In order to carry out the purposes and provisions of this Ordinance, the Village of Newark, Illinois, is divided into the following zoning districts.

A-1 Agricultural District R-E Residential Estate District R-1 Downtown Residential District R-2 Single Family Residential District R-3 Multiple Family Residential District B-1 Downtown Business District B-2 General Commercial District B-3 Commercial Recreation District C-M Commercial Manufacturing District M-1 Manufacturing District C-F Community Facility District

The boundaries of the districts listed above are as shown on the map designated as the “Zoning Map” for Village of Newark, Illinois. A copy of this map may be found in the office of the Village Clerk. The “Zoning Map”, together with the approved notations, references and other matters thereon pertaining to zoning district classifications and regulations, shall be as much a part of this Ordinance as if such notations, references and other matters were specifically set forth herein in this text.

Where uncertainty exists with respect to the boundaries of the various districts as shown on the zoning map, the following rules shall apply.

1. General Guidelines. District Boundaries shall be either the centerlines of 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.
2. Vacation of Streets, Alleys, and Public Ways. Whenever any street, alley or other public way is vacated by official action of the Village Board, 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.
3. Lots of Record. Where 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 the lot lines of the Lots of Record.
4. Areas Not Subdivided into Lots and Blocks.
   1. Wherever a district is indicated as a strip adjacent to and paralleling a railroad, highway, street, alley, easement or waterway, the depth of such strip shall be in accordance with the dimensions shown on the map measured at right-angles to the centerline 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 centerlines of streets, highways or railroad rights-of-way unless otherwise indicated.
   2. If a district boundary line divides a lot held in one ownership on the effective date of this Ordinance, the entire lot shall be construed to be within the more intensively zoned district. This shall not apply, however, if it increases the more intensive portion of the lot by more than twenty-five (25) percent. If this occurs, the entire lot shall be zoned the least intensive of the two districts, unless otherwise recommended by the Plan Commission at a public hearing, and subsequently approved by the Village Board.
      

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 centerline of a street, alley, public way, or railroad right-ofway serves as a district boundary the zoning of such areas, unless otherwise specifically designated, shall be deemed to be the same as that as the abutting property up to such centerline.

All territory, which is annexed to the Village, shall be automatically classified in the R-2, Single Family Residential District upon annexation, unless otherwise classified by an Annexation Agreement.