The purpose of this chapter is as follows:
(A) To promote and to protect the public health, safety, morals, comfort, convenience, and the general welfare of the people;
(B) To divide the city into zones and districts restricting and regulating therein the location, construction, reconstruction, alteration, and use of buildings, structures, and land for residence, business, commercial, manufacturing, and other specified uses;
(C) To protect the character and maintain the stability of residential, business, commercial, manufacturing areas within the city and to promote the orderly and beneficial development of the areas;
(D) To regulate the intensity of use of land and to determine the area of open spaces surrounding buildings necessary to provide adequate light and air and protect the public health;
(E) To prohibit uses, buildings, or structures which are incompatible with the character of development or the permitted uses within specified zoning districts;
(F) To prevent additions to and alterations or remodeling of existing buildings or structures as would not comply with the restrictions and limitations imposed hereunder; and
(G) To provide protection against fire, explosion, and other hazards in the interest of the public health, safety, comfort, and the general welfare.
(Prior Code, § 156.001)