Excelsior Springs City Zoning Code
SECTION 400
020 Purpose and Intent.
[R.O. 2012 §400.020; Ord. No. 88-5-5 §§I — III, 5-16-1988; Ord. No. 22-07-01, 7-18-2022]
A.
This Chapter is adopted for the purpose of:
1.
Promoting the public health, safety, comfort, morals, convenience, and general welfare.
2.
Securing adequate light, pure air, and safety from fire and other dangers.
3.
Conserving the value of land and buildings throughout the City of Excelsior Springs.
4.
Assure a means of efficient and safe vehicular and pedestrian circulation throughout the City.
5.
To these ends the Chapter is designed to establish certain standards and objectives by:
a.
Dividing the entire City of Excelsior Springs into districts and restricting and regulating therein the location, construction, reconstruction, alteration, and use of building, structures, and land, whether for residence, business, manufacturing, or other specified uses.
b.
Avoiding or lessening congestion in the public streets.
c.
Preventing the overcrowding of land through regulating and limiting the height and bulk of buildings hereafter erected as related to land area.
d.
Establishing regulations and limiting the building or setback lines on or along streets, alleys or property lines.
e.
Regulating and limiting the intensity of the use of land, and defining and regulating the area of open spaces within and surrounding such uses.
f.
Establishing spatial standards to which buildings or structures therein shall conform.
g.
Prohibiting uses, buildings or structures incompatible with the character of nearby residence, business, or manufacturing districts.
h.
Preventing additions to, and alterations or remodeling of, existing buildings or structures in such a way as to avoid the restrictions and limitations imposed hereunder.
i.
Providing for the gradual elimination of those uses, buildings and structures which are incompatible with the character of the districts in which they are located; including, without being limited thereto:
(1)
Elimination of such uses of unimproved lands or lot areas when existing rights of the persons in possession thereof are terminated, or when the uses to which they are devoted are discontinued;
(2)
Elimination of uses to which such buildings and structures are devoted, if they are adaptable to permitted uses;
(3)
Elimination of such buildings and structures when they are destroyed or damaged in major part.
j.
Defining and limiting the powers and duties of the administrative officers and bodies hereinafter.
k.
Prescribing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this Chapter, or any amendment thereto.