This title is adopted with the purpose of protecting and promoting the public health, safety, morals, comfort and general welfare. This purpose is to be accomplished by seeking:
A. To establish adequate standards for the provision of light, air, and open spaces.
B. To zone all properties with a view to conserving the value of buildings and land and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the village.
C. To lessen congestion on the public streets, and to facilitate the provision of adequate transportation, and of other public requirements and services such as water, sewage, schools, and parks.
D. To avoid hazards to persons and damage to property from inappropriate development of lands.
E. To avoid undue concentration of population and to prevent the overcrowding of land.
F. To foster a more rational pattern of relationship between residential, business, commercial, and industrial uses for the mutual benefit of all.
G. To provide for and preserve appropriate open space.
H. To protect residential, business, commercial, and industrial areas 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.
I. To isolate or control the location of unavoidable nuisance producing uses.
J. To establish reasonable standards to which buildings and structures shall conform, and to encourage reasonable flexibility of development design through appropriate innovation.
K. To provide for the regulation of nonconforming buildings, structures and uses.
L. To prevent such additions to, and alterations or remodeling of, existing buildings or structures as would not comply with the restrictions and limitations imposed herein.
M. To define the powers and duties of the administrative and enforcement officers and bodies.
N. To prescribe penalties for any violation of the provisions of this title or of any amendment hereto.
O. To implement the objectives of the village comprehensive plan, as well as protect all appropriate existing structures and uses. (1965 Code title 6 § 101.2)