The regulations herein are adopted for the purposes of promoting the health, safety, morals, or general welfare of the City of Boone, Iowa, and particularly in the following respects:
1. To encourage an orderly and beneficial development of the City in accordance with a comprehensive plan of land use and population density; to take into account the suitability of various area or properties in the community for different types of land uses as indicated by existing conditions and facilities, population trends, building patterns and techniques, economic activity and other existing conditions or trends affecting urban development.
2. To provide adequate light, air and privacy.
3. To help provide safety from fire, flooding, pollution and other major dangers.
4. To prevent overcrowding of the land with structures and congestion of population.
5. To protect and conserve the value of land and buildings within the City appropriate to the zoning district in which located.
6. To relate the intensity of land uses to the street and highway system to avoid congestion, and help provide safe and convenient traffic movements for vehicles and pedestrians.
7. To conserve and prevent pollution of existing land, water and air resources; to promote attractive site and building design; to encourage creation or preservation of beauty as part of the City’s environment.