The various use districts created by the Zoning Code were adopted for the purpose, among others, of:
1. Implementing the Comprehensive Plan for the City;
2. Promoting the public health, safety, morals, comfort, and general welfare, and preserving the natural, scenic, and historically significant areas of the City;
3. Helping to achieve greater efficiency and economy of land development by promoting the grouping of those activities which have similar needs and are compatible;
4. Encouraging such distribution of population, classification of land use, and distribution of land development throughout the City that will tend to facilitate adequate and economic provision of transportation, communication, water supply, drainage, sanitation, education, recreation, and other public requirements;
5. Lessening or avoiding congestion in the public streets and highways;
6. Seeking to protect against fire, explosion, noxious fumes, flood, panic, and other dangers in the interest of public health, safety, comfort, and general welfare;
7. Helping to ensure that all residential, commercial, and manufacturing structures, as well as other types of structures, will be accessible to fire fighting and other emergency equipment;
8. Prohibiting the formation or expansion of nonconforming uses of land, buildings, and structures which adversely affect the character and value of desirable development in each district;
9. Promoting the development of residential neighborhoods which are free of noise, dust, fumes, and heavy traffic volumes in which each dwelling unit is assured of light, air, and open spaces;
10. Helping to prevent land development activities which lead to roadside blight and to minimize the effects of nuisance producing activities;
11. Preventing, whenever possible, land boundary disputes or real estate title problems;
12. Providing for a balance between the land use rights of individual landowners and the economic, social, and environmental concerns of the public when the City is developing or enforcing land use regulations;
13. Promoting and guiding the continued growth and expansion of the City while protecting the natural, economic, historic, and scenic resources of the City;
14. Conserving the taxable value of land and buildings throughout the City; and
15. Defining the powers and duties of the Zoning Administrator and other bodies, as provided herein.