ZDO 102: Purpose and Scope

102.01 Purpose

This Ordinance is enacted to implement the goals and policies of the Clackamas County, Oregon, Comprehensive Plan (hereinafter referred to as the Comprehensive Plan) and to provide methods of administration and enforcement of the provisions herein described, as authorized by Chapter 215 of the Oregon Revised Statutes.

102.02 Conformance Required

Except as herein specified, no land, structure, or premise shall be used or transferred, and no structure or part thereof shall be located, erected, moved, reconstructed, extended, enlarged, or altered except in conformity with the regulations herein specified for the zoning district(s) in which it is located. 

102.03     Violations and Enforcement

The County may enforce violations of this Ordinance as provided for in Chapter 2.07 of the Clackamas County Code.

102.04 Interpretation

The provisions of this Ordinance shall be held to be minimum requirements.  Where this Ordinance imposes a greater restriction than is imposed by other provisions of law, rules, regulations, resolutions, easements, covenants, or other agreements between parties, the provisions of this Ordinance shall control.

102.05 Saving Clause

Should any section, clause or provision of this Ordinance be declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the same shall not affect the validity of this Ordinance as a whole or any part thereof other than the part so declared to be invalid; each section, clause, and provision hereof being declared severable.

102.06 Conflicts

1. All other zoning ordinances or regulations, by whatever authority resolved or ordained, are herewith superseded and all such previous zoning ordinances or regulations are replaced. 
2. If standards in this Ordinance conflict with one another to the extent that it is not possible for a use or development to comply with both, or all, of the conflicting standards, the conflicts shall be resolved by giving precedence as follows, in descending order of importance:
   1. Standards required in an overlay zoning district by Section 700, Special Districts;
   2. Standards required by the section of this Ordinance that regulates the underlying zoning district; and
   3. Development Standards.
3. If a standard required by Section 800 conflicts with a standard required by the section of this Ordinance that regulates the underlying zoning district or with a standard required by Section 1000, the standard in Section 800 shall apply.

[Amended by Ord. ZDO-235, 5/14/12; Amended by Ord. ZDO-266, 5/23/18; Amended by Ord. ZDO-268, 10/2/18]