An ordinance to regulate the location of residences, businesses, trades, industries, and other uses; to regulate the location of buildings designed for specific uses; to regulate and limit the height and bulk of buildings hereafter erected or altered; to regulate and limit the percentage of lot occupancy; to regulate and determine the area of yards and other open spaces surrounding the buildings; and for said purposes divide the city into districts; to provide a method of administration; and to prescribe the penalties for the violation of its provisions.

(A)

Title.

This ordinance shall be known as the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Grandview, Missouri.

(B))

Purpose.

The Zoning Ordinance is adopted for the following purposes:

(1)

To promote the public health, safety, morals, comfort, convenience, prosperity, and general welfare of the community;

(2)

To lessen congestion in the streets;

(3)

To zone all properties with a view to conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the city;

(4)

To encourage reasonable flexibility of development design through appropriate innovation;

(5)

To isolate or control the location of unavoidable nuisance producing uses;

(6)

To foster a more rational pattern of relationship between residential, office, commercial, and industrial uses for the mutual benefit for all;

(7)

To provide adequate light, air, and open spaces;

(8)

To prevent the overcrowding of land;

(9)

To prevent economically and environmentally unsustainable development patterns;

(10)

To avoid the overcrowding of population;

(11)

To facilitate adequate provisions for transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks, and other public requirements;

(12)

To protect existing uses from harmful encroachment by incompatible uses;

(13)

To provide for the elimination and encouragement of the elimination of those uses of land, buildings, and structures, which are contrary to the intent and purpose of this title or which are adversely affecting the character, development, and taxable value of property in each district;

(14)

To define the powers and duties of the administrative officers and bodies, as provided for in this title;

(15)

To preserve features of historical significance;

(16)

To secure safety from fire, panic, and other dangers.

(C)

Authority.

The establishment of the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Grandview, Missouri, is done under the authority of Chapter 89 of Missouri State Statutes, as amended.

(D)

Relationship to Other Laws.

Where conditions impose by any provision of this Ordinance upon the use of land, buildings, or structures are either more restrictive than comparable conditions imposed by any other provisions of this Ordinance or of any other law, ordinance, resolution, rule or regulations of any kind, the regulations which are more restrictive shall govern.

(E)

Administration.

This Ordinance shall be administered by the Director of Community Development or their designee(s).

(F)

Penalties for Violation and Civil Remedies.

Persons or firms violating any provisions of the Ordinance shall be prosecuted under Section 31-29 of this Ordinance.

(G)

Severability.

If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this article should be declared invalid for any reason whatsoever, such decisions shall not affect the remaining portions of this article, which shall remain in full force and effect.