Wilson v. Mayor of Elkton

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the question of whether a nonconforming use has been expanded “is ordinarily one of fact, and in determining it the question in each case must stand on its own facts”
• “Distinguished from a prohibited extension of a non-conforming use is what the courts look upon as a mere intensification of the existing lawful use.”
• addition of unit to nonconforming apartment building was self-inflicted condition creating need for setback variance
• basic premise underlying zoning regulations is to restrict rather than expand nonconforming uses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).