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Greenville City Zoning Code

ARTICLE VIII.

APPLICATION OF REGULATIONS

This article is established to provide conditions that must be met by everyone under the jurisdiction of this ordinance, except as hereafter provided.


Section 801. - Use.

No building, structure or land shall hereafter be used and no existing building or structure or part thereof shall be erected, constructed, reconstructed, moved or altered except in conformity with the regulations herein specified for the district in which it is located.

Section 802. - Height and density.

No building or structure shall hereafter be erected, constructed, reconstructed or altered to:

802.1 Exceed the height limits;

802.2 Accommodate or house a greater number of families or occupy a smaller lot area per family than provided for in this ordinance; or

802.3 Have less setback from the street right-of-way or narrower side yards than are herein required for the district in which said building is located.

Section 803. - Lot area and reduction of lot size.

No lot even though it may consist of one (1) or more adjacent lots in the same ownership at the time of passage of this ordinance, shall be reduced in size so that lot width, or size of yards, or lot area per family or any other requirement of this ordinance is not maintained. This section shall not apply when a portion of a lot is acquired for a public purpose.

Section 804. - Yards.

No part of a yard or other open space or the off-street parking or loading space required about any building for the purpose of complying with the provisions of this ordinance shall be included as a part of the yard or off-street parking or loading space required for another building.

Section 805. - One principal building on a lot.

Only one (1) principal building and its customary accessory buildings may hereafter be erected on any one lot.

Section 806. - Public street frontage.

No residential structure shall be erected on a lot which does not abut for at least twenty-five (25) feet on a public street.

Section 807. - Future street lines.

On any lot which, at the time of adoption of this ordinance or at the time this ordinance is changed by amendment hereafter, may be reduced in area by widening a public street to a future street line, as indicated on the duly adopted major street plan, or as reserved under the mapped street provisions of Title 37, Article 3, Sections 804 through 808, inclusive, Code of Alabama 1940 (Recompiled 1958), the minimum required side yards, lot area, lot width and front yard setback shall be measured by considering the future street line as the lot line of such lot.

Editor's note— See Code of Ala. 1975, §§ 11-54-50—11-54-54.