Section 25.04.010 Interpretation.

1. Provisions Are Minimum Requirements. In their interpretation and application, the provisions of this title shall be held to be the minimum requirements for the promotion of the public health, safety, comfort, morals and general welfare, as set forth in the provisions hereof establishing the intent and purpose of this title in general and its various chapters in particular. Wherever the provisions of this title require a greater width or size of yards, other open spaces, or require a lower height of building or less number of stories, or require a greater percentage of lot to be left unoccupied, or impose other higher standards than are required in any other statute or local ordinance or regulation, the provisions of this title shall govern. Wherever the provisions of any other statute or local ordinance or regulation require a greater width or size of yards or other open spaces, or require a lower height of building or a less number of stories, or require a greater percentage of lot to be left unoccupied, or impose other higher standards than are required by this title, the provisions of such statute or local ordinance or regulation shall govern.

2. Policy Statements. The policy statements adopted by the city council, or any amendments thereto, shall be a guide to the applicable city agency in determining the appropriateness of any proposed amendments to this title. In any case in which a question is raised of the compatibility of a proposed amendment to this title with the policy statements, the director of planning shall prepare advisory written findings of compatibility or noncompatibility.

3. General Interpretation - Excluded Uses and Structures. Any use or structure that is not specifically permitted in a zone as a principal use, an accessory use, a temporary use or a conditional use, is hereby specifically prohibited. In the regulations for some zones, specific excluded uses are enumerated for clarification of intent, but such lists of excluded uses are not to be interpreted as including all excluded uses. However, this subsection shall not be interpreted to preclude uses authorized pursuant to the provisions of Subchapter III of Chapter 25.12, Interpretations.

5.a. Urban Renewal Areas. As to lands within urban renewal areas, specific requirements as to the use, space limitation, and off-street parking requirements and urban renewal plans which have been officially adopted and approved by the city council of the city of Sioux City, and which are in effect on the date of passage of this provision, shall, as to such lands, prevail in all respects over the use, space limitation and off-street parking requirements for any and all zones listed within this title. In the absence of specific requirements as to the use, space limitation, and off-street parking requirements in an urban renewal plan, the provisions of this title shall prevail.

b. Such urban renewal plans shall hereafter be enforced as if the use, space, limitation and off-street parking requirements of such urban renewal plans were contained in this title, and the nonconforming use provisions of Chapter 25.98 shall hereafter be applied and enforced within each such urban renewal area to regulate and limit the continued existence of uses, structures and lots established prior to adoption of such urban renewal plan by the city council, which uses, structures and lots do not conform with the use, space limitation or off-street parking requirements contained in such plan. (Ord. S-38216, 1979; S-30424, 1976)