(A) This Zoning Title is adopted for the purpose of improving and protecting the public health, safety, comfort, convenience, and general welfare of the people. The fulfillment of this purpose is to be accomplished by seeking the following objectives:
1. To lessen congestion on the public streets.
2. To avoid undue concentration of population.
3. To prevent the overcrowding of land, thereby ensuring proper living and working conditions and preventing the development of blight and slums.
4. To establish adequate standards for the provision of light, air, and open spaces.
5. To facilitate the provision of adequate transportation and/or other public requirements and services such as water, sewerage, schools, open space, and parks.
6. To zone all properties with a view to conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the City.
7. To protect all areas alike from harmful encroachment by incompatible uses and to ensure that land allocated to a class of uses shall not be usurped by other inappropriate uses.
8. To avoid the inappropriate development of lands and provide for adequate drainage, curbing of erosion, and reduction of flood damage.
9. To fix reasonable standards to which buildings and structures shall conform.
10. To prevent such additions to, and alterations or remodeling of, existing buildings or structures as would not comply with the restrictions and limitations imposed herein.
11. To foster a more rational pattern of relationship between residential, business, commercial, and manufacturing uses for the mutual benefit of all.
12. To isolate or control the location of unavoidable nuisance- producing uses.
13. To define the powers and duties of the administrative and enforcement officers and bodies.
14. To prescribe penalties for any violation of the provisions of this Title, or of any amendment thereto.
15. To enhance aesthetic values throughout the City.
(B) The standards and requirements contained in this Title, and the district mapping reflected on the City Zoning District Map, are intended to implement the planning policies of the City.
(C) Any ordinance of the City or any technical codes or public records which are referred to as the standards under this Title are hereby adopted by reference herein in the manner provided by statute. (Ord. 0-03-00, 4-3-2000)