A. The Official Zoning Map of McHenry County, Illinois, is incorporated into this Unified Development Ordinance.
B. The following rules are used to determine the precise location of any zoning district boundary shown on the Official Zoning Map.
1. Boundaries shown as following or approximately following the limits of any municipal corporation or McHenry County are construed as following such limits.
2. Boundaries shown as following or approximately following streets are construed as following the centerlines of such streets.
3. Boundary lines shown as following or approximately following platted lot lines or other property lines as designated in the official County plat books are construed as following such lines.
4. Boundaries shown as following or approximately following section lines, half-section lines, or quarter-section lines are construed as following such lines.
5. Boundaries shown as following or approximately following railroad lines are construed to lie midway between the main track of such railroad line.
6. Boundaries shown as following or approximately following shorelines of any lakes are construed as following the mean high water lines of such lakes. In the event of change in the mean high water line, boundaries are construed as moving with the actual mean high water line.
7. Boundaries shown as following or approximately following the centerlines of streams, rivers, or other continuously flowing watercourses are construed as following the channel centerline of such watercourses taken at mean low water line. In the event of a natural change in the location of such streams, rivers, or other watercourses, the boundary is construed as moving with the channel centerline.
8. Boundaries shown as separated from and parallel or approximately parallel to any of the features listed in this section, are construed to be parallel to such features and from such distance as shown on the map. Distances not specifically indicated on the map are determined by the scale of the map.
C. All streets, alleys, public ways, and railroad rights of way, if not otherwise specifically designated, are deemed to be in the same zoning district as the property immediately abutting said streets, alleys, public ways, and railroad rights of way.
(Ord. O-201410-10-035, passed 10-14-2014; Ord. O-201601-ZBA-006, passed 1-19-2016; Ord. O-201603-ZBA-010, passed 3-17-2016, § 8.3; Ord. O-201803-ZBA-10-08, passed 3-19-2018; Ord. O-201808-10-033, passed 8-21-2018)