Joined Lots . Personal Experience
My wife and I owned our home and house lot when we lived in Southeast Mass back in the early 80's.. We also owned the (3) building lots next to us.
Our town then came up with a similar zoning reg. We had to rush to do a Quitclaim deed on (2) of the three lots.
We removed her name from the lot -2 deed, so that I owned the one next to us and removed my name so that she owned the next one lot-3. We left the fourth in both our names.
This Quitclaim move allowed us to maintain ownership of four lots and not have them merged into one big 10 acre lot.
The difference here in Mass was that they would merge the lots, regardless if the were conforming or non conforming lots, which is a stronger reg than in Gilford.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gilford Zoning Reg >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The zoning ordinance states that when two or more lots have the same owner and are contiguous, and one or more is nonconforming to its
size the owner shall be required to merge the lots. The
two exceptions to the ordinance include a pre-existing
principle use, or lots protected from mergers and not required
to merge two properties. Aichinger has gone before the Planning Board and
ZBA in prior months to request changes to this ordinance.
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