Packet: Tiffin City Council Work Session (09/15/2026)

CHAPTER 165 ZONING REGULATIONS 6. To establish adequate standards for the provision of light, air, and open spaces. 7. To facilitate the provision of adequate transportation, and of other public requirements and services such as water, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, schools, and parks. 8. To zone all properties with a view to conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the City. 9. To protect residential, business, commercial, and industrial areas alike from harmful encroachment by incompatible uses and to ensure that land allocated to a class of uses must not be usurped by other inappropriate uses. 10. To avoid the inappropriate development of lands and provide for adequate drainage, curbing of erosion, and reduction of flood damage. 11. To fix reasonable standards to which buildings and structures must conform. 12. To promote the conservation of energy resources. 13. To promote reasonable access to solar energy. 14. To prevent such additions to, and alterations or remodeling of, existing buildings or structures as would not comply with the restrictions or limitations imposed herein. 15. To foster a more rational pattern of relationship between residential, business, commercial, and industrial uses for the mutual benefit of all. 16. To isolate or control the location of unavoidable nuisance-producing uses. 17. To prescribe penalties for any violation of the provisions of this Zoning Code or of any amendment thereto. 165.04 COMPATIBILITY WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN. The standards and requirements contained in this Zoning Code and the district mapping reflected on the “Official Zoning Map” are made in reference with the Comprehensive Land Use Plan of Tiffin, Iowa. 165.05 DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this chapter the following terms are defined: 1. Words beginning with “A” A. “Accessory Building” “Structure” or “Use” means a use or structure subordinate to the principal use of a building or land on the same lot and serving a purpose customarily incidental to the use of the principal building or use of land. B. “Advertising sign” means a sign that advertises or solicits for a referent that is not located on the premises where such sign is located, or within the building to which the sign is affixed. C. “Agriculture” means the use of land for any of the following purposes: (1) Raising, breeding, or management of livestock, poultry, fish, or honeybees; (2) Dairies, truck gardening, forestry, nurseries, or orchards; CODE OF ORDINANCES, TIFFIN, IOWA - 1468 -