(A)   Title. This chapter shall be known, cited and referred to as the Cannon Falls Zoning Chapter, except as referred to herein, where it shall be known as "this chapter."

   (B)   Intent and purpose. The intent of this chapter is to protect the public health, safety and general welfare of the community and its people through the establishment of minimum regulations in regard to the location, erection, construction, alteration and use of structures and land. These regulations are established to protect the use areas; to promote orderly development and redevelopment; to provide adequate light, air and convenience of access to property; to prevent congestion in the public right-of- way; to prevent overcrowding of land and undue concentration of structures by regulating land, building, yards and density of population; to provide for compatibility of different land uses; to provide for administration of this chapter; to provide for amendments; to prescribe penalties for violation of the regulations; and to define powers and duties of the city staff, the Board of Adjustment and Appeals, the Planning Commission and the City Council in relation to this chapter.

   (C)   Relation to the city's Comprehensive Plan. The city's adopted Comprehensive Plan shall serve as the basis upon which land use and development shall be regulated.

   (D)   Standard; requirement. Where the conditions imposed by any provision of this chapter are either more or less restrictive than comparable conditions imposed by other ordinance, rule or regulation of the city, the ordinance, rule or regulation which imposes the more restrictive condition, standard or requirement shall prevail.

   (E)   Application. The provisions of this chapter shall be the minimum requirements for the promotion of the public health, safety and welfare.

(Prior Code, § 11-1-1) (Ord. 258, passed 5-4-2006)

   No structure shall be erected, converted, enlarged, reconstructed or altered and no structure or land shall be used for any purpose nor in any manner which is not in conformity with the provisions of this chapter.

(Prior Code, § 11-1-2) (Ord. 258, passed 5-4-2006) Penalty, see § 10.99

   Except as herein provided, no building, structure or premises shall hereafter be used or occupied and no building permit shall be granted that does not conform to the requirements of this chapter.

(Prior Code, § 11-1-3) (Ord. 258, passed 5-4-2006) Penalty, see § 10.99

   For the purpose of this chapter, all international, federal, state, county and other official monuments, bench marks, triangulation points and stations shall be preserved in their precise locations; and it shall be the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that these markers are maintained in good condition during and following construction and development. All section, one-quarter section and one-sixteenth section corners shall be duly described and tied.

(Prior Code, § 11-1-4) (Ord. 258, passed 5-4-2006)

   Whenever in any zoning district a use is neither specifically permitted nor denied, the use shall be considered prohibited. In these cases the City Council or the Planning Commission, on their own initiative or upon request, may conduct a study to determine if the use is acceptable and if so what zoning district would be most appropriate and the determination as to conditions and standards relating to development of the use. The City Council, Planning Commission or property owner, upon receipt of the study shall, if appropriate, initiate an amendment to this chapter to provide for the particular use under consideration or shall find that the use is not compatible for development within the city.

(Prior Code, § 11-1-5) (Ord. 258, passed 5-4-2006)

   It is hereby declared to be the intention of the city that the several provisions of this chapter are separable in accordance with the following.

   (A)   If any court of competent jurisdiction shall adjudge any provision of this chapter to be invalid, the judgment shall not affect any other provisions of this chapter not specifically included in the judgment.

   (B)   If any court of competent jurisdiction shall adjudge invalid the application of any provision of this chapter to a particular property, building or other structure, the judgment shall not affect the application of the provision to any other property, building or structure not specifically included in the judgment.

(Prior Code, § 11-1-6) (Ord. 258, passed 5-4-2006)

   This chapter is enacted pursuant to the authority granted by the Municipal Planning Act, M.S. §§ 462.351 to 462.363, as they may be amended from time to time.

(Prior Code, § 11-1-7) (Ord. 258, passed 5-4-2006)

   The previous city zoning ordinance as amended, is hereby repealed and replaced by this chapter.

(Prior Code, § 11-1-8) (Ord. 258, passed 5-4-2006)