It is the purpose of this Planning and Zoning Code to promote and protect the public health, safety, comfort, convenience, and general welfare of the people of Centerburg through the establishment of minimum regulations governing the subdivision, development, and use of land. Furthermore, the more specific purpose of this planning and Zoning Code is to:
(a) Implement the plans and policies adopted by the Village as it relates to the development of land;
(b) Encourage and facilitate orderly, efficient, and appropriate growth and development;
(c) Protect the character and the values of the residential, business, industrial and recreational areas and to assure the orderly and beneficial development of these areas;
(d) Provide adequate open spaces for light and air for all residents;
(e) Protect private investment into properties and the resulting property values;
(f) Establish appropriate development density and intensity in order to prevent or reduce congestion and to secure the economy in the cost of providing water supply systems, electricity, sewerage systems, streets, and highways, fire and police protection, schools, parks and recreation facilities, and other governmental services;
(g) Manage congestion on the streets, to improve the public safety by locating buildings and uses adjacent to streets in such a manner that they will cause the least interference with, and be damaged least by, traffic movements;
(h) Provide for adequate access to all areas of the Village by people of all abilities and by varied modes of transportation;
(i) Encourage interconnectivity of developments in order to provide multiple access points in and out of developments for safety purposes and traffic dispersion;
(j) Improve the quality of life through protection of the Village's total environment, including, but not limited to, the prevention of air, water and noise pollution;
(k) Avoid the inappropriate subdivision or development of lands and provide for adequate drainage, curbing of erosion, and reduction of flood damage; and
(l) Foster a more rational pattern of relationship between agricultural, conservation, residential, business, commercial industrial and institutional uses for the mutual benefit of all.
(Ord. 2023-16. Passed 6-5-23.)