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<baltimore-city-law heading="Subtitle 2 – Applicability of Development Standards">
  <section prefix="§" num="15-201" heading="Compliance required.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Bulk and yard regulations – New construction.">No structure may be erected except in accordance with the bulk and yard regulations prescribed for the district in which the structure is located or proposed to be located.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Bulk and yard regulations – Expansion, alteration, etc., of structure.">No structure may be expanded, altered, or moved so as to reduce the yards and open spaces prescribed for the district in which the structure is located or the expansion, alteration, or movement is proposed to be located.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Density – Structure design, etc.">No structure may be erected, expanded, or altered if the structure, as proposed to be erected, expanded, or altered, is arranged, intended, or designed to exceed the density permitted in the district in which the structure, expansion, or alteration is located or proposed to be located.</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Density – Occupancy.">No structure may be occupied by more than the number of individuals permitted by the bulk regulations of the district in which the structure is located.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-581</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 17-015</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="15-202" heading="Continued conformity with yard, etc., requirements.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">The maintenance of required yards, other open-space, and minimum lot area for a structure is a continuing obligation of the owner of the structure and of the owner of the property on which the structure is located, as long as the structure exists.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="No reallocation to another structure.">No required yard, other open-space, or minimum lot area allocated to a structure may, by virtue of a change of ownership or for any other reason, be used to satisfy yard, other open-space, or minimum lot area requirements for any other structure.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Yards, etc., to be on same lot as structure.">All yards and other open spaces allocated to a structure must be located on the same lot as the structure.</para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Division or subdivision of lot.">No lot may be divided or subdivided in a way that would violate any provision of this Code applicable to the original lot or to the resulting lots.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-581</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="15-203" heading="Number of structures on a lot.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">Except in a planned unit development or as authorized in subsection (b) of this section:<para num="(1)">no more than 1 principal detached structure may be located on:<para num="(i)">any residential lot; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">any lot adjacent to a residential lot; and</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)">no principal detached structure or any other free-standing structure may be located with any other principal structure on the same:<para num="(i)">residential lot, except as specified in &lt;cite data-path="32|§1-210"&gt;§ 1-210&lt;/cite&gt; {“Use and site development standards”} or &lt;cite data-path="32-§15-601"&gt;§ 15-601&lt;/cite&gt; {“Permitted projections and obstructions into required yards”}; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">any lot adjacent to a residential lot.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Exceptions.">Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, the Zoning Administrator shall approve the construction of more than 1 principal detached structure or other free-standing structure on a residential lot or any lot adjacent to a residential lot, if:<para num="(1)">the development otherwise would conform to the requirements of this Article; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">the requirements of site plan review and design review are met.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History" />
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
