16.01.104: PURPOSE:
The purpose of this title shall conform to the purposes stated in the Act, as amended, namely: to provide for the health, safety, and welfare, and promote the prosperity, improve the morals, 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 State's agricultural and other industries, to protect both urban and nonurban development, to protect and ensure access to sunlight for solar energy devices, to provide fundamental fairness in land use regulation, and to protect property values. (Ord. 2017-06, 2017)