Edmonds City Zoning Code
16.00 Zone Districts
Preface and Purpose
16.00.010 Purposes.
In addition to the purposes stated in the city’s comprehensive plan, the zoning ordinance shall have the following purposes:
A. To assist in the implementation of the adopted comprehensive plan for the physical development of the city by regulating and providing for existing uses and planning for the future as specified in the comprehensive plan; and
B. To protect the character and the social and economic stability of residential, commercial, industrial, public, and other uses within the city, and to ensure the orderly and beneficial development of those uses by:
1. Preserving and retaining appropriate areas for each type of use;
2. Preventing encroachment into these areas by incompatible uses; and
3. By regulating the use of individual parcels of land to prevent unreasonable detrimental effects of nearby uses. [Ord. 4397 § 2 (Exh. B), 2025; Ord. 3240 § 1, 1999].
16.00.020 Applicable to other titles.
All uses in every zone district are subject to the general zoning regulations of ECDC Title 17 and to applicable regulations and policies contained in other titles of the Community Development Code.
16.00.030 Adult motion picture theaters, etc., prohibited.
Repealed by Ord. 3117. [Ord. 2279 § 6, 1982].