The purpose and intent of the Hiawatha Unified Development Code, as set forth in this section are to improve and protect the public health, safety, comfort, convenience and general welfare. The fulfillment of this purpose and intent is to be accomplished by seeking:
1. To lessen congestion on the public streets.
2. To avoid undue concentration of population.
3. To prevent the overcrowding of land, thereby ensuring 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 of other public requirements and services such as water, sewerage, schools and parks.
6. To zone and subdivide property with a view to conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the City.
7. To protect residential, business, commercial, and industrial 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 improvements, buildings and structures shall conform.
10. To prevent such additions to, and alterations/remodeling of, existing buildings or structures as would not comply with the restrictions and limitations imposed herein.
11. To foster a more rational pattern and relationship among 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 prescribe penalties for any violation of the provisions of this Code or of any amendment thereto.