The intent and purpose of this chapter shall be:
(A) To regulate and limit the height and bulk of buildings hereafter to be erected;
(B) To establish, regulate and limit the building or setback lines on or along any street, traffic way, drive or parkway;
(C) To regulate and limit the intensity of use of lot areas and to regulate and determine the area of open spaces within and surrounding buildings hereafter to be erected;
(D) To classify, regulate and restrict the location of trades and industries and the location of buildings designed for specified industrial, business, residential and other uses;
(E) To divide the entire municipality into districts of such number, shape and area, and of such different classes according to use of land and buildings, height and bulk of buildings, intensity of use of lot areas, area of open spaces and other classifications, as may be deemed best suited to regulate development;
(F) To fix standards to which buildings or structures therein shall conform;
(G) To prohibit uses, buildings or structures incompatible with the character of established districts;
(H) To prevent additions to and alteration or remodeling of existing buildings or structures in such a way as to avoid the restrictions and limitations lawfully imposed;
(I) To classify, regulate and restrict the use of property on the basis of land use relationship;
(J) To provide for variations from these regulations, standards, restrictions and limitations;
(K) To provide for conditional uses, including planned development, within the established districts;
(L) To provide administrative bodies and procedures as shall be necessary to the implementation and enforcement of the various provisions of this chapter;
(M) To provide for the orderly amendment of this chapter; and
(N) To provide regulations pertaining to pre-existing lots, structures and uses which do not conform to the regulations, standards, restrictions and limitations established by this chapter.
(2004 Code, § 154.001) (Ord. 464, passed 1- -1996)