This chapter is adopted for the following purposes:
(A) To maintain and preserve all of the agricultural lands of the county;
(B) To control the growth and development so as to avoid the admixture of urban and rural uses in the county, while preserving property values;
(C) To promote and protect the public health, safety, morals, comforts and general welfare of the people;
(D) To divide the county and those incorporated municipalities which have not adopted their own zoning ordinances into zones or districts restricting and regulating therein the location, erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration and use of buildings, structures and land for residential, business and manufacturing and other specified uses;
(E) To protect the character and the stability of the residential, business and manufacturing areas within this chapter’s geographic jurisdiction, and to promote the orderly and beneficial development of the areas;
(F) To provide adequate light, air, privacy and convenience of access to property;
(G) 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 to protect the public health;
(H) To establish building lines and the location of buildings designed for residential, business, manufacturing or other uses within the areas;
(I) To fix reasonable standards to which buildings or structures shall conform;
(J) To prohibit uses, buildings or structures incompatible with the character of development or intended uses within specified zoning districts; and
(K) To prevent additions or alterations or remodeling of existing buildings or structures in a way as to avoid the restrictions and limitations imposed hereunder:
(1) To limit congestion by providing for the off-street parking of motor vehicles and the loading of commercial vehicles in the interest of the public health, safety, convenience and general welfare;
(2) To protect against fire, explosion, noxious fumes and other hazards in the interest of the public health, safety, comfort and general welfare;
(3) To prevent the overcrowding of land and undue concentrations of structures, so far as is possible and appropriate in each district, by regulating the use and bulk of buildings in relation to the land surrounding them;
(4) To conserve the taxable value of land and buildings throughout the geographic jurisdiction of this chapter;
(5) To provide for the elimination of non-conforming use of land, buildings and structures which are adversely affecting the character and value of desirable development in each district; and
(6) To define and limit the powers and duties of the administrative officers and bodies as provided herein.
(Prior Code, § 152.003) (Ord. passed 3-9-1976; Ord. passed 4-14-1981)