This chapter shall be known and may be cited
as the "Denver Borough Zoning Ordinance."
These zoning regulations are enacted for the
following purposes:
A. To promote, protect, and facilitate the public health,
safety, morals, general welfare, coordinated and practical community
development, proper density of population, civil defense, disaster
evacuation, airports and national defense facilities, the provisions
of adequate light and air, police protection, vehicle parking and
loading space, transportation, water, sewerage, schools, public grounds,
and other public requirements.
B. To preserve prime agriculture and farmland, considering
topography, soil type and classification, and present use, and to
preserve environmentally sensitive lands.
C. To prevent overcrowding of land, blight, danger, and
congestion in travel and transportation. This Zoning chapter is made
in accordance with an overall program, the community development objectives
as set forth in the Strategic Comprehensive Plan for the Cocalico
Region, and with consideration for the character of the Borough, its
various parts, and the suitability of the various parts for particular
uses and structures, and with the view to conserving the value thereof
and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the Borough.
This chapter is enacted in accordance with the Strategic Comprehensive Plan for the Cocalico Region and has been formulated to implement the purpose set forth in §
200-2 above.
From and after the effective date of this chapter,
no structure or land shall hereafter be changed in use, or occupied,
and no building or structure or part thereof shall hereafter be erected,
constructed, reconstructed, moved or structurally altered except in
conformity with all of the regulations herein specified for the district
in which it is located. No part of a yard, other open space, or landscaping,
or off-street parking or loading space required in connection with
any building or structure for the purpose of complying with this chapter
shall be included as part of a yard, open space, landscaping, or off-street
parking or loading space similarly required for any other building
or structure. Except as is otherwise specifically provided herein,
no yard or lot existing at the time of passage of this chapter shall
be reduced in dimension or area below the minimum requirements set
forth herein. Yards or lots created after the effective date of this
chapter shall meet at least the minimum requirements established by
this chapter.