The purposes of this zoning code are as follows:
(A) To promote and protect the public health, safety, morals, comfort, convenience and the general welfare of the people;
(B) To zone all properties in such a manner as to reflect their best use and to conserve and enhance their value;
(C) To check existing congestion and to prevent future congestion by limiting the development of land to a degree consistent with the capacity of the city to furnish adequate public services;
(D) To prevent overcrowding of land with buildings and thereby ensure maximum living and working conditions and prevent blight and slums;
(E) To protect residential, business 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;
(F) To fix reasonable zoning standards to which buildings or structures shall conform;
(G) To prevent such additions to, and alterations or remodeling of, existing buildings or structures as would not comply with restrictions and limitations imposed hereinafter;
(H) To ensure high standards of lights, air and open space in areas where people live and work;
(I) To relieve street congestion through adequate requirements for off-street parking and loading facilities;
(J) To foster a more rational pattern of relationships between residential, business and industrial areas for the mutual benefit of all;
(K) To isolate or control the location of unavoidable nuisance-producing uses;
(L) To provide protection against fire, explosion, noxious fumes and other hazards, in the interest of the public health, safety, comfort and the general welfare;
(M) To define the powers and duties of the administrative officers and bodies, as provided hereinafter;
(N) To prescribe penalties for the violations of the provisions of this chapter; and
(O) To classify, regulate, and restrict the use of property on the basis of family relationship, which family relationship may be defined as one or more persons each related to the other by blood, marriage, or adoption and maintaining a common household.
(Prior Code, § 166.001) (Ord. 2151, passed 6-28-1971)