(a)

No nonconforming use or structure may be changed to any other nonconforming use or structure unless the zoning hearing board shall, in granting a special exception, find that the proposed nonconforming use or structure is not more detrimental to the zoning district than the existing nonconforming use or structure. The zoning hearing board may specify such appropriate conditions and safeguards as may be required in connection with such change and the granting of such special exception.

(b)

If a nonconforming use or structure is proposed to be eliminated and a conforming use or structure substituted but certain land regulations cannot be met (such as area, yard, etc.), the zoning hearing board, with such appropriate conditions and safeguards as the board may see fit, may grant a variance to permit such conforming use or structure.

(Code 1993, ch. 27, § 405; Ord. No. 2001-1, § 405, 2-27-2001)