The "Official Zoning Map of the City of Palmdale" has been adopted by the City Council and is on file with the Planning Division. All property within the City is hereby placed in such zones as indicated on said map, and no property shall be used except pursuant to the zoning designations on said map and the provisions of this Title. Said map shall be maintained on file with the Planning Division. All amendments to the official zoning map shall be noted thereon with the date of the amendment and references to the amending ordinance. Said official zoning map is hereby made a part of this Title and may be amended by reference thereto and to this Section.
(Ord. 1603 § 4 (Exh. I), 2023)
When uncertainty exists about the location of any zone boundary or section shown on the official zoning map, the precise location of the boundary shall be determined by the Director. Generally, the following boundary guidelines shall be used for reading the zoning map and for interpretation, unless otherwise determined by the Director.
(A) 
General Boundaries. Zone boundaries approximately following the right-of-way shall be construed to follow the proximate property line or right-of-way line.
(B) 
Centerline Boundaries. Zone boundaries shown within a right-of-way that do not follow the outside right-of-way line(s) shall be construed to follow the centerline of such right-of-way.
(C) 
Scale. If a zone boundary does not follow a property line, or where a zone boundary divides a property, the location scale on the official zoning map shall be used to determine the location of the boundaries, unless the boundaries are indicated by dimensions.
(D) 
Split-Zone Properties. If a zone boundary does not follow a property line, or where a zone boundary divides a property, the location scale on the official zoning map shall be used to determine the location of the boundaries, unless the boundaries are indicated by dimensions.
(E) 
Vacated Areas. The zone for the vacated or abandoned uses shall be determined in one of the following ways, through a zoning clearance:
(1) 
Revert to the identified or existing zone.
(2) 
Where no zone is identified by the official zoning map, the vacated right-of-way or nonoccupancy use shall acquire the zone classification of the adjacent property to which it reverts.
(3) 
The Director shall determine the applicable zone.
(F) 
Unclassified Areas. Areas in dedicated highways, streets or alleys, aqueducts, or flood control channels, or in railroad rights-of-way, that are unclassified (i.e., not designated in the zoning map as falling within one of the zones) shall be deemed to be in the utilities and ROW zone, and in the case of highways, streets or alleys allowed to be used only for purposes lawfully allowed, and in the case of railroad rights-of-way be allowed to be used solely for the purpose of accommodating tracks, signals, other operative devices and the movement of rolling stock.
(Ord. 1603 § 4 (Exh. I), 2023)