This title shall be known, cited and referred to as "The Park City Zoning Ordinance."

The ordinance codified in this title is adopted for the purpose of improving and protecting the public health, safety, and welfare of the residents of the city. To this end the title seeks:

A.

To zone all land in the city with a view to conserving property values and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the city;

B.

To establish adequate standards for the provision of light, air, and open spaces;

C.

To facilitate provision of adequate public services and facilitates such as transportation, water, sewerage and parks;

D.

To ensure and facilitate the preservation of sites, areas, and structures of historical, architectural, and aesthetic importance;

E.

To preserve and insure the preservation of natural resources;

F.

To provide for adequate drainage, control of erosion, reduction of flood damage, and destruction of sensitive or valuable environmental resources;

G.

To foster a desirable pattern of relationships among residential, commercial, industrial and others for the mutual benefit of all types of development;

H.

To facilitate the recognition of beauty and aesthetics as a value and standard throughout the city;

I.

To encourage reasonable recognition of beauty and aesthetics as a value and standard throughout the city;

J.

To fix reasonable standards to which buildings, structures, and other uses of land shall conform;

K.

To prevent the overcrowding of land and undue concentration of population, thereby preventing the development of blight and deterioration;

L.

To lessen congestion on the public streets by providing for the off-street parking of motor vehicles and the loading and unloading of commercial vehicles;

M.

To provide for the elimination in appropriate situations of existing uses that are compatible with the character of the districts in which they are located;

N.

To protect all areas of the city from harmful encroachment by compatible uses;

O.

To prevent new construction or alteration or expansion of existing construction that does not comply with the restrictions herein;

P.

To isolate and control the location of unavoidable nuisance-producing uses;

Q.

To divide the city into districts of such number, shape, area and of such different classes, according to the use of land, buildings erected, converted, enlarged or structurally altered for specific uses, the height and bulk of buildings, the intensity of use, and the area of open spaces and recreational spaces as may be deemed best suited to carry out the purpose of this title;

R.

To define the powers and duties of the administrative and enforcement officers and bodies;

S.

To prescribe penalties for any violation of the provisions of this title, or of any amendment thereto.

The ordinance codified in this title shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication according to the law.

No building, structure, land, or premises shall hereafter be constructed, altered, converted, enlarged, moved, used or occupied except in conformity with the provisions herein.

If any provision, clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this title or application thereof to any person, firm, corporation, public agency or circumstance, shall, for any reason, be adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional or invalid, said judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder of this title and the application of such provision to other person, firm, corporation, public agency or circumstance, but shall be confined in its operation to the provision, clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered and to the person, firm, corporation, public agency or circumstances involved. It is hereby declared to be the legislative intent of the city council that this title would have been adopted had such unconstitutional or invalid provision, clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or part thereof not been included.