Bakersfield City Zoning Code
17.02 General
Provisions
17.02.010 Title.
This title shall be known as the “land use zoning ordinance of the city.” (Prior code § 17.08.010)
17.02.020 Adoption.
There is adopted a precise zoning plan for the city. (Prior code § 17.04.010)
17.02.030 Purpose.
This zoning plan is adopted to implement the goals and policies of the general plan of the city which serve to promote and protect the public health, safety, peace, morals, comfort, convenience and general welfare, and for the accomplishment thereof is adopted, among other purposes for the following more particularly specified purposes:
A. To assist in providing a definite plan of development for the city and to guide, control and regulate the future growth of the city in accordance with said plan; and
B. To protect the established character and the social and economic stability of agricultural, residential, commercial, industrial and other areas within the city, and to assure the orderly and beneficial development of such areas. (Ord. 2693, 1982; prior code § 17.04.020)
17.02.040 Content and scope.
The zoning plan consists of the establishment of various zones within the incorporated territory of the city within some, all, or none of which it is lawful, and within some, all, or none of which it is unlawful to erect, construct, alter, move, locate or maintain certain buildings or to carry on certain trades or occupations or to conduct certain uses of land or of buildings; within which the height and bulk of future buildings shall be limited; within which certain open spaces shall be required about future buildings and consisting further of appropriate regulations to be enforced in such zones, all as set forth in this title. (Prior code § 17.04.030)