Ordinance 2706-03 - Laserfiche WebLink

Where uncertainty exists as to the precise location of zoning district boundaries, as shown on the zoning map, the following rules shall apply: A. Following Property Lines. Where a zoning boundary is indicated as approximately following a property line, the property line is the zone boundary. B. Following Streets or Alleys. Where a zone boundary is indicated as following a street or alley, the centerline of the street or alley is the zone boundary. Where this title provides for a minimum separation between a specified use or activity and a particular zone, the measurement shall be taken between the specified use or activity and the nearest lot within the zone, and not between the specified use or activity and the zone boundary within a public right-of-way. C. Tidelands, Tidal Flats, Rivers, Lakes and Port Gardner Bay. Where a zone boundary abuts or extends into a body of water, except as otherwise indicated, the zone boundary extends into that body of water to the full limit and territorial extent of the police power, jurisdiction and control of the city. D. Other Cases. Where a zone boundary is not indicated to follow a property line or public right-of-way, the boundary line is as drawn, based upon the scale shown on the zoning map. E. Classification of Vacated Rights-of-Way. Where a right-of-way is vacated, the area comprising the vacated right-of-way shall acquire the classification of the property to which it reverts unless otherwise provided by city council action. BE AND THE SAME IS HEREBY AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS: Zoning boundary interpretation. Where uncertainty exists as to the precise location of zoning district boundaries, as shown on the zoning map, the following rules shall apply: A. Following Property Lines. Where a zoning boundary is indicated as approximately following a property line, the property line is the zone boundary. B. Following Streets or Alleys. Where a zone boundary is indicated as following a street or alley, the centerline of the street or alley is the zone boundary. Where this title provides for a minimum separation between a specified use or activity and a particular zone, the measurement shall be taken between the specified use or activity and the nearest lot within the zone, and not between the specified use or activity and the zone boundary within a public right-of-way. C. Tidelands, Tidal Flats, Rivers, Lakes and Port Gardner Bay. Where a zone boundary abuts a body of water, except as otherwise indicated in the Urban Deep Water Port, Maritime, and Municipal Watershed shoreline environments, the zone boundary is the ordinary high water mark. D. Other Cases. Where a zone boundary is not indicated to follow a property line or public right-of-way, the boundary line is as drawn, based upon the scale shown on the zoning map. E. Classification of Vacated Rights-of-Way. Where a right-of-way is vacated, the area comprising the vacated right-of-way shall acquire the classification of the property to which it reverts unless otherwise provided by city council action. SECTION 5: Section 3.020 of Ordinance No. 1671-89, as amended, (EMC 19.3.020), which reads in part as follows: