Prosser City Zoning Code

Promote the health, safety, morals, convenience, comfort, prosperity and general welfare within the city and its immediate environs; promote the orderly, compatible use of land; and promote the city's growth consistent with the Washington State Growth Management Act; and

Establish specific zones and regulations necessary for the proper development of utilities, schools, parks, housing, essential light, air, privacy and open spaces; lessen the congestion of streets and to promote the safe movement of traffic; stabilize and protect property values; prevent overcrowding and slums; promote an environmentally and aesthetically sound city; promote the community's economic development and the prosperity and welfare of its citizens; and to establish an attractive city within which to live; and

Develop regulations establishing the location, height and use of buildings, the use of land, the size of yards, off-street and loading zones and other necessary spaces; and such other reasonable or necessary regulations of the use of land, within their respective zones, which promote the general welfare and are necessary for the proper police and sanitary regulation of the city.