(a) This Zoning Ordinance is adopted with the purpose of promoting and protecting the public health, safety, comfort, convenience and general welfare of the people. The fulfillment of this purpose is to be accomplished by seeking:
(1) To encourage and facilitate orderly, efficient and appropriate growth and development.
(2) To establish population densities to prevent or reduce congestion and to secure economy in the cost of providing water supply and sewerage systems, streets and highways, fire and police protection, schools, parks and recreation facilities, and other governmental services.
(3) To zone all properties with a view to conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the Village.
(4) To protect residential, business, commercial and industrial areas alike from harmful encroachment by incompatible uses and to ensure that land allocated to a class of uses shall not be usurped by other inappropriate uses.
(5) To avoid the inappropriate development of lands and provide for adequate drainage, curbing of erosion and reduction of flood damage.
(6) To foster a more rational pattern of relationship between residential, business, commercial and manufacturing uses for the mutual benefit of all.
(b) The standards and requirements contained in this Zoning Ordinance, and the district mapping reflected on the Zoning Map are intended to further the implementation of the objectives of the Land Use Plan for the Village as well as protect all desirable existing structures and uses.
(Ord. 82-1. Passed 2-16-82.)