Interpretation.
§ 218-34. Interpretation.
When uncertainty exists as to the boundaries of districts as shown on the Official Zoning Maps, the following rules shall apply:
A. Boundaries indicated as approximately following the center lines of a highway, street, utility easements, railroad easements, watercourse or body of water shall be construed to be the middle thereof, or such boundaries indicated as approximately following town limits shall be construed as following such town limits.
B. Boundaries indicated as approximately following platted lot lines shall be construed as following such lot lines. (The actual lot line is that line defined in the land evidence records; Assessor's Plat and Lot designation are to identify the lot and its general relationship to other lots. Lot lines on Assessor's Plats generally show the locus of the lot and do not represent nor are intended to reflect precisely legal descriptions for the lots shown.)
C. Boundaries indicated as following shorelines shall be construed to follow such shorelines of rivers, lakes and ponds, or of the ocean, shall be construed to follow such shoreline(s) at the edge of the body of water. In the case of tidal waters, the line of mean high water shall be the shoreline and otherwise if there is a change in the shoreline, the boundary shall be construed as moving with the actual shoreline.
D. Boundaries indicated as parallel to or extensions of features indicated in the above subsections shall be so construed. Distances not specifically indicated on the Official Zoning Maps shall be determined by the scale of the map.
E. Where physical or cultural features existing on the ground are at variance with these shown on the Official Map, or in other circumstances, not covered by the above subsections, the Building Inspector shall interpret the district boundaries.
F. Boundaries of a defined depth zone shall be that line, all points of which are the distance of the defined depth distant from and perpendicular to a line at its point of tangency with the edge of the right of way or public roadway on which the lot fronts. At the end of the defined depth zone, the defined depth zone shall terminate at the lot side line and/or at the straight line extension of the lot side line, of the next adjacent lot, which lot is not in the defined depth zone. In the event the defined depth zone extends to a right of way or public roadway which intersects the road on which the lot fronts, (i.e. a corner lot) the zone shall terminate at the edge of the right of way or public roadway.
G. Whenever this Ordinance requires consideration of distances, parking spaces, unit density, or other aspects of development or the physical environment expressed in numerical quantities which are fractions of whole numbers, such numbers are to be rounded to the next lowest whole number.
H. Where conflicts occur between the regulations of this Ordinance and other regulations effective within the Town, the more restrictive of the regulations shall apply.
I. When there is a question regarding the interpretation of the provisions of this Ordinance, the Building Inspector shall interpret the intent of this Ordinance by a written decision issued in a zoning certificate. The interpretation shall become the standard interpretation for future application of that provision.