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The ordinance specifies that a variance may be granted “when a property owner can show that his property was acquired in good faith and where by reason of the exceptional narrowness, shallowness, size or shape of a specific piece of property at the time of the effective date of the ordinance, or where by reasons of exceptional topographic conditions or other extra ordinary situation or condition of such property.. .strick application of the terms of the ordinance would effectively prohibit or unreasonably restrict the use of the property or where the board is satisfied, upon the evidence heard by it, that the granting of such variance will alleviate a clearly demonstrable hardship approaching confiscation as distinguished from a special privilege or convenience sought by the applicant...”
In addition, the ordinance specifies that "no such variance shall be authorized by the board unless it finds: (a) that the strict application of the ordinance would produce undue hardship; (b) that such hardship is not shared generally by other properties in the same zoning district, and the same vicinity; and (c) that the authorization of such variance will not be of substantial detriment to adjacent property and that
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