19.173 An Ordinance to Allow Change from One Conforming Use to Another Without a Finding - as amended by PB
City of Northampton
MASSACHUSETTS
In the Year Two Thousand Nineteen
Upon the Recommendation of Mayor David J. Narkewicz and Planning & Sustainability
An Ordinance of the City of Northampton, Massachusetts,
providing that the Code of Ordinances, City of Northampton, Massachusetts, be amended by changing
Section 350-9.3 B1& 2 to be consistent with other sections of 9.3.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Northampton, in City Council assembled, as follows:
Amend as shown
§350-9.3 Change, extension or alteration of legally preexisting nonconforming structures, uses, or
lots.
Legally preexisting nonconforming structures, uses, or lots may be changed, extended or altered as set
forth below, except as noted in § 350-9.2A above. If a use is not eligible under one subsection, proceed
to the next subsection.
B. A conforming use on a preexisting nonconforming lot: A conforming use on such a lot may be
changed, extended or altered:
(1) As-of-right to the same or different conforming use in a conforming structure, which meets all the
dimensional, and density provisions of the current zoning, except for the pre-existing non-conforming
dimensional elements. that are pre-existing non-conforming such as lot size, frontage, or depth [AS1]and
when the lot size, frontage, and depth requirements do not change.
(2) With a finding from the Zoning Board of Appeals when said change, extension or alteration is to a
different conforming use which requires the same or less minimum lot area, minimum lot width and
frontage, minimum lot depth, setbacks, and parking than is required for the present use .(and lot does not
fully conform to the present zoning requirements for the proposed use).
Renumber subsequent subsections based upon the deletion above.