For the purposes of this Zoning Code, the City is hereby divided into use, height and area districts. The boundaries of the use, height and area districts are hereby established as shown on the Building Zone Maps of the City of Cleveland, which are filed herewith with the Clerk of Council. These maps shall be deemed to accompany and are hereby made part of this Zoning Code.

(Ord. No. 533-56. Passed 6-25-56, eff. 6-28-56)

   Within ten (10) days after the effective date of an ordinance to amend the building zone maps, the Planning Commission shall deliver to the Clerk of Council the sheets of the building zone maps affected by the amendment, showing thereon the maps as they existed immediately prior to the passage of the amendments and the maps as amended by the ordinance. These sheets of the building zone maps, when received by the Clerk, shall be filed with Council.

(Ord. No. 533-56. Passed 6-25-56, eff. 6-28-56)

   (a)   The district boundary lines are intended to follow the center lines of the streets or alleys or their extensions or lot lines or their extensions. Where a boundary line obviously does not coincide with any of the aforesaid lines, and where it is not located by dimensions shown on the map, it shall be deemed to be one hundred twenty-five (125) feet from the nearest street line parallel to which it is drawn.

   (b)   Any areas shown on the building zone maps as park, playground, school, cemetery, water, street or right-of-way, shall be subject to the zoning regulations of the district in which they are located. In case of doubt, the zoning regulations of the most restricted adjoining district shall govern.

   (c)   Except as otherwise provided in this Zoning Code, no building or premises shall hereafter be used, and no building or part thereof shall hereafter be erected, raised, moved, reconstructed, extended, enlarged or altered, except in conformity with the regulations established for the district in which it is located.

(Ord. No. 533-56. Passed 6-25-56, eff. 6-28-56)

   In all instances where this Zoning Code requires a separation of use districts, lots, buildings or uses by a specified distance, such distance shall be measured in a geometrically straight line using a scaled map, or a survey if deemed necessary. Unless otherwise specified in this Zoning Code, such line shall be measured to run from the nearest point on the nearest lot line of the lot or lots upon which the regulated use and any accessory parking are located to either the nearest point on the nearest lot line of the lot or lots upon which a use and any accessory parking are located from which the regulated use is required to be separated or the nearest point on the nearest boundary of the district from which the regulated use is required to be separated, whichever terminal point is applicable. Such measurement shall be made without regard to intervening structures, objects, uses, the street grid, landforms, waterways, or any other topographic feature. The calculation and application of distance requirements for separation of uses shall consider uses across the City’s boundary in the application of divisions (c)(3) and (4) of Section 347.07, division (b) and division (c) of Section 347.12, and division (d)(2) of Section 347.15. The calculation shall consider uses and districts across the City’s boundary in all other circumstances only if the City and bordering jurisdiction have entered into an agreement whereby each will consider uses and districts across the common boundary. The Director of City Planning shall have authority to enter into such an agreement upon notification of the councilpersons whose ward is affected.

(Ord. No. 1462-97. Passed 12-15-97, eff. 12-24-97)