(A) The zoning regulations and districts as herein set forth have been made in accordance with a comprehensive plan for the purpose of promoting the public health, safety and morals and the convenience, order, prosperity and general welfare of the community. They have been designed to lessen congestion in the streets to secure safety from fire, flood, panic and other dangers, to provide adequate light and air, to prevent the overcrowding of land, to avoid undue concentration of population, to facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewage, schools, parks and other public requirements. They have been made with reasonable consideration, among other things, as to the character of each district and its peculiar suitability for particular uses, and with a view to conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the city.
(B) As a result of a local option election on September 20, 2016, the zoning regulations and districts as set forth herein are also to provide for appropriate locations for the sale of liquor and malt beverages whether through retail package liquor sales and retail malt beverage sales in stores, taverns, or table restaurants serving alcohol or in lawful form in micro-breweries, small farm wineries, distilleries, breweries or wineries as may be licensed under all applicable law for such sales. Regulation of the locations for such sales is founded on the goals and objectives of the 2016 Campbellsville comprehensive plan updates, the zoning ordinance as a whole, a rational basis, and is in the interests of the health, safety and welfare of the city of Campbellsville. This section is a text amendment to the zoning ordinance and is intended to be severable so that should any portion of this text amendment be declared invalid, inoperative or void for any reason by a court of competent jurisdiction, such decision, opinion, or judgment shall in no way impair the remaining portions, sections, or parts of sections of this which ordinance, which said remaining sections shall be and remain in full force and effect.
(2000 Code, App. B, Art. II) (Am. Ord. 16-09, passed 11-21-2016)