The Bay City Development Chapter 10 is intended to regulate land use within the Bay City Corporate Limits in conformance with the goals and policies of the Comprehensive Plan and the Statewide Planning Goals and Guidelines. The Chapter is designed to address the impacts of land uses partially through the use of performance standards, and by the division of the City into intensity zones, where different levels of land use intensity may take place. It is also intended to unify the zoning, subdivision, partitioning, and planned development ordinances into one document, and to provide a single application form and process for building permits, partitionings, subdivisions, planned developments, conditional uses, variances, and zone and plan changes. The official Plan/Zone Designation Map showing the location of plan designations and intensity zones is on file in the Bay City City Hall.

A lot may be used and a structure or part of a structure constructed, reconstructed, remodeled, occupied, or used only as this Article permits. All standards established by this Article or required as a condition in granting a conditional use permit must be met within 30 days after occupancy of the building, structure, or addition. Where a provision of this Article is in conflict with the City's adopted Comprehensive Plan, the Plan shall be adhered to.

The provisions of this Chapter are severable. In the event that any part of this Chapter is declared null and void by a Court or in the event that any provision herein is in conflict with any state and federal rule, law or statute, then the affected provision of this Chapter shall be deemed inoperative and null and void. No ruling or conflict above shall invalidate the remaining provisions of this Chapter.

The boundaries for the zones established in this Chapter referred to as Intensity Zones, Shorelands Zones, or Hazards Overlay Zones are indicated on a map entitled Plan/Zone designations for Bay City, Oregon, which is hereby adopted by reference by the City Council. A certified copy of the map shall be signed and dated by the Mayor and Chairperson of the Planning Commission, and maintained in City Hall with all current amendments, so long as this Chapter remains in effect. Unless otherwise specified, zone boundaries are section lines, subdivision lines, lot lines, center lines of streets or such lines of streets or such lines extended.