(A) There shall be maintained in the office of the Department of Planning, a City of Unalaska Official Zoning, Streets, and Highway Map of the city showing the classifications of all land for use according to this chapter. The City of Unalaska Official Zoning, Streets, and Highway Map shall be available to the public for inspection. Section 8.12.030 establishes the zoning districts for the city.
(B) When the City Council changes the City of Unalaska Official Zoning, Streets, and Highway Map as provided procedurally in § 8.12.190, the Department of Planning shall be responsible for amending the City of Unalaska Official Zoning, Streets, and Highway Map to indicate changes and date of changes.
(C) Zone boundaries on the City of Unalaska Official Zoning, Streets, and Highway Map are governed by the following provisions:
(1) Boundaries indicated as approximately following the right-of-way lines of streets, highways, or alleys shall be construed to follow such lines;
(2) Boundaries indicated as approximately following platted lot lines shall be construed as following such lot lines;
(3) Boundaries indicated as approximately following city limits shall be construed as following such city limits;
(4) Boundaries indicated as following shorelines shall be construed to follow such shorelines, and in the event of change in the shoreline, shall be construed as moving with the actual shoreline; boundaries indicated as approximately following the centerlines of streams, rivers, or other bodies of water shall be construed to follow such centerlines;
(5) Boundaries indicated as parallel to or extension of features indicated in subsections (1) through (4) shall be so construed. Distances not specifically indicated shall be determined by the scale of the City of Unalaska Official Zoning, Streets, and Highway Map;
(6) Where physical or cultural features existing on the ground are at variance with those shown on the City of Unalaska Official Zoning, Streets, and Highway Map, the Director of Planning shall interpret the district boundaries. This determination shall be known as a “Planning Determination” subject to § 8.12.220(A)(2); and
(7) At the time of passage of this chapter, where a district boundary line divides a lot, the Planning Commission may permit, after review and with conditions, the extension of the regulations for either portion of the lot beyond the district line into the remaining portion of the lot with the intent to make both lots conforming if possible.
(D) In the event that the City of Unalaska Official Zoning, Streets, and Highway Map becomes damaged, destroyed, lost, or difficult to interpret due to the nature of number of changes and additions, the City Council, upon recommendation of the Planning Commission, may adopt a new City of Unalaska Official Zoning, Streets, and Highway Map. The new City of Unalaska Official Zoning, Streets, and Highway Map may correct drafting or other errors or omissions in the prior map, but no such correction shall have the effect of amending the original City of Unalaska Official Zoning, Streets, and Highway Map or any subsequent amendment thereof unless so specified by the City Council. The prior City of Unalaska Official Zoning, Streets, and Highway Map, and any significant parts thereof shall be preserved, together with all available records pertaining to its adoption or amendment.
(Ord. No. 2001-04, passed 5-8-01; Am. Ord. 2005-09, passed 4-26-05)