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

CHAPTER 166 ESTABLISHMENT OF ZONING DISTRICTS AND THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP 166.03 RULES FOR DETERMINATION OF BOUNDARIES. Where uncertainty exists as to the boundaries of districts as shown on the Official Zoning Map, the following rules apply: 1. Boundaries indicated as approximately following the centerline of streets, highways, or alleys must be construed to follow such centerlines; 2. Boundaries indicated as approximately following platted lot lines must be construed as following such lot lines; 3. Boundaries indicated as following corporate limits must be construed as following corporate limits; 4. Boundaries indicated as following railroad lines must be construed to be midway between the main right-of-way; 5. Boundaries indicated as following shorelines must be construed to follow such shorelines, and in the event of change in the shoreline, boundaries must be constructed to move with the actual shoreline; boundaries indicated as approximately following the center lines of streams, rivers, canals, lakes, or other bodies of water must be construed to follow those center lines; 6. Boundaries indicated as parallel to, or extensions of features indicated in Subsections 1 through 5 must be so construed. Distances not specifically indicated on the Official Zoning Map must be determined by dimensions shown on the map, or in the absence of dimensions, by the scale of the map; 7. In the case of further uncertainty, or where physical or cultural features existing on the ground are at variance with those shown on the Official Zoning Map, or in other circumstances not covered by Subsections 1 through 6 above, the Board of Adjustment must interpret the district boundaries CODE OF ORDINANCES, TIFFIN, IOWA - 1525 -