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11:42 NO.954 1?02 M if P15 X140 1A)A "94W . lit 7V /tI .71 IM) SECTION 5: f NON-CONFORMING EIUILDINGS AND USES 5.1 Any lawful use of any structure or land or both may be continued i although not conforming with the provisions of this By-Law, but no such lawfully non-conforming use or structure shall be changed, intensified, extended or enlarged in any manner except as permitted by the Board of Appeals and such permission shall be based on the same conditions as set forth in Section 6.2 of this By-Law and further provided the board finds there is adequate land area to provide sufficient parking and setbacks as may be required, and further provided that the board finds that such change, intensification, extension or enlargement shall not be substantially more detrimental than the existing non-conforming use to the neighborhood. ! 5.2 If any non-conforming use of any structure or land or both is changed to a conforming use it shall not thereafter be put into any non-conforming use. } 5,3 If any non-conforming development or use of land or of a building j be discontinued for a period of not less than twenty-four (24) consecutive months, which in the terms of this By-Law shall be evidence of abandonment of a non-conforming usage, such land or building shall thereafter be used or developed only in accordance with the terms of this Zoning By-Law for the zoning district in which such property is located. 5,4 Any non-conforming building or structure destroyed or damaged by fire, flood, Lightning, wind or otherwise may be rebuilt, subject to approval of the Board of Appeals subject to the same conditions as set forth in section 6.2 of this By-Law. i 5.5 Nan-Conformin lots: Non-Conforming lots may be developed as a owe y M.G.L. Chapter 44A, Section 6 or in conformance with the following: 5.5.1 Definitions, for the purpose of this section: Non-Conforming Lots: A lot which was lawfully laid out by a plan or deed duly recorded in the Registry of Deeds which complied with all zoning requirements, if any, in effect at the time of recording, but which, through subsequent adoption or amendment of y a zoning by-law imposing minimum area, frontage, width, depth or yard requirements, or more than one such requirement, in exdess of those in effect at the time of recording, no longer meets the requirements of this by-law with regard to those Items. Undeveloped Lot: A lot upon which no building exists. j - I 5.5.2 Where one undeveloped non-conforming lot was held in ownership I, separate from that of all adjoining undeveloped lots on February 11, 1985, or at the time it became non-conforming, whichever is 1 { 5 - 1