This chapter shall be known and cited as the "City of Auburn
Zoning Ordinance."
This chapter is adopted in accordance with a Comprehensive Plan
which is designed to promote public health, safety and welfare, and
to accomplish such purposes this chapter is enacted to implement:
A. Building regulations. These regulations limit the height, bulk and
location of buildings hereafter erected, standardize the area of yards,
courts and other open spaces, and determine the density of population
in any given area and for said purposes to divide the City into districts.
Such regulations shall be uniform for each class of buildings throughout
any district, but the regulations in one or more districts may differ
from those in other districts. Such regulations shall be designed
to secure safety from fire, flood and other dangers and to promote
the public health and welfare, including, so far as conditions may
permit, provision for adequate light, air, convenience of access,
and the accommodation of solar energy systems and equipment and access
to sunlight necessary therefor, and shall be made with reasonable
regard to the character of buildings erected in each district, the
value of land and the use to which it may be put, to the end that
such regulations may promote public health, safety and welfare and
the most desirable use for which the land of each district may be
adapted and may tend to conserve the value of buildings and enhance
the value of land throughout the City.
B. Land use regulations. These regulations restrict the location of
trades and industries and the location of buildings designed for specified
uses and for said purposes to divide the City into districts and to
prescribe for each such district the trades and industries that shall
be excluded or subjected to special regulation and the uses for which
buildings may not be erected or altered. Such regulations shall be
designed to promote the public health, safety and general welfare
and shall be made with reasonable consideration, among other things,
of the character of the district, its suitability for particular uses,
the conservation of property values and the direction of building
development, in accord with a well-considered plan.
Any permit or approval granted under this chapter based upon
or granted in reliance upon any material misrepresentation, or failure
to make a material fact or circumstance known, by or on behalf of
an applicant, shall be void. This section shall not be construed to
affect all the other remedies available to the City under this chapter.
Whenever a violation of this chapter is alleged to have occurred,
any person may file a written complaint in regard thereto. All such
complaints shall be filed with the Planning Department. The Planning
Department shall investigate such complaints and report the results
of the investigation and any prosecution of violations to the City
Council.
Chapter
305 of the Code of the City of Auburn as adopted on December 30, 1992, and as amended thereafter prior to the adoption of this comprehensive revision be and it is hereby repealed in its entirety.
The several provisions of this chapter shall be separate, and
if any court of competent jurisdiction shall adjudge any provision
of this chapter to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect any
other provision of this chapter. Furthermore, if any court of competent
jurisdiction shall adjudge the application of any provision of this
chapter to a particular property such judgment shall not affect the
application of said provision to any other property.