To these ends, this chapter is intended to meet certain standards and objectives by:
(A) Categorizing the entire village into districts and regulating therein the location, construction, reconstruction, alteration and use of buildings, structures and land, whether for residential, business, manufacturing or other specified uses;
(B) Avoiding or lessening congestion in the public streets;
(C) Preventing the overcrowding of land through regulating the height and bulk of buildings hereafter erected as related to land area;
(D) Establishing, regulating and limiting the building or setback lines on or along streets, easements or property lines;
(E) Regulating the intensity of the use of lot areas, and regulating the area of open spaces within and surrounding such buildings;
(F) Establishing standards to which buildings or structures therein shall conform;
(G) Prohibiting uses, buildings or structures incompatible with the character of the residence, business or industrial districts;
(H) Preventing additions to or remodeling of existing buildings or structures in such a way as to avoid the restrictions and limitations herein imposed;
(I) Limiting the deterioration of the environment by establishing standards whereby emissions, noise and other potential nuisances or hazards are regulated;
(J) Providing for the gradual elimination of those uses, buildings and structures which are incompatible with the character of the districts in which they are located, including, but not necessarily limited to:
(1) Elimination of such uses of unimproved lands or lots when the existing rights of the persons in possession thereof are terminated, the uses to which they are devoted are discontinued or a reasonable time of use after the passage of this chapter shall have elapsed;
(2) Elimination of uses to which such buildings and structures are devoted, if they are adaptable for permitted uses; and
(3) Elimination of such buildings and structures when they are destroyed or damaged in a major part as hereinafter provided, or when they have reached the age fixed as a normal useful life of such buildings or structures.
(K) Defining and limiting the powers and duties of the administrative officers and official bodies as hereinafter provided; and
(L) Prescribing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this chapter, or of any amendment thereto.
(Ord. 2021-05-15, passed 5-3-2021)