Ordinance No. 131 Consolidated Land Use Ordinance

Home

Statement on former Zoning Ordinance Number 43 revision K THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF GEM LAKE, MINNESOTA, RELATING TO AND REGULATING THE LOCATION, SIZE, USE AND HEIGHTS OF BUILDINGS, THE ARRANGEMENT OF BUILDINGS ON LOTS, AND THE DENSITY OF POPULATION IN THE CITY OF GEM LAKE, AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROMOTING THE PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY, ORDER, CONVENIENCE, PROSPERITY AND GENERAL WELFARE IN SAID CITY, AND FOR SAID PURPOSE, TO DIVIDE THE CITY INTO DISTRICTS, AND MAKE DIFFERENT REGULATIONS FOR DIFFERENT DISTRICTS. The City of Gem Lake does ordain as follows: SECTION 1. TITLE. This Ordinance shall be known, cited and referred to as ORDINANCE NO. 131 CONSOLIDATED LAND USE ORDINANCE except as referred to herein, where it shall be known as "this Ordinance". SECTION 2. INTENT AND PURPOSE. Intent. The intent of this consolidated land use ordinance is to provide a single source for all real property subjected to development within the City of Gem Lake. It combines zoning (including the Gateway District), subdivisions, signs, landscaping, and tree preservation, into one single ordinance and combines the definitions into one appendix. This Consolidated Land Use Ordinance is to be used in conjunction with Gem Lake's Comprehensive Municipal Plan to guide development and redevelopment and will serve as the basis from which the merits of proposed development and redevelopment projects will be evaluated. While this consolidated land use ordinance has combined several formerly stand- alone ordinances, it has not changed the scope and intent of those ordinances. Instead, the consolidated land use ordinance simply gathers these several ordinances and places them inside a single ordinance. 2. Purpose. This Ordinance is adopted for the purpose of: 1. Protecting the public health, safety, morals, comfort, convenience and general welfare; 2. Dividing the City into zones and districts restricting and regulating therein the location, construction, reconstruction, alteration, and use of structures and land; 3. Promoting orderly development of the residential, business and industrial areas; 4. Providing adequate light, air, and convenience of access to property; 5. Preventing overcrowding of land and undue concentration of structures by regulating the use of land and building and the bulk of building in relation to the land and building surrounding them; 6. Providing for the compatibility of different land uses and the most appropriate use of land throughout the City; 7. Supporting the ideals of and providing for local controls consistent with the Gem Lake Comprehensive Municipal Plan as adopted and, from time to time, amended. SECTION 3. RULES AND DEFINITIONS. 1. Rules. The language set forth in the text of this Ordinance shall be interpreted in accordance with the following rules of construction: 1. The singular number includes the plural and the plural singular; 2. The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future present; 3. The word "shall" is mandatory, and the word "may" is permissive; 4. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter genders; 5. Where words or phrases are not defined within the definitions of this Ordinance, they hall have their ordinary accepted meanings within the context in which they are used; 6. All measured distance expressed in feet shall be to the nearest tenth of a foot. Updated January 2025 — Gem Lake Consolidated Land Use Ordinance No. 131