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ORDINANCE NO. 37-67 BY: AN ORDINANCE to amend Section 1117.03 and to enact a new $~nt~on 1117.031 of the Zoning COde of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood,both relating to non-conforming uses. BE IT ORDAINED BY TNE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: Section 1. That Section 1117.03 of the Zoning Code of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood, now reading as follows: Section 1117.03 NON-CONFORMING USES '~ non-conforming use existing at the time of the passage of Ordinance 1786, passed February 13, 1922, may be continued. A non-conforming use shall not be extended except as authoriz- ed by Sections 1117.01 and 1117.02, but the extension of a use to any portion of a building which portion was arranged or designed for such non-conforming use at the time of the passage of Ordinance 1786, passed February 13, 1922, shall not be deemed the extension of a non-conforming use. A building arranged, designed or devoted to a non-conforming use at the time of the passage of Ordinance 1786, passed February 13, 1922, may not be reconstructed or structurally altered to any extent exceeding in aggregate cost, during any ten (10) year period sixty per cent (60%) of the assessed value of the building unless the use of said building is changed to a conforming use. A non-conforming use may not be changed unless changed to a higher use. A non-conforming use if changed to a conforming use may not thereafter be changed back to any non-canforming use. A non-conforming use if changed to a higher non-cunforming use may not thereafter be changed unless to a still higher use. A non-conforming use included in a 3b or 3c use class shall not be ~hanged unless changed to a conforming use. In a residence district a non-conforming use included in a 2b or 3a use class shall not be changed unless changed to a conforming use. For the purpose of this code a use shall be deemed to be changed if changed from a use included in a subdivision of a use class to a use not included in such subdivision. For the purpose of this code a non-conforming use shall be deemed to be changed to a higher use if the use to which such non-conform- ing use is changed is a use included in a subdivision of a use class that in the arrangement of classes and subdivisions in the classification of uses precedes the subdivision in which such non-conforming use is included." be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: SectionQll7.03 Non-conforming uses The lawful use of any building or structure and of any land or premises, as existing and lawful at,the time of the enact- ment of this ordinance or any amendment thereto, or the enact- ment of any ordinance which causes a conforming use to become a non-conforming use, may be continued as long as it remains otherwise lawful, subject to the following provisions: ao A non-conforming use shall not be extended except as provided in Section 1117.031. The term "extended"