A. Title: This title, including the zoning map made a part hereof, shall be known and may be cited and referred to as the GOLF ZONING ORDINANCE.
B. Purpose: This title is adopted for the following purposes:
To promote the public health, safety, morals, comfort and general welfare of the citizens of the Village of Golf;
To conserve the values of property throughout the Village of Golf and to protect the character and stability of its zoning districts;
To promote orderly and beneficial development in accordance with the optimum development of the Chicago metropolitan region and in furtherance of the Comprehensive Plan for the development of the Village of Golf;
To provide adequate light, air, privacy and convenience of access to property;
To lessen or avoid congestion in the public streets and highways in the Village of Golf and surrounding areas;
To regulate and restrict the location and use of buildings, structures and land for trade, industry, residence and other uses, and to regulate and restrict the intensity of such uses;
To divide the Village of Golf into districts of such number, shape, area, and of such different classes, according to the use of land and buildings and the intensity of such use, as may be deemed best suited to carry out the purposes of this title;
To prohibit locations and uses of buildings or structures and uses of land that are incompatible with the type of development planned for specified zoning districts in the Village of Golf;
To prevent additions to and alterations or remodeling of existing buildings or structures in such a way as to avoid the restrictions and limitations lawfully imposed hereunder;
To protect against fire, explosion, noxious fumes and other dangers; and
To fix reasonable standards to which buildings and structures shall conform. (Ord. 03-05, 9-8-2003)