§ 19-189. Modification to required lot area and required yards

The following requirements are for lots having less than the required minimum area:

(1) A dwelling may be erected on a lot or plot having less than the required minimum area and width provided the same existed under one (1) ownership, this to include heirs at law or legators, by virtue of a recorded plot or deed recorded in the office of the register of deeds of New Hanover County prior to the original passage of this requirement.

(2) The following modification to required yards shall apply in this case:

a. Front yards shall have no modification allowed in front yards except as provided in b. herein.

b. The required side yard on every lot having less than thirty-eight (38) feet frontage may be reduced by one half foot for each foot said lot is less than forty (40) feet in width, provided further, however, that no side yard in this case shall be less than three (3) feet in width.

c. The side yard on the street side of a reversed corner lot shall have a width not less than fifty (50) percent of the front yard depth required on lots in the rear of such reversed corner lot and no accessory building on such reversed corner lot shall project beyond the front yard of the lots in the rear of such reversed corner lot. This regulation for reversed corner lots shall not have the effect of reducing the buildable width of the main building, to less than twenty-six (26) feet or for accessory buildings to less than twenty (20) feet on any lot of record at the time of the adoption of this modification in January, 1961.

(Ord. of 8-19-03)