The zoning districts established in this title are designed to guide the future use of city land by encouraging the development of desirable residential, commercial, and manufacturing areas with appropriate grouping of compatible and related uses and thus to promote and to protect the public health, safety and general welfare. As a necessary corollary, in order to carry out such purposes, nonconforming uses must be subject to certain limitations, which are therefore adopted in order to provide a gradual remedy for existing undesirable conditions.

Any building or use rendered nonconforming by this title shall be discontinued 25 years from the effective date of the ordinance codified in this title. Any nonconforming building or use under prior Ordinance No. 241 shall be discontinued by December 31, 1992 unless said building or use conforms to this new code.

Provisions of BLMC § 18.54.020 shall not be applicable to:

A nonconforming use or noncomplying building or land with major improvement may be continued up to five additional years beyond the date specified in this title, if a conditional use permit is obtained; provided the owner, at least one year prior to the term, can show the following:

If, for a continuous period of one year, the nonconforming use of land is discontinued, vacated, not occupied, or abandoned, such land or building or other structure shall thereafter be used only for a conforming use.

Repairs to both structural and nonstructural parts or incidental alterations may be made in a building or other structures occupied by a nonconforming use.

No structural alterations shall be made in a building or other structures occupied by a nonconforming use except when made:

The provisions of this chapter shall apply to buildings or uses rendered nonconforming by virtue of annexation into the city. The time period for discontinuing nonconforming uses following annexation shall be as stated in BLMC § 18.54.020 and 18.54.030; provided, that such period shall begin to run upon the effective date of the annexation in question; and provided further, that buildings or uses which were not in conformance with county code immediately prior to annexation into the city shall be discontinued immediately upon annexation into the city.

Any legal lot of record, platted prior to March 8, 1967, the date of the initial Bonney Lake zoning ordinance, is exempt from the minimum width, minimum lot size, and maximum density requirements of this zoning code for the purpose of one single-family residence; provided such lot has not less than 7,200 square feet and has not been further subdivided.