Automobile graveyards and junkyards and automotive dismantling
facilities in existence in Residential-1, Residential-2, Business-1,
Business-2, Rural, Conservation and Industrial Districts at the time
of the adoption of this chapter are to be considered as nonconforming
uses. They shall be allowed up to three years after the adoption of
this chapter in which to completely screen, on any side open to view
from a public street, the operation or use by a masonry wall, a uniformly
painted solid board fence, or an evergreen hedge, which wall, fence
or hedge, shall be minimum of six feet in height.
Whenever the boundaries of a district are changed, any uses
of land or buildings which become nonconforming as a result of such
change shall become subject to the provisions of this article.
Any unimproved nonconforming lot of record at the time of the
effective date of this chapter, or if the specific recorded lot is
reconvened after the date of this chapter, such lot shall be considered
as a lot of record. Said lot or parcel of record may be used as a
building site provided the use proposed is a permitted use as established
by this chapter and provided further the minimum requirements for
setback (front yard), side and rear yards can be met. If such lot
is of insufficient size to meet the minimum requirements of this chapter
regarding setback, or side and rear yard requirements, the owner must
request a variance from the Board of Zoning Appeals prior to improvement.