Chapter 17.01
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sections:
17.01.040 Classification of vacated streets.
17.01.010 Title.
This title, an amendment to the Adams County zoning ordinance, shall be known as “the zoning ordinance of Adams County.” (Ord. O-01-05 § 2 (part))
17.01.020 Purpose.
This title is for the purpose of:
A. Regulating and providing standards for uses of land within the territory of Adams County, state of Washington;
B. To promote the public health, welfare, safety, and morals;
C. To prevent undue traffic congestion;
D. To provide for orderly and appropriate land use patterns for all needs in accordance with the qualities of the land;
E. To minimize the menace to public safety relating to traffic movements on existing and future thoroughfares that might result from land uses or building locations and uses adjacent to these thoroughfares;
F. To protect the character and peculiar qualities of scenic areas and places of historic interest, all in compliance with a comprehensive plan for the desirable development of Adams County;
G. To provide a method of administration and to prescribe penalties for the violation of provisions hereafter described, all as authorized by the 1959 Enabling Act of the State of Washington. (Ord. O-01-05 § 2 (part))
17.01.030 Content.
This title shall consist of the text thereof and in addition thereto zoning maps identified by the appropriate signature of the chairman of the board of county commissioners and marked and designated as the maps of the zoning title of the county, which maps of the county are now filed in the office of the auditor of the county. Said title and each and all of its terms are to be read and interpreted in the light of the commitments of said maps. (Ord. O-01-05 § 2 (part))
17.01.040 Classification of vacated streets.
Whenever a street is vacated and that street has not been given a zone classification, the land of the vacated street shall acquire the zone classification of the property abutting the street prior to vacation. Where one side of the street is of one classification, and the other side of the street is of another classification, the centerline of the street prior to vacation shall be considered the boundary line between the two zones. (Ord. O-01-05 § 2 (part))