(A) Except for the Shoreland Overlay District, zoning district boundary lines shown on the Official Zoning Map are intended to follow lot lines, the center lines of streets or alleys, the center lines of streets or alleys projected, railroad right-of-way lines, the center of watercourses, or the corporate limits of the city, unless otherwise indicated. In the case of the Shoreland Overlay District, the boundary lines of the districts shall be as stated in the Shoreland Overlay District.
(B) Appeals concerning the exact location of a zoning district boundary line shall be heard by the Forest Lake City Council serving as the Board of Adjustment and Appeals.
(C) Whenever any street, alley, or other public way is vacated by an official action of the city, the zoning district adjoining each side of the street, alley, or public way shall be automatically extended to the center of the vacation, and all area included in the vacation shall then and henceforth be subject to all appropriate regulations of the extended districts.
(D) All streets, alleys, public ways, and railroad rights-of-way, if not otherwise specifically designated, shall be deemed to be in the same zone as the property in the most restrictive classification immediately abutting upon the alleys, streets, public ways, or railroad rights-of-way. Where the centerline of a street, alley, public way, or railroad right-of-way serves as a district boundary, the zoning of the areas, unless otherwise specifically designated, shall be deemed to be the same as that of the abutting property up to the centerline.
(E) All areas within the corporate limits of the city which are under water and which are not shown as included within any zone shall be subject to all regulations of the zone which immediately adjoins the water area. If the water area adjoins 2 or more zones, the boundaries of each zone shall be construed to be extended into the water area in a straight line until they meet the other district at the halfway point and/or to the corporation limits.
(F) For the purpose of adult uses, as specified in the City Adult Use Ordinance, if a building or leased space is intersected by the allowed area boundary, then only that portion of the building or leased space within the allowed area will be permissible for an adult principal use.
(Ord. 537, passed 11-8-2004; Am. Ord. 596, passed 2-8-2010)