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The purpose of this Ordinance is to promote, protect, regulate, restrict and provide for the use of land and buildings within the City of Howell; to meet the needs of the residents for places of residence, recreation, industry, trade, service, and other uses of land; to insure that uses of the land shall be situated in appropriate locations and relationships; to limit the inappropriate overcrowding of land and congestion of population and transportation systems and other public facilities; to facilitate adequate and efficient provision for transportation systems, sewage disposal, water, energy, education, recreation, and other public service and facility needs; and to promote public health, safety, and welfare.
The City is divided into various districts that are considered best suited to carry out the intent of this section. For each of the districts, regulations are imposed designating the uses for which buildings or structures shall or shall not be erected or altered, and designating the trades, industries, and the land uses or activities that shall be permitted or excluded or subjected to special regulations.
It is also the purpose of this Ordinance to provide for the establishment of a Board of Appeals and its powers and duties; to provide for the administration and enforcement hereof and for penalties for its violation; and to provide for the repeal of any and all ordinances inconsistent herewith.
No building or structure, or part thereof, shall hereafter be erected, constructed, altered or maintained, and no new use or change of any building, structure or land, or part thereof, shall be made or maintained, except in conformity with this Zoning Ordinance.
Sections of this Zoning Ordinance shall be deemed to be separable, and should any section, paragraph or provision of this Zoning Ordinance be declared by a court to be unconstitutional or invalid, such holding shall not affect the validity of this Zoning Ordinance as a whole or any part hereof other than the part so declared to be unconstitutional or invalid.
It is not intended by this Zoning Ordinance to repeal, abrogate, annul or in any way impair or interfere with any existing provision of law or ordinance, other than the Zoning Code previously adopted by the City, as amended, or with any rule, regulation or permit adopted or issued pursuant to the law relating to the use of buildings or premises. However, wherever this Zoning Ordinance imposes more stringent requirements, regulations, restrictions or limitations than are imposed or required by the provisions of any other law or ordinance, this Zoning Ordinance shall govern. Whenever the provisions of any other law or ordinance impose more stringent requirements than are imposed or required by this Zoning Ordinance the provisions of such other law or ordinance shall govern.
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