(A) Title. This chapter shall be known, cited and referred to as the Cannon Falls Zoning Chapter, except as referred to herein, where it shall be known as "this chapter."
(B) Intent and purpose. The intent of this chapter is to protect the public health, safety and general welfare of the community and its people through the establishment of minimum regulations in regard to the location, erection, construction, alteration and use of structures and land. These regulations are established to protect the use areas; to promote orderly development and redevelopment; to provide adequate light, air and convenience of access to property; to prevent congestion in the public right-of- way; to prevent overcrowding of land and undue concentration of structures by regulating land, building, yards and density of population; to provide for compatibility of different land uses; to provide for administration of this chapter; to provide for amendments; to prescribe penalties for violation of the regulations; and to define powers and duties of the city staff, the Board of Adjustment and Appeals, the Planning Commission and the City Council in relation to this chapter.
(C) Relation to the city's Comprehensive Plan. The city's adopted Comprehensive Plan shall serve as the basis upon which land use and development shall be regulated.
(D) Standard; requirement. Where the conditions imposed by any provision of this chapter are either more or less restrictive than comparable conditions imposed by other ordinance, rule or regulation of the city, the ordinance, rule or regulation which imposes the more restrictive condition, standard or requirement shall prevail.
(E) Application. The provisions of this chapter shall be the minimum requirements for the promotion of the public health, safety and welfare.
(Prior Code, § 11-1-1) (Ord. 258, passed 5-4-2006)