Pullman City Zoning Code
17.01 Preface
and Purpose
This Zoning Code is adopted under the authority of Article XI, Section 10 of the Washington State Constitution and Chapter 35A.63 RCW.
17.01.010 Title.
This title 17 (“Title”) will be known as the Zoning Code of the City of Pullman (“City”). (Ord. 25-08 §1 (Att. A), 2025; Ord. 87-9 §1, 1987).
17.01.020 Authority.
17.01.030 Zoning Code Structure.
This Title is divided into chapters, sections, subsections, paragraphs, and subparagraphs that are numbered as shown in the example below:
Title | Chapter | Section | Subsection | Paragraph | Subpara. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
17. | 25. | 040. | (1) | (a) | (ii) |
(Ord. 25-08 §1 (Att. A), 2025; Ord. 87-9 §1, 1987).
17.01.040 Scope.
The Zoning Code of the City of Pullman consists of all of the provisions described or incorporated by reference in this Title, including both text and maps. (Ord. 25-08 §1 (Att. A), 2025; Ord. 87-9 §1, 1987).
17.01.050 Purposes.
This Zoning Code has the following purposes:
(1) to promote the public health, safety, order, convenience, and general welfare;
(2) to facilitate adequate provisions for public services such as transportation, police and fire protection, water supply, sewage treatment, and parks;
(3) to assist in the implementation of the Comprehensive Plan for the physical development of the City by regulating and providing for existing and future uses; and
(4) to protect the character and the social and economic stability of residential, commercial, industrial, and other uses within the City, and to ensure the orderly and beneficial development of these uses by:
(a) reserving and retaining appropriate areas for each type of use;
(b) preventing encroachment into these areas by incompatible uses; and
(c) regulating the use of individual parcels of land to prevent unreasonable detrimental effects on nearby uses. (Ord. 25-08 §1 (Att. A), 2025; Ord. 87-9 §1, 1987).
17.01.060 Minimum Requirements.
The regulations and provisions of this Title will be held to be the minimum requirements necessary for the promotion of the public health, safety, and general welfare. (Ord. 25-08 §1 (Att. A), 2025; Ord. 87-9 §1, 1987).
17.01.070 Conflict of Provisions.
If the provisions of this Title conflict one with another, or with the provisions of another ordinance of the City, or with the laws, regulations, codes, or rules enacted by another authority having jurisdiction within the City, the most restrictive provisions or the provision imposing the highest standard will prevail, except when constrained by federal or state law. (Ord. 25-08 §1 (Att. A), 2025; Ord. 87-9 §1, 1987).
17.01.080 Regulated Actions.
Whenever this Title applies to a specific act or type of action, the same provisions apply to all later changes, unless this Title specifically provides otherwise. For example, a permit is required to establish a conditional use. This requirement also applies to any changes or expansions of a conditional use. (Ord. 25-08 §1 (Att. A), 2025; Ord. 87-9 §1, 1987).
17.01.090 Section Headings Not Part of Law.
Section headings as used in this Title do not constitute any part of the law. (Ord. 25-08 §1 (Att. A), 2025; Ord. 87-9 §1, 1987).
17.01.100 Severability.
The provisions of this Title are hereby declared to be severable. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Title or its application to any person or circumstance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional, the remainder of this Title will not because of said section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase be held unconstitutional or invalid. (Ord. 25-08 §1 (Att. A), 2025; Ord. 87-9 §1, 1987).