unlawful due to a lack of repairs and maintenance
and it is declared by an authorized official, as designated
by the Mayor, to be unsafe or unlawful by reason of physical
condition, it shall not thereafter be restored, rebuilt, or re-
paired except in conformity with the regulations of the district
in which it is located.
Nothing in this ordinance shall be deemed to prevent
the strengthening or restoring to a safe condition of any
building or part thereof declared to be unsafe by any official
charged with protection of the public safety.
SECTION 6. Effective Date. This ordinance shall
take effect thirty (30) days after final publication.
INTRODUCED, PASSED, ADOPTED AND ORDERED PUBLISHED
on first reading this 18th day of August
A.D. 1975) by a vote of 5 to 1
PASSED, ADOPTED, AND ORDERED PUBLISHED
on second and final reading thisl5th day of September, A.D.
1975, by a vote of 5 to 1 .
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HOMER L. ROES ENER Z YOR
ATTEST:
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PLIHLI~)HING L:FkIIFIf:NTIUR
se Hrounham, hereby rertiFv that Grdinance
vas duly nublished in the Wheat Rirlr;e Sentinel nn the
day of 4;Lill ust ,19 after first rf:adinn.
Elise FJrougham, further certifv that Ordinance 1Iic.
was
duly
nublished in the
Wheat
Ridne
Sentinel
on the
18t11
day
of
Septem
bFar
,1I3 75
after
second
reading.
se Elrnugham, y Clerk