This Title is adopted for the following purposes:
A. To promote and protect the public health, safety, morals, comfort and general welfare of the people;
B. To divide the City into zones or districts restricting and regulating therein the location, erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration and use of buildings, structures and land for residence, business, manufacturing and other specified uses;
C. To protect the character and the stability of the residential, business and manufacturing areas within the City and to promote the orderly and beneficial development of such areas;
D. To provide adequate light, air, privacy and convenience of access to property;
E. To regulate the intensity of use of lot areas, and to determine the area of open spaces surrounding buildings necessary to provide adequate light and air and to protect the public health;
F. To establish building lines and the locations of buildings designed for residential, business and manufacturing or other uses within such areas;
G. To fix reasonable standards to which buildings or structures shall conform therein;
H. To limit congestion in the public streets and protect the public health, safety, convenience and general welfare by providing for the off-street parking of motor vehicles and the loading and unloading of commercial vehicles;
I. To protect against fire, explosion, noxious fumes and other hazards in the interest of public health, safety, comfort and general welfare;
J. To conserve the taxable value of land and buildings throughout the City;
K. To provide for the gradual elimination of nonconforming uses of land, buildings and structures which affect the character and value of desirable development in each district;
L. To define and limit the powers and duties of the administrative officers and bodies as provided herein. (Ord. 123, 1979)