This chapter shall be known as and shall be cited as the "Ceres Zoning Ordinance."

(Ord. No. 2020-1059, § 1, 3-23-2020)

The zoning ordinance has been prepared in accordance to the following principles:

A.

This chapter is adopted to protect and promote the public health, safety, peace, comfort, convenience, prosperity, and general welfare; and further, the purpose of this ordinance is to encourage, classify, designate, regulate, restrict and promote the highest and best location and use of buildings, structures and land for residence, commerce, trade, manufacturing, recreation, community facilities, or other purposes in appropriate places; to regulate and limit the height, number of stories and size buildings and other structures designated, erected or altered; to regulate and determine the size of yards and other open places; and to regulate and limit the density of population, and for said purposes to divide the City into zones of such number, shape, and area as may be deemed best suited to carry out these regulations and provide for their enforcement. Further, such regulations are deemed necessary in order to encourage the most appropriate use of land; to enhance and stabilize the value of property; to provide open space for light and air and to prevent and fight fires; to prevent undue dispersion or concentration of population; to promote orderly and healthy community development; to lessen the congestion of streets; to facilitate adequate provisions for community facilities such as transportation, schools, parks, and other public requirements.

B.

This chapter is intended to conform to the Ceres General Plan and all environmental design plans adopted pursuant to the general plan. Future amendments of these plans shall be reflected in amendments of this zoning ordinance and future amendments to this zoning ordinance shall only be made in conformity with the general plan and environmental design plans.

C.

If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this chapter for any reason shall be held invalid or unconstitutional, the validity of the remaining portions shall not be affected. The City Council of the City of Ceres hereby declares that it would have enacted this ordinance and each section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, and phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, or phrases are declared to be invalid or unconstitutional.

(Ord. No. 2020-1059, § 1, 3-23-2020)