(A)   For the purpose of promoting the public health, safety, morals, convenience and the general welfare of the community, the city is hereby divided into districts, as enumerated in division (B) below, each being of such number, shape, kind and area and of such common unity of purpose and adaptability of use that are deemed most suitable to carry out the purposes of this chapter. No building or premises shall be erected or used except in conformity with the regulations herein prescribed for each district.

('65 Code, § 1321.01)

   (B)   Districts listed.

 

(‘65 Code, § 1321.02) (Am. Ord. 13-066, passed 11-19-13; Am. Ord. 23-031, passed 5-3-23)

   (A)   No structure or premise shall be used and no structure shall be erected which is to be used for the following class of prohibited uses.

      (1)   Petroleum refining.

      (2)   Cement, lime, gypsum, or plaster of Paris manufacture.

      (3)   Fertilizer manufacture from minerals or organic materials.

      (4)   Carbolic, sulfurous, sulfuric, nitric, chlorine, hydrochloric acid, or picric acid manufacture.

      (5)   Smelting of copper, tin, zinc, or iron ore.

      (6)   Distillation of bones; fat rendering; glue, sizing or gelatin manufacture.

      (7)   Soap, snuff or tobacco manufacturing.

      (8)   Stockyard.

      (9)   Junkyard.

      (10)   Storage, treatment or disposal of hazardous wastes, above ground or in any subsurface space.

      (11)   Paper, paperboard and pulp manufacturing.

      (12)   Manufacture of explosive materials such as gun powder, nitroglycerin or other explosive manufacture as an end product, or the storage thereof.

      (13)   Auto wrecking.

      (14)   Strip or open pit mining or excavating operations, including quarry, sand pit, gravel pit, topsoil excavating, and processing of coal and other natural resources.

      (15)   Tallow, grease and lard manufacture or refining.

      (16)   Temporary living quarters, other than structures, may not be occupied for more than one week.

      (17)   Basement homes.

      (18)   Mobile homes, which are not located in a manufactured home park and manufactured homes out of manufactured home parks, which are not in compliance with applicable zoning regulations and the Manufactured Housing Construction & Safety Standards Act of 1974.

      (19)   Creosote manufacture or treatment.

      (20)   Disinfectant, insecticide or poisoning manufacturing.

      (21)   Distillation of coal, petroleum, refuse, wood or bones.

      (22)   Asbestos manufacture.

      (23)   Ammonia, chlorine or bleaching powder manufacturing.

      (24)   Outdoor furnaces.

   (B)   Any expansion or enlargement of the above-cited prohibited uses now existing as a legal or lawful nonconforming use is not permitted.

(‘65 Code, §§ 1321.03, 1321.04) (Am. Ord. 97-051, passed 7-1-97; Am. Ord. 08-085, passed 10-21-08; Am. Ord. 11-020, passed 5-4-11) Penalty, see § 154.999

   The zoning districts so established are bounded and defined as shown on a map entitled Zoning Districts Map of the City of Wadsworth, Ohio, and such map with all the notations, references and other pertinent material shown thereon is hereby made a part of this chapter. The official zoning map at a scale of 1:200 with all zoning boundaries shall be available in the Zoning Inspector's office.

   (A)   Where boundaries follow streets, alleys or highways. Where district boundaries are indicated as approximately following the center line or street line of streets, the center line or alley line of alleys or the center line or street line of streets, the center line or alley line of alleys or the center line of right-of-way lines of highways such lines shall be construed to be such district boundaries.

   (B)   Where boundaries parallel street, alley or highway right-of-way lines. Where district boundaries are so indicated that they are approximately parallel to the center lines or street lines of streets, the center lines or alley lines of alleys or the center lines of right-of-way lines of highways, such district boundaries shall be construed as being parallel thereto and at such distance therefrom as indicated on the map. If no distance is given, such dimensions shall be determined by the use of the scale shown on the Zoning Districts Map.

   (C)   Where boundaries follow lot lines. Where district boundaries are indicated as approximately following lot lines, such lot lines shall be construed to be such boundaries.

   (D)   Vacation of public ways. Whenever any street, alley or other public way is vacated in the manner authorized by law, 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 areas included in the vacation shall then and henceforth be subject to all regulations of the extended district.

   (E)   Annexation. Upon receipt by the Clerk of Council or Auditor of a petition for annexation, the Planning Commission shall be advised of the filing of the petition and provided with a map of the area proposed to be annexed. The Commission, upon review of such proposed annexation, may recommend that the area be rezoned after annexation.

('65 Code, § 1321.05)