(A) The purpose of this chapter is to promote, protect, regulate, restrict, and provide for the use of land and buildings within the city; to meet the needs of the state’s residents for places of residence, recreation, industry, trade, service, and other uses of land; to ensure that uses of the land shall be situated in appropriate locations and relationships; to limit the inappropriate overcrowding of land and congestion of population and transportation systems and other public facilities; to facilitate adequate and efficient provision for transportation systems, sewage disposal, water, energy, education, recreation, and other public service and facility needs; and to promote public health, safety, and welfare.
(B) The city is divided into districts, which include regulations designating land uses or activities that shall be permitted or subjected to special regulations.
(C) It is also the purpose of this chapter to provide for the establishment of a board of appeals and its powers and duties; to provide for the administration and enforcement hereof and for penalties for its violation; and to provide for the repeal of any and all ordinances inconsistent herewith.
(Ord. 285, passed 12-8-2003)