It shall be the duty of the Zoning Administrator
to enforce this chapter. If the Zoning Administrator shall find that
any of the provisions of this chapter are being violated, he shall
notify in writing the persons responsible for such violations, indicating
the nature of the violation and ordering the action necessary to correct
it, and shall take such other action as is authorized by law to ensure
compliance with or to prevent violation of its provisions.
Every department and employee of the City authorized
to issue permits or licenses effecting the use or occupancy of land
or of a building or structure shall comply with the provisions of
this chapter. Where any action on referral or on appeal is required
by this chapter, no such permit or license shall be issued unless
and until such action has been taken and the time within which an
appeal could have been taken has expired. If any proposed building
or structure, use or occupancy for which a permit or license is sought
conforms with this chapter in all respects, the application therefor
may be approved as to zoning; and otherwise it shall be denied. Any
such permit or license hereafter issued contrary to the provisions
of this chapter shall be void and of no effect.
Whenever there is doubt as to the classification
of a use not specifically mentioned in this chapter, the determination
shall be made by the Zoning Administrator. The Administrator shall
make such investigations as are necessary to compare the nature and
characteristics of the proposed use with those of listed uses in the
various districts, and shall determine that the use is, in all essentials,
pertinent to the objectives of this chapter, of the same character
as a use listed as a permitted or as a conditional use in one of such
specified district or districts. No use added by such administrative
determination shall include, among the uses permitted in any district,
a use which is specifically the same as one first permitted in a less
restricted district. The determination of the Zoning Administrator
shall be final unless an appeal is taken, as hereinafter provided.