Maroa City Zoning Code
ARTICLE IV
Establishment and Purpose of Districts and Boundaries
§ 290-4.1 Purpose.
§ 290-4.2 Zoning Map.
A.
The boundaries of the districts are shown upon the map designated as the "Zoning Map". The Zoning Map and all notations, references and other information shown thereon are a part of this chapter and have the same force and effect as if the Zoning Map were included herein. A copy of the Zoning Map is properly attested and is on file with the City Clerk of the City of Maroa, Illinois.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
B.
Whenever any street, alley or other public way is vacated by official action of the City Council, the zoning district adjoining each side of such street, alley or public way shall be automatically extended to the center of such vacation, and all area included in the vacation shall then and henceforth be subject to all appropriate regulations of the extended districts.
C.
Where the districts designated on the Zoning Map are bounded approximately by street or alley lines, the center line of the street or alley shall be construed to be the boundary of the district.
D.
Where the district boundaries are not otherwise indicated and where the property has been divided into blocks and lots of record, the district boundaries shall be construed to be the lot lines of the lots of record.
E.
In unsubdivided property, the district boundary lines shall be determined as reflected in the dimensions appearing on the Zoning Map.
§ 290-4.3 Boundaries and minimum areas.
Where uncertainty exists with respect to the boundaries of the various districts as shown on the Zoning Map, the following rules shall apply:
A.
General guidelines. District boundaries shall be either the center line of rights-of-way for railroads, highways, streets, alleys or easements and waterways or the boundary lines of sections, quarter-sections, divisions of sections, tracts or lots (or such extended), unless otherwise indicated.
B.
Areas not subdivided into lots and blocks.
(1)
Wherever a district is indicated as a strip adjacent to and paralleling a major highway, the depth of such strip shall be in accordance with the dimensions shown on the map measured at right angles to the center line of the street or highway. The length of the frontage of such a strip shall be in accordance with the dimensions shown on the map from section, quarter-section or division lines of center line of streets, highways or railroad rights-of-way unless otherwise indicated.
(2)
If a lot held in one ownership on the effective date of this chapter is divided by a district boundary line, the entire lot shall be construed to be within the more intensively zoned district.
(3)
Subsection B(2) shall not apply, however, if it increases the more intensive portion of the lot by more than 25%. If this occurs, the entire lot shall be zoned the least intensive of the two districts, unless otherwise recommended at a public hearing by the Planning and Zoning Board and approved by the City Council.
§ 290-4.4 Zoning of public ways.
All streets, alleys, public ways and railroad rights-of-way, if not otherwise specifically designated, shall be deemed to be in the same zone as the property immediately abutting upon such alleys, streets, public ways and railroad rights-of-way. Where the center line of a street, alley, public way or railroad right-of-way serves as a district boundary, the zoning of such areas, unless otherwise specifically designated, shall be deemed to be the same as that of the abutting property up to such center line.
§ 290-4.5 Annexed territory.
All territory which is annexed to the City shall be automatically classified in the R-1 Single Family Residential District upon annexation, unless otherwise classified by amendment.