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AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE CODE OF THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA, BY AMENDING SECTION 40-1 PERTAINING TO PURPOSE OF ZONING ORDINANCE; SECTION 40-31 THEREOF PERTAINING TO THE DEFINITION OF MANUFACTURED HOMES; ADDING SECTION 40-67.2 PERTAINING TO PROTECTION OF SURFACE WATER AND GROUNDWATER; AMENDING SECTION 40-101 AND 40-123 (d) PERTAINING TO RAMPS FOR THE HANDICAPPED IN HISTORICAL ZONES; AND D-1 ZONES AND AMENDING SECTION 40-254 PERTAINING TO APPEALS TO CITY COUNCIL. BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia: 1. That Section 40-1 of the Code of the City of Portsmouth be amended to read as follows: Section 40-1. Purpose. The zoning regulations and district as herein set forth have been in accordance with a comprehensive plan and design to promote the health, safety or general welfare of the public and further to provide for adequate light, air, convenience of access, and safety from fire, flood and other dangers; to reduce or prevent congestion in the public streets; to facilitate the creation of a convenient, attractive and harmonious community; to expedite the provision of adequate police and fire protection, disaster evacuation, civil defense, transportation, water, sewage, flood protection, schools, parks, forests, playgrounds, recreational facilitiest airports and other public improvements; to protect against the destruction of or encroachment upon historic areas; to protect against one or more of the following: overcrowding of land, undo density of population in relation to the community facilities existing or available, obstruction of light and air, danger and congestion in travel and transportation, or loss of life, health or property from fire, flood, panic or other dangers; and to encourage economic development activities that provide desirable employment and enlarge the tax base; and for protection of surface water and ground water. 2. That Section Portsmouth be amended manufactured homes to 40-31 of the Code of the City of by adding thereto the definition read as follows: of Section 40-31. Manufactured homes. A structure subject to transportable in one or more more in width and forty body traveling mode, or is 320 or Federal regulation, which is sections; is eight body feet or feet or more in length in the more square feet when erected on