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any repair, reconstruction, or uss shail be in conformity with the provisions of ~his ordinance. Section 3-8~ Resumption of Non-Conforming Use Prohibited. No building or structure in which anon-conforming use is abandoned and/or superseded by a permitted use for a total of twenty or more months in any twenty-four month period subsequent to ~e effective date of this ordinance shall again be devoted to any non-conforming use. Section 3-9. Necessary Repairs Permitted. No~qing in this ordinance shall prevent the strengthen- ing or restoration to a safe or lawful condition of any part of any building or structure declared unsafe or unlawful by ~he Building Official, the Chief of the Fire Department or any other duly authorized city official. Section 3-10. Relationship of Buildings to Plots. Every building hereafter erected shall be located on a plot as defined in Section 3-2(w). There shall be no more than one principal building for residential use and its accessory buildings on any one plot except as permitted in Section ~-26, pertaining to group housing projects, or in Article 5A, pertain- ing to Planned Unit Developments. Section 3-11. Street Access. No building shall be erected on a plot which does not abut a street, as defined in Section 3-2(ad), provided, that in a designed shopping center in a commercial district, or a Group Housing Project as permitted in Section 3-26, a building may be erected on a plot which adjoins a parking area or other open space at least fifty feet in width dedicated and used in co~on with other plots for access to a public street. Section 3-12. Reduction of Plot Size Prohibited. No plot, as defined in Section 3-2(w), shall be reduced hereafter by voluntary action of the owner thereof so that yards, width or area below the minimum required under this ordinance shall result, except that any plot consisting of only two adjoin- ing platted tots of record on the effective date of this ordi- nance, each 40 feet or more in width, may be treated as a plot in single o%-~ership within the meaning of Section 3-22, pertain- ing to existing plots of insufficient size. Other%~ise, if two or more adjoining and vacant platted lots with continuous front- age are ina single ownership at any~ time after the effective