Asheville City Zoning Code
ARTICLE I
AUTHORITY, PURPOSE, JURISDICTION, AND LEGAL STATUS PROVISIONS
Sec. 7-1-1. Authority; title.
This chapter is adopted pursuant to the authority vested in the City of Asheville by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina in provisions of the North Carolina General Statutes, which include, but are not limited to, Articles 8, 15, and 19 of Chapter 160A; Articles 4 and 14 of Chapter 113A; and Part 6 of Article 21 of Chapter 143 and in the Charter and Related laws of the City of Asheville.
(Ord. No. 2369, § 1, 5-27-97)
Sec. 7-1-2. Purpose.
These regulations have been adopted in accordance with the comprehensive plan for the City of Asheville, North Carolina, as adopted, in order to promote the health, safety, morals, good order, general welfare and diversity of the community; in order to encourage the most appropriate use of land throughout the city's jurisdiction; to provide for sound, orderly, systematic urban development; to create a balance between the rights of the community and the rights of the individual; to lessen congestion in the streets; to secure safety from fire, panic, and other dangers; to insure a fair and adequate distribution of light and air among buildings; to prevent the overcrowding of land while discouraging urban sprawl; to facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks, and other public services; to conserve the value of buildings and land; to promote the economic and industrial prosperity of the city, to preserve the city's unique scenic character; to conserve the natural and historic resources and environmental quality of the city; to encourage the continued use and reuse of existing buildings, to control accelerated erosion and sedimentation in order to prevent the pollution to water and other damage to lakes, watercourses, and other public and private property by sedimentation; to safeguard the natural resources of the city by regulating stormwater run-off; to minimize public and private losses due to flood conditions; and, to protect and conserve the heritage of the City of Asheville.
(Ord. No. 2369, § 1, 5-27-97)
Sec. 7-1-3. Jurisdiction.
(a) Jurisdiction; general. The provisions of this chapter shall apply within the corporate limits of the City of Asheville, North Carolina, and within the city's extraterritorial jurisdiction, as identified on the map of the territorial jurisdiction of the City of Asheville. This territorial jurisdiction map will be, after the effective date of this chapter, recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Buncombe County and filed in the Office of the city Clerk of the City of Asheville.
(b) Asheville Regional Airport. All provisions of this chapter shall apply to that property which is known as the Asheville Regional Airport and which is more particularly described in 1979 N. C. Sess. Laws Ch. 256. The heights of any manmade structures on this property shall be governed and approved, however, by the applicable rules and regulations administered by the Federal Aviation Administration.
(Ord. No. 2369, § 1, 5-27-97; Ord. No. 2860, § 1a, 10-10-01; Ord. No. 3381, §§ 1(a), (b), 7-25-06; Ord. No. 4233, § 1a, 9-24-13)