Colusa County Zoning Code § 1.01 Findings

The City of Colusa hereby makes the following findings:

(a)

Chapter 4, Title 7, commencing with Section 65800, of the California Government Code provides for the adoption and administration of zoning laws, ordinances, rules and regulations by counties and cities as well as for the implementation of the general plan in effect in any such county or city. Said chapter requires county or city zoning ordinances to be consistent with the general plan. A zoning ordinance shall be consistent with a general plan only if a general plan has been adopted and the various land uses authorized by the ordinance are compatible with the objectives, policies, general land uses and programs specified in such a plan. In the event that a zoning ordinance becomes inconsistent with a general plan by reason of amendment to such a plan, or to any element of such a plan, the zoning ordinance shall be amended within a reasonable time so that it is consistent with the general plan as amended.

(b)

The city council adopted the 1989 City of Colusa General Plan by Resolution #94-22 including all mandatory elements on October 4, 1994.

(c)

City of Colusa Ordinance No. 191, the Zoning Ordinance, adopted in 1966, has been amended in certain of its details from time to time but it has never been substantially revised despite changes made by the 1994 General Plan, despite developments in the fields of planning, zoning and land use regulation, and, despite changes in the economy, population, and land use patterns in the City of Colusa.

(d)

Accordingly, the city's Zoning Ordinance should be revised substantially to bring it into conformity with the city's General Plan, to reflect beneficial developments in the field of land use planning and planning law, and to accommodate changes brought about by recent developments in the city.

(e)

Further, this city council deems it necessary, for the purpose of promoting the health, safety and general welfare of the city to revise the existing zoning ordinance, and in conjunction therewith to revise as necessary the number, shape and area of zoning districts into which the incorporated areas of the city are divided, and to revise the regulations pertaining to such zoning districts in accordance with the adopted City of Colusa General Plan and the objectives contained therein.