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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 18-306 Change of use.">
  <section prefix="§" num="18-306" heading="Change of use.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Change described.">A change of use occurs when an existing nonconforming use has been terminated and another use has commenced.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="When change allowed.">A nonconforming use may not be changed to any other use except one that is allowed within the zoning district in which it is located.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Reversion prohibited.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">When a nonconforming use has been changed, in whole or in part, to an allowed use, the whole or part that has been made to conform may not later be changed back to a nonconforming use.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Exceptions.">In the R-1A, R-1B, R-1C, R-1D, R1-E, R-1, R-2, R-3, and R-4 zoning districts the zoning administrator may authorize the reestablishment of a residential nonconforming multifamily use that has lapsed up to the same number of units or a number less than the number of units that were legally established, if:<para num="(i)">the unit was a legally established multi-family dwelling unit; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">the structure was not altered to become a single-family dwelling unit.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Violation constitutes abandonment.">Any change in use that violates this Code constitutes an abandonment of the previously existing nonconforming use.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 16-581</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-181</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
