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APPENDIX C-ZONING ORDINANCE ORDINANCE NO. 1710 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 1122, PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON SEPrEMBER 10TH, 1945; AND AMENDING OR- DINANCE NO. 1409, PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON THE 30TH; DAY OF JULY, 1957; BOTH BEINO ZONING ORDINANCES; DMD- ING THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS INTO 16 ZONING DIS'rRICTS; PROVIDING FOR A ZON- ING DISTRICT MAP; PROVIDING WHERE SAID MAPS SHALL BE KEPT AND MA1NTAINED; PROVIDING A METHOD OF DETERMINING THE ZONING DISTRICT BOUNDARIES; PRO- VIDING FOR ZONING IN NEWLY ANNEXED TERRITORY; REQUIRING THE RE-ZONING THEREOF BY. THE CITY COUNCIL; PROVID- ING FOR B1JILDING IN NEWLY ANNEXED TERRITORY; PROVIDING CHARTS SHOWING THE USE PERMITTED IN THE 16 ZONING DISTRICTS; PROVIDING FOR THE CLASSIFI- CATION OF NEW. AND UNLISTED USES; DE- FINING DEFINITIONS AND EXPLANATIONS NOTED IN lrSE REGULATIONS; PROVIDING FOR AND REGULATING A PLANNED DEVEL- OPMENT DISTRICT; PROVIDING AREA REG- ULATIONS OF LOT, FRONT, SIDE AND REAR; PROVIDING OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING REGULATIONS; FIXING A PARK- ING SPACE SCHEDULE FOR CERTAIN NON- RESIDENTIAL USES; PROVIDING HEIGHT REGULATIONS FOR CERTAIN BUILDINGS OR STRUCTURES IN THE VARIOUS ZONING DIS- TRICTS; PROVIDING FOR SPECIFIC USE PER- MITS FOR CERTAIN USES; PROVIDING FOR ACCESSORY BUILDING REGULATIONS; PRO- VIDING FOR SPECIAL AREA AND USE REGU- LATIONS; RE~COGNIZING NONCONFORMING USES AND STRUCTURES ANI1 RULES FOR THE REGUI~TION THEREOF; PROVIDING FOR NONCONFORMING USE TERMINATION AT THE END OF A DEFINITE PERIOD OF TIME; CREX-rING A BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT AND PROVIDING RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR ITS ORGANIZATION, PROCEDURE AND JURISDICTION AND POWERS; PROVIDING FOR APPEÄl,o TO COURT OF PROPER JURIS- DICTION FROM DECISIONS OF BOARD OF ADJUSTME~lT; SETTING FORTH THE RE- QUIREMEN,]~S OF A BUILDING SITE, AND Supp. No. 44 12 THE MANNER OF THEIR CREATION; PROVID- ING THAT NO PROPERTY SHALL BE PLAT- TED THAT HAS NOT BEEN PERMANENTLY ZONED BY THE CITY COUNCIL; SETTING UP RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR A CERTIFI- CATE OF OCCUPANCY AND COMPLIANCE; PROVIDING FOR RULES.AND REGULATIONS FOR AMENDMENTS TO THIS ORDINANCE; SETrING OUT GENERAL DEFINITIONS OF CERTAIN TERMS USED IN THIS ORDINANCE; PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY OF ANY SUM NOT EXCEEDING $200.00 FOR EACH VIOLA- TION, AND EACH DAY SAME CONTINUES TO BE A SEPARATE OFFENSE, ALSO PROVIDING INJUNCTIVE RELIEF TO PERSONS AFFECTED BY THE VIOLATION; PRESERVING RIGHTS IN ANY PENDING LITIGATION AND VIOLA- TIONS OF ANY EXIS~ING ORDINANCE: BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS: Section 1. Enacting Clause 1-100 That Ordinance No. 1122, passed by the City Council on September 10, 1945, and Ordinance No. 1409, passed by the City Council on the 30th day. of July, 1957, Zoning Ordinances, together with all amendments thereto, are hereby amended in their entirety to read as follows: Section 2. Purpose 2-100 The Zoning Regulations and Districts as herein established have been made in accordance with a Comprehensive Plan for the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of the City. They have been designed to lessen the congestion in. the streets; to secure safety from fire, panic and other dangers; to provide adequate light and air; to pre- vent the overcrowding of land, to avoid undue concentration of population; to fa- cilitate the adequate provision of trans- portation, water, sewerage, schools, parks and other public requirements. They have been made 'with reasonable consideration, among other things, for the character of the district, and its peculiar suitability for 3033