(A) This chapter is adopted with the purpose of protecting and promoting the public health, safety, comfort and general welfare. The fulfillment of this purpose is to be accomplished by seeking to:
(1) Lessen congestion on the public streets.
(2) Avoid undue concentration of population.
(3) Prevent the overcrowding of land, thereby ensuring proper living and working conditions and preventing the development of blight and slums.
(4) Establish adequate standards for the provision of light, air and open space.
(5) Facilitate the provision of adequate transportation, and of other public requirements and services such as water, sewerage, schools, and parks.
(6) Zone all properties with a view to conserving the value of buildings and land, and encourage the most appropriate use of land throughout the village.
(7) Protect residential, business, commercial and industrial areas alike from harmful encroachment by incompatible uses and ensure that land allocated to a class of uses shall not be usurped by other inappropriate uses.
(8) Avoid the inappropriate development of lands and provide for adequate drainage, curbing of erosion and reduction of flood damage.
(9) Establish reasonable standards to which buildings and structures shall conform.
(10) Encourage reasonable flexibility of development design through appropriate innovation.
(11) Facilitate the recognition of beauty and aesthetics as a value and standard throughout the village.
(12) Prevent such additions to, and alterations or remodeling of, existing buildings or structures as would not comply with the restrictions and limitations imposed herein.
(13) Provide for the regulation of nonconforming buildings and uses, including the gradual elimination thereof.
(14) Foster a more rational pattern of relationship between residential, business, commercial and manufacturing uses for the mutual benefit of all.
(15) Isolate or control the location of unavoidable nuisance-producing uses.
(16) Define the powers and duties of the administrative and enforcement officers and bodies.
(17) Prescribe penalties for any violation of the provisions of this chapter or of any amendment thereto.
(B) The standards and requirements contained in this chapter, and the district mapping reflected on the Zoning Map, are intended to further the implementation of the objectives of all current and certified village land use plans, as well as protect all desirable existing structures and uses.
(`95 Code, § 156.002) (Ord. 83-11, passed 9- -83)