The purposes of this title are to provide for the health, safety, and welfare, and promote the prosperity, peace and good order, comfort, convenience, and aesthetics of the city and its present and future inhabitants and businesses, to protect the tax base, to secure economy in governmental expenditures, to foster the city's agricultural and other industries, to protect both urban and nonurban development, to provide fundamental fairness in land use regulation, and to protect property values. (Ord. 2012-15, 9-20-2012)