There is adopted a zoning plan for the county, the zoning plan
being a districting plan as provided by law.
(Prior code §9-100)
The zoning plan is adopted to promote and protect the public
health, safety, peace, morals, comfort, convenience and general welfare,
and for the accomplishment thereof is adopted, among other purposes,
for the following more particularly specified purposes:
A.
To
assist in providing a general plan of development for the county,
and to guide, control and regulate the future growth of the county
in accordance with the county general plan;
B.
To
protect the character and the social and economic stability of agricultural,
residential, commercial, industrial and other areas, within the county
and to assure the orderly and beneficial development of such areas;
C.
To
obviate the menace to the public safety resulting from the location
of buildings, and the uses thereof and of land, adjacent to highways
which are a part of the circulation element of the general plan of
the county, or which are important thoroughfares, in such manner as
to cause interference with existing or prospective traffic movements
in said highways.
(Prior code §9-101)
When interpreting and applying the provisions of this title,
they shall be held to be the minimum requirements adopted for the
promotion of the public health, safety, comfort, convenience and general
welfare. Except as specifically provided in this title, it is not
intended by the enactment of this title to repeal, abrogate, annul
or in any way to impair or interfere with any existing provision of
law, ordinance, or any rules, regulations or permits previously adopted
or issued, or which shall be adopted or issued pursuant to law relating
to the erection, construction, establishment, moving, alteration or
enlargement of any building or improvement; nor is it intended by
this title to interfere with or abrogate or annul any easement, covenant
or other agreement between parties; provided, however, that in cases
in which this title imposes a greater restriction upon the erection,
construction, establishment, moving, alteration or enlargement of
building or the use of any such building or premises in the several
districts or any of them, than is imposed or required by such existing
provisions of law or ordinance or by such rules, regulations or permits
or by such easements, covenants or agreements, then in such case the
provisions of this title shall control.
(Prior code §9-132)
All departments, officials and public employees of the county
vested with the duty or authority to issue permits or licenses shall
conform to the provisions of this title, and shall issue no permit
or license for uses, buildings, or purposes in conflict with the provisions
of this title; and any such permit or license issued in conflict with
the provisions shall be null and void. It shall be the duty of the
building inspector of the county to enforce the provisions of this
title pertaining to the erection, construction, reconstruction, moving,
conversion, alteration or addition to any building or structure.
(Prior code §9-133)
A.
Infraction. Any person, firm or corporation, whether as principal, agent, employee or otherwise, violating or causing the violation of any of the provisions of this title, shall be guilty of an infraction. Such person, firm or corporation, shall be deemed to be guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during any portion of which any violation of this title is committed or continued by such person, firm or corporation and shall be punishable as provided by Section 1.36.020.
(Prior code §9-134; Ord. CS 194 §2, 1986)
Any building or structure set up, erected, constructed, altered,
enlarged, converted, moved, or maintained contrary to the provisions
of this title, and any use of land, building or premises established,
conducted, operated or maintained contrary to the provisions of this
title, shall be and the same is declared to be unlawful and a public
nuisance and may be enjoined, abated and prevented in the manner provided
for the abatement of a public nuisance by the laws of the state or
by local ordinance.
(Prior code §9-135; Ord. CS 705 §27, 1999)
The remedies provided for in this chapter shall be cumulative
and not exclusive.
(Prior code §9-136)
All existing land use regulations previously adopted or established
shall remain in full force and effect until superseded by sectional
district maps as adopted pursuant to this title. Any violation that
may exist under the provisions of the superseded ordinance shall not
be terminated or validated, except only as the provisions of this
title and the map, which is made a part of this title, by virtue of
redefinition or reclassification specifically permit the use(s) which
may have constituted violations under the provisions of the ordinance
hereby repealed.
(Prior code §9-137)
