Agenda - Planning Commission - 05/01/2003

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I I I I I I I I I I I I I Chapter 9 Zoning and Subdivision of Land 9.01 Zoning 9.01.01 Title. This Chapter shall be known as the "Ramsey Zoning Chapter" except as referred to herein where it shall be known as "this Chapter." 9.01.02 Authority. This Chapter is enacted pursuant to the authority granted by the Municipal Planning Act, Minnesota Statutes, §462.351 to §462.365. 9.01..03 Purpose. The following zoning provisions and the zoning map established hereby have been enacted in accordance with a comprehensive plan of land use for the purpose of: promoting the health, safety, morals, comfort, convenience prosperity, and general welfare of the residents of Rarnsey; dividing the City into zones or districts restricting and regulating therein the location, erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, and use of buildings, structures, and land for specified uses; regulating the intensity of the use of land; regulating and determining the area of open spaces surrounding buildings in order to prevent the overcrowding of land and to assure adequate light and air; protecting waterways and natural resources; establishing building lines and the location of buildings designed for specified industrial, commercial, residential and other uses within such areas and fixing standards to which buildings or structures shall conform therein; prohibiting uses, buildings, or structures incompatible with the character of the specified districts; preventing additions to and alterations or remodeling of existing buildings or structures in such a way as to avoid the restrictions and limitations imposed hereunder; limiting congestion in the public streets by providing for off street parking and loading and unloading of vehicles; providing for the gradual' elimination of nonconforming uses of land, buildings and structures; and conserving the economic value of land and buildings through out the City. 9.01.04 Relation to Comprehensive Plan. It is the policy of the City that the enforcement, amendment and administration of this Chapter be accomplished with due consideration of the recommendations contained in the Comprehensive Plan as developed and amended i¥om time to time by the Planning Commission and Council of the City. The Council recognizes the Comprehensive Plan as the policy adopted to regulate land use and development in accordance with the policies and purpose herein set forth. 9.01.05 Separability. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City that the several provisions of this Chapter are separable in accordance with the following: ao If any court of competent jurisdiction shall adjudge any provision of this Chapter to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect any other provisions of this Chapter not specifically included in said judgment. 9-1