(a) This Zoning Ordinance is an exercise of the police power derived from the Ohio Constitution, the Groveport Charter, and the Ohio Revised Code and must bear some reasonable and substantial relationship to the public health, safety, convenience, comfort, prosperity, or general welfare.
(b) The characteristic feature of this Zoning Ordinance that distinguishes it from most other police power regulations is that its regulations may differ from zoning district to zoning district, rather than being uniform throughout the Municipality. Despite this ability to differ in various zoning districts, the regulations must be uniform for each class and kind of building within a zoning district.
(c) The purposes of this Zoning Ordinance are accomplished by the division of the Municipality into zoning districts in which there are only certain specified uses of land allowed and the regulations pertaining to the development and use of the land and buildings are uniform for each class or kind of building or use in such zoning district.
(d) To the extent possible, the zoning districts as they are delineated on the Zoning District Map shall be comprehensive by their inclusion of all land similar in nature or circumstance as is determined by the type and extent of existing land use and the desirability of conserving such use. The zoning districts and the fixing of their boundaries shall further be determined in accordance with the need of encouraging such use as is made appropriate by a change in the character of land use, or the growth and development of the Municipality, and to this extent the zoning districts should be based on land use plans as such plans may exist at the time of determination.
(Ord. 19-011. Passed 4-22-19.)