Chapter 21.04 — COMPREHENSIVE PLAN

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 .

• B. Misdemeanor. If the number of violations of the same section of this title on the same property exceeds three within a one-year period, the responsible person(s) shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished as provided by Section 1.36.010 .

• (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)