Zoning Districts as set forth are hereby established.

The location and boundaries of the various districts as defined herein shall be established by Planning and Zoning Code and shall be shown and delineated on the Official Zoning Districts Map of the City of Noble. The Official Zoning Districts Map shall be maintained by the City Clerk. The Map may be divided into parts or sections. Said parts may be separately maintained for identification purposes when adopting or amending the Official Zoning Districts Map for any reference to the Official Zoning Districts Map.

The reclassification of property to a new Zoning District shall be an amendment of the Official Zoning Districts Map and shall be so recorded.

A.

Zoning District boundary lines shall be established by government or rectangular survey, metes and bounds description, or the legal description of a lot contained in a plat of record.

B.

Where a property abuts a public or private street, the District boundary shall be considered to extend to the centerline of said right-of-way, whether or not the legal description of the adopted Planning and Zoning Code of Rezoning includes said street.

C.

For purposes of applying the Development Regulations of an individual Zoning District, all such requirements shall be calculated from the appropriate right-of-way line delineating a street.

When uncertainty exists as to the boundaries of the districts on the Official Zoning Districts Map, the following rules apply:

A.

Boundaries indicated, as approximately following the centerlines of streets or highways, shall be construed to follow such centerlines;

B.

Boundaries indicated approximately following platted lot lines shall be construed as following such lot lines;

C.

Boundaries indicated as approximately following City limits shall be construed as following such City limits;

D.

Boundaries indicated as following railroad lines shall be construed to the midway between the main tracks;

E.

Boundaries indicated as following shore lines shall be construed to follow such shore lines, and in the event of change in the shore lines, shall be construed as moving with the actual shore line; boundaries indicated as approximately following the center lines of streams, rivers, lakes, or other bodies of water shall be construed to follow such center lines;

F.

Boundaries indicated as parallel to or extension of features indicated in Subsections A. through F., shall be so construed. Distances not specifically indicated on the Official Zoning Districts Map shall be determined by the scaling from the map.

G.

Where physical features existing on the ground are at variance with those shown on the Official Zoning Districts Map, or in other circumstances not covered by Subsections A. through F., the Planning Commission shall interpret the district boundaries.

H.

Where a district boundary line divides a lot which was in single ownership at the time of passage of this Planning and Zoning Code, the Board of Adjustment upon application and public hearing, may permit as a variance the extension of the regulations for either portion of the lot, not to exceed fifty (50) feet beyond the district line into the remaining portion of the lot.

Whenever any street or other public easement is vacated, the district classification of the property to which the vacated portion of land accrue shall become the classification of the vacated land.