This Unified Development Ordinance and Zoning Map are made in accordance with a Comprehensive Plan and is designed to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare. To that end, these regulations may address, among other things, the following public purposes: to provide adequate light and air; to prevent the overcrowding of land; to avoid undue concentration of population; to lessen congestion in the streets; to secure safety from fire, panic, and dangers; to facilitate the efficient and adequate provision of transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks and other public requirements; to control development of flood prone areas and regulate stormwater runoff/discharge; to regulate signs; to establish proceedings for the subdivision of land; and to promote the health, safety, morals, or general welfare of the community. The regulations have been made with reasonable consideration, among other things, as to the character of the jurisdiction 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 jurisdiction. The regulations may not include, as a basis for denying a zoning or rezoning request from a school, the level of service of a road facility or facilities abutting the school or proximately located to the school.
(Ord. eff. 9-6-2012, § 1.3; Am. Ord. 21-1, passed 9-17-2020)