(A)   In order to classify, regulate and restrict the location of trade and industry, and the location of buildings designated for specific uses, to protect residential uses, to regulate and limit the height and bulk of buildings hereafter erected or altered, to regulate and limit the intensity of the use of lot areas, and to regulate and determine the areas of yards and open space within and surrounding the buildings, the city is hereby divided into zoning districts.

   (B)   The use, height and area regulations shall be uniform in each district and the districts shall be known as follows.

 

(Prior Code, § 11-50-1) (Ord. 258, passed 5-4-2006)

   Zoning district boundary lines established by this chapter generally follow lot lines, the centerlines of railroad rights-of-way, street rights-of-way, watercourses or the corporate limit lines, all as they exist upon the effective date of this chapter.

   (A)   Appeals concerning the exact location of a zoning district boundary line shall be heard by the Council serving as the Board of Zoning Appeals.

   (B)   Whenever any street, alley or other public way is vacated by official action by the city, the zoning district adjoining each side of the street, alley or public way shall be automatically extended to the center of the vacation and all area included in the vacation shall then and henceforth be subject to all appropriate regulations of the extended districts.

   (C)   All streets, alleys, public ways and railroad rights-of-way, if not otherwise specifically designated, shall be deemed to be in the same zone as the property in the most restrictive classification immediately abutting upon alleys, streets, public ways or railroad rights-of-way. Where the centerline of a street, alley, public way or railroad rights-of-way serves as a district boundary, the zoning of these areas, unless otherwise specifically designated, shall be deemed to be the same as that of the abutting property up to the centerline.

   (D)   All areas within the corporate limits of the city which are under water and which are not shown as included within any zone shall be subject to all regulations of the zone which immediately adjoins the water area. If the water area adjoins two or more zones, the boundaries of each zone shall be construed to be extended into the water area in a straight line until they meet the other district at the halfway point and/or to the corporate limits.

(Prior Code, § 11-50-2) (Ord. 258, passed 5-4-2006)

   The location and boundaries of the districts established by this chapter are hereby set forth on the zoning map entitled Cannon Falls zoning map. The map shall be on file with the Zoning Administrator, and hereinafter referred to as the "zoning map." The map and all the notations, references and other information shown thereon shall have the same force and effect as if fully set forth herein and thereby made a part of this chapter by reference. It is the responsibility of the Zoning Administrator to maintain the city zoning map and amendments thereto shall be recorded on the map. The official city zoning map shall be kept on file in the City Hall.

(Prior Code, § 11-50-3) (Ord. 258, passed 5-4-2006)

   All territory hereafter annexed to the city which is not shown on the zoning map shall automatically, upon annexation, be classified within the UR District and shall be subject to all regulations, notations, references and conditions as are applicable to the District until a time that a determination may be made as to the proper district classification for the territory and an amendment can be made to that effect.

(Prior Code, § 11-50-4) (Ord. 258, passed 5-4-2006)