These regulations are adopted for the following purposes:
(A) To protect and provide for the public health, safety, convenience, comfort, prosperity and general welfare of the village.
(B) To guide the future growth and development of the village, in accordance with the village's adopted land use plan.
(C) To provide for adequate light, air, and privacy, to secure safety from fire, flood, and other danger.
(D) To protect the existing rural residential character of the village while permitting the orderly and beneficial development of the village.
(E) To protect and conserve the value of land throughout the village and the value of buildings and improvements upon the land, and to minimize the conflicts among the uses of land and buildings.
(F) To provide the most beneficial relationship between the uses of land and buildings and the circulation of traffic throughout the village having particular regard to the avoidance of any increase of through -traffic on village, roadways, and to provide for the proper location and width of streets and building lines.
(G) To establish reasonable standards of design and procedures for subdivisions and resubdivisions in order to further the orderly layout and use of land; and to ensure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of subdivided land.
(H) To prevent the pollution of air, streams, and ponds; to assure the adequacy of drainage facilities; to safeguard the water table; and to encourage the wise use and management of natural resources throughout the village in order to preserve the aesthetic integrity, stability, and character of the village and the value of the land.
(I) To preserve the natural beauty and topography of the village and to insure appropriate development with regard to these natural features.
(Ord. 25-89, passed 9-25-89; Am. Ord. 03-97, passed 2-24-97)