(A)

No nonconforming use shall be enlarged, increased, increased, intensified, substituted or extended to occupy a greater area than it occupied at the effective date of adoption or amendment of this chapter. No such nonconforming use shall be relocated in whole or in part to any portion of a lot or parcel except the location occupied by such use at effective date of adoption or amendment this chapter.

(B)

Conversion of nonconforming uses.

(1)

Upon application to and approval by the Town Commission, any nonconforming use may be converted to a more restricted nonconforming use, provided that the Town Commission shall find after public notice and hearing that the proposed use is more appropriate to the District than the existing nonconforming use and that the proposed use will have no greater adverse effect on the surrounding occupants and properties than the existing nonconforming use does.

(2)

Any nonconforming use which is replaced by a permitted use shall thereafter conform to the regulations of the District in which such use is located, and the terminated nonconforming use shall not thereafter be resumed nor shall any other nonconforming use be permitted.

(C)

When the generic (residential or commercial) use of a nonconforming parcel of property or portion thereof is changed into another generic use, any and all nonconforming conditions of that parcel of property, or portion thereof, shall be discontinued.

(Ord. 148, passed 5-26-87; Am. Ord. 212, passed 2-25-03) Penalty, see § 151.681