A. This title is adopted for the following purposes:
1. To promote and protect the public health, safety, morals, comfort, convenience, and the general welfare of the people;
2. To zone all properties in such a manner as to reflect their best use and to conserve and enhance their value;
3. To ensure that high quality standards of light, air, and open space are maintained in areas where people live and work;
4. To prevent overcrowding of land with buildings and thereby ensure maximum living and working conditions and prevent blight and slums;
5. To implement the goals and objectives of the Bartlett comprehensive plan;
6. To set reasonable zoning standards to which buildings or structures shall conform;
7. To isolate or control the location of unavoidable nuisance producing uses;
8. To foster a rational pattern of relationships among residential, commercial, and industrial uses for the benefit of all;
9. To lessen or avoid the hazards to persons and damage to property resulting from the accumulation or runoff of storm or flood waters; and
10. To provide protection against fire, explosion, noxious fumes, and other hazards, in the interest of the public health, safety, comfort, and the general welfare.
B. To achieve these purposes, this title sets forth regulations and standards to:
1. Divide the entire village of Bartlett into districts and restricting and regulating therein the location, construction, reconstruction, alteration and use of building structures and land, whether for residential, commercial, industrial or other specified use;
2. Control and regulate density by limiting the development of land to a degree consistent with the ability of the village to furnish adequate public services and utilities;
3. Prevent such additions to, and alterations or remodeling of, existing buildings or structures as would not comply with the restrictions and limitations imposed hereinafter;
4. Provide for the elimination of nonconforming uses of land, buildings and structures which are incompatible and adversely affecting the character and value of desirable development in each zoning district;
5. Protect residential, commercial, and industrial areas alike from harmful encroachment by incompatible uses and to ensure that land allocated to a class of uses shall not be usurped by other inappropriate uses;
6. Provide convenient access to properties;
7. Relieve street congestion through adequate requirements for off street parking and loading facilities;
8. Encourage the preservation and enhancement of natural resources, aesthetic amenities, and natural features;
9. Encourage the use of alternative, sustainable or renewable energy sources;
10. Define the powers and duties of the administrative officers and bodies, as provided hereinafter; and
11. Prescribe penalties for the violations of the provisions of this title, or of any amendment thereto.
(Ord. 2011-70, 10-18-2011)