(A) The zoning ordinance is adopted for the purpose of:
(1) Promoting the public health, safety, comfort, convenience and general welfare;
(2) Implementing the policies and goals of the comprehensive plan and other relevant, officially adopted plans of the city;
(3) Encouraging the most appropriate uses of land;
(4) Maintaining and stabilizing the value of property;
(5) Reducing fire hazards and improving public safety;
(6) Safeguarding public health;
(7) Promote compact development, to encourage the efficient provision of public services and infrastructure;
(8) Provide opportunities for mixed-use, which clusters homes, jobs, stores, parks, and services within walking distance of one another;
(9) Encourages human-scale design, or development in which people feel safe and comfortable walking from place to place because buildings, streetscapes, parking areas, landscaping, lighting, and other components of the built environment are designed foremost with pedestrians in mind;
(10) Promotes healthy and active living, by creating or transforming neighborhoods and districts to make physical activity through transportation, exercise, and recreation more likely;
(11) Improves environmental health, which requires adequate light and air circulation, management of surface water runoff, and treatment and disposal of waste;
(12) Decreasing traffic congestion and its accompanying hazards;
(13) Preventing undue concentration of population; and
(14) Creating a stable pattern of land uses upon which to plan for transportation, water supply, sewage, schools, parks, public utilities and other facilities.
(B) The regulations contained herein divide the town into zoning districts and regulate therein the use of the land, buildings and structures, the size of buildings as to height and number of stories, the coverage of the land by buildings, the size of yards and open spaces, the location of buildings and the density of population, within the corporate limits of the city.
(Prior Code, § 13-603) (Am. Ord. 1974, passed 8-6-19)